This game is well made, and I suppose it's an alright candidate for GOTY (better than RDR by a country mile, for sure) But man...
 
I played the game in march or whatever, and enjoyed myself immensely. Played two separate times, in fact. I have spent the time since then thinking if it was really as good as everyone else was saying, and I decided to go back in to another playthrough. I have since played Alpha Protocol 3 whole times, which while not as impressive (AP only takes 8-12 hours for a playthrough, after all) definitely speaks to that game's strengths. I go ahead and started it up today, and I can't fucking take the dialogue. I can spend minutes thinking of what I want to say! what the fuck is that shit? I know for a fact that Miranda and Jacob would rather get off the Cerberus training facility, but I had to get dinner so I left it sitting for a minute or two. I can go play something on my PS2 or 360 and they would just continue to stare. Alpha Protocol makes you choose quickly and sometimes you pick the wrong choices. and why should I have to investigate? in Alpha Protocol, anything that was felt to need a whole dialogue tree, it got one; the less important facts would be on Dossiers and the mission briefing. Obviously I don't have to investigate, but not doing so might cost me valuable "paragon/renegade" points; which is the worst part of the ME2 dialogue. Why the fuck do I need these stupid points to act like a badass/act like a saint? All it does is support sticking to one side over the other, which I may not want: sometimes I might feel the need to be paragon or whatever, but I CANT. that dialogue is locked out from me because I have spent the game saying renegade things. In AP, you get 3 main dialogue options, and sometimes a 4th: Suave/Professional/Aggressive, but I can always choose one over the other if I want to.
 
ME2 might be the better GAME, but man I don't think I could play it again.