"Here Come The Test Results: 'You Are A Horrible Person.' That’s What It Says, 'A Horrible Person.' We Weren’t Even Testing For That."
The first time you ever play Portal 2 and get to the part where Wheatley is going to kill you was one of my favorite gags in the franchise.
You mean the part where he kills you? I loved that bit.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Get mad! Make life take the lemons back!" - Cave Johnson
Cyberpunk had some really strong characters/acting/writing. I'm finding it hard to get excited by other games lately because they just don't measure up the same.
What's there not to like? Noodles? Check! Synthsirloin? Check!
Such a choom.
Who’s this? Why do you miss them?
That's Jackie Wells from Cyberpunk 2077. The best choom ever. He's in the major league now...
sobs
Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
It's been over a decade since that scene and I still see it in my head. I can still hear his voice saying that line. What a character.
Mass Effect for sure. I miss my friends.... so I play every couple of years to say hi xD
Undertale is the game I want to experience for the first time again. Can't believe that game is already 8 years old. The music is brilliant. The characters are all compelling. The storytelling is stellar. The graphics.....they get the job done lol
Napstablook was great. Especially once you find out who his neighbor was and a bit more about why he's so depressed. I lied on the floor with him for a solid 20 minutes on my first playthrough. Probably one of the best minor characters ever.
ETA (four hours later lol): The Bioshock trilogy as well. Booker and Elizabeth are imo the best duo ever. Plus the twist in Infinite is a special kind of mind fuck.
Undertale for sure. (I'm a long time gamer, and I consider this in my top 5 games now)
It has such a slow start, and meh graphics going into it. It took me 3 separate years trying to get into it, but once I got past the first 2 hours, man did the humour, characters and music blow me away.
If you're worried you won't get into it:
I'm so glad I came back and stuck with it.
I was just trying to clear something out of my library and ended up with the most powerful gaming attachment I've had in over a decade.
Can definitely understand there. It has a very fun vibe through how much love and attention went into developing the silly characters..
I played Undertale last week for the first time, and WOW, so many emotions! I was definitely not expecting that, even after finishing the game for the first time.
Maya from Borderlands 2. Also the main dude from Titanfall 2. Maybe Booker from Bioshock Infinite.
Bloodwing and Roland, too. My best friend was a Mordecai main in BL1, so that scene fucked him up when we first played.
Same. Also that scene from BL3 went and fucked me up
Red Dead Redemption 2
Life Is Strange: True Colors
LiS, LiS: Before the Storm and LiS 2 just hit me differently. I'm not really the target group but somehow it got to me on an emotional level like no other game.
I never finished them! I should
I finished the first, bought the second but have yet to start it. You really should finish the first, if you have time to really enjoy it. It was extremely well done, and even as a cis male, was extremely impactful and emotionally worthwhile!
Seconded for Red Dead Redemption 2.
I miss Arthur Morgan like I miss a passed relative. Amazing character writing.
I miss Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium. What a wholesome guy who had to put up with all of our BS.
I remember the first time I completed RimWorld. Kept all three OG colonists alive. Two of them got married. The husband was an old farmer, had dementia, bad back, and was eventually bedridden for a long time. His wife was a doctor and she'd visit the hospital everyday to check up on him. The third colonist, Oneesan, became a Countess and was so full of herself that she never worked. She spent her entire day meditating in her throne room.
Also shoutout to Tracker, a recruited waster, who did some of the craziest shit like single handedly stopping a siege with a sniper rifle, and breaking up a fight between us, mechanoids, and pirates with a rocket launcher.
A few come to mind:
Ys 8 The Lacrimosa of Dana
Danganronpa
Phoenix Wright trilogy
Life is strange
Katana Zero
Axiom Verge 1 and 2
Can definitely relate to a few of these, namely Phoenix Wright and Danganronpa. While they're cartoony (particularly the latter) the interactions between characters makes it very easy to attach to them
After spending 200h+ bonding with my gang, I missed the Phantom Thieves like they were my friends for real.
I just restarted my save in Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and man did I miss Noah! It's good to have him back, at least until I finally run out of side quests and have to play the mission where he is callously ripped from my life again!
The whole Investigation Team from Persona 4. The way the game is framed does an excellent job of making you feel like you've met all your best friends over the course of one school year and then you have to say goodbye to all of them. The multitude of spinoff sequels takes away a lot of the impact of the final scene and credits sequence, but I've never been more attached to a cast of characters in a game.
I remember after playing Fable 2 for so long I kept looking down for my dog... I don't have a dog.
Pyre by Supergiant gets you like this with all the characters you help out of exile. It’s really a great visual novel held back from wider appeal due to their unique sport gameplay mechanic. But if you enjoy anything supergiant, you should enjoy it.
Mario Frigo from Just Cause 3.
I hated him so much in the beginning, but grew to love him. Moo-rio lives rent free in my mind.
Moorio was pretty funny. JC3 story sucks but mario is amazing.
This is it, baby. Hold me.
Undertale, definitely. FFX I was really attached to Auron. The Ace Attorney series? I get attached to characters so I feel like those are the tip of the iceberg.
Shenmue & Shenmue II
Even before getting to the story characters I have such vivid memories of all the shop owners, random people and the streets themselves.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
There's a copy of it on archive with the Norwegian audio (since it's no longer available to get anywhere). Uploaded by yours truly.
Runas the Shamed from World of Warcraft: Legion. In summary, he's a victim of magical addiction that tries to con you into helping him, then you realize he's not in his right mind, he's addiction fueled. He is really trying to be a good person, but he's screwed by circumstance. By the end, you really feel sorry for him because he isn't majority responsible for his situation. It does not end well.
I never got to sex up Toriel
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