Adventure & RPG Games · 5

Dialogue choices create tension without reflexes because the cost is uncertainty; the player rarely knows exactly how another character will interpret a line. Put that beside this bit of history: King's Quest in the 1980s made an animated character visibly walk through illustrated scenes, changing how many players imagined a computer adventure should look. Every tavern contains at least one person who has mistaken a total stranger for the perfect solution to a local crisis.