I somewhat agree with you. I agree that the PC response feels... Lacking, at times.
However, I am not extremely fond of the "short descriptions, but long and elaborate replies" for playable characters. This is because in a lot of games where this is a thing, my response sometimes turn out to be something COMPLETELY ELSE than I had in mind. SWTOR did this, and I lost count of how many times I just used alt-f4 to get out of conversations to start them over cause my character's response did not turn out like I expected, at all. Sometimes the short descriptions simply cannot describe the response properly, leading to misunderstandings. In my case, playing as a sith inquisitor, I had issues knowing when the replies were ironic and when they were not. I thought it suited my sith well to be a bit of an sarcastic douche, but about 50% of the times, the replies were genuine - and there really wasn't always a way for me to tell if they were sarcastic or genuine during the short response descriptions... :x
I am not saying I don't want longer and more elaborate responses for our characters - because I do. But oh dear - I dread the short description panels... I can already see myself quick-saving before each conversation - just in case... >.< Dealing with the consequences of my actions is one thing - I can deal with that - but dealing with my character not even responding the way I want to is a completely different issue that I rather not deal with (or at least deal with as little as possible).
