Common Sense Corner

[yamina-chan]

Further on the subject of long conversations with NPCs: I actually dissagree, to a certain extend.
Sure, you would not want to spend hours with every single one probably, but not everyone has to be kept on short terms either.

For example, you can have the conversation be split up into chunks, meaning that you might trigger the first three textboxes uppon talking to a person and have it end on a note where the player can wander off. If they talk to the NPC again however, the conversation will resume.
Implimenting a way to skip through message boxes can also help, in case you talk to that one person with the long monoluge again.
(And again: if your NPCs are interesting, longer conversations are not as bad as long as you don't go overboard with it Xb)


As for alloweing players to skip cutscenes...well...that comes down to personal preference. But you should have at least have a "savety-mechanisim" in your set up for that, should you use it; not allowing cutscenes to be skipped unless they have been seen at least once.
Few things can be as counter productive to the experience of playing a game then accidently skipping through a plot-point reveal by accident, missing vital - or just interesting - parts.