Summary
It’s the age-old open-world RPG dilemma. Should you make progress towards the main quest, or should you check out the scenery and do a few side quests instead? The former will actually help with progression, but the latter will make that progression easier. Then there’sKingdom Come: Deliverance 2, where you’ll be a medieval peasant regardless of your choice.
After a lengthy prelude, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 finally opens up when you realise you need to get invited to a wedding in order to get an audience with Lord von Bergow. However, it seems players have been getting up to all sorts of medieval madness rather than proceeding with the first real objective of the game.
Nobody Likes Weddings Anyway
If you’re too busy smithing, heaving sacks, flirting with the miller’s daughter, or looking for your dog to attend the big wedding in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, you’re not alone. The game takes so much away from you at the start, that even a meager two Groschen for manual labour seems too good to pass up.
It seems a lot of players have been taking their time with the game, completing all sorts of side quests, exploring,getting stripped for a minor crime, or getting killed by a low-level bandit andstarting all over again. The Kingdom Come: Deliverance subreddit, isfull of postsabout how players are doing everything but going to the wedding to continue the main quest.
Some of these posts have also started referencing other games, like Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, where it’s the year 40,000 and Henry still hasn’t gone to the wedding. Another post mentions Cyberpunk 2077, where Henry not attending the wedding is the same as V not going to meet Hanako at Embers.
I have to admit that I too have been up to random peasantry instead of attending the wedding. I stole a maypole, took revenge for the old lady that saved me, and became quite proficient in smithing, if I can say so myself.
