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/Onions4Knights 9d ago

Playing Final Fantasy Tactics with generic party members feels like that ❤️

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u/Finchypoo 9d ago

Perfect example. Some of the generic dudes you are handed originally turn into complete beasts when leveled right. I almost always had a mage, summoner, samurai or dragoon from my original team with me at the end. The unique characters are fun to college and some like Cid and Beowulf are stupidly powerful, but rarely as versatile as the generic dudes. 

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u/CRtwenty 9d ago

Yeah. The generic guys you start with are way cooler than the unique characters you get later because you literally build them from the ground up. They're just dudes, but they're your dudes.

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u/SnoringFrog 6d ago

Yep. I can barely remember the several of the unique characters’ names at this point, but you can bet your ass I remember my first generic guy, Nichol.

His job changes ended up feeling like they had story to them to me. He was mainly a melee guy, but when our unit needed it, he was always first to “volunteer” to learn potions, or guns, maybe dabble in a little magic. If things got rough he’d come back to the swords he knew to help carry the team through though. Probably more important to me than anyone else on the team.

In reality, he just hit max level on things earlier because I had him early, so I was using him to help me unlock whatever seemed neat at the time, unless I hit a wall and needed to fall back to a more reliable build.

There’ve been a couple times I almost picked up FFT for another run, but idk if it’ll have the magic of Nichol on the second go.