Having your character talk during cutscenes

[LlenCoram]

I personally think adding voices for our characters wouldn't ruin the immersion at all. (At least, for me.) Since we're the ones picking out their voices when we initially create them. For me it would only heighten the immersion because I'd be able to witness my character actually interact with NPC's and actually have an opinion. I think the only time I got to hear my character "say" something was when I first met Gaius van Baelsar, and even then all she said was "No..." but it still gave me goosebumps.

Perhaps as a sort of compromise, we as the player could select a response from a list. That way, we still have control over our character's choices. Sort of like how the voice acting worked in the walking dead game, which turned out very successful. Or, as another compromise our character wouldn't ever have to speak a full sentence but still vocalize phrases that would seem appropriate for any character.

The problem is trying to make the responses so vague that they don't presume to be speaking for you. If an enemy jumps my character out of nowhere, how's she supposed to respond? Is she going to turn to them and say, "Ha! Bring it!"? My character won't. Will she jump at the shock? Mine probably wouldn't either. Choosing the voice is fine, but it's the responses that just don't work. Mass Effect did it really well, but even that had a misfire 1% of the time, when Shepard would say something I had no intention of saying.

I just don't see how it can work, and in the end it'll really detract from any connection to our characters in a big way.

I'm starting to think you and I have very different definitions of immersion though. Personally, I like being my character. From your threads/posts, I'm starting to think you prefer controlling a character.

apparently i was wrong... guild wars 2 has voice acting on your character

It does, and it's terrible. They blather on and on with predetermined sentences that are never what you would actually say if you were the character. It's the main reason I stopped playing the game.