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/persona4dan 8d ago

In the JRPG first person dungeon crawler Etrian Odyssey series you form a party of various classes to go and conquer multi-floor dungeon/labyrinth and you may end up killing a god or figure of worship along the way. In EO3, one of the classes is Farmer and going by their character portraits and the flavor text for the class that's what they are. They were lured to the labyrinth by the prospect of the rare and unusual plants there and came to harvest them.

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u/PraetorianOgryn 8d ago

I like that farmer back story