That's a thought.

considers

I still think that the limiting factor there is more one of speech synth than writing dialog. Like, "arrow to the knee" is Skyrim, right?

kagis

Yeah. And those were voiced.

Similarly, you had Fallout: New Vegas with stuff like "patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter".

I bet that it's not too expensive to write a lot of human-written dialog, but that hiring a bunch of voice actors to act out minor lines -- especially if a given character has only a few lines -- it is probably the more-expensive bit. Like, I think that a human dialog writer could probably affordably put together enough dialog that a player wouldn't really exhaust it, but that you'd want to make any synthesis of the lines not have a lot of extra cost.