You probably already know what I’m talking about here: that thing where you’re in the middle of dialogue with an NPC, but the rest of the scene has chosen not to cooperate. It’s a common feature of RPGs, but it shows up extra often in Bethesda games, and of course has returned in Starfield. I can’t get enough of it.

My favorite example so far is the video embedded above, which tells the very brief tale of a chipper fellow who fails to watch his own back.

These mid-dialogue attempted murders come in lots of flavors, though. Sometimes it’s not a messed up bone-spider thing that ruins the NPC’s day, for example, but the player themselves.

Example YouTube Video from article

  • Scooter411
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    1 year ago

    That fucking robot coming in and wailing in that one npc is my new favorite video.

  • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I tried talking to an npc that was having a conversation with another npc. That conversation continued while they started talking to me as well, and I couldn’t make out a fucking single thing they said.

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    1 year ago

    One conversation I had released an entire dialogue at once. Like 50 voices all at once I thought I was having an acid flashback.