Dialogue in this game is pretty bad

[Wolfie]

It doesn't feel natural.
Too many times the way V and other characters respond makes no sense.
They assume way too much knowledge as well.

4/10.

[Id3alistic]

Maybe your small brain just doesn't understand them.

[Khaarxen]

Female or Male V? Playing as male V, I found his answers to be what I would have said in his shoes.

[Wanderer]

A bar below Disco Elysium, but so is pretty much every game. Haven't played long enough to know if it's at least as good as Witcher 3. A few conversations felt kind of stilted, like, character says a one liner, you say another one liner. Other times it was really good (like interrupting two characters having a intense debate, and the guy you are working with just pauses and stares at you like "you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot, you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this up")

[Rasluka]

Originally posted by Id3alistic:

Maybe your small brain just doesn't understand them.

"To be fair you have to have a very high IQ to understand Cyberpunk Dialogue"

[Cat]

You can tell some lines were recorded seperately. Sometimes (female) V will sound soft spoken and calm then suddenly shift to accusitsory and angry cause you went from optional blue conversation to main dialogue

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Sunricer:

You can tell some lines were recorded seperately. Sometimes (female) V will sound soft spoken and calm then suddenly shift to accusitsory and angry cause you went from optional blue conversation to main dialogue

You know what, the blue dialogue vs orange dialogue might be the most blatant example of how dialogue can feel stilted. Don't know if I can blame them, considering quarantine, but damn nail on the head.

[Moga CMDR]

I don't always like how V reacts. But I accepted long ago this was a game we played a particular character, but at least we got to change how they looked.

Some of the lifepath/skill specific dialog options do help a bit, give you a chance to get some flavor that the stock V may not always get.

But yeah some of the dialog isn't the best. And some of the responses show they didn't even consider the fact that optional dialog choices were going to be a thing, because the forced path acts like we didn't already cover the same thing just a few seconds ago...

Originally posted by Dr. Sinister:

People don't understand anything and it's a waste of time trying to explain to them. It's why they make great memes

Fixed it for you. No need to make statements that show you are brainwashed in some weird cult when you can change a single word and it be more accurate.

[kiteless 凧無し]

Jacky was the only likable character in the entire game

[Wolfie]

Originally posted by Id3alistic:

Maybe your small brain just doesn't understand them.

HAHAHAHA.

Sorry but this is just meme worthy.

'iamverysmart' type response.

Imagine defending bad writing by claiming the other person is just not smart if they don't think it's good writing. You can use that excuse for absolutely anything that is badly written. Pathetic...

Anyway my response is you are the real small brain because you cannot see the obvious plot holes and inconsistencies in the writing, too dumb to register the logic. :D

[Wolfie]

Originally posted by Aphelium:

Originally posted by Avocato:

:)
They're not talking about jargon.

Oh, i thought he refered to lore with the "knowledge" part.
Mb

Yes I am not talking about jargon.

Sadly I have not bothered to write down any examples, but off the top of my head *SPOILERS*:

'Why can't we just blow the antenna up?' - V

'That would not let us get round the protocol after the explosion' - Panam

.... what protocol? If she means escaping the Night City police I'm pretty sure a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EMP bomb would also alert the police, but again this is not clear.

Or when you capture the creator of the Relic and interrogate him in the motel, V says 'If it wasn't for [the old guy] the relic would never have been found', just lol, pretty sure this should have been written 'if it wasn't for [the son] the relic would never have been found' because his son stole it, not the father...

This is just a couple examples. I see a lot of crap like this in each conversation. Pieces of ♥♥♥♥ like Id3alistic are the real ones with small brains because they look past this thinking it is fine and do not see the glaring holes in the logic.

[DF]

Originally posted by kiteless:

Jacky was the only likable character in the entire game

This is true, especially Keanu was playing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all the way.

Also agree with you guys, especially female V sounds really bad at places.

[Jom]

Originally posted by Wanderer:

A bar below Disco Elysium, but so is pretty much every game. Haven't played long enough to know if it's at least as good as Witcher 3. A few conversations felt kind of stilted, like, character says a one liner, you say another one liner. Other times it was really good (like interrupting two characters having a intense debate, and the guy you are working with just pauses and stares at you like "you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot, you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this up")

Much better than witcher in my opinion (played about 40 hours now).
Don't think it's a better game than witcher 3, but whatever other problems the game may have now, they did a great job with story and dialogues in my opinion.

[Shacks]

Oh I dont know i'm thirty hours in and I'd assume midway through Act 2 (though i've not touched a lot of the main quest yet) and so far i've felt like the general plot its managed to weave around my choices work. Got a nomad who misses his family, briefly makes a new one before they all die then thinks he's going to die and gives up but finds another nomad chick who he spends a crazy whirlwind week with, falls in love, now he's all about family and that again. So far so good narrative-wise.

That aside there is the slight let-down of realising there isent any downtime activities/money-sinks/friendship building activities like the game soooort of hinted at and the background specific intros are shorter than bloody Dragon Age Origin's even (and thats a notoriously short game overall).

But writing wise I like the characters, Panam works for me, Jackie felt characterful, Takamura and V's slightly antagonistic relationship is amusing. They managed, as with Witcher 3 to immerse themselves in authentic to setting jargon and voice acting. When one considers the competition is the woefully inept Bethesda or the utterly empty modern Bioware, tis impressive. It's not a living breathing super immersive SIMULATION RPG FPS but hey. It's a good RPG. I'll reserve my proper judgement till I've finished it, I could actually realise theres zero choice in the game and its all an allusion but it would seem theres a whole slough of potential endings based on main and side quest decisions.