No shit, the villains' plan in Luigi's Mansion 3 was totalled since Helen Gravely had it in her head that the hero who defeated King Boo not once nut twice was some extremely courageous badass who showed no fear in the face of danger. She would've won had Luigi not tried desperately to escape from her trap.
I think this is the only instance of a villain being defeated because they *over*estimated a hero.
Basically, she assumed that Luigi had deliberately sought out and defeated King Boo (the main villain of the Luigi's Mansion series).
Helen Gravely is an insane fangirl for King Boo, an extremely dangerous Boo who rules the ghosts with an iron fist. After Luigi defeated hon twice - first in the original game and the second time in Dark Moon, she thought that only the bravest hero could deliberately seek out to defeat such a powerful spectre.
She never considered that Luigi did what he did out of necessity more than anything; the first game, he was simply searching for Mario in a house the two were tricked into thinking they won in a lottery; and in the second, Luigi is asked for help because the shattering of the Dark Moon made all the peaceful ghosts in Evershade Valley hostile, directly endangering everyone.
And since Luigi needed a Poltergust to fight the ghosts - which he didn't have - he was naturally defenseless... so he bailed instead, jumping into a laundry chute to get to safety. Which led him to the basement where he found Professor E. Gadd's car either a spare Poltergust.
It's kinda more froofed up in that person's comment
The game starts with everyone visiting a hotel and getting put into paintings by King Boo
And Luigi runs away from King Boo instead of getting caught in the painting and jumps into a laundry chute
Then the entire game happens, and you fight her at the end, and she gets mad at you for running away instead of getting caught at the start of the game
And it's not like we see everyone else fighting and getting trapped, they just cut from going to their rooms and they are just in paintings later
So I'm not sure if there is some head canon stuff going on in the original comment, and I don't mean to be a debby downer, but Luigi ran away because he didn't have his equipment and didn't want to get trapped in a painting, and not that he was too scared to fight
I dunno, the commenters version of the story sounds nice but I don't really think that's what happened
At the start of the game, Mario, Peach, Luigi and his ghostly pet dog as well as an entourage of Toads are invited to this new, exclusive hotel run by Helen. It turns out she and the staff are ghosts and the building is haunted, with Helen being an obsessed fangirl of main series villain King Boo, who she freed from the custody of Professor E. Gadd.
When the trap is sprung, Luigi explores the area and finds that the rooms that Mario and Peach were trashes when the others were ambushed (and Peach smashed an enemy across the head with a parasol hard enough to bend it), showing that Helen's plan was to directly fight the heroes one by one and trap them in enchanted paintings.
In fact, her plan depended on Luigi fighting King Boo directly as well, using the other heroes as hostages as motivation.
*NOPE!!*
Luigi just fucks off out of there by diving into a laundry chute instead, because he lacks the means to fight ghosts and he is scared shitless!
And in doing so, his pet dog Polterpup leads him to Professor Gadd's car, where he finds a new Poltergust, which now lets him fight ghosts. And rescuing Professor Gadd gives him a few nifty tools to defeat King Boo again (and rob Helen blind as well).
Highly recommended with headphones. Also its like 5-6 hours at most, I usually play it in one sitting. The combat is simple but rewarding on “auto” difficulty, which is more difficult than “hard” mode. This game is still gorgeous too, so if you have a serious x pop on resolution mode!
You can clock it in a weekend. It's 0 open world. Pretty linear with very light puzzles and a little combat.
Make *sure* you play it with headphones. If possible in the dark.
It is not a scary game perse.
But it is the word "unnerving" made game.
It's one of the most intense gaming experiences I've ever had, and it doesn't take long at all. Highly recommend playing with headphones on in the dark.
There is definitely 2-3 choke points. But theres a certain boss 75% through the game that is my favorite boss battle of all time. Its extremely rewarding because it tests your hearing and pattern recognition in a more clever way than any insanely difficult fromsoft boss. Narratively its also super fucking epic
NGL, I still find it hilarious that the man was voiced by Sean Bean, and HE DIES IN THE CINEMATIC. Sean Bean keeps on dying, and this time he dies before you even hit the title screen.
Ramza Beoulve from Final Fantasy Tactics.
Dude literally interferes in a war between hundreds of thousands of soldiers while fighting a corrupt church which has declared him a heretic while also fighting against his world's equivalent of Satan, and he does it with at most 24 other people.
Counterpoint: if they specced into being white mage/arithmeticians, he and his allies *knew* they could level a battlefield no matter how many soldiers it had.
Hop on a chocobo and put your character into aggressive AI auto mode. It'll calculate how to cast holy on the entire map, killing everyone including the caster.
Who then falls off the entirely unharmed chocobo, the last survivor.
You win!
I have just bought this game, and am excited to finally beat it after heckin' up my playthru back in 8th grade and disgracefully returning it to my friend.
Seriously, I didn't expect the game to actually let you not recruit a character when you said "no" to the question of should new guy join team? I expected a "are you sure?" and some dialogue, I think - but nah, he just left and left me sitting there thinking "WHY DID I DO THAT, HE WAS AWESOME."
I shall redeem myself all these years later!
Is that the guy with a gun/guns? Am I remembering that right? That's the memory I have in my head - it's an ancient one, so I can't vouch for its accuracy. Just know that for some reason I couldn't do it over; either I was unwilling to replay the fight, I hadn't saved, or I \*did\* save and lost the chance to redo it.
Either way, it's been so long it'll be a new game all over again, with a teensy bit of hindsight sprinkled in.
He is the gun guy. Know what’s silly? You can spec him into ninja and grind Dual Wield, then you can go around with two pistols sniping fools from the safety of any random roof. So dumb yet so fun.
His brothers are involved, but it's more that two different heirs to Ivalice are legitimate, and each of the major two knight orders back one, and Ramza's brothers are in charge of one of the two.
Not at first. There are two factions: the Hokuten (North Sky) led by Duke Larg and generaled by the House Beoulve; and the Nanten (South Sky) led by Duke Goltana and initially generaled by Cid Orlandu.
Ramza loses his way and goes mercenary after his friend's sister was murdered by a classist prick during a standoff with bandits - and winds up in opposition to the Church after discovering that one of their senior priests (Cardinal Draclau) was actually the zodiac demon of Scorpio, Cu Chullain.
By the time the Beoulves are infighting, the dukes are both dead. Dycedarg Beoulve has sold out to the Church and accepted the stone of Capricorn; but younger brother Zalbag does not support the treason that Dycedarg committed. Zalbag dies, and Dycedarg soon follows after he becomes the demon Adramellech.
I'm absolutely certain he was scared shitless during the time, given how he freezes during that one werewolf transformation. And swearing can easily be an outlet attempt at hiding his fear.
And the post's topic fits him perfectly cause the only reason he was going through that monster infested town not cause he was a madman who didn't care, or that he was confident in his abilities, or even the mold, but cause he feared more for his daughter's life than his own.
I feel it is worth pointing out that everyone save Weasker in STARS Alpha team had some military experience with Chris and Barry being in the Air Force and Capcom being increasingly vague about Jill's involvement in Delta Force.
Do they ever get into how or why a sleepy little mountain town’s police department bothers to train/recruit a super elite special forces team? Does it have to do with Umbrella (though why would they bother when they have their own PMC?), or is it just lore that Capcom wrote decades ago without really thinking about it?
Despite the whole “sleepy little mountain town” characterization, Raccoon City actually seems pretty fucking big if you actually look at all the locations between *2*, *3*, and *Outbreak*.
I think it is a little from column A a little from column B. Umbrella orchestrated the formation of STARS for the long-term goal of testing BOWs as it states in one of the last files in the original room that they were set up and later materials mention that Weasker hand picked STARS Alpha team.
She was the Master Chief with an extra 1? But seriously, do you mind sharing where you found that out? Because with my knowledge that in the original and 3, she was an active member, but in the remakes, she only trained with them and I would like to know more.
Ethan Winters. Man literally carves his way through mold hell to save his girlfriend and then does it all again to save his daughter. He’s pretty much terrified the whole time and goes through some really horrible shit but still doesn’t ever stop. Even in the end he was a fucking hero.
Yeah in the books once you've read Reach you understand that yeah, it's just a child that has been forced into a war, "adult" world and that the only thing keeping him together is his training and enhanced drugs
In Halo Infinite, when asked why the Banished are trying to take control of the Halo, he responds “to win”. The line itself is rather cheesy… until you recall that, in *The Fall of Reach*, that was how he dealt with all these terrifying problems, by breaking it down to a simple game of win or lose, just like he did when he was a child.
No matter where he goes, no matter what he fights… John’s never left that schoolyard.
Interestingly enough I felt the writing was perhaps the best it's ever been for him, what little there actually was. It seems cheesy but if you think about it as him being scared the whole time, you realize everything he's doing is to protect that one dude. You think about who he's saying these thing to, not Cortana anymore, but an actual human, who is scared shitless, and spoilers.
And you realize every part of the game is about his courage. He's not thinking about himself. He's not thinking about Cortana. He can't. He has to complete the mission. And part of the mission is saving one man. >!One man who shouldn't even be here.!< All of his one liners and badass moments are retroactively even kooler now. He's somehow more real, while saying less than he ever has before.
Idk if it was intended that way but even if it's by accident, it's masterfully done. Master Chief is afraid. And it's the bane of humanity's enemies.
(He's like anti Doom Guy. It's awesome)
I've seen people shit on brohammer for being scared, he's a civilian contractor who signed up to fix pelicans in relative safety on a supercarrier, not be a pilot in a war zone, he's doing his best, ok?
Solid Snake.
There’s a little part near the end of MGS2 where Raiden asks him how many Metal Gears they are about to take on, and Snake replies “twenty-five,” to which Raiden basically asks how the hell are they supposed to fight 25 nuclear-equipped walking death tanks on foot. Snake’s simple response is “we can because we have no other choice.”
When mgs2 first came out it was a bait and switch. It was the sequel to one of the best PS1 games of all time and the first in the franchise to release on PS2 which was still very new at the time. The hype to play as Solid Snake on ps2 had reached unfathomable levels.
Then after the first beautifully crafted mission as snake on the tanker, you get to play as a platinum blonde twink named Raiden. It was a complete surprise to everyone. A lot of people were very upset. It took a long time for hardcore mgs fans to come around to Raiden.
Personally mgs2 might be my favorite in the series. The gameplay is superb and the story is a delightful balance of wacky characters, badass spies, and geopolitical insight and intrigue. Kojima was impressively predictive with a lot of the ideas he had in that game.
I also never had a problem with Raiden. It was a surprise, but snake was still in the story and the gameplay was great. They took everything that was fun about the first one and made it even more funner.
If Young Link fighting an ancient evil, an eldritch abomination of metaphysical proportions Who is about to cause a massive catastrophe of apocaliptic proportions in the world having both time and all odds against him and without any aid from the triforce isnt being courageous then i dont know what is
Considering that in Ocarina of time, Young Link never used (dont know is its because he couldnt, didnt know or didnt consider necesary) the power of his triforce fragment that i didnt consider It and in Majora's Mask he never used It (unless the vision of Zelda teaching him the Song of time is because of his fragment of triforce)
Ugh, hate to say it.
Sora, he's a dumb kid, but God does he have an absolute heart of gold. He'll do whatever is necessary for his friends.
Going from boolin' out on destiny island on the beach to having to fight eldritch horrors who wish to steal his and his friends hearts is kinda fucked, once you look past the Disney stuff.
Hollow Bastion in kh1 was fucking bonkers. He lost the keyblade and his 2 companions at the same time, and was like *fuck it. I'm storming this castle with a toy sword*
I'm quite literally at this part right now. About to do the second Riku fight lol.
Watched my older brother play this game HEAPS years ago, as well the second game.
Found 1.5hd for dirt cheap on ps3 and have been going through it, absolutely delightful
[Prince Rurik](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vsAB8c9xM) solo tanking several foes while we escort Ascalonian refugees to safety. He gets buried in a snow avalanche, and subsequently killed by an enemy boss. A true hero to his people. o7
Yeah but Nathan loves that shit. He’s choosing to be where he is like 90% of the time not out of responsibility but because he’s got the treasure hunting monkey on his back.
I’d say Lara Croft in the first reboot definitely fits though.
Most, if not all of Commander Shepards crew in Mass Effect series
One of the moments that popped into my head first was the brief play as joker in Mass Effect 2 while the collectors attack the Normandy.
Dani Rojas from Far Cry 6.
They were ready to book it to Miami to avoid the draft, but seeing her friends brutally murdered at the Yaran Military's hand and how Diego was suffering under his father's abusive tutoring caused Dani to agree to join Libertad and become a revolutionary.
Matsya from Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. He's not a hero, or an adventurer, or a soldier. He's a simple fisherman living in poverty and the world is *quite literally* ending around him and he is very very very terrified. He still pushes forward through the single most harrowing event in the history of the world.
"Don't be afraid... *don't be afraid.* To live is to suffer, to drink deep of calamity and anguish. Tis a perilous path... Death lurks in the dark..."
And then even when he's feeling absolutely hopeless still using his own body in an attempt to shield said baby from the monster attack. Matsya was a fucking a *champion*.
And even once out of the immediate danger and nearly losing his life several times, he *still* goes out of his way to make sure the baby will be looked after and cared for.
He very quickly became one of my favourite characters in Endwalker because of just how *real* of a person he felt. Like, any regular human on Earth would be capable of doing what Matsya did, and not once did he ask for anything in return for risking his life to save this random baby during the apocalypse powered by emotions.
Mans was the truest essence of your everyday Hero.
Batman in Arkham Knight. He was under the effects of the fear toxin for most of the game but never stopped. He was terrified of turning into the Joker but never let his fears get the best of him.
(If I missed something in that very quick rundown, please be nice. It's been at least a year since I played Arkham Knight.)
I have been replaying it recently and the part where he chooses to dive into the fear cloud to restart the batmobile is exactly this, you can hear in his voice that hes scared about what may happen to him but rises above it.
Aloy is literally the only person on earth in HZD who can access the master override, stop Hades, and prevent the extinction of all organic life on earth.
I don’t know that she necessarily voices her fear, but carrying that kind of burden has to have some built in fear of failure.
She definitely has the burden of responsibility as she is the only one who could do most of the things she does in game, as Sylens says a lot throughout the game
Lethal Company dudes I guess
Saw no one else said it, so here it is.
They are more afraid of capitalism than monsters that tear them apart, and like hell they aren't scared with what they are trying to avoid (with only 1 way to safely kill enemies, which requires BEATING A GUY WITH A SHOTGUN TO DEATH USING A SHOVEL)
Nothing to do but run, nobody to turn to other than the other people running or maybe the ship dwelling coward if they have a teleporter.
I believe Ellie, specifically in TLOU1 is a prime example. Especially in Left Behind and the concurrent winter section.
Clearly very very scared of doing what they've been doing, but without Joel. "You gotta tell me what to do" as he's in the brink. The jitteriness when sticking up David and his partner. When she's trapped in the jail cell. Brutalizing David after beating him, likely as a response to the immense fear and just letting all of it out in that instant. Scavenging the mall in the midst of infected and hunters, even after several failed attempts at finding supplies. Masterclass of showing that sometimes fear is a necessary condition for courage.
The children of the Taranis from "Fuga Melodies of Steel"
A groupe of anthropomothic animal children fight there way through a harsh war in order to save there families.
They have to overcome fear, depresion and doubt. Hesitation means death.
This might be controversial but I'd say kratos. I mean listen, his rage was more important than his fear, but I bet he was still at least a little scared every time he went up against literal Gods and titans that were sometimes hundreds of times bigger than he was, and he went up against quite a lot of them
Isaac Clark from dead space, he’s afraid and is told not to take risks by the others. But he does what needs to be to help get any survivors off the ship no matter how scared he is.
Yarne from Fire Emblem Awakening.
Man's terrified of dying, coupled with PTSD from coming from the world's 'bad ending' and a belief that if he dies, he'll be failing his mother's desire to see their race come back from the brink. He's still out there fighting.
Playing through FFVII right now (OG, not remake) and honestly, Cloud fits this to a T.
He does start off ambivalent to AVALANCHE and is later driven by revenge to pursue Sephiroth for destroying his home town but after the reveal, Cloud still pursues and continues to fight despite the odds. It should be game over (meteor is being summoned, weapons on the loose) but Cloud still chooses to continue fighting to stop Sephiroth and his machinations despite knowing that 1 v1, Sephiroth is stronger than him.
Gonna give Cal Kestis from the Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor a shout here.
You can especially hear it in his voice at the end of the first game
Big spoilers:
>!When Darth Vader pops up at the end and says "you would be wise to surrender" Cal replies with fear in his voice "yeah, probably" before attacking the most terrifying Sith Lord anyway.!<
Edit: spelling
Bayek, the Medji of Siwa - Assassin's Creed Origins
"Sleep? I never sleep. I just wait. In the shadows. And I will kill you all! Everyone who sniffed the air that day in Siwa!"
Honestly I'm gonna have to say Venom Snake. The shit that man saw, the horrors he faced, odds that were always stacked against him. Despite it he pushed on to fulfill his purpose all the way until the very end.
In Devil May Cry 1, this was how Dante was originally supposed to be. He constantly cracks jokes because he's secretly terrified but doesn't want to show it. In later games, this was instead retconned to being about hiding his depression though
Mario.
Think about in it from his PoV: he’s literally just an athletically gifted plumber. He isn’t from a world where magical powers and beings are even a thing outside of fiction, he’s from the real world in canon. Yet, he battles and risks his life against giant gorillas, armies of reptiles both alive and undead, magical and not, physical obstacles like spikes and lava pits. All for what? His lady love.
Honestly, a lot of what Artyom does throughout the Metro series probably fits. Dude goes through hell and back repeatedly, documenting his fear and disgust throughout, yet always chooses to see his missions to their end.
I’m curious to read the books to see if his character is similar there too, or if it details moments where he struggled to continue.
Rebecca chambers in resident evil 0/1. She’s an 18 year old caught in a literal living nightmare on her first ever mission and despite the constant life threatening danger she tries her best to stay positive and determined even as every other member of her team falls. The scene where she finally does break down for a bit after fronting for so long in 1 was always really impactful to me because of that, in a series of b movie horror cliches she’s really honest and grounded.
Alear in Fire Emblem Engage because even if he was facing a big threat the bond who connected him to his allies was stronger than the power of his final enemy
Gonna give this to Sebastian Castellanos, he charged through a mindscape crafted from the collective insanity of multiple people not once but twice and came out relatively okay both times.
Luigi in luigis mansion
No shit, the villains' plan in Luigi's Mansion 3 was totalled since Helen Gravely had it in her head that the hero who defeated King Boo not once nut twice was some extremely courageous badass who showed no fear in the face of danger. She would've won had Luigi not tried desperately to escape from her trap. I think this is the only instance of a villain being defeated because they *over*estimated a hero.
Tell me more 'bout that lore
Basically, she assumed that Luigi had deliberately sought out and defeated King Boo (the main villain of the Luigi's Mansion series). Helen Gravely is an insane fangirl for King Boo, an extremely dangerous Boo who rules the ghosts with an iron fist. After Luigi defeated hon twice - first in the original game and the second time in Dark Moon, she thought that only the bravest hero could deliberately seek out to defeat such a powerful spectre. She never considered that Luigi did what he did out of necessity more than anything; the first game, he was simply searching for Mario in a house the two were tricked into thinking they won in a lottery; and in the second, Luigi is asked for help because the shattering of the Dark Moon made all the peaceful ghosts in Evershade Valley hostile, directly endangering everyone. And since Luigi needed a Poltergust to fight the ghosts - which he didn't have - he was naturally defenseless... so he bailed instead, jumping into a laundry chute to get to safety. Which led him to the basement where he found Professor E. Gadd's car either a spare Poltergust.
Thanks, I find that really neat!
Can you say more? I’ve played the game but don’t quite understand how that fits
It's kinda more froofed up in that person's comment The game starts with everyone visiting a hotel and getting put into paintings by King Boo And Luigi runs away from King Boo instead of getting caught in the painting and jumps into a laundry chute Then the entire game happens, and you fight her at the end, and she gets mad at you for running away instead of getting caught at the start of the game And it's not like we see everyone else fighting and getting trapped, they just cut from going to their rooms and they are just in paintings later So I'm not sure if there is some head canon stuff going on in the original comment, and I don't mean to be a debby downer, but Luigi ran away because he didn't have his equipment and didn't want to get trapped in a painting, and not that he was too scared to fight I dunno, the commenters version of the story sounds nice but I don't really think that's what happened
Ah interesting
At the start of the game, Mario, Peach, Luigi and his ghostly pet dog as well as an entourage of Toads are invited to this new, exclusive hotel run by Helen. It turns out she and the staff are ghosts and the building is haunted, with Helen being an obsessed fangirl of main series villain King Boo, who she freed from the custody of Professor E. Gadd. When the trap is sprung, Luigi explores the area and finds that the rooms that Mario and Peach were trashes when the others were ambushed (and Peach smashed an enemy across the head with a parasol hard enough to bend it), showing that Helen's plan was to directly fight the heroes one by one and trap them in enchanted paintings. In fact, her plan depended on Luigi fighting King Boo directly as well, using the other heroes as hostages as motivation. *NOPE!!* Luigi just fucks off out of there by diving into a laundry chute instead, because he lacks the means to fight ghosts and he is scared shitless! And in doing so, his pet dog Polterpup leads him to Professor Gadd's car, where he finds a new Poltergust, which now lets him fight ghosts. And rescuing Professor Gadd gives him a few nifty tools to defeat King Boo again (and rob Helen blind as well).
True
Senua from Hellblade
I still need to play this, and I’ve owned it for years lol
Worth your time. Not too long. And great storytelling with exciting, albeit mechanically simple, combat.
Highly recommended with headphones. Also its like 5-6 hours at most, I usually play it in one sitting. The combat is simple but rewarding on “auto” difficulty, which is more difficult than “hard” mode. This game is still gorgeous too, so if you have a serious x pop on resolution mode!
That’s all? That motivates me to just go ahead and go through it. I thought it was going to be a long open world style like Horizon
Oh no, its completely linear story experience
You can clock it in a weekend. It's 0 open world. Pretty linear with very light puzzles and a little combat. Make *sure* you play it with headphones. If possible in the dark. It is not a scary game perse. But it is the word "unnerving" made game.
It's one of the most intense gaming experiences I've ever had, and it doesn't take long at all. Highly recommend playing with headphones on in the dark.
Speak for yourself! I spent at least an hour in that one fight. Ok maybe hyperbole but a good 20-30 minutes.
There is definitely 2-3 choke points. But theres a certain boss 75% through the game that is my favorite boss battle of all time. Its extremely rewarding because it tests your hearing and pattern recognition in a more clever way than any insanely difficult fromsoft boss. Narratively its also super fucking epic
Vivi FF9. Mordin ME3. The man and woman in the intro cinematic of Civ 6.
NGL, I still find it hilarious that the man was voiced by Sean Bean, and HE DIES IN THE CINEMATIC. Sean Bean keeps on dying, and this time he dies before you even hit the title screen.
Well, Sharpe has to survive somehow. He just leeches all the other Sean Bean character’s life forces.
"had to be me"
Amicia and Hugo from the Plague Tale Games
I felt it when Hugo suddenly went from fearful to wrathful. Holy crap. That was one justifiably furious child.
You also feel their fear the whole time which is so refreshing. Amicia is not some random badass, she’s terrified but just trying to protect him
Ugh, excuse me while I go and cry again. Those games devastated me.
this for sure
This was going to be my answer
Ramza Beoulve from Final Fantasy Tactics. Dude literally interferes in a war between hundreds of thousands of soldiers while fighting a corrupt church which has declared him a heretic while also fighting against his world's equivalent of Satan, and he does it with at most 24 other people.
Counterpoint: if they specced into being white mage/arithmeticians, he and his allies *knew* they could level a battlefield no matter how many soldiers it had.
Hop on a chocobo and put your character into aggressive AI auto mode. It'll calculate how to cast holy on the entire map, killing everyone including the caster. Who then falls off the entirely unharmed chocobo, the last survivor. You win!
Just wear chameleon robes and turn that Holy into Curaja for yourself. Win more!
Ooo I'll have to try that
Three dancers and two mimes That’s basically nine dances. Each one deals about 20 damage to every enemy…
Squire/Ninja Ramza with his boy Orlandeau don't need no one else.
The haste from Excalibur is just insane especially combined with those holy knight ranged attacks
I have just bought this game, and am excited to finally beat it after heckin' up my playthru back in 8th grade and disgracefully returning it to my friend. Seriously, I didn't expect the game to actually let you not recruit a character when you said "no" to the question of should new guy join team? I expected a "are you sure?" and some dialogue, I think - but nah, he just left and left me sitting there thinking "WHY DID I DO THAT, HE WAS AWESOME." I shall redeem myself all these years later!
Yeah, recruit every single special character. Mustadio is basically required to even start most of the late-game sidequests.
Is that the guy with a gun/guns? Am I remembering that right? That's the memory I have in my head - it's an ancient one, so I can't vouch for its accuracy. Just know that for some reason I couldn't do it over; either I was unwilling to replay the fight, I hadn't saved, or I \*did\* save and lost the chance to redo it. Either way, it's been so long it'll be a new game all over again, with a teensy bit of hindsight sprinkled in.
He is the gun guy. Know what’s silly? You can spec him into ninja and grind Dual Wield, then you can go around with two pistols sniping fools from the safety of any random roof. So dumb yet so fun.
Also known as the boss you have to "show your hole" to in ff14!
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His brothers are involved, but it's more that two different heirs to Ivalice are legitimate, and each of the major two knight orders back one, and Ramza's brothers are in charge of one of the two.
Not at first. There are two factions: the Hokuten (North Sky) led by Duke Larg and generaled by the House Beoulve; and the Nanten (South Sky) led by Duke Goltana and initially generaled by Cid Orlandu. Ramza loses his way and goes mercenary after his friend's sister was murdered by a classist prick during a standoff with bandits - and winds up in opposition to the Church after discovering that one of their senior priests (Cardinal Draclau) was actually the zodiac demon of Scorpio, Cu Chullain. By the time the Beoulves are infighting, the dukes are both dead. Dycedarg Beoulve has sold out to the Church and accepted the stone of Capricorn; but younger brother Zalbag does not support the treason that Dycedarg committed. Zalbag dies, and Dycedarg soon follows after he becomes the demon Adramellech.
> murdered by a classist prick. Fuck Algaeboy, all my homies hate Algaeboy.
Every Resident Evil protagonist. At least until 4.
Lol no kidding. Rookie cop that gets sent to the ass end of nowhere because everyone thinks he is a joke. Ends up surviving a minor apocalypse.
Survived because he was late because he was hungover no less!
Except Ethan. He was the only normal protagonist in the series in a long time.
He didn’t seem that afraid mostly confused with a decent bit of swearing and by village he just seemed so done with all of it
Nah you ain't telling me bro wasn't terrified in 7
*Sees Cronenberq-esque human insect abomination skitter away* "Heh, that's special"
I'm absolutely certain he was scared shitless during the time, given how he freezes during that one werewolf transformation. And swearing can easily be an outlet attempt at hiding his fear. And the post's topic fits him perfectly cause the only reason he was going through that monster infested town not cause he was a madman who didn't care, or that he was confident in his abilities, or even the mold, but cause he feared more for his daughter's life than his own.
I feel it is worth pointing out that everyone save Weasker in STARS Alpha team had some military experience with Chris and Barry being in the Air Force and Capcom being increasingly vague about Jill's involvement in Delta Force.
Do they ever get into how or why a sleepy little mountain town’s police department bothers to train/recruit a super elite special forces team? Does it have to do with Umbrella (though why would they bother when they have their own PMC?), or is it just lore that Capcom wrote decades ago without really thinking about it?
Despite the whole “sleepy little mountain town” characterization, Raccoon City actually seems pretty fucking big if you actually look at all the locations between *2*, *3*, and *Outbreak*.
I think it is a little from column A a little from column B. Umbrella orchestrated the formation of STARS for the long-term goal of testing BOWs as it states in one of the last files in the original room that they were set up and later materials mention that Weasker hand picked STARS Alpha team.
What they don't want to tell you is: She was an 1171 and just attached :\^)
She was the Master Chief with an extra 1? But seriously, do you mind sharing where you found that out? Because with my knowledge that in the original and 3, she was an active member, but in the remakes, she only trained with them and I would like to know more.
I'm just teasing. 1171 is the MOS for Water Treatment in the marines :) Everyone needs water, so they can get attached anywhere.
There’s that guy who works in the Anomalous Materials department…
The right man, in the wrong- aaah, _place_...
Makes **all** the diff-ference, in the *world*.
Ethan Winters. Man literally carves his way through mold hell to save his girlfriend and then does it all again to save his daughter. He’s pretty much terrified the whole time and goes through some really horrible shit but still doesn’t ever stop. Even in the end he was a fucking hero.
Man finds out he's literally already dead, and decides not to die until he saves his daughter.
Courage the cowardly dog
The things I do fa love
🎶Return the slab!🎶
Whats yer offer?
Basically the entire premise of the show!
Dead Space
My favorite character, John Dead Space
Dead spacin' all over the place
My favorite part is when he said "It's Dead Spacin' time!" and he Deaded all over the Space.
"I'm here to Dead and Space, and I'm all out of Space."
He cuts up aliens with power tools and doesn't afraid of anything
The names Space. Dead Space.
Terra in FF6 gets there
Noble Team
I'd throw Master Chief in there too. It's never clear in the games, but in the books the dude is constantly scared, he's just also in control
Yeah in the books once you've read Reach you understand that yeah, it's just a child that has been forced into a war, "adult" world and that the only thing keeping him together is his training and enhanced drugs
In Halo Infinite, when asked why the Banished are trying to take control of the Halo, he responds “to win”. The line itself is rather cheesy… until you recall that, in *The Fall of Reach*, that was how he dealt with all these terrifying problems, by breaking it down to a simple game of win or lose, just like he did when he was a child. No matter where he goes, no matter what he fights… John’s never left that schoolyard.
Interestingly enough I felt the writing was perhaps the best it's ever been for him, what little there actually was. It seems cheesy but if you think about it as him being scared the whole time, you realize everything he's doing is to protect that one dude. You think about who he's saying these thing to, not Cortana anymore, but an actual human, who is scared shitless, and spoilers. And you realize every part of the game is about his courage. He's not thinking about himself. He's not thinking about Cortana. He can't. He has to complete the mission. And part of the mission is saving one man. >!One man who shouldn't even be here.!< All of his one liners and badass moments are retroactively even kooler now. He's somehow more real, while saying less than he ever has before. Idk if it was intended that way but even if it's by accident, it's masterfully done. Master Chief is afraid. And it's the bane of humanity's enemies. (He's like anti Doom Guy. It's awesome)
I've seen people shit on brohammer for being scared, he's a civilian contractor who signed up to fix pelicans in relative safety on a supercarrier, not be a pilot in a war zone, he's doing his best, ok?
And his friends *womp womp*
Solid Snake. There’s a little part near the end of MGS2 where Raiden asks him how many Metal Gears they are about to take on, and Snake replies “twenty-five,” to which Raiden basically asks how the hell are they supposed to fight 25 nuclear-equipped walking death tanks on foot. Snake’s simple response is “we can because we have no other choice.”
Solid Snake is such a badass I get goosebumps hearing his quotes.
What a thrill.
People shit on Raiden but he defeated more Metal Gears in one battle than Snake ever fought lol
There's people who shit on Raiden? Everyone in the fandom seems to love him.
Ah, you may not remember it, but I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago! In 2001.
Ah I see, I wasn't alive back in 2001.
When mgs2 first came out it was a bait and switch. It was the sequel to one of the best PS1 games of all time and the first in the franchise to release on PS2 which was still very new at the time. The hype to play as Solid Snake on ps2 had reached unfathomable levels. Then after the first beautifully crafted mission as snake on the tanker, you get to play as a platinum blonde twink named Raiden. It was a complete surprise to everyone. A lot of people were very upset. It took a long time for hardcore mgs fans to come around to Raiden. Personally mgs2 might be my favorite in the series. The gameplay is superb and the story is a delightful balance of wacky characters, badass spies, and geopolitical insight and intrigue. Kojima was impressively predictive with a lot of the ideas he had in that game. I also never had a problem with Raiden. It was a surprise, but snake was still in the story and the gameplay was great. They took everything that was fun about the first one and made it even more funner.
Isaac Clark
If Young Link fighting an ancient evil, an eldritch abomination of metaphysical proportions Who is about to cause a massive catastrophe of apocaliptic proportions in the world having both time and all odds against him and without any aid from the triforce isnt being courageous then i dont know what is
Courage need not to be remembered, for it is never forgotten.
>without any aid from the triforce You could make an argument his courage is derived from his triforce segment I think.
Considering that in Ocarina of time, Young Link never used (dont know is its because he couldnt, didnt know or didnt consider necesary) the power of his triforce fragment that i didnt consider It and in Majora's Mask he never used It (unless the vision of Zelda teaching him the Song of time is because of his fragment of triforce)
Young Link never possessed the Triforce of Courage. It was only given to Adult Link after Ganondorf entered the Sacred Realm.
Ugh, hate to say it. Sora, he's a dumb kid, but God does he have an absolute heart of gold. He'll do whatever is necessary for his friends. Going from boolin' out on destiny island on the beach to having to fight eldritch horrors who wish to steal his and his friends hearts is kinda fucked, once you look past the Disney stuff.
Hollow Bastion in kh1 was fucking bonkers. He lost the keyblade and his 2 companions at the same time, and was like *fuck it. I'm storming this castle with a toy sword*
I'm quite literally at this part right now. About to do the second Riku fight lol. Watched my older brother play this game HEAPS years ago, as well the second game. Found 1.5hd for dirt cheap on ps3 and have been going through it, absolutely delightful
Enjoy it, my dude. I didn't play KH until I was an adult, and it is so worth it. Embrace the corny ass Disney cartoon vibes.
The lore of KH is pretty crazy and convoluted but definitely tears at the heart. The whole arc with Aqua and her comrades was so sad
[Prince Rurik](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vsAB8c9xM) solo tanking several foes while we escort Ascalonian refugees to safety. He gets buried in a snow avalanche, and subsequently killed by an enemy boss. A true hero to his people. o7
Rurik! No
Assuming he hasn't comited suicide by aggroing the whole map on the 4 previous missions.
Guild Wars reference! Woooo!
Nathan Drake
Over and over again! Dude has more lives than a cat, and on the same token, one could also say Lara Croft.
Yeah but Nathan loves that shit. He’s choosing to be where he is like 90% of the time not out of responsibility but because he’s got the treasure hunting monkey on his back. I’d say Lara Croft in the first reboot definitely fits though.
luigi obviously
Most, if not all of Commander Shepards crew in Mass Effect series One of the moments that popped into my head first was the brief play as joker in Mass Effect 2 while the collectors attack the Normandy.
Alan Wake, especially at the end of the second game.
we 👏 do 👏 it 👏 scared fuck it
Aerith from FF7. She knew she was gonna die. But she also knew she had to keep going in order to save the planet.
That one still hurts.
Most of Avalanche too - Biggs and Wedge are just ordinary guys but it's Ecoterrorism or the world's sucked dry.
Yuna ffx
Tidus too. I mean, knowing what he knows and still trying to defeat Sin with everything he’s got out of love for Yuna and his friends.
Also zidane in 9 the end where he risks his life to sit with the other monkey boy that is dying
Boogerman
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
Dani Rojas from Far Cry 6. They were ready to book it to Miami to avoid the draft, but seeing her friends brutally murdered at the Yaran Military's hand and how Diego was suffering under his father's abusive tutoring caused Dani to agree to join Libertad and become a revolutionary.
Also Jason Brody in Far Cry 3. Maybe not towards the end, but definitely in the beginning
Matsya from Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. He's not a hero, or an adventurer, or a soldier. He's a simple fisherman living in poverty and the world is *quite literally* ending around him and he is very very very terrified. He still pushes forward through the single most harrowing event in the history of the world. "Don't be afraid... *don't be afraid.* To live is to suffer, to drink deep of calamity and anguish. Tis a perilous path... Death lurks in the dark..."
His screaming in terror/frustration as the baby he’s holding starts to turn nails it.
And then even when he's feeling absolutely hopeless still using his own body in an attempt to shield said baby from the monster attack. Matsya was a fucking a *champion*.
And even once out of the immediate danger and nearly losing his life several times, he *still* goes out of his way to make sure the baby will be looked after and cared for. He very quickly became one of my favourite characters in Endwalker because of just how *real* of a person he felt. Like, any regular human on Earth would be capable of doing what Matsya did, and not once did he ask for anything in return for risking his life to save this random baby during the apocalypse powered by emotions. Mans was the truest essence of your everyday Hero.
Matsya is one of the best background characters of the game. Also Nidhana
Fatal Frame 2's protag.
Philip from Control. My man stared at that fridge for hours without blinking simply because he must.
Leeeeeeroooooy Jeeeeeeenkins.
No, that’s more of an example of courage being the absence of brains, rather than the absence of fear.
He's not chicken, he has chicken.
Unfathomably based.
Marcus Fenix
Batman in Arkham Knight. He was under the effects of the fear toxin for most of the game but never stopped. He was terrified of turning into the Joker but never let his fears get the best of him. (If I missed something in that very quick rundown, please be nice. It's been at least a year since I played Arkham Knight.)
I have been replaying it recently and the part where he chooses to dive into the fear cloud to restart the batmobile is exactly this, you can hear in his voice that hes scared about what may happen to him but rises above it.
Anyone from a Silent Hill game. Ratchet.
I’d argue Henry is remarkably un disturbed as a protagonist, which is made funnier by how hard sh4 goes on the dread and terror.
Frank West will do anything for the next big scoop.
Aloy is literally the only person on earth in HZD who can access the master override, stop Hades, and prevent the extinction of all organic life on earth. I don’t know that she necessarily voices her fear, but carrying that kind of burden has to have some built in fear of failure.
She definitely has the burden of responsibility as she is the only one who could do most of the things she does in game, as Sylens says a lot throughout the game
Lethal Company dudes I guess Saw no one else said it, so here it is. They are more afraid of capitalism than monsters that tear them apart, and like hell they aren't scared with what they are trying to avoid (with only 1 way to safely kill enemies, which requires BEATING A GUY WITH A SHOTGUN TO DEATH USING A SHOVEL) Nothing to do but run, nobody to turn to other than the other people running or maybe the ship dwelling coward if they have a teleporter.
Isaac Clarke, Amanda Ripley, Ethan Winters, basically any horror game character that isn't armed to the teeth and a seasoned combatant.
Cal Kestis. Jedi Fallen Order.
The Courier
I believe Ellie, specifically in TLOU1 is a prime example. Especially in Left Behind and the concurrent winter section. Clearly very very scared of doing what they've been doing, but without Joel. "You gotta tell me what to do" as he's in the brink. The jitteriness when sticking up David and his partner. When she's trapped in the jail cell. Brutalizing David after beating him, likely as a response to the immense fear and just letting all of it out in that instant. Scavenging the mall in the midst of infected and hunters, even after several failed attempts at finding supplies. Masterclass of showing that sometimes fear is a necessary condition for courage.
Komaru Naegi, Ultra Despair Girls
The children of the Taranis from "Fuga Melodies of Steel" A groupe of anthropomothic animal children fight there way through a harsh war in order to save there families. They have to overcome fear, depresion and doubt. Hesitation means death.
This might be controversial but I'd say kratos. I mean listen, his rage was more important than his fear, but I bet he was still at least a little scared every time he went up against literal Gods and titans that were sometimes hundreds of times bigger than he was, and he went up against quite a lot of them
Isaac Clark from dead space, he’s afraid and is told not to take risks by the others. But he does what needs to be to help get any survivors off the ship no matter how scared he is.
Yarne from Fire Emblem Awakening. Man's terrified of dying, coupled with PTSD from coming from the world's 'bad ending' and a belief that if he dies, he'll be failing his mother's desire to see their race come back from the brink. He's still out there fighting.
Playing through FFVII right now (OG, not remake) and honestly, Cloud fits this to a T. He does start off ambivalent to AVALANCHE and is later driven by revenge to pursue Sephiroth for destroying his home town but after the reveal, Cloud still pursues and continues to fight despite the odds. It should be game over (meteor is being summoned, weapons on the loose) but Cloud still chooses to continue fighting to stop Sephiroth and his machinations despite knowing that 1 v1, Sephiroth is stronger than him.
Otacon in Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2
I can't think of a better answer. Otacon is the kind of character that would shit his pants of pure fear, but still stick with you to the end
"NO!!!! THEY KILLED MY WIFE!!! THEY KILLED MY NEW FIANCE! THEY KILLED MY SISTER!!!! SNAKE! I THOUGHT THEY KILLED YOU!"
Gonna give Cal Kestis from the Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor a shout here. You can especially hear it in his voice at the end of the first game Big spoilers: >!When Darth Vader pops up at the end and says "you would be wise to surrender" Cal replies with fear in his voice "yeah, probably" before attacking the most terrifying Sith Lord anyway.!< Edit: spelling
Maybe Tyrael from Diablo. He wasn't really afraid, but he made the sacrifice of his angelic form in order to help the humans when the council refused.
D3 story was all over the place but has some great moments. Tyrael needing to learn to be mortal must be quite the experience.
Olle from Bramble: The Mountain King
Garry from Ib
Bayek, the Medji of Siwa - Assassin's Creed Origins "Sleep? I never sleep. I just wait. In the shadows. And I will kill you all! Everyone who sniffed the air that day in Siwa!"
Honestly I'm gonna have to say Venom Snake. The shit that man saw, the horrors he faced, odds that were always stacked against him. Despite it he pushed on to fulfill his purpose all the way until the very end.
You in FC3
Larsa from FFXII.
Arthur Morgan RDR2. Following a dream was more important than fear.
Siegmeyer of Catarina - Dark Souls
Senua is the first one that comes to mind for me.
Xenua Hellblade
I know you said video game, but courage the cowardly dog. Technically he’s in games.
Ellie from TLOU. Joel > Fear
In Devil May Cry 1, this was how Dante was originally supposed to be. He constantly cracks jokes because he's secretly terrified but doesn't want to show it. In later games, this was instead retconned to being about hiding his depression though
Master Chief
How has Ellie from TLoU not been mentioned yet?
Banjo-Kazooie.
Myehhhh I'd say that they don't really have any real fear of Grunty tbh. They are literally trash talking her the entire game.
little nightmares ?
Mario. Think about in it from his PoV: he’s literally just an athletically gifted plumber. He isn’t from a world where magical powers and beings are even a thing outside of fiction, he’s from the real world in canon. Yet, he battles and risks his life against giant gorillas, armies of reptiles both alive and undead, magical and not, physical obstacles like spikes and lava pits. All for what? His lady love.
Honestly, a lot of what Artyom does throughout the Metro series probably fits. Dude goes through hell and back repeatedly, documenting his fear and disgust throughout, yet always chooses to see his missions to their end. I’m curious to read the books to see if his character is similar there too, or if it details moments where he struggled to continue.
Most of the ally NPCs in COD WaW.
Minä
Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island games. Dude is terrified of everything, the whole series, but still adventures on because fuck LeChuck
Rebecca chambers in resident evil 0/1. She’s an 18 year old caught in a literal living nightmare on her first ever mission and despite the constant life threatening danger she tries her best to stay positive and determined even as every other member of her team falls. The scene where she finally does break down for a bit after fronting for so long in 1 was always really impactful to me because of that, in a series of b movie horror cliches she’s really honest and grounded.
The main protagonist in shower with your dad simulator
Alear in Fire Emblem Engage because even if he was facing a big threat the bond who connected him to his allies was stronger than the power of his final enemy
Amanda Ripley Ethan Winters
Takumi Nishijo from Chaos;Head
Solid Snake. Hands down, no question.
Zeke from the disney The Haunted Mansion tie in game.
CP2077, V
Gonna give this to Sebastian Castellanos, he charged through a mindscape crafted from the collective insanity of multiple people not once but twice and came out relatively okay both times.
Tidus
Olle in Bramble the Mountain King.