I agree with you about the way your choices used to be presented, I wish they tried it out longer
Phew! Glad I wasn’t actually the only person in the world who thought it had promise. And yes, I wish we’d at least had a chance to try it out for ourselves.
I remember a few people thought that if you didn't pick the [Baldurian] choices your character wouldn't
be Baldurian, but for me all the choices are supposed to be valid for your character, which makes the odd contradictory thing a little vexing.
Yes, I had always thought that our characters with the Baldurian options had those because they were assumed by the game to be from Baldur’s Gate, and would still be treated as Baldurian if they didn’t pick them. That said, I would like to have the option to be a human, elf, etc from elsewhere, so if the game gave us an early option to either confirm or deny we were from the city that would be appreciated. I’m sure there will be more responsiveness and special dialogue/content for Baldurian characters so it would make sense to play them, but for some characters it just doesn’t fit.