First impressions are very important. The first NPC we got in BG3 are for me are incredibly annoying. And thats 80% of the roster....
Contrast that to BG2. First NPCs we get are :

Jaheira (good), Minsc(good), Korgan(evil) : pretty great.
Viconia(evil), Yoshimo(?good?)), Edwin(evil) : pretty good.
Jan Jansen(good), Imoen(good) : love them or hate them
Nalia(good), Anomen(good) : meeeeh.
Aerie(good): bad.

Basically a good mix of good and bad NPCs.
Its so hard to judge BG3 on that account because there are so LITTLE npcs...if you don't like some of them well, thats it theres nothing else.

Last edited by The Red Queen; 15/06/23 11:36 PM. Reason: Split out from separate thread to avoid off topic debate
It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..