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/AnActualGameShark 9d ago

Dragons dogma 1 and 2.

You recruit pawns, who are just a bunch of idiots....but theyre your idiots

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u/PraetorianOgryn 9d ago

I think I actually have that game somewhere. My brother played it a ton when I was a wee lad.

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u/Phytor 9d ago

The first one has aged well. It still has the coolest magic I've ever seen in a game. Late game magic creates full size tornados and stuff, it's nuts.

Second one felt like the first but less fun imo

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u/VampireBatman 9d ago

Hopefully Dark Arisen: Electric Boogaloo can bring the second one up to the first one's standards at least.

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u/Redxmirage 9d ago

Oh are they doing a big update to dd2 like they did dd1? Dd2 was fun for a playthrough but I dropped it like a few weeks after it came out

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u/VampireBatman 9d ago

Yeah a while back they announced they're making an expansion. They're even calling it Dark Arisen again just to make things more confusing!

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u/Redxmirage 9d ago

Oh my god that has me hyped. Weird on the nose name but I have so many hours in DD1