But I think we can all agree for sprawling companion base cRPG at least minimum 10 is a given...Especially if you call your game "Baldur's gate".
Minimum party of 4 playable characters, this just gives you 6 to play around...So under 10 is already REALLY tight.
Games like Torment or Disco are really the exception here being completely main character driven, like the Witcher series.
Which I think is amazing for the Pathfinder series to have done this balancing act. Yea its not brilliant writing but it still manages 20 characters with decent stories and interaction, especially for Wotr.
The more companions you have the harder it gets to build a solid game around them, no doubt. But Larian is a big studio now.
I think the biggest realistic TRUMP card that Larian can pull on us on release : Hey guys, 15 companions!
