Perfect example of dialogue tree needing improvement...

I just wish we could go back to the DA:O/KoToR days where we were given a list and would say exactly that.

Actually I like voiced protagonists, I can live without them but would prefer not to. In games with a more narrative driven story it works very well but in games that are very sandbox, like skyrim and fallout, it doesn't work. The day I see a TES or another fallout game with a voiced protagonist will be a sad day indeed. 

I want it to be precise, and for the 'tone' to also have a difference in delivery. Also, casual should not equate to sarcastic. That seems a little off to me.
Here we have some nice variation but it is often not even really close to what the character says. They seem to go by meaning, kind of. But different words can change things a lot. The difference from sounding like you want and sounding like a punk or dick.

What I really don't get is why they have to change it at all. In this case, "Don't worry about it" was sufficient. But they had to add something to it because they seem to never want to deliver a line as it is written. I am not sure why that is. But it is going against what most people prefer. I think they think most people like a surprise, but I think when RPing, that is the one thing most people don't with regards to the words they choose for their characters. That this basic and most simple idea appears to be lost on them is sort of a head scratcher. They really need to make that wheel specifically representative and when it is not they need to put those nifty three dots (...) after it so you know more is coming and that the line they give you is not the whole thing your character will say. They also need to make sure it is clear which tone it is. Logical and professional are generally accurate. Emotional is usually empathizing/sympathizing in tone. But casual is not really casual. It's sarcastic more than a few times. So they probably should add in a true casual and a true sarcastic. Casual should be neither empathetic nor sarcastic. It should be probably be more general, possibly witty at times, not serious, but not something that could come off as rude. Then you can choose to be respond without being parked in some specific camp.

In my example above it should have been:

Casual - don't worry about it
Sarcastic - don't worry about it, I know you are good for it.
Professional - any one of:
that's my job.
That's what I am here for.
You're a valued member of my team. I'm happy to help.
Emotional - That's what friends are for.
Logical - I'm want to be here for my team. 

Yeah, it basically is 4 different ways of saying OK but as they say, it's not always what you say but how you say it. In this case it is what you say also. Some of them are a big difference. Like the difference between you coming off like a snide, arrogant, or snarky punk and a professional who wants things to be handled professionally with some seriousness that should be afforded the situation. You get to decide which you want and in some cases snide or snarky really does fit for who you are dealing with or what the situation is. Same with emotional. Sometimes that might be more appropriate, like often when you are forging bonds with people. Identifying with them, being empathetic/sympathetic often more suited in those situations. But if the words are too far off, different meanings can be construed. They need to avoid that. It can change the RP experience.

It's like they haven't even really figured out how to work their own system.

Pillars of Eternity, Age of Decadence, Tyranny, Torment: Tides of Nurmagomedov, etc etc etc.  Face it, multi-platform big budget games with dialogue trees need voice acting.

So the fact that there's a market for medium-budget cRPG's is proof that AAA RPGs need a voiced protagonist? Nice logic.

Anyways, the main problem with ME:A dialogues isn't the voiced protagonist, it's the infantile and lazy writing.

Some of the responses in KoToR were hilarious.  One time when I was playing a snarky character and Bastila, once again, called me out in public to fear the dark side my character responded something like "Give me some warning, blink once for light side and twice for dark side". I just howled laughing at that one.

I miss stuff like that and so far it's completely missing from ME:A.  The previous ME games had it with the Renegade responses, but in order to get a good outcome you had to go all the way one side or the other and I didn't want to be snarky to my crew.

No they don't. I've played all the games on the list except for Age of Decadence and they all offer better roleplay.

you wanted your character to say don't worry about it. They said don't worry about it in a slightly different way. You cringe?

FTFY.

Torment: Tides of Numenera has enormous amount of lines depending on previous replies, choices, skills and Tides (the karma system). In most of cases (I haven't seen mistakes), it shows right options. ME:A is a triple-A title and might be able to achieve the same (without VA, though).

Hey look. More Nit-picking.

No, fuck that. ME1 introduced digital acting and a better flow of interactive conversation and I love that. I just think it's regressed in this franchise ever since ME3.