I am not a massive RPG afficionado but I have enjoyed games like Vampire Bloodlines, KOTOR series, ME series, Diablo 2, Torchlight etc in recent years. However one thing that bugs me is the party limit... in KOTOR/ME you get max 3 characters in use at a time, in DA this is upped to 4. Pathetic.
What I want to see is, say I've got a party of 10 characters, I want to be able to use them all at once! Probably the first party RPG I really got in to was Shining Force 2, which let you use up to 12(?) characters in each battle. That's what I'm looking for, some kind of epic fights where I've got warriors charging into the thick of it, artillery dishing out a salvo, snipers trying to off elite opponents, healers protecting my forces, casters blasting away with majic, rogues sneaking round the back etc, all the while keeping one or two guys back to firefight in case of emergencies.
So can anyone recommend me some RPGs like this? I know that it would be harder to pull off, you'd be placing much more demands on the hardware to render the extra stuff, much more planning would need to go into cutscenes etc, but it's just really frustrating if you build up an interesting party of characters but you never get to use them much. In KOTOR, HK-47 (a legendary character) barely got used at all by me.
It just feels like a waste, you've got a big party, lots of gear to share around, but then when you leave your ship/camp/base you are like "tell you what boys, you 6 stay here and play Monopoly, I'll just take these 2 with me to the BIG FIGHT OF IMPENDING DOOM VS THE GREATEST EVIL THE UNIVERSE HAS EVER FACED"
What I want to see is, say I've got a party of 10 characters, I want to be able to use them all at once! Probably the first party RPG I really got in to was Shining Force 2, which let you use up to 12(?) characters in each battle. That's what I'm looking for, some kind of epic fights where I've got warriors charging into the thick of it, artillery dishing out a salvo, snipers trying to off elite opponents, healers protecting my forces, casters blasting away with majic, rogues sneaking round the back etc, all the while keeping one or two guys back to firefight in case of emergencies.
So can anyone recommend me some RPGs like this? I know that it would be harder to pull off, you'd be placing much more demands on the hardware to render the extra stuff, much more planning would need to go into cutscenes etc, but it's just really frustrating if you build up an interesting party of characters but you never get to use them much. In KOTOR, HK-47 (a legendary character) barely got used at all by me.
It just feels like a waste, you've got a big party, lots of gear to share around, but then when you leave your ship/camp/base you are like "tell you what boys, you 6 stay here and play Monopoly, I'll just take these 2 with me to the BIG FIGHT OF IMPENDING DOOM VS THE GREATEST EVIL THE UNIVERSE HAS EVER FACED"