Not only because of the implications for your ingame character, but also because they often lead to the most entertaining, hilariously awkward conversations you will ever experience in an RPG. Romancing companions is one of the most fulfilling parts of a BioWare game. When you throw romance into this mix, you get an interesting concoction you simply cannot get in any other RPG. On the other side, sometimes I want to refrain from driving my lightsaber into a person’s skull – but Khem Val would think I was a little soft wuss (he already calls me a “little Sith” too much for my tastes, as it is). I just can’t be as big an asshole as I want to be knowing that Leliana will be standing just behind me watching my every move.
I will admit right now that I’ve often allowed my companions to completely shift my ingame personality to a lighter or darker shade than it would otherwise have gone. Ask any veteran BioWare player and I’m sure they can reel off any number of companion names that made their lasting mark.Īnd damned if they don’t worm their way into your decision making… Sometimes whether you want them to or not. Overall, companions really make the BioWare experience. They applaud your virtuous decisions, or else have no qualms pointing out your “weakness” in the face of taking the harsher action, and so on. They pipe in their disgust with you when they see you do something reprehensible, or else throw in their sinister approval. They are often your moral compass, but more importantly they are always your emotional compass. Anyone who has played a BioWare game can tell you, NOBODY will let you know how your actions are affecting things more loudly than your companions. Not just on the environment, but also on the people closest to you in the game – your companions. In a BioWare game, not only are you a focus of the story, you – Revan, the Grey Warden, Commander Shepard, etc – are the epicenter.Įverything you do has impact in a BioWare game.
It is their ability to make you feel like your character is a part of the grand story that makes a BioWare RPG something different from the norm. Most RPG’s place you in the narrative, place you in the world, but few developers give you the chance to really make it your own. Especially in games like Dragon Age, people can look at it and think – foolishly -‘Oh, another fantasy game with castles, dragons, and knights.’ However, what has made BioWare such a giant in the RPG genre is not that they make a familiar fantasy world for you to explore. When you look back at BioWare games, at first glance they may seem like little more than your average RPG’s. In BioWare games, companions are quite possibly the most unique, not to mention vital, components to the success of any title.
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