This was the thing I find really odd about having origins in BG3 I mean the hole point of BG games is that you make your own character not playing as someone else
Thing is, you were always playing the same character in Baldur’s gate 1 and 2. All those options in character creation had 0 effect in the plot and not much more in gameplay. Sure, different classes played differently, but with a 6 char party and a dozen recruitable NPC’s the PC was not really that important in the big picture.
And yeah, BG2 was a bit better in this regard as you had strongholds (which ranged from awesome to pretty lame) and romances (which were just lame), but even then they had no checks for stats or race, just one in the beginning on what class you are or which gender you chose.
So yeah, not seeing origin characters as worse than the tabula rasa that was left mostly blank that we got in the old games.
