I am obsessed with reading every line of dialogue in RPGs (other genres of games as well, but mostly Japanese RPGs). The first thing that i do when i enter a town is speak to everybody in every area, i also frequently check back with the NPCs after plot progression in the game world to see if they have anything new to say. This is almost like a sort of addiction to me, to the point that i actually don't enjoy doing it and dread discovering a new town or the plot moving forward and opening new dialogue as this just means that i feel compelled to revisit previous areas and button-tap my way through another slew of boopy text screens. This isn't the case of all games i play, just the ones i enjoy the most. When playing Dragon Quest: 5 i was impressed with the sharp writing so much that i felt a deep sinking feeling as i knew i would feel the need to talk to every single character (sometimes multiple times; so that i could hear the responses of eah of my party members). Dragon Quest: 5 sort of cured me in a way though: there is a part in the game where you choose one of three girls to marry, and because she then becomes character and has reaction-dialogue to almost everything said by any NPC, this meant i needed to create three separate save files and then... oh god, it depresses me to even try and elaborate further, you get the idea. Long story short i no longer do this, has anyone else found themselves doing the same, galloping from one side of Hyrule to the other just to find out what everyone thinks of a giant freaking pyramid on the horizon et cetera It doesn't have to be dialogue: it can be actions or any other miscellaneous details that you feel compelled to experience Feel free to critises the drawn-out nature of the opening to this thread and also call me an OCD nutter/fag who plays RPGs/ZeldA sUKCZ ASS LOLz or whatever (I'm not new to this Internet thing), but if your please keep the criticism and slurs creative, this forum is a high-brow establishment: all trolls must wear top hats
I do the same thing too, and I'll have you know that I am not a nutter! I am, in fact, a lunatic. Get it straight!
I'm doing that too though. I usually wonder what these people have to say, especially if what they says keep changing. It's just fun looking for some random information from NPC's on a game.
I do talk to interesting-looking people in case of freebies (or in the case of Star Ocean 2, PAs that may result in me getting a new party member). Do I go back? Nah, not really. Do I read everyone's text? Nope. Do I have to read every word, plot-wise? Hell yeah.
I hate all the talking and dialogue sometimes,because they just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on yeah
I quick read npc chat now. But because I was doing that too often...I stopped playing rpg's. At first I wanted to know the full story of the game, then just to get the general idea, then...just to see if I get anything for free from them XD
A lot of people do do that in RPGs, sometimes i do it in games like the Dragon Ball series because i want to play a fighting game; not take in an encyclopedia of inanity. The games where i want to read every single line of text tend to be well written RPGs, and games like the Professor Layton series. If i like a character in a game and they have potential reaction dialogue to anything that NPCs may say, i feel that i'm missing out if i don't hear it (the character may have something to say that makes me empathise wqith them further, or something funny or enlightening).
Final Fantasy Series I read 100%,only becasue the dialogue was so well written,and intresting. Most RPG'S are the same old story and lines lol but FF is diffrent. Oh and the Silent Hill Series
Thing is...I can't even be bothered reading all the chat in phoenix wright games ethier And you NEED to pay attention to even solves a case XD
Seeing as this is an Anonymous help group... when are you going to lay down the Twelve Commandments buddy?
