Real talk: Dialogue paraphrases have been a shitty, shitty idea in every game they have ever been implemented in. If I had a time machine I would go back and just scream at the original Mass Effect team.
The Old Republic has a thing where you can hit escape to immediately restart the conversation. Apparently just having the full text at the bottom of the screen like every pre-Mass Effect RPG didn't occur to them.
I loathe dialogue paraphrases so much. They confer no benefit that outweighs the frustration of saying the wrong thing, hammering skip until you reach the end of the conversation and then reloading.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I really really .... really hate Dialogue paraphrasing. It can completely break the experience for me the second a conversation goes in a different direction than I intended. I wish they gave you the option to have it show the entire dialog, or maybe someone will make a mod.
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