Do you have the same problem with the story as I do?

[Lemuria]

While I think adding voices for every dialogue would be overkill given how many voices are present in the game, I would have liked actual CHOICES in the game. In Guild Wars 2 our personal story actually felt personal because we actively made decisions which affected the outcome. Here it's very railroaded, and as a result our character feels like a bit of a tool.

We don't even take an active stance when people we care about are in danger, nor even preemptively strike people we know to be evil. They're a blank slate in the worst possible way. I get that the idea is to allow us to project our own personality onto our characters, thus they have to be devoid of one, but it just reinforces the concept that we're too stupid to do anything besides blindly follow quest markers.

If there as a quest-giver who said to assassinate the three city-state leaders, our dutiful adventurer would probably do it just for the experience.

[Remus]

The game doesn't need voice acting, but it does need choices. Currently i hate my character in the main scenario he is such a idiot that it hurts my head. There is a reason Bioware games are popular. People like the fact they have choices in their stories and it actually feels like their character even though the story in the end is the same. At this moment the character i made doesn't even feel like my character because SE just says make the character then after that its their character and they do what they want with it. The argument of people complaining about the options can easily be solved by "..."

[Rhaja]

One of the best parts of the story is in 2.2 when your talking to the Doma kids. Only time in the game where you actually get to make a choice on how your character responds to something.

[Dererk]

The problem with adding more voice overs and having our character more emotion or give us a choice system is this.

Time.
Money.
That's not how I would have reacted differently why are there only 3 options I would not say any of this I want to say something sarcastically but in a nice informative way.

Its the way it is for those reasons they can't please every one so they did the next best thing they gave us as some would call an emotionless doll. Its so we can project how wed really feel with out them making people mad by saying I wouldn't have acted that way I would have cried I would curse the Twelve.

One of the best examples I could possibly give is Halo Reach you played a Spartan but unlike the other games where you played John 117 you played as your self you only at most said one two lines the whole game I like Reach the best because I could immerse my self into the role. By using my own imagination on how I would reacted like how I was sad when the big guy threw me out the ship so I could live because a bomb that was planted had its detonator destroyed. Some may have felt differently but like I said the so called emotionless doll lets us project our own feelings.

[Kanexus]

Link never talks in the zelda series or the chrono trigger and chrono cross series. They are one of my fav rpgs. Only thing i hate bout story is how they make ur character the lil bitch errand boy or girl. I mean come on im the warrior of light show some respect!!!

[Calypsx]

I hate having the main character talk because usually it's not how I envisioned my character expressing himself. GW2 protagonist were generally pretty awful for me.

[Voltron_HD]

VO is awesome, but to make everyone happy: Txt speaking with an option here and there. That's all I ask, I just want to read atleast that my character is adding to the convo, albeit it small. I cant be that hard or expensive to add a bubble and txt extra to the scenes.

[Ayuhra]

I actually wish the "RP" aspect of our characters were bigger, which would mean remaining silent. If this game had the core/main quest storyline and the exploration/questing outside that were like the exploration/questing in Elder Scrolls Online where choices matter and influence future events in your story that would be kind of amazing.

[MageBlack]

OP: if you have a problem with this than I can assume you don't play many RPG's...

[Riepah]

OP: if you have a problem with this than I can assume you don't play many RPG's...

Actually, most RPGs handle things very differently from FFXIV. So your assumption is taken out of thin air.