Poll of the Day > Any games where NPCs react to you not progressing dialogue?

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Like, when you're in a conversation with an NPC and they give you dialogue options. Any games where they don't just stand there staring at you blankly until you answer? Where they react to the awkward silence?

The only one I can think of at the moment is Alpha Protocol

The telltale games do this I think

Cyberpunk does

the stanley parable has a bunch of gags based on this

NPCs, in gaming and real life, always stand there, staring blankly into space. It's why they are NPCs.

I did that with the first Telltale Walking Dead game and it was hilarious. It just kind of makes a choice for you if I remember correctly.

MICHALECOLE posted...

The telltale games do this I think

I think these are a unique situation that does it well with timed decisions. Not making a decision is equally a choice that can effect the situation.

SinisterSlay posted...

Cyberpunk does

Funny, I was watching a stream where dude started playing Cyberpunk and this was what made me think of the topic. Then of course as soon as I post, the NPC says "C'mon, I don't have all fucking day".

real life

Not answering will have an effect in Firewatch, but I've never actually tried it. There is a little countdown bar for you to respond after Delilah finishes talking, you can just let it run down to ignore her.

Wolfenstein: The New Order does it once.

DarkSamuri posted...

The only one I can think of at the moment is Alpha Protocol

MICHALECOLE posted...

The telltale games do this I think

Yeah, there's a few games like this, where not answering within a certain time will itself count as an answer. Which occasionally overlaps with "..." if that's a dialogue option as well.

Then in a similar vein, there's a few games where people will react if you walk away in the middle of a conversation, or if you start hitting the skip button to fast-forward through their dialogue.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

or if you start hitting the skip button to fast-forward through their dialogue.

you can actually fail to get the true ending in FFX-2 if you skip through one guy's dialogue (fuck you maechen)

MICHALECOLE posted...

The telltale games do this I think

Correct. Walking Dead for instance gives you a time limit to answer in, and not giving an answer is a valid choice too. Think that there were others that pick for your character randomly if you don't within the time limit.

RDR2 shopkeepers will do this if you idle without interacting with anything.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Then in a similar vein, there's a few games where people will react if you walk away in the middle of a conversation, or if you start hitting the skip button to fast-forward through their dialogue.

Fallout 4 will do this with the protag if you skip dialogue with a "Mmhmm" or a "You don't say". And when you get drunk, you get sillier responses.

The Bard's Tale, the 2004 one with Cary Elwes as the Bard and Tony Jay as the narrator - who frequently argue with each other - has both consequences for fast forwarding one long dreary conversation (there is a reward for letting him finish his tale), and Jay snarking if you idle too long. "And lo there came a time when the Bard did...nothing."

I believe Fallout 4 & Skyrim do this, but it varies based on the NPC, if you take too long to respond they may say something like "Well, are you going to say something?".

Salrite posted...

Fallout 4 will do this with the protag if you skip dialogue with a "Mmhmm" or a "You don't say". And when you get drunk, you get sillier responses.

Was going to mention this as well.