lotr-sam0711: So, of course, I ask what is going on to the first person I meet, some priest in this weird temple. He then proceeds to monologue for 15 minutes.

link6616: I think playing Dreamfall first is actually better, because it gets you more invested in april and this story when playing...

lotr-sam0711: So I'm up at like 2 a.m. playing this game. Why am I up at 2 a.m.? It's just one of those nights. I'm playing this game and while I've liked some of the cool and interesting conversations, I've noticed that throughout the game everyone seems to love the sound of their voice because they talk...a lot. I could spend 5 minutes talking to a character that seems to have little bearing on anything in the game at all.

I brush off the feeling and keep playing. Then I get to this point where things get crazy, something really out there happens and suddenly I'm accosted from one game location to another. Not sure what is going on, I look for orientation. So, of course, I ask what is going on to the first person I meet, some priest in this weird temple. He then proceeds to monologue for 15 minutes.

15 minutes!

15 minutes?

15 friggin' minutes.

This is not a conversation, there is no interaction. I'm sitting there, staring at my screen, listening to this guy explain the entire mythos of this entire game in 15 minutes. And the worst part was that when he was done he had given me so much information and talked so much I hardly remembered any of it.

Okay, so maybe it's there to make the player feel the same confusion as the protagonist of the game, but that doesn't discount the fact that I sat and watched this character just blab to me for 15 minutes. And after this moment I kept noticing more and more of this as characters decided to espouse their whole life stories and problems from a single prompt. Hey, I just asked you your name, not you're entire reason for existing in the same dimension as me!

Whatever happened to the virtue of brevity?

jjavier: I really don't care how my old landlord meet his partner in life or how hers relationship is going. She is a totally unimportant NPC...

Vestin: 1* You don't have to go through every dialog option to get through the game.
2* Why the hell would you want the game to have LESS content ? What are you so eager to get to that you want to blaze through the conversations ? It's an ADVENTURE game, FFS. It's storytelling with lots of text where you solve puzzles to get even more text as a reward.
3* Treating people as NPCs means you're discussing the game at a meta-level. This is NOT something that should occur while you're playing the game, as it would mean that your suspension of disbelief has been ruined.
Withing the game, she's a person. She has things to say that are relevant to her.
4* The polar opposite can be found in Syberia 1, for example. The characters have EXTREMELY few lines, are boring, shallow and you only interact with them briefly. I'd prefer TLJ-style chatty NPCs any day.

Herbman: As one person already mentioned, pressing Escape skips the dialogue (if you feel like losing out a lot in terms of plot, immersion and connecting with the characters), but I think many people don't realize it works when you're walking around as well. Very handy if you find yourself going to and fro between locations, as you do in all adventure games.

terrene70: I had no idea you could press escape to make her run- maybe now I can finish the game. Between her ridiculously slow walk and the unending conversations I had given up.

terrene70: I wish. Pressing escape for me just makes her run. I still have to wait for her to reach her target.

Vel_Grozny: I agree with this. But generally it is a problem with almost every game. At first you have big world, many places to go, many things to do. As you're nearing the completion, everything just starts to proceed faster.
On the other hand, after some events in a game (the big bad's plan is nearing its fruition, loved ones are killed, etc.), it would be sometimes strange to just slowly wander around the world

As for the length of the dialogues in TLJ, there is a part that I really hate in that matter - listening to the stories of the Alatien. I think I've never listened to them till the end. It is also sometimes a problem where a character speaks REALLY slowly.