r/gaming • u/Asianboiforwhitedad • 10h ago

Kingdom Come Deliverance studio co-founder says a lot of RPGs are 'still games for teenagers,' and that he's 'tired of all the RPGs where you are this chosen one'

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/kingdom-come-deliverance-studio-co-founder-says-a-lot-of-rpgs-are-still-games-for-teenagers-and-that-hes-tired-of-all-the-rpgs-where-you-are-this-chosen-one/
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u/emanuele0933 10h ago

They are in fact aimed to teenagers

There are some adult like RPGs out there but they sell way less. People like teen story and grand scale plots where you need to defeat a bunch of gods to save your universe from cancellation

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u/Tragedy_Boner 10h ago edited 9h ago

Is there a rpg where you are a game dev fighting CEOs to stop your game from cancellation?

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u/From_Deep_Space 9h ago

Postal 2

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u/nomedable 9h ago

I thought that was about getting people to sign your petition?

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u/An_Ugly_Bastard 8h ago

I thought that was about on peeing people in the face

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u/-Shoebill- 8h ago

Games are bad, they make you mad!

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u/ShuffKorbik 7h ago

I thought it was a Gary Coleman murder simulator.

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u/IrksomFlotsom 7h ago

Murder??? I played that game and never killed anyone!! How could you?!?

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u/Killerderp 8h ago

Only when you have gonorrhea

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u/Boysandberries0 9h ago

Its real life for any studio Microsoft buys up

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u/WhatsPaulPlaying 9h ago

EA checking in

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u/drewster23 9h ago

The ones that were actually producing games that is.

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u/platoprime 9h ago

Star Ocean Till the End of Time comes kinda close.

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u/AN-94_Handholder 9h ago

I swear this was the plot of a Star Ocean game

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u/Consistent_Soil_5794 9h ago

Yes, till the end of time. You have to stop 4th dimensional game Ceo Lucifer from shutting down the Universe MMO.

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u/Chat2Text 9h ago

that game annoyed the hell out of me, guides would tell me that I need to patent Orichalcum so I don't have to pay out the wooza, but the lady that you need to hire to do exactly that seems to always instant patents it the moment you're able to hire her

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u/GoldenGouf 9h ago

Should really spoiler that. It's a massive one.

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u/axazajjj 8h ago

It came out more than 20 years ago. Do we need to put a spoiler tag on Super Mario Brothers so nobody accidentally finds out Mario rescues the princess at the end?

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u/GoldenGouf 8h ago

What harm is there in putting a spoiler tag? It's called being considerate, especially of a heavily story based game.

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u/axazajjj 8h ago

No harm, but IMO after a certain amount of time has passed there should be no expectation for it. And 20 years is way more than long enough.

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u/GoldenGouf 8h ago

If that's what you believe, I guess.

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u/drewster23 9h ago

Shit now I'm not playing it

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u/Robbie_dobbie 9h ago

"Going under" is a game close to this

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u/FloridaMan1423 9h ago

Literally the plot of Split Fiction lol (minus the rpg). Good couch co-game to play

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u/Swordofsatan666 9h ago

Yes, but also No its not the plot.

You arent playing as Game Devs, youre just 2 Writers. You arent stopping Cancellation, youre instead trying to get your big break into the writing scene. And youre invited by a publishing company to test out a device that will turn your stories into simulations you can actually experience.

The CEO of the company is using the simulation to steal the writers ideas, even the ones that are not part of the simulations and are just in the writers minds.

Its not about Video Game Companies or even Video Games at all, its about Writers protecting their Stories from CEO’s who want to steal their ideas

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 9h ago

It was cancelled

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u/sofa_king_awesome 9h ago

Not really the same but there’s that manga that’s about a manga artist who ends up being in a zombie apocalypse which they turned into a movie. It’s great.

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u/Altavious 9h ago

The beginners guide is probably the closest thing to a game dev experience I’ve come across. I’ve done the other thing irl and I’m not sure it would make a great game experience - if you win the reward is that you get to keep putting up with their bullshit for longer. Then if the game does well they pocket the money and lay off a chunk of your team.

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u/db_admin 8h ago

This was the worst part of Assassin’s Creed games

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u/mynameizmyname 8h ago

Destiny's storyline is a metaphor for this.  The Witness is actually just Peter Parsons in a Temu Megamind costume.

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u/Cam3739 8h ago

You, sir...you rock

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u/Cam3739 8h ago

And keep rocking

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u/Shabolt_ 5h ago

Going Under is a Roguelite where you play an intern fighting techbro CEOs to keep your job and branch alive if that’s at all close?

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u/stuntgear313 4h ago

In Nier Automata you fight the CEO in a DLC

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u/MeekAndUninteresting 3h ago

In Darkest Dungeon you play as the CEO laying off all but your best workers after each new product launch and hire a new bunch of fresh graduates to work to burnout through crunch.

JK, it's just 1st edition Dungeons and Dragons.

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u/Wolfdude91 2h ago

In the sequel we get to beat up the shareholders

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u/emanuele0933 9h ago

There's at least one, but it's one of those fake retro style RPGs that looks ugly on purpose

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u/redundead 38m ago

Yeah, the expansion is dealing with unemployment after your game is a huge success