tinyE: Sorry to butt in here with OT, but to this day I tend to get genuinely upset when I lose an NPC in a game. Diablo 2 comes to mind but there are others. It sounds stupid but I really do feel bad even when it isn't my fault, almost like I failed them. Am I the only one here that does?
My mercs in Diablo 2 die way too often for me to care even the tiniest little bit but I did get strangely attached to the first random wolf I charmed as a summoner in NOX, ended up dragging the poor animal literally through half the game. Quick loaded whenever the wolf died, the hardest pats were trying to maneuver it through dungeon traps but for some reason I just couldn't allow myself to let the wolf die for as long as possible.
Maybe it's because I had a dog that lived for 17 years which is quite a long time creating strong bonds and now anything with four legs and fur makes me want to protect and befriend it.
Maybe it's possible to actually finish the whole game with the first wolf you can charm but such tasks are too OCD for me. Even heard of people who claim to have finished Diablo 2 naked (meaning no gear, not yourself being naked) and to me that just seems like a completely nonsensical thing to do, even playing mikado or dominoes makes more sense than that.