They are far closer to Witcher's 'Geralt' than Pathfinders pre-gen... see Amiri in pathfinder is a perfectly suitable companion, but not meant to be a player character.
The origin system from BG3 is... yeah... if you like to play someone elses fantasies they might be cool. Personally I don't. The only reason I played Geralt and ended up enjoying it from game 2 on is he has a character that resembles my morality well enough so I got along with him. But playing a predetermined class and a story in a game system that prides itself to empower the players imagination and wants them to experience their own stories - I don't see how the non-Dark_urge origins could ended up as a priority in the development of the game. To me they are infuriating. So many hours of content was created for a very small group of BG players ignoring the main audience expectation.
Again, if they would have been like Dragon Age's orgins or like the Dark Urge it would have been different. Just more backgrounds to choose from. Its 'fine-ish'. I'm bored as fuck about the edgelords we get, but it would have been more choices for players. The current origin characters are nothing more then the DM's personal favorites that if you don't want to play them, will get the spotlight while you watch them be heroes.
" ignoring the main audience expectation."
Sorry to burst your bubble here but you have absolutely no idea about what is the main audience expectation. Perhaps if you didn't assume the small cadre of obsessive doom posters on here were that and maybe checked other forums, discords and youtube content you might see a very different tone. Certainly a more positive and optimistic one generally. But even that isn't the main audience. The main audience are what you might call 'normies' who maybe played patch one or two or maybe haven't even played EA. And we have no idea what they're going to make of this game yet. But I feel confident in saying that their expectation is going to be a fair bit different from yours. Or mine for that matter.
Devs are more active on the subreddit than on here and I have a feeling it might be because we're somewhat unBEARable
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