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If the FIRST time I interacted with something (or the most recent time, for things that I already have interacted with multiple times) I got a funny line out of it I’m much more likely to click it again just to see what else they might have to make me laugh.

Otherwise, I don’t click stuff over and over just to find more dialogue. I’ll click it again if it seems like doing so might serve some useful purpose, or if I’m stuck and can’t think of anything better to do at the moment. If something hasn’t given me a reason to think it might harbor HUMOROUS dialogue (mostly the fact that it already produced some), then I’ll probably leave it be once it seems to have served its purpose.

The exception would be cases where the game world is fascinating in and of itself, and repeatedly examining something seems likely to give me MORE fascinating details, even if they won’t be important to the game. But even then, I’d need to have an indication that that was going to be the case before I’d be likely to stick with it.

If I pick up a brick from a pile, and don’t need any more, I’m not likely to try it again, unless I got a funny line the first time I did it, or I get stuck and think another brick might help.

If I access a computer, and find all the information I need, but can see that there are other bits of info about the world on there, I’ll likely search them exhuastively, even if I don’t think they will be necessary- provided the game world is interesting enough that I care.

I don’t like it, but I do it anyway. Ever since I realised that games made it necessary to exhaust all dialogue options to move forward in the game. Not for fear of missing something, I’m not worried about that at all.

Ideally, I’d like to talk only about what I need to know, but having pre-determined sentences destroyed that possibility. It was possible in text adventures and the Legend-style ‘construct-your-own-sentence’ games but not graphic games.

I love exhausting the dialogue options. I also like to click on random objects just to hear what the protagonist has to say about them, like all the paintings in GKIII. And I tried many things in A New Beginning of which I knew they didn’t work, just to hear the girl say: “No, no and no!”

Since I am the type of player who doesn’t want to miss a thing, I also exaust all dialog options. This is not always enjoyable however, it all depends of how well the games dialogs are written.

I’m not sure what my position is, but I’ll just say this…
I seem to remember on more than one occasion finding games where basically everything only has one “line” of response whenever you “click it”. So you get very used to only having to click each thing once, and any further clicks being a waste of time. Then they really confuse you by presenting you with a few things that give more than one line. Makes you wonder how many other things might have given more than one line that you missed. What’s even worse is when these very rare multiple-click things are actually necessary to progress.

I like to exhaust all the dialogue options in a conversation, but I’ll only examine everything in a scene if I haven’t played the game before, just to make sure I don’t miss anything, or if I’m stuck. I don’t do it to listen to all the dialogue.

I also enjoy listening to all the dialogue play out between characters in games like GTA and Red Dead Redemption!

I click on everything - often multiple times - to get as much dialog as possible!

As someone with OCD, I have no choice but to do this.

But even if I didn’t have that affliction, I probably would.

(OCD is much worse in open-world RPGs where you have to unearth *every* location and part of the map)

I also like to exhaust all dialogue, I reckon that’s a given for most adventure gamers. I click through and read it all as quickly as possible though, usually don’t have the patience to sit there and listen to the whole thing

I’m guilty of reading subtitles and clicking through sometimes as well. Honestly, it can save a few hours for a game like TLJ.

Fantasysci5 - 27 September 2012 02:53 AM

p1nk0es - 26 September 2012 11:46 PM

I click through and read it all as quickly as possible though, usually don’t have the patience to sit there and listen to the whole thing

I do that too. I’m glad I’m not the only one. Especially games like “The Longest Journey”, with so much dialogue and slooooow speakers. I just read through the subtitles and keep going. “The Lost Crown”, while being my favorite, drove me crazy in that respect, since you can’t skip through dialogue.

Welcome to the forums, by the way.

Thankyou! 
I was exactly the same with The Lost Crown, my gosh, his constant glide/walk as well. But yea I tolerated it too because it was such a good game, thankfully