Dragon Age 2 Style Personality choice!

Not sure I'd consider them 'personalities'. In DA2 they where 3 distinct personalities made up of multiple (well 2) eh..emotions? Or, I dunno wtf you'd call em, intents?

it's closer to Mass Effect, which was a single personality but you where picking between 2 (or 3, less of that in ME3 sadly) approach to a situation. Where you being a professional or not playing by the book? You know, Paragon/Renegade.

MEA is just splitting that up into 4 ways. Professional and Casual aren't personalities, it's 2 sides to the same coin. Like I said it's like original Mass Effect trilogy, Ryder has a singular personality, your just deciding where they land professionally/emotionally at any given moment. Which could result in you being a cranky Ryder the whole time, or a more detached analytical Ryder... but it's all still Ryder.

Course, Sara and Scott aren't the same person this time around so... well gonna be a lot of playthroughs for me.

Yeah, that would make a lot of sense. I think them calling it personalities adds to the confusion since a personality is.. kind of all encompassing. If your making a lot of 'emotional' responses (which isn't a damn personality) in one conversation it makes sense auto-dialog that would change would match said emotional responses.

Hawkes distinct personalities definitely made more sense with how they did it in DA2.

This is waaay more complicated than DA2.

There were scenes that could be auto-dialog if you had selected a lot of a one personality, while they would have a dialogue wheel if you were not "set" yet. Some of the ambient comments by Hawke were also defined by his/her prime personality.

That's, that's not really how it worked. Auto-dialog that had personality shifts could go off whatever had the most at the time, and it required double of that to shift your tone. Meaning the single selection you make at the intro to the game was enough to 'set personality' and your choices became easy, early on, to completely shift your tone around.

That is to say, there is no auto-dialog that could somehow turn into selection. That would be pointless to do honestly. Why would you have forced dialog while also supporting not forced dialog at the same time in the same moment?

Perfect when they may or may not use Ryder as the protagonist for sequels. This tone system might mean that they can track the tone tendency like in DA2 and when we inevitably play as a different protagonist later it will import the tendency you had with Ryder should he return as a supporting character just like Hawke. That was one of the coolest things about DA:I, how Hawke had 3 versions depending on how you roleplayed him/her in DA2. Seeing your former player character return and meet your new player character is a really novel concept and I was pretty impressed by the implementation. The story-context for Hawke in DA:I wasn't that good but his character was well handled in terms of choice (minus Blood Mages players)

I liked psychotically sarcastic hawke. I'm actually for this feature.

Not entirely sure what you mean. But that could of been a bug if it auto-selected from the radial menu. That or you accidentally selected it prior to it coming up. That was an issue in a lot of there past games, same button for skipping was used for selecting and all that. Thankfully there making them completely separate buttons now and days.

I must be drunk, because there's no way I just saw you say something positive about Andromeda