🔖 Discuss tag choose dialog option

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Define and discuss the basics of this tag.

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A regularly used option for players to interact with NPCs are dialog options. In many games it is possible to choose between multiple options. This is supposed to simulate a dialog between player and NPC allowing both parties to show varying reactions to its counterpart. A vital part of this feature is the choice, since this is the interface for the player to influence the game and alter or change the course of the conversation. This is a direct opposite of cutsceenes in which the player can not react to said sings. This led to us differentiating between player to player, player to npc, npc to npc, and finally npc to player character. The last tag entails games in which the player character might do things on its own whichout the players input. (TODO) Some games also provide proximity based dialog, meaning that the player can only hear a conversation if he is in reach i.e. in proximity.

Related Changes

• (01.04) Init tag choose dialog option to root
• (06.04, TAG ITERATION A-Z) Appended choose dialog option from root to communication
• (06.04, TAG ITERATION A-Z) Appended choose dialog option from communication to npc communication
• (15.04, TREE ITERATION II) Rename choose dialog option to com: choose dialog option
• (15.04, TREE ITERATION III) Append com: choose dialog option from npc communication to gather information
• (15.04, TREE ITERATION III) Rename com: choose dialog option to ginfo: dialog

Example Games

• Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition (Radio)
• The Stanley Parable
• METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version (Remove controller, breaking 4th wall)
• Gothic® 3 (Tutorial Boxen)
• Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (NPC explains game to the player (TODO richtige version?))
• The Sims™ 3 (player is not choosing exactly what is said)

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