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Todd Howard says that Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system 'really did not resonate' with players, even though Bethesda 'spent forever' working on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably my favorite part of both games and the reason their worlds still felt lived. The same applies to Cyberpunk.

[โ€“] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah.

KCD II as well. This is even where 'fillery' games like AC Odyssey shine.

A successful dev strategy seems to be 'let writers go mad in mini quests/dungeons'