If there is one outcome, remove the guise of control. Have my character speak for me. I don’t fucking care. I’d rather feel like my character is doing or saying something I wouldn’t personally do than for me to be given a fucking pop-up that means nothing and is just there to reinforce a self-insert facade. At least make a bit out of it if you’re gonna do it. It’s genuinely one of the worst pieces of game design outside of legitimately predatory behavior.
I've been crawling through FF14, and since it's an MMO, there really can't be any choice. But they still constantly give me dialogue options. Anytime you choose the wrong one the person you're talking to just corrects you and carries on. It's...completely meaningless. I don't understand why they bothered, if anything I'd rather go back to being a silent protagonist rather than having it waste my time pausing a cutscene so I can make some stupid quip that immediately gets corrected before we get back to the story.
To be fair there are some legitimately funny cutscenes/NPC reactions for some of FFXIV's dialogue options though. Anytime Y'shtola asks the WoL a question - there's guaranteed to be at least one response where the WoL either makes fun of Y'shtola or simps for her and she is always annoyed by it.
Anytime a MSQ gives you the option to make the WoL reply in a dumbass/snide/etc manner? There's at least usually some sort of remark that makes it worthwhile.
Thancred being like "bro please stop playing around" when you act like a moogle when you get surrounded by a bunch of hostile people.
All the Scions (and half of the various other NPCs) are always so annoyed/off-put whenever the WoL decides to quip or says something dumb they're always the choices I gravitate towards if given one.
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