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Re:The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life ... by tomc1985 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:14AM (#25808603)
The idea is that the player fills in their response in their imagination. Though, I think it's a little fourth-wall-breaking when NPCs comment on the player's silence. No future-AI needed.
Re:The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life ... by Blikkentrekker on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:06AM (#25809316)
I know, but as I said, the n.p.c.s don't respond to the player's imagined responses so it doesn't solve the problem that he conversations are implausible and silly.

Either the player doesn't imagine a response, and the n.p.c.s are talking to a wall and act as if that be normal. Or the player does formulate a response, and Gordon Freeman is talking to walls, and acts as if that be normal.