If I'm playing the party Wizard in multiplayer and won't be allowed to roll my Arcana or History checks in a dialogue just because someone else started the convo...its not D&D. And it's definitely not co-op no matter what they call it.
Same even in single player if I can't have Gale step up in those situations.
The gimmick of being able to hold an NPC hostage in dialogue while someone else runs across the map to pick pocket them doesn't begin to solve anything.
Sure it does. It solves the problem of Multiplayer situations where players want to troll one another and exploit everything in the game just to fool around... For memes... And for streaming. See?
Because there isn't enough of that already...
As you can tell, I'm NOT happy with that gameplay style. It's a HUGE bummer for this game and I hope people are wrong that THAT'S what Larian is gearing the game towards. That is SO not serious RPG ing. That's just people screwing around. To hinder single player especially to allow players to be butts is just... Ugh!
I hope it's not true and Larian fixes these things.
