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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Red Dead Redemption 2
Life Is Strange: True Colors
I miss Arthur Morgan like I miss a passed relative. Amazing character writing.
Seconded for Red Dead Redemption 2.
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
Came here for this. My best choom
What’s there not to like? Noodles? Check! Synthsirloin? Check!
Such a choom.
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 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.
Can definitely understand there. It has a very fun vibe through how much love and attention went into developing the silly characters…
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:
- The graphics start out rough to make the better graphics later on really stand out
- The slow start is actually them setting things up a whole bunch of things that pay off later, stick with it. (Also since the game is only 7 hours and there are multiple endings, you will replay it to get the other endings and notice just how much content is hidden at the start that you didn’t understand the first time playing 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.
I miss Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium. What a wholesome guy who had to put up with all of our BS.
“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
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.
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 never got to sex up Toriel
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
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.
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.
I’m very curious about these despite knowing that time hasn’t been kind to them.
Some of the gameplay hasn’t aged well but the look and feel of the game is still one of the greatest for me. The HD remaster from a few years ago is the best way to play.
This is it, baby. Hold me.
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.
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.
