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Is this true? (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The problem is not "open world" but "the ubisoft game". New region, find watchtower, reveal map, do 1 quest, attack enemy camp, liberate area, new area, find watchtower, ...

Most open worlds are also just way to big. GTA San Andreas felt huge but is tiny compared to V. And it was better for it. Modern open worlds never have a hub. A place that you actually build a relationship with and see change over the course of the game. Its always: area completed, next!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah San Andreas was the open world game I was thinking of too, with the expanding of your crime syndicate. It's pretty much the only game I've played that implements an open world properly and I've been chasing that since then. Fallout 4 maybe, but building settlements or forts didn't have real impact. Diablo IV is way too driven to rush through and get to the endgame.

    I think you really need to design it to be more of a simulation game that reacts to player actions and with a story inserted, not as a "feature" to check off. And a distinct goal or win condition for playing the open world.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    If every place/area only serves one purpose then the game should be linear. Some of my favourite games are the old Gothic and Gothic 2 RPGs. They are open world, but tiny compared to modern RPGs. They dont have "areas" with a set difficulty that you can complete and then move on, instead the map is like a skeleton of fairly save roads and settlements and the further you go away from the roads the harder it gets. So you see the whole map in the first chapter but have explored very little of it. You always return to the same areas and they feel like home. And every chapter of the story adds new enemies, quests and events to all areas of the game. All of it is hand picked. No "radient quests" to trick you into going to an completed dungeon again, no random encounters on the roads to make travel through the world feel less empty...

    IMO, they have the best open worlds I have ever seen. The studios follow up open world games (Gothic 3, elex 1&2) fell flat because they tried to be huge as well and felt empty as a result.

    Working with constraints does actually produce gems. Fallout, farcry, GTA, skyrim just throw billions of dollars at a project to make it huge. But everything there is is just a set piece to be looked at once and be discarded ...

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