Quotes / Dialogue Tree

MOM always knows best. I also know that in most dialogue trees, you can always choose the last option over and over and really plow through the narrative... but MOM will know about that too.

— MOM, World of Goo

Janitor: Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there, or what?
* YES/NO
* OR WHAT
* GO AWAY
* PLEASE COME BACK LATER
* FUCK YOU ASSHOLE
* FUCK YOU
The Terminator: Fuck you, asshole.

— The Terminator

Here's a fun game: next time you're at a party, talk to a stranger like you're a video game character going through a dialogue tree.
Stranger: Yes, I just bought a new entertainment system for my living room.
Yahtzee: Tell me more about: your new entertainment system.
Stranger: It's... really nice, it's got Bang and Olufsen speakers-
Yahtzee: Tell me more about: speakers.
Stranger: Um... They're the things that audible sound comes out of-
Yahtzee: Tell me more about: audible sound.
Stranger: Um... it's an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a medium and composed of frequencies within the range of hearing-
Yahtzee: I'm done talking about your new entertainment system, tell me more about: your living room.

— Zero Punctuation (Dark review)

Tell me more about this city, tell me more about your job, tell me more about that thing you said about the city that I'm now awkwardly bringing up again apropos of nothing. Tell me more about this weird boggle-eyed look we're giving each other like a pair of lovestruck goldfish in neighboring bowls!

—Zero Punctuation mockingly describing the conversation sequences in Vampyr in reference to the above quote.

Protagonist: [blows a raspberry at a shadow]
Shadow: You make a compelling argument.

— Zero Punctuation on how random the correct dialogue tree choice can be when attempting to recruit shadows in Persona 5

Redneck 1: Well, well well...
Redneck 2: Lookie what we got here. We've got ourselves a [beat] [player's chosen gender], [beat] [player's chosen sexuality], [beat] [player's chosen race], [beat] [player's chosen ethnicity], [beat] [player's chosen alignment], [beat] [player's chosen religion].
Redneck 1: Dang Cleetus why you talkin' like that?
Redneck 2: (Whispering) Dialogue tree.
Redneck 1: Ah, I gotcha.

— South Park: The Fractured but Whole

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