Honestly, I'd like it very much if Zelda Wii had voice acting. After all, that's why when I play games without voice acting I insert it myself during the cuscenes (all the while trying and failing to do convincing voices for characters like Tetra and Tatl
). After all, it gives a lot of feeling and emotion to the characters. Just look at Kingdom Hearts. It just makes things that more compeling and under usual circumstances (IE boring text) I would be very uncaring of Roxas in 358/2 Days. But, with the voice acting, I feel sorry for him, Xion, and Axel even though they're technically villains because I actually feel their pain as though they were real people.
And really, voice acting isn't going to bog down the series, but rather, the
lack of voice acting is bogging down the series in the sense that it's harder to achieve the feeling of sympathy for characters as though they were real people.
Really, it's a given that we're going to get voice acting eventually in the Zelda series. It's called progression, and no game series has escaped it. They either wither and die by refusing to embrace it, or they blossom and flourish because of the acceptance. And also, I'm pretty sure a lot of people thought 3D gaming was going to ruin games forever back in the day, but as it turns out, it only helped them flourish, but I digress.
Anyways, we shouldn't be talking about whether or not it's going to happen, but rather in what form it will happen.
Personally, I hope for a KH approach to voice acting, in the sense that the important cutscenes (like when Sora meets Goofy and Donald in KHI) get the voice acting while more unimportant exchanges (like just going up and talking to an NPC) gets the boring text. After all, it's annoying enough to accidentally talk to someone and speed through their text, but to wait through their speech would be pure madness.
Also, I for one am all for the idea of Link talking unlike some biased people. Sure, in more classic games like OoT and MM he was an avatar, and I wouldn't want him to do more than grunt or just say simple words like "Ouch" in Japanese (whenever Link falls off a cliff in OoT and takes damage, he says "Ite" which is Japanese for "Ouch"), but with games like TP and WW in which
he was his own character, I'd love for voice acting to come and give Link an actual voice for once. But in the case that he's an avatar again in the future, I say that he should leave the talking to the other characters like Zelda and Ganon.