What's your favorite crpg NPC character?

Planescape: Torment has my favourite characters. The "core group" of your followers (excluding the Modron and the Mercykiller, can't remember the names) are all wonderful. I really liked Annah because she is one of very few gamecharacters that can pull off that "girl with an attitude" without becoming annoying.
I actually thought the flirts with her were quite charming.
The others are great as well, they all have their great "hooks" that makes me like them.

Vampire: Bloodlines really did well also in terms of great characters. I especially liked Jack (if I remember correctly, the dude that goes through the tutorial with you) and the Prince. Jeanette was very interesting, but wasn't pulled off quite as good as she could've been.
It's funny how different strengths Troikas games had from one another though.

Kreia is a character that was really promising as well, but I think she crosses over the "annoying" line a few to many times.

As for smaller roles, I've always liked the guy outside the BoS in Fallout 1 for some reason.
 
Per said:
FINE. Kerghan is really cool because he's really really old (like a Rice vampire!) and probably dresses in black (like a Rice vampire!) and has glowing eyes (like any proper Mary Sue!) and speaks in a gravelly voice (you can sense how old and tired he is, oh how his soul must be suffering!) and wants to extinguish all life (because that's really really original for a villain motivation!).
Click to expand...
More original than 'I want to rule the worlds!!!'

But yeah, Arcanum's end-game was somewhat disappointing and had a few flat/lame characters.

Oh, and the best NPC ever is obviously The Master.
Other notables:
Murray, from the Monkey Island series.
Morte, Annah and Dak'kon, all from Planescape: Torment.
The Purple Tentacle, from Day of the Tentacle
And although he is a PC, Manny from Grim Fandango
 
Sander said:
More original than 'I want to rule the worlds!!!'
Click to expand...

Ehh... they've both been done to death. 90% of all RPG villians want to either rule the universe or destroy it. Or sometimes destroy the universe and then be the absolute ruler of nothing (mostly in J-RPGs).
 
In order...

Favorite recruitables:
* HK-47 (from Kotor) : It's not often you come across a villian with such a love of their duty as him. He is so energetic and chipper about killing... probably my favorite NPC.
* Covenant (from Wasteland) : Other NPCs in Wasteland had either some introduction (such as Mayor and Felicia Pedros), or nothing at all (such as Mort)... But despite the fact that Covenant has but one introductory line ("It's Covenant!"), the way it's portrayed shows the party already knew him and/or his exploits (or of 'em) long before the player did. That, coupled with the fact he's the best human NPC in the game. :)
* Sulik (from FO2) : "We be like ugly on... you!" Nuff said.
* Minsc and Boo (from BG1) : Insanity is funny when it's not extremely dangerous or frustrating.

Favorite non-recruitables:
* Harold and Bob (from FO) : Oh come on... who doesn't love that crazy old ghoulish codger?
* Irwin John Finster (from Wasteland) : Sure, he's maniacal... and it's not so much *him* that I like... but rather, what goes on inside his head.
* The Master (from FO1) : Almost as unsettling as Finster. I love the VO.
* Zydeko (from Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager) : He was one of the most rounded-out characters in that game, imho, and deserves a spot since it's one of my favorite games. :D
* Spike (from Space Quest) : I don't care if it's not an RPG. Spike was cool for a facehugger.
 
Seraphim Pwns U said:
* Covenant (from Wasteland) : Other NPCs in Wasteland had either some introduction (such as Mayor and Felicia Pedros), or nothing at all (such as Mort)... But despite the fact that Covenant has but one introductory line ("It's Covenant!"), the way it's portrayed shows the party already knew him and/or his exploits (or of 'em) long before the player did.
Click to expand...

That's an interesting way to interpret it. I always thought the game assumed you'd spoken to the beggar near where you're supposed to first enter Vegas and learned that Covenant and Ace had been sent out but gone missing. The game can't really handle it any other way since there aren't any global variables (or even technically any map variables, for that matter).

Seraphim Pwns U said:
* Irwin John Finster (from Wasteland) : Sure, he's maniacal... and it's not so much *him* that I like... but rather, what goes on inside his head.
Click to expand...

Oh, definitely. Plus all the delightful ambiguity about who he really was, what had happened to him, who was controlling whom etc.
 
Recruitable:
Myron
Canderous (KOTOR)
Minsc (BG2)
Morte (PST)

Non Recruitable:
Shodan (Not a 'real' rpg, but meh)
Smiling Jack (VtMB)
The Master
Jon Irenicus (BG2)
Stillwater Giant (Arcanum)
 
Diego from the Gothic series was a pretty cool character. By no means the 'best'; but it's not often that you no longer see a pattern of pixels, but a friend instead. ;)
 
Mmmmm
Well as recruitable... Myron but only because I paid a lot more attention to his character than I did the others. Maybe that's why I didn't like the Party NPCs much.

Non-recruitable would be Set
 
I liked Viconia in BG2 because she was interesting -not your stereotypical Drizzit clone and still rather evil, yet she worked in the party and I never had a group without her since not only is she a good character she's a great priest -the best in the game, in fact, and who played priests in BG2, anyway, so it's not like you didn't need one.

In Fallout I liked Katja because she was the only useful female NPC in the whole series, and Dogmeat is classic.
Fallout 2 had Cassidy who has the best comments and a rich enough story that he became someone in your eyes.
Marcus was cool just because, well, it was cool to have a Super-Mutant tagging around after you turning people into flacid sacks of lead with a minigun. Unfortunately like Dogmeat he became slightly too fragile at the end of the game, but at least you could feed him a Psycho to keep him alive (love the comment on this action, too "Uh, thanks, I think...")

The NPCs in Neverwinter Nights were all too bland to generate a response from me... I remember I picked the lady bard (I don't even know why) but that's about it. In Hordes of the Underdark I liked having Aribeth and the Drow woman in my party, and by the end of the game I got them both in love with me. Aribeth was a memorable NPC but only because she was the only real character in the whole series (asside from people like Halaster Blackcloak and Mephipstopheles who came from the books), so naturally she made a good NPC.
 
Hmm.. I keep hearing about these romances in Bioware games and yet I have never been part of one.

Am I really that unromantic one has to wonder?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top