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/RogerMelian 10h ago

And where is the problem in that? Not every rpg has to be about a medieval random dude or a depressed adult team.

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u/DanTheDrywall 9h ago

He specifically says that this is neither good nor bad, just that it becomes repititive when a majority of games are like that. He is not critizing power fantasys in games in general. I very much agree since kcd felt refreshing in that sense.

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u/Caelinus 9h ago

The only thing I kind of disagree with him on is that such games are made for teenagers. That is needlessly infantalizing. Life kinda sucks for adults a lot of the time, and I live my whole life as a normal person with very little actually power.

As a teenager I was much more willing to believe that I might become a notable person, even if I thought it was a pretty low chance. But now I know that most powerful people suck, and the only thing that is good about it is money, but that in turn ends up making you suck.

So I feel like escapist games that let us decompress and return to worlds where good actually wins and we have the power to enact it are very much still targetted at adults. It is not popular because of kids, it is popular because fake worlds being invaded by demons are often more fun than being a citizen in a world where the demons are just other people.