Hey, if some shallow rolling interaction is all it takes to part people from their money I say toss it in there for single player! There is a whole generation of los..I mean 'customers' that will sit there roiling ability scores and pay Larian $60 to do it. Then 20 years later they will talk about how BG3 let them roll ability scores into the wee hours and it was the best part of the game and how they are nostalgic for that sweet simple time before they had an AI that played games for them.
"There's a sucker born every minute"
-P.T. Barnum.
Really?! Spending ages rethrowing virtual dice seems a pretty harmless way to get your jollies to me, and not at all deserving of repeated condescension and scorn.
I get that you see nostalgia for elements of the old BG games as symptomatic of a wider negative tendency that over-exaggerates their virtues for the purposes of criticising BG3, and that resists innovation in the name of fidelity to the original franchise. And I also agree that tendency exists, and can be a bit of a downer sometimes on these forums.
But not every instance of fondness for some aspect of the old games is tied to that broader attitude, and implying folk who have some innocent affection for the BG1/2 stat dice-rolling mechanic are losers doesn’t help make the atmosphere any more positive.
