Jonric: Shifting the focus to friendly and neutral NPCs, what kinds of functions will they fulfill in Titan Quest?

Brian Sullivan: There will be NPCs in the game, and they fall into a few main classes. There is a group of NPCs that are the main quest givers and communicate most of the story. There is a separate group of NPCs that will give optional quests, and give a lot of topical flavor in their dialogue. And the last class of NPCs inhabits the cities and towns, and gives the world a realistic and lived-in feel.

NPCs cannot join your party, as mentioned earlier. You will have the ability to have pets if you select the appropriate character class, but this is a single-character RPG. All the NPCs that can communicate with the player will be professionally voice acted.