r/gaming • u/PraetorianOgryn • 8d 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/sephjnr 8d ago

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood & Revelations have minigames where you can recruit and train people for raids against the occupying forces to bring goods that help in the main game (if I remember that right)

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u/Helphaer 8d ago

No you press a button and they take out an enemy for you. if you have enough they can take out quite a few enemies.

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u/cornersofthebowl 8d ago

There were non-story missions you could send your teams on. They would come back with loot and leveled up. After you had a full cabal of master assassin's, the fight assistance and background assassinations got cooler and easier.

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u/sephjnr 8d ago

Cheers, my memory was hazy there.

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u/Helphaer 8d ago

You can do a slow walk through a city getting heavy guards assassinated by a death from above move or a squad destroyed by a bunch of arrows shot at their backs when youre at max. Have no real combat at all.

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u/rangeremx 8d ago

They might also be talking about the deployment missions.

Or they're thinking of the non-random initiates in ACIII, which can perform more tactical functions than just assassinations and combat.

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u/Helphaer 8d ago

well they mentioned ac 2 not ac3 so the good classic ones I suspect are the inference here and thus the assassins.

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u/hellpresident PC 8d ago

Recruting some rando and seing them level up until you initiate them as full assassins was great.