I don't even remember other companions other than first two and the robot. The others seemed so insufferable from the first line of dialogue that I didn't even recruit them.
irk the two I recruited at the space station, I can't even remember their names, but how they were recruited is just baffling.
One just sits in front of your ship and expects you to pick him up like a stray puppy for no reason what so ever. You don't need another crewmember, he doesn't do anything useful — he's a dockworker and a bit of a moron — and his pitch to you is "I'm not bad at taking orders, just bad at taking stupid orders".
Wow. Look, he's vegetable-adjacent in the noggin already, and he's going to be the judge of what is a stupid order? lmao
The other one, whose name I also just can't remember, is equally difficult to understand. She wants to join your crew because she owes you one. That's it. You do her a small favor by checking up on her friend — and she's like "oh well, I guess I'll just have to join your crew now to repay you". What.. just happened?
Even doing her that favor felt awkward. She was standing in the reception of a medical facility demanding to see a patient who she claimed was her friend. So nobody ever would inject themselves into that conversation in a hospital. It's just not your business — and sure you can skip it all, but then you're out of a companion. Not that it matters because the game actually rewards you for not having any companions with some of the best perks.
I can see how this kind of sidequest would have been set up so you'd have to be the most nosy and annoying type of person to even consider doing it, but this is not just a sidequest, this is to get a companion.
So after Dollarhyde, one of the writers of this game is Chris L'Etoile, formerly at Bioware writing for Mass Effect and ME2. He wrote characters like Ashley (ME1 Ashley) and Legion (ME2), but he also wrote Thane and EDI — point being they have a veteran of Mass Effect on the main writing staff and they're making a pseudo Mass Effect game. And they fail at writing companions.
How terrible is this Dollaryde bitch?
Someone made a list years ago that contained the people who worked on FONV and around 74% of them are no longer at Obsidian.
That is to be expected after over a decade, the main problem is who those people were replaced with and that's mostly deranged leftist dangerhair loonies.
