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Doesn't Kratos (GoW spoilers) >!have an "abandon your daughter" QuickTime event and has pale skin because he is coated with the ashes of his deceased family whom he murdered?!<
This poll reads more like "which character is your favourite" rather than a "best video game father poll".
That's also why I feel like most of these types of polls are bullshit. People will choose their favourite character always, even when they aren't the best in their criteria.
This is an easy Geralt W. Obviously, Kratos and Joel have both allowed their grief and past trauma to define their lives, and are passing that trauma onto their kids big time. Eli is a great dad, no question, and he's gone through a lot to build and safeguard a good life for Alyx, but (and this shouldn't be a competition, but just for the sake of argument) he can't hold a candle to the sheer level of dogged commitment that Geralt showed throughout the books and games.
Remember, in The Witcher 3, Ciri is a confident and competent young adult who's left the nest and doesn't need or want as much direct support from Geralt as a child would. And he recognizes that, and treats her like an equal. But it took, to not put too fine a point on it, a *whole fuckload* of work and care on his part to enable her to actually get to that point. **Vague spoilers for the next two paragraphs**. Geralt meets Ciri as a child (<10), and due to a whole lot of magical wibbley-wobblyness their destinies are intertwined; he keeps running into her. Witcher customs say that this means he should take her to be trained as a Witcher, and he technically has the magical and legal right to, but he sees that she's happy with her family (and there's never been a female witcher so the transformation isn't designed for it and would probably kill her) so he leaves her be. A few years later, when Ciri is 10-11, he comes across her againā she's destitute, traumatized, and permanently separated from her family. He has his own trauma; he saw all of his friends die painfully in the transformation, has been ostracized for his whole life as a freak, been told that he can't feel real emotion. But he sees a child in need of help and knows he's the only one who can help her, and he steps up. He is gruff and reluctant at first, but never cruel, and that standoffishness rapidly fades as he realizes his social barriers aren't necessary. The free time they get together they spend discussing the world and its complexities; though he has trouble opening up, he never shuts her down when she opens up to him.
But the thing that stands out the most about Geralt as a father is his absolutely insane level of commitment in the face of incredible odds. From day 1, Ciri is hunted by forces strong enough to command armies. And Geralt, without fail, puts life and limb on the line to protect her. As her abilities start to emergeā terrifying to everyone, including herā he and Yennefer never hesitate to do everything they can to help her grow into them. And every time Ciri goes missing, for every reason under the sun, Geralt sets out on a personal odyssey to find her and make sure she's safe; months-long journeys on horseback across a war-torn and often explicitly hostile landscape. Time and again, Geralt is bruised, beaten, maimed, and brought to the brink of death on these quests, and he never falters, no matter how badly he just wants peace. The only time this commitment ever faltered was >!after his literal death, when he was mind-wiped and manipulated for years;!< and when he recovers, the very first thing he does is embark on a quest to find his >!dimension-hopping!< daughter, to make sure she's alright and just to see how she's grown in the time he was away. **End vague spoilers**.
Geralt had plenty of excuses to be a bad father, and plenty of opportunities to reject fatherhood entirely. He was traumatized, emotionally stunted, routinely persecuted, and Ciri isn't even his biological kid. But he chose to take care of someone who needed him, and his nearly inhuman level of commitment, constant moral and technical guidance, and innate capacity for love and understanding enabled Ciri to grow from a scared, hunted little girl into a strong, happy, and self-assured adult.
Couldn't write it better, but I just wanted to point one thing that you may find interesting - there's no mention of female Witchers but it isn't directly said that the women can't be Witchers (I remember something from the first game, but I trust books more), it's just that no one can create a new one since the Witchers are on a brink of extinction and sorcerers and Witchers who knew how to do this are all dead. In tabletop game from 2001 there's info about how female Witchers were trained in a school of the cat, but again, it's not created by the original author. Sapkowski never states that only men can be Witchers, it just happened that the only alive Witchers from the school of the wolf are all men. I would link an interesting article on the topic but it's in polish.
Even with all the changes that CD Projekt Red did I still hope that in the next game there will be character creation for your Witcher and you could play as a woman.
Ah yes of course, Kratos, the perfect father and husband. Obviously taking perfect care of his actual wife and child by killing them because Zeus said so
Iām gonna go all š¤ for a second here forgive me
Kratos was practically hypnotized into killing his wife and daughter by Ares so that he would no longer have anything to humanize him, with Aresā goal being to create the āultimate warriorā. Ares forced Kratos to do more brutal things over the course of however long he was in his servitude so he could lose his humanity and become a killing machine. It was only after the fact that Kratos realized what he was doing was wrong.
I am of course ***not*** excusing what Kratos did, Iām just a sucker for the god of war franchise
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Doesn't Kratos (GoW spoilers) >!have an "abandon your daughter" QuickTime event and has pale skin because he is coated with the ashes of his deceased family whom he murdered?!<
Yes. Yes he does.
Based
abandon your daughter QTE š wtf would even happen if you failed it?????
Child support
https://youtu.be/VZ3BPlG6XVQ
This is passing it, is it not?
It looks like they failed a couple times, but then passed at the end. Being given multiple tries to abandon your daughter is just hilarious
He had to leave her to save the world.
This poll reads more like "which character is your favourite" rather than a "best video game father poll". That's also why I feel like most of these types of polls are bullshit. People will choose their favourite character always, even when they aren't the best in their criteria.
Gamer media is like this and we want the world to believe weāre not mentally ill
Cringe edgy protagonist 'badasses' Vs Based single father npc
Tbh Joel didn't do a very good job of raising his daughter
He raised his daughter up to shield himself from bullets
Couldn't dodge the 9 iron though
This is an easy Geralt W. Obviously, Kratos and Joel have both allowed their grief and past trauma to define their lives, and are passing that trauma onto their kids big time. Eli is a great dad, no question, and he's gone through a lot to build and safeguard a good life for Alyx, but (and this shouldn't be a competition, but just for the sake of argument) he can't hold a candle to the sheer level of dogged commitment that Geralt showed throughout the books and games. Remember, in The Witcher 3, Ciri is a confident and competent young adult who's left the nest and doesn't need or want as much direct support from Geralt as a child would. And he recognizes that, and treats her like an equal. But it took, to not put too fine a point on it, a *whole fuckload* of work and care on his part to enable her to actually get to that point. **Vague spoilers for the next two paragraphs**. Geralt meets Ciri as a child (<10), and due to a whole lot of magical wibbley-wobblyness their destinies are intertwined; he keeps running into her. Witcher customs say that this means he should take her to be trained as a Witcher, and he technically has the magical and legal right to, but he sees that she's happy with her family (and there's never been a female witcher so the transformation isn't designed for it and would probably kill her) so he leaves her be. A few years later, when Ciri is 10-11, he comes across her againā she's destitute, traumatized, and permanently separated from her family. He has his own trauma; he saw all of his friends die painfully in the transformation, has been ostracized for his whole life as a freak, been told that he can't feel real emotion. But he sees a child in need of help and knows he's the only one who can help her, and he steps up. He is gruff and reluctant at first, but never cruel, and that standoffishness rapidly fades as he realizes his social barriers aren't necessary. The free time they get together they spend discussing the world and its complexities; though he has trouble opening up, he never shuts her down when she opens up to him. But the thing that stands out the most about Geralt as a father is his absolutely insane level of commitment in the face of incredible odds. From day 1, Ciri is hunted by forces strong enough to command armies. And Geralt, without fail, puts life and limb on the line to protect her. As her abilities start to emergeā terrifying to everyone, including herā he and Yennefer never hesitate to do everything they can to help her grow into them. And every time Ciri goes missing, for every reason under the sun, Geralt sets out on a personal odyssey to find her and make sure she's safe; months-long journeys on horseback across a war-torn and often explicitly hostile landscape. Time and again, Geralt is bruised, beaten, maimed, and brought to the brink of death on these quests, and he never falters, no matter how badly he just wants peace. The only time this commitment ever faltered was >!after his literal death, when he was mind-wiped and manipulated for years;!< and when he recovers, the very first thing he does is embark on a quest to find his >!dimension-hopping!< daughter, to make sure she's alright and just to see how she's grown in the time he was away. **End vague spoilers**. Geralt had plenty of excuses to be a bad father, and plenty of opportunities to reject fatherhood entirely. He was traumatized, emotionally stunted, routinely persecuted, and Ciri isn't even his biological kid. But he chose to take care of someone who needed him, and his nearly inhuman level of commitment, constant moral and technical guidance, and innate capacity for love and understanding enabled Ciri to grow from a scared, hunted little girl into a strong, happy, and self-assured adult.
Couldn't write it better, but I just wanted to point one thing that you may find interesting - there's no mention of female Witchers but it isn't directly said that the women can't be Witchers (I remember something from the first game, but I trust books more), it's just that no one can create a new one since the Witchers are on a brink of extinction and sorcerers and Witchers who knew how to do this are all dead. In tabletop game from 2001 there's info about how female Witchers were trained in a school of the cat, but again, it's not created by the original author. Sapkowski never states that only men can be Witchers, it just happened that the only alive Witchers from the school of the wolf are all men. I would link an interesting article on the topic but it's in polish. Even with all the changes that CD Projekt Red did I still hope that in the next game there will be character creation for your Witcher and you could play as a woman.
Ah yes of course, Kratos, the perfect father and husband. Obviously taking perfect care of his actual wife and child by killing them because Zeus said so
Iām gonna go all š¤ for a second here forgive me Kratos was practically hypnotized into killing his wife and daughter by Ares so that he would no longer have anything to humanize him, with Aresā goal being to create the āultimate warriorā. Ares forced Kratos to do more brutal things over the course of however long he was in his servitude so he could lose his humanity and become a killing machine. It was only after the fact that Kratos realized what he was doing was wrong. I am of course ***not*** excusing what Kratos did, Iām just a sucker for the god of war franchise
I don't think he was hypnotized he just killed everyone in the room before even realizing who they were.
why tf if gerald here š
At least he doesn't murder his lover and "adopted" daughter like a certain other character in the poll
He take care of an adopted daughter, effectively becoming a father
Because he spends most of his life looking for and taking care of his adopted daughter, heās the best father figure here
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They're too busy fantasizing about Calhoun
i wish he owed me a beer...
One thing, I donāt know why
whereās asura?
it starts with
Nobody answering Youtube polls is old enough to remember Half-Life 2.
Nobody on yt answering these polls is old enough to have played hl2 š
Kratos tries to be a good dad to Atreus but he's not very good at it, while Eli is the goat
Asura easy