Or, the manifold wonders of playeraction:.

In the Life of Grismath, the player quite frequently encounters extended dialogue. I have decided that not all of this will be voice-acted in the interests of filesize and vocal health. While the following question isn't of particularly mighty significance to most players, it constitutes a substantial difference in coding.

As a gamer, then, which do you prefer?

Definitely B

Good because I just spend the past few hours coding the system.

I'll PM you with lines in a little.

A makes more sense. I don't want to have to click for each an every line. If I don't want to hear someone, I'll just skip the entire dialogue.

Ooh, here's an idea: How about you have an option for both!

A line of dialogue could play, and at the end of it, two hotkeys are mentioned: "Press 'N' to go to the next piece of dialogue or press 'S' to skip the entire cutscene."

A.

I'll want to go through it once as it was meant to be, but all the future times I'll probably just skip it.

If the words are on screen as well as audio, sometimes I'll just want to skim through it faster than they talk. BUT I still want to read it, so I'll just advance lines at my leisure. B

A majority of you have voted for B.
All new dialogue that is longer than a couple of lines, then, will use this system. I suppose I could also add a feature for this sort of dialogue to skip the whole scene. Spacebar and Enter are the advance buttons... so I suppose F could be the 'Fast Forward' key. ;]

Unfortunately, I've already coded quite a few cutscenes already that use a set time before they advance to the next line, like watching a play or a film. I'll keep those as they are, so it'll be something of the best of both worlds.