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Mass Effect

Paraphrased intent picked from a wheel, so the camera never has to stop moving.

Released 2007 Developer BioWare Publisher Xbox Game Studios Platform Xbox 360 Genre Action RPG Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Narrative · 2007
Cinematic Dialogue Wheel
A cinematic dialogue wheel replaces written reply options with short paraphrases arranged radially by tone, letting th…
Origin: Mass Effect

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Mass Effect inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Branching Dialogue Trees 1985Explicit Morality Axis 1985Full Voice Performance 1994Companion Approval 2000Seamless Streaming Open World 2001

Descends from

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2003

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