Do Gamers have attachments to characters?

Depends on the game. There are some games where I really love and care about the characters, and continue to think about them far after I've beaten the game (Persona 3 and 4, or Enslaved). There are others that I never really think about it again.

Dude from RDR and everyone in MW2.

I know I have too many characters I am attached to.

I got pretty attached to John Marston.

Everyone from Metal Gear Solid 1 onward. I grew up with them and I can't let them go. :(

I'm always enthralled in the stories, characters, and mythology of videogames. There are pleanty of games that I get emotional playing, and it's great!

I was attached to Solid Snake despite all the ridiculous shit in those games. MGS4 made me realize how invested I was in that character and his ultimate fate. John Marston from Red Dead Redemption was also pretty awesome. The whole set of "personal" missions near the end really helped flesh that character out.

Undoubtedly. I couldn't give any sort of a fuck about macho-icons like Marcus Fenix, or even Master Chief. But characters like Elena Fisher from Uncharted, Rise Kujikawa from Persona 4, and (not for me personally) Aerith from Final Fantasy VII all seem to have placed their roots pretty deeply into the hearts of gamers. I was really into some Resident Evil characters before that whole franchise warped into the action genre.

I think it depends on the game and the game genre.

In the Metal Gear games you get a lot of cut scenes and through those you get a lot of character development. However, in Zelda Link never talks and we don't really get any character development. That happens in a lot of games with silent protagonists. They're there just as empty vessels.

Then in a lot of adventure games(rpg/action rpg/ etc) you're on a quest and a lot of the characters are either interesting but only there for a short time or are stilted and not very developed.

But yeah, I've grown attached to "my" shepard, Nathan Drake and other video game characters.

She sucks at video games. That's why she thinks this.

"Nathan Drake and Sully. "

" Certainly. Too many to name, in fact. "

I think the main difference is that comics stay with the same characters for decades. You get a lot more stories told about the same character than you do with games and movies. I would say tv shows foster a similar attachment to characters.

Yes, for example Eli. God damn it, I yelled at the monitor as I couldn't do a damn thing but watch. And now I wait.... wait for Valve to finish the damn story and see what happens between Gordon Freeman, Alex and Dog. There hasn't been a movie that has done that yet.

Space Quest was one of the first games I ever played and I still have fond memories of ol' Roger Wilco. 

I absolutely do, which is why I don't want York to appear in any other SWERY title ever, and why I am so angry about what Portal 2 did to Wheatley, a character I liked until the last couple of chapters.

I easily get attached to video game characters, I believe it's a good thing since it makes the story of a game way more interesting than if I hadn't given a shit about the characters.

Felt kind of sad at the end of Portal 2, leaving GLaDOS

I think many ppl who play games have attachments to particular characters, but not always because of the games themselves.

I played many games when I was a kid, but I have a real attachment to the characters in Day of The Tentacle, as it was the first game I was ever bought as a christmas present, and played from new over the holidays.  It helps they were amazing characters, for sure... but I think the circumstances that I encountered them made them special to me in particular.

If you can play through Mass Effect 2, VtM:B, Baldur's Gate or any similar character-driven game and NOT develop a connection to at least one of the characters, you should be subjected to a Voight-Kampff Test.

Not exactly what people are discussing but I have an incredible amount of attachment to my main World of Warcraft character. The hours of blood, sweat and tears I have put into that character makes me instantly attached to it. If anything happened to him I will choke a bitch.

I love the characters of Enslaved, Persona 3 and Persona 4.

I had an attachment to Joe from Mafia 2. I mean sure there were more but this one in particular was really something.

Without question, sometimes I even become attached to characters that aren't much of a character if you will.

A good example is Ryu Hayabusa from the Ninja Gaiden series.

I definitely feel it more strongly in RPG games that give dialogue options. Particularly in Bioware stuff like KOTOR, or games like Fallout 3, I start to feel a genuine attachment to certain characters (particularly if they are voiced).

I'd say overall I have less attachment to game characters than I do TV or movies. Definitely less than comic characters. There are a bunch of game characters I like, but only a handful of incredible games have ever made me actually give a shit about them. Most game characters are so retarded and unfunny I can't wait for them to die. Especially if I've had to rewatch an unskippable cutscene  (why do these still exist btw?) with them in it 10 times.