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I'm terribly sorry that you feel that way. That sounds like a really scathing review, and mostly sounds like you're not enjoying the game at all. Would a "good" aligned companion change your mind? Possibly not, as you seem so upset about it all?

I can't make myself agree with any point you've made, though, as I personally enjoy all of the conversations, characters, voice acting etc.
I doubt there will be a complete re-write of the game/characters at this point to start from scratch.

So, I don't know if anyone else is having the same issue, but I'm finding the green text you're using extremely difficult to read.

It was better enough that I could read it, though I still find the default text much easier (the green feels too bright). Thanks for tweaking it.

On topic, it always felt to me like my character was a non-entity; they just serve as the glue that binds together this band of ragtag misfits. The show is about the companions, not me. Nearly every conversation is about them and what they want or revealing some piece of their story. They are telling me things and how I react determines how far I get in the conversation. They are relatively immutable, with the possible exception of how much they approve of me. They always want something from me - I don't get the opportunity to want something from them. There might as well not be dialog options - the whole thing can be a scripted cutscene.

Also, they never ask about me, who I am, what I want, what I think about them, etc. (which would be a great way to flesh out the player's character a bit). I get the feeling you could remove the player from the game entirely and not much would change. It really feels like Larian should get out of the video game business and just make a movie instead.

Honestly, my only issue with Dialogue is that the player character is so bare bones that it doesn't feel like we are playing a dnd character as of yet.

Aside for any passing consideration about the current state of the writing, it seems to me you are making a buttload of assumptions about what we will and will not be able to do with and about the companions (or other characters) as the story progresses.

There’s absolutely no evidence we “won’t be able to change their minds” about things.
If anything I’m afraid of the usual, gimmicky, game-y situation where the exact opposite will be true and each one of them will end up bending backward to enthusiastically adhere to whatever the player will want.

I take it OP's just saying what it's like currently for him. If you say you'll check on the game again at full release then you're at least still hopeful to some degree that things will change. It's hard to be hopeful that general writing style and philosophy can change drastically, but I suppose it can happen. I honestly don't want to feel like the OP when it's my turn to play this game; this just destroys your experience so hard. It'd be so sad if you'd feel like soloing the game or forming party with your pets because you can't stand your companions. There's annoying characters, and then there's annoying characters. This reminds me of how I couldn't stand Sera in DAI.

This is odd topic ...
You are telling us that you dont like conversations, but i didnt notice anything specific you dont like ... or how would you like it better.
Since voiceacting is quite expensive, i would not expect them to scrap it all and start over. :-/

Maybe im wrong here ...
But since Larian allready confrimed to us, that we will have to dedicate at end of Act1 ... i dare to presume that since that situation, we shall follow (acompany) our chosen origin character ... and therefore i would expect it to have significance then ... i cant quite imagine that Laezel, who hates you and all your decision would agree with your proposion that you will join her on her journey.

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Alright, to properly address the OP - I believe I understand what you mean, but please correct me if I am wrong; the options that we get to deal with the snarky attitude with our companions is often... Lacking, at best. And it is not due to the companions itself - personally, I like the vast majority of them and I find their conversations entertaining in themselves, but I do agree with OP that the responses are often... Not very impressive. It is just our (in-)ability to properly respond to their behavior, regardless if we want to call them out for being confusing or behaving poorly (ahem, SH), simply tell them to "sit down" (although, you can do this with Lae'zel at times) or simply make a in-character decision to do something snarky back - like roll our eyes, laugh at them, give them a snarky comment or even just sighing, going like "Ugh, never mind" - aka. making an in-character decision that the game actually registers as us calling out their behavior.

I mean, I usually just imagine my character walking away and/or rolling her eyes at SH most of the time - but obviously the game does not know that, so neither does SH and obviously thereafter she won't react like my character had rolled her eyes at her.



Hmm, as long as our character is not voiced I am going to *ASSUME* that Larian left the responses the way they are to keep it as simple as possible - with room for imagination to take over the actual reply. What concerns me, personally, is IF we actually get a fully voiced character... I fear multiple situations like Star Wars: The Old Republic where you select an "descriptive" option, and what comes out from your characters mouth is so off the target that you almost fall of your chair either laughing, or cringing in full despair (dez-pair, huehuehue). Anyhow, since we have noted in earlier topics that it seems probable that our PC might be fully voiced by the end of release - it might get better (or much, much, much worse :'] ) depending on what happens. Fully voice being implemented would also explain why there are so very few dialogue options despite our character not having a voice (aka, should be easier to add more flavor lines).

So ...
For example ... you want option to tell Shadowheart to "Go f*** yourself!" ?

That would be awesome!
I asked for such option few months ago.

Tbh, I wouldn't mind seeing more dialogue options for us to say EVEN if they ultimately lead to the same response. I don't think a mix of true branching and false branching would be bad for this game as often times a person will respond the same way if the thing said to them isn't too extreme from eachother. It would give us a better chance at matching the personality we want to match when we say something. But that in itself might be problematic as that was a main criticism of RPGs like Mass Effect and Fallout 4 where whatever you said nothing seemed to change.

That someone might have been me lol. But yeah, regardless of her voice lines( the writer does what he wants, you either like it or not. Basta.) I don't get why they have the last word. We should choose if we don't say anything or if we just let her know where is her place.

This relationship changes over time etc but I doubt we will get too many dialogue options based on what you say here in general. I think sven mentioned we will keep our origin characters based on ACT I until the end of the game. Like...really? I 'm soooo against this decision.

The simple possibility of a character leaving if he feels like it made managing your team way more spicy.