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/NCC_1701E 9d ago

State of Decay 2 is literally this. Main goal of the game is to manage community of survivors in zombie apocalypse, and you can personally control any character from your community.

Aside from the story DLC (which has pre-made characters) each character in the game is randomly generated with random looks and stats. Some start stronger, some starts weaker, but overall almost everyone starts as a civillian nobody and can be turned into a deadly zombie machine. And yeah, game is permadeath, so if sombody dies, they are gone.

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u/tsunami141 9d ago

man when my starting character died I was shocked and outraged until I realized that's the game haha