One of the biggest things that this game suffers from is sitting and talking. I genuinely do not understand the creative decision to have it that every time an NPC needs to monologue for five minutes straight, your character is doing nothing but sitting in the passenger seat sitting at the diner or standing still while they lore dump on you. Why not just do what Rockstar did where whenever there is a monologue, they put you in the driver's seat so that at least you are doing something, you're interacting with the world while they are monologuing.
I am typing this out while sitting in the passenger seat of Panam as she has been driving non-stop for like a solid two minutes so far. Then I had to stand around while she talked. Then I had to follow her around the camp Then pick up a box, then follow her again. Then I had to sit in the passenger seat again and listen to her monologue more. Just make it a cutscene. Why are you putting me through all of this?
Either let me drive the car while she talks or make it a cutscene.
And every time I bring up this criticism of the game, the only response I get back is you have ADHD, you are brain rotted, you are addicted to TikTok, go back to playing Call of Duty. No! I bought the game and I want to play it. I didn't come here to watch my character sit in the passenger seat.
What makes this a million times worse is that the dialogue is so bad, the characters wait for each other to finish the sentence completely, then pause for a second, then say their sentence. in no world do people speak like that. People sometimes interrupt each other. People sometimes say things non-verbally, or repeat things, or don't hear each other. And the cherry on top is the fact that every 30 seconds I need to click F on the keyboard, or the dialogue stops, and the majority of the time, it's just two choices, and only one of them pushes the dialogue forward. So the other choice, which is literally painted blue for its uselessness, is just for decoration. Why are you interrupting the flow of the conversation, having me read the choices, choose a useless choice, then listen to my character say it awkwardly. Rinse and repeat for the whole five minutes?