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Kotastic on 22 February 2015

Yes...Fire Emblem for example.

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I felt attached to all three main characters in the 1st international game and to see how they succumbed in the next installment, Binding Blade, genuinely made me sad after all they've been through. Even in the first international game alone, a lot of people were forced to put up a lot of horrible things and it doesn't help that looking at their support conversations makes me attached to them further. FE: Sacred Stones especially when Eirika and Ephraim were forced to kill Lyon. In FE: Awakening, seeing Chrom and Lissa crying in agony when Emmerym sacrifices herself made me tremendously sad. I can list dozens more but just find out for yourself. Just telling something isn't the same thing as experiencing something.

Just seeing characters I grew attached to suffer makes me sad. :/



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mii-gamer on 22 February 2015

I have a thing for Mr tingle! Does that count?



t3mporary_126 on 23 February 2015
osed125 said:

I'm currently watching a lets play of Xenoblade (Chuggaconroy by the way), and the guy keeps saying how he feels sorry for a certain character because she likes one character that doesn't like her back, and he says that she is a strong woman and blah blah blah...have any of you ever gotten this attached to a character? when I played Xenoblade these romance moments were the most cheesy things ever, they were one of the very few things in that game I hated...

I also remember another lets player, which I don't watch anymore, literally crying when Cid 'died' in FF IV (he was playing it for the first time)...this, in my opinion, is...stupid if I'm being completely honest.

Maybe it's my personality, but I've never been attached to any character in a video game, movie or book. I may like or dislike a character, but never to the point where I feel happy or cry when they die or something happens to them...they aren't real so it doesn't matter.

Do any of you feel the same way?

Please put spoiler tags next time! There are a few who haven't played some classics yet.

On topic: I get attached to Pikmin because they're cute and have personality. I also get attached to my starter Pokemon because of the time I spend raising it from level 5 to its final levels against the Elite Four. I get attached to my event legendary Pokemon as well only because they're rare. I wouldn't cry if any of them die or the game they're in stopped working but I would be upset. 



thatguymarco on 23 February 2015

Not really, I wish I could say that I can lose myself interily on a game and attach myself to its characters and history, but honestly, I don't think I've ever done that, the closest thing I've come to that is just a "damn, poor X character, that must suck" or something along those lines, and then shrug it off like it was nothing 5 seconds later because I need to, ya know, play the gaem. I do get emotionally attached to some videogames in general though, so I don't if that counts.



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2Quick on 23 February 2015

I know im restating some of the obvious ones, but clem/lee in walking dead and zelda from skyward sword are great examples.

Kid in chrono cross?



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Areym on 23 February 2015

Not always, but there are a few. TLoU and the walking dead telltale games created tons of characters i loved to interact with and see them grow during the course of their respective games. A sleeper hit in the feel department was in Spec Ops: The Line. The game had such a captivating and intriguing story line and it keeps you questioning everybody and everything.



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Locknuts on 23 February 2015

Nope. Closest I ever got was Joel and Ellie in TLOU.

I also hesitated in Deus Ex: HR when I had to decide between killing someone I needed and an entire prison full on innocent people. That was cool.



tsogud on 23 February 2015

My feels are at an extreme when playing Kingdom Hearts and to a lesser extent Virtue's Last Reward.



 

Skullwaker on 23 February 2015
osed125 said:
Skullwaker said:
I always get attached to characters if they're written well. Ex: Ellie/Joel, Lee/Clementine, Lucina/Chrom. Hell, even Tippi in Super Paper Mario. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having an emotional attachment to characters in any medium. That's what the writers should be wanting to happen.

I always thought that was weird...though it's probably my emotional intelligence being close to 0.

Sorry for the late reply. 

Yeah, everyone's on a different part of the spectrum. Some people have high emotional sensitivity, others don't, some are in the middle. All are completely natural and there's not really much we can do about it. We can't force ourselves to have feelings we don't just like we can't rid ourselves of the feelings we have.



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I3LuEI3omI3eR on 23 February 2015

Yup... Every time I die with Samus in a Metroid game (I feel like "how can I let her down")?

Also, pretty much every Fire Emblem I played made me feel bad for any characters in the story or if they die...