I was really looking forward to BG3 but now, after over 24 hours in game I deleted all my savegames and am contemplating whether to start over and give it another shot or just put it in my "DONE" category on Steam. I know 24 hours is nothing but its enough to see some obvious problems with how the game unfolds.
I first started a Half-Orc Eldritch Knight, wanted to experience the game from a Half-Orc point of view. I soon realized playing a Bardlock would be more my style and restarted the game after a few hours. Sadly I basically got 0 reactions to being a Half-Orc which was disappointing. I expected at least a little racism towards my character but hey, I was just a few hours in.
My second character was a Half-Drow Bardlock. Combat gameplay was great but character interaction was again lackluster. There's no character interaction uniqueness to a Half-Orc Fighter or Half-Drow Bard. Basically everything plays out the same regardless of race or class. Neither get anything unique storywise.
Now we come to the origin characters. Wow those have some great stories. Its almost like the developers intended origin characters to be the main character and custom characters are an afterthought.
For example if you wanna play Warlock why would you play anything other than Wyll? He does everything a custom character would and he gets an interesting storyline. My custom Half-Drow Bardlock will never get a chance to interact with his patron, it's like the patron doesn't even exist while Wyll has a entire questline and cutsceens.
Custom characters just feel like sidecharacters there to observe the real protagonists of the game, origin characters.
I understand the time it goes into developing an entire storyline but I really wish more would have been done with custom characters and less with origin. A few simple quests related to your background or class would have fixed this issue. For instance if you choose a Warlock have him interact with his patron, a few short quests is enough just to differ him from a Fighter. Add on top of that a few short quests related to each background and you have a custom character that doesn't feel like a sidekick to origins.
I know this was already discussed but this is the Suggestion and Feedback forum so I'll make my voice heard. As far as I can tell this was also a problem with Divinity 2 so maybe its something Larian should look into when designing their next RPG or just make a DLC that addresses this issue.
On a sidenote I really enjoy Wylls story but I hate the way he looks, especially his hair so if anyone knows a way for me to change his appearance it would be greatly appreciated. I think its ridiculous I can completely change a origin characters class into something that doesn't fit into their storyline but can't change something as simple as a haircut. As far as I can tell mods cause frequent crashes so maybe the location of character models so I can edit the line that defines his hair?
