DementedSheep said:
Since it's been bought up as a potential option by other posters while I'm fine with the other options I don't like gibberish with text. I find it very annoying,
As much as don't like the dialogue wheel in DA2 that image really isn't fair. Planescape is unusual for the amount of options you get and half of those are questions. For DA2 they picked a point in the conversation where you don't have general question you can ask and that line was stupid even by "comedic" Hawke standards.
The problem here is that ALL of Hawke's Dialogue is bad AND RESULTS IN THE SAME FUCKING OUTCOME. Fight the Mages, the Templars attack you anyway. Fight the Templars, the mages try to kill you because they're also ungrateful cunts, it always ends the exact same fucking way so Bioware can force you through another 15 fucking waves of enemies. Most importantly of all is that YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY SAY, yet are somehow expected to choose. It's not about the bad writing in Dragon Age 2, it's about the problems INHERENT IN THE MECHANICS OF MASS EFFECT AND DRAGON AGE 2/3 compared to the standard dialogue tree. No matter what, there is little choice and the writing more often than not takes a MASSIVE hit all just so the protagonist can sound like a boring idiot, annoying twat or both. If you want to try and defend Dragon Age 2 I can sum it up far better reasons it's shit (not that it's saying much), like this...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvzj9NR8YQQ/UXeEkUFavuI/AAAAAAAAAQw/mirHxdD9DEI/s1600/Windows+98+2.png
Back to important matters though, look at the left of that picture again, notice a massive difference other than the number of dialogue choices? That's right, what the dialogue says is
what you actually fucking say. Again, the fact that simply knowing what picking an option will actually fucking do is something the player is denied is a FUCKING FAILURE. Planescape may be unusual in it's number of choices, but those choices
tell you what they are, and that isn't unusual, in fact IT'S THE FUCKING NORM, even Fallout 3 and Skyrim have this advantage.