| These are a few of my favourite NPCs
Minsc and Boo should definitely be playable NPCs (very funny and let's face it, at least everyone remembers them!)
I liked the very improbable marriage of Jaheira and Khalid (Hilary and Bill?)
Imoen seems almost indispensible to a BG saga.
Whatever NPCs appear in a future BG3, I would definitely WISH for the format of being able to play with a party of no more than 6 characters (more than that would feel like you are leading an army). I very much liked the impromptu conversations that broke out between the party members: a feature that was missing in NWN. I preferred having party members who joined my group for some personal reason of their own (rather that just hiring henchmen for money).
So for my money, BG3 should have the NPC stye and dynamics of BG1 and 2 (a lot of us rated BG1 and 2 the best ever RPG game thus far and as the saying goes: if it ain't broke.......)
It seemed to me that the guys who designed the BG games where just doing what they thought was good fun and interesting. The games that came after that seemed overcautious and "playing to the galleries" ie going for what the markets (those 10-15 year-old boys) might want. A bad move....  |