Oh man, this topic again.

I don't mind the side-quests not having cutscenes or voice acting. If the main story does, I'm fine with that. Even without the voice acting a lot of the quests have been rather compelling. If people took the time to read them they'd know the reasons behind all of the objectives and they'd seem less boring.

Also you can't really compare a quest from an offline single-player FPS with heavy environmental interaction with that of an MMO.