One thing I'm worried ME:A WON'T have.....

I always love at the start of ME3 when you just get Garrus and stuff, and you talk to him you get this cinematic conversation with investigative options and you see Shepard walk up to the side of Garrus tapping on his terminal and he goes "Shepard, what's up?" or something. I wish the whole game had been like that but with one option in the top-right of the wheel every time he has additional mission commentary where Shepard also responds. I think the reason they opted for non-cinematics so often is because if you look at their animations some of the non-cinematic animations are not hand-animated and look super bad and whenever the crew moves around they'd have to set up a new conversation angle and camera movement for that setting.

I just thought it was a shame that conversation doesn't feel as much like a system with the crew as it did in ME2. There's getting to know them and listening to what they say but then there's also the sense of being in an interactive movie or TV show where the cinematography is captivating and there's also the niceness of consistency with how the interface for dialogue is always predictable. The design of ME3 was just...

I am cautiously optimistic as to how they've managed the non-cinematic conversations in this one. DA:I was better than ME3 in this regard but there's a ways to go still.

Pretty sure tjey're not getting rid of party banter, as per today's tweet (I can't be arsed to format it)

Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon
This week, Vetra & Drack are my squadmates of choice. Great banter and fun power combos.

I love the party banter in Dragon Age games, it's something that Mass Effect really needs to add more of, hoping they do so with Andromeda.

I agree......BUT, ME has never really been about party/squad mates, Not like Dragon Age anyway, so there likely won't be much of it.

Great post.

The Witcher series is a distinct entity from Bioware games.  Bioware games purposefully let you create your character from the ground up.  CDPR put you into the role of an existing character.  There's no reason either company has to change that.

I think I found the important bit.

Different people on your team have different combos they do.  I am hoping this goes without auto level up, juicy.

And I say this because there was never a question of whether banter would be in the game or not because I know it will. Would like to see the PC join in on it from time to time as well.

I believe the devs touched on point two some. The basic explanation was "you will learn what your companions do when you use certain abilities so don't worry about it" or something to that effect.

will they only talk while driving or while walking/shooting enemies too?

This isn't entirely true. Every once in a while, a third companion may chime in when the other two are speaking. Cassandra, for example, interjects when Solas and Varric banter jokingly about how the non-humans of the group are helping resolve human problems. 

Didn't you only get that if you had lotsb installed?

banter in the Nomad?

I wonder if my Ryder will have the option to turn up the radio so she/he doesn't have to listen to them

I thought you were going to say something like 'nice eyebrows.' I'm a little disappointed.