7 Dumbest Things You Got Seriously Attached To

It’s normal to get emotionally invested in a game, but what about the times you got incredibly attached to something that was just, well, weird?
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[@outsidextra]

How did we end up so emotionally invested in this alien that looks like a binbag full of meatballs? Here are the dumbest things that tugged your heartstrings, somehow. Enjoy!

[@realhomieLou]

I don't know

[@logicalwren2326]

Reasons?

[@mynamejeff6722]

my name jeff

[@anarchyantz1564]

Hey don't talk about Mike like that! :)

[@Lolo-ti9ob]

I'm emotionally attached to Luke's Pup shirt. Fantastic choice of band my dude.

[@nikanj]

I kept the wedding ring in Fallout 4. Then I romanced Piper, dressed her up as my dead wife and gave her the ring. That's not weird right?

[@restinpeas1284]

What's weird is that you romanced Piper. Likes Nick, but doesn't want to help free the enslaved synths. Dirty hypocrite, she is.

[@MlleLurleen]

@@restinpeas1284 Who didn't date every companion?

[@larrydotson2625]

Nope

[@boriskalashnikov489]

When I play, I always keep the ring for the entire game

[@naysha2271]

I kept the wedding ring and dropped it by Shaun's deathbed when I destroyed the Institute. It was like saying goodbye to my Sole's husband AND son.

[@MasterZebulin]

Seaman: "Do YOU think the internet is dangerous?" *HE KNEW. THAT FUCKER KNEW!*

[@thechevyferrari9559]

The Cult of Seaman.

[@resurectiondelpantion9268]

Every single Dreamcast exclusive game was ahead of it's time!! No Exceptions!!!!!!!!

[@brosephnoonan223]

Seaman Sea: Noun - The expanse(s) of salt water that cover most of the earth's surface and surrounds its landmasses synonyms: Ocean _Ocean..._ *OOOOOCEAN MAN*

[@420sakura1]

@@resurectiondelpantion9268 it's cost was also ahead of its time.

[@d3str0i3r]

knew what? the internet isn't dangerous, it's the people on it

[@moonkingdomify]

Can I point out how Mario shows more legitimate emotion for Fludd than he does for his own brother.

[@shoelace403]

*yes*

[@mayogobbo]

_Someone_ 's never beat Luigi's Mansion

[@TheGuardDuck]

Why would we?

[@bobm9577]

I don't know why fludd was included he's not just a tool he's kind of a character also

[@maodylee8931]

And yoshi too

[@zacharymoran7596]

For me, this one was easy: the cuddlefish from Subnautica. That game could get really heavy at times, and it was the only companion and interaction with anything intelligent you’d have all game. When I finally said my goodbye to that fish before leaving the planet, I cried some ugly tears.

[@maxlittlewood]

He may deny it but we all know deep down Luke is weirdly attached to the Skyrim frost troll

[@mar_speedman]

Oh sure, the same way Batman is emotionally attached to the Joker... Which is to say, he despises it.

[@beepboprobotsnot3748]

@@mar_speedman Despises, but NEEDS.

[@marhawkman303]

@@beepboprobotsnot3748 Yeah, Batman can't just kill him, he needs the Joker alive to feel whole ad complete. :p

[@mar_speedman]

@@marhawkman303 Yeah, that too. Iol

[@maxvel0city906]

I have nothing funny or witty to input on this, but since there are two people named Mar in the replies I thought I'd chip in so there are two Max's to balance things out, I got your back Original Max aka Max Littlewood.

[@TheOrklord]

Thought I would share about an accidental companion I "teamed" with in Fallout 3. I was doing the Mothership DLC when a ghoul spawned, that got really messed up by RNG. This poor guy, whom I affectionately named Charlie, spawned without arms. I first met Charlie when he introduced himself by running up and growling in my face, then retreating. Without arms, it seems all Charlie could do was growl, a trait I soon came to consider enduring. He followed me throughout the rest of the DlC, becoming a welcome companion. I was devastated when upon finishing the DLC, Charlie did not follow me back to the Wasteland. Here's to you, Charlie, may you live long and prosper.

[@leafruns7672]

The wedding ring in Dragon age origins. In the female city elf origin, you find it on your betrothed's body when he comes to rescue you.

[@yezi1796]

I got weirdly attached to everything in that game.

[@kaniblekitt2884]

We all got weirdly attached to everything in that game

[@AxleTrade]

Schmooples should’ve had more screen time and interactive options.

[@mickymcbryan4814]

My f!Tabris kept that ring, despite the fact that she never wanted to marry that guy who she's sure was fine. It was a reminder of the cruelty mankind is capable of and what could happen if she ever let yer guard down.

[@EskimoPagan]

Sandal. I wanna pick him up and put him in my pocket.

[@LoveLee_Dreamer]

I got weirdly attached to Wheatley from Portal 2. That traitorous bastard. I still loved his quirky sense of humor.

[@SilkfireStudios]

Seriously! Spoiler warning!

[@starflight29]

Forget Wheatley from any portal game, the cube has much more random item love than that thing

[@anonymousfellow8879]

Potato Glados

[@pillowmoment]

I just love everything in the portal games Whenever anything bad happened. I’d stand up and go cry in another room

[@LoveLee_Dreamer]

@@SilkfireStudios The game has been out for so long by now that if you haven't played it that's on you. That's like spoiler warning Snape killing Dumbledore.

[@spacejesus6581]

And occasionally when none other are available, his own brother The little stuff gets me the most

[@ryanaquino4884]

Same. The casual delivery too.

[@ReaderAve]

That was so savage; I couldn’t believe that.

[@KIKKINxPUPPIES]

"If there's one thing scarier than a zombie, it's a clown. And if there's one thing scarier than both those things, it's a zombie clown." Ellen's never seen the teletubbies mod...

[@scottkamps1270]

Thanks for that reminder, I'm gonna douse my brain with bleach again...>.

[@robert23456789]

was the mod that turned zombies in to teletubbies so you gunning down a load of red blue green and yellow teletubbies ahhh fun for all ages

[@scottkamps1270]

@@robert23456789 You and I remember fun very differently...

[@robert23456789]

@@scottkamps1270 no i remember fun better then everyone ah the good old teletubbies massacre of 2012 jolly good year

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

@@scottkamps1270 Yeah same here, not only bleach, but I might include some paint thinner, just to be sure.

[@spikes_johnson]

Why is there a giant spike on the back of FLUDD right where Mario's head can make excruciating contact

[@shanonfree8210]

FLUDD FILTERS YOUR BLOOD THAT IT SUCKS FROM YOUR HEAD.

[@ellienugent3120]

@@shanonfree8210 Wait WUUUUTTT ?!

[@Someonecalledeli]

@@ellienugent3120 UHHHHHHHHHHHH TF?!?!?!?!

[@artsyhoodies]

*Me as soon as I heard a robot call me "Mum"* OKAY, ROBO-SON, I LOVE YOU.

[@yellowbananago]

I’m glad you have no subscribers

[@Silver_wind_1987_]

@@yellowbananago I'm glad your locked in your own house -.-

[@marcusmanchester7095]

The fish in Mass Effect 2, if you forget just once to feed them after every mission, they're all dead.

[@lonelyratgirl3688]

Marcus Manchester Unless you invite Kelly Chambers to your room for dinner. She'll then propose to feed the fish for you :)

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

@Lucius Fawkes oh yes.

[@viprthered]

Marcus Manchester yep

[@marhawkman303]

@@lonelyratgirl3688 I guess after that you can skip her storyline and just let her feed your fish?

[@lonelyratgirl3688]

@Mar Hawkman Nothing more happens with her after that point, so yes, you can let her be and she'll happily continue to feed them until the end of the game.

[@cellarisavis8401]

The Snowman Piece in Undertale, you actually get to hear that you've made him happy during the phonecall with Sans at the end

[@hiagain1463]

That dang thing took up precious inventory but you better believe I carried it and the butterscotch pie to the surface

[@samanthaclaremejia7975]

Ikr

[@begoneheretic9760]

*sad and guilt filled genocide memories*

[@leyvondebrill4531]

Ahem which ending?

[@ellienugent3120]

Awwww

[@blax140]

i completely forgot about the wedding ring i was too busy flirting with everything even a deathclaw

[@iceylavanuffsaid4997]

underrated!!!!!!!

[@kirb2119]

S I M P

[@ashe8181]

Especially deathclaws*

[@blax140]

@@ashe8181 its all about the alpha deathclaws

[@ashe8181]

Blax I mean, when you find the good shit, Death claws cannot be matched by any other creature in sexiness.

[@claudespeed2307]

One time I found an old meowth doll in the trash and now it's mine. His name's Samson. Don't ask me why I kept it I don't know why.

[@thediamondkittygamingmore6614]

I get seriously atrached to plushies too, don't worry. I have a room full of them, and would refuse to part with 3 and a half quarters of them. :)

[@guywithahammer4766]

In your darkest most painful time this doll will save your life

[@Silver_wind_1987_]

Well mewoth is a pricy plushie so...

[@OPFreak34]

I got weirdly attached to the first camel in Assassin's Creed Origins. I named it Titus and I loved him with all my heart. The way it would destroy every fence when I called it was just adorable

[@fretfultrout2788]

That’s the only mount I used throughout my first playthrough

[@yes9691]

Oh fuck yeah I loved the boi

[@helenal.vaquera373]

I get weirdly attached to the very first gun I get in first person shooters for some reason

[@cediviannareeda4305]

I had that in The Last of us, I was like 'revolver! Why do you get to be more powerful than pistol! You just got here!'

[@Agamemnon2]

I had a Death Knight in World of Warcraft who saved all his noteworthy weapons (anything Rare or above), spending most of his bank space on this endeavor.

[@DrDremur]

I get that in Resident Evil 4 I don't want to depart from the starting pistol Leon gets

[@tom_k_cook]

@@DrDremur Her name is Matilda, bro.

[@DrDremur]

Tomo Key Cookie sorry about that my first RE was 4 I didn't realise it had a name. thanks :)

[@HanThomas]

It's actually shameful how attached I got to Tobi in Okami. It's a slip of paper present for approx 30 minutes and there I was, sobbing away when he dies.

[@elschaefer3448]

My friend actually got a copy of Seaman (a.k.a. Finding Nimoy), and we have a great time caring for the little weirdos

[@coconuthalf]

What about the companion cube from Portal?

[@aclevercat83]

First thing I thought of when I saw the title. I spent way too much time trying to figure out a way to take it with me.

[@valrtcrimson6747]

That beautiful cube deserves better.

[@SciFiFemale]

I love all the cubes. Protect the cubes!

[@azuredragoon2054]

I put myself in the incinerator with the companion cube to spite Glados.

[@mathybrain8]

Then you finish Portal 2 and GLaDOS gives you that specific companion cube back.

[@dellinkin1213]

I thought for sure the companion cube from portal 2 would be here... or was that just me?

[@kintoshmalae1]

I thought it was practically a guaranteed entry.

[@19Prometheus89]

Definitely should have been there.

[@alfridwein3449]

Maybe they felt it was too obvious?

[@krajewski17]

You were literally told to get attached to it. Definitely not a dumb thing to do either. RIP my true friend.

[@alexbaker1569]

But it's not weird, it's normal to love the cube

[@pu3rto]

Nobody: Seaman: W h a t s U p

[@detenatron.3608]

seaman: Hey how's it going

[@faeoori]

I fell in love with my dog/octopus from subnautica. I loved my bebe doggo thing.

[@thomasallen9974]

its adorably cute, cuddly, and friendly in an uncaring ocean that wants you dead.

[@mysteryman1036]

Thomas Allen I wish only the ocean wanted me dead

[@hansisbrucker813]

The cuddlefish!

[@duckyluv]

I too am way to attached a my fish

[@hansisbrucker813]

@@duckyluv you are hooked 😉

[@apocrypha5363]

"Nooooooooooo!" (That feeling when *one* of your several hundred Pikmin dies)

[@Imagigirl]

Bonus guilt points awarded if the reason it dies was because you miscalculated a throw and accidentally tossed the little guy off the edge of one of the Subterranean Complex's metal levels. ...I'm so sorry, little buddy. :-(

[@FinalDrop]

Especially when I didn’t know water could kill them in the first time I played it. To many pikmin died that day. Too many ;.;

[@TheReZisTLust]

*Bud red pikmin gets eaten by bulbord or whatever its called* Olimar: He had one day to grow up 😭

[@anniehoward7333]

First time I left a single pikmin when I played as a kid on GameCube and that cutscene plays of the pikmin chasing after the leaving ship while about to be eaten by an enemy, guilted me so badly as a kid that I couldn’t finish the game.

[@LadyOnikara]

Only one? Um, nothing to see here. I'm just going to pretend all 100 didn't get eaten in a second.

[@alexstauffer3359]

I choose to believe Lamarr meets up with Wheatley. SPAAAAAAACE!

[@spacejesus6581]

We’re in space!

[@insaincaldo]

Good thing you didn't say space core, he lives in Skyrim now.

[@jorickhorstermans7296]

Bluebell in rdr2. I made the grave mistake of having him as my mount in the last moments of Arthur`s story. Double heartbreak 😭

[@skyford3663]

i tried to spare buell by stabling him thinking john could keep him as a horse, but then the stable must have sold him or something

[@SadisticMonsterMan]

I actually had Seaman. Though you could speed up the process by resetting the Sega DC and going into the system settings and moving the day forward one day at a time and mature him faster that way. Or simply set the year forward and the game assumes you neglected him for a whole year and you return to an empty tank save for the cobwebs and Seaman bones littering the bottom. On a side note... RIP Leonard Nimoy.

[@SirRoderickThunderbottom]

witcher 3, the 'thank you card' you recieve from the little girl after completing the 'Where the Cat and Wolf Play' quest. i carried that thing all the way to the very end of the game.

[@safeguardjeff]

The Mako in Mass Effect! I don't know why but I grew so attached to it and exploring the galaxy even with it's unruly controls and ended up missing it in the following games

[@spacejesus6581]

My name's Jeff I don’t get why people hated it, I loved it, I think maybe they just hated it because they had to use it for 75% Of exploration

[@user-wf3oc6wy2b]

@@spacejesus6581 I think it's just a lack of diversity. Every planet you went to was largely barren and it wasn't always clear what the Mako could or couldn't climb. It was also forced into most of the missions, sometimes in a way that felt like padding. I would have preferred if it were more like Borderlands 2 vehicle - various points of interest on a map and better path design.

[@DivinityFallen]

Yesss!!

[@safeguardjeff]

@@spacejesus6581 yeah probably and I guess as J 7041 said there wasn't an awful lot to explore outisde of getting to the storyline and quests. But after you got used to the controls you could have some genuine fun mucking about in it!

[@robertagu5533]

Yeah... finally conquering apparently the biggest mountain on a random planet... DRIVING ALMOST VERTICALLY UP IT... which shouldnt have been possible but I guess.. mass effects.. Sometimes giving it a tad too much gas and driving full speed off the edge thinking the summit was alot bigger then it was and crashing at the bottom dealing some 95% flaming damage and needing to repair but somehow lived.. ah... the good ole days

[@Daddy_Ogg]

I really love the music blasting from the helicopter in Metal Gear. It's just such a little detail and they must paid a lot of money for the licensed music. And to be honest no player would have missed it if it wouldn't be there. By the way: Rebel yell! is the way to go for this issue.

[@xiaoxiaostickguy]

I definitely always kept the wedding ring on my character's person on every playthrough of Fallout 4. I like to think it's such a powerful reminder of your previous life before the bombs dropped, and what happened in Vault 111. Many people here say they gave their spouse's ring to whomever they romanced during the game but I didn't even have the heart to do that. I always have my character wear the ring they have equipped from the beginning, and my in-game deceased spouse's ring in my inventory. I even do this with the mod Start Me Up. It alters the main story a bit since it let's you start as a wastelander of some some sort outside of the Vault (raider, drunk, NCR Ranger, etc.) where your first quest is to explore the rumors of something happening in Vault 111. There, you'll find Nate/Nora on the ground dead, on the way out of the Vault (which is extra sad given what they just witnessed), with a holotape with the scuffle with Kellog. I looted the wedding ring but refused to sell it nor give it to a companion in those runs, too, because I still feel that same sentiment of it being a reminder of what happened here, especially because you become a proxy for Nate/Nora trying to make sure to find their son so that they didn't die in vain.

[@kirstypickering3617]

I get really attached to the Big Daddies in Bioshock. I just love following them around and teaming up to take down enemies. It hurts my soul a little bit when I have to take one down.

[@Ax-xo4ux]

Them and the little sisters for me- I never could bring myself to kill the little ones so I didn’t get on their bad side as much

[@artemiss7106]

Looks like you got daddy issues

[@alabastergiant]

Was expecting the Companion Cube, but I realize that's not dumb. It's a piece of amazing characterisation and art.

[@hotcofi2969]

Ratman would make sense too.

[@deathbykonami5487]

@@hotcofi2969 you never see Ratman, how can you get attached to him?

[@deathbykonami5487]

Anyone who truly loved the Companion Cube, never finished Portal Thus they never dropped CC into that damn Aperture incinerator

[@ericbeilmann3649]

@@deathbykonami5487 I personally was hoping it would just respawn somewhere for you to meet up with later.

[@ZlothZloth]

@@deathbykonami5487 - I loved CC and I finished Portal. I don't remember what I did to get past That Place, though. I did... I did... I did something to get by without burning it to a horrible crisp which smelled of soot and tears - and it sounded like bacon. I did... I did some.... SOME... THING!!

[@LowIntSpecimen]

"How come that thing isn't sentient?" Gooigi: *aight imma head in*

[@darqjade]

"Stop dancing you bastards!" I love Icarus in AC Odyssey. I get this weird sense of pride when I'm in a battle and he swoops down to attack, trying to protect me. Such a good birdie :)

[@ZlothZloth]

Bird? What bird? >> Icarus lands on your head

I miss potato Glados from portal 2, I think we developed a nice friendship

[@tiacat11]

PotatOS was great, best part of the game imo

[@nologicneeded1476]

"Oh hi. So, how are you doing? Because I'm a potato."

[@SarcasticGayLawyer]

" this potato only produces 1.1 volts of electricity. I literally do not have the energy to lie to you."

[@mysteryman1036]

WHAT THE HE-fzzzzcht It turns out this potato doesn’t produce enough energy for strong emotional reactions. So stay calm.

[@bryanchin856]

Or the companion cube.

[@UltimateHalG]

I became super attached to The Book of the Dragonborn found in Helgen Keep. When ever I start a playthrough, I always make sure to grab it before escaping (and it never leaves my inventory...ever)

[@brosephnoonan223]

Isn't that the only cooy of it in the game?

[@UltimateHalG]

@@brosephnoonan223 I think there are other copies, like in College of Winterhold (at least according to wiki, but I never looked for them)

[@phyllissmith5980]

@@brosephnoonan223 No there are lots of copies and I have collected Every Single one. I even had a mod that I can make a shrine with and I always make a shrine for the Book. haha

[@complimentbotd7232]

I was being overdramatic with my mates once and spun a story about involuntarily killing the first enemy in self defense, I took his cuirass and honestly became attached, he was my first kill, maybe if I had said something all this useless and heartless carnage wouldnt have happened...

[@iSTEFIXi]

I become super attached to my Skyrim nude mod it never left my inventory

[@usbiv223]

Yes, Luke, thousands of people played Seaman. And all but six of them were inmates at a North Korean prison camp.

[@yushakader4991]

Was one of them luke or was he in the prison

[@usbiv223]

Dragonmaster76 I'd like to think that Luke never actually played Seaman except to get screen capture, but sadly...I do think he did some time in a North Korean prison.

[@cobaltCarnivore]

12:31 alright, so the ring is the Sole Survivor's last link to their old life which included a robot butler. So... Does said robot butler not count?

[@Safiyahalishah]

Right? I can't ever have any companion but Codsworth. It just seemed fitting given that he and the protagonist shared a history and had lost the same things. He was always both the pessimistic devil and magnanimous angel on my shoulders.

[@Nicooriia]

Codsworth is that older figure in the game that always gives me comfort; relishing the glory of the current days as I succeed in my quests while also reminiscing about the old days, using those memories to keep us going.

[@MetabolicSpore0]

I found myself probably too attached to my growing hoard of magnum ammo in Resident Evil 2... 'But what if I need it later!!?'😧

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Then you shoot the final boss with all the bullets and they still don't die. ;-;

[@ratpackcass]

MetabolicSpore0 I literally finished the game with like 27 magnum ammo because “there’s gonna be a boss I struggle more with”

[@FelipeKana1]

I kept all the bullets to the end of the game. Kept thinking "no, the boss will come back again and worse, save that ammo!"

[@ravencrovax]

Space hampster in the Mass Effect series. The fish were cool, but space hampster was the best.

[@DiceSully]

Boo is literally the first thing I go to find when you get the Normandy back

[@marcusmanchester7095]

"meep!" Space hamster then runs back into his house

[@brosephnoonan223]

"If they try to get you... Go for the eyes." - Commander Shepard

[@mycazglinski2302]

Marcus Manchester if you have the leviathan DLC in ME 3 there’s a husk head you can get, that interacts with the hamster

[@marcusmanchester7095]

@@mycazglinski2302 I don't know how many times I interacted with that head trying to figure out what it did. Now I need to go back and play it again just to get that head.

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

man I forgot Sunshine was fully voiced I just remembered FLUDD

[@argonize]

10:04 "he wuvs u"... a minute later "oh shit, he ded"

[@smudgusinterruptus2246]

Thanks for making me attached to the baby Metroid, even though I have literally never played the game.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

BEWARE SPOILERS FOR THE FOLLOWING

[@emailname8624]

I nearly cried.

[@sirkarl0s593]

I always wanted to save the Marines in 'Halo', everytime one of them died it was like a kick in the balls.

[@tlshortyshorty5810]

“...and you realize FLUDD is killed on impact.” _gets condom commercial out of nowhere, rushes to get riot shield and bash Trojan Man’s head in_

[@alwaysAbathur]

If it's just a callsign Mike then why does he have the same voice every time???

[@atomicranks2371]

You must have a very specific skill set to be a diamond dogs pilot

[@trwatts16]

Tbh I ended up giving the wedding ring to whichever companion I decided to 'romance' (get a bonus from) in my various playthroughs of fallout.

[@starflight29]

My immediate reaction to the rings is to leave them in vault 111

[@CaitlinRC]

I do admit, I kept the gnome throughout L4D2, not for the achievement or for the healing perk, just because I'd won him and I wanted to feel safe because my teammates KEPT STARTLING THE WITCH

[@joshuaobryan4896]

Bloody witches so many deaths from that bloody thing

[@slewone4905]

I randomly gnome people. I would go to strangers home and give them a free gnome. I made one drinking beer.

[@Playingwith3D]

In one of my Fallout 4 playthroughs I gave the wedding ring to Piper after I maxxed her affinity and it gave some extra dialog. I always keep both, and collect as many vault suits and red dresses and power armor as I can find for some reason.

[@fmrc93]

Wait you mean Pequod ISN'T one guy on my team, but a call sign? :(. I was so glad to see him every time at the end of a mission

[@TrafficJamByCam]

3:48 Luke trying not to laugh in this line the same way Tim Curry tried not to laugh in his greatest line: “SPAAAACE!!!”

[@maxvel0city906]

😂😂😂 just noticed this, your spot on with that observation.

[@Nitrinoxus]

"I mean, Professor E. Gadd also made the Poltergust ghost-vacuum from Luigi's Mansion -- how come *that* thing isn't sentient?" Gooigi?

[@yermotlarmanweia1816]

How about the will-o'-the-wisp companion you--role-playing as a mage who really likes pretty lights--summoned obsessively throughout the entirety of your 100+ hour Dragon Age: Origins play-through, despite the fact you could never quite tell if you were, in fact, getting any stat boost from doing so? Oh, no one else did that? Carry on then...

[@mawmaw4410]

me. i did that. i did EXACTLY that.

[@SnakeEater776]

Pequod is a legend However for me he has a habit of dropping me off near an enemy BTR and getting himself shot down

[@lonelyratgirl3688]

Does GLaDOS potato form in Portal 2 count ? 🤔 'Cause I kinda liked her then.

[@ceceliaacaba2739]

Lonely Rat Girl I know I was too!

[@FelipeKana1]

Yes it surely counts!!

[@commenturthegreat2915]

Also the companion cube from 1

[@frodobaggins7710]

I've become attached to the boots of my character's mother in Dragon Age: Origins. Even though they don't help me anymore, I can't bring myself to sell them

[@VoraciousRdr]

It was the wedding ring for me even though my character totally didn't want to get married I couldn't get rid of it

[@murasakinokami9882]

The ring, the boots *and* the noble clothing you get after stabbing that b*tch in the face. Good thing I use mods, or I would be dead several times over. Though I would look fabulous as I go down...

[@Blossemfall]

I'm kinda attached in a weird way. Like my character will toss out old armor like nothing. Until that reflective amulet you get at TToSA and of course the Warden's Promise. But I always keep Alistair with the Runic Worry Token and Duncan's sheild the moment I get it. Zevran keeps these random shitty Dalish Gloves I gave him and the also shitty but slightly less so Antivan boots. And Sten has literally never gotten his sword back in my worlds cause I can't find the things. Lol

[@davidmcgill1000]

@@VoraciousRdr In Fallout 4, I kept that stupid wedding ring in my inventory for the entire game. If it weighed any more than it did I was gonna sell it.

[@archmagusofevil]

I had the noble origin and kept my family sword on me through the entire game. I was still using it as a weapon long after it became obsolete.

[@gmaxion2001]

In Skyrim, I got super invested in my Band of Matrimony. I always marry Ysolda because, despite her one shady thing, she's sweet and I love her voice. . .and I can't marry Serana. I also get attached to Lucia and Sofie because I have 2 daughters of my own. I rename them Lindsey and Haley in my head and ignore the text on the screen. I work to get septims very hard so that I can give them 1,000 gold when they ask for an allowance. Spoiling my kids is awesome.

[@aceventurasspear22]

Outside Xtra: “Crazy how we got so attached to a wedding ring in Fallout 4!” Me, who sold both rings immediately so I could get some leather armor: “Yeah. Craaaazy....”

[@TrimutiusToo]

I got attached to potato in portal 2... Even though she tried to kill me in portal 1... All those dialogue with her former boss were touching...

[@marhawkman303]

Carolyn was awesome. :D

[@insaincaldo]

One of video games best frienemies.

[@iamjigzzy]

Potat0s

[@justinhartley5906]

Outside Xtra: the wedding ring from fallout 4 is an object we ended the game with. Me, in diamond city selling both rings: wat

[@restinpeas1284]

I always keep both rings, and give the one that used to belong to my character's spouse to a new romantic partner. Usually Kate.

[@emailname8624]

I didn't really care, but I was sad when the partner died.

[@soulmechanics7946]

I reluctantly sold the wedding ring to help build the first community and thereby, a new life. It actually played a huge role in my personal story in this way and might very well have been one of the more major contributing factors to me having actually loved that game.. despite my later disappointment with how many opportunities the writers squandered.

[@FirstnameLastname-my1cg]

The Human Noble in DAO can get a shield with your family's crest on it, the stats aren't great but I carried that thing around with me the entire game and smashed Howe's face in with it.

[@andymcp4752]

"Dumbest things we got attached to" *1. Robot backpack* Me "haha I guess that is pretty silly" *2. Human life* Me "oh boy.."

[@ReiAyanami8]

The starting equipment in RPG's. I don't know what it is but even after finding better weapons and armor, I always keep my starting gear during a new adventure.

[@Blossemfall]

I did that with the first leather cap you get in Golden Sun Dark Dawn. Like. I'll have all this armor that gives 20+ defense and sitting at the very end of my inventory is that banged up leather cap Issac gave Matthew. I like to imagine he puts it on to sleep when he's feeling homesick (and is relatively safe like in an inn)

[@spacemeat2001]

Same, I don't know which game did it. but at some point I got conditioned to get my starting gear...b/c you never know it might be part of an upgrade to super gear

[@nirmiak9906]

me: sees wedding ring also me: this sells for over 200 caps *sells it*

[@seanshogun1957]

You sick bastard

[@fuze7885]

@@seanshogun1957 mittensquad does it every time

[@GenrealGreed]

Hey I got emotionally attached to the shadow preist artifact in WoW Xal'atath, a blade that pretty much wants to corrupt me a soon as I defeat the legion...yet I felt so sad when I had to sacrifice her to cleanse the sword that Sargeras stapped into Azeroth.

[@cheese5595]

Where are the turrets from portal? Ok, they are trying to kill me but have you heard them talk? And they even understand it when you try to destroy them! I went out of my way not to hurt a single one of them because they are too cute.

[@insaincaldo]

+ "I don't hate you" is a line, for a sweetheart.

[@wuwupyon]

me: sees Super Mario Sunshine also me: oh no, Luke needs to undergo his Fludd trauma again

[@vincegonzalez2171]

On my first playthrough of Fallout 4, I sold the wedding ring so quickly! Those caps are crucial early in the game! Every playthrough after that, however, I held onto it.

[@PatRick-ny7gi]

So this was only temporary and there was another one but i was oddly attached to ezios hidden blade and it broke my heart when it broke in ac revalations

[@l0stndamned]

Humanity doesn't do enough hovering. It does do plenty of screeching, as someone who works in catering can attest.

[@noddler217]

*Sees Sea-Man* NOPE. NOOOOOPE. nopey-nope-nope McNopey from Nopetown, Nopania. I've binged Nightmare on Elm Street over 3 days already, I do *not* need to add that to my nightmares. *Sees Sea-Man mating* I SAID NOPE! NOPE MEANS NOPE!

[@tokatstorm9270]

At least you weren't eating when it came up.

[@kadosho02]

😶i never forgot this moment

[@daemonite6661]

@@tokatstorm9270 i was 😰

[@agentkmr]

So. much. nope.

[@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers]

I was interpreting it as if Pequod was the call sign for the mission helicopter. So if the pilot died, the next pilot would just take over the mission chopper handle for simplicity and continuity.

[@KittyFAN13]

Personally for me in Fallout 4, I was deeply attached to MacCready’s toy soldier and even downloaded a mod to insure that I don’t accidentally make a wall for Sanctuary’s local Nuka Girl themed bar out of Mini MacCready because I care too much for the sentimental value of the dumb thing and MacCready is best husbando.

[@Hatttetttt]

Mimer's severed head in God of War. Loved the stories he told when sailing.

[@MaliciousCat]

THe only thing I related to was the baby Metroid. That was sad. It heroically attacked Mother Brain to give you the power to defeat her; at the cost of its life. >_< It thought of Samus as its REAL mother. So sad.

[@susansparrow]

The screaming husk head from the Mass Effect 3 Leviathan DLC! 🤣

[@laziadwobbit5331]

That thing kept scaring my poor little Space Hamster though!

[@waffleking6871]

I'm really glad to see I'm not the only person who attaches complex stories and sentiment to random video game objects. Your sword will always have a place of honor in my armory, Skjor!

[@sugurufamakubo8017]

What about the companion cube from Portal? Not even a line of dialogue and I carried that inanimate buddy around like an overly inebriated best friend on a Friday night.

[@painfullyavarage4316]

“Why isn’t the poltergust sentient?” *Goouigi wants to know your location

[@god2593]

I loved feeding and swimming with my pet slaughter fishes in Skyrim.

[@kathrynbrown5176]

When FLUDD was shown, i instantly remembered my playthrough, so i played the game again. 😂

[@thomasford9513]

I became attached to the "goo-wery" item in AC odyssey... you can easily sell it for an easy 300 gold... but the little girl who made it broke my heart, and 250 hours into the game it's the only item in my sellable inventory ❤

[@SharklordZerato]

Companion Cube from Portal? I mean it kinda makes sense that you get attached to it given how isolated the game is supposed to feel and that you're literally supposed to get attached to it but still...it's a cube...

[@denniswijker7162]

I got way more attached to Potato GladOS than the companion cube. Straight in the incinerator when the level was done :P

[@jackcutter2]

It's not a "dumb thing" though. There's literally a human soul(s) inside a companion cube.

[@BisectedBrioche]

Lisa the plant from Life is Strange. Never have I felt guiltier not watering something properly.

[@laziadwobbit5331]

The sad thing is that Lisa dies even if you water it too much though...

[@luke769animations]

Me: * flashbacks from TROLLHUNTERS on Netflix * Also me: *_THE GNOME’S NAME IS FROM LEFT 4 DEAD?_*

[@csesznaktom]

WTF!?!?!?!?

[@luke769animations]

Tamás Csesznák ye

[@shawnanderson4283]

Holy shit....

[@adamschneider587]

gnoam chompski

[@hansisbrucker813]

Same

[@christopherlouis2037]

Skyrim. Meeko. My god, he's a good boy. Also very fragile with a level cap of 25 and a piddly 250 hp.

[@insaincaldo]

First time Meeko's life was short, brutal and I accidentally took the pour things soul. Now I'm no cheater, so I had to live with that.

[@theblackherald]

I was genuinely upset at my virtual spouse and child when they started calling Meeko a "stupid dog." Good grounds for divorce, that.

[@soren7550]

Meeko and Frost the horse for me! A big reason why I don’t think I finished the game, I was too busy trying to keep them alive.

[@ianmiller8399]

Why didn’t you just use Shadowmere? She has a ton of hp, regenerates hp quickly and respawns after ten days.

[@soren7550]

1.) Because Frost was my beautiful & daring baby boy. 2.) If I remember right, you get Shadowmere after doing the Dark Brotherhood questline, which I didn't do.

[@stevencarrollscorpio]

"good news everyone, the gnome is fine", "That's it, you're off the team"!!

[@Juffy]

I got attached to Carmine from Gears of War :>

[@skelesinnr]

"" fallout 4 - wedding ring "" when you low-key just give it to your romantic companion and make them equip it :"

[@GroundThing]

Yep. Admittedly as a gay, I could care less about the cardboard cutout designated as my husband, but still, I don't even see how a straight could care about that hunk of driftwood.

[@Spider-Rat77]

@@GroundThing Yeah I just wanted to romance a synth detective.

[@Wolfram1045]

Whenever an NPC gives me an item like a piece of armor or clothing or whatnot, I always keep it in my inventory even if its objectively terrible compared to what I have

[@kaushtubhchauhan]

Man that was a problem for me in skyrim

[@anarchyantz1564]

The best way is to take it and sell it to the npc vendor standing next to them. Or so Jane says.

[@lettherebedragons8885]

Yep thats me

[@marhawkman303]

@@kaushtubhchauhan I only do that with unique gear. I've heard of people using their houses to store gear like this.

[@henners8910]

Mar Hawkman Yeah I was one of them lol my hearthfire house ended up looking like one of those houses on a hoarding show 😂

[@oliverimhoof]

At the beginning of Fallout 4, you can open your spouse's fridge and take his/her wedding ring to remember him/her by. Although, having 2 wedding rings won't help you any more than 1.

[@synapse7274]

There's a blue rarity gun in Destiny 1 called Echo 33. The description of it is "Negative. We will hold until overrun. Echo 3-3 signing off." And for some reason that hit me to my core. I never dismantled the first one that I ever got. The fact I still remember it's name and description now a full decade later should be a testament to how attached I had become to this random blue gun (and this is back in the day when the vault had only 10 spaces, not 600).

[@theDegausser]

I actually DID play Seaman on the Dreamcast (yes, it unfortunately was a real game with traumatic consequences, Ellen...), and thanks for bringing up some horrible repressed memories of Seaman mating... I really thought I had completely blocked that out of my mind, yet HERE WE ARE! 😭

[@Jennysand81]

Dragon Age 2. Avelines shild. It's quite bad and you quickly get something better but if you sell it you get a little piece of dialog later in the game where she bitterly points out how you've sold it for petty cash though she'd gotten it from her dad. Never sold it in any other playthrough. The guilt I tell you, the guilt!

[@LadyofDarkness1363]

I didn't sell it in one playthrough but she's still bitter. I understand the sentiment, but the game never let me return it to her except by equipping it on her.

[@coffeepoweredkatie6290]

What seriously? I never knew that, cause I..Never sell my companion's stuff, even if I've given them something new I keep the original. I mean, it's not the MC's *to* sell.

[@deathbykonami5487]

The shield belonged to her late husband Wesley who died in the prologue to the blight

[@18jpedrometal]

I give them new equipment, but I always keep the original in the inventor

[@thedevicebook]

I'm glad the baby metroid got mentioned in a list finally. I brought it up in the comments section of the Saddest Boss Battles, then was sad it didn't make it into the Commentator Edition. I really did cry human tears over this weird cute alien! I wouldn't consider it dumb to get attached to though. It sacrificed itself for you and is most likely sentient.

[@deathbykonami5487]

Never played Half Life, but my first reaction to seeing Lamarr would be trying to use the Gravity Gun to fire it in the sun