Inspired by some of the classics like Return to Castle Wolfenstein and DOOM, the free shooter Darkenstein 3D has released and it's a rip-roaring good time.
Dynamic Rat Companion - Turn the battlefield into chaos with your vicious rat sidekick. Distract enemies, combo with grenades, and create absolute carnage.
Quality animal companions are definitely rare. Dishonored is the first that comes to mind, though I wouldn’t call the rats friendly companions - even the summoned ones were deadly.
I always played Lawful Neutral mages in Baldur’s Gate 2 because which familiar you summoned depended on alignment, and LN got a snarky ferret companion.
I wish the feature was more fleshed out - familiars didn’t react to narrative events and you could run through his entire dialog tree in about two minutes. There are thousands of mods for BG2; surely one of them expands the familiar system?
And Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a squirrel riding a skeletal cat that was pretty awesome, though I think it was a preorder bonus.
I didn’t even know Dishonored had rat companions. I’ll have to play that sometime… I can’t think of any games right off hand that have a good animal friend system. I wish that was more of a thing.
Kinda reminds me of that rat “sidekick” in Comix Zone. Such a good little sidekick, flipping switches and finding items, even stunning some enemies if I remember correctly.
This should be a feature in every game.
Quality animal companions are definitely rare. Dishonored is the first that comes to mind, though I wouldn’t call the rats friendly companions - even the summoned ones were deadly.
I always played Lawful Neutral mages in Baldur’s Gate 2 because which familiar you summoned depended on alignment, and LN got a snarky ferret companion.
I wish the feature was more fleshed out - familiars didn’t react to narrative events and you could run through his entire dialog tree in about two minutes. There are thousands of mods for BG2; surely one of them expands the familiar system?
And Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a squirrel riding a skeletal cat that was pretty awesome, though I think it was a preorder bonus.
I didn’t even know Dishonored had rat companions. I’ll have to play that sometime… I can’t think of any games right off hand that have a good animal friend system. I wish that was more of a thing.
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Kinda reminds me of that rat “sidekick” in Comix Zone. Such a good little sidekick, flipping switches and finding items, even stunning some enemies if I remember correctly.
Deep-cut reference! What a mind-blowing game.