Useful NPCs

[Monty Python]

Question - does anyone know of a game that allows you to send your NPC "companions" on side quests? In every game I've played, all they do is follow you around like an abandoned puppy.

[Taita]

Black Sails Assassins Creed you could send them off on pirate missions iirc?

[Zetec-S]

Euro Truck Simulator 2? You can hire other drivers to go out and earn money for you

[InitialDave]

Monty Python said:

Question - does anyone know of a game that allows you to send your NPC "companions" on side quests? In every game I've played, all they do is follow you around like an abandoned puppy.

Fallout 4 lets you give them jobs at any settlements you control.

[GnuBee]

Torchlight 2 - you can send your "companion" back to town to sell trash and pick up supplies

[Dave.]

Does Gran Turismo still have Spec B (or was it B Spec?)

[Monty Python]

InitialDave said:

Fallout 4 lets you give them jobs at any settlements you control.

I was thinking more along the lines of being able to do side quests that the player would otherwise have to do - give the NPC some of your weapons, send them off and then have some way of deciding whether they were successful or not.

[Jasandjules]

Monty Python said:

InitialDave said:

Fallout 4 lets you give them jobs at any settlements you control.

I was thinking more along the lines of being able to do side quests that the player would otherwise have to do - give the NPC some of your weapons, send them off and then have some way of deciding whether they were successful or not.

Far Cry 6 has missions where you select the options as such......

[Steven_RW]

In Dragons Dogma (a bit like skyrim ish or Dragon Age) your companion can be recruited and used by other players whenever you are not playing and using the companion to support you. As such they level up in your absence from the game. They are called Pawns rather than companions.

[LukeBrown66]

Oh the joys of B Spec in GT games.

I remember once leaving my PS2 or 3 Bspec driver doing a 24 hour race at Le Mans or somewhere, I came in from work and he was just sat in the guardrail after 6 hours spinning his wheels.

[MCBrowncoat]

LukeBrown66 said:

Oh the joys of B Spec in GT games.

I remember once leaving my PS2 or 3 Bspec driver doing a 24 hour race at Le Mans or somewhere, I came in from work and he was just sat in the guardrail after 6 hours spinning his wheels.

Minolta Toyota 88C-V round El Capitan. That was a proper credit generator!

[F12 Josh]

Perhaps not quite what you mean but Chernobylite you have say 5 mission options for a day and you can choose which one you do and which you set for your companions. Each companion is better at some things that others so the percentage of success changes depending on the type of mission.

[molineux1980]

On No Mans Sky you can buld a fleet of freighters and send them all over the galaxy to collect resources.

Although (especially if its a less experienced crew), the freighter can suffer damage on a expedition which opens an anoyong mini game, where you have to clamber all over there ship finding the components that need repair.