The 5 Coolest Father Figures In Gaming’s Past 5 Years

GP: "Everyone deserves a father or father figure in his or her life. Someone to tell them that things are going to be okay. Someone to show them how to ride a bike or fire a BB gun. Someone to be there when things aren’t going well.

Father figures have positive effects on children and even adults in the real world, so here are some father figures from gaming that are sure to melt your heart."

[Vettur]

I totally agree with this list :P Ussaly there is something that I don't agree on, but not in this case.

[Kran]

I think the only reason why many would agree is because they're essentially the only fathers people care about.

In fact, I feel like they're the only fathers in this generation of gaming :/

[Vettur]

lol, when I think about it, I don't remember any other either :P

[YodaCracker]

The only other one I can think of is Marcus' father, Adam Fenix in Gears of War. Surely, there have got to be more.

[Nimblest-Assassin]

If Sully was my father.... he would tell me why he took a hooker to church

[Kran]

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SHAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN.

And to have Liam Neeson as your dad? Awesome :D

[WackyVee]

Joseph Capelli was a hell of a father figure!

He sacrificed his life and tried to safe the world just for the sake of his boy!!

[SonyStyled]

and for the sake of humanity, but yes the speech susan capelli gave to joe about giving jack a better life drove him to attempt to destroy the tower. man has balls

[P_Bomb]

I'd have included Big Boss, he's been around longer than anyone on the list. Some 25 years, real-time.

2008's MGS4 he finally ends the war against the Patriots, his son(s) and the world as he knows it with a big CQC hug to his boy, then dies in Solid's arms to the tune of Harry Gregson Williams' moving, "Father and Son". Everyone CQC hug their day today, heh. ;)

Can also be seen in the PeaceWalker prequel a few years later as the symbolic father of the militaires sans frontieres, and in the HD Collection re-master of MGS3.

*Honorable MGS mention to Raiden from 2008's MGS4 as well, who meets his son for the first time in said game. Nice family reunion. Please don't screw it up Platinum Games*

[Ducky]

... the two have tried to kill each other in the past, so that kinda puts them at odds.

That, and BigBoss doesn't exactly think of Snake as a son.

[P_Bomb]

No relationship is 100% happy and perfect all the time. Look at Anakin and Luke. It was business. Solid Snake like Luke Skywalker, didn't *know* Big Boss was his father when he was first sent by the military to take him out. That's what's compelling, makes the finale in MGS4 that much more satisfying, when all the truths come out.

To the 2nd point, still the same genes. Even a dead beat dad is still a dad at the end of the day. Liquid calls him father in like every other monologue on Shadow Moses. Snake has a big patricide dialogue with Naomi on Shadow Moses as well, saying how he thinks Boss wanted him to kill him.

Remember Elisa's prophecy at the end of Portable Ops? "Your CHILDREN, LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES, Snake, your SON will bring the world to ruin...your SON will save the world." go to 2:09 http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[NJShadow]

Hey, where's Big Boss!?

Best father/son moment in a video game... EVER.

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[MrDead]

Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza. He adopted Haruka, runs an orphanage, ex-Yakuza chairman, wears a light gray suit with a floral print shirt, smokes and can crack the skulls of 50+ men. He is the daddy.

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[josephayal]

Captain Price is the best of all time

[ginsunuva]

Either Kratos or Marcus Fenix. Best fathers ever!

John Marston ain't no father figure. His son was being held hostage for weeks while he was doing favors for strangers, shooting mexicans, cow-herding, treasure-hunting, and picking goddam flowers..... manly flowers.

[attilayavuzer]

Yeah Marston's a terrible father. He'd rather hunt beavers to help a guy finish an airplane, arm wrestle and spend countless hours leisurely admiring scenery than rescue his family.

[Servbot41]

No Nier? Fail list.

[Jreca]

Let's get him at least a honorable mention. He deserves it.

[Kurylo3d]

Seems like we get this same article every year for fathers day.

[TheFallenAngel]

Why Kratos is not in there? He was a good father in chains of olympus. He gave up being with his daughter to keep her in alyssium( i don't know how to spell it). Also big daddies from bioshock, they will die and fight everybody to keep the little sisters safe.

[Tzunoy]

Mr. Marston amazed me the most. Epic video-game character.

[Coltrane_C]

No Big Boss???

[Gigglefist]

Jaaaaaasoooooon!
JASON!

[Gigglefist]

The Boss is the greatest father figure, even if she is a chick. At least she was parental and nurturing to her "child" (Naked Snake). Sully is the only guy on this list who was actually a good father figure

In Fallout 3, your dad ditches you to work on a project (and makes the leader of the vault try to kill you)

Ethan loses his children (although I will agree that his actions to get them back were rather fatherly)

Giovanni is hardly in the story at all, and doesn't do very much for his son.

As others have said, John leaves his family hostage (really only saving them for his wife, I'd say), then once he gets his son back, he sort of ignores him.

So, yeah.
The Boss is best female dad.

[nemesiscw]

What? No Chuck Greene from Dead Rising 2?

[TheMrFraz]

Need a silly coincidence? James ("Dad") from Fallout 3 made my list as one of the WORST fathers in gaming.

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