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.

Example YouTube Video from article

  • Yepthatsme
    4•2 years ago

    One conversation I had released an entire dialogue at once. Like 50 voices all at once I thought I was having an acid flashback.

    • Neato
      3•2 years ago

      Hah. I thought Steph Sterling’s video was exaggerating that one but I guess not.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•2 years ago

    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.