[General Discussion] Most worthless party members ever!

Adding another nomination for the majority of the cast of Chrono Cross. I admit the Suikodens have many useless fools you can recruit but three things set them apart from CC:

1. Every character has a motivation for joining you in Suikoden. With Chrono Cross, they just happen to join with Serge out of the blue most of the time.

2. Suikoden has 108 characters that factor into the Stars of Destiny. Chrono Cross has....uh, a bunch of slots on the status screen.

3. Suikoden allows 6 party members (no one gives a fuck about IV). Chrono Cross allows only 3. And one of those is normally occupied by Serge.

Also, CC is mostly dependent on where you assign elements...Suikoden uses more base skill sets and allows for more creative party building. It just doesn't matter that much who you use in CC. I remember I used the dancer chick and the alien, and before that, the pro wrestler and the glam metal guy...Uh yeah.

Wasn't too sure what to do with Kimahri, so I just stopped using him in FFX.

Edit: I admit I thought Setzer was useless before I discovered the internet. I know better now.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm going to have to defend Edward a small bit. I get good damage with him if I level him up a bit (9 or 10) and he's good for the short time you have him for. Worst thing about him is the auto-hide, especially during the castle siege.

Cid is a beast for the short time you have him (notice a trend with FFIV?). Lots of damage and I don't think all his hammers are affected by the cave, IIRC. And yeah, airship. So he'd have an alibi even if he sucked.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Plus, I think CT was one of the more balanced RPG's around (one of the benefits of only working with 7 characters as compared to 40+). My A-team was always Crono, Marle and Frog...Loads of combined healing and Arc Impulse. Last time, I used Robo and Ayla with Crono and it wasn't pretty for the other side.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Really? Chisato was a beast on my team...Claude, Ashton, Chisato (and Rena) = win!

How ya doing, buddy?

I wanted to like Opera more, but she always ran out of MP too fast. Far from useless, but I think my party ended up being Claude/Dias/Chisato/Rena when I did the Ashton skip/Rena playthrough.

(anyone else think the topic of SO2 parties is worthy of its' own thread?)

I was speaking idiomatically.