Games that don't stroke the player's ego
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The World Ends With You's Neku is a horrible dude during the game. People aren't backwards in coming forwards about pointing this out too.
I don't know ... Being these guys certainly feels awesome and badass.
Don't Starve is a good one. Whenever I play that game I feel completely on the back foot because it feels like almost everything is stacked against me.
That is what I like about the Souls games. They feel like they are there to be an adversary, not to provide you with a power fantasy.
Honestly, I think it is pretty rare that games aren't acting as huge ego boosts. So many games are filled with characters who spend half of their dialogue telling you how special, cool, and important you are. On the gameplay side, we had the majority of the PS360 generation of titles giving you almost no pushback so that you could trounce all over the game and feel like a badass. I think video games are frequently guilty of puffing up egos shamelessly.
Sure you are, one of hundreds. You can even meet them if they invade you.
Not saying that there aren't games that puff up egos, just that games that do not are equally as present.
Henry from Kingdom Come. He sucks at absolutely everything for the most part of the game and he's just this random dude that happened to get mixed up in ugly business.
I guess it depends on which one you're talking about, but this isn't really the case. In Dark Souls, for instance, they basically tell every undead they're the chosen undead; in the case of the player character they happen to be right, but only because (and only if) you actually beat the game/do the thing.
TLOU2.
The game which some people hate because they apparently wanted a feel-good sequel for Ellie and Joel which was never realistic to begin with after the ending of Part 1. The game is also about self harm and the weaknesses of the protagonists more than anything else.
The game which some people hate because they apparently wanted a feel-good sequel for Ellie and Joel which was never realistic to begin with after the ending of Part 1. The game is also about self harm and the weaknesses of the protagonists more than anything else.
You are referred to as the chosen undead... and you aren't the first to have been given that title. The others all died. That is explicitly stated in the game. So yeah, not really much of a chosen one, more of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Disco Elysium is a masterpiece. Go play it.
The main character is a pathetic loser of a detective that wakes up after drinking himself to oblivion is delirious and can't remember anything.
He's supposed to investigate a murder.
The amnesia isn't played for jokes, he is an absolute fuckup.
It's the best written game I've played.
And very funny!
lol, he looks like an NPC too.Henry from Kingdom Come. He sucks at absolutely everything for the most part of the game and he's just this random dude that happened to get mixed up in ugly business.
I feel like any game where you are still killing 100s don't fit the bill.
Out of left field, but I'll say the survival genre does this. Minecraft, Arc, Long Dark, etc. Anything you do has to be earned. Anything can be lost at any given time. I'm sure PVP online is all an ego fest, but the PVE/Single player is pretty ego-less.
Out of left field, but I'll say the survival genre does this. Minecraft, Arc, Long Dark, etc. Anything you do has to be earned. Anything can be lost at any given time. I'm sure PVP online is all an ego fest, but the PVE/Single player is pretty ego-less.
A.M.O.K PC/Sega Saturn
The game's plot is basically a war stopped, peace started, but peace isn't profitable. So you're there to reignite the war. No hero stuff, just assholery.
The game's plot is basically a war stopped, peace started, but peace isn't profitable. So you're there to reignite the war. No hero stuff, just assholery.
The Witcher setting is really good at this. You're basically a non-human, a monster, being looked down upon, and the whole world does that even if they don't have any chance of defending themselves against you.
Really like that approach as you're not a god damn chosen one.
Really like that approach as you're not a god damn chosen one.
"Everything you touch goes to shiiit."
That's what I was going to say. š