Arcanum has one of my favorite sets of party members you can get/talk to/do stuff with
- New priest of a religion with a shady past, occasionally slips and curses
- A big dumb ogre who with drunk dialogue you meet in the first bar, he never becomes sober
- A legendary warrior/murderer who was too badass to be killed so he was banished to another realm
- A Dog you save, your strongest member eventually
- A physiological Dwarven King who you must debate with to convince him to join
- A version of the hulk if he was british and enjoyed tea and political intricacies.
- Smartass bored necromancer
- A skeleton warrior who you give dragon blood to, to restore his flesh.
And quite a few others.