It's been a long while, and I might be wrong, but iirc PS:T didn't get rid of dialogue options, and you can always choose that one line even after you've chosen others. You still need to go back to the start of the dialogue branch though, and iirc when it comes to big choices time like with the hag obviously the other lines would be deleted.
You'd think by the time they're adding loot filtering options to game menus, someone would go "hmm maybe there's a problem with itemization and drop rates if we need to give players tools to filter out all this garbage. Let's work on that instead.". But no.
I like to plan my travels to minimize pointless trips. If you see a quest taking place on the other side of a map, you'll put it on hold until you've done everything else, or until you have a bunch of other quests that also take place in the same general area or somewhere along the way. That's why it's fucking infuriating when a game suddenly decides to teleport you somewhere without any warning or a good reason (like a god teleporting you, or because you got too drunk and blacked out). One thing I give Bethesda credit for is that I don't remember them doing this.
Ahh it depends on the game,dragon age did companions well,they were functional and you would have hard time playing it solo. In PB games the companions are useless and generally detract from the experience of lonely exploration. Companions are used as the name suggests...for company and maybe a cool story or two. Most people prefer to not be a lonely murderhobo. For example in Fallout 2 the companions would have been good if you could control them and not let them shoot you in the back.
I think that a limited approach to level scaling is fine. Makes sense that some goblins would be stronger than others, especially if you come back to a region after some time and maybe a different goblin tribe has taken over. It also makes sense from a production perspective that you cannot give all "tiers" of goblins extra textures/meshes/effects/etc.
i'm fine with respawning if there is an in-game explanation, like aforementioned different goblin tribe.
Generally speaking, I feel like in RPG dialog trees are not really well-done and don't feel natural, as you can very often roll back to previous topics, say 10 times the same thing, or give 5 different answers in a row to the same question.
It just shows that people prefer a good story over action. People do use them so they don't miss on some side quests or comment from the npc. It just shows that storfags reign supreme in the world MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!!
