"but but but how else will we railroad you into our lack of being able to write an actually compelling story?"

I delisted it after I heard they shitcanned basically all the people who worked the original Bloodlines-- I got no reason to believe Bloodlines 2 will be anything that made Bloodlines 1 worth the time spent.

I gave up, then I got interested when Paradox started releasing some news. It sounded like they were making something good with it, then I started getting disappointed agin.

Fair confusion, I think it might be due to a difference of perception. As far as I'm aware Mitsoda wasn't the only reason the game was being made - He got hired on to develop it after the decision to make a new game had been made. He got fired due to constant delays, changes in scope and narrative, and (as far as I can glean) due to being a shitty boss. It's a lot of accusations hidden behind NDAs and the like though, so there's no real way to know one way or another.
In general I am just very sceptic of any "auteur" when it comes to games. Especially when said lead has a track record of making bloated and never-ending projects.

It's a piece of fiction I'm excited about, and I find this news interesting. If you don't then you don't have to interact with the post.

There is a difference between having voice acting and having the player character having voiced lines too. Tbh I don't know what makes the latter worse. But usually when the player character has voice acting it is not received well.

In BG3, your character does not have voiced lines even if you pick a premade.

Yeah like the other person said, the comparison with Fallout 4 is being made for a reason. The point is a voiced protagonist, not voice acting as a whole

Voice acting is great! Though I'm sure there's some oldhead out there that thinks vidya gaems went to shit when the first NPC started speaking, and I'd love to meet that guy.
My issue is with implementing voice-acting on the player character in an RPG. It's hard to pull off, it immediately limits possibilities and interpretation of the character and it often leads to a sub-par dialogue system in my experience. It can be done, ME had some good moments, but it's much harder, and ME had a premise that allowed for locking in the interpretation of the character beforehand (Shepard was going to be some rugged militarist no matter what due to the backstory). They might pull it off with VTMB2 too, I just really doubt it, and I'm going to hate being locked into the authors interpretation of the character.