While I personally will be the boring person (yet again) to say that I can roll with whichever - full voice, part voice or no voice. I will agree on one thing Blotter said: it is REALLY weird to have your character making all of these weird expressions if it is not part of your character and voicing risks on adding to that factor.
I personally feel like about 50% of the time, my character is making faces not even remotely close to whatever reaction I'd imagine them having. If I could wish for something without regarding to the work or money behind it - then it would be some kind of pre-set animation personality. Kind of like how you choose your animation kit in PoE2, but yknow... Included in these cinematic sections so we don't have, like Blotters example above, a Lolth-sworn drow making weird faces when encountering death...
I agree with this. I don't mind an unvoiced PC in this game, but the "reaction" animations during dialogs are often silly and overdone. I especially dislike the "hands on hips" reaction, which I guess is supposed to signal "oh, really?" but just looks stupid. I wouldn't mind at all if every scene showing the PC reaction during dialog was cut from the game, and we just saw who we're talking to, with the dialog choices below.
I'm also not a fan of some of the other brief animations of the PC during events. Especially the frightened look that's often triggered by first view of something horrific. My PC concept isn't someone who is that easily frightened! This is another case of game developers wanting to be movie directors, instead of giving the player full agency. Quit your job and go into making movies if that's what you want to do.
