Most NPCs cycle between 2 or 3 lines, but there's barely a 3 second pause in between.
Assuming you're talking about cycling lines on the same NPC, if by 3 seconds you mean ~30 seconds, sure.
Originally Posted by Sotanaht
The CONSTANT and repetitive chatter is exteremely annoying, especially when you spend 5-10 minutes going through 3 different Merchant's inventories in the same area and rearranging gear every time you vist town.
Hmm. Let's have a listen to that "CONSTANT and repetitive chatter" near the merchants. I stepped in and grabbed a minute from the marketplace.
Yeah, that's just unbearable.
Yours is playing a LOT less than mine. Mine actually overlaps occasionally, and I can't count 5 seconds without a voiceover, often less than 2.
I've also gotten the same kind of dialog problems during combat. When there are prisoners around they will continously shout at you throughout the fight. For example, the ones in the immaculate temple are shouting "stop this lunatic... PLEASE" and their other 2 lines overtop of each other every 5-10 seconds for the entire battle. It got so annoying that my third time through the fight (after my PC BSODed on the second) I was seriously considering killing them instead of the demons.
Anyway, here's my version
And here's the combat version, if that doesn't drive you up the wall nothing will. Also be sure to check out 1:42 for an interesting bug.
Anyway, I think there should be a MINIMUM 1 full minute silence for every individual NPC after they say a particular line or sequence, and at least 5 minutes before they repeat the same line. Within my first video the one shopper repeats her "let's see... halibut... sheep's cheese.... tomatos" line 4 times in a 2 minute period, and she's not the only one repeating lines in that time either. Also an enforced 10 second silence between different NPC calls as well, just to make absolutely damn sure there's some peace and bloody quiet once in a while.
