Needs more Companions

[Bjakkzzz]

Like title reads. This game needs more companions for boost more experiences.
I respect the hard work and the creations these officials we got, thank you but cant we get moooore or am I too greedy for loving the whole cake and want a strawberry on the top? :)

I think we still are missing some other races and more unique characteristic.
Got any ideas of some characters?

[Teratus]

As a fan of the originals I'm actually in agreement.

I know Larian went for Quality over Quantity but sometimes it's good to have Quantity over Quality too.

Collecting companions and dumping them in a "Hub" location (usually the Friendly Arm Inn) was one of the things I did for fun in Bg1.

Also like this element of Pillars of Eternity, collecting companions to keep at your base, could also make custom ones and keep them there.

Personally I think there's a lot of ways NPC allies can be enhanced, it just most of the time developers go for a fleshed out few.

I'd love to see a CRPG with custom NPC's that have tons of options for background and personality options that you can randomise that directly affect their personal stories and quests.
Make a big list of options that can be assigned or randomly assigned to characters you can create and encounter in your game.
Just imagine how much replayability that could offer.

[thorin.hannahs]

There is so much in this damn game that I literally have to walk away and decompress from it and you are asking for even more?

Early on I thought well there should be a companion for each class and that ideally you would have access to all companions in Act 1. Then I kept playing and decided that is just too much crap for me to want to juggle.

I'd rather each companion we do have get their own cool sidequest to cap them off. Shadowheart and Halsin have most of their arc built in in Act 2. Karlach my beloved muscle mommy doesn't seem to have anything going on. She is even lackluster in the infernal engine/rage department.

Just flesh out the companions we do have a bit more and I'll fill in whatever class is missing myself.

If we are asking for stawberries I want to be a vampire floomph.

[Teratus]

Originally posted by thorin.hannahs:

Early on I thought well there should be a companion for each class and that ideally you would have access to all companions in Act 1.

It's more about having choices which is good if you don't like certain companions or they don't match your morality etc.

But I think you can change classes in BG3 even companion classes.. not sure, but I think I read that somewhere so it's not so much a big deal if true.

Still having more options is always good :)

[Punished Jeremy]

Ideally you’d get one for every class, but that’s probably not feasible. At least not unless you’d push the release date back another year

[Teratus]

Originally posted by Punished Jeremy:

Ideally you’d get one for every class, but that’s probably not feasible. At least not unless you’d push the release date back another year

Ideally yea.

In this instance i'm more a fan of a few core classes with many specialised kits.
Fewer companions required but with tons of build options to spec them into.

[Landomart]

True. I dislike Gale so much and Wyll is so boring, but if I want an arcane magic user in my party, they're the only options. I don't want to use hirelings, so I feel forced to make my MC an arcane magic user. We get four options for martial companions and four options for divine casters, but only two for arcane casters. Wish we had more options.

[thorin.hannahs]

Originally posted by Teratus:

Originally posted by thorin.hannahs:

Early on I thought well there should be a companion for each class and that ideally you would have access to all companions in Act 1.

It's more about having choices which is good if you don't like certain companions or they don't match your morality etc.

But I think you can change classes in BG3 even companion classes.. not sure, but I think I read that somewhere so it's not so much a big deal if true.

Still having more options is always good :)

Playing this I really appreciate that Larian locked you out of companions in DoS2. There is already a ton that can happen and that you can do so it just cleans it up that I don't have 5 more companions floating around.

I collect companions like a collectathon if I am playing a Fire Emblem game in more traditional RPGs I still kinda do but they are not value added they are trophy collected. Jolee Bindo, T3-M4 and Juhani come to mind. They had value in the end when they were either with you or against you.

[SickFish]

My only complaint with the companions is how easy it can be to get them removed from your party. They have some strongly held beliefs. I want to challenge those beliefs without driving them from my party.

[Friends with Benedicts]

Probably will come in form of DLC?

I do believe they went for polished companions because these guys are the whole package. I love them.

Larian should've went for some minor companions tho... PoE had this major vs minor companions thing, were major companions would be more fleshed out, had more quests and more ending slides when you beat the game. Minor ones would have less quest time and be less fleshed out with probably no end slide, but still were in the game to increase the companion pool and allow you to build up your desired party.

[Teratus]

Originally posted by thorin.hannahs:

Playing this I really appreciate that Larian locked you out of companions in DoS2. There is already a ton that can happen and that you can do so it just cleans it up that I don't have 5 more companions floating around.

I collect companions like a collectathon if I am playing a Fire Emblem game in more traditional RPGs I still kinda do but they are not value added they are trophy collected. Jolee Bindo, T3-M4 and Juhani come to mind. They had value in the end when they were either with you or against you.

It does feel like more of an issue in more modern CRPG's though part of that is due to the smaller party size I expect.

There's not many CRPG's I know of now that allow big parties, most go with 4 these days, most Larian games do 4 I think where as the old BG games were 6.

I'd really like to see bigger groups and the game balanced around that in some future CRGP's, specially if there's lots of characters to collect.
More so if there's a lot of story with those characters, I don't like missing out on story just because I didn't take the right NPC along.

This wouldn't be too difficult to do with a game like BG3 since it's turn based, it would just slow the game down a bit since you'd have more characters to move around.
But having 6-8 characters at once is something I'd very much enjoy in a game like this.
Could even be something they balance around difficulty too.
Higher the difficulty, the more enemies you fight the bigger your party can be, would love that ^^

[thorin.hannahs]

Originally posted by SickFish:

My only complaint with the companions is how easy it can be to get them removed from your party. They have some strongly held beliefs. I want to challenge those beliefs without driving them from my party.

That might be a luck/road taken issue. I should by all rights have lost Lae'zel and Shadowheart my nat 20's decided otherwise.

[Hexoplex]

Originally posted by SickFish:

My only complaint with the companions is how easy it can be to get them removed from your party. They have some strongly held beliefs. I want to challenge those beliefs without driving them from my party.

Most people don't want to hangout with people who challenge their beliefs

[TheOldElf]

Could very very well be some you haven't unlocked due to the nature of your playthrough.
The Drow Paladin can apparently be a companion of yours

[✙205🍉🐆→]

I need my lustful, suicidal companion dwarf
Where did the developers hide him?

[thorin.hannahs]

Originally posted by Teratus:

Originally posted by thorin.hannahs:

Playing this I really appreciate that Larian locked you out of companions in DoS2. There is already a ton that can happen and that you can do so it just cleans it up that I don't have 5 more companions floating around.

I collect companions like a collectathon if I am playing a Fire Emblem game in more traditional RPGs I still kinda do but they are not value added they are trophy collected. Jolee Bindo, T3-M4 and Juhani come to mind. They had value in the end when they were either with you or against you.

It does feel like more of an issue in more modern CRPG's though part of that is due to the smaller party size I expect.

There's not many CRPG's I know of now that allow big parties, most go with 4 these days, most Larian games do 4 I think where as the old BG games were 6.

I'd really like to see bigger groups and the game balanced around that in some future CRGP's, specially if there's lots of characters to collect.
More so if there's a lot of story with those characters, I don't like missing out on story just because I didn't take the right NPC along.

This wouldn't be too difficult to do with a game like BG3 since it's turn based, it would just slow the game down a bit since you'd have more characters to move around.
But having 6-8 characters at once is something I'd very much enjoy in a game like this.
Could even be something they balance around difficulty too.
Higher the difficulty, the more enemies you fight the bigger your party can be, would love that ^^

To each their own but I see what Larian is going for with a smaller party size and fewer companions. Narratively I travel with Karlach, Astarion and Shadowheart. For the Creche I swapped in Lae'zel but outside of that the other companions don't add anything in my current playthrough.

I will swap Jaheira in for the Guild quest but Wyll, Halsin, Gale and Lae'zel add enough that had the game murdered them at the end of act 1 I'd be fine with it as long as each companion was more fleshed out and paced accordingly.