Summary
- Games like Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak allow NPCs to join your party with unique playstyles.
- Skyrim's AI party members have poor decision-making abilities, hindering collaboration.
- In games like Persona 3, party members act on their own in combat, adding a challenge.
In the vast majority of games with a party or companions of some sort, it's standard fare to give you quite a large amount of control over those characters. If you can't outright play as them, you can at least issue them detailed commands, choose their class and equipment, and plenty more. Freedom to build the party of your own lik🥂ing.
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But some games want to stretch the defined. A party must work together of course, but who's to say you should be able to control everything you do? Some characters w🦄ill rely on their own expertise🐷 rather than your own, and others will work off the pre-defined strategies you offer them and refuse to deviate.
8 ඣ Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak 🦹
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak
- Top Critic Avg: 86/100 Critics Rec: 93%
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
Pr🌄obably not the first entry you expected, huh? The Monster Hunter games are famed for their high difficulty, requiring mastery of your chosen weapon and the moveset of any given monster if you want to succeed. Multiplayer cooper🅰ation has always been at the heart of the experience, but it relied on real players, not NPCs.
That changed with the Sunbreak expansion for Monster Hunter Rise. Suddenly, all those supposedly great hunters♉ could꧅ join you on the hunt, all with their own unique playstyles. Though just like real players, you couldn't tell then what to do. You would have🍌 to check out their weapons and tendencies beforehand to make sure they were a fit for the upcoming hunt.
7 Skyrim
- ESRB
- 🌊 💖 M for Mature: Use of Alcohol, Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes
- Developer(s)
- Bethesda
- Publisher(s)
- Bethesda
- Engine
- Creation
- Expansions
- 🀅 Skyrim: Dragonborn, Skyrim: Hearthfire, Skyrim: Dawnguard
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Elder Scrolls
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox One X, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S, PS4, PS5, Switch
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
- How Long To Beat
- 26 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 🌄 29 GB (December 2023) ཧ
- PS Plus Availability
- Extra & Premium 🦩
- Metascore
- 73
Skyrim is a lot of things. An expansive open-world, a setting filled with inventive fantasy ideas, a modder's paradise. It has captivated the world for over a decade, and that's not slowing do🀅wn. But one thing that Skyrim does not excel at is the AI of its characters. This is fine when characters target you𝔉 in combat. Not so much when you have to rely on them to help you.
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Skyrim lets you recruit countless compꦆanions aౠcross the country, but you can't tell them what to do. You want them to use the weapons you gave them? You better hope they want to. Oh, you just wanted them to hold? Well actually it's their weapon now. They have no survival instinct whatsoever, running headfirst into danger. It would be admirable if they weren't your pack mule.
6 ꧃ Suikoden 3 🐼
The Suikoden games have always been a wonderful blend of turn-based combat and real-time strategy elements, and that is owed in large part to the sheer number of characters you recruit. While most might expect a party to cap out at four members, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the 🍷Suikoden games frequently surpass this. In the case of Suikoden 3, you have a parౠty of 6 at a time, set in pairs.
This leads to a uni𒅌que scenario where you only directly control one character in a pair based on the command you issue, with the other acting to their best judgement. This can lead to some poor decisions on the AI-controlled party member, but that's half the battle. You need to construct pairs you think can actually fend for themselves when not in use.
5 ꦍ Mass Effect
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Released
- May 14, 2021
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood, Drug Reference, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence 𝐆
- Developer(s)
- BioWare
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Electronic Arts
- Engine
- Un🌌real Engine 4
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
- How Long To Beat
- 🍃 100+ Hours
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 21 GB (November 2023) ꦇ
- Metascore
- 87
For over a decade, Bioware has been defined by the Mass Effect and Dragon Age games. While both are RPGs, they are p♍olar opposite in every other regard. Where Dragon Age gave you granular control over yoꦚur companions, from the automated actions they took to outright direct contol, Mass Effect was much more lax.
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With action combat🔥 taking the forefront, you had little control over companions. You could set their gear and unlocked abilities, but this was mostly it. As the games went on, even this level of control dwindled. The largest input you ever had on them was where they took cover in combat. Beyond that, you're hoping they are smart enough to hold their own.
4 ♏ The La𓆉st Story
The Last Story
- Released
- August 14, 2012
- ESRB
- T For Teen due to Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alc🌄ohol, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Mistwalk💜er, AQ Interactive ♛
- Publisher(s)
- ꦺ Nintendo, XSEED Games
- Multiplayer
- ℱ Local Multiplayer ꧋
- Platform(s)
- Wii
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:From ꦐHironobu Sakaguchi's Mistw💧alker studio, The Last Story was an i꧙nꦡterpretation of a modern Final Fantasy title with more real-time tactical elements for a combat system unlike most other games out there. In it, you played as the protagonist Zael, and Zael alone. You literally issued commands, but everything else relied on your companions actually enacting them.
This led to a system where you actually acted like a general, leading your party of six as a leader. Zael was more than just commands though, with stealth elements to his o🌞wn gameplay as well as a crossbow that could be aimed freely. In this sense, combat was a fine balance between relying on your own skills, and your ability to guide your party members to use their talents to the best of their abilities.
3 ও Unicorn Overlord ♑
- ESRB
- ✱ T For Teen Due To Blood, Fant🌊asy Violence, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- 𒁃 Vaniꦡllaware
- Engine
- unity
- Multiplayer
- 🐼 Online Multiplayer
- Platform(s)
- PS5, PS4, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S, Switch
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
In Unicorn Overlord, you play as the exiled Prince Alain as you work to restore yourself to the throne. It🦹's not a tale that's in anyway unfamiliar, though the way in which it handles its tactical turn-based combat is far from standard. You must still recruit your party members across the world, outfit them, and build a formidable unit. But you don't control them.
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In fact, you don't directly control any of them. Instead, Unicorn Overlord uses a Gambut system where you set up actions and reactions in advance for each squad. This will then determine how they act when they come acrᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚoss certain actions or enemies. Maybe if there is a mage present, a unit may focus on taking them out first before their own weaknesses can be targeted. You can't react yourself in the midst of combat, so you have to hope the gambits you've set up are enough.
2 Dragon's Dogma
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Language, Sexual The🎉mes, Violence ♍
- Developer(s)
- Capcom
- Publisher(s)
- Capcom
- Engine
- RE Engine
- Franchise
- Dragon's Dogma
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS5, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
- How Long To Beat
- 30 Hours
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
- Wiki
- Metascore
- 88
Dragon's Dogma eschews the traditional idea of a party-based RPG, opting instead for real-time actio🐲n combat. Further still, not a single member of this party is pre-determined. From the pawn you create in the beginning of the game to the two additional pawns you hire along the way, all of them are unique. And none of them can be controlled.
Pawns learn from their masters, bringing those talents into combat and exploration. If you have 𒆙a mage, they will heal you when you are weak. Unless they have a braver inclination, in which case they may spam attack spells instead. Never will you have a party that all acts the same, but that is what makes this ragtag bunch so enticing.
1 Persona 3
With modern Persona games, it'🧔s a given that you can control your party members. They are the star of the show in many regards, of course you can. Even Persona 3 Reload gives you full control over the party, letting you tweak every aspect of them. Eℱxcept this is new. In the original Persona 3, only the protagonist was controlled.
It may seem a far cry from how the game's are percieved now, but in Persona 3, your companions acted according to their own feelings. Yes you st🔯ill equipped them with gear, but the actions they took in combat were entirely their own, with no exceptions. It made the game a challenge by all means, but also affirmed that these were characters in their own right who deserved to make their own actions. Even if they weren't always the smartest.
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