Is the new dialog window supposed to be an improvement?

[Millybonk]

For me it's a massive regression:

• The overall style is completely different from the style used for the speech bubbles, which makes the dialog window look really odd in comparison, like someone copied the dialog window from a game like 5-10 years ago
• Why does it have to be a whole bar across the width of the screen, and not just a small box around the dialog options?

vs.

[Eyske]

Opinion can be different

I love the new Style. Overall the whole SHB Expansion feels like one of the old Final Fantasy RPG Games (I sometimes get some FF12/13 and FF8 feelings).

[Losara]

I like the new style. It screams... choices!

[Hasrat]

I've read (but not confirmed) that one reason we may not be able to replay some cutscenes in the inn is because of dialog options. If true, I suspect this change may have been a means of addressing that.

[SpiritMuse]

I think this style is a huge improvement. It's so much better than a generic choice box covering my character's face. It looks more like a proper dialogue system now.

[Felis]

the 2nd picture don't work for a comparison, have it only a simple text bubble and nothing to choose
Try it with that:


It shouldn't be just a text bubble. More a thought bubble, because the MC is still thinking about the answer instead of saying it.

[jadan2000]

i like the new way. It feels more RPG-sh, which is obviously something they were trying to do. this expansions story feels way more like a RPG then ever before imo

[MsQi]

I like the new style. It screams... choices!

When in fact there aren't any. Sure some of the NPC responses are cute.

Anyway, it's just a graphic change, and neither the original nor this look anything like the "speech bubbles".

[Gwenorai]

I like it, reminds me of old KOTOR dialogue options.

[Kuroka]

I dont like it, it literally looks like smt taken form another game >_>