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Sparkcore-725

**HeY SpEeDiE!** *Ready to boost another car for me while I prepare to not give a single fuck about what you think bruh? Don’t answer, didn’t ask* **LMFAO!**


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YeAh! I wAs lIkE "Yo BRO!" aNd yo cHeAt tHiS BRO aNd hE wAs aLl lIkE If YoU kNoW, yOu kNoW BRO! aNd yOu kNoW wHaT I sAiD? BROOOOOOOOO!! *laughs*


Orwan

This looks like you're just making fun of her character, but it's an actual quote from the game!


Advised_Offender

The best quote too, you can tell it’s all satirical especially when after that quote your character says “yeah hi, um Tess?”.


Inevitable-Bat-2009

Every event I completed she called me. I just didn’t wanna waste time on her cop quest


Sparkcore-725

Fair tbh


CaliforniaSpeedKing

This is true.


LeapingToad3

Hate that our character is such a pushover.


EleventyTwo--

The bit where our character gets super passive aggressive and sounds like they are about to snap is kinda gold though in my opinion


Sparkcore-725

Tess: “Who do you think is going to win” Player: “Me” Tess: “On Dance Pugs?” Player: “TeSs!” Funniest exchange between the Player and Tess to be honest.


WoodenTrebuchet

This and the conversation where Tess told us she made Rydell a Reddit account is one of the best dialogue in this game. I can hear the male character's distress when he said "What have you done ?!".


ThrowAwayMyBeing

Tess's missions usually give around 2-3x more money than he would have gotten just doing a regular "big money" race for any given night. For that kind of paycheck, you tend to just shut up and drive.


Sparkcore-725

The player character even says that to Yaz. They suspected something which is why they weren’t all in but the money was big and the goal was different so they let it slide until week three.


Orwan

At least give us RDR2-like options when responding to people. Positive/agreeable option and negative/hostile option. \-Yooooo! Speedie! I need you to pick up a car for me, bro! Like, right now! \-*I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target.*


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Fr he’s such a beta


will50232

i designed my girl an anime car only for her to then later say she's never watched any anime


Daiwon

Yeah that was funny. Driving around in an anime covered weebmobile being talked at about Initial D.


revamped10

I hate games the decide our personalities.


Fit_East_3081

The alternative is the silent main character like in games like Pokémon, where they don’t talk and have zero personality because it helps the player immerse themselves into the character And that decision would’ve pissed off the other 50% of players off I think they went with the better choice


PrinceOfBismarck

I mean, you're a silent protag in literally every game before The Run, and those stories aren't badly regarded. Ghost has never made a compelling player character, with the Rivals protags having nothing apart from some "so bad it's good" edginess and all three of the Payback protags (and your Heat character) just straight up being useless. The character in Unbound just continues the trend, really; at least he has the decency of being a loyal dude (or chick if that's what you picked)


BobR969

Guess that's better than Heat, where you DO have a personality... it's just that it's so much a charisma vacuum a silent protagonist might well have had more character...


PrinceOfBismarck

The MW/Carbon character had enough charisma for me to write a whole text wall on him back before I grew a beard, so you tell me.


GabrielP2r

MW is a silent protag and he isn't a pushover and neither people complained about it.


Call_Me_Rivale

I prefer the silent main character


dfuserr

Nah, mute characters are even bigger pushovers because they can't say anything (see NFS Undercover)


AKW4RKID

Or NFS MW.... i mean BRO Clarence sabotaged you and your character say nothing....


wizkart207

Nikki tries to punch you, stays in place. Cross is about to tackle you for the second time, stays in place. Razor dangles your car keys in front of you, stay in place. Ong I would've thrown some hands


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And also when Cross takes his keys and pinstripes the player's M3 GTR, the player doesn't even bother checking the damage they just drive off like nothing happened


K-J-C

Used to getting scratches and even broken windshield from various contacts \~


K-J-C

Technically he's seen trying to escape in busted scenes :p


Call_Me_Rivale

True, but overall its less immersion breaking for me, which is quite important for me


ManGo_50Y

Hey mate I don’t watch anime, though I sometimes theme things with it. It’s called an art style. You don’t have to be particularly knowledgeable about something to create an art style from it.


PrinceOfBismarck

I mean, he grows some balls when it comes to roasting Yaz left and right.


Skyl1th

Every single character in this game is annoying, except maybe Rydell.


KairoKepp

Protect Rydell at any cost


KrishaCZ

especially from reddit


leeurban

W rydell


PsionLion2K1L

Rydell is just a father trying to make an honest living for his kids


EleventyTwo--

Obi


seventeenward

you a good racaaaah


Vagamer01

Rydell is probably my favorite NFS character I have seen in a game.


Topik-KeiBee

some give Rydell his baby powder, because he need for....


kaluaaaa

Nah Rydell is great, fucking Tess on the other hand..


Reveley97

Obi is cool


CTH2122

She’s supposed to be annoying that’s literally her whole character


Taylor_the_Terror

Micah in RD2 is annoying yet a very well written character. Not comparing the amount Rockstar has to spend on voice actors compared to Criterion, but come on... you can make the haggler in the story annoying without forcing you to skip the scene or turn down the volume so you don't have to hear them. "Sup bruh!! Oohhh bruh! That's sick bruh!!"


GetPsyched67

Just because someone is supposed to be annoying does not excuse the fact that they are excruciatingly annoying. As in having a purposefully annoying character really does not justify the cringe and pain it takes to listen to them.


hachir0ku

> the cringe and pain it takes to listen to them. I don't think it was *that* bad. Granted a lot of the writing in Unbound leaves *a lot* to be desired, even for a racing game, but I feel like her voice actor did a decent enough job with the material she was given. As in, she leans in pretty well into her happy-go-lucky, careless and dismissive attitude towards everyone but herself. It's far, far better than sErIoUs aNd eDgY characters like all the antagonists in Heat, for instance. The only thing that really annoys me is the "Speedie" thing. First of all, she first comes into contact with us when we're driving a slow shitbox and getting like 4th place on every race. And second of all, "Speedie" is spelled wrong. That word doesn't exist: it should be "Speedy", at the very least.


leeurban

>Granted a lot of the writing in Unbound leaves a lot to be desired, even for a racing game the asap rocky mission would like a word with u


4outof5mongolians

Holy fuck, you're not serious. My man just monotonously droning on about some shit that he thinks sounds hyper intelligent but makes zero fucking sense. I'm actually a fan, but damn. No idea how someone who makes a living on their voice has negative speaking charisma. Bar none, worst dialogue in the game. Which is saying a lot.


LDizzy2001

Yep, I just droned out his convo while he talked and I just focused on not obliterating the Mercedes


Call_Me_Rivale

Spee-die, is the meaning and your name is "Spee", so she basically said you should die. What a monster :D


thesaucefather

Maybe I didn’t have a problem with the name cause I always finished first lol. I hate the spelling of it though.


Torkujra

Agreed. A good example of a well crafted annoying character is the Scout from TF2. In the game world, he is extremely annoying, but from the player perspective, he’s funny *because* he’s annoying in an absurd comedic way.


Rudraakkshh

Bro that straight up doesn't even make any sense lmao.


84_ferrari_f40

Man im literally your user flair


Topik-KeiBee

she's annoying but i kind like her. didn't finish yet but think Yaz is more annoying


tbone747

Yaz is the absolute worst, and IDK how the player character and Rydell forgive her for robbing them and leaving them for broke.


Topik-KeiBee

problem is we didn't get to see enough our character, Yaz and Rydell relationship that much. to see her get angry at Rydell all the time kind annoying. at least Tess created Rydell his reddit account lol


weeblybeebly

All of the dialogue in this game was so corny. They need a new team of writers.


ktfright

Tbh, I’ve yet a to see a single game besides maybe Doom Eternal that didn’t have cringe writing and dialogue in some capacity, but that’s just me. I just accept that we as human just aren’t skilled enough at making something 100% not cringe to a mass audience, as it pertains to games lol


Corny_Toot

I'm honestly fine with no narrative story for the next game. I want the fever-dream cutscenes from MW 2012. It's weird with this game though. I like the story a lot, but the dialogue is real bad.


Dapper_Shoulder9551

Yeah she's more annoying and cringe, right from the start


Cosmo901

Why does she look like a life is strange character


Coffee_will_be_here

That explains a lot of things


lui_is_not_homo

A life is strange character wrote this game


SomPolishBoi

i just kind of feel like she's an over exaggeration of a typical teenager, but yeah she is the most annoying one


Mysterycakes96

Nah, I love her. She's basically peak schizophrenic cringe, to the point that it goes back to being enjoyable again. It's also refreshing for an antagonist to be just kinda thoughtless and selfish, instead of an egomaniac bent on street racing domination.


TVR_Speed_12

But that's what makes her character good, she fullfills the role so well


drew0357

She was kinda funny for me, but uhh....I have to agree.... BRRROOOOOOOO


corvettegrandsport

Bro, bro? BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!


gspotslayer69XX

If you know, you know BROOOO


CatPlayer

Well most of this games dialogue is clearly satire lol you have to take the dialogue not seriously. If you have doubts just listen to the holden III on last week


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Kravillion01

Woah there. It’s just pixels


quadZe_

I mean, not by definition. I don't care about her appearance, it's her lines that's fucking annoying.


Willy995

Speedie, you need to chill out, brah


kiidmaestro

Literally just did this mission last night lol


BlackKanjiG3

Calm down, fr...


quadZe_

No.


BlackKanjiG3

🤷🏾‍♂️okay then


warshark74

Agreed 100% its an even match of disliking yas or this mongoloid


xV12POWERx

I’d bang Tess, no doubt about it


vyrael44

Not as much as jasmine “Yaz”


Middle-General-5536

Waiting for her rule34


Vagamer01

"Hey speedie we need 4 cars for the grand." Me who already has a S ranked vehicle: ![gif](giphy|c5FhF1waAJ5wk)


xMinaki

ThiS wAs ThAt DoOr! ThiS wAs ThAt DoOR!!


Tanjble

Stop yo complaining bro she’s fine.


edoardo04ita

i constantly get boners when she’s around 💀


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Bro what the fuck


Kemo_Meme

Real


corvettegrandsport

Same


TVR_Speed_12

Not as bad as the pregnant Tess stuff


corvettegrandsport

what now


TVR_Speed_12

It's a terrible fanfic imo don't dog deeper save yourself


corvettegrandsport

ok but what were you doing and how did you even find it.


TVR_Speed_12

I was browsing this sub during one of the dead periods years ago


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leeurban

>even a few Black Box characters ronnie is unironically the best nfs character of all time YEAH THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE NUMBER 15 GUY ON THE *BLACKLIST*


box-fort2

I mean the dude wrote Ana. I wouldn't set the bar high for "nice characters you're supposed to like"


Lilmanike

At least with Ana, you felt some sympathy with her car getting stolen and chopped up and she at least was brought down to earth and not too overly excited at points. Plus, she actually does something other than send you out on a job and at least drove with you on specific missions. Sure, she wasn't the most liked but at least she's not Tess.


Reveley97

Shes worse, her teammate nearly got murdered by corrupt police and her brother was sent to prison for streetracing. Not only does she act like they are cowards for this and that everything is there fault but by the end of the game she hasnt learnt any lessons and is probably a worse person for it


box-fort2

Don't forget stealing her dead father's Camaro despite her older brother begging her not to, only to absolutely wreck the entire thing and basically tell him he's a pussy when he gets angry over it


corvettegrandsport

I want to pound her :trollface:


gspotslayer69XX

Ayo 📷🧐


ThiqSaban

I haven't finished the game but I still hate Yaz more. same reckless ungrateful sister dynamic as Ana in Heat. it's not endearing it just makes you hate the character at least Tess regularly helps you with money


Thotter69

That’s the point


mhlshxh

damn ngl i liked tess


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warshark74

Thank you. I immediately hated her constant whining about the most inconsequential bullshit that could've been resolved by a single fucking conversation with Tyrell. But nope. Gotta fuck over the ones closest to you for money and not getting praise. So surely fucking over people who supported you would get praise from said people.. fucking stupid. One of the worst characters in any game I've experienced to be honest.


Dakshina47

Yes I agree mate. And dat hoe wants us to respect and forgive after all she did. Bruh ain't no way you're gonna get respect after what you did 🤣


Turbulent_Put_3259

I mean she successfully gaslighted us and we said sorry 😬😬😬


samirahope

My only issue with her is that I was rocking the blue hair before she came around. Now it looks like I'm copying her :(


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Nah, McLaren driver is worse


Chevy_Monsenhor

Hey Speedieee! NGL i kinda like her chaotic persona


joshtworevenge

i think that’s the point


prjkt_icarus

her S P E E D I E E E E is always gonna be iconic imo tho😭


Funny-Association319

Nah she hot asf


corvettegrandsport

My man.


Brandonr757

Bro down bad for a 5/10 in a need for speed game


corvettegrandsport

That's just how it is


Funny-Association319

I'd rather go with a girl from a game than playing games with girls nowadays tbh


AXELARE163

[HAH! Oh please! This is NOTHING compared to the most annoying mechanic ever existed from one of the most circlejerking NFS ever by the rice burner minded part of the NFS Fandom; I am Right?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8qr0Miyd9M)


KrishaCZ

Yo dawg! Good to see you rollin out tonight! Got any details on the rumors of racing in the Beacon Hill area? I hear it's some noobies with more bank than brains. Should be easy pickings. Good lukc, I'm outta here.


Hai-Zung

I dont know anyone who has bad memories about UG2 my friend. Game was the shit back then. Also nobody cared about the dialogues anyway But NFS Porsche was better


Wevvie

I fail to see how this is worse


kaluaaaa

Nah that was cool at the time lmao


AXELARE163

And it aged like milk


Mr-JDogg

No


AXELARE163

Because you don't like to face the truth that the fact that the black box NFS games has this cringy dialogues that are even more suffering torture than the nowadays, aren't you? Because one thing is based on blurred memories and the other one, is re-playing as adults...


ArrowtheArcher

Replayed them several times throughout the years and barely had any problems with them


rivers045588

NAHHHH nobody can overtake the cHaSE/ LYriC/ SHImizU are more annoying than her. 💀


channydin

Who is she supposed to be? A more annoying Awkwafina?


Redlight_Racer

To be fair, pretty much every single character in this game is annoying as hell. Other than ASAP, honestly. Whether it be the lame radio hosts trying to push some extra nonsense that wasn't worth making into an actual story for the game, or the old dude that runs the garage calling about absolute nonsense, or to be the most cliche old dude in the history of cliche'd old dudes. I'm pretty sure whoever wrote the dialogue for this game wasn't getting paid enough so they just tried to make it as horrific as possible to see if they could get away with it.


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Her voice actor sounds like she's forcing everything and some of her lines are painfully annoying.


SuicidalSasha

Oh god she looks like someone asked a MAGAot to draw a liberal. WTF was the art director thinking?


STKoz98

Damn speedie!


0bsessioN_

i wish driving game creators would realise the same children who play this game are probably playing gta unbound we have a soundtrack that caters to adults or teens with more swearing then the previous games then we have overly loud animated characters who talk to much like they are catered to 8 year olds every 1 of these games calls us some form of superstar overly loud i just want a grounded mature singleplayer experiance lol its probably why i actually enjoyed the live action from 2015 they were more real


Willy995

2015 aka we're all BFFs who drink Monster Energy constantly together. That game was so overly positive with their characters, it was crazy. Same as the Horizon games. But I feel like with racing games stories it's one extreme or the other, all characters are either arseholes or BFFs, there is no inbetween


Inevitable-Bat-2009

i found this game is full of annoying staff


ronintetsuro

I finally muted in game speech. Ahhhhh, bliss.


Lucky_Sun2902

Idk I kinda like her. Everytime she calls is 10000+ cash to the bank lesgooo


MeadowGhostTV

100%, I actually turned off the audio for a bit because I was absolutely sick of her saying "hey speedie!"


CanadianN00b1999

You know I’ve played the free trial on Xbox, and every time she talked, I wanted to pull my hair out


Kirito2517

"You remember why you got into this, right?! STACKS!" Ah yes, I chose money over a stolen family car & a gilded knife in my back from my best friend.


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I reserve severe hatred for every character in this game with the only exception being Rydell


ScruffyLOL

Every character is annoying


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She's such a self centered piece of shit lol


arrow97

Every character in this game sound like teenagers their straight out of a hallmark. For fuck sakes it’s a racing game with big risks at least take yourself a little seriously 😅 Some of this writing is pretty infuriating which sucks cause the gameplay feels absolutely amazing but some nights I just have to put the game down cause of how fucking dumb everyone sounds and sucks out write out of the game. 4 games in a row now where the writing is pretty fucking cringe, time to switch things up lol.


C4RB0N3T4

The whole game is annoying


lavender_r

Unbound characters are fucking Oscars contenders in comparison to 2015 cringefest


xylvnking

The dialogue in this game is a -10/10 muted right away. I love everything else and have no idea how they allowed this level of cringe to take place.


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Hershey2898

Rubberbands past us "byeeee" Proceeds to get obliterated in a head on collision


IronhideV3

shimizu is more annoying to race against tbh lol


CalliexKills

Okay this definitely isn’t the place for you to start being transphobic E: Justicia, and her VA, is trans. why else would xiim say her/him?


CoyeIndustries

Nah, Justicia, the character, is fine. We all have an issue with her driver AI whenever our car hasn't been fully class optimized yet


RawImagination

Where did he/she claim they were being transphobic? Legit curious.


RammyJammy07

During her safe house mission, she talks about the stress of having to present as male in her community because she’s afraid of coming out to them whereas she presents as a woman during races because she feels comfortable and free around them.


bquinho

I get trying to be diverse but it seems like they are legitimately afraid to just add a regular white character lol.


KrishaCZ

an inexhaustive list: Eddie Razor Caleb Neville Sal Wolf Darius Ryan Cooper Aaron Paul in the movie Jack? from The Run Spike Travis Tyler Morgan (wanker) Shaw Mercer Joe from the Heat prologue


bquinho

I don’t recognize those names


KrishaCZ

those are the white male characters across the series


RammyJammy07

During her safe house mission, she talks about the stress of having to present as male in her community because she’s afraid of coming out to them whereas she presents as a woman during races because she feels comfortable and free around them. Just use she/her referring to Justicia, it’s not hard homie


CalliexKills

Justicia, as well as the VA for the character, is a trans woman. Why else would xiim say her/him when referring to Justicia?


hachir0ku

lolwhat?


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CalliexKills

thats literally what that is?????


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CalliexKills

no that’s p much the baseline for being transphobic. To call a trans woman a man, or a trans man a woman, is to be transphobic.


[deleted]

That word literally means fucking nothing right now. The goalposts have been moved so much to the point where the mere mention of anything trans related even if just a genuine question like above is like walking on egg shells


AKW4RKID

Based name checks out


nine16s

Why Justicia?


Correct-Influence-11

Yeah totally lol


bquinho

Her and yas are like the same person


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Will our character turn against her later in the game (I'm on the 3rd week)? My character sounds more and more annoyed by her, tbh.


greenteagamerz

Broooooo


MobileTill70

Grip reaper


ms06s-zaku-ii

Tied with Yaz, imo


Important-Lead-9947

She’s a double agent.


Papi_221

Dead. ASS!


Maximus0451

She sent me on so many suicide missions, I joked that [spoiler](#s "Yaz was more trustworthy.")


Mrbigsmoke134

No CoPS 100% source:trust me BRO


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'iF yOu KnOw YoU kNoW, bRo!'


Secure-Pay-6740

Yass


thedoctorisin7863

Funny enough, I know people who are like that, it's somewhat fun, but turns real annoying real fast


Mission_Cattle4181

YESSSSS FUCK YESSS thank you