Why didn't Bioware offer more dialogue choices in Andromeda?

Double post *sigh*

There are only so many lines of dialogue they can record for the game. People bitched and moaned about not enough banter and how it worked in Inquisition, so they recorded more banter. Now people want more choices when it comes to conversations. There are limits to what they can do for a video game and things need to be sacrificed to try and appease the people that do nothing but pick things apart.

Damned if you do....

I couldn’t be more diplomatic with Wrex about the genophage in ME1. I either disagree that there’s a difference between its deployment and the Turians’ skirmish with the humans.....or I disagree that there’s a difference between its deployment and the Turians’ skirmish with the humans.

I have no choice but to have Wrex call Shepard ignorant when anyone with a reasonably up to date history book in the Alliance should know the difference. For me this instance was way more aggravating if I wanted to play a more educated character.

quality over quantity is key here. Players like myself love choices but more quality of choices.

Why didn't they do fewer? They made the choices they did because generally they are the professionals and know what they are doing.

I personally have messed with dialogue trees trying to write for both Inquisition and Andromeda for practice and let me tell you when you have to write all your options every time it's a bitch and a half. Being able to occasionally get away with only two options when it's called for is easier and I imagine that trickles down to the whole team.

Plus it's often better for RP too.

Pros and cons, but one thing that MEA did great was basing the responses on intent as opposed to tone.

Because it costs more money first and foremost.

Second a lot of those dialogue "choices" in ME1 are word scrambles in the dialogue leading up to sex scene with Liara there is option where the first two options are the same sentence minus ONE single word and it doesn't change the meaning of what Shepard says it's just one single word shorter. There is no real difference in either the vocal performance of Mark Meer or Jennifer Hale as well. It's just a stupid way to give the player the illusion of choice and IMHO it doesn't do that right.

Also how many different ways can you say the same thing it's all means the same thing:
Option 1: "I believe in God."
Option 2: "I don't believe in God."

Ryder tells Suvi that she either believes or doesn't believe in God. Allowing the player to play as a believer or as an atheist. Sara Ryder can still romance Suvi even if she's an atheist, and the only difference is some of the emails Suvi sends you about the "debates" they have. It's not like Ryder tries to convert the angara to Christianity/Judaism/Islam or anything like that. The whole religion/atheist thing only comes up when talking to Suvi about her beliefs.

Now I would prefer the "I don't know if there is a God or not, I just do the things I do because I feel and believe that they're right things to do. I deal with the afterlife if and/or when I get there." as a true agnostic option, but then again I don't need a video game to validate my spiritual beliefs either.

Because you weren't there to tell them what to right. Get a job there and fix that for the next ME game, okay?

Not working on MEA...most of them were not available until 2015.

These are MEA credited writers: 

John Dombrow (Lead, joined in 2015),
Chris Schlerf (officially announced as the Lead Writer in 2014, left in 2015)
Cathleen Rootsaert (Lead)

Joanna Berry
Ann Lemay
Neil Pollner

Sheryl Chee (was on DAI and its DLCs)
Lukas Kristjanson (was on DAI and its DLCs)

Hall Hood (SWTOR and worked on at least one DAI DLC)
Samantha Wallschlaeger (SWTOR)
Courtney Woods (SWTOR and worked on at least one DAI DLC)

Jay Watamaniuk (Anthem lead writer since 2012...)

Joanna Berry, Ann Lemay and Neil Pollner might have worked on other stuff too, I can't find all of the SWTOR expac and DAI DLCs credits list. Cathleen Rootsaert  is co-lead on Anthem with Jay, but I have no idea when she joined.

He’s a hack.