Originally Posted by Saito Hikari
There is hope in that maybe the later acts will flesh the BG3 companions out more and that there will be opportunities to expand them beyond 'I have my own issues to deal with and I can't care about much else', but this uncertainty is going to persist all the way until full release with how Larian plans to structure the EA thus far. But there's not that much faith in this category either, as the impending ideas of them being origin characters + the possibility of most of them dying if they're not in the active party at the end of act 1 indirectly works against that. Plus, as you've said, the multiplayer focus removes a lot of the incentive to really put much more effort into this too.

Everything also being voice acted means that any alterations will turn out to be much more expensive too. It's a major indirect reason Pillars of Eternity 2's companions fell flat in the end, I remember there was an article interview saying that the dev team there didn't really work on the companion quests very much because those were very expensive. All this put together has made me accept that the BG3 companions will likely remain as they are, outside of Shadowheart as it's pretty obvious by now that she's the most plot-relevant out of all of them from the disproportionate focus on her this entire time.

I think this is a bit overly pessimistic. With every patch, we have seen remarkable improvements. Look at Patch 5 and Shadowheart's evolution. At first, I admit I didnt care for her at all, now I cannot imagine not bringing her along. There is still a long EA to go through. Companions will be improved upon.

I admit I was always lukewarm about Pathfinder companions. They don't elicit the same emotional respond that BG3 companions do. And I do think BG3 heroes have more layers than the immediate issue of the tadpole, all of them. I mean there is no real comparison in my opinion with any other recent crpg release, but I am glad that you enjoyed the Owlcat games.

On the point of them dying early, yeah it was the same structure with DOS2 and it didnt stop them to have a fully realized stories for all of their origin characters. It wont stop them now either.

Originally Posted by Saito Hikari
Gale is definitely not Neutral Good, he's far too self-absorbed for that classification. I peg him closer to True Neutral or Chaotic Neutral really.

I said almost.

Last edited by spacehamster95; 02/08/21 06:16 AM.