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Final Fantasy Legends!

Kid Icarus Uprising. You play as a goddess's right hand man, and end up fighting several other gods.

The entirety of Final Fantasy 14

Final Fantasy 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13

• Start off figuring out why meteors are falling and the wind has died
• Start off fighting a snail while using magic machines
• Start off as a terrorist
• Start off as an emo student
• Start off sneaking into a play
• Start off with blitzball
• Start heading down the hallway

The Age of Mythology campaign. It starts with you heading to the Trojan War because some pirates stole your statue's trident…

Loop hero has you trying to rebuild a forgotten world as you traverse round a simple loop...

Depending on how you define all powerful God, Fallout New Vegas

Basically this

Most of the Dark Souls are like that, ain't they? I'm too weak sauce to ever reach those levels, though. Black Myth Wukong has you starting Heaven's entire army, so I guess that qualifies too (I'm assuming you end up fighting a god at the end, but again, I'm not worthy)

Grim Dawn.

One moment you're dying on the gallows, the next you're fighting the tongue of a long dead god trying to reclaim it's appropriated flesh.

And the stakes only get higher from there for the DLCs.

Asura's Wrath, DMC1, Bayonetta

Mario and friends find a secret door while on their quest to defeat weapon invaders from another dimension.

Silent Hill and Silent Hill 3 - both games revolve around a cult that is trying to bring about the rebirth of their deity. You play as someone who finds themselves in the town of Silent Hill in search of a person. You solve puzzles, battle monsters, and navigate the town… and then it ends with you fighting a god.

Yakuza 0 goes through all the emotions with its storytelling: you start by singing karaoke, then become a fugitive, you go bowling, lose a friend, watch a dirty video...

Also, holy shit, most of you guys missed the point. Edit: Wait, did I miss the point? I thought this post was about wrong games for funsies

Though you DO actually fight a god in Yakuza 5 as a sidequest.

Final Fantasy Legend, on the Game Boy. There are multiple worlds, and in every world there's a giant tower, and when you enter the tower, each level leads to a different world. Eventually you get to the very top and you fight God, who is guarding the door at the top level that leads to paradise.

I mean... Dark Souls is the game that essentially created this meme.

Your entire goal is to beat up God and take his place so you can keep things going as they've been going for an untold number of centuries. Though IMO that's one of the bad endings; the good ending is ending the status quo and becoming a new, different god. A god a humanity instead of... Whatever the fuck the gods before were (they are separated from humanity, even though they look like humans) 🤷🏻‍♂️.

For a much older game... EarthBound. Starts off just being a quirky, modern day (modern day being the 90's in this case) RPG; ends with you fighting a literal space god that looks vaguely like a fallopian tube.

OG Chrono Trigger