[3.4 SPOILERS] Cutscene Praise and a totally selfish Dev Request

[Remasa]

I fear if they did this we'd actually end up losing the very interactions that made many of us fall in love with Haurchefant, Aymeric, etc. in the first place.

Ah, this is true, but I was thinking more along the lines of the companions they had in 1.0 that tagged along with you and participated in the Duties and various battles. We could select a relevant NPC to tag along with us. We would still have the cutscenes with the main players, and the larger duties with multiple NPCs assisting in battles, but just having that ONE NPC that is more like your "buddy" would be nice.

Edit: I just couldn't help but be both super excited to offer Aymeric a spot adventuring with me and utterly disappointed it would never come to fruition. Flavor dialogue is nice during cutscenes, but sometimes I just wish maybe we would act on some of the options presented to us :P