Lots of games have a family that you interact with. Some are more obvious, like in fable or Sims, but others are more subtle like the family of Clementine and Lee in walking dead. What I'm curious about is what "family" in video games did you connect to the most and why?  It can be a blood related family or one where they are just really close friends that act as they were related. What did you feel the closest to?

For me, the one I gotta call my favorite would have to be the little family I had in harvest moon: A new beginning. My wife Yuri owned a tailor shop and worked often, leaving me to care for the farm. However, instead of letting your wife be nothing more than an extra sprite in your house, I got till have lots of special interactions with her. On her days off she would help with chores, I could visit her at work, we ate all our meals together and we even Gould go on vacation together. It wasn't anything super amazing and it was just an npc but I truly felt like I had started a real family. So that's why it's my favorite. 

I really love the Sims series because it is a real life simulator. It's great to experience with the Sims depending on what you (the controller) would like to happen to them whether it would be good or bad. You also have nothing to lose when it comes to the Sims when it comes to experimenting. Depending on what you want to do, the Sims will help reenact any situation that you would like to see or experience. The best of all, it plays and reflects on what happens in reality in general which is something that people can think and relate in some sense.