It might be a joke that PlayStation loves nothing more than making you play as a begrudging father figure in its games, but the whole game industry has been littered with sad dads for years. These are the men who've been jaded by the world, yet despite that, they're willing to save the day, or usually, just one kid.
Some of these sad dads are good dads; some are very much not the sort of parental figure you'd want around. However, all of them are grumpy lads who would love nothing more than socks and a box set of The Wire for Christmas.
12 ꦡ Ethan Mars - Heavy Rꦓain
Ethan Mars is the epitome of self-pity. Honestly, though who can blame him, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:he's stuck in a David Cage game💎. After he loses Jason he can hardly be bothered to brush his teeth or put on pants in the mor꧃ning, and his family has truly fallen apart.
However, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Heavy Rain goes on, it becomes clear that this isn't because he loves Shaun any less, but because he just can't cope without having the two of them in his life together. By the time credits roll, Ethan will have hunted a serial killer to the edge of the earth and will have even mutilated his hand, not to avenge his kid, but to save what's left of the family he still has.
11 John🐷 Marston - Red Dead Redemption 𒐪
You can't help but feel heartbroken for John, especially after playing Red Dead Redemption 2. He got out. He lived the life of an outlaw with a family, and almost lost everything thanks to Dutch. However, he, Abigail, and Jack all managed to settle down on the edge of the frontier, away from the eyes of the Pinkertons.
Sadly, that couldn't last forever, and by the time the first 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption kicks off, he has been roped back into the outlaw life. He might not want to hunt down his old gang-mates, but he's willing to begrudgingly do it if it means his son and wife and finally live a life free of the long arm of the law.
10 Corvo Attano - Dishonored 𓆉
We hate to spoil a decade-old game, but you discover Corvo is actually Emily Kaldwin's dad during the events of the first Dishonored. Although if you know anything about Dishonored 2 this shouldn't be a surprise to you.
Corvo is interesting because no matter what he's a pretty sad dad after losing his secret love to assassins. However, you get to decide how he deals with that grief. Will he exact poetic revenge by non-lethally eliminating all those that helped wrong him? Or will he go on a murderous rampage of terror, tearing Dunwall apart in his quest for catharsis? One of these might be a healthier way to deal with emotions if we are honest.
9 One Of The Snakes - Meta﷽l Gear 🦂
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Does Big Boss technically count as a da𒊎d? Kind of right, clones are basically kids...
8 Geralt Of Riva - The Witcher 🍎
He's not a stepdad. He's a dad that stepped up, ok?
Geralt might not be Ciri's biological father, but he is a much better father figure than Emhyr ever was. Despite his grizzled exterior Geralt will also go as far as fighting monsters for foreign realms to protect Ciri in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher. Although we still don't think he could actually explain The Law of Surprise to us if we asked.
7 Sojiro Sakura - Persona 5 🅷﷽
Another adoptive dad, Sakura doesn't seem like the sort of guy that would take in two troubled kids. Yet here we are in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5, with the best damn coffee brewer in Yogen-Jaya caring for two kids that aren't his own.
It might take a while for him to warm up to Joker, as he took in the protagonist as a favour to his family. However, his love for Futaba is wholly authentic and engrained in his deep care for her mother before she passed away. Yes, he might be a bit overprotective of her, but nobody gave him a manual on how to raise someone else's kid. Besides, he's even willing to keep the fact that both of them are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:members of Phantom Thieves on the do꧙wn-low.𝓀 Truly a great sad dad, putting his kids before himself, always.
6 𒅌 Harry Mason - Silent Hill
We said that Ethan might be the saddest dad in games, but we are definitely going to have to take that back. The earliest example of this archetype, Konami's depiction of Harry is a harsh look at grief. Not only is Harry himself a sad dad, but the entire town of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Silent Hill and the games itself is a representation of Harry's anguish.
He clearly has complicated feelings towards Cheryl, since she acts as a constant reminder of his late wife, but that doesn't stop him from loving her. After all, this scrawny writer will battle through a nightmarish limbo to save her. Even if his child doesn't return quite the same, nothing will stop Harry from protecting her as best he can.
5 Bayek Of Siwa - Assassin's Creed Origins
Bayek isn't just sad; he's mad. His quest to avenge his son will see him kill countless Romans and give up his quiet life to be the Medjay of Egypt.
He goes on to found the Hi🃏dden Ones with his wife, Aya, who is equally tormented by the loss of their child. All this killing might not be what his child wanted🌸, but it is the only way he knows how to cope with that loss. And there are very few things sadder than that.
4 Lee Everett - The Walki🐼ng Dead
Lee Everett might not be a good man; in fact, he might be a murderer. But when the world ends and there's no one left, he steps up to be the father Clementine needs. Lee's willing to make hard choices at every turn during the first season of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Walking Dead in order to protect not just Clem, but the world's fleeting innocence.
In the end, one of these choices will come to haunt him, but the love he holds for Clem means that he'll power through his mistakes to save her. Not a perfect man, but he's the perfect dad.
3 ꧂ Kratos - God Of War 🎉
The Greek 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War has been an angry dad across time and pantheons. However, over the years he's slowly managed to contain his rage problems but has only allowed his sadness to fester, and as a result, not much has changed.
As the prophet Urd, says, "He still slays Gods, but now he's sad about it." As much as he tries to run from it, Kratos is still the same person, terrified of losing another child. Does that make him a bad man (or god)? Maybe. But honestly, we just think it makes him like every other dad out there, scared to let go of their kid.