I felt a deep sense of guilt when a character died due to a series of choices I had made. The world is filled with unintended consequences: the random minor decisions we make throughout the day might result in meeting a spouse or starting a new business, while our much-contemplated five-year-plans never unfold exactly as planned.īesides being more realistic, I think it's also more narratively powerful. In Dreamfall, though, you aren't picking the outcome, you're picking the choice. Surprises can still result - you'll be facing down a Specter's gun in Mass Effect 3, or fighting a duel for Josephine's honor - but you know in advance which path you're heading down. I'm used to more clearly marked paths, like "Do you want to save Ashley or Kaidan?", or "Do you want to romance Sera or Josephine?" In a lot of games I play, there are choices, but the choices are primarily between outcomes. Who could have predicted that ordering organic sausages would result in a business being destroyed and a relationship breaking up? This sometimes felt frustrating to me. Other choices have far-reaching consequences that could not possibly be anticipated ahead of time. That's a case where a choice played out in an unexpected way, although in a way that's still linked to the origin. It reminded me a little of Baldur's Gate 2, another game that extends an earlier story but wanted to allow players to jump immediately in to the sequel, likewise, in that game, you have undergone extreme mental anguish and so the characters around you will sympathetically respond to your lack of comprehension. (I'm thinking in particular of meeting Brian inside Abnaxus's library.) Fortunately, Zoe's coma and memory loss is a major element of the game, and so I could pick "I'm sorry, who are you?" without feeling at all guilty. That came up for me a couple of times, since I haven't played The Longest Journey or the original Dreamfall, so when some prominent cameos appeared later I could tell that Zoe knew them while I did not. I thought they did a really good job of giving an in-universe explanation for why the player might not recognize certain characters from previous games. I don't think there's any importance to that - based on the lore we get near the end of the game, it seems like Zoe is the only person who can actually cross worlds in that way - but it was an interesting, subtle way to tie them together. Abby, Hanna's girlfriend, reminded me a lot of one of the non-human Resistance members in Arcadia. There seem to be a few doppelgangers between worlds.
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I'm not sure if I can get through to him, though." Selecting it will speak, but it might be much briefer than the monologue: "What about Wit?" It's brilliant, because it gives you the full context for the dialogue and for the choice that you're making, without requiring your character to be verbose. If anyone can solve this problem, it will be him.
Hovering over the choice, though, will trigger an inner monologue as your active protagonist mulls over the topic. In Dreamfall, your choice is typically a single word: "Wit", "Angry", "Politics", for example. More modern games with voiced protagonists, like the Telltale Games adventures and BioWare's dialogue wheel games, will typically have brief summaries to select from after choosing one, you'll hear a longer voiced line that expands on the summary.
Most old-school RPGs, like Baldur's Gate and Pillars of Eternity, have a voiceless protagonist and will present you with entire lines of dialogue which you can choose between.
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