Game News Deus Ex: Human Revolution Sports Over 9000 lines of Dialogue

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: Deus Ex: Human Revolution; Eidos Montreal

<p>Actually it sports over 200,000 lines but there is a maxlength limit for the title textbox. In comparison Mass Effect 2 featured merely 31,000 lines of dialogue. <a href="http://www.videogamer.com/news/deus_ex_features_200_000_lines_of_dialogue.html" target="_blank">Read more over at Videogamer</a>.</p>
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<p>"The voice recording, with all the characters we have in the game, is just amazing," producer David Anfossi told VideoGamer.com at E3. "We have more than... I think it's more than 200,000 lines."</p>
<p>The first two Deus Ex games, developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos at the turn of the Millenium, were known for their intelligent, carefully-crafted dialogue - as well as for their varied gameplay. According to lead designer Jean-François Dugas, the team at Montreal are now striving to live up to this legacy.</p>
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[ChristofferC]

They should hire 10 minimum wage ppl to write 5 000 000 lines of dialog. The more dialog the merrier, right?

 

[Higher Game]

Most of it will be Squeenix emofagspeak.

 

[Crispy]

This game gets more and more impressive as its development continues. I certainly hope it's not all just hype.

 

[Cenobyte]

The leaked trailer was already rather disappointing. Also, the sheer amount of dialogues doesn't say anything about its quality.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I'll believe that when I see it.
I'm jaded and skeptical at this point, too much so to not think that all this stuff will be conveniently cut from the final game due to time constraints or something like that.
Remember how Bethesda had to do all that damage control interviews right before Oblivion came out because the AI they made broke the game too much and they had to gut it completely?
That could have all been bullshit. Hell for all I know, Valve paid some fag to steal their shit for HL2 because they were so behind on development they needed a reason to stall for more time.

 

[Dny]

I'm pretty sure FF13 has more lines of dialogue than any western RPG.. and it's not any better for it. 200 000 lines of bullshit is still bullshit.

 

[Havoc]

How many lines were in BG2 or Planescape? Or better... in Deus Ex?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

What if
it's like
the dialogue lines
in Alpha Protocol

 

[Cassidy]

Quality is what matters. Everybody knows that. In fact, I'd dare to think that the original Fallout has less dialogue lines than many JRPGs.

 

[Crichton]

All this "X many lines of dialog" stuff reminds me of Dumas when they were paying him by the sentence;

Porthos has arrived.

Really?

Just so.

You're certain?

Quite.

Should we go to meet him?

Yes.

Tomorrow?

Yes, tomorrow.

 

[Joe Krow]

Monkey Island with guns (c).

 

[Phelot]

They can have as many lines as they want just make it interesting for God's sake. Enough hyping! FFS FFS

 

[Forest Dweller]

ITT: Posers desperately trying to find something wrong with 200,000 lines of dialogue, and failing miserably.

 

[FeelTheRads]

MANY DAiLOG LEINS = GOOD GAEM

 

[MetalCraze]

I can see some of those people in this thread who baaaweed at me for criticizing AP (and ME2 too) before its release (except I criticized it based on 20+ previews which "were not enough").
But now that its Square Enix (which isn't TRVE L33T like Obsidian) criticizing before playing it is totally OK.

Codex is indeed a very prestigious place full of intelligent individuals

 

[Forest Dweller]

MANY DAiLOG LEINS = GOOD GAEM

At the very least, it shows that they're putting effort into that element. But I know you need to be retarded on a regular basis so I'll let you carry on.

 

[Phelot]

ITT: Posers desperately trying to find something wrong with 200,000 lines of dialogue, and failing miserably.

I suppose it's a matter of opinion, but despite DA claiming however many thousands of lines of dialogue and text it still managed to have mind numbingly boring lines.

So yeah, if they're going to tell me a long winded history of dragons that sounds like a mediocre rip off to every other story behind dragons, then I'll pass regardless of thousands of lines.

So forgive me for not being excited at the prospect of listening to hours upon hours of retarded Matrix style philosophy on computer AIs or whatever the fuck this game wants to be about.

 

[Forest Dweller]

It's one thing to not be excited, but quite another to try to find something negative in such an announcement.

 

[Xor]

Dialog is a tool that shouldn't even be used unless the developers are willing to go the extra mile and put a competent writer in charge of writing it. I would rather play a game with next to no dialog than a game with 200,000 lines of bad dialog.

 

[Kosmonaut]

bawww... criticizing... baw... criticize... fanboi... rage... bawww... popamole... Obsidian... fanboi... consoletard...

 

[Crispy]

Have you played AP yet, Skyway?

 

[Forest Dweller]

Of course he has...to make sure it's shit.

 

[Jerry Whorebach]

Mass Effect 2 may have had only 30,000 "lines" of dialogue, but it had 450,000 words of dialogue (source), which is what I suspect David is talking about here.

 

[aleph]

Have you played AP yet, Skyway?

... oh, wow