#2. I liked DOS 2 voice acting. Fane was great. BG had great voice acting as well for the NPCs but some of the character sounds were terrible. "your life ends here"
My concern is that the voice acting will limit the amount of text. The BG2 characters had life to them, the DOS characters are two dimensional. I stopped playing with Irfan because his dialogue was so generic it could have been written by AI. Perhaps my biggest concern -- who are the writers? Is Larian conferring with Greenwood? Salvatore?
3. I want different humor not less humor. I want the humor to be less cynical, less sardonic and less third wall breaking. I lurved the final battle in DOS 2 but the fight with muppets beforehand was just irritating.
Jan, on the other hand, was hilarious, hard to do a BG2 play through without him. "That reminds me of the time . . . "
7. Yes! Spot on.
8. Loot should have lore. Not "this will help you hammer the point home" but instead "carried into the battle of bone by the halfling hero . . . " This is something that IWD1 did pretty well.