Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Suggestion: Background story cutscene for char

Two things:

1.) I would like to report bugs in game. Maybe that would be a data overload for Larian, but it would definitely increase feedback.

2.) Integration of the our created player's backstory into the game seems to be lacking. Others have mentioned that maybe someone with a criminal background would not look away from violence in cutscenes. Also you don't feel a connection to your players history. It would be nice to have a cutscene or narrated monologue about your characters origin based on race+backstory (ie. Criminal Lolth-sworn Drow - Narrator: "Growing up on the streets of Menzoberranzan you had to steal to survive." *cut to scene of young Drow getting chased by authorities after stealing* Narrator: "And with that came hard lessons and sharp skills on the street." - and so on for each combination of race + backstory)

I really think this would draw you further into the story and add some personalization to it. And if you're too busy, crowdsource some of the work out to us! I think we all love fan fiction enough to draft stories and scenes for Larian to do its magic with. Seriously you guys are magical.

I think background is more for rp and not something told to you. For instance my Criminal Lolth Sworn Drow didn't grow up on the streets, he is a spy. My Sailor Rogue is a pirate, not a regular sailor. If anything, I would prefer to see the option for all the 5e backgrounds and also custom ones rather than a cutscene.

This is only a problem because the game gives your character no backstory at all. The custom PC should be given a set backstory that applies to all custom PC's, and we are allowed to customize how our particular PC dealt with that backstory. (See Mass Effect 1 for how this was handled with Shepard's backstory with a few simple questions)

Agree in small part with way ME1 handled backstory. All well and good but as I've stated in many similiar threads, it limited you. Sure it's not completely pre generated and hard coded there is room to wiggle around in. Yet what you have is only partially yours. Currently your backstory is completely yours, free to make up as you wish, making that character Yours and yours alone, no 2 people are going to come up with exactly the same one. If it is limited to simple choices like in ME1 there will be alot of people with the same backstories, so your no long playing a unique character. Your playing a character that 500 people are, or 700 or 800. Sure you look like some others, but you are unique because none of them has your backstory. A thing you can make as detailed as you want, or as simple as you want.

To me it's a copout, I don't want to put any thought into my character or there backstory do it for me. Well you just copped out, play one of the companions who they've aleady made, including backstories. If thats what you want, then do it. Not sure why your in EA, when it was stated they wouldn't be playable right away. But your here, great. leave my custom characters alone. So I can make my unique ones, and play with backstories and everything else that comes with it.

Your Origin is always John/Jane Doe: The Murderhobo by default.

says the micheal bay lover. go blow something up! j/k

All good points. I think these ideas work in theory. However, the backstory you "make up" has no bearing on the game. What we get in practice is a character that pretty much does not matter until later in the story. You're just a blank canvas that is shaped by the world around you, never talking, dumbly staring at everyone else who tells you what the world is like and what their stories are.

I offer the 1 backstory "Mass Effect 1" method as an example that I think could reasonably get implemented. Using the "Background" you pick in-game would be way better, but that would require a LOT of money/resources, would likely be almost non-existent because of all the variations, and it would mean no new backgrounds ever.

Using the 1 backstory method, it could be centered around some important event. Preferably an event that ties into later acts in the game. That means the character is truly yours, but still connected to the plot of BG3 instead of just being along for the ride.

This.

In all good stories, the character must want something beyond simple survival. Currently when the game begins the only thing you want is to not die. Even when you get off the ship, you have no real goal besides not dying. No asperations, no desires, no history. You're just a wandering meatsack that collects companions (who all have asperations, desires, and history).