Character attachment

Have you ever felt attached to a video game character?
Example:

In Call of Duty's campaign, I don't care if I died or not, nor did I feel anything for the character if he gets shot.

But in Ib, I started with not caring for the character, but something eventually clicked...
I feel like I never want to put her in any danger, I feel like I want to be put in that world with her and do everything to help her.
And as soon as I saw this... "I promise I will NEVER let that happen to you, Ib."

Have you ever felt attached to a character in a video game?

I can't say I have but I guess the closest I've felt to feeling that "wanting to protect" is when I was playing Little Busters during the Haruka route :P

Madotsuki from Yume Nikki. Thanks, Sneaky.

Also Lightning and Serah from Final Fantasy XIII. And a lot of characters from VNs, especially most of the characters in Utawarerumono.

[size=10]And is there any chance of sauce of your avi? It's another adorable one.[/h]

(Full) The 5th image, Just the source for my avatar.
Again, this was just drawn in a VN style. Again, I want somebody to make this into a VN.

Oh god... I think I've just died from her cuteness. A VN needs to happen.

Just made a new folder called 'Adorable' and saved them all into it.

I get attached to characters all the time. However, I did get particularly attached to Seiko in Corpse Party, and was glad when I saw that I could save her in Book of Shadows.

I felt kind of sad in the bad ending of Ib where neither Mary nor Garry makes it out, so Ib doesn't know who that person in the painting is...

Still, Madotsuki. I almost wish the creator would give more hints as to what her backstory is.

I care for all the [size=6]cute[/h]girls in my video games.

Zack Fair in Crisis Core, Minato in Persona 3, Neku and Beat in The World Ends with you.

Mine are...

1. Kos-Mos (Xenosaga)
2. Gwendolyn (Odin Sphere)
3. Zelos & Sheena (Tales of Symphonia)
4. Dom (Gears of War)
5. Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)

I grow attached to characters I make, especially when I can shape their stories.

-Marcia, Harry, and the Hero from Custom Robo (GC).

-Aika & Fina from Skies of Arcadia (DC/GC), I make it an absolute priority to heal and guard them from harm in every way, shape and form.

-Katia from Super Robot Wars J

-MegaMan. Having him as your childhood hero does that to ya.

EDIT

OOH, OOH, ALSO.

Vyse Inglebard and Aika Thompson from Valkyria Chronicles. I use them constantly because of my previous experience in Skies of mothafuckin' Arcadia.

Red Dead Redemption


I also grew attached to Malik from Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Old Snake from MGS4 (beat that today)

Merrill from Dragon Age 2

Any character that has great development throughout the game, and any character I've made and have stuck with for a long time. The latter has yet to have happened, but yeah, the former has happened a lot, namely Asura and Yasha (Asura's Wrath), Zack Fair (Crisis Core) and John Marston (RDRedemption) come to mind.

Depends on how well written the story revolving the character/s are or how likable their personality is, or if you've enjoyed the game to an extent. For me, the only video game character worth mentioning that I found grown attached to was Grune from Tales of Legendia. Anyone who has played the WHOLE game, character quests included up to the final true ending will know what I'm talking about. I thought that was what made up one of the most bittersweet of videogame endings ever.

But as others also mentioned, Old Snake (MGS4) also has struck a few chords within me too.

Your avi reminded me... Virgil from DMC3 is yet another fond character of mine. Those last two missions were just... perfect. ;__;

I don't think I've grown afond of any character, really. I mostly play games without any interesting characters. But uh, I guess Cherly from Cavestory.

Almost all the characters in the ME series except the cheating Jacob and that marine in ME3

Tali however takes the cake.
When I got to a part of her story and I accidentally

I manually shut down the computer before finishing the scene and walked away for a good 5 minutes

Yes, thanks for reminding me of this, I might as well include him in my list of attached characters, just because of the final two missions in DMC 3 only cemented his role in the series even more. I even recalled coming close to crying when Vergil said he wanted to stay in the demon world after losing to Dante. Not even the Ninja Theory version will be able to hold a candle to his level of awesomeness.

I've grown attached to alot of video game characters that are from fighting games. The first character was Kyo Kusanagi from King of Fighters. Because of him, I would always walk around and pretend I had fire powers back in 4th grade. I just loved the way he looked and faught. Still love him.