It Sounds Like Metroid Prime 4 Is The Latest Game To Have People Begging to Mute Companions
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Metroid Prime 4 is good, but maybe not as good as some of you are hoping it’ll be.
That’s because fans of the iconic Nintendo franchise absolutely cannot stand the voices of the companions in the game. So much so that they’re actively looking for ways to mute those voices, and also offering to pay Nintendo for a feature to remove them altogether.
Over on Metroid’s Reddit, although many are praising the game’s mechanics, there is also a vocal group who want the side characters to just shut up.
“I’m actually more annoyed with Myles than I expected,” one user wrote (Thanks GamesRadar for flagging). “I figured once you left the area you met him in, he’d stop giving tutorials and hints. An annoyance for the start, but a short one. But 3 hours in, he is still reminding me to save my game (after I had just saved moments before), and anytime I finish a puzzle he calls to say something must have changed in the environment.”
“You have to drive around that whole desert collecting green crystals, and they punish you for that by having Myles chime in every 5 minutes,” another wrote.
Ouch!
One commenter shared that a content creator muted the voice acting in the game, and, as it turns out, nothing of value was lost.
That’s probably a small Band-Aid fix, but really what everyone, including this user who is willing to pay $10 for the ability to make Myles stop talking, is looking for is a general mute button, something that could come in a patch, provided enough people lodge complaints.
Games Have Added Mute Buttons Before In Response To Fan Backlash
A mute button is surprisingly not unheard of, which makes the prospect of one coming to Metroid Prime 4 a lot more believable. When Borderlands 4 launched earlier this year, it brought with it a button to turn down Claptrap’s volume specifically, meaning you could turn the pesky yellow mascot off completely.
Elsewhere, Dynasty Warriors Origins had a patch after its launch that turned down the NPCs ability to make a ton of empty noise. Otherwise, known as the “Mute Patch.” That’s not all, though, as God of War’s release on PC also included a feature to mute Atreus and Freya, two of the biggest poster children for annoying companions.
Which is to say, Metroid Prime 4 really is just the latest example in a slew of recent examples of games that have companions that speak way too much, regurgitating the same tired lines and hints, and people are quite frankly tired of it.
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