BTW, I love your avatar. Just be careful the Major doesn't come and scrub your brain 8P
Aw, thanks. She can come and scrub whatever she wants
If I may, I think whenever BG3 needs a protagonist VO or not, depends what a player personally wants from BG3. Personally, I am far more interested in it being a modern take on cRPG, focusing on role-playing and player choice above all. If one the other hand, one wants a more modern defined protagonist with some choices adventure, VO definitely makes more sense - it helps to define and better communicate to the player who the protagonist is.
My personal worry is, that adding close up cinematics and VO is one thing, and doing it well is another. And doing full VO for heavily customisable PC and each of the playable origins, seems to me like a very expensive and pointess excercise. If you want VO for your protagonist, then define whim as a character to the point that you can cast him with one or two actors. If you want players to define who their character are - don't take that choice from them. Then again, I am a believer in doing one thing right, over many things poorly. I suppose that's why I don't care for most AAA.
