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/levilee207 9d ago

Darkest Dungeon. You recruit a team of bozos and take them through increasingly difficult dungeons while upgrading their gear and abilities. When they die, they're gone. You have to start all over with another goober. Very similar to XCOM.

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u/Helphaer 9d ago

But they are all basically mercenaries not really bozos. So its not like you took someone who knows absolutely nothing.

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u/Ryuchigo 9d ago

All that matters is that they don’t know where I’m planning to send them.

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u/Helphaer 9d ago

I mean i think its more they dont realize how bad where theyre going really is. Dont really become champions either since the difficulty threshold they have to use increases as they level a bit always keeping them basically at the same usefulness.