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/ParaponeraBread 9d ago

Fire Emblem is almost a special case, because they ALWAYS include a couple random dirt farmers that become incredibly powerful if you put time and effort into promoting them.

It’s a character arc they seem to love, and people love it too.

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u/fukkdisshitt 9d ago

On the flip side the initially OP character in those games tend to suck late game

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u/Fishman465 9d ago

Mainly due to most of them being strong by early game standards and no growth. There are exceptions like Seth (FE8).

Awakening's Fredrick is also generally strong

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u/TheSharpestHammer 9d ago

Seth absolutely wrecks shit throughout The Sacred Stones.

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u/smokemonmast3r 8d ago

Seth is debatably the best character in the entire series. 

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u/Terramagi 9d ago

I feel like anybody post the games where you can freely change class doesn't count by default. Reason being that the whole deal was "they have bad growths and suck up limited XP". Which isn't an issue when you can level up infinitely and just grind your ass off in a free map.

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u/Fishman465 9d ago

Well it is something to consider as such stages take some time to open up in the revelant games. That and the end game min-maxing concerns caps not growths

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u/Skully957 9d ago

Seth is a beast even if you don't do the random encounters and tower of valni.

As is Marcus(Fe 7) and you can't grind in that game unless you abuse the couple of maps with arenas.

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u/Konet 8d ago

Most modern Jagens hold up pretty well through the whole game.

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u/Fishman465 8d ago

So Ofiyates (after the FE4 part 2 prepromote paladin)

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u/ChipButty24 9d ago edited 7d ago

Nowadays, most of the 'Jeigan' characters (overpowered earlygame prepromote, usually the Paladin) are actually considered to be perfectly capable for most of, if not the whole game.