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.
I mean when something tilts into absurdity it seems kind of obvious it was meant as a joke. I literally talk about AI that plays all your games for you.
Which - true story - I actually suggested that to Blizzard back in 2008 or so, before even warlords of draemamine (joke) or even Diablo Immortal - I was like "Just have them pay $15 a month to get updates on their phone telling them they are winners and showing them all the cool gear they won - It's a total moneymaker!"
I mean once they were willing to buy pointless horse armor I knew what we were dealing with here.
I got a lot of heat for saying it at the time, but I mean look what has happened since!
I am firmly on Team - "people should just give their money to Larian"
Now granted was there some truth sprinkled in amongst the preceding tongue-in-cheek writing? Sure.
Look Warlocke, whatever you do in your spare time is up to you. I don't REALLY think you are a loser for spending that time re-rolling characters that you will never play for more than 10 minutes. Now, as for some of the other stuff you get up to....(KIDDING)
Anyway, I will try to be better about labeling.
