Fryda Wolff Nominated For A Golden Joystick Award

It's one of the determining factors, sure. It's not logical, it just is. Check out the image below which showed the rate of which female and male listeners preferred lower voiced female candidates in school board elections:


From this article: www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/why-we-prefer-masculine-voices-even-in-women/266350/

0.50 is neutral, so you can see how much lower female voices are preferred. It's why women are often told to lower their voices in job interviews, because higher pitched women don't tend to get hired as much. It's a well established trend, there's many studies out there that keep showing the same thing.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that I didn't think it was true. I meant to imply that I thought it was stupid. Regrettably, true and stupid are overlapping sets.

Burch's performance for Aloy is no where as good as her work in Life is Strange season 1, and her performance as Aloy's mother was much better than Aloy. Some of it IMHO is that Aloy spends much of the game alone and thus she comes off as bland to me, and when she does interact with other characters she is all over the map. In some places she is naive to borderline stupid, in some she's a goody to shoes, in some other she's ruthless cold hearted bitch, and so on. She never felt to me she was a character but a series of character traits that never came together.

Aloy has potential to be a great character but now she is little more than Sara Ryder and Lara Croft (from the reboot Tomb Raider series) wanna be. Sara Ryder was a character in no small part to Wolff's brilliant performance. She is the equal to Jennifer Hale in every way (and I'm a HUGE fan of Hale) and made her own character without being a copy of FemShep. 

Even if you aren't the Big Boss, if you character doesn't have any agency then there's no reason for them to be the player character. There *has* to be independence of some kind. Ryder was a fish out of water, but there was no flex in that defined personality. S/He was always sort of a loveable goof who got put in charge because of Space Nepotism. The few times they try to wear their Big Kid pants, all the other characters either walk all over them or roll their eyes, and rightfully so. It's amazing the crew of the Tempest succeeded at *anything.*

You should figure out the difference between a knight and someone like me...

The hell is that, and how would it be implemented in a game? 

Like I said, I couldn't disagree more. I think Aloy is brilliantly done, and that Sara Ryder is annoying and off-target. I've not played the other games you mention.

Mid to low-ish, I thought. 

If someone wants to hear what a squeaky female voice sounds like, look up some Friends (sitcom) compilations with Janice. 

I think the Golden Joystick looks more like the secret lovechild of Lumiere and Babette...

Would you expect anything else from that Casanova candlestick?

Since we're getting on the Trilogy's VA discussion here, allow me to say that IMO, Mark Meer did a better job as Hale. Playing as a FemShep made me want skip some quests just so I could finish the playthrough. It always seems she's trying too hard for something, like those Renegade lines.

Same goes for SisRyder. Scott is the best, IMO. He really knows how to deliver lines that rings good to the ears and his voice has balance between sarcasm, seriousness, authority and inexperience, something which we expect for a Pathfinder. A thing that Sara fails to do so in my opinion.

Not saying I dislike the VA. They do an awesome job on other games, but not that "Award Indication Performance". (Fryda's Sara wasn't that good, but you can see she's a good professional; and Hale will always be remembered as Bastila Shan for me)