I guess Morrowind's system would have been more immersive(TM) if they gave most of the NPCs at least one unique question-answer pairing possibly leading to longer dialogue branches fleshing out these NPCs even more if reasonable (what someone called whitelist earlier itt). The way it is though feels really lazy and like a Wiki you browse through, yes. Every NPC and their mother just parrot what the others say, which is getting annoying even if you didn't already read it before. Did they even give them proper faction-dependent answers? I think the last time I tried to enjoy that game I quit it after I asked that ruler in that southern fortress (something with ebony ... Castle Ebonheart) about himself. He used the same shitty line every other NPC used when questioned about him. Oh yeah, and there was the difficulty curve which hit rock bottom long before that, that drew me away too.
about TW2:
I'm not so optimistic that a cinematic experience (TM) like The Witcher 2 would still work if they didn't limit the dialogue options like that though. If you just give the player the tools and say "here, figure the story out on your own" then I bet most would get upset because in their games it would more likely turn out like a session of listening to gramp's confused old stories than "Hero and Whiteknight in Shining Armor - Awesome Edition". Which would be bad for games that are that much mainstory-driven.
No, don't water it down, the wheel is teh ultimate eeeeeevil.
about TW2:
I'm not so optimistic that a cinematic experience (TM) like The Witcher 2 would still work if they didn't limit the dialogue options like that though. If you just give the player the tools and say "here, figure the story out on your own" then I bet most would get upset because in their games it would more likely turn out like a session of listening to gramp's confused old stories than "Hero and Whiteknight in Shining Armor - Awesome Edition". Which would be bad for games that are that much mainstory-driven.
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