It’s a bitter sweet feeling afterward, but I love it when a game has characters where, after the game is over, I miss seeing a part of their lives. Be it due to the characters themselves or the interaction they have with one another, exiting their world feels more like a loss than when normally putting a story away.
Are there any games where you experienced similar? While it can be a bitter sweet feeling, I know that it is a sign that I really enjoyed what I was playing and love to find these experiences.
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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.
This is it, baby. Hold me.
After spending 200h+ bonding with my gang, I missed the Phantom Thieves like they were my friends for real.
Indeed. I hope Tactica makes em justice.
Outer. Wilds.
😭
I love the travelers. Running out of dialog options hurt.
I wanted to see way more of the “you” character from the ATP Easter Egg.
Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong.
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.
Dr Mordin Solus can be saved, all it costs is the ruthless suppression of Krogan : source trying a renegade run and feeling so bad that I shot him - for Solarian aide - started from mass effect 1 to do a renegade run that I could feel less guilty from my horrible decision
Will NEVER understand the people who lied to him in that scene. Or choose to shoot him in the back.
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
“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
Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice
I found the premise of exploring the psyche of Senua and after the end, even though she isn’t fixed, she can at least put a part of herself to rest and really rings home what she as a person and people like her can be living with.
Spec Ops: The Line
Getting through the game and then evaulating all your decisions and seeing the changes over time of a broken man getting more broken leaves an impression of “Are we the bad guys”, especially after seeing the tone change from dialogue, loading screens and even how the characters move and animation over the course of the game.
I’d love to ride motorcycles with Deacon and Boozer from Days Gone and I don’t even ride motorcycles IRL
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.
Absolutely wonderful game that was criminally underrated.
Agreed. The story was masterful to me. I don’t play narrative heavy stuff without gameplay to carry it but I could not get enough. Read every word
I miss Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium. What a wholesome guy who had to put up with all of our BS.
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!I loved mirrors edge 1, is catalyst worth it?
I definitely prefer Mirror’s Edge 1, and Catalyst was my first so it’s not because of nostalgia. I just think 1 was done much better. But Catalyst is still a really fun game, and definitely worth it on sale. Just don’t expect it to be as good
Ah OK thanks
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
Not a week goes by that I don’t think about Y’s 8 at some point. It was my first entry into the series, it took my restarting 4 times before I got a “feel” for it and got sucked into the story. I am so glad I did. One of my all time favourite series now. Currently playing through Origins waiting for the English and hopefully PC release of Nordics
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
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
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.
Lee from the Walking Dead game by Telltale, your character in Knights of the Old Republic, Abe from Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssey, Octodad, and Ricky the sock puppet from My Friendly Neighborhood.
