Originally Posted by Mikus
I still don't understand why that's considered better, but if they do at least put the 1H/2H info in the description, I guess I'll live.

Personal preference mostly, but having it lengthen the item-name did get rather annoying giving more clutter when alting, or generally when hovering over weapons in your inventory... IMO.
It fits much better as the first description, all the way at the top. We'll see where they place it though.
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I'm no developer myself, but I'm thinking even if the "generic" dialogue options are randomly assigned to NPCs (though it doesn't seem they are from my playthroughs), couldn't they just attach the "dimming" to the global instance of the dialogue choice throughout the game, regardless of which individual NPCs it gets assigned to? Not sure if that makes sense to anyone but me. wink

They could... if it wasn't for, what I said before, you can't check for something that isn't generated yet.
Maybe an example makes this clearer. "Jake talk" has 3 nodes, and there's a 4th node on quest update.

You talk with NPC1. You select Jake. The RNG comes up with "2"... you have now heard option 2.
You talk with NPC2. It has the Jake option. Should it be greyed out or not? You've heard 2 before, but it doesn't generate 1,2 or 3 until you select that option. How does it figure out to grey it? Or should it simply grey it hearing 2, even if you haven't heard option 1 and 3?
Or should it grey out when you heard 1, 2 and 3? If so, people would still complain they might hear repeatals.
It should ungrey upon the opening of option 4. Of course, like 1,2,3 4 gets generated actually clicking the option, then it runs the requirement if 4 should show. How do you check that before generation?

Answer; You don't.
And that's the problem with the suggestion, technically-wise.

It works in other games since they simply don't randomly generate answers based on a PC's input, and for say, questupdates, give an entirely new node for the player to choice rather than re-giving the same, but altering the feedback given to the player.

Hope that makes the problem clear... smile