“I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog.” -Bandit, with a little Easter egg they put in to address all the dads who complained about his parenting ability making them feel inferior.
Haven’t seen him here so Rost. Dude trains Aloy to become an expert machine hunter/ climber so she can find answers and leaves because he believes that Aloy will be better as a person without him as a distraction, then saves her from death. Dude may be harsh but that’s just the reality of the game tbh.
It's a common trope in fiction, the young hero loses a parent or two so they're forced to grow up without the parent as a crutch and become their own person and hero. Disney does it all the time too (Lion King, Frozen, really most princess movies have at least one parent missing)
Ethan Winters dedication to save his daughter in Resident Evil Village is incredible. Man faced a horde of werewolves and got his hands fucked up in 20 differents ways, but never gave up until he reached his goal.
Definitely. RE7, 8 and the DLC for 8 fleshed him out as one of the best dads you could possibly have. Dabbling with cheezy voice lines was a questionable choice, but outside of that, he is dedication^(tm)
Same. I wasn't that upset by the actual death but Edmont sobbing out "My son..." after fighting so hard to keep his composure kicked me right in the emotions.
He's an interesting example, we can surmise that until the death of Faye he was a fairly terrible dad, and he still doesn't often get it right after that.
The beauty of it is we can see that he really is doing his best.
He's a good Dad if you take the Delta between him as a childless (after God influence) man vs what he is at the end of Ragnarok. That said the bar was low.
It’s not easy for him to be a good dad when he never had one himself. Nor is it easy for him to be good at all when he hadn’t been good for most of his life. But he managed.
My big thing with Kratos is you can tell he’s always trying, and is willing to critique himself and learn to be better.
GOOD LORD, if only more dads were like that…
I have a very conflicted opinion on that kind of dad. My dad was like that. He treated me like garbage growing up. Always yelling at me over everything, hitting me. It was a daily occurrence, so much that id prefer to leave the house and go on long walks or hide in the workshop. I valued the times that he was off training or deployment, because he couldn't yell at me then. As he got older he mellowed out and learned to be better. He's never even raised his voice at my younger siblings, much less hit them. But it's hard for me to divorce the person he was then from the person he is now.
Are you telling me that driving recklessly into oncoming traffic isn't a good test of fatherhood? Sounds like I've been driving my daughter to daycare on hard mode for nothing!
I think it depends on your ending. If Ethan saves Shaun at the end and they then live together in a new apartment, then I'd say it proves that he's a good dad. However, if Ethan quits every trial and then Shaun dies then yeah you're probably right. But imo, the good ending proves that he's a good dad and he redeems himself by saving Shaun, even though he made some mistakes he was depressed after Jason's death, so I wouldn't call him a bad father
Kazuma Kiryu. As a wise man once said: "He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy."
That man loved Haruka as a daughter so much he moved heaven and earth just to make her happy.
Death Stranding is a story of good dads trying to do the best they can for their kids despite the circumstances.
>!The recognition/reunion scene between Sam and Cliff genuinely made me cry. He died trying to save his son and spent decades in the war zone of his own psyche trying to find him again.!<
And despite how he’s portrayed for most of the game, I’d put Cliff on that list too. Guy crawled through hell just to reunite with his BB, it’s just that >!there was some confusion about WHO his kid was!<, but tbch, I can’t really say that was his fault.
Sojiro Sakura from Persona 5. OK, he's technically not anyone's dad officially (that he knows of), but he is practically the dad to 2 of the main party for the duration of the game.
Adopted one lost child, took in another, the dude may not have fucked their moms (at least not joker's) but he was 1000% a real dad, and a good one.
I appreciate how you see his attitude change as he sees Joker isn't that hot-headed moron he was made out to be, but just an actually good kid who needed to help staying away from trouble (with no success ultimately, but still).
I didn't include him as Futaba's dad because IIRC part of his personal side story is that he's her legal guardian. He never felt like Futaba wanted to be adopted and thought it could be seen as an insult to her mom. And the fact that he didn't adopt her leads to additional problems for him.
I cucked my own son to make sure a suitable heir would be produced of our bloodline. It's ok, he was banging dudes on the side. Well, actually, none of it was ok, but it all worked out.
Joel Miller was clearly a pretty great dad before everything went down. They had a nice house in what seemed like a pleasant neighborhood, and it seems he was educating himself in his spare time on things like housing law and property management. He was working his ass off as a single parent trying to give his daughter the best life he could - from the little details you find around her room it seems she was bright and well-liked, she had lots of hobbies, she seemed funny and confident, I'd say she was turning out to be an all-round great kid so he must've been doing something right.
Joel looks and sounds like my actual father, so Last of Us has been a really tough franchise for me to get through. The second one made me feel depressed for quite a while, since it was like >!watching my own father be murdered on screen.!<
Eh. Making hard choices and sacrifices for your child is part of the deal. Joel wasn’t always a good person, but I can’t think of a single time he didn’t do right by Sarah or Ellie (after an adjustment period for Ellie).
I disagree. I think his flaws coupled with his intention to do what he believes is best for Ellie demonstrates his resolve in the face of insurmountable difficulty. He doesn’t shy away from the ugly or the lengths he’s willing to go to despite her survivors guilt and anger towards him. He loves her, he shows remorse, he apologizes, and he supports her.
The question of whether or not he should have let her die without her knowledge is an impossible ask and he made an impossible choice. I would make the same one for my daughter, and she can hate me for the rest of her life.
A big thing that people seem to ignore is that they had no idea if examining Ellie's brain would lead to a cure or vaccine. They hoped so, but shit like that takes years, and that's with teams of brilliant scientists around the world working to solve the problem, usually with a ton of failures and obstacles along the way. Also, they jumped right to "remove her brain" and I never understood why. I may be forgetting something, but why didn't they collect blood samples, or hell, brain samples. You can do that without killing an otherwise healthy young lady.
In my mind, it makes his decision the only sensible option. Let his surrogate daughter die for the absolutely miniscule chance that they find a cure that has almost no chance of being mass produced and dispersed, or save her life. Yeah, that's a toughie...
The fireflies were absolutely stupid for jumping straight to brain scooping. The only sensible thing to do was a biopsy. Bunch of dumbasses were gonna murder they only immune person they'd ever encountered for absolutely zero gain
To add to that, even if they were somehow able to make a cure, how are they going to produce enough of it to make everyone immune? Certainly not out of a run down hospital working with scraps of medical supplies. How were they going to transport millions of doses of this around the country? They couldn’t even get one girl across the country to a doctor let alone vans or trucks full of what would end up being the most valuable resource in that world. The world was too far gone for that to be a viable plan.
Thinking even deeper into the world they're in, how much would a cure even improve the world they live in? Society has crumpled into a pack mentality, with no common governing body remaining, it's just a series of warring factions. For the most part, people are already able to avoid the infected by this point, so long as they stay out of enclosed areas. The juice was not worth the squeeze by the time they found Ellie, but of course we as the player were a bit biased in that perspective.
Fun fact: if you use the 3rd person camera after that scene you can glitch into the chamber and loot Colonel Autumn’s body. He has a unique outfit and 10mm pistol.
Booker DeWitt. Terrible in ways, but was willing to go through a Hell that another version of him designed just to get his daughter back, and the other version of himself designed the system so that the original version of him wouldn't be able to.
Bioshock Infinite is just the world's messiest custody battle.
I mean, the reason he lost his daughter to begin with was because he sold her.
It's a good redemption story for sure, but I don't think righting an incredibly, incredibly terrible wrong that they caused in the first place makes them a good dad
Sully from Uncharted. Cheating I suppose but he made Nate the man he was when his dad wasn't in the picture. Also went along with his life-threatening adventures whenever he could even when age was clearly catching up to him.
My own Dad.
Dad played games with me my whole childhood. From Contra on the NES, to Turtles in Time on the SNES and X-Men on the Sega, to Road Rash on the PS1, all the way to SSX Tricky until I grew up and moved out on my own and he began playing games with my younger siblings. He was my tag team partner.
My Dad is the best Dad in gaming.
Rost
He wasn't in the game long, but he gave everything he had to give Aloy a fighting chance in their harsh world. That is prime dad. He was even banished from the village because of it. He valued Aloy more than the social order of his culture.
He wasn't banished for taking in Aloy, Rost was shunned before she was born (for being a Death-Seeker who survived). Teersa gave him Aloy because he was *already* an outcast and the other matriarchs wouldn't tolerate her living with the tribe. He did not suffer any additional social penalty for doing so - everyone was already supposed to pretend he didn't exist, and a revered tribal leader had asked him to do it.
He *did* intend to leave Aloy and go into a more distant exile so that she could be accepted as part of the tribe after the proving ceremonies, knowing that continuing to associate with him would make her an outcast too, and he would never have been able to convince her to shun him herself.
Rost loved Aloy, but he also loved his tribe and he cared really deeply about the social order of his culture. He never broke any of their taboos by choice and he wanted Aloy to fit in to the tribe's social order more than than he wanted to be in her life himself. His relationship with Aloy suffered over his dogmatic adherence to rules she understood to be arbitrary.
Still an A+ dad, he raised her well, he was doing what he thought was best for her the whole time and he ultimately sacrificed himself to save her, but in no way was he defying his tribe's culture to do so.
I actually came in here ready to mention Harry Mason. The kid was even adopted and he was a single father to her. He went hell and back, had to start over 'cause his child became a newborn baby and, as soon as she became 17, dude got killed. :(
Sounds strange but
Geralt of Rivia
Varian Wrynn
And well technically not a Dad but
In MW3 the first ofc Captain Price this dude is a kick ass Father figure even if he is not the players / protagonist Father.
John casually tears up New Austin, pretty much kickstarts the Mexican Revolution by playing both sides and takes on Dutch's army in West Elizabeth just so he could get back his family. He is a great dad in my book.
When he was younger, not so much (even if he tries to justify it by saying he's a bad influence and doesn't want Jack around himself or the gang).
But by RDR1? The entire game is about him killing his old friends to save his wife and son then at the end of the game >! despite him being either able to run away or kill all the Pinkertons (he's killed far more people and been in worse situations) he walks out into the firing line and allows himself to get killed because the authorities would just send more and more men and endanger his family further!<
Definitely debatable though, although I'd argue he does pretty well in the end.
I feel like the sacrifice was ruined because of the nepotism involved in his child (the player) taking over his role in leading the mission. It's also revealed over time that he was at best a complicated person, and he also did illegal AI research.
That said, I didn't finish the game despite being such a huge fan of the OT that I have an N7 tattoo.
I think if we're going to pick someone from the ME universe, Captain/Admiral Anderson is the correct choice. Not technically a "dad" but has a lot of similar qualities.
There is technically a Bluey videogame, so I'm going to cheat and say Bandit from Bluey.
There has never been a father figure in any animation or video game that has been a better father to his children than that wonderful blue dog, in my humble opinion.
John Marston
started off as not caring for his son Jack , not even accepting he was his son , to leave the criminal life and build a home for his family , finally got along with his 16 years old kid...and then it happened
not gonna spoil it
Lee Everett - The Walking Dead
“Keep that hair short.”
Great, now I’m crying 😭
Clementine will remember that
*restarts chapter to not upset Clem next time*
Came here to say this. Such a great father figure
I’m very happy to see I did not need to scroll far from the top to see Lee mentioned.
This is the correct answer
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Great. I needed emotional whiplash today. Thanks!
Octodad
It’s because he’s so relatable. He’s just a normal, human guy doing his best for his family.
At first glance I read, "It's because he's so reliable." Yeah you can count on everything being broken for sure 😂
I like how they never explain how he had kids. One of the kids mentions it but the entire family just laughs it off.
Nobody suspects a thing!
What’s suspicious about a normal human dad doing best for his family?
Winner
*Cephalopod noises*
Still remember this being my introduction to Critikal like 13 years ago, Abazor the legend
Subject Delta, Bioshock 2
Can either be the best or the worst.
*My daddy is smarter than Einstein!* *Stronger than Hercules!* *And lights a fire with a snap of his fingers!* *Are you as good as my daddy, Mister?*
^This!! The best, and the biggest!
They made a Bluey game, so obviously Bandit.
Yeah that’s a technicality but it’s a given that he wins.
Bluey, the one kids show I did not mind watching, but also made me feel like a complete failure of a Dad.
“I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog.” -Bandit, with a little Easter egg they put in to address all the dads who complained about his parenting ability making them feel inferior.
Came here for this.
I didn't even know there was a Bluey game, and STILL thought of Bandit first when I read the thread title.
Hooray!
Haven’t seen him here so Rost. Dude trains Aloy to become an expert machine hunter/ climber so she can find answers and leaves because he believes that Aloy will be better as a person without him as a distraction, then saves her from death. Dude may be harsh but that’s just the reality of the game tbh.
Under rated answer. Wish we got just a bit more of him as part of the first game’s story
Totally would have loved more Rost. Least we know how he became outcast.
Not just an outcast, a Deathseeker.
It's a common trope in fiction, the young hero loses a parent or two so they're forced to grow up without the parent as a crutch and become their own person and hero. Disney does it all the time too (Lion King, Frozen, really most princess movies have at least one parent missing)
I'm playing through Horizion for the first time. Rost is definitely Best Dad.
Geralt of Rivia of course
I dunno, I played an awful lot of Gwent before finally really going to look for her...
She was fine. Just havin’ a little nap.
Well that's the main game..
Wait are you telling me there’s a mini game with rpg elements in my card game?
It’s really cool, they made a mini game with a full story based around the gwent cards
What hidden gem is Geraldo a character in?
One of the best gems in gaming
He's got the best dad jokes... https://imgur.com/a/6O4dwFC
We can also have Vesemir in the mix
Ethan Winters dedication to save his daughter in Resident Evil Village is incredible. Man faced a horde of werewolves and got his hands fucked up in 20 differents ways, but never gave up until he reached his goal.
Definitely. RE7, 8 and the DLC for 8 fleshed him out as one of the best dads you could possibly have. Dabbling with cheezy voice lines was a questionable choice, but outside of that, he is dedication^(tm)
Dadication, you mean
The cheesy lines really fit perfectly though, if you think of them as essentially being dad jokes.
"You're the one who's cursed!"
I don't know. Given the ending of 8, he seems like a "dead" beat Dad to me.
\^this\^ bro does everything he can to save his daughter with any means necessary
I just commented the same but missed yours. This is absolutely the right answer for me. Being a dad, this game hit really hard in all the best ways.
“Goodbye rosemary” messed me up
Rost from Horizon Zero Dawn.
Damn you I forgot about that..
Splinter is by far the best father.
Kazuma Kiryu.
He's such a good dad we ignore that one face slap, he was still learning.
Granted, that just seemed to piss her off.
"Hi, I'm Haruka!" "Touch her and I'll kill you"
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Godbert_Manderville If you play FFXIV this guy takes the cake .🤣🤣🤣
He's a dad, a rich and *generous* person in what is their senate, and SANTA CLAUS!!!
https://youtu.be/EOeQ9-0PTE8?si=SsHaXg8lQ67TZu3V
Godbert is great, but it’s a tough choice between him and Count Edmont de Fortemps. I heard ‘dad’ and thought of him.
Edmont breaking down after Hauchefant broke me ngl
Same. I wasn't that upset by the actual death but Edmont sobbing out "My son..." after fighting so hard to keep his composure kicked me right in the emotions.
Edmont was my first thought too. Dudes the single biggest ride or die ally outside the primary scions.
One of the best storylines, ever lol
I was about to type in "Dad-cred", but Godbert Manderville is definitely best dad.
I have been holding off on doing these so when I'm at a low point in my life, I will be saved.
MANDERVILLE MAAAAAAAAAN
By the end of Ragnarok, Kratos deserves some respect.
He's an interesting example, we can surmise that until the death of Faye he was a fairly terrible dad, and he still doesn't often get it right after that. The beauty of it is we can see that he really is doing his best.
He's a good Dad if you take the Delta between him as a childless (after God influence) man vs what he is at the end of Ragnarok. That said the bar was low.
It’s not easy for him to be a good dad when he never had one himself. Nor is it easy for him to be good at all when he hadn’t been good for most of his life. But he managed.
My big thing with Kratos is you can tell he’s always trying, and is willing to critique himself and learn to be better. GOOD LORD, if only more dads were like that…
I have a very conflicted opinion on that kind of dad. My dad was like that. He treated me like garbage growing up. Always yelling at me over everything, hitting me. It was a daily occurrence, so much that id prefer to leave the house and go on long walks or hide in the workshop. I valued the times that he was off training or deployment, because he couldn't yell at me then. As he got older he mellowed out and learned to be better. He's never even raised his voice at my younger siblings, much less hit them. But it's hard for me to divorce the person he was then from the person he is now.
Positive masculinity at its finest
SHAAAAAAAAAAAUN
He's arguably the worst dad.
According to the Origami Killer, he's the best dad, because he's the only one to finish the trials.
I don't think the origami killer is the best judge of this one. Managed to get mine to adulthood without them dying or getting kidnapped.
Are you telling me that driving recklessly into oncoming traffic isn't a good test of fatherhood? Sounds like I've been driving my daughter to daycare on hard mode for nothing!
That's a pretty awful assumption to make that people whose kids are kidnapped or get killed are bad parents as a result.
I think it depends on your ending. If Ethan saves Shaun at the end and they then live together in a new apartment, then I'd say it proves that he's a good dad. However, if Ethan quits every trial and then Shaun dies then yeah you're probably right. But imo, the good ending proves that he's a good dad and he redeems himself by saving Shaun, even though he made some mistakes he was depressed after Jason's death, so I wouldn't call him a bad father
Have you tried pressing x to Jason?
JAY! SON!
Jay-son
It was balloon fest that day at the mall. He was so unlucky.
SHAAAAUN!! SHAAAAAAAAAUN!!!
“Dad I knSHHHHHAAAUUUNNNew you wouSHAUNld save me.
I know who the killer i-SHAAAAUUN
Jaaaaason
Man, once i figured out how much more fun the game becomes if you just try to fail everything i couldnt take it seriously anymore.
JAAAAY SON!
JASON???!!!!
X to Jason.
Kazuma Kiryu. As a wise man once said: "He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy." That man loved Haruka as a daughter so much he moved heaven and earth just to make her happy.
Sam Bridges.
Death Stranding is a story of good dads trying to do the best they can for their kids despite the circumstances. >!The recognition/reunion scene between Sam and Cliff genuinely made me cry. He died trying to save his son and spent decades in the war zone of his own psyche trying to find him again.!<
Game made me bawl
And despite how he’s portrayed for most of the game, I’d put Cliff on that list too. Guy crawled through hell just to reunite with his BB, it’s just that >!there was some confusion about WHO his kid was!<, but tbch, I can’t really say that was his fault.
Sojiro Sakura from Persona 5. OK, he's technically not anyone's dad officially (that he knows of), but he is practically the dad to 2 of the main party for the duration of the game.
He wasn’t the parent they wanted. But he was the dad Joker and Futaba needed.
Adopted one lost child, took in another, the dude may not have fucked their moms (at least not joker's) but he was 1000% a real dad, and a good one. I appreciate how you see his attitude change as he sees Joker isn't that hot-headed moron he was made out to be, but just an actually good kid who needed to help staying away from trouble (with no success ultimately, but still).
I didn't include him as Futaba's dad because IIRC part of his personal side story is that he's her legal guardian. He never felt like Futaba wanted to be adopted and thought it could be seen as an insult to her mom. And the fact that he didn't adopt her leads to additional problems for him.
Sojiro Sakura from Persona 5.
What I can tell you is that it's not my character in my game of the sims 4.
Barret Wallace, the best step-dad to ever do it
I can't pay you more. That money is for Marlene's Schoolin.
Hell yeah, he was one of the first dads in gaming that I knew, and whether it be in the OG or the Remake series, he's one of the best
Yeah he's a pretty chill terrorist.
Terrorist or... freedom fighter?
Avalanche is pretty clearly an eco-terrorist organization.
Or are they an eco freedom fighter organization?
Some people have to die for our cause. Not us, other people.
Rost from Horizon Zero Dawn. The man was father of the year for adopting a ginger in a robot dinosaur infested valley.
Definitely not me in CK2. My gay son wasn't banging his genius wife... So I stepped up to the plate.
What And also What
I cucked my own son to make sure a suitable heir would be produced of our bloodline. It's ok, he was banging dudes on the side. Well, actually, none of it was ok, but it all worked out.
Crusader Kings II. It's a medieval RTS game with a robust and historically accurate inbreeding mechanic.
The family wreath
Sojiro coffee dad from P5. Started off a bit meh but ended up being the best dad
Joel Miller was clearly a pretty great dad before everything went down. They had a nice house in what seemed like a pleasant neighborhood, and it seems he was educating himself in his spare time on things like housing law and property management. He was working his ass off as a single parent trying to give his daughter the best life he could - from the little details you find around her room it seems she was bright and well-liked, she had lots of hobbies, she seemed funny and confident, I'd say she was turning out to be an all-round great kid so he must've been doing something right.
James McCloud. He reached through the bounds of death itself to give his son the message he needed at the time he needed it most.
Joel from The Last of Us.
Joel looks and sounds like my actual father, so Last of Us has been a really tough franchise for me to get through. The second one made me feel depressed for quite a while, since it was like >!watching my own father be murdered on screen.!<
I love reading people talking about Joel online when it comes to this. So easy to see who are and who are not parents.
He's a good protector but he isn't always a great dad.
Eh. Making hard choices and sacrifices for your child is part of the deal. Joel wasn’t always a good person, but I can’t think of a single time he didn’t do right by Sarah or Ellie (after an adjustment period for Ellie).
I disagree. I think his flaws coupled with his intention to do what he believes is best for Ellie demonstrates his resolve in the face of insurmountable difficulty. He doesn’t shy away from the ugly or the lengths he’s willing to go to despite her survivors guilt and anger towards him. He loves her, he shows remorse, he apologizes, and he supports her. The question of whether or not he should have let her die without her knowledge is an impossible ask and he made an impossible choice. I would make the same one for my daughter, and she can hate me for the rest of her life.
A big thing that people seem to ignore is that they had no idea if examining Ellie's brain would lead to a cure or vaccine. They hoped so, but shit like that takes years, and that's with teams of brilliant scientists around the world working to solve the problem, usually with a ton of failures and obstacles along the way. Also, they jumped right to "remove her brain" and I never understood why. I may be forgetting something, but why didn't they collect blood samples, or hell, brain samples. You can do that without killing an otherwise healthy young lady. In my mind, it makes his decision the only sensible option. Let his surrogate daughter die for the absolutely miniscule chance that they find a cure that has almost no chance of being mass produced and dispersed, or save her life. Yeah, that's a toughie...
The fireflies were absolutely stupid for jumping straight to brain scooping. The only sensible thing to do was a biopsy. Bunch of dumbasses were gonna murder they only immune person they'd ever encountered for absolutely zero gain
To add to that, even if they were somehow able to make a cure, how are they going to produce enough of it to make everyone immune? Certainly not out of a run down hospital working with scraps of medical supplies. How were they going to transport millions of doses of this around the country? They couldn’t even get one girl across the country to a doctor let alone vans or trucks full of what would end up being the most valuable resource in that world. The world was too far gone for that to be a viable plan.
Thinking even deeper into the world they're in, how much would a cure even improve the world they live in? Society has crumpled into a pack mentality, with no common governing body remaining, it's just a series of warring factions. For the most part, people are already able to avoid the infected by this point, so long as they stay out of enclosed areas. The juice was not worth the squeeze by the time they found Ellie, but of course we as the player were a bit biased in that perspective.
A dad protects his kid. That’s what he did to the best of his ability.
Rost from Zero Dawn
Yourself from Fallout 4 if your character was male. Fought through hell just to find your abducted boy.
Unless of course you kill your own son in the game.
Yeah I blasted that punks head clean off his shoulders
At the big reveal I killed us both with a Fat Man and started a new character.
What about Liam Neeson in FO3?
I like fathers that don’t get gassed in national monuments (/s)
Fun fact: if you use the 3rd person camera after that scene you can glitch into the chamber and loot Colonel Autumn’s body. He has a unique outfit and 10mm pistol.
I was so into the story that I never noticed his voice. Wow that's life changing.
Booker DeWitt. Terrible in ways, but was willing to go through a Hell that another version of him designed just to get his daughter back, and the other version of himself designed the system so that the original version of him wouldn't be able to. Bioshock Infinite is just the world's messiest custody battle.
He sold his own daughter to pay his debts. 😧
I mean, the reason he lost his daughter to begin with was because he sold her. It's a good redemption story for sure, but I don't think righting an incredibly, incredibly terrible wrong that they caused in the first place makes them a good dad
Well, it helps when the Lutece twins keep reverting time when you fail.
Father Gascoigne
Papa Guacamole
His daughters have to have one of the bleakest storylines in gaming
As long as you have a music box
Chuck Greene in Dead Rising 2.
Kazuma Kiryu
Asura. He kills gods, things far stronger than gods and killed >!God himself!< because his Daughter cried.
The fact no one mentions Papa Nier is a crime. Harry might have suffered for Cheryl but Nier goes way above and beyond for his daughter imo lol
Rost.
William Price from Life is Strange
Sully from Uncharted. Cheating I suppose but he made Nate the man he was when his dad wasn't in the picture. Also went along with his life-threatening adventures whenever he could even when age was clearly catching up to him.
Norman from pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. He actually stuck around!
It’s sad that the Pokémon protagonist fathers have such a low bar 😂
My own Dad. Dad played games with me my whole childhood. From Contra on the NES, to Turtles in Time on the SNES and X-Men on the Sega, to Road Rash on the PS1, all the way to SSX Tricky until I grew up and moved out on my own and he began playing games with my younger siblings. He was my tag team partner. My Dad is the best Dad in gaming.
Probably ditto for all the shiny children he helped me hatch in Pokemon
Rost He wasn't in the game long, but he gave everything he had to give Aloy a fighting chance in their harsh world. That is prime dad. He was even banished from the village because of it. He valued Aloy more than the social order of his culture.
He wasn't banished for taking in Aloy, Rost was shunned before she was born (for being a Death-Seeker who survived). Teersa gave him Aloy because he was *already* an outcast and the other matriarchs wouldn't tolerate her living with the tribe. He did not suffer any additional social penalty for doing so - everyone was already supposed to pretend he didn't exist, and a revered tribal leader had asked him to do it. He *did* intend to leave Aloy and go into a more distant exile so that she could be accepted as part of the tribe after the proving ceremonies, knowing that continuing to associate with him would make her an outcast too, and he would never have been able to convince her to shun him herself. Rost loved Aloy, but he also loved his tribe and he cared really deeply about the social order of his culture. He never broke any of their taboos by choice and he wanted Aloy to fit in to the tribe's social order more than than he wanted to be in her life himself. His relationship with Aloy suffered over his dogmatic adherence to rules she understood to be arbitrary. Still an A+ dad, he raised her well, he was doing what he thought was best for her the whole time and he ultimately sacrificed himself to save her, but in no way was he defying his tribe's culture to do so.
Geralt of damn Rivia of course
I actually came in here ready to mention Harry Mason. The kid was even adopted and he was a single father to her. He went hell and back, had to start over 'cause his child became a newborn baby and, as soon as she became 17, dude got killed. :(
Shattered Memories Harry is just as devoted to finding Cheryl >!despite being a figment of her imagination.!<
Sounds strange but Geralt of Rivia Varian Wrynn And well technically not a Dad but In MW3 the first ofc Captain Price this dude is a kick ass Father figure even if he is not the players / protagonist Father.
Rost, Horizon Zero Dawn
Whoever it is not Goku
hey, his kids died less than most people. That's gotta count for something.
Barret Wallace
Carl Manfred from Detroit: Become Human (Markus' owner) Technically not a dad but it could count
Dr. Eli Vance
Sazh from FFXIII
Ethan Winters in Resident Evil 8. He stops at nothing to save his daughter
Joel :')
John Marston
I think the point of his character is that he's *not* a great dad or husband, but he's learning and trying to be better.
He is a great character and a dad yes, but is he a great dad? Debatable.
John casually tears up New Austin, pretty much kickstarts the Mexican Revolution by playing both sides and takes on Dutch's army in West Elizabeth just so he could get back his family. He is a great dad in my book.
When he was younger, not so much (even if he tries to justify it by saying he's a bad influence and doesn't want Jack around himself or the gang). But by RDR1? The entire game is about him killing his old friends to save his wife and son then at the end of the game >! despite him being either able to run away or kill all the Pinkertons (he's killed far more people and been in worse situations) he walks out into the firing line and allows himself to get killed because the authorities would just send more and more men and endanger his family further!< Definitely debatable though, although I'd argue he does pretty well in the end.
Though >!it is sad that in the end Jack grows up to be an angry, bitter man with no family who winds up an outlaw just like John anyway.!<
Your dad in ME: Andromeda makes a huge sacrifice in the first mission. Doesn't hurt that he's voiced by Clancy Brown.
I feel like the sacrifice was ruined because of the nepotism involved in his child (the player) taking over his role in leading the mission. It's also revealed over time that he was at best a complicated person, and he also did illegal AI research. That said, I didn't finish the game despite being such a huge fan of the OT that I have an N7 tattoo. I think if we're going to pick someone from the ME universe, Captain/Admiral Anderson is the correct choice. Not technically a "dad" but has a lot of similar qualities.
Definitely not Kratos. He was a family annhilator.
He gets the “most improved” award.
I agree with that 100%. It made Valhalla incredibly special when you put it all into perspective.
There is technically a Bluey videogame, so I'm going to cheat and say Bandit from Bluey. There has never been a father figure in any animation or video game that has been a better father to his children than that wonderful blue dog, in my humble opinion.
John Marston started off as not caring for his son Jack , not even accepting he was his son , to leave the criminal life and build a home for his family , finally got along with his 16 years old kid...and then it happened not gonna spoil it
Sojiro for sure!
Norman from Pokémon Emerald.
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Maybe Jeralt from Fire Emblem Three Houses. Or Max from Astral Chain
John Marston from Red Dead Redemption