Opinions of Dialogue Choices in NPC interactions

[Jas710]

No. But what I would like is for the dev team to do the opposite by revisiting all cutscenes and npc interactions and look to trim them down. Too many moments where it seems like just fluff to bloat up the word count.

[Oatmealraisin]

It might not be a popular opinion, but I enjoy the dialogue system in recent BioWare games, with the wheel and the paraphrases and all that. I like getting some input into what happens in a conversation, yet also find it more interesting to play a character who has some personality of their own and isn't just my mouthpiece.

But while I like that system in SWTOR (to take the example above) I don't particularly think that FFXIV needs to make all its dialogue like that. I'm a fan of Final Fantasy, and the main story dialogue in FFXIV is pretty classic Final Fantasy - you're meant to sit back and enjoy it rather than treating it as a gameplay element. For me, that works just fine. I like the occasional "flavor" dialogue choices and would love to see more of them, but it doesn't have to be constant choices all the time.