Yeah there was a big push towards this in the 90s, I seem to remember the Wing Commander games and Ultima Underworld trying it. It's a similar tragedy to voiceo

Yeah there was a big push towards this in the 90s, I seem to remember the Wing Commander games and Ultima Underworld trying it. It's a similar tragedy to voiceovers in games - RPGs had increasingly interesting dialogue systems, Wizardry and Ultima would let you talk to NPCs using keywords or whole sentences. Voice acting killed that entirely. One can only hope that the era of LLMs brings back some of this interactivity.