TYOA: 8 Gaming Dialogue Choices That BETRAYED You

8. Shutting The Reporter Up - Mass Effect

Let's kick things off with one of the all-time most infamous - if also hilarious - instances of a dialogue choice not quite vibing with the end result.

In the original Mass Effect, Commander Shepard is approached by a reporter, Khalisah al-Jilani, who asks some increasingly hostile questions criticising Shepard's relationship with the Citadel Council, at which point you're given a few options.

Among them is the retort "Time to shut you up!," which many players understood to mean that Shepard would fire up an aggressive clapback - but a strictly verbal one.

Yet if you pick this option, Shepard will straight-up sock al-Jilani in the face, sending her straight to the floor like a sack of you-know-what.

It's absolutely hilarious of course, but in large part because the action seems so disproportionately brutish and violent compared to the actual dialogue option offered.

BioWare evidently leaned into the meme of it all, though, by allowing players to smack her in the jaw again in both the second and third games.