Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General OMG, say it's not so! Just heard it was confirmed!

Wizardry 8 did this and it was fantastic.
but Wizardry 8 also didnt have the scope Baldurs Gate 3 has, so its a bad comparison.

Just give me barebones custom Companions. thats good enaugh.
these hirelings are just.... the worst of both worlds.
Weird premade characters that are hit n miss.... that also have no personality to speak of.

To add to that: Hirelings, aka characters that are throwaway, is exactly where you LEAN INTO the tropes.
This is where you do the Stout Dwarf fighter (seirously: wheres the bloody dwarves?) , the Elf Ranger, the Old wise Wizard.
This is not where you put a non binary half orc paladin.
Im not going to be thrileld about a character like this on the best of days and if that character then also has no dialogue or quests to make me warm up to him, then all you did was make a character im not going to pick.

And now you could act thats just me. But you know your numbers Larian, you made that post a long time ago already, in fact you made two posts like that.
People that play CRPGs will want the Lodoss War Party, theyll want the Fellowship. You already have very over the top companions, the Hirelings should lean into the tropes, because righ tnow, you dont even have the OPTION to besides playign with friends or exploiting the multiplayer system to make 4 custom origin characters.