{"id":41810,"date":"2022-08-11T02:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/people-hated-forspokens-dialogue-so-much-that-it-made-joss-whedon-trend-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T02:30:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T02:30:41","slug":"people-hated-forspokens-dialogue-so-much-that-it-made-joss-whedon-trend-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/people-hated-forspokens-dialogue-so-much-that-it-made-joss-whedon-trend-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"People hated Forspoken&#8217;s dialogue so much that it made &#8216;Joss Whedon&#8217; trend on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Some of the early trailers for Forspoken, a Squeenix action-adventure\/RPG epic coming in January, suggested portentious world-saving stuff.  This is a different vibe to a clip shared on Forspoken&#8217;s offical Twitter this week, which featured main character Frey Holland doing a &#8220;Yup, that&#8217;s me!&#8221;  kind of elevator pitch for the game.  A lot of people on the birdssite took an instant, vehement dislike to Frey&#8217;s dialogue, and were just as instantly sure who to blame for the peachy keen quiplashing, even if by proxy.  Yes, Joss Whedon strikes again. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the clip Frey lists all the stuff that&#8217;s going on with her (&#8220;So let me get this straight&#8230;&#8221;) in the snarktastic style of a fast-talking MCU character.  I can&#8217;t be sure, but I think the biggest offender is &#8220;I&#8217;m seeing <em>freaking out<\/em> dragons&#8221;. Everything in the clip is actually edited down from other stuff (mostly a story trailer from almost a year ago). But, welp, sometimes something just hits at the wrong moment, and thousands of people quote-tweet your game and blame Joss Whedon for it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A beautiful and cruel new land?  Twisted monsters?  An array of magical abilities?  Sentient jewelery!? <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Forspoken?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#forspoken<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/46diiLnQ7M\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/46diiLnQ7M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forspoken (@Forspoken) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forspoken\/status\/1556679378892898306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\" style=\"display: none;\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"ot-sdk-show-settings\" id=\"ot-sdk-btn\">Manage cookie settings<\/button><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It also doesn&#8217;t help that the quipping is edited down to one concentrated dose of 30 seconds.  Over a longer time frame I&#8217;m sure Frey has more facets to her character and is less annoying (at least, I hope so, because I think the game looks fun).<\/p>\n<p>We were debating how much Joss Whedon can be blamed for this.  On the one hand, as far as I can tell he&#8217;s not written a solitary word of Forspoken, but on the other hand <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeganBitchell\/status\/1391623479728951296\" target=\"_blank\">making fun of Joss Whedon<\/a> is a public good.  Plus he did popularise this kind of cynical lolmonster in broader Hollywood, because his stickly little fingerprints are all over The Avengers, and that bled into a lot of other people&#8217;s work.  And hey, just ask Zack Snyder fans what they think of Whedon (no don&#8217;t, you will lose your whole afternoon).<\/p>\n<p>Forspoken used to be Project Athia, and it used to be coming out this year (before getting delayed).  It&#8217;s in development at Square Enix&#8217;s Luminous Productions, and a lot of the devs worked on Final Fantasy XV, which may account for why the combat and open world look very cool and pretty gorge, respectively.  Forspoken is, however, a game where the main character is a modern, regular person who gets transported to a bizzaro world (a genre known in Japan as isekai, but which I personally recognise as a sub-genre of fan fiction).  Therein, perhaps, lies the problem.  We accept that, eg, this is how Captain American or Captain Marvel or the other hero Captains talk, but it&#8217;s <em>note<\/em> how actual <em>freaking out<\/em> regular people talk.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for news that Forspoken has been delayed again to rewrite and record all of Frey&#8217;s lines, a la the Sonic movie art change.  If not, look out for it in 2023. And don&#8217;t ever let me catch you saying &#8220;freaking&#8221; instead of swearing again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n    function appendFacebookPixels() {\n      if (window.facebookPixelsDone) return;\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n      {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n      n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n      if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n      n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n      t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>        fbq('init', '700623604017080');<\/p>\n<p>      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      window.facebookPixelsDone = true;<\/p>\n<p>      window.dispatchEvent(new Event('BrockmanFacebookPixelsEnabled'));\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    window.addEventListener('BrockmanTargetingCookiesAllowed', appendFacebookPixels);\n  <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the early trailers for Forspoken, a Squeenix action-adventure\/RPG epic coming in January, suggested portentious world-saving stuff. This is a different vibe to a clip shared on Forspoken&#8217;s offical Twitter this week, which featured main character Frey Holland doing a &#8220;Yup, that&#8217;s me!&#8221; kind of elevator pitch for the game. A lot of people &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/people-hated-forspokens-dialogue-so-much-that-it-made-joss-whedon-trend-on-twitter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People hated Forspoken&#8217;s dialogue so much that it made &#8216;Joss Whedon&#8217; trend on Twitter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41712,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/forspokens-new-trailer-sounds-like-joss-whedon-wrote-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":41810,"position":0},"title":"Forspoken&#8217;s new trailer sounds like Joss Whedon wrote it","date":"August 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday, a trailer for Square Enix and Luminous Productions' forthcoming title Forspoken was shared by the game's Twitter account, and promptly went viral for less-than-flattering reasons. 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