7 Times Video Game Companions Were Better Than Real Friends

3. Garrus - Mass Effect

Discussing your favourite Mass Effect companion belongs on the list of topics not to be discussed in polite conversation, alongside religion and politics. Liara vs. Miranda?

C’mon, wars have been started over less.

Now, as a character, Tali is compelling and innocent. She’s like your little sister… and you don’t take your little sister out into Thresher Maw-ridden planets. Of the Krogan’s, Grunt is the better defined character, but Wrex is just too cool and indispensable a force to ever leave out of your squad. Jack is wall-to-wall bat-poop fun, and Mordin can sing like the poets of Ancient Greece. Of all the colourful backstories and war-hungry abilities that seep out of every room of the Normandy, which of them *wouldn’t* you like to waltz into a suicide mission with?

Oh, Jacob… yeah, probably Jacob. But the rest are pretty sweet.

And none are sweeter than Garrus Vakarian, aka Archangel. Over the course of three games and multiple books and comics, Shepard witnesses Garrus’ journey from law-abiding C-Sec officer, to rebellious mercenary, to military commander, all whilst serving as Shepard’s right-hand. He‘s deadlier with a sniper rifle than One Direction is with a microphone and, with a past full to the brim of betrayal and murder, his moral journey is just as branching as our hero.

Pick a paragon, Garrus will likely forgive his enemies and simply part their company with a friendly head butt, as opposed to renegade Garrus’ kneecap-removal approach. Either way, the friendship blossoms in partnership as the two heroes undergo their quest, finally culminating with a pleasant sniper challenge…in the middle of the Citadel - one of the most populated beacons of civility in the galaxy that has already seen its fair share of war and tragedy up to this point. What a team!