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* Capital CityGuards in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' actually manage to be useful, as they can be asked for directions. They all share the same (rather extensive) DialogueTree per city, but still. As with ''Warcraft'', the NPC spoken dialogue will go into "pissed" when you pester the same NPC long enough, but with only about two sets per race/gender, the variation isn't quite as much. A few [=NPC=]s use lines directly from ''Warcraft III'', though.

* The Courier in ''Machinima/CouriersMindRiseOfNewVegas'' often lampshades this, and is apparently half sure the memetic "Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter" line must be some kind of code and/or slogan used by the NCR troopers.

* Invoked and PlayedForLaughs in ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', where Dr. Coomer was acted with this trope in my mind. Any thought or statement he makes will occassionally be interrupted by a sudden "Hello, Gordon!" greeting, sometimes mid-sentence, to BrokenRecord lengths.

* In ''VideoGame/VoiceOfCardsTheIsleDragonRoars'', the town greeter from Nexton will only say his greeting lines. When you ask him for information on the dragon, he'll lean in as if to whisper something important to you, only to say, "Welcome...to...Nexton."

** This became [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horrific]] in ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingPocketCamp Pocket Camp]]'', when, during a ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''-themed event, Chip would react with his usual [[TrademarkFavoriteFood hunger for seafood]] when presented with the [[KidHero Inkling]] [[SapientEatSapient squid]] [[WouldHurtAChild and]] [[ImAHumanitarian Octoling]] [[ChildEater octopi]] the player could catch.

* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' has a quest where you have to rescue Azrael from the Black Throne. Every time you go near him, Azrale will constantly say to you "The beams... redirect the beams.", and later "One last beam, and I'll be free..."

* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' has a quest where you have to rescue Azrael from the Black Throne. Every time you go near him, Azrale will constantly say to you "The beams... redirect the beams.", and later "One last beam, and I'll be free...".

This is one of the AcceptableBreaksFromReality since the programmers can't put in endless random dialogue.

* In VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople, WebAnimation/HomestarRunner does this during a ''cutscene''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has Three Dog and President Eden of Galaxy News Radio and Enclave Radio, respectively. Since most players have their radio on most of the time - if not all of it - the banter given by these two tends to get really repetitive. Three Dog comments on in-game events, although the changes in his monologues can be pretty far-between. Of note, however, Three Dog does make mention that he's pre-taping his segments, which is how he can talk to you while the station is broadcasting him talking about current events.

* [[DoingItForTheArt Very much averted]] in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' and ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}''. You won't get nearly as much from this series if you don't TalkToEveryone, because the game developers love adding in plenty of extra NPC lines for towns you'll never visit ever again. A particularly big example being Happy Happy Village, which is slowly turning back from the strange cult town it was into a normal town as you progress through the game. People slowly turn back to normal, many other people will apologize, and the red house will open revealing a Mr. Saturn. Also, as a sort of hidden line near the end of ''MOTHER 3'', in the basement of the Empire Porky Building, if you talk to Flint six times he'll comment about his baldness. If you talk to him ''again'' he'll comment about the metaphor he used for his baldness.
** Note that both Threed and Happy Happy Village both undergo changes that modify the dialogue of just about everyone in town. This is done after you've completed all the dungeons in the area and, in any other game, would leave town without a second thought. Furthermore, in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' there exists a PlayableEpilogue. Yes, you can speak with ''every single NPC in the world, each of whom has new dialogue''.

* Annoyingly evident in ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} Book [[YsIAncientYsVanishedOmen I]] & [[VideoGame/YsIIAncientYsVanishedTheFinalChapter II]]'', as each person has only one message for Adol at any given stage of the plot, and talking to them twice in a row will usually make them repeat their entire message, no matter how long.

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' averts this on an even wider scale. Completing a dungeon or even mildly progressing the plot affects the dialog of nearly every single NPC in the game, and this happens at ''every location'' in the hub world and all individual shops, your party members included. The game also subverts this in that some NPC's dialog and even circumstances can be manipulated through the game's rumor system.

* ''UniversalStudiosThemeParkAdventure'' has this with the theme-park-goers. Most of the time. However, persevering through the lines of repeated dialogue may yield a few hilarious gems, including:

* Petitioners in the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting are described suspiciously like this. Petitioners are souls of the dead, now incarnated on a plane that matches their CharacterAlignment in life, or the home of their god. They're very fixated on embodying their alignment and eventually merging with the plane or their god's realm, and so any attempt to deal with most petitioners will very quickly swing back around into this as they're so monomaniacal.

* ''VideoGame/{{MARDEK}} RPG'' plays this straight in most cases, but then it was made wholly by [[OneManArmy a single person]] (wholly including the graphics, music, plot, and programming), takes up about 22MB of space and has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters so many of those single-line characters it's justified.]] Besides, the single dialogues are often quite hilarious and are usually all different, making [[TalkToEveryone checking out every person in a location]] a fun thing to do. All of the ten or so playable characters in the third installment have one line for every location, though, and three pieces of dialogue unlocked with leveling. Creator/BioWare could be proud.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperNeptuniaRPG'', when your party arrives at Leanbox Harbor seeking the Resistance against Bombyx Mori, they are greeted by a woman who says "Hello. Welcome to Leanbox Harbor." Neptunia comments that she has a hunch that if she talks to her again, [[LampshadeHanging she'll just say the same thing]]. Despite this, she decides to press her luck anyway and, sure enough...

[[caption-width-right:200:[-'''Welcome to Corneria!'''-][[note]]'''I like swords.'''[[/note]]]]

* Lampshaded in ''WebVideo/EpicNPCMan''. [[spoiler: "Nice day for fishing, ain't it?"]]

** Played straight elsewhere in the game, however. For instance, most human [=NPC=]s have a single line to say to the player; if prompted again, they will just say it again.
-->[[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper "Don't forget to reload, Dr. Freeman!"]]

-->"Do you know who ate all the doughnuts?"
-->"Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?"

* Worthy of being mentioned for its complete and utter aversion of this trope is the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' where various [=NPCs=] will have different dialogues whenever an event has passed. Or the fact that they're located in different areas compared to where they were previously. Some of them even have as many as ''seven to ten dialogue boxes'' before they repeat their last statement. All of which helps to sell the idea that these people have their own lives and stories going on around the player characters, whose main story quests are simply one of many such tales that are being told and happening in Zemuria. The fact that each and every character in the franchise has some form of ongoing tale in the background is actually one of the incentives for players to find them and talk to them to find out what's changed sicne the last time they saw them. [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Even some of your party members]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZero in the party hub will have different dialogues]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel depending on where you're at in the story.]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the titular characters plus Morty's dad, [[ButtMonkey Jerry]], get trapped in an elaborate alien simulation as part of a plot to scam Rick. Jerry was picked up by accident, so the aliens set his simulation to run on minimum capacity, which means that he keeps running into [[YouALLLookFamiliar the same three NPCs over and over again]], complete with said [=NPCs=] repeating the same phrase. [[WhatAnIdiot Jerry fails to notice.]]

->''"Don't speak to me again! I refuse to speak t-- dangit! Leave me alone! Please do not repeat the exact same words exactly the same in exactly the same tenses, exact same speed, and exact same tone! Are you insane or what?"''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Raocow}}''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Xfp-1zNZEXQ#t=250s Swim,Ikachan - 1 - loligo vulgaris]]''