Player Choices[]
So I've seen two ways to handle player choices during dialogue.
Option 1:
- Player: I said something in a dialogue box with a chathead!
- NPC: So did !
- Player: This was a choice in a menu without a chathead!
- NPC: This was my response!
- Player: This was another option from that menu without a chathead!
- Player: This was a choice in a menu without a chathead!
etc.
Option 2:
- Player: I said something in a dialogue box with a chathead!
- NPC: So did !
- This was a choice in a menu without a chathead!
- NPC: This was my response!
- This was another option from that menu without a chathead!
- This was a choice in a menu without a chathead!
etc.
I personally prefer the latter, because it makes clear that the line in question was a menu choice and was not spoken verbatim - sometimes you can choose something off a menu and then get a player chathead dialogue box that says something similar to that option, while other times the game implies that option was spoken by the player verbatim and just shows whatever happened next. This, along with the bullet indents, also makes clear that it was an option in a menu where there were multiple options and that it wasn't just a continuation of the same linear conversation.
However, I've noticed users editing my transcripts to change the second option to the first - is that standard? It's not specified in this style guide. Sorator (talk) 07:22, March 30, 2014 (UTC)
- Personally I prefer the second version. Although it can end up with some silly artefacts like:
- This is a choice in a menu!
- Player: This is a choice in a menu!
- This is a choice in a menu!
- But I suppose that's a minor annoyance compared to how large transcription/dialogue pages usually are anyhow. IP83.101.44.209 (talk) 08:09, March 30, 2014 (UTC)
- There's some discrepancies in how options are displayed from when I last did a transcript. Sometimes you choose the response and say that response. Sometimes you choose the response and instantly move onto the next line in the conversation. With that in mind, I'd go with the latter example. User:Cqm/Signature
Contradiction in Options[]
I noticed that the Style guide has an apparent contradiction. It says in Regular dialogue that "An option should be on the same level as the preceding text to avoid confusion when reading. Every time a new option is explored another indent should be used, until that line of conversation is exhausted." However below, it places options on a different level. I don't know when the Style Guide was changed to have this additional info. My personal preference was to place options on the same level as the previous speaker. What is the preferred style, because I have written/edited several transcripts to put the option on the same level (except when there is a statement other that "Select an Option:"). Cache117 (talk) 16:49, February 11, 2016 (UTC)
- I've always done it like this for different options, personally:
- Person: blah blah blah
- Player: What do you want me to do?
- Person: blah blah blah
- Player: How are you?
- Person: blah blah blah
- https://i.imgur.com/xHR7zpA.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/6encXAo.png 16:52, February 11, 2016 (UTC)
- This is my preferance. But the Style Guide has both that and and the following listed as the correct style.
- Person: blah blah blah
- Player: What do you want me to do?
- Person: blah blah blah
- Player: How are you?
- Person: blah blah blah
- Player: What do you want me to do?
- Person: blah blah blah