Elias Toufexis, who voices a character in the Marathon reboot in addition to Deus Ex, believes life is too short for that.
In an interview with PCGamer at GDC, Adam Jensen’s voice actor, Elias Toufexis, revealed that he has faced many unexpected things, including fierce attacks on social media. He isn’t afraid to speak his mind, even if it could get him fired. However, he’s had enough of a certain kind of outrage that mainly pops up on Twitter. Toufexis welcomes criticism as an actor and regarding the games and movies he appears in. However, he feels that some people go too far. He specifically takes issue with accounts that specialize in spreading outrage.
He added that he is familiar with the outraged online conversations from his previous work, such as Starfield and Star Trek: Discovery, both of which were criticized by right-wing trolls for their alleged “DEI/woke” nature. He noted that the political nature of some of the outrage is tedious and, in the case of Star Trek, even a bit funny given that it has been a famously political series from the beginning. However, he believes that the situation may be changing, at least in some places.
“Yesterday, I was working on Marathon, and I told my team, ‘Guys, tell me to stop engaging on Twitter,’ because I keep doing it even though I really shouldn’t. I saw someone say, ‘I don’t want to get into specifics, but I hope Bungie fails because of the woke leftist ideology.’ I’m like, ‘I work with four white guys and two white women. I don’t understand this. Where are you getting this?’
I understand that Bungie made a game, Destiny 2, that people loved. Then, they decided to put it on hold to work on Marathon. People got upset about that. Cool, don’t play Marathon. Speak with your wallet. That’s fine. Life is short. Just stop tweeting memes under things for six hours. Critique the game. Critique my work? Totally acceptable. But there are people who go on Twitter and post, ‘This is Concord 2, this is Concord 2.’ Why spend hours doing this? How do you hope to make something fail? People just want to hate. I don’t really understand it. It’s sad, more than anything. I saw a great review of your magazine from another magazine this morning. Under it, 9/10 comments used to be hate, but now they’re positive. One guy posted something hateful, and all the replies were, ‘Shut up, shut up, shut up.’ So that’s good, and I hope that continues,” said Toufexis.
That’s a really interesting question, and the answer might be that people don’t know how to relieve their stress.
Source: PCGamer
