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.
“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.
RDR2
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
Came here for this. My best choom
Mass Effect for sure. I miss my friends… so I play every couple of years to say hi xD
This was my immediate thought as well. I’m not sure there’s any other game that measures up in the same way.
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:
- 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.
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
I miss Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium. What a wholesome guy who had to put up with all of our BS.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Outer. Wilds.
😭
I wanted to see way more of the “you” character from the ATP Easter Egg.
I love the travelers. Running out of dialog options hurt.
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
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.
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
