imo Shadowheart was the most unbearable companion at the start. But I think the point was that they’re all deeply flawed people that are forced to come together and face their trauma. Tadpole therapy works, I guess!
The fact that everyone has different characters that they love and/or hate suggests that the devs did a pretty good job.
The writing isn’t stellar, but there’s a wide range of character types, and one person’s favorite is another’s leaat. For me, Lae’zel and Astarion are insufferable (Lae’zel a little less so, but still annoying). But those are favorites of other people, so they’re presumably not objectively bad, it’s just a matter of taste.
My only wish is that there were one or two more, or at least that the others were introduced earlier in the game (hell no, I’m not changing my entire party dynamic in Act 3).
I mean, I hated everyone but Karlach at the beginning, and they rendered well the uneasy cooperation between the characters, then everyone just grew closer act by act and it was great.
Spoiler
Lae’zael describing her diplomatic plans in the epilogue was just great. Just like Astarion being happy about NOT becoming a vampire ascendant
I did my first playthrough as Karlach and romanced Gale for shiggles. After he abandoned her at the end. >!You know. Her last night alive before burning to death.!< Yeah. You can bet I left his ass in the portal the next time.
Dammit. I should not have clicked that spoiler tag…
There’s a spoiler tag? Just showing in clear text on mine, didn’t even get the option of not clicking it…
It is really frustrating because the spoiler tags are kind of client dependent I think. I just use the spoiler tag formatting button in Sync, but I know there is some fuckery where it doesn’t work everywhere, or another client uses a different tag.
Same here
There are other endings you can get for her. Everything will be ok. Karlach is the best flaming teddy bear ever.
What spoiler tag ?
Unfortunately in fallout 4 you can only send them into the ol red rocket exile
I’m glad Withers has backup companions
My friend, talking about hirelings: “They’re just soulless followers! They don’t have any sort of personality!”
Me: “I know.”
I recently started a Durge run and accidentally chopped Gale’s hand off and killed him by clicking the wrong dialog option when I first ran into him. Was honestly happy to not have to feed him magical items all the damn time.
I gave him 3 items total I think, not a big deal
I always make Laezel leap to her doom right after the first fight with the three winged turds so yes, completely relatable.
I want another character like Jan Jansen
I didn’t like that they “grew better,” tbh. I liked them the way they were when I met them.