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I know it's translated from Polish, but the English-speaking voice actors know how to structure a sentence. When Geralt drops the "I" at the beginning of a sentence, it doesn't make it immersive, it's grammatically distracting. Cyberpunk did the same thing, and it ruined a bunch of the dialogue for me.
Is dropping those "I"s a polish language thing?
Yes. Polish is both a pronoun dropping language for subjects of sentences and also lacks articles. So it gets iffy to do 1:1 translation.
But as a personal pro-dropper (In that I do it regardless of language), I don't see the problem. [It] didn't bother me at all.
English elides the subject and sometimes even the object like that a lot in casual spoken contexts too. Not as much as the English dialogue in the Witcher and Cyberpunk does it, but it stands out extra hard because it's not something that's commonly done in media. Like the way people actually talk in real life is an ad hoc mess of dropping this bit or that bit and forgetting how the sentence you've started is even structured so it just kind of ends or transforms into something else, but when writing and even when writing dialogue writers tend to not do that and to edit sentences for clarity and coherence.
I think it worked in Cyberpunk, because it just added to the feel of the world having its own dialect and speech conventions that are comprehensible but a little bit off from what's familiar.
Yep, in media there's also far fewer contraction than there in normal speech, and sometimes when there are they're strangley less intuitive (e.g. "mustnt've" might become "mustnt have") because they want to preserve clarity of speech even when using contractions
I don't see the problem in his pro-dropping tbh. I only dimly remember him saying "Heard something" or "Found something" or "Remembered something" or similar and I only think I'm remembering that because you said he drops the "I"s. Also that sort of first person pronoun dropping is pretty normal to me.