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

656

u/we_are_sex_bobomb 9h ago

It’s hard to make a video game where you’re not special or chosen in some way because it’s hard to believe an ordinary person could fight like 500 guys and survive over the course of their mission.

15

u/NerrionEU 5h ago

Dark Souls series kinda uses that trope where you start as a regular random undead.

5

u/GoodGrades 5h ago

Sure, but you are literally the Chosen Undead

11

u/1v1mecaestusm8 2h ago

The chosen undead bit is a prophecy though, many before you have been called the chosen undead and failed at some point. You are the chosen undead because you succeed, you don't succeed because you're the chosen undead.

1

u/GoodGrades 2h ago

Yeah, you're right, so it's not really a traditional chosen one as in "only this one person can accomplish this task"

2

u/Angelusthegreat 22m ago

Wait if I recall right the chosen undead was a fake prophecy right have not played ds since more than decade

1

u/3MetricTonsOfSass 15m ago

My favorite fan theory is that many of the hollows you fight also believed that they were the chosen undead, because the charecters that every person who played the game but never finished are those hollows