I think one problem with BG 2 is they wasted a lot of space on character voices, like for the romance scripts and the Jaheria quest speeches (Jaheria probably takes up half a CD alone). If they had cut down a lot of these voices, then they probably would've had:
1) More interaction between characters, especially quiet ones like Valygar, Keldorn.
2) More characters. Clearly they couldn't go and have an assassin character, a monk, or several specialist mages if each one was going to have to have its own voice and voice for a quest, and so on.
3) More PC character voices.
4) More romance possibilities. Why not have a romance script for half the characters. Talk about improved replayability. If you were a shortie female you get to choose between Korgan and Jan Jansen, if you're a shortie male, there'd be a Mazzy script, etc... You'd play the game 15 times over to get every possibility! This could've been done, but for the fact that all the other romances have spoken lines.
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