
A while back on Twitter, during a discussion about ways in which AI can and can’t be useful in games writing, MMO dev Damion Schubert noted that it’s often the most innocuous lines of dialogue in a game that catch fire. His example? Diablo.
“Deckard Cain’s ‘Stay awhile and listen’ is etched into the brains of everyone who ever played a Diablo. Sometimes, the unimportant-seeming lines end up being the identity of the game.”
As he so often is, Schubert is right; I can hear Cain’s Diablo 2 delivery in my head as I read it, even though I haven’t touched Diablo 2 in over a decade.
Let’s hear some more, specifically in MMOs. What’s the most memorable line of dialogue in an MMO?
