GamePlanet Interview with Mike Gamble Dec 22'16

Because it was still the game picking the personality, not the player.  It was better because the choice was at least made based on choices made by the player, but taking the choice from the player still caused problems if the player's desired personality for Hawke didn't fit neatly into the three main categories.  If sometimes you wanted the character to act atypically, then you could be out of luck.

I liked it how sometimes Hawke acted based on how i formed him/her, sure it was auto dialog but it was way better then what i saw in ME3 and when my femShep tried to climb on people without my say so.

I think the Inquisitor isn't boring, but rather the choices he/she is given are the ones with no way to express his/her feelings or motivation behind them, just choices so it just goes to head canon, however Hawke played the role i chose and meant for him/her.

Pretty much. I loved how they did the Inquisitor, in my opinion their best protagonist so far, so I had no reason to complain. But now that the Ryder twins sound like they are going to be like Shepard and Hawke, who are among my least favorite protagonists so far, I am going to express my dissatisfaction. 

Yes, Bioware will never win in the sense that you can't please everyone. But that's sort of a non-statement, isn't it? I'm just offering my thoughts. Since they aren't going to listen to me specifically, it's basically just some well-structured venting.

However, you're misunderstanding the topic of my post. Other than mentioning that I want them to eliminate autodialogue as much as possible, I didn't talk about how much of a personality the protagonist should have, I talked about male and female protagonists having different ones. How much of a blank-slate a protagonist should be is an entirely different discussion.

Although this does remind me of something I forgot to add to my previous post:

Trevelyan, Adaar, Cadash, and Levellan are different characters, technically, and fill the same role as protagonist and Inquisitor, yet they retain the same roleplaying options barring background-specific options occasionally (same goes for the DA:O different races). And that's an important distinction, that those options come not from being a different race (that I can remember), but from their background; where and how that character grew up/spent their life before you took control of them. None of it indicated personality. It would be more like a Spacer having options to talk about spending most of life on ships when other Shepards could not, since they didn't. And you could choose backgrounds, as well.

I never saw anyone complain that all Inquisitors shared 99% of the same roleplaying options, or even people discuss the fact that they're different characters. Yet for some reason, that's what's happening with Scott and Sara. Just a bit strange. I'm totally fine with them all having the same options. I want the same thing for the Ryders, and now, having remembered this, can say that my preference actually has quite a bit of precedence.

And? While it was a step-up from standard autodialogue, it's still arguably a step down from more neutral autodialogue and a few steps down from trying to have no autodialogue (which is obviously possible, look at DA:O or other games with a voiceless protagonist). So I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out that system's flaws. At least it took your choices into account in some way, though, even it wasn't perfect. Doesn't seem like that's what they have planned for ME:A autodialogue.

Very true because I don't think Bioware would ever win because the only way I could see of doing what your asking would really be go with a silent protagonist but then those that prefer a voiced one would start shouting that they want a voiced one back. Personally in situations like this I think Boiware should just make up their own minds up about what to do and what fits their game best. Besides they know more than we do what they want to achieve with their games. I don't see them getting rid of the voiced one and going back to silent personally  Maybe it'll work out better than you thought but only time will tell. It's possible they thought lets give one protag to each group depending on which group you prefer one personality  that's like the Inquisitor the other that's more like Hawke kind of thing. We'll see though because Sara did sound a bit like a sarcastic Hawke when doing that "a hot head great" to me. Presonally I don't mind either as I enjoyed both Hawke and the Inquisitor.

Yeah, more defined is fine. I had a blast playing Adam Jensen. But the more defined a protagonist is, the better written they have to be. And they absolutely do need to stay consistent with the amount of control they give. "Who are you and what have you done with my PC?" is never fun. And if they are going to mandate an emotional response from the PC, they should work very hard to make the player feel the same, not just, "A child died. Feel sad."

Just finished reading through the thread and what occurs to me about the class system is this:
Hands up those who've played Final Fantasy X-2! Sounds like dress spheres to me! You pick which 'load-outs' you want to take with you and you can freely switch between these chosen load-out's as the mission progresses to get the abilities you need. No 'reprogramming' or 'forgetting' abilities; just all your abilities at once in one easy load-out stance-dance. But without the magical girl transformations.

Now that's an overreaction if ever I saw one.

I don't know. The lack of magical girl transformations seems like a serious oversight