First off I think there's an obvious argument for people not investing much thought into character creation when you know it's not one that you'll play for the actual entire game
Actualy ... if there is anyone who knows how much time people spend creating their first characters, its Larian since they are gathering our data.
And BTW ot was an hour and half for me.
I'd question the angle of criticizing, or at least being disappointed
OR!
It was just a joke.
this day and age you can't expect to make a comment on how 'basic' a white guy with short hair is (again, south american dude with long hair here) and not remind those of us who are politically active
At first i didnt want to coment on this since its rarely healthy topic ...
But one question i must ask. :-/
From rest of that post you seem like one of those people who is bothered by this trend ... have you ever concidered that seeing it behind every mention of simmilar topic is part of the problem?
