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/
8.7k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.6k

u/slip_and_fall_school 9h ago

In a way, he's not wrong.

However, even in games like KCD 1&2 where it is explicitly and repeatedly made clear that you're a nothing and nobody you still get to a point where Henry is a terminator.

Not really sure how to balance the "just a regular guy" ethos and the wish fulfillment and player agency that most gamers desire, or at least I haven't found a game that hits the sweet spot.

214

u/damhow 9h ago

Who wants to play an adventure RPG where you don’t become an impactful person? You can’t be regular and highly impactful, it’s a bit of an oxymoron.

199

u/Desertcow 9h ago

Tbf one of the most praised RPGs of the last decade is about an alcoholic cop in a backwater city solving one minor murder case

54

u/Zenspy-Real 8h ago

Not exactly minor since that one murder was about to trigger the death of the whole town, if Harry wasn't there then it would have been a massacre.

2

u/Taliesin_ 4h ago

Big spoiler from Sacred & Terrible Air, the novel that takes place ~20 years after the events of Disco Elysium, you have been warned: Revachol has a nuclear bomb dropped on it, and the rest of the world is rapidly consumed by an accelerating Pale amidst a bloody global war.

So yeah, ultimately, Harry's case is a blip on the radar. And it doesn't need to be more than that to be incredibly interesting all the same.