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/pdpi 10h ago

This was something I quite liked about Oblivion, where Martin is the actual "chosen one", and you're just kind of there for the ride.

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u/fawkie 9h ago

It’s why dragon age 2 has my favorite story of the three

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u/KingOfTheSouthEast 9h ago

Hawke is the “chosen one” in dragon age though or am i misremembering

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u/Gregregious 8h ago

No, he's just a refugee who saves Kirkwall from one crisis and then fails to save it from another. The futility is kind of the point with how dark a game DA2 is with the themes of oppression.

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u/KingOfTheSouthEast 7h ago

yeah now i remember, the Qunari for Act 2 and Templar v Mages in Act 3 right?

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u/GT-Alex74 4h ago

And also technically failing at getting rid of Corypheus, which triggers the events of Inquisition. My Hawke dated Isabella, then Anders. She saw her brother and her mother die, her sister having to become a warden, and her stance pushing a foreign noble into waging war on her city. In her mind, she's just constantly failing and responsible for everything fucked up in the world.

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u/Buca-Metal 9h ago

Actually, none of the 4 Dragon Age protagonists are the chosen one

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u/brey_wyert 8h ago

True. Being the Herald/Inquisitor was an accident, if you're an elf you can even be reluctant about the whole thing. Rook fucked up and had to clean up their big mess lol

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u/Buca-Metal 8h ago

And the Inquisitor thing was also a thing a spirit did during the explosion. The spirit could be something related to Andraste/Maker but unless they ever confirm that the Inquisitor doesn't fit the chosen one.

Rook is a lot like Hawke in "wtf is happening" kind of way.

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u/crxsso_dssreer 1h ago

technically no, but you're still made grand inquisitor of whatever and the world does revolves around you in game... so it's kind of a literary device that leads to the same thing.

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u/fawkie 6h ago

I mean 1 and 3 are chosen one stories. You’re the last grey wardens and only ones who can stop the blight or randomly chosen as the inquisitor to save the world from basically also the blight

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u/Buca-Metal 5h ago

In DA1: You are one of the two (actually at least 4) last Grey Wardens but just in Ferelden, there are hundreds or a thousands more left in world. Any of those could do what main character does, doesn't have any special skills. The Darkspawn would have been defeated eventually what the main character does is stopped before it gets bigger just because he was closer to it.

In DA3 is actually someone else who places the inquisitor in that position and even then someone else would have taken the mantle (maybe Hawke).

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u/Fluffy-Ad7165 4h ago

Larp larp larphur

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u/crxsso_dssreer 1h ago

"champion of kirkwall" === dragon borne.

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u/fawkie 1h ago

The champion of Kirkwall title is earned. You arrive as a refugee that no-one wants there and build your place in the city.

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u/crxsso_dssreer 53m ago

The champion of Kirkwall title is earned. You arrive as a refugee that no-one wants there and build your place in the city.

yeah, "earned", it's not like Flemeth shows up to help right from the start out of "nowhere" or anything... earned my ass...