they find themselves beset by glorious monsters

i think that in hindsight, people tend to describe origins as a game where your choices in dialogues mattered, but extrinsically, i don't know that's true. there’s plenty of cases where you can say 5-6 wild things and still get one of the two or three primary responses the npc has available. they matter intrinsically because of the impact on the history of the character. even if the npc the character's interacting with breezes past to ask them to run the same errand they would have anyway, the dialogue doesn’t need to make any noticeable change to the game world for its impact to be felt -- it's still slowly creating a defined past, expressed convictions, a particular mode of speech, and everything else that, in conjunction, turns a vague silhouette of something into a fully-formed person. it turns the player character into an actual character.

i love reading old gamefaqs threads. no one gets it except this guy