Originally Posted by Vitani
Originally Posted by 1varangian
It's definitely a Larian thing where they try to reinvent the RPG wheel too hard. E.g. Dragon Age or Mass Effect games don't suffer from such "everyone has to be super special" nonsense.
Agreed with ME. But ME2 did jus that.

Mordin - THE genius scientist that worked on THE genophage.
Miranda - the genetically perfect ass.
Zaeed - the founder of the Black Suns gang.
Samara - one of the most powerful Asari out there, a Matriarch and a Justicar.
Jack - again, a super special biotic, one of her kind, an experiment.
Thane - best assasin from a ultra-rare race, with some ultra-rare photographic memory.
Grunt - the genetically perfect killing machine.

And then we have the 'normal' ones: Tali (though of course she isn't "just some quarian", she is the daughter of an admiral), Garrus (who suddenly grew a pair, but that doesn't make him special - surviving a rocket to the face does though), Jacob, Legion and Kasumi.

Honoraty mention: Liara, who got ruined by turning her personality 180 degrees to make her 'cool'.

And before anyone tells me "but they had to be the bets of the best because it was a super-duper special mission to save the galaxy!" - Yes, but it's the same here. The super-evil cult needs a bunch of badasses to work for them to...destroy the world or whatever evil cults in D&D do wink
Just look at Kingmaker, which imo has better companions than Wrath.

Aspiring bard, depressed cleric, angry barbarian, two liberated slaves, bookish gnome, duty bound fighter and a ranger out for revenge. All pretty mundane but some if them are among the mist well known characters in the franchise.

Only 4 (maybe 5) characters are special, and one of those is from the DLC.

Last edited by Ixal; 10/07/23 11:12 AM.