Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has spoken about RPGs putting limits on their protagonists, as he reportedly starts work on a new Fallout game.
To that point kingdom come deliverence does that really well, first you have the “from nothing” starts but also because of birth you just can’t be everything. You are, unfairly, limited in what you can really do, even if you can become godlike in what you are allowed to be.
Fallout one does a good job with this because of the timer, and travel. You are always just one person doing what they can.
The worst case is definitely where a game is made to be a god splatter but for some reason it’s not just hard but punishing narratively like youre making a mistake. That’s no fun to me.
To that point kingdom come deliverence does that really well, first you have the “from nothing” starts but also because of birth you just can’t be everything. You are, unfairly, limited in what you can really do, even if you can become godlike in what you are allowed to be.
Fallout one does a good job with this because of the timer, and travel. You are always just one person doing what they can.
The worst case is definitely where a game is made to be a god splatter but for some reason it’s not just hard but punishing narratively like youre making a mistake. That’s no fun to me.