The Japanese should not make RPGs.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Gee I usually play total bastards or support character characters. In fact my lastest AD&D character is a pirate, whose slowly turning into a deep one. (so why doesn't cure disease or remove curse work on this?)

[Stark]

I started playing Steambot Chronicles a few days ago. While it's not more of an adventure game than an RPG, it was made by a Japanese company, yet it's got options for dialog for just about every one of your character's responses to anything. Even when meeting people, you have four or five options. It's nice to be able to hit on the hot chick right when you first meet her and tell some chump who got dumped by a girl that he had it coming.

From what I can tell Mass Effect may be similar: you chose from dialog attitudes or generalities, instead of set dialog options. Since the game is largely based on solving the Big Problem with varying methods, hopefully they'll use this to create better dialog.

At least you can interrupt people.