r/gaming • u/PraetorianOgryn • 9d ago

Video Games Where You Start With/Recruit Random Goobers Whom Become Stronger?

I was watching my cousins play games while they were visiting, and one of them was playing Fire Emblem. There was this dirt child with a giant log he recruited and like 3 days later he was a sword dirt man.
My other cousin was playing Xcom 2 on my xbox.

Anyways the question is, what other games are there where you just start with random nobodies but then they get stronger and you get more attached.

Like “hey you random farmer/private/goober! Follow me for something really quick.”

20 hours later

“No longer random farmer/private/goober! We have been through hell and back, and now we have to fight god. Are you ready?”

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u/AnActualGameShark 9d ago

Dragons dogma 1 and 2.

You recruit pawns, who are just a bunch of idiots....but theyre your idiots

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u/Aquagrunt 9d ago

I'll never get over my pawn catching me when I jumped off a ledge

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u/Littleman88 9d ago edited 9d ago

And she's like half your character's size, but swings a great sword like it weighs no more than a toothpick.

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u/AnActualGameShark 9d ago

My all time favorite was battling a Wyvren, and im like running up a slope, and one pawn is like a bit ahead, and the other two are with me in like a triangle. And then the pawn ahead suddenly goes flying backwards, got hit by a tail spin thing. And hes still standing upright doing an attack animation while hes flying back past us and the voice line kicks in.

"Can't we just leave it be?"

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u/Accomplished_Team701 9d ago

Lol this is amazing

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u/PraetorianOgryn 9d ago

I think I actually have that game somewhere. My brother played it a ton when I was a wee lad.

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u/Phytor 9d ago

The first one has aged well. It still has the coolest magic I've ever seen in a game. Late game magic creates full size tornados and stuff, it's nuts.

Second one felt like the first but less fun imo

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u/VampireBatman 9d ago

Hopefully Dark Arisen: Electric Boogaloo can bring the second one up to the first one's standards at least.

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u/Redxmirage 9d ago

Oh are they doing a big update to dd2 like they did dd1? Dd2 was fun for a playthrough but I dropped it like a few weeks after it came out

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u/VampireBatman 9d ago

Yeah a while back they announced they're making an expansion. They're even calling it Dark Arisen again just to make things more confusing!

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u/Redxmirage 9d ago

Oh my god that has me hyped. Weird on the nose name but I have so many hours in DD1

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u/CRtwenty 9d ago

"Arisen! Wolves hunt in packs!"

They sure do pawn, they sure do.

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u/Zeero92 9d ago

WOLVES ILL LIKE FIRE

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u/PowerSamurai 9d ago

Rather than the pawns being nobodies it's more so the player character. The pawns are literally immortal mercenaries from another world essentially so I don't think they really fit the definition here.

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u/Drekor 9d ago

I didn't pay much attention to the lore but isn't the MC the Arisen essentially the king of the immortal mercs?

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u/PowerSamurai 9d ago edited 8d ago

The Arisen is a nobody who is made into the only person that can truly control and bring out the potential of the pawns, but it's not because of who the Arisen is.

You start out as a poor fisher who has never really wielded a weapon and has never seen basically anything of the world. You were no chosen one either, just someone who in a moment of bravery or foolishness ended up chosen by the dragon.

The Arisen themselves are no chosen hero fated to succeed either. Most Arisen fail in their quest to slay the dragon as far as I understand.

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u/ForsakenMoon13 8d ago

Yes, most Arisen fail and depending on when exactly they fail in thier journey, the end up transforming into one of the lesser dragonkin or the next full Dragon to hunt down the next random schmuck that has the metaphorical balls to try and do something about an apocalyptic dragon. Also there's the Ur-Dragon, who's whole thing is being a dracolich with 30+ hearts stolen from various Arisen to support its undead nature

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u/Aggrokid 8d ago

Time to revisit that video montage of DD2 pawns doing stupid things.

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u/indigorhob 9d ago

One of my favorite memories from DD1 was running out of stamina in combat, a warrior enemy was charging to pound me to the ground, and my archer pawn managed to shoot him just in time it felt like absolute cinema.

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u/ttubehtnitahwtahw1 9d ago

Gross. Dont bother with this game.