Best Recruitable NPC / Sidekick In The History of CRPG's?

[TheImplodingVoice]

Minsc only because of Boo. Kreia(Well not a crpg character)but only because she was a constant reminder of why exactly I decided to divorce my wife.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I like Gaichu from Shadowrun : Hong Kong.

Racter too. Even Gobbet was ok.

 

[WhiteGuts]

Companions are the only area where HK might surpass Dragonfall imo.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[aweigh]

Dragonfall companions were fantastic.

 

[DraQ]

I don't think I can think of any game that can surpass PS:T in terms of potential party members (and I am speaking in general - even those you couldn't possibly like were pretty awesome) although the cast in Anachronox was quite colorful as well.

The only area where you can feasibly beat those is reactivity and general liveliness (because this is where quantity is a quality of its own and those are old games) - even Wizardry 8 is an interesting contender here, and I have seen a bunch of follower NPCs in Skyrim mods, of all places, that were both quite good and *insanely* reactive (Inigo, some of the Interesting NPCs characters).

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

If you're including JRPGs then Algus and Gaffgarion from FFTactics are the top of the line.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[fantadomat]

 

[Lurker47]

ED-E because anything that wasn't melee could not hit the little fucker for the life of them and it was hilarious.

 

[Luckmann]