IMO, "one true hero" stories simply fall on their face in a multiplayer setting. Those are stories for singleplayer games. If it's a multiplayer game, then it needs either a "multiple true heroes" story or an "everyman" story. The astounding thing to me is that it wouldn't even be that difficult to take every "one true hero" story I've come across in an MMO and with relatively minor tweaking turn it into a story that accommodates a multiplayer environment.
But, then, I'm also a firm believer that game developers don't play their games. It's the only reasonable explanation, to me, for why the stories in the games often don't fit the type of game that the game is, why it's considered acceptable for QOL features to be missing, why there are sometimes gameplay issues that are baffling in their obviousness yet persist indefinitely, and why there are sometimes "new features" which get added to a game that kinnnnda nobody playing the game actually really likes or had been asking for...
But, then, I'm also a firm believer that game developers don't play their games. It's the only reasonable explanation, to me, for why the stories in the games often don't fit the type of game that the game is, why it's considered acceptable for QOL features to be missing, why there are sometimes gameplay issues that are baffling in their obviousness yet persist indefinitely, and why there are sometimes "new features" which get added to a game that kinnnnda nobody playing the game actually really likes or had been asking for...
Lydia Lightfoot ~ The Reliquarian's Guild «Relic» ~ Lavender Beds, Ward 12, #41
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