RPGs: Useless companions

[Ordinaryundone]

Garrus from Mass Effect 1. Sure he has a cool personality, but he is squishy as all get out and not really any more effective than anyone else in combat. Only able to wear Medium Armor+No shield boosting abilities=A Turian who will die. A lot. My team was usually Wrex and Tali, if just because Wrex could wear Heavy Armor and also Fortify, and Tali can boost her shields to completely unreasonable levels. On higher difficulties, I don't need help killing the enemies, but I do need distractions. And Garrus simply could not provide a decent one.

He's great in ME2 though. Assault Rifles, Snipers, and Overload? And I can recruit him almost immediately upon starting the game? I get the feeling he was a pretty constant third in most people's parties for that reason alone. He still seems to die a lot, though :/

 

[TheOneBearded]

Every companion in Skyrim. I only use them as meatbags to hold my stuff and I don't even notice them unless they block a door or entrance. This is not how a companion should be used for. In my opinion, the companions were better done in New Vegas.

 

[Kermi]

Actually, the fun Biotic powers ARE there to be foiled by defenses...

Have you ever used Shockwave or Pull against any Barrier, Armor os Shield? You know what they do? Diddly squat. Nothing. Nada. Barely scratch it. What powers does Jack have? Shockwave and Pull. Do you know what almost every enemy has on any difficulty higher than normal? Armor, Barriers or Shields. You see where I'm going with this? I'll give you a hint - Jack sucks, and not in the romantic way...

Yeah, Warp and Reave are great, but they are also quite boring. They're just point&damage. You go Biotics to toss people around, at least you did in ME1. ME2 screwed Biotics over by making everything that had any protection be immune to physics effects. And by the time you drop the protections you might as well just finish shooting the target.

I was actually just playing ME2 last night (trying to round out my careers before ME3 drops) and did the collector ship. I'm playing as a Sentinel and have pimped out my Tech Shield and Warp. Warp does jack against barriers, but ruins the day of armour and shields. I see anything put a purple bar, I tap RB and bam, no more collector. Even those pain in the ass scions don't stand up to too much punishment. If I need to spam a little SMG fire to take down barriers, first, that's fine too.

But yeah, I don't really use Jack either. NPCs don't use their biotics effectively/intelligently, so I usually take people who are better with guns or have better offensive powers. My most common combination is Tali/Garrus or sometimes Thane/Grunt if I want to mix it up. Sometimes I take Mordin just to hear the shit he says sometimes.

 

[Melon Hunter]

I am working on a hardcore play through of Fallout New Vegas, so all of the side kicks are avoided because I don't want them to die.

Oh, yeah. I feel for you. I've tried to play a Hardcore run with companions, but damn is it difficult to keep them alive. Pretty much every fight we have with Cazadors is bookended with me pumping a dozen Stimpacks into them because they will never use Antivenom for some reason. Still, so far I've kept everyone alive, if only because they're encased in the best armour I can find.

Personally, I've found the New Vegas companions to be OK. However, the Fallout 3 companions were atrocious. I gave up on them after Star Paladin Cross walked off the end of a ruined overpass one too many times, and after that only ever let Fawkes follow me. Hell, I didn't even find Dogmeat until my third playthrough

 

[Josh Hibbard]

Any arcane caster henchman in Neverwinter Nights outside Nytherra. Cast fireball at a rat, pha!

 

[JimmyC99]

Leliana. Annoying voice, useless abilities, massive waste of space.

wow really?, i loved Leliana, Lock-picking and giving her dual weilding and some archery worked wonders for me, plus she has a French accent, dam i is that sexy

OP: i hate hope from Final Fantasy XIII, god do i hate him soooo very much.

ME2 Jacob and Zaeed i didn't like at all his personality sucks and he is basically a soldier well you sir are never getting of the ship, and i didn't like Jack, don't know why just didn't.

 

[ms_sunlight]

Every companion in Skyrim. I only use them as meatbags to hold my stuff and I don't even notice them unless they block a door or entrance. This is not how a companion should be used for. In my opinion, the companions were better done in New Vegas.

I don't even bother with companions in Skyrim. I've done a stealth / archery playthrough, where companions would just be a hindrance. I'm now playing as a conjuror, with all the atronachs and zombies you could want to tank and damage for me. Who needs other people?