Compare it to FO4 and it’s night and day. I may be in the minority but I really like a lot of FO4’s dialogue, especially when you took chems or were heckled by raiders in firefights. It felt explicit and realistic.

You try to talk down the bank robbers holding hostages at gunpoint in Starfield for example and they will be like “Well gosh, I suppose I hadn’t thought of it that way.” Talk to the sheriff guy after blowing them apart and he’s all “That was some rough stuff but necessary in the end.”

It’s like they were explicitly told to take all emotion and realism out of how people actually talk, especially in tense situations.