NEW VEGAS!

[Dusty Lens]

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Yeah, I noticed a wild difference in my companion's performance between my "dumpstat" 1 point charisma knife poker character and my 8 charisma "has lasers and smiles a lot" character.

1 point = companions run a lot and generally suck.
8 points = I can barely keep up with them.

Veronica is especially fun to watch run around. She'll charge ahead and I can casually follow in her wake, looting bodies that I find scattered here and there.

With the 1 charisma those worthless balls of meh break easily and generally feel more comfortable with the idea of me going down before them.

On that note, however, my sneaky mcstabalot character doesn't have much use for companions. So I'm generally content to let them sit by the wayside whilst I do my own thing. Which largely consists of stabbing. While sneaking. Stab stab stab.