Well if you find the character lifeless in every way, that's talking about a lot more than voice acting. If for you just voice acting all the lines you say before the NPC is pretty key, well hey that's fine, for me it's pretty optional.
I mean, this is one of those games where you choose your characters actions and what they say. Do you find that entire subgenre boring, character wise? If so, thats cool, but it is pretty well established and it works for me.
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