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DireKrow posted...

In JRPGs where you can only use a subset of the full party at any given time, I will usually rotate what party members I'm using constantly so that I end up using everyone pretty much equally. Even if I like certain ones more, they get no favoritism - I prefer the variety and 'sense' that everyone in the team is actually involved in the gameplay as well as the story.

This. If a game has an overabundance of characters to play with (Suikoden, Chrono Cross, Valkyria Chronicles), I get so mired down by wanting to collect and play as them all that I fall away not long after the pool becomes so wideml

Though Fire Emblem is a mild exception. I still have the indecisions on who to put into the party when it comes time, but with permadeath, RNG level-ups, experience dips from overlevelling, and relationship growth, it's a lot more of its own game who to choose to field and than who do I leave out. Also, Nephenee on all teams always.

Thinking about other games... if there's only one character with a steal ability, that character is never leaving the party. But specifically..

Traditional JRPGs:
Hawk (Trials of Mana)
Fie (Trails of Cold Steel)
Rita (Vesperia)
Sten (Breath of Fire II)
Yamcha (DBZ Attack of the Saiyans)

W/ARPGs
Rheda (Aidyn Chronicles)
Marina Wulfstan (Valkyria Chronicles)
Iceman (X-Men Legends)

[Twenty Minutes Later...]

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Oh, right, this is about characters who aren't necessarily great, not just people you don't take out of your party.

WELP