I'm in for more party members like in BG2. I don't care if its shallow writing or underdeveloped. My brain and modders can do the rest.
WE NEED THE 3D ASSETS from Larian. We also NEED an option for written text dialogue. Something that works top down view (like when you speak with animals.).
I'd rather have a couple greatly written NPCs (from which half I already dislike...) with tons of more simple and generic NPC companions; not just lifeless bots.

All my hopes are now with the modding community to make amazing new npcs. I just hope we will have the tools to do so.
Looking on how things went in DOS2 on that front...(zero new playable npcs, zero modded in playable npcs...) not holding my breath.

Thats your reason right there why BG2 is still popular 20 years later: Xan, Sirene, Yvette, Adrian, Fade, Kelsey, Isra, Amber, Valen, Solaufein, Tashia, Keto...etc...and all the new stories, quests and dialogues they bring to an already great cast of 17 companions.

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 25/04/23 11:12 PM.
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..