Kotaku 
Enter your username and password.
Denver, 4:14 PM
Sun Nov 15
19 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip us: tips@kotaku.com
Editor-In-Chief:
Brian Crecente
Email | AIM | Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Stephen Totilo
Email | AIM | Twitter
Senior Editor:
Michael McWhertor
Email | AIM | Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor, Japan:
Brian Ashcraft
Email | AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, East Coast:
Michael Fahey
Email | AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Oceania:
Luke Plunkett
Email | AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Weekends:
Owen Good
Email | AIM | Twitter
Correspondent, San Francisco:
AJ Glasser
Email | AIM | Twitter
Columnist:
Leigh Alexander
Columnist:
Tim Rogers
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
06/21/09
06/21/09
King of all Cosmos and Big Boss 4LYFE.
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
Wait a sec, Ditto has no gender. That means it is neither father nor mother, but depending on the circumstances, Ditto can act as either one. Hmm..
Aw, screw this!
*tosses ideas out of window*
When Ditto acts as the father, then it counts as being a dad. :P
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
You spend a good portion of FF VIII playing as Laguna and his flashbacks; hell, you even get to control him meeting the woman who ultimately gives birth to Squall, your protagonist. That's right; FF VIII allowed you to witness your own conception.
Besides, Jecht was a dick and Laguna was awesome. I know it's the least popular game in the series, but it hit the father-mark first.
06/21/09
Let's start off with Cloud's dad- abandoned him at an early age, leaving young Cloud starved for love, forcing him into joining the army to find it, in the form of Zack, who he viewed as father figure. Of course, this death just caused him to be even more screwed up in the head.
Sephiroth- His dad was a scientist? Or a lab specimen? Who fucking knows?
Cait Sith- His dad was a prisoner, who was presumably locked up for child molestation, and now controls the every action of this plush cat from his cell, including forcing him to commit suicide.
Yuffie- Her dad was a violent nationalist who was driven so hard to protect his country that he abandoned his daughter, leaving her to try and garner his attention by attacking the highest-ranked SOLDIER officer on the planet.
Yuna- Her dad raised her to be a human sacrifice, so they could continue an eternal loop of such.
Vaan- His dad let him go out in public dressed like that.
Vivi- His father created him as a prototype weapon in order to be used as mass-produced weapons.
Zidane- His father created him solely to kill his older brother, who displeased him. When Zidane fails to live up to Garland's wishes, Garland tries to kill the both of them himself.
We could go on forever about all the dick fathers in Final Fantasy games.
Don't even get me started on Red Mage's Father from Final Fantasy I.
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/21/09
06/22/09
06/21/09
He is a hardcore dad. He locked up his son's in a prison age.
06/21/09
I think you guys must be older than me. I have memories of sitting on my sisters lap whilst playing Myst and Riven. Those games were freakin' awesome, but I could never figure them out.
06/21/09
Speaking of which, "Hey Valve! You know what I would like better than a L4D sequel? (Don't get me wrong I <3 the game) HL2: Ep. 3. I think you forgot what Expansion Pack means..."
I still love you...
06/21/09
06/21/09
But yeah, I scremed out loud and cursed at the alien who killed Eli, at the end.
06/21/09
06/21/09
What? It was already in the blog post.
06/21/09
06/21/09
Another game where the parent did such a good job that the son spends all their time avenging him. As for not being able to determine his merits after he died in the game, you can gain enough from the allies he made that Ryo comes across to tell he was a decent person.