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Favorite Silent Protagonists Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:53:20 2015 No.2607921 [Reply] [Original]

My personal favorite silent protagonist has to be the Doomguy.. What about yours, /vr/?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:53:43 2015 No.2607923 Duke Nukem.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:54:48 2015 No.2607926 >>2607923 he talks, retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:04:02 2015 No.2607940 This is a good thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:11:08 2015 No.2607957 has to be Link for me

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:12:44 2015 No.2607958 Gordon freeman:l

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:17:41 2015 No.2607962 >>2607926 Just fuckin'. I dunno. I do like Mario RPG Mario's use of pantomime.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:18:34 2015 No.2607963 >>2607958 I think he's the only silent protagonist that doesn't even have pain sounds, pretty sure Valve was just lazy when designing Gordon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:39:51 2015 No.2607996 Crono

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:42:07 2015 No.2607997 >>2607921 lmfa i bet his gamerscore is like.............0

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 04:17:22 2015 No.2608131 Samus was my favorite, until Other M ruined her.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 04:26:00 2015 No.2608143 File: 374 KB, 503x1010, Crash_crossed.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gotta go with Crash Bandicoot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 07:11:57 2015 No.2608247 File: 145 KB, 1920x1080, gordon-freeman-half-life-2-21004-1920x1080.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Adrian Shepherd, and Gordon Freeman. I would include Barney Calhoun, but he got a voice in Hl 2...

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 07:34:08 2015 No.2608258 >>2608143 He says "Uh-oh!" in the opening cinematic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 07:53:36 2015 No.2608270 >>2608258 >>2608143 And WHOAH! when he dies

Anonymous Thu Aug 13 08:00:42 2015 No.2608278
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>>2607921
>Favorite Silent Protagonists

Every fucking game up to 16 bit era had silent protag's
Does WAKAWAKAWAKA mean Pac Man wasn't silent?
The squeaky sound of Jump Man in donkey Kong?
"Boing" sounds that usually accompany jumping like Sonic?
Doesn't Doomguy grunt? What exactly is "silent" or do you mean the absence of actual coherent speech?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 08:14:19 2015 No.2608287 >>2608270 I don't think screams count though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 09:10:35 2015 No.2608326 Parias.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 09:41:16 2015 No.2608341 >>2608278 Yeah he is just not supposed to talk, he can grunt and make some noises... Those guys are just idiots...

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 10:37:51 2015 No.2608408 >>2608287 It is clearly a Whoa! not a scream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-9wAmdMWI

Anonymous Thu Aug 13 14:03:54 2015 No.2608797

>>2608258
>>2608270

By that logic, few of these characters are silent. Link yells every time he attacks, Doomguy grunts when he's hurt, even Gordon Freeman makes a faint gasping sound when he touches fire in HL2.

Crash doesn't utter a single coherent "word" until Crash of the Titans in 2007, and before that, hearing any sounds coming from him is as rare as the above mentioned characters.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 18:51:08 2015 No.2609281 >>2607921 Unf unf unf unf unf unf unf..... not silent I'm afraid

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 19:41:50 2015 No.2609368 >>2609281 Grunts and pain sounds don't stop a character from being a silent protagonist.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 19:44:56 2015 No.2609371 >>2608797 Whoa! Is pretty fucking coherent, it's a word with a dictionary definition.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 19:47:51 2015 No.2609378 Still looking forward to the ending of Half Life 3 where Freeman says "Naw shucks, it weren't nuthin'!" in a super thick hayseed accent.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 19:54:11 2015 No.2609392 >>2609371 I think it classifies as onomatopoeic sound. Gulp does also have a dictionary entry but that doesn't mean it's always used as a word.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 20:01:39 2015 No.2609406 >>2608278 Silent as in they don't speak in actual sentences, or say words. Grunts are common for most silent protags these days. It's not like you can communicate in "UNF" or "AGH" unless you're a fucking ape.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 20:10:02 2015 No.2609420 >>2608278 >Every fucking game up to 16 bit era had silent protag's No, not exactly. Lots of games had text dialog, not many had actual voice acting in the 8-bit to 16-bit era.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 00:15:22 2015 No.2609751 >>2609281 Silent protagonist does not mean they are literally silent. It means the character never says a word to anybody, not even to him or herself. They can still grunt and scream, because people, even mutes in real life, do that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 00:16:25 2015 No.2609753 >>2609751 They can still grunt and scream, because people, even mutes in real life, do that whenever they get hurt, or jump around.*

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 00:58:01 2015 No.2609809 >>2607963 >he's the only silent protagonist that doesn't even have pain sounds When you fall enough to take damage, I always thought that was a muffled "urghf" vocalization. But yeah, that's the only one, I think.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 09:23:46 2015 No.2610287 Super Mario I remember how I hated it when Mario started to speak in 64

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 09:36:35 2015 No.2610301 >>2609751 >They can still grunt and scream, because people, even mutes in real life, do that. That's deaf people who don't speak, not mutes. The best actual mutes can do is gasp and cough, I guess.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 09:58:06 2015 No.2610330 >>2610301 You do realise congenital deafness is defined as one of the possible causes of mutism, right?

Anonymous Fri Aug 14 10:08:30 2015 No.2610359

>>2610301
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mutism
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mutism
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7870

Being a mute does not necessarily mean you can't grunt or scream. And being unable to speak due to deafness is still considered mutism

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 18:25:01 2015 No.2611280 >>2609371 Judging by his complete inability to speak otherwise, I'd say it's just a coincidence.

Anonymous Fri Aug 14 18:40:18 2015 No.2611323

>>2610330

One of the causes of not speaking, yes. One of the causes of being unable to physically make vocalizations out of their throat, no. Deaf people aren't all born with non-functional vocal chords, although some are. Some deaf people can even detect the presence of sounds, though not enough to discern what they are.

>>2610359

>Being a mute does not necessarily mean you can't grunt or scream

Yes, it actually does mean that. Being mute means your vocal chords don't work. Non-functional vocal chords don't allow for screams or grunts, since they both engage the vocal chords, as per your own definition of mutism being the inability to speak.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 19:47:48 2015 No.2611468 >>2611280 Crash speaks on a PS1 demo disc promoting the second game

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 20:41:21 2015 No.2611547 >>2609751 >implying URGH isn't a word

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 01:06:22 2015 No.2611908 >>2611323 Did you even read the links, or are you being in complete denial that you were wrong?

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 01:11:16 2015 No.2611917

>>2611323
Seeing as you clearly did not even read the links I provided...

>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mutism
>an inability to speak, due to a physical defect, conscious refusal, or psychogenic inhibition.
>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mutism
>The condition of being unable or unwilling to speak as a result of a physical or psychological disorder.
>http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7870
> The inability or unwillingness to speak. A person who is mute cannot or does not care to talk. Someone who was mute was said to be dumb, not in the sense of being stupid, but in the sense of being devoid of the power of speech. The term "mutism" is specifically applied to people who, due to profound congenital (or early) deafness, are unable to use articulate language and so are affected by deaf-mutism. The word "mutism' comes from the Latin "mutus" meaning unable to speak.

Its not something I made up. Its actually defined that way. You're a sore loser who can't accept that he's wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 02:08:56 2015 No.2611980 >>2607996 Crono is food. Honestly though, Cross wasn't perfect but I found Serge a much better use of silent protag done right.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 02:10:08 2015 No.2611982 >>2611980 *good Why did that autocorrect to food?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 06:19:08 2015 No.2612230 >>2611468 That's a shit promotional video. That doesn't count, and neither do the even worse Crash costume advertisements.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 16 09:44:09 2015 No.2615114 >>2611547 > This guy We said silent, not actually mute.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 16 15:00:54 2015 No.2615773 File: 2.27 MB, 1927x1210, Doomy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2607921

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