7 Video Game NPCs That NEED Their Own Game

Mass Effect: Garrus would save the entire franchise.

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[danielschmaderer]

Garrus was already a must in my party. A game about him would be amazing.

[JoshuaAlfano]

Top 10 games with a brilliant mechanic that never took off in gaming

[timbo]

An LA Noire style game featuring Nick Valentine in the Commonwealth sounds awesome.

[peadarbarbosa]

Mass Effect: Garrus Part I: CSec
Mass Effect: Garrus Part II: Archangel

There are quite a few origins/side-stories that could be explored - Wrex's conquest of Tuchanka, Zaedd's mercenary missions, Samarra vs Morinth, Tali's Pilgrimage, the first Geth-Quarian War etc.

[MikeyHazel]

I cracked up when at the end he says “Will any of the developers even listen?” And a little caption pops up at the bottom of the screen says NO. It was super subtle but would have made milk come out of my nose if my timing was less fortunate 😂

[theamazingmaymay]

Honestly seeing a game with Garrus between 2 & 3 man I’d love to play that game

[jettblade]

To be fair almost any non-human in ME could have a pretty good game around them. Garrus would be a balance of investigation and combat. Liara and Tali could have more focus on investigation and puzzle solving. Wrex would be just combat, heck you might even could fight his dad. I really could see not a single game but collective one where it goes into the background of each squadmate with it ending on the path they meet Shepard on, instead of one 60 hour game you could have six 10 hour games that would play very differently. Heck you could even set it up as something like them being interviewed by the reporter you can punch after the events of the prologue in the second game after Shepard's 'death'.

[Harlequin_Eyes]

I love Nick Valentine so damn much, favorite game character of all time. He feels to me like the most fair & just character in the entire wasteland, hoping for peace but understanding it's not always going to go that way. I have the romance mod for him because that's how much I love the guy.

[Muscleduck]

Nick Valentine is a great companion and he actually has a lot of interaction during quests. Especially in Far Harbour and The Institute.

[eliotshoffner]

This was fantastic, well done Jules. I was listening to the pitches and nodding my head, like a boardroom exec ready to green light all 7 projects

[jmsmysify]

I'd go in for a Mass Effect: Archangel game. Maybe it would explain how a Turian learned of Earth mythology and what an Archangel is.

[Biklingchan]

Or, regarding the Garrus entry, make it about his time in Omega. The party members could be the guys he recruited to "clean up" Omega, and then we could actually get to know them too.

[TheAllanmeadows]

Garrus is such a bro. I never took him out of my squad. Plus in ME2 you could build him in a way that he'd solo the game for you.

[stickman]

I think Thane from Mass Effect would also be a cool character to build a game around. Or Kasumi. Also Tommy from The Last Of Us and Quiet from Metal Gear 5

[yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield]

Jules really out here giving away free ideas and pitches.. I really hope some dev sees this and gets others to hear, then hires him for stuff like this, Whilst he continues his YT stuff, maybe doing salaried reviews for games he is involved with as official sponsorship

[louashfield]

I AM TOTALLY ALL-IN FOR NICK VALENTINE'S OWN FALLOUT GAME!!
I like the idea about him expanding and establishing another office or such with it's own "Detective Management" mini-game. It feels kinda like some Yakuza games where there's a big mini-game with it's own story on the side like Yakuza 0's Cabaret Club management and The Real Estate one. That's actually a solid gold Idea.


Fallout: Valentine

[mightguysseconddisciple]

I’d rather have a game on wrex’s life, he’s loved so long so he could show a bunch of different eras of the mass effect universe before the reaper crisis or show some things they all missed that show reaper influence

[WolfyFancyLads]

Two points on the Garrus thing: 1) Use his time after Shepard's death as the story. Have the tutorial be training with his father (make it vague, cos he could be both C-Sec or Spectre training at this point) and follow his adventures on Omega with his squad. You know the ending, but it'd make one hell of a good story. You could even follow it up with DLC based around the gap between 2 and 3, and pepper in moral choices if you wanted as none of them will affect the main story!

2) If the fans complain, promise them full frontal nudes of him. 99% will be on board immediately. XD

[VAustin]

A prequel in the Witcher's world with Vesemir, an adventure with either Lambert or Letho would be nice

[PerunaMuayThai]

If anyone ever says they don't like Kendo you ask them
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"