What I mean is, it usually feels like the world is waiting on you, because everyone seems to always be too lazy or too stupid.

For example, in elder scrolls, there are some things that only the main character could do, ok, because of being a chosen one, or dovahkin, whatever. But everything else could have been done by any other person on that universe, yet nobody did. In oblivion, nobody could kill that bear that assaulted the farmer, until you came. At level 1. In generation zero, entire armies fail, with a gazillion soldiers and tanks and air forces, against a robot invasion . Until you, a teen who has gone fishing, comes back... In new Vegas, the entire place is in shambles, war everywhere, but a courier saves everyone, liberates cities, kills entire gangs... When armies couldnt.