Dragon Age: Origins gave you a dog—a rumple-faced mabari war hound who could dig up items, mark territory to earn buffs, and fight alongside you. He was great, and I loved him. But he took up one of the same slots as party members who were actual people, who could talk and be romanced and slowly drip-feed their entire backstory into my brain across the course of our adventure.
That's why, as soon as I'd recruited a full party of four companions who could do all those things, the dog got left back at camp. Which sucks. It sucks so much that the Extra Dog Slot mod, which lets you add the dog to your party for free, has been downloaded more than a million times. That's a million dogs happily pissing on trees all over Ferelden instead of being benched because people would rather hang out with Morrigan.
