ademska:

motomotogirl:
Personally, DA2 wins out for me because Hawke has a discernible personality whereas the Warden doesn’t, not really (guy/girl doesn’t even speak).

Xewaka:
You mean, Hawke has one of three personalities preassigned by Bioware, whereas the Warden can have any amount of personality traits you assign to him.

In Exile:
The Warden does not have any personality traits, because the Warden isn’t allowed to have a personality beyond a Shepard-esque bland marine, which is how the NPCs react to every line of dialogue. 

The argument that you can invent your own content and that makes it a part of your character is a little like saying atoms are sapient because you could imagine them talking.

yup.

and this is why i dont miss the warden or origins or this fuck-you fandom

Don’t necessarly agree.
There are –various- kinds of rpg. And people shouldn’t dismiss one for the other. Your warden could have personality depending on dialogue choices. He/she didn’t talk, but they didn’t have to. Da2 has a big fuck you fandom mainly because the target audience wanted a sequel in the same style of origins. Hawke’s personality has some divergences, but that personality (he/she way of talking, tone of voice, etc) is forced on us. That is okay, really. But it becomes a different style of rpg. One where you assume the role of a character, instead of one where you completely define your character.  Not to mention that DA2 relies a lot on imagining traces of personality on actions, not on speech.  And the world comes really alive when you give personality to people who almost don’t have it.

On a scientific level, not even Hawke really has personality, or is sapient. So I didn’t really see a point in the comparison? Why should –only- voice acting and dialogue define where we can see personality.

That said, I don’t miss Origins because imo the story wasn’t really interesting. I found the characters bland. And Wynne’s excuses for the treatment of mages made me sick.

Tl;dr: both games are different styles of rpg, and a person shouldn’t dismiss one for the other.