6 Games That Tricked Us Into Caring Too Much

[@thefwinaught]

In XCOM 2 I went through all my best friends, then my Facebook friends list and then famous people. In my first playthrough I was doing well for the first few missions, then my HQ got shot down and all my friends, family and favourite celebrities died in a final stand against an onslaught of aliens. Although my youngest sister sacrificed herself to destroy the jammer, allowing my ship to escape with only Julias Caesar remaining alive...

[@djcracka]

LOL

[@kevinhunter7581]

"Brutal"- metalocalypse

[@GlasgowMick89]

Your sister is a badass.

[@thefwinaught]

Glasgow Mick89 She's also seven years old!

[@DonNorway]

"It doesn't understand why it is in pain" I'm holding back the tears now, thinking about a digital horse

[@jonpluck3340]

Love the way Dave lightly passes over the fact he put Rob in hot shorts and gave him a top knot in his XCOM 2 game 😉

[@bireland2012]

Any Telltale game. I know that almost all of my choices won't really mean anything but I still think really long and hard about every decision I make.

[@gamandstuff1048]

Wilson Stunfisk I'm playing the guardians telltale and get so bummed if I piss off anyone. It's a new pain for me, but a very real one

[@Thehulksterbeast]

Wilson Stunfisk I'm with you there

[@ashleycoonfield9051]

I feel you, I get absolutely vicious when it comes to Clementine.

[@PerovNigma]

When my now-ex best friend were little, we put ourselves into _The Sims 3,_ and eventually conceived a daughter in the game called Jasmine. Even then, I had a rather parental side, so I was very proud of my digital daughter's growth and academic success. After a while, my friend told me that she had lost her save file, or had trouble transferring it to her new tablet or something (I don't remember the specifics), and that the Sims world including Jasmine had been lost. She shook it off, but I've always been quite sensitive and, as I mentioned, parental. Therefore, I was put off playing _The Sims_ series because I had entered a brief period of mourning for a fictional daughter the same age as I was at the time, a daughter I never actually spoke to or held. Years later, when I decided to give one of the protagonists in my writing a daughter, I decided to include Jasmine as their middle name.

[@Miniskirt29]

Joseph Simpson nobody cares

[@patrikhjorth3291]

The first time I played Skyrim, I bought a horse. I rode that horse out from Whiterun, and immediately got attacked by a dragon. I didn't even have time to get off the horse before we were both killed. I reloaded and tried to ride in another direction, but the dragon found us. After the third attempt, I loaded a save from right before I got the horse, and never bothered with horses in Skyrim again. And yes, I know you can fix it with mods now, but this was on the 360 and I have just learned to play Skyrim without horses.

[@seanmacreachtain1742]

Patrik Hjorth I always just get the dark brotherhood horse seeing as it's immortal. Shadowmare I think it's called.

[@s.adityaprasad]

I walked(jogged) the entire game.

[@Thehulksterbeast]

Patrik Hjorth i never used horses at all on the 360 and pc they just got in the way

[@Thehulksterbeast]

Aditya Prasad no fast travel LEGEND you are

[@kingdavey90]

Patrik Hjorth , I have never used horses in Skyrim, for more than like 10 seconds.

[@Smiffyflix]

As you progress through Little Nighmares *SPOILERS* you occasionally get hunger pangs and the lil characters belly rumbles, first you are given food by a friendly stranger, then you find a rat and so on....towards the end however, one of the adorable little gnome's offers you a sausage, presenting it with outstretched arms. As I approach and press the action button to take the sausage, the game instead makes me murder the gnome in cold blood 😢 I was absolutely mortified for like 10 mins, even reloaded the level in case I'd accidentally done it....RIP lil gnome I'll always remember you.

[@chrisdodd4958]

Smiff

[@Smiffyflix]

Chris Dodd 👍

[@Golden910]

Oh that got dark fast

[@DarthVader-en4vy]

Wow they have something on gnomes

[@bellystraw]

Dragon age Origins. If I find out that I made a "wrong" dialogue choice with one of my companions, I will load the game to the last save before that dialogue, WHICH CAN EAT UP HOURS IF I DON'T SAVE. Damn you, stupid, sexy Zevran....

[@gamingdevil800]

Still one of the best rpg's out there all the dragon age sequels pale in comparison. On my first playthrough I didn't even know about Leliana so I left lothering and lost a companion, I liked the way you could decide companions fates and they would physically leave if they hated you. Overall the choices were a lot more meaningful too, I think bioware is better at making rpg's that aren't open world.

[@bellystraw]

gamingdevil800 I agree. It took me 2YEARS to realize that redcliffe had a tavern. Also when you play on pc and add mods like the fully voiced companion, you just have to play it again. Inquisition's open world was a bit better than andromeda's in my opinion though.

[@GlasgowMick89]

You can miss Leliana? I always remembered her being mandatory. Not that that bothered me. I always liked her. Red head, pretty girl, nice voice. The greatest Waifu in the game. Then Morrigan. Dragon Age Origins i spent so much time playing and loved how good the origin stories for each main character you pick. Then going back to places that you started in for extra story and interactions e.g. start as Mage, going back to the Circle. The story is by far 1 of the best of any game i've played. Cared too much about everything in that game.

[@aurorabennett2023]

now im going to make an xcom team of only people that look like rob, so i will have seal team rob

[@hominidnpl9939]

During Dave's segment, I fetched a cloth to wipe the dust off of the screen, then realised the specks were on Dave's jumper. I looked into the infinite universe that moment, and infinity looked back at me.

[@MeruAileron]

This is gonna be a weird one, but I have to say Dark Souls. The NPCs in Lordran say so little but mean so much, and as you progress through the game their fates start to reveal one by one and most of them aren't happy endings. Solaire's and Siegmeyer's death hit me real hard, plus the numerous NPCs that go hollow mid way through the game. I just wanted to kill Gwyn and be done with it, but at that point I wasn't even sure why I was fighting anymore. Feckin' Dark Souls, man.

[@TenShadowsAl]

Meru I feel the same way when it comes to demon souls. Especially after killing Garl Vinland and maiden astria

[@Arto257]

Artorias' story has got to be one of my favorite backstories in gaming. Both how subtle it is and how strong a character he is when you realize what he's gone through at the time you're fighting him - he's just losing his grip on reality after God knows how long of fighting the Abyss. His sword arm is broken, and he's ditched his shield to use his sword with his off hand. He also left the shield behind to protect Sif, his beloved wolf companion, whom you save, only to later carve 'em to bits for a little magic ring, like a heartless monster.

[@CaporegimeMarcus]

I'm happy to tell you Nate that Fo4 Supply lines no longer need to be a loop, I currently use a hub system and everything works great. You should get a new copy because another settlement needs your help!

[@randysparks1271]

We all know it's you Preston, go away!!!!

[@jerryto803]

I dunno about games, but Rob and his damn Friday Features sure do.

[@RappingAssassin]

Final Fantasy 13, spent 5 years after having lost my save data 5 times on part one, beat part 2, got the true ending for part 3, I cried REAL tears of joy, as it finally ended lightning crashed outside, it was a beautiful and amazing moment, I'm going to get an 11th stage l'cie tattoo and nothing will stop me.

[@CrispyBaked]

I've been through Skyrim on a horse with no name.

[@mikes5637]

Crispy Baked ... it felt good to be out of the rain...

[@woteveruk1]

+mikes5637....until i fell over, then there was pain

[@adamcambiano8389]

mikes5637... there were plants and birds and rocks and things...

[@monkeyninja7988]

My dad and I( jhaskedakes ) used to play Skyrim a lot. When we first encountered a dragon we had a really hard time with is so I decided to use a firestorm scroll which has a decent area of affect and does a lot of damage so when the battle was over the dragon was gone and so was the first companion Lydia . lol poor, poor Lydia, R.I.P. 2016

[@IrNaLann]

I'm with Rob, Dark Chronicle (or Dark Cloud 2 here in the US), ate up SO much of my time and attention with the exact placement of my towns.

[@starkiller23610]

Red Dead Redemption... oh god that ending... I just wanted to play Cowboys.

[@willhuey4891]

and also in red dead redemption 2 i freaking knew going in that it was a foregone conclusion i mean johns death.

[@deathbykonami5487]

@@willhuey4891 Rockstar doesn't like keeping their protagonists alive outside of GTA

[@TheRatsCast]

OMG; Rob!! Us too! Both my sister and I play Dark Cloud (Chronicles) 2 over and over again! Even her son got hooked in the game; so once it was available on PS4, my nephew and I bought it for both our PS4's and we all play!!

[@ironyrules5164]

This Channel is addictive. You guys are doing an awesome Job :)

[@tiger111189]

I'm the same Rob, I cared about my grey Skyrim horse too much. We went off to do a bandit mission and I kept getting killed by the bandit leader even though I had my horse and Lydia fighting too. I remember finally on the sixth time I beat that stupid bandit only to discover at some point during the scuffle my horse had died...and although I had achieved my goal, I wasn't having any of it and so I reloaded the save. It took me a while, but eventually I did it with my horse, Lydia and myself still alive! I have no regrets! :)

[@ryanfrounks]

Rob I have to say thank you. I absolutely love Dark Chronicle and I know the feeling of spending so much time on Georama it was such an improvement on Dark Cloud and the quests for people who come along those quest made you really care for them... it annoyed me you give Parn the gold paint to make Julia real and then they don't live together but it's still amazing. And a game that i think should have been on the list (and I think Hollie would have picked it) STARDEW VALLEY. You think meh farming simulator nothing special and then BOOM you meet these characters that have amazing stories and you feel like you want to help them with their problems and you (well I did) feel bad if you let them down or forget their birthdays.... I truly started to love hate and even respect some these characters more than I do real people.

[@woteveruk1]

does anyone else think of the candy whenever they hear someone say pes as pez?

[@MegaKing10001]

woteveruk1 all the time

[@Agemred]

I love the "Xur can do one" on the dry-erase back there. True Destiny players.

[@Gil_Vale]

"If something becomes too important to me I destroy it." Lmao! Brilliant,

[@ItsJJ1444]

Spec ops the line, with the mother corpse cradling the daughter corpse. The way the game portrayed your actions, face to face with the fear scene. That was intense.

[@arodr40895]

Currently, Total War: Warhammer 2. I hate investing so much time and resources on recruited nobles just to see them die in battle because he was caught between the armies while trying to escape.

[@tylerchenoweth5017]

The Mystery Dungeon series belongs into this list 100%. The endings always end up making me cry.

[@marieporter9488]

Which was your favorite? Mine is Explorers of Sky

[@FatMonty86]

Ahhh Rob and his lists. Life is good

[@MarcoVenustus]

It ain't a list if MGS is not in it.

[@p4rt_t1me_g0d]

In any game that I have a horse, I name him Steve Steed! Whenever I do something halfway cool while on horseback, I chant "Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve"!

[@GoblinSlayerZach]

Mine was Harvest Moon 64. I had a wife, a kid, a house I built up, friends, an amazing farm. Also Karen left my game and blew my mind, until that moment I thought all characters in all video games would always be there for you...so then I cared twice as hard about making every1 in town happy.

[@bella_iris]

Rob, about the horses. I cried when Callus died in The Last of Us. I took so much longer than necessary riding around on that horse and bonding with it and not going to the next area just so I could ride the horse.

[@karimnewland8318]

Rob not remembering the horse's name made laugh to tears!

[@hemming87]

Was good to see you guys at EGX on Saturday! I missed the poster session but did see you guys randomly throughout the day. Dave was super chilled walking around having a chat with folks, Hollie was darting all over the place looking super busy, Nathan was nowhere to be seen and Rob looked slightly annoyed and a bit tired :P I'm glad City got that fifth goal so he at least got that prediction right for his super 6!

[@1969Angust]

Life is strange: that game had me crying so much and i was so depressed after i finnished it. But i guess that is why i also love it so much.

[@ashhutch8192]

Can’t remember which PES game it was (maybe 2014), but Minanda was godlike in my Master League team, scored so many important goals! And singlehandedly got me out of D2 League. Genuinely love that man.

[@rogerrocho8955]

Really nice idea for the list, enjoying this show a lot. If I could ask for something, would be more even conversation taking over the monologue format, everyone could be in front of the camera at the same time even if you keep the turns to choose the game you talk about (sorry about not-so-good english).

[@TomTheEnglishPicker]

Fallout 4 on the PS4 definitely. Spent way too much time base building , setting up defensive lines only for the settlers to be idiots and run out of them and get too close to the attackers instead of waiting safety in cover. 😡

[@ggman3000]

14:07 Love how the horse doesn't seem to mind it has an arrow in its nose. That is one tough mare.

[@adamberg4375]

When I played MGSV for the first time, you know there was that bit where your soldier's all die from the virus thats going around your base. And you, as "Snake", have to go in there and clear it out. Well, when I found the last group of soldiers and they all got up and started singing and humming the song, I got so moved that I wrote down all of their names before shooting them all in the head, painlessly. I later ripped up that list because it's a game. Honestly.

[@The_Scottish_titan]

Notice at the back "xur can do one" 🤣

[@VanillaLoaf]

Cannon Fodder. Jops and Jools man... I kept them alive so long, through so many missions. They were closing in on really high ranks.... and then.... a couple of headstones on a hillside......

[@vindictiveloser1670]

I had a gameboy advance when I was younger. It was a special edition that was pikachu-patterned, with his face plastered on the front of that wonderful little yellow time-waster. I got a game for it that was combat focused; it had a magic system with different elements, various characters to choose from and unlock, and a multiplayer battle mode. The magic types all worked fairly similarly, with there being fire, ice and electricity, with each having similar spells with the main difference being the effect the magic had besides merely doing damage. The real amazing part of the game was how it handled death. When dying at any point, you would be visited by the FINAL BOSS of the game(though you don't know that yet), who makes a deal: your soul in exchange for an immortal body. Saying no results in a game over, as expected. However, should you accept, your game will be put on an invisible timer(either that or something tracking progress, but I'm fairly sure it was more time-based) that determined when your soul would be taken. Until that point, your character became invincible and could not ever die. The only downside, aside from the timer, was that were you to reach the final boss, he'd take your soul regardless of how much time you had left, resulting in a prompt game over. I loved that game and played it endlessly, even beating with game without losing my soul quite a few times despite how young I was. There was also a really memorable character you fought several times. I remember he would charge a beam by holding his hands above his head, and would fire it by holding his hands near his crotch. I also vaguely remember unlocking a small troll character whose only move was lighting itself on fire through a ritualistic dance and flying wildly around the screen, dealing damage to anything unfortunate enough to cross my charred path. Sadly, I cannot remember the name of this game, and I lost the cartridge years ago.

[@lancemckenzie2305]

Dragon's Dogma - I spent my first playthrough playing this slender, beak-nosed mystic knight. It took me about 60 hours to reach the climax, and by the time I actually fought Grigori I was under heavy sleep deprivation at about 3 in the morning. Grigori said "I will sacrifice your most beloved in return for power." This got me thinking into who that would actually be...I didn't give gifts to people during the main story. And when the scene cut to Madeline looking panicked it brought genuine tears to my eyes. I step forward to challenge the dragon and the cutscene plays again as Madeline flees the castle with one last glance. And then boy did I chase Grigori down across bridges that broke underfoot and pierce the heart amid clouds a league up or more. Finally I mounted the dragon's hand with the last of my health and healing, and triggered 'Sky Dance' - the mystic knight unique skill. The relief I felt when I sailed over the dragon's claw and drove forward with one final strike was palpable. The credits and beautiful aria were accompanied by shots of the trek home to Cassardis, with a closeness implied between the beak-nosed assassin and Madeline. The endgame opens in Cassardis with the character and Madeline waking up together and all I could think was: "I brought you to the way-castle and further, and I brought you back unharmed." Edit: I don't remember if it was relevant, but I played the original DD with the J-rock soundtrack, so the Grigori fight would have been bitching. When Sky Dance landed - I was the dangan.

[@GenAqua]

I did the same thing, giving stories and details to the bands I created in Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock, and the Dragon Age games as well.

[@PhrontDoor]

The new version of Kings Quest - the death of Achaka part.. I was playing the game with my son (11y/o) and it was SO unexpected, and the character was just so fair and decent and we were collectively just so rekt from it that we took the rest of the day off.

[@charlotteKILLS]

In Skyrim, I always fast travel to a town a little ways away from my actual destination so that I can walk the rest of the way and keep my horse safe. And in the Dragonborn DLC, when I went to Solstheim (minor spoilers) I chose Mora's Grasp as one of my Black Book rewards just for the purpose of keeping my horse from nobly but idiotically charging in to fight dragons on my behalf.

[@GuilhermeHarrison]

I just noticed I do that in almost every game: I've befriended that jamaican guy in GTA 4 and I went playing pool with him almost every day because I knew he liked it and felt bad when I didn't; I managed my villages and specially my creature in Black & White so carefully it was borderline crazy; in Fable I would make the hearts over my wife's head (not wives because I really cared) be the biggest possible always; I've cried over my favourite dead soldier in Massive Chalice (amazing double fine game, btw).

[@ComicGaurdian95]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Complete Edition, and Mass Effect: Andromeda

[@quintusbenedictus1970]

Mordheim: city of the damned... On my first skaven warband I got really attached to my assassin/leader character Askin Tailclaw, enough so that when he died I stopped playing for a year and went through a full mourning cycle for him. To this day if I see a skaven with the first name Askin or the last name Tailclaw I actually cry a little. But with my newest warband it's just like Dave, each blank slate becomes a character.

[@cassandrasteinbrook346]

The dog in fable 2, I love dogs, loved that dog more than my character, and didnt care who else was revived as long as my dog was back. I cried so much, I dont watch dog movies no matter what. My heart was broken

[@cassandrasteinbrook346]

Rezzed*

[@Ernesto87]

I agree with Nathan on Destiny 2. That is very addictive as balls, man. I haven't done the Leviathan Raid, yet. I have tried the Nightfall Strike, but failed horribly.

[@mbargo3123]

Gran Turismo 2. All licenses and races completed. EVERYTHING.

[@samanthaclyde8688]

For several years I was on a break from gaming. I don't really know why.... I guess real adult life got in the way but I still watched videos about games, read news on websites or in magazines.... and time to time a series would make the headlines as one of the best, would feature in most top tens at the highest spots and would be the talk of the gaming community. One day my sister asked me what I wanted for my birthday & I thought "Hey, maybe it's time to check out that franchise. I think there is a special edition now". So I said to her "The Mass Effect Trilogy on PS3". And my (gaming) life was never the same again. 😅 Never before did I care so so much for characters. Never before a story touched me that much. Never before did I struggle this much with the choices I had to make. I remember the 1st time I was on Noveria and I had to decide the Rachni Queen's fate. I had to literally put my controller down and really really think. Everyone talks about the Virmire choice but this choice was the hardest for me... plus my FemShep was romancing Kaidan so Ash had to go boom! See? Easy! 😛 Anyway, I knew at that moment that I was hooked! And then I played the rest of the trilogy and it was legen- wait for it! dary! 😍😍

[@manudude02]

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth2 for me. I was determined to get every platinum trophy, which requires the conquest ending for one of the trophies. If a platinum seems obtainable in a game I like, I will always go for it, but this time I nearly refused to go for the platinum trophy because I knew what was going to happen if I did go for the ending. Let's just say I spent the last hour of that playthrough in tears.

[@victoriasharpe1661]

The last game that I cried about properly, was the last of us: that was devastating. Sarah seemed like such a sweet kid 💔😭 other than that it’s Dragon Age Origins ending if you do the ultimate sacrifice, and also Mass Effect 3 ending. Even that citadel party dlc was giving you hints that it was going to end badly. A bittersweet memory that Shepard’s friends will hold onto when they’re gone

[@BlestNekun]

Monster Rancher 4 for the PS2 I used to spend far too much time training and cross breeding my creatures. I'd try any and all of my discs for new monsters; DVDs, CDs, PS2, PS1, XBox, 360 anything. Aw.... now I miss my monsters....

[@hamaru6]

One of my favorite games ever made is Skyrim. I got chidoried in Skyrim. That's not even a thing in the game, but it happened to me in the game. I was too pissed off to play it for two weeks. It had me watch a three minute slow motion fatality of my head exploding from my body and traveling upwards for what seemed a great distance further than the height of the building I was inside.

[@Wogle]

MGSV. Mother Base building and exploring. I spend way too much time ensuring it's growing and the troops are all happy.

[@treejasontree]

I'm with you Dave. Master league was my existence. I would research players and their potential -- the ones in the default team and in the market. I would spend a full day just designing each kit and changing it every season, making up stories behind the colour choices and designs. And when I lose a game "unfairly" I would actually quit and restart the game... I cared WAY too much...

[@deathbykonami5487]

Dark Chronicle 1 did the same thing An evil sorcerer frees an malevolent entity called the Dark Djinn, a.k.a the Dark Cloud (hence why the NA release was called Dark Cloud). Anyway the Dark Djinn uses his magic to erase all settlements from existence, and it's up to the protagonist (whose name I've forgotten) to pursue the Dark Djinn and the sorcerer while also rebuilding the destroyed settlements

[@Lumberteddy]

Final Fantasy VII, RIP Aerith/Aeris. The World Ends With You. The Last Story, RIP Dagran and the General. Star Wars The Force Unleashed, RIP Starkiller. Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2, RIP Maulkiller. All these games pulled at your heartstrings

[@johnhast1979]

No walking dead Tale tell ? I cared more about Lee and Clem then I do about many real people

[@twilightshadow1795]

“It’s the apocalypse; two to a bed seems fine.”

[@Hero1922]

in relation to rob's talk on dark chronicle in the US, the original game Dark cloud it had the city building thing but i was so proud when I met everyone's requirements I couldn't fight the final boss and beat the game, because when you do everything goes back to how it was before and I worked on those villages so hard lol

[@random_nonsense]

Loved the settlements in Fallout 4 at first and spent hours on them. The first few had all the scrap removed and were completely surrounded by tall fencing so bandits had to come through my super-fortified gateway. Everyone had their own bed and chair to sit in and there was plenty of food and water. While off questing, if the message came up that the settlement was under attack I dropped everything and fast travelled back to help. But like Nath it became too much. However my solution to dealing with it meant any new settlements got themselves a single automated turret, then I left to carrying on exploring never to return. 'BumTown is under attack!' good luck with that.

[@MumonguGaming]

Caring about "roach" in Witcher 3, even though he gets stuck on buildings and stuff. I like to know that he's okay. Also playing WORMS and one of the worms I've named MUM and they get blown up.

[@JimFaindel]

Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 in the US) is one of the greatest games ever, you don't realize how tight it's grip on you is till you see you've passed the 100 hours mark.

[@WeeeWeeeification]

For me it's with dark cloud. Dark cloud isn't because I enjoy the city building but because of the weapons, I care so much about my best weapons that I don't use them without auto-repair powder at the ready and even then I get nervous. I spend probably 80-90% of my playtime just trying to upgrade my weapons and then upgrading worse weapons so I can then use them to upgrade my best weapons and at this point one of my weapons is so broken that the thirst effect on it just doesn't matter anymore because it can one shot most things... but I don't use it because if it breaks I've lost hundreds of hours to grinding the weapon to where it is now for nothing.

[@AshesAriseTW]

I remember I got the fallout 4 platinum 20 days after it was released...that settlement trophy was an absolute chore to get.

[@mikes5637]

To potentially save someone 20 minutes: There's no Hollie this week. Boooo!!

[@maeganm7517]

Idea for "Tuesday Checklist": Items/Weapons in our Inventory (a personal checklist for what each of the Access members would take if they had an imaginary inventory that allowed it.)

[@restinpeacegabethedog1529]

This isn't very emotional but it's something I will always remember. I was playing skyrim and roaming around with the companion the Jarl at Whiterun gives you. I was exploring the mountains when I came across a polar bear. I died a couple times (this was very early in the game) and on the last few times I decided to let my companion take the hits whilst shot it from afar with my bow. Well on my final attempt the polar bear stood up before smashing his feet down. My companion just shot off the mountain. I killed the bear and searched for my companion. Never found her. To this day she's still missing, probably dead, but I'll never forget how she flew past me whilst fighting that bear

[@Tvdiet]

Danganronpa series it makes you care for each character then kills them in order to make you cry

[@alialsharif1396]

But Xur is selling the wordcliff coil whu would he do one?

[@lazarus30001]

I was very protective of my crew in Mass Effect 1-3. In the final mission of the second game, I sent Jack back to the ship as soon as I could seeing that as her best chance of survival. She lived, and I continued to romance her in the third game. ;-)

[@deanburger360]

The game that tricked me into caring too much was Overwatch. The competitive aspect of it was amazing making you want to constantly climb the ladder and if I dropped Skill Rating (SR) I would play non-stop until I got back to my original SR. But the that got me to care too much was Loot Boxes. This was incredible, if I didn't get what I wanted then I would play until I got another loot box. But if it wasn't great I would do the same thing again until I got a legendary from these Loot Boxes. Thanks a lot Overwatch for being the first game I played for a whole 3 days without sleep not because I loved the multiplayer but because I wanted lootboxes .

[@Mikeyc6985]

Nath I know what you mean, after grinding for what feels like an eternity on D1 I was hoping to resist D2.... what am I levelling for anyway!?!? Oh I really need that gun, why so I can not play anymore?!?! Unfortunately though like you the D2 bug has me gripped, 305 titan, 304 hunter and 301 warlock... weekly reset is here and time to raid!

[@BeeBumper]

Wow you must have peaked at Rob in the Gym locker room, that's an extremely accurate body you used.

[@yamburg]

I think that is happening for me in Mass Effect: Andromeda. I usually like to try and explore as much as I can, and at first the game was very underwhelming. But as I started picking it up, it has turned into the go to game each time I turn my console on. Specially the Sidekick specialty missions, I want to help all the crew to develop their level 6 upgrades.

[@mayabewsher6987]

I was the same in Horizon: Zero Dawn. Whenever I had a strider, charger or broadhead I would try to look after it. I know it is a machine animal but when they died I was distraught. I still remember one strider getting attacked by a sawtooth and me having to put it down.

[@565656gooner]

Not something I would do. Just felt like they were machines. Horizon: Zero Dawn was a great game though right

[@rienbach9891]

Nathan's rat analogy was perfect for Destiny 2. Long live the grind.

[@Craggle101]

Grow some guns. The bullets are the seeds and the gun itself is the plant.

[@xSpekeFIFA]

Every person on this planet should play Dark Chronicle, it's such a gem which really needs more recognition, definitely my all-time favorite game

[@mrjimmyhush]

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. I put over 200 hours into the HD re-release. Platinumed it, unlocked everything, all my soldiers were S ranks. I didn't realize it tricked me into caring too much until MGS Ground Zeroes. *Spoilers* When Mother Base got destroyed it felt like my 200 hours were all for nothing. My base, my soldiers, Nuke (the kitten), all gone. I felt genuinely sad. Miller was right. It was ours. We built it, damn it!

[@bourbonrose3726]

This goes without saying but Red Dead Redemption. Also, GTA V. When I completed the game and they are all standing by the cliff after pushing Devin Weston over in his car, they are all just standing there and then go their separate ways... It was like, wow! It's over. No more heists, no more missions together. It was just really sad. Felt like my friends were leaving and we'd never all be together again. Just sad.

[@acrossedfaith1508]

I’m really curious to know what scene or any part of a game did the music hit you guys at the same time? Most recent for me was kaine’s salvation from nier automata finding Emil’s place. Just perfect.

[@Bethgael]

Alistair having his head knocked off by Anora... and also having to choose between him and Hawke in a DAI PT in which he was the Warden. Both wrecked me. I liked that Hawke! Also FFX's ending. cared way too much about those chars.

[@greyfox111483]

I totally get Nathan's issue with Destiny, I had the same problem with D1 and am currently going through it with Warframe (only reason I'm not struggling over D2). Also, I was tricked by Witcher 3 into caring too much. I think the game is amazing but I put down the game and stopped because I became too nervous of what consequences would unfold due to my ill informed decision making after a terrible first go at the Bloody Baron quest.

[@the_happy_gamerino]

for me it was Dark Souls 3. I started grinding some rare items and ended up doing it for 15-20 hours....lots of items I couldn't even store anymore because my inventory was totally maxed out.

[@robertdavidblakely]

When I was little I spent hours upon hours organizing then reorganizing the towns in Dark Cloud. Why? Who knows, I just got sucked into it.

[@nickscott8922]

If you guys haven't heard of it already, rogue galaxy is on the PS4 now for 15 bucks and it's hands down one of my favorites! Check it out

[@carpemkarzi]

Love the note written on the whiteboard. That alone would have made me subscribe if I wasn't already.

[@NAcHO-wx5vg]

Kingdom hearts birth by sleep. No matter which storyline of the three you play. You are doomed. Yet no matter what you do you lose. Same with kingdom hearts 358/2 days.

[@marieporter9488]

None of those characters deserved what happened to them. Especially Ven

[@AaronBeDarin]

Just finished my first playthrough of The Last of Us: Remastered on Grounded Mode. WHAT A RIDE! Can't wait for Part 2! That game made me feel things.

[@patdo777]

With just the title I thought that this vid would be about games making you care about a character and then killing him/her/it off.

[@patdo777]

Robots, animals, monsters, that kind of stuff people can get attached to too.

[@155kji50]

Final Fantasy IX for me. I can't stand the thought of Dagger and Zidane not being with each other, that when they're both in my party, they MUST be beside each other in the line. If Zidane faints or needs healing, Dagger must be the one to do it. If Dagger faints, Zidane is the only one allowed to use a Phoenix Down on her. It's weird, I know.

[@infinitusvox]

Rob always talks about how he likes Dark Chronicle so much but he never mentions Dark Cloud which for me is a million times better in every aspect from characters to story to general gameplay and even the georama system

[@jodicusstv]

I know this isn’t PlayStation, but the ultimate thing to care too much about in games... the chao garden in sonic adventure 2

[@gameoflife2k5]

The Darkness with the death of Jennie, especially after sitting on the sofa to watch To Kill A Mocking bird with her at the start of the game.