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/TheAndrewBrown 8h ago

Yeah his comments don’t seem to have anything to do with becoming unstoppable, it’s that all RPGs revolve around huge, world ending events.

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u/gamegeek1995 7h ago

Then there's RPGs where you effectively cause the huge, world-ending events, which otherwise would've been avoided if your character just stayed home (Tales of Symphonia)

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u/Violet_Nightshade 3h ago

Should I play that RPG?

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u/MeadKing 6h ago

To be fair, I don't think this is limited to just RPGs. It feels like most games have some cataclysmic threat hanging overhead, not to mention the over-saturation of that storyline in other media like movies.

There's a desire to demonstrate that the stakes have been raised, and bad writers don't seem to trust their audience to determine "They're the bad guys" without having the threat be world-ending in scale.

Sometimes it's nice to have a low-stakes adventure. Low-stakes might be the wrong word considering that personal vendettas and chasing your dreams can have a large importance to the core cast of characters, but not every story needs to involve the threat of extinction.