The devs should of trippled the amount of dialog the companions have and given the option to totally muzzle them.

SilverBride wrote: »

Please let us completely turn off Companion responses.

^ This.

Yes, you can make their pithy comments less frequent, but enough is enough. It's like when you run those quests and Lyris tags along, chatting all the way. Or Stuga.

I definitely feel like the passive-aggressive comments should cease at max rapport, regardless of where you've set their chattiness level.

_Zathras_ wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Please let us completely turn off Companion responses.

Yes, you can make their pithy comments less frequent, but enough is enough. It's like when you run those quests and Lyris tags along, chatting all the way. Or Stuga.

Do not get me started on Stuga. She is an outright stalker PITA. I wish they would just remove her nagging 'feature'. Same with fighters and Mages guild. Everyone who needs those gets them. And of course that means having to way too often hear 'the guild has need of you!' Sigh

MasterSpatula wrote: »

I definitely feel like the passive-aggressive comments should cease at max rapport, regardless of where you've set their chattiness level.

I definitely feel like no companion should be passive aggressive with their comments. I mean, this is a game. For fun. Who the heck wants some NPC that is supposed to be fun following you around with attitude? It's almost like they never test it over time to see how it comes off. Or like they lack common sense to realize that while it might be amusing in small doses (which yes, I think it would be in very small doses) having it be constant will be annoying AF.

I think if they want to do this kind of 'clever' attitude with a companion, it should be more limited to their personal quest and the beginning quest. Maybe a very, very rare comment otherwise. But they have quite limited dialogue which makes them tedious to begin with.

Absolutely need an option to turn off their dialogue when all you hear are the same four or six comments through the game.

SilverBride wrote: »

Please let us completely turn off Companion responses.

^ This

I have a sorcerer with pet and warden with pet, and they do not continuously say ""I'm still here, thanks for asking" or "What do you think you'll make with that?" ZOS, please! An option to turn off Companion responses!

SilverBride wrote: »

She has a real smart mouth then has the nerve to say "I always thought I was agreeable." Well why would you think that?!

Well to be fair, she's snarky but she generally supports what you want to do. She don't really judge stealing or care if someone is an Argonian. Snark is just her sense of humor.

This is why beyond the initial quest I haven't bothered. I might give it a shot if they'd let me shut them up.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I just tune them out, that and watching save a fox vids on random shuffle on the other monitor.

I tend to tune them out as well.

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

I never really saw her comments as passive aggressive, I always saw it as her teasing my character in a snarky but familiar way.

I don't see it as friendly teasing at all. To me it comes across as her being irritated that she has been asked to help out and just one complaint after another.

I don't know why but she reminds me a little of Eveli, which is a huge turn off.

SilverBride wrote: »

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

I never really saw her comments as passive aggressive, I always saw it as her teasing my character in a snarky but familiar way.

I don't see it as friendly teasing at all. To me it comes across as her being irritated that she has been asked to help out and just one complaint after another.

I don't know why but she reminds me a little of Eveli, which is a huge turn off.

Yeah, it's super subjective depending on whose playing honestly. I can see how someone else might interpret it that way. For example, some people see Bastian as really caring and absolutely love him and I just don't see the charm. I really hope they put in that mute button.

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

She has a real smart mouth then has the nerve to say "I always thought I was agreeable." Well why would you think that?!

Well to be fair, she's snarky but she generally supports what you want to do. She don't really judge stealing or care if someone is an Argonian. Snark is just her sense of humor.

Agreed. I never really saw her comments as passive aggressive, I always saw it as her teasing my character in a snarky but familiar way. My character would tease right back, so I have no problem with mirri. I like her company and of the two she always felt genuinely caring. I find her pretty funny.

Bastian, however, I find to be grating. His holier-than-thou attitude and "deep" commentary strike me as incredibly passive aggressive, and even though he's "honorable" I'd only trust him as far as I can throw him. His quest was interesting, but I wish he'd received a less persnickity personality. Then again he mixes with my characters like oil and water since they're a bunch of happy go lucky thieves and mischief makers.

I get that the dialouge is subject to personal interpretation however and I understand someone not enjoying a sarcastic personality when it comes to mirri. I think they should have a mute option for those that want it. (Bastian, I'm looking at you)

I actually vibe with Bastian a lot and don't see him as passive aggressive either, and in fact I think he's much more of a straight shooter than Mirri. I think she'd say she doesn't like something to gently tease, whereas Bastian would just tell you he likes (or dislikes) something.

For example when you kill a butterfly she says

"There has got to be a better source for your alchemy practice."

Which is passive aggressive to me. Meanwhile Bastian says this when you kill little critters.

"Stop it! That's wasteful and cruel."

He's being pretty upfront with how he feels about it, while Mirri is moreso trying to steer you in a different direction. Mirri also hates the practice more than Bastian (she actually loses rapport, Bastian does not) but you wouldn't know it due to her way of expressing disgust. Neither of them minces words when they hate something or you though.

To me Mirri is a snarky person who likes to gently tease her friends and is a bit weird.

Bastian is a bit of a dweeb who has a strong sense of right and wrong, and tries to be more direct about how he's doing. A lawful good knight who's lowkey a massive dork.

I don't find either passive aggressive. They both seem to enjoy your company, but Mirri 's morals are a lot more flexible than Bastian.

I think we're all just so accustomed to stealing in Tamriel that we look at Bastian like he's the weird one for having a problem with it, even though lots of citizens of Tamriel don't like it.

I like Mirri and don't find her passive aggressive at all.

M_Volsung wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

At this point it's just become background noise like the combat music for me, but yeah an option to mute them would be a good idea.

At least the music can be turned off.

Yeah, as I said before, I think an option to mute them would be a good idea.

This is one area where I wish I could mod the game like Skyrim. I like both Bastian and Mirri, but there are a couple of their comments that really rub me the wrong way. Definitely Mirri's "I'm still here, thanks for asking", I find incredibly strange, like... why would she assume I was ignoring her? It does sound passive-aggressive to me.

Some of Bastian's comments can sound like an inspirational wallpaper, which is, well, strange, but fine for the most part. But then some boss knocks you down and he pipes up with, "Heroes don't give up; they get up!", and I think, "Yeah, I was really going to take a nap here with this Vvardenfell boss stomping on my face, but thanks for reminding me not to."

Thing is, I do usually enjoy their comments, so I don't want to turn them all off, just the odd ones.