Lets flip the questions around (btw I agree with what you are saying).

Why DOES IT WORK in the previous Baldur's Gate games??? At least I think it does brilliantly.

Yea there is a background story for your family and your destiny is tied to the storyline. But you could be from anywhere any kind of race, different experiences etc...
I just dont get people saying "well thats not ME or MY character"...WHY NOT??? You have plenty of options to make your character's story unique. Then the game story and Role Playing takes over.
BG3 does THE EXACT SAME THING with the story. Its linear. Its deliberate. So why not add some more interesting background story elements to the TAV like previous Baldurs Gate games? Larian takes a HUGE shortcut for this. The ending basically. What about the beginning?
Its like Larian is telling us : YOU CREATE THE STORY. I'm not a writer, and not particularly good at imagining a detailed INTERESTING background story for my Tav, and even If I did.... Thats why I BOUGHT YOUR GAME. Give me something for my Tav. And interesting story, and I can fill in the details. This isn't an MMO.

Tav character is as hollow and boring as a dead tree trunk. Making TAV "my own" doesn't change that. No solid hook to the world or story (its the companions). Thats why people are desperate for relationships / romances in this game. One of the few things that shapes your TAV and can make it interesting.

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 21/03/24 11:45 AM.
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..