Mount & Blade. You can potentially become a king if you build up your income and an enough of an independant warband, but you can also spend the game as a mercenary captain for one of the other kings.
Freelancer mod is especially good for this if you want to just be a front line trooper for a while.
uh Skyrim lmao
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Arcanum
In a way. You ARE the chosen one (because surviving the Zeppelin crash made you one. All the other pre-built characters are corpses), but it's complicated and elaborating that would be a huge spoiler.
>Talking about religion
no god in this house buddy.
Fallout New Vegas
You are nobody special.
You are just a skilled courier.
Pretty sure Toki the near-sighted knave didn't go down in legend.
Morrowind. You're technically the chosen one, as in the Empire chose you to go do some shit, but you MAKE YOURSELF the divine savior, it wasn't any fluke of providence.
Oh shut the fuck up, everyone reading this conversation knows that Rogue Legacy doesn't have "just a nameless soldier" characters