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Ah, Christmas. A time of family, friends, good cheer and and Top XX articles at game sites. You can't win, so you have to join them. BioWare is pointing out Next Gen's Top 10 Game Design Innovations for 2007 because Mass Effect's dialogue wheel gets a nod:
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Puzzle Quest actually grabs No. 2, interestingly.3. Reinventing the Wheel – Mass Effect
I can’t remember the last time I saw a dialogue tree in a major release game...but you know what I can remember? I can remember having a conversation with a group of game designers who said that dialogue trees were dead, that a modern audience wouldn’t sit through that amount of reading. Bioware blew this line of reasoning out of the water with the dialogue wheel in Mass Effect.
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