For single player, do you prefer open world or linear games?
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Pull Up the Roots
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Most open-world games are full of fetch quests and pointless busy work. The freedom illusion isn't enough for me to look past that. I'd take a tight linear game over that any day.
Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
Wish wash deez nuts. That's why, bish.
The “fetch quest” criticism is dumb. Most open world games you don’t have to do any of that stuff and the structure of the game is still better than being led down one path. If the gameplay is fun the fetch quests are just an excuse to engage in the gameplay systems more.
Like i’m playing harry potter right now. I think the merlin quests, and most of the sidequests and little puzzles around the world are meh, so i chose not to engage with most of them. But the game being set in a fully realized and traversable/explorable world makes the game infinitely better than it would be if they were just leading you from level to level with cutscenes in between
Like i’m playing harry potter right now. I think the merlin quests, and most of the sidequests and little puzzles around the world are meh, so i chose not to engage with most of them. But the game being set in a fully realized and traversable/explorable world makes the game infinitely better than it would be if they were just leading you from level to level with cutscenes in between
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I mean as long as they’re expanding on it, it’s still a convo
I'm sure we can all rationalize why we're somewhere in the middle. the point is to pick one or the other
I saw some shyt a while back that said a majority of open worlds are just fancy level selects with filler between at best, I was like 
I plugged this channel before but he has made quite a few points that I agree with
At the very least, I feel the structure is worth a revisit, especially for quests, and in some cases like R*, the structure absolutely needs to be revisited. Not to increase sales (which is why I doubt it happens), but to keep shyt from getting stale. There’s not much difference structurally between GTA3 missions and RDR2 missions. Go to X, have conversation with Y on the way, pick up Z (and kill ppl) go back to where you started.
I think the biggest request from me is the quest/mission based games need to be 100x less rigid overall. Let the player figure outside the box solutions out, rather than pigeonholing us to your solution as a dev.
I plugged this channel before but he has made quite a few points that I agree with
At the very least, I feel the structure is worth a revisit, especially for quests, and in some cases like R*, the structure absolutely needs to be revisited. Not to increase sales (which is why I doubt it happens), but to keep shyt from getting stale. There’s not much difference structurally between GTA3 missions and RDR2 missions. Go to X, have conversation with Y on the way, pick up Z (and kill ppl) go back to where you started.
I think the biggest request from me is the quest/mission based games need to be 100x less rigid overall. Let the player figure outside the box solutions out, rather than pigeonholing us to your solution as a dev.
I thought the point was the convo between tbh
I couldn’t care less what y’all specifically prefer because I can’t play through y’all’s hands and eyes, and I’m not a dev so it makes me no money, but the viewpoint behind why is interesting to me
xiceman191
Superstar
I prefer linear games I lose interest in open-world/sandbox games really quick. Like I love Metal Gear Solid but I could not last more than a few hours of Metal Gear Solid V
Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, without offence I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.
Womb Raider
sigh….*unzips pants*
Linear.
I’m never going to finish Ass Creed Odyssey. Way too much shyt to do.
I’m never going to finish Ass Creed Odyssey. Way too much shyt to do.
Sindicated
Knowledge is the Greatest gift
Open world games with mods is
It practically allows you to make your own game with the features you want.
What mods did to Fallout 4 and Skyrim, with the added locations, quests, general added content, alternative starts and endings etc is out of this world.
The fact that you can download mods that enable you to have huge empire wars in skyrim, and mods that actually make the minuteman a full fleshed out faction with patrols, outposts that dynamically spawns as you get more towns under your control etc is crazy and takes the games to new heights.
It practically allows you to make your own game with the features you want.
What mods did to Fallout 4 and Skyrim, with the added locations, quests, general added content, alternative starts and endings etc is out of this world.
The fact that you can download mods that enable you to have huge empire wars in skyrim, and mods that actually make the minuteman a full fleshed out faction with patrols, outposts that dynamically spawns as you get more towns under your control etc is crazy and takes the games to new heights.
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Kingshango
Veteran
When I was younger with no responsibilities, I loved open world games.
Now I’m older, gotta go to work, gotta pay bills, I got no time or patience for open world games unless it’s a Rockstar game.
Now I’m older, gotta go to work, gotta pay bills, I got no time or patience for open world games unless it’s a Rockstar game.
spliz
SplizThaDon
I'm gonna say I FAR prefer linear games with some open world qualities. I had to be real with myself and say I don't fukk with open world games that much. They don't hold my interest anymore.
Dirty Mcdrawz
Your girl loves em....
Depends. Games like mafia 3 and watchdogs 2 would have been better games if they were more linear. Most Ubisoft games are interesting and fun as open worlds but opening up the map and seeing all that clutter is 