For me, a video game is a cinematic form of entertainment that is supposed to provide full experience. If I'm going to "imagine" something that isn't there, why am I playing it in the first place?
This is my view as well. I would love to see fully voiced protagonist.
We will have this in a CPRG at some point. No doubt AI will play some part but it is inevitable.
Remember all movies used to be “silent” as well, and there was opposition to the idea of introducing sound. Many thought it would detract from the visual art of cinema.
No matter how one rationalizes it, it remains a silly thing to complain about.
FEASIBILITY is the name of the issue here, it's not like the idea that people would like it didn't occur to them. it's that "voiced main character" and "main character can be 35 different things" are two design principles that at least at this point in time are fiercely at odds with each other.
Maybe as you said some advanced form of text to speech or ayt very least some form of AI filter (i.e. record just a male and female voice over and then create variations of it with AI) will be the solutions in the near future, but not currently.
And we ALREADY have people on this very same forum occasionally throwing a fucking tantrum because they didn't like a text line or one of the sparse voice barks, imagine if they had to deal with every single line being "different from what they imagined in their head".
