Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Which Origin Character are you looking forward to playing?

Which is an interesting sentiment when many previous D&D video games have managed that just fine... If you're saying that it's not on the table, are you trying to say that it's simply not possible for Larian to manage what other D&D video games in the past have generally managed to achieve as a matter of course? I can't say I agree with that... I think they can; they just need to try harder, or they need to make up their mind about what sort of game they are producing and focus on that.

Back on topic, though: None of them, because playing as someone else's predefined character is antithetical to creating the feeling of playing D&D for me, and no game that does that can realistically to scratch that itch for me. It will not be able to feel like playing D&D, and thus will not be able to feel like a true D&D video game, if I must assume the identity of someone else's preconceived character, rather than one of my own creation. My judgement of them game, and whether it fails or succeeds as a game worth playing for me, will always be based entirely on my experiences assuming that I am playing my own character, and how well that character and the choices I make about who they are and what they are like are acknowledged and responded to by the game, and how well their choices impact the story that progresses around them.

If the game was not offering a custom character, and gave only origin choices, I might play it next time I felt like playing a generic fixed-character rpg - I might enjoy it and have fun with picking which protagonist I wished to guide through the game, and watching how the world changed based on their personal story and interwoven details, as opposed to a different one... but it would not be a D&D game to me, and would not feel like playing D&D to me.

To Sozz in particular, if you are hearing people asking for blank non-entity characters when they react against the Origin system, then it seems as though you are not listening particularly clearly or fairly to that side of the discussion; I'd invite you, in good humour and with no ill intent meant, to go back and read through again, since that is very much not what anyone is asking for at all.