Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me
Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me
My favorite Bethesda game quirk is how the world keeps trying to kill and maim everyone while they have conversations.
You probably already know what I'm talking about here: that thing where you're in the middle of dialogue with an NPC, but the rest of the scene has chosen not to cooperate. It's a common feature of RPGs, but it shows up extra often in Bethesda games, and of course has returned in Starfield. I can't get enough of it.
My favorite example so far is the video embedded above, which tells the very brief tale of a chipper fellow who fails to watch his own back.
These mid-dialogue attempted murders come in lots of flavors, though. Sometimes it's not a messed up bone-spider thing that ruins the NPC's day, for example, but the player themselves.
I tried talking to an npc that was having a conversation with another npc. That conversation continued while they started talking to me as well, and I couldn't make out a fucking single thing they said.
That fucking robot coming in and wailing in that one npc is my new favorite video.
One conversation I had released an entire dialogue at once. Like 50 voices all at once I thought I was having an acid flashback.
Resistance is futile!
Hah. I thought Steph Sterling's video was exaggerating that one but I guess not.
That was the absolute best example ever!