Will voice recognition in Mass Effect 3 make it harder to be a bad guy?
After I played the Mass Effect 3 demo with my Kinect the other day, the thing that stuck with me was the voice recognition. My first reaction to the use of voice recognition in the game was that it is a cheap gimmick. But as I thought about it more, I realized it could be a real game changer.
Let me start off by saying that I play Mass Effect in the most boring way possible: as a good guy. I’m not sure if it’s because I like to think of myself as a heroic do-gooder in real life, or if I’m just lazy and don’t want to think too much, but I always choose the paragon option in Mass Effect.
I know for a fact that there are a lot of people out there who love to be a bad ass in Mass Effect and other games with a morality system. And before Mass Effect 3 with Kinect for 360 , being a bad guy was as easy as pressing down and hitting the A button. But what if players have to speak the renegade options out loud? What happens when the player cannot simply click the option that says “let them all die,” but instead has to speak these words and hear themselves say them? It seems to me that this may make it more difficult for people to be the bad guy and make the morally wrong choices.
I’m not sure if this is will be the case with Mass Effect 3. I can imagine a situation where a game builds a relationship between the player’s character and another character (perhaps a female character). Then towards the end of the game you have the option to be a traitor and kill this other character that has been your companion the entire game (through all of your previous evil actions) and who you have grown to care for. In this situation you can imagine how it may be difficult for the player to say the words “kill her.”
It will be interesting to see if Mass Effect 3 does anything interesting like this and takes advantage of the potential for voice recognition to make morality systems more meaningful. If it does this well it could truly have a mass-effect on gaming as we know it…
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I think a lack of consequences for bad moral behavior may have more of a role than voice recognition in deterring people. After all, people are pretty profane with each other when they’re playing MMOG shooters. But I wonder if it may be different in some way when characters are developed over the course of playing the game rather than just going in to kill.
I disagree completely. How gamers act when they are online trying to be badass gangsters in front of their online friends is completely different than how they act when they are alone on their couch playing a single-player campaign offline. When they are not putting on a show for anyone, they are just a bunch of sensitive guys and girls who follow their emotions. Voice recognition has the potential to bring out the sensitivity in all of us… As long as we are offline and alone…
Yet another issue is that video gaming became one of the all-time most significant forms of entertainment for people of various age groups. Kids have fun with video games, and adults do, too. The XBox 360 is one of the favorite video games systems for people who love to have a huge variety of video games available to them, and who like to relax and play live with others all over the world. Thanks for sharing your opinions.
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