Should Bioware Invent a new Dialogue System?

So either 

1. I'm right about the set personality affecting Choice options but my googlefoo has failed me
2. Those particular Choice options were written/performed only as aggressive and various Choice options in the game were written in tones irrespective of the set personality.

My first run of DAI was a totally mess, character-concept wise. My character flipped flopped across most of the moral dilemmas the game presented, because I kept wanting to go in a direction that the game didn't really want me to go, even though I thought I was going in an approved direction.

I addressed this in my post earlier in the thread.

What alanc9 says below is correct. They said they tested it and found that it didn't work. They don't want to show players the full line. They like the paraphrase system.

I would prefer the full line as well, but it's not likely to happen.

Isn't Bioware dead, murdered or something?

Its barely alive, kept that way thanks to the Evil Empire

In DA2 I hated both the paraphrases which I frequently misunderstood and the personality system within their dialogue wheel. At no point should the game be choosing my characters tone for me. I'll select an aggressive or sarcastic tone when I want my character to display one. That system didn't even make sense, people react differently to different people/events/stimuli: Not this 'your mostly aggressive to/about acquaintances/strangers so we'll automate aggression into you choice dialogues with loved ones' malarkey.

Leave my misanthrope who only likes Isabela and Bethany alone damn you.

DAI was an improvement. Better quality parphrases; the removal of automated personality choices; and the inclusion of tone icons. Big fan of the tone icons, even DAO could have benefitted from them as the full line was mostly good enough but on rare occasion you could misjudge the intended tone.

I'd still prefer full line choices, for role playing I want to be able to see my options and choose the one that best suits the way my character feels/would say - I cannot fully do that when I'm only surmising what the options are, particularily bad with the choice decisions which didn't have tone icons. You wouldn't necesarily need the full line for all options - most investigates would probably do just fine with a paraphrase. But big decisions, statements of opinions/feelings should have full lines.

I know they say that it's less fun/boring to listen to the line again after reading it - but oh honey, my lads: with particurly delicate/uncertain decisions I would pick, reload, pick, reload, pick, reload - just so I could know what the options are and choose the correct one for my character. You can't convince me that just showing me the full line would be more tiresome than doing that - it would certainly be less time consuming. I want to roleplay, not just watch.


But I don't expect them to back down on paraphrases - so on to an improvement that they might actually go with:

A defect in the DAI dialogue system is that because the Choice options (as opppsed to the Investigate and Emotion options) only come in one version/tone - that tone must inevitably be stoic/neutral. This resulted in many people finding the inquisitor too bland/not emotional or distinct enough. So having multiple tone versions of a line like da2 would be good, but sans da2's automated behind the scene system.

So I would suggest having multiple readings of the same line in different tones, or different versions of the line with the same basic meaning/result, for each Choice option (which: on a case by case basis). Similar too how you had multiple tone versions for the disband/reform choice at the end of trespasser but instead of filling up the circle you select the choice and then get taken to a sub menu for tone choice (much as how you select investigate and then get taken to an investigate submenu).

Stoic/neutral would be the default option that's always there because it allows people to project whatever emotion they want onto the PC's state of mind and the game can't have every possiblilty. Then you would have other Tone Icons there aswell, which ones depending on the situation. Typically there would be 2 more (for a total of three) but there may be as many as 3 more or only one depending. Some situations might just have the stoic option if the line is to short/simple to have different versions. 

Example:

Instead of just having 'Accept Quest' and 'Decline Quest' you'd have..
Quest: Save my chickens!!

• Accept Quest
  • Stoically accept        
  • Humourasly accept  
  • Confusedly accept   
  
  
• Decline Quest
  • Stoically refuse          
  • Regretfully Refuse       
  • Refuse like a dickbag   
  
  

Silly example but the point is that aside from just accepting or declining you also get to display your character's personality. Even DAO often had multiple ways of accepting/declining/reacting to a quest. If applied to all choice options it could be greatly beneficial - and we know their willing to write multiple tone versions of choice lines because they did so in da2.