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/JhoshElite 9h ago

Idk man maybe I'm an exception but even when I was younger I liked games where I wasn't some mythical magical chosen one that comes along once every 12,461 years and happened to show up right when every continent on the planet decided to kill each other at the same time an otherworldly presence made itself known.

That's why I'm so drawn to the Gothic games. Where you're just.. some poor sod trying to make his way through the world he's been cast into. You're not special, and what you do with that is up to you. I think it let's you have more loose story anyway. You can think up your own backstory without adhering to a strict paved one.

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u/Kennysded 9h ago

Would you recommend the remake? They felt old by the time I discovered them, and I had other games to play. But I do enjoy some classic RPG action with basic mechanics that's just good fun.

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u/JhoshElite 8h ago

I never played the first gothic originally. But I did play the remake. It's difficult and fun in a way, but it does greatly suffer from the old rpg way of padding out gameplay time by having you run across the map to do a quest just to have the end of that quest make you run back across the map. So.. there's a lot of running.