You Are Not The Hero

You Are Not The Hero is a Kickstarter project. The game's an action RPG platform game with a twist. That twist being that, well, you are not the hero. You're an NPC, one of the put-upon locals that the "heroes" harass by barging into their homes, looting their treasures, and pestering for information.

Apparenly, the plot will involve the focal character, Petula, being indirectly pulled into the plot the heroes are following in some fashion. They plan to include multiple ways to deal with threats and sidequests, and sustainable minigames, like the ability to set up an item shop, or become a professional fisherman.

It sounds like an interesting premise.

Looks neat, and ooh yes it's going to be out on Linux (and OSX) too.

Interesting premise. Not much else going for it as far as I can tell. Is that fucking RPGmaker I see? Really?

Do all RPG Maker games suck?

wait, if you're playing an NPC, doesn't that make that character a PC?

Not necessarily, but making it in RP Gmaker basically says "I have no idea how to C++ (well, C# and JS given that 99.9% of indie games are made in Unity these days) and don't want to learn."

Granted, I'm not sure it's actually RP Gmaker at a second glance. Said "engine" has some rather notable "quirks" that I'm not seeing here.

Yes, though your PC is basically in the role of a JRPG (or early CRPG) NPC.

edited 29th Oct '13 4:37:21 PM by Archereon

Using RPG Maker also isn't the kind of thing that should require a kickstarter project.

Still, this premise sounds really interesting.

Wait, how do we know what it's being programmed in?

We don't. They're just guessing based on the visual style (which is very similar to what RPG Maker games look like, but that could be intentional).

It might even be possible that the pre-alpha video is in RPG-Maker, as a way to quickly make a prototype for the video. Who knows?

And yeah, I do realize the irony of playing as an NPC. I suppose being a PC isn't the message. It's more that you're not the Hero.

edited 29th Oct '13 5:11:48 PM by Enlong

For some reason I thought we had a topic on this already. Oh well.

Looks interesting (it's basically the concepts of What Measure Is a Mook? and What the Hell, Hero? mashed up), but the style doesn't really catch my eye much and it doesn't look like something that I'd enjoy.

edited 29th Oct '13 10:17:52 PM by Customer

I think this may be a bit unnecessary player shaming combined with making fun of games too primitive to give character to NP Cs.

But there were NP Cs as far back as, say, Final Fantasy.

That's a rather pessimistic view of it.

edited 30th Oct '13 6:35:11 AM by Sabbo

This is the sort of thing most players will be laughing with, I feel. Who, when playing an RPG hasn't, at some point, chuckled at how their hero is basically a kleptomaniac?

Richard Garriot?

Well, Ultima was a big experiment in making the hero be moral. The premise starts from Kleptomaniac Hero bein the baseline that it was subverting.

edited 30th Oct '13 12:55:40 PM by Enlong

Embric of Wulfhammer was apparently made in RPG Maker and it was pretty fun. Also contained elements focusing on the npcs take on things.

Anyway yeah, I'm also keeping my eye on this game.

I'm also pretty sure that To The Moon was made in RPG Maker. God, I love To The Moon.