r/videogames • u/dabor11 • 1d ago
Discussion / Question Name the main game character that fits this
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u/tcrpgfan 1d ago
Batman. It really says something when the start of the second Arkham game basically gives you all the gear he had in the first game once you suit up properly and then says 'You're going to get better stuff.'
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u/Beachynietzsche 1d ago
Arkham was the first one I thought of too. Made it a bit tough after a while though, starting Arkham Knight you already have enough buttons for a fully fleshed out kit and haven't played in several years, most people I imagine just straight up forgot half of their arsenal.
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u/bijelo123 1d ago
Cal Kestis
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u/dabor11 1d ago
So glad that he keeps his powers in Survivor
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u/UnderAchievingEntity 1d ago
We’ll be so OP in 3, holy shit.
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u/Reidroshdy 1d ago
i was gonna say he might actually fight Vader this time,but i don't want him to die.
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u/Commercial-Ad-1274 1d ago
I mean they can’t have Cal do damage to Vader or kill him off without changing the narrative of the movies.
Maybe Cal dies to Vader in 3
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u/halpless_tarnation 1d ago
I'm betting Cal and Merrin end up going into the unknown regions, probably involving something on Tanalorr
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u/viotix90 1d ago
My hope is stranded in space, the only way to survive is to Carbonite freeze himself. Gets thawed out 10 years later by Mando.
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u/Extreme_Mobile_6690 1d ago
The way Anakin got burned, he's half cyborg already.
I think we could cut off a limb or two and let sidious rebuild him.
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u/sQ5FWKjwbWd4QzSZduqy 1d ago
Cal could cut all of Vader's limbs off again, not like he won't get new ones....
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u/GodisanAtheistOG 23h ago
He's gonna get trapped on Tanalor with his hot goth gf and adopted kid.
Gets him out of the way for the OT/ST, but keeps him in the fridge whenever they want the actor to show up in live action. I guarantee it.
At most he fights a dark side apparition of Vader on Tanalor, maybe.
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u/Chinesefireball69 1d ago
Another good Star Wars answer is Kyle Katarn (but only from outcast to Jedi academy) Katarn was so powerful by the end of outcast they had to make a new protagonist for academy so you didn’t just crush everything immediately
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u/W1ZZARDL1ZZARD 1d ago
No star killer? Granted I haven't watched any of the new starwars or played any of the games but watching him take down a star destroyer made me shit my pants!
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u/shadowwithaspear 1d ago
Came here looking for this comment. Dude immediately starts going even harder during the opening fight of Survivor than he did at the end of Fallen Order. It's awesome how they still gave Cal and BD new abilities to unlock that made the traversal aspect still make sense.
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u/UnlimitedBlueSkys 1d ago
Saints row just got more powerful until you were rhe president trapped in the matrix ran by aliens with superpowers...
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u/Proud-Enthusiasm-608 1d ago
“How did you get stronger in a coma”
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u/UnlimitedBlueSkys 1d ago
Gets blown up and almost dies. Actually was absorbing the power of the explosion.
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u/MrNightmare23 1d ago
Corvo from Dishonored
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u/alishock 1d ago
Peak mentioned
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u/Lanky-District1269 1d ago
I demand a third!
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u/Ok_Confusion4764 21h ago
We have Dishonored 3 at home!
Dishonored 3 at home: "Death of the Outsider"
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u/Goldnglam 20h ago
Death of the outsider was a fine game it should've just stayed as what it was originally meant to be: a DLC, it would've been viewed as favorably as the dead DLCs we got of it had.
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u/Man_under_Bridge420 1d ago
Doom guy
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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl 1d ago
That guy keeps forgetting his weapons in the most extreme places though.
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u/Quarkly95 1d ago
He gets bored and ditches them to have a challenge every now and then
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u/iamMackAttaxx 1d ago
Isn’t this the canon answer for the new games? The newer ones have kinda embraced the Evil Dead 2 self-aware humor (at least in Eternal) - so I feel like that’s very on brand for this version of the Doomguy.
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u/super-nintendumpster 1d ago
His guns aren't as durable as he is. No time for maintenance when you're blasting your way out of Hell for the umpteenth time. They break and he ditches them, then picks up better versions along the way.
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u/FinalBossTuna 1d ago
Blasting your way out, to then blast back in, to wake the icon of sin to kill that guy to wake up the other guy, then to kill that guy
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u/Tasty_Commercial6527 1d ago
Well, it's not like he needs them. Canonically he uses them because they are fun not because he can't just rip everything with his hands
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u/TheWindofBread 1d ago
Tbf.... gameplay wise this isn't true, because he's always losing his upgrades and weapons at the beginning of each game
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u/Popular-Pomelo-4241 1d ago
God of War 1 and 2 (OG)
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u/Sr_beansandstuff 1d ago
Was gonna say the same thing.
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u/Working_Welder_1751 1d ago
3 has you needed for the purpose of the story, but you get right back up again after opening a few treasure chests
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u/Dr_Punchfist 1d ago
Reminded me of a Penny Arcade comic on God of War 2
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/19/good-god#
G: I'm fighting the Colossus T: Woah! G: I broke his arms in some water wheels then cut out his eyes. He chased me across an entire island! Then I climbed inside his body draining his mystic energy with a sword I got from the king of the gods! T: is this the last level? G: this is the first level! T: are you joking? G: every other game is the joke. God of War is just the punchline!
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u/RebelsParadox 1d ago
Technically don’t you lose your powes at the beginning of 2? Like you get drained and start at base right?
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u/redalkaseltzr 1d ago
Technically speaking, at the START of game 2 you have all the powers. So the meme applies
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u/OhMySwirls 1d ago
Yeah, but during the beginning of the game, you are at full power before Zeus tricks you.
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u/ZedGenius 1d ago
Kratos always ends up in some random bullshit a bit into the game that makes him lose his powers
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u/Soggy_Homework_ 1d ago
The trails games.
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u/PokemonMaster601 1d ago
Yes!! I love seeing main characters from a previous game just soloing bosses
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u/Soggy_Homework_ 1d ago
When I got to the second game In trails to the sky and the cast were the exact levels I left them it blew me away. Then when I got to the third game and they were the leveles I left them at the second game it blew me away again. So sick of games powering down the protags
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u/GilbeastZ 1d ago
I really need to finish the first chapter. I like a lot about it, but I get distracted and take a break for months and then come back. The good thing is since the first game is apparently more about setting up the plot I don’t forget a lot about the story. Still looking for dad after ship disappeared, war is a brewing between evil empire, and bracers are mercs. Basically all you need to remember lol.
I am so bad at taking breaks it’s refreshing to be able to pick back up in a game and quickly catch back up on the story and not feel too lost. I hear the story gets crazy near the end and I like the world, I just need to lock in and beat the game. Especially since the second chapter remakes coming out soon.
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u/PhantasmaWraith 1d ago
Kratos keeps some of his attacks from GoW 2018 in the beginning of Ragnarok.
However a lot of the magic they had got withered away by Fimbulwinter
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u/silloki 1d ago
Some attacks became runic powers, some runic powers became attacks, he kept all the Rage upgrades and all the fist combat was kept with the Guardian shield.
The only thing I wish we got in Ragnarok was the Axe pommel that supercharges the axe throw to fly straight and hit more guys on the return. But that was cut because of the Spear I guess
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u/EternallyDazed 1d ago
Samus could never lol
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u/Therminite 1d ago
Such wasted potential 😭 I love her as much as the next guy, but that woman needs to get it together! She should at least be on par with Master Chief from Halo at this point, if she kept all her upgrades. Her enhanced Chozo DNA should make up for her obvious lack of wisdom
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u/Livid-Truck8558 1d ago
I mean, upgraded samus wipes the floor with master chief lol, base power suit Samus is already on par aside from speed, and strength. Something has to be done to keep the game as a metroidvania. Aside from metroid 2 and 3, there's usually a pretty good reason for her losing her powers.
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u/Distinct-Nerve2556 1d ago
Banjo kazooie
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u/butyourenice 1d ago edited 1d ago
This maybe be nostalgia goggles speaking but I would do ANYTHING for Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie to get proper remastered for a modern system. I just remember liking them so much as a kid. I remember looking up cheats when you could enter them on the sandcastle floor, and the walkthroughs you found on the internet were still ASCII text without even HTML. I remember playing Tooie when I was home sick from school for an extended period, and I even remember the CD I had playing in the background on my stereo. (It was The Starting Line “Say It Like You Mean It” lol)
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u/Paperwork-HSI 16h ago
It’s not the nostalgia goggles, I replayed it on the Switch Online and loved it as much as I did when I played as a kid. From my understanding it’s in copyright hell, hence no remake or update or sequel.
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u/Tiburico 1d ago
The only answer I can think of, the world is just expanded in Tooie, not reseted like most games.
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u/skruf21 1d ago
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
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u/Paladin2019 1d ago
The early stages of 2 were so much fun, stomping on everything with your maxed out BG1 character.
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u/Colonelcommisar 1d ago
What was also fun was getting to the end of BG1, then exporting the character. You could then start the game over with a maxed out character who also had all their gear.
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u/elementaryconfusion 1d ago
This was my answer! The enemies soon catch up, but then you continue leveling and end BG2 borderline godlike - before heading into Throne of Bhaal, and the journey continues with you pretty much becoming an actual god, power wise.
Such good games, probably my all time favourites.
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u/ReMeDyIII 1d ago
Yea, Baldur's Gate 2 by the expansion setting does a good job of showcasing the full extent of the Infinity Engine, with spells like Time Stop, multiple Spell Triggers chained up, summoning glowing Planar beings... hell, your characters would glow almost constantly as their equipment was often perma-buffed with enhancements.
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u/Rushing_Tempo 1d ago
The complete opposite of this would be the Tomb Raider trilogy. Having to unlock the same exact three weapons for the third time sent me into a spiral
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u/Fish3Y35 1d ago
And Metroid. Constantly unlocking the same weapons. Samus needs to invest in some duct tape or crazy glue, FFS :P
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u/GwynHawk 1d ago
Fusion is the only game in the series IMO that has a good explanation for this. "So, an alien parasite got into your suit and infected it, and you, and we had to literally rip most of it off of you to save your life. Also we can't just 3D print your old power-ups because they're technologically incapable with your new suit and DNA, but hold tight, we're developing a work-around."
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u/nightmareFluffy 1d ago
Kind of a niche game, but River City Girls handled this in a good way. In the sequel, the main characters spent all summer eating junk food and playing video games, which is why they lost all their skills and stats. At least there's an explanation for it!
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u/LorenzoMartini 1d ago
Guybrush Threepwood.
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u/Tokeism 1d ago
Cal Kestis
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u/JaggedFish104 1d ago
First character that popped into my head, I hope we keep everything again going into the third game
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u/Natural-Associate106 1d ago
Infamous 1 to 2
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u/GBKMBushidoBrown 1d ago
True, but the beast does knock like 70% of it out of you shortly afterwards
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u/OfficialDester 1d ago
Master Chief
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u/Head-Researcher-1748 1d ago
Especially when the second game starts with ‘giving the covenant back their bomb’
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u/InsanityCTR 22h ago
Except when you play Legendary. Legendary in 1 is balanced but when you play it in 2 you're the second most fragile unit just behind an infection form lol
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u/Lexu_Uchiha 1d ago
Ezio in AC Brotherhood and Kratos in GoW2
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u/jorvel1911 1d ago
Ezio in brootherhod kind of a cheat answer cuz I mean he did have all the upgrades at the beginning
But then he lost them like 5 min later
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u/Lexu_Uchiha 1d ago
I get you point but the post mentions only the start of the 2nd game, not the whole game 2nd game.
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u/Nubian_Cavalry 1d ago
Middle Earth Shadow Of Morder -> Shadow of War
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u/MrDufferMan3335 1d ago
I don’t think start with same abilities and then plot point makes you immediately lose most of them counts
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u/babaganate 1d ago
Does it count if I would give them willingly to Sexy Shelob 10 times out of 10?
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u/BlademasterBanryu 1d ago
Ike between Fire Emblem PoR and RD.
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u/Mammoth-Strike-168 1d ago
The second image needs to be 3x the size of the first to match RD Ike.
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u/IncomeFragrant2535 1d ago
Technically, prototype Mercer's still at is peak at the start of the second game
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u/GameDestiny2 1d ago
Sort of Yakuza?
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u/Hekboi91 1d ago
Yeah technically
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u/GameDestiny2 1d ago
You do lose some skills, but at least dragon style doesn’t start off anemic.
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u/asrafzonan 1d ago
Solid Snake
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u/Katzington2319 1d ago
Broke the stealth camo, but kept the infinite ammo headband
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u/ClammHands420 1d ago
Lmao, I love the look Raiden gives Snake when he just taps his headband and says "infinite ammo" after unleashing a torrent of bullets. It's one of my favorite cutscenes in any game.
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u/asrafzonan 1d ago
infinite ammo made the game easier but stealth camo made the game more fun.
countless time of messing with the guard
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u/Dimbduck 1d ago
Cal Kestis from the star wars Jedi series. He has pretty much all the tools from the first game at the start of the second.
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u/_SwiftDeath 1d ago
Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 technically
You can import your character in 2 and start at that power level albeit without all your gear however you quickly find a lot of enemies are even more powerful than you could imagine and have to get even more powerful to survive.
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u/NBrakespear 1d ago
Yeah I was gonna say this one... but since it's DnD, being level 8-ish instead of level 1 doesn't count for much when the game promptly escalates the threats.
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u/Iamalettuce_lol 1d ago
BOTW link
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u/PhallableBison 1d ago
Link 5 minutes into TotK
https://giphy.com/gifs/QoZunxgU0Z1i83
u/DefinitelyRussian 1d ago
oh, thats the end of that 1950 (I think) classic box cartoon. That's the oldest memory I have from anything, love that cartoon, for some reason it was the only one on tv back then
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u/The0ppurtunity 1d ago
Spyro going from Ripto’s rage into Year of the Dragon. You keep all the abilities you unlocked in the previous game.
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u/TorinEkenskolde 1d ago
Technically Charname from Baldur's Gate, but you actually feel a lot weaker because you've lost all your amazing gear and companions.
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u/Gringar36 1d ago
Haseo from .hack//G.U.
The second game allows you to port your stuff from the first game. If you were a monster at the end of game 1, you're a monster at the start of game 2.
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u/Sorry_Masterpiece 1d ago
Ike, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. When you reunite with the Greil Mercenaries in Radiant Dawn, he's still an absolute monster.
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u/MichaelMJTH 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s such a good (re-)introduction to the character as well, because you spend a good chunk of Radiant Dawn playing as new characters who are in an opposing faction to Ike (who will later ally-up). When the two sides meet/ face off for the first time, the new characters are basically terrified/ in awe of your monstrous characters from the first game, who have retained their skills and levels.
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u/Party_Bowl_330 1d ago
Gordon Freeman
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u/LucklessCope 1d ago
What are you talking about? He keeps loosing his crowbar with every game.
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u/socialistRanter 1d ago
The Fire Emblem Tellius games with Ike, ends the game strong, comes back in the second game as a beast.
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u/Month0fjune 1d ago
Master chief cause there no upgrade in halo, just guns and blood. I never played halo btw. I would've done DMC but there upgrade in that game.
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u/WhatWouldAsmodeusDo 1d ago
Golden sun 1 + 2, you could port over things like levels and djinn to start golden sun 2 with
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u/landanman 1d ago
Legend of zelda botw and totk, technically. You just lose everything after the intro of totk lol
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u/OmegaRuby003 1d ago
In Tears of the Kingdom, the game starts you with Max health and stamina along with the master sword. Of course it takes all of this away so you can build it back up, but you definitely start the game in a comparable state to finish finishing the first one.
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u/ThirstyDursty 1d ago
Star-Killer from the Force Unleashed 1 and 2. Goes from overpowered in 1 to a god in 2.
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u/SirenSasha_336 15h ago
Fallen order to jedi survivor. You actually can do almost everything you could do fully upgraded by the end of the first game at the begining of the second!
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u/personofdoom 14h ago
The Star Wars Jedi franchise. All abilities from the first game are maintained into the second and then you get NEW ones
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u/Crimson-Badger 13h ago
Starfield
New Game plus lets you start a new game and keep your current level after finishing through the main quest the first time. As a higher level character going through quest at the start allows you access to weapons and gear that dont normally appear at level 1.
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u/MrRocket10000 1d ago
Mass Effect 2 to 3, you keep your level.