Quote Originally Posted by saeedaisspecial View Post
They're no more or less immersive than a chat window.
You don't see chat bubbles above people's heads in real life when you speak, nor do you have a chat window to read it either.
The immersion argument is silly really.
Slapping ye olde IRL argument on it doesn't make it any less immersive when no spoken dialogue is being used.

In real life you would hear someones voice from their mouth or see written text from someone mute. PC's and most NPC's in this game don't have voices. This attaches a location and body to those words.