You sound completely like an apologist. Troika was broke, and Toby Fox is one person. They did it, it can be done. Stop making excuses.
Really? Well gee okay let's see how well
Troika did then.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (2004)
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After being unable to secure funding for future projects, they were forced to lay off their staff in late 2004 and later close their doors on February 24, 2005
Sounds like a winning formula for Larian to emulate!
Not to mention, the combat is largely the same (which is fine, that's sorta the original's strongest point anyway), and Larian themselves acknowledged the common complaints about the plot in the first game.
In case you haven't been paying attention, which you clearly have not been, D:OS 2 is not an expansion pack. There's a lot of gameplay changes and new features, and that's not counting all the other kickstarter stuff they're adding which is still not in.
Clearly it's a priority for them. As it should be; great combat and great writing and story make for a great game. And right now, the plot can be gold, but the writing is bad enough that it doesn't matter. If I told the lord of the rings in stale second person it would lose its luster, too.
I'm not here to defend second person writing. I'm here to point out that it would be a tremendous amount of work to make approximately 11 versions of each of the hundreds (and later thousand+) of lines, and a tremendous amount of money to do voice.
