Zelda creator Eiji Aonuma thinks linear games are a thing of the past

[daze23]

Then dude in the OP is talking nonsense

to be fair, they got more linear as they got into the 3D games. that's why BOTW was seen as them going "back to their roots" of having less hand-holding, and unguided exploration

 

[Black Mamba]

They have their place but I much prefer open games, give me more Baldurs Gate 3 and less Mid Fantasy 16.

Mid? Lmao Desperate xbot babble

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Mid? Lmao Desperate xbot babble

Relax He’s talking about

 

[winb83]

Nah many people prefer a handcrafted experience with a ridged structure that presents you with a game as it is meant to be played instead of some sort of sandbox.

 

[Why-Fi]

that doesn’t really hold up when people are still playing metroidvanias and pixelated games n shyt. also I don’t agree.

i will say linear needs to be left to studios that know wth they’re doing tho. ori, uncharted, mario, even oddworld is still fun

further all open world games are not sandboxes, if they have a distinct connected beginning and end. technically linear just not a straight line, especially if anything you do fulfills a segment in between. that’s another debate tho. we damn near had a brawl over this in one my classes back in the day

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

that doesn’t really hold up when people are still playing metroidvanias and pixelated games n shyt. also I don’t agree.

i will say linear needs to be left to studios that know wth they’re doing tho. ori, uncharted, mario, even oddworld is still fun

further all open world games not sandboxes, if they have a beginning and end. technically linear just not a straight line. that’s another debate tho. we damn near had a brawl over this in one my classes back in the day

The last paragraph is correct. Thaats why i laugh when people cry about modern jrpgs being linear, havin a world map didn’t make ff7 and those types of games less linear, it was point a to point b 90% of the time.

I just got doen playing ff4/ff6 and the world map is really nothing more than a fancy select screen

 

[Why-Fi]

No. You can go in a box. Or you can go through the vents.

Bosses you approach them in different ways.

You just gave more options for how to approach the game than zelda in your post

same starting point and end goal, definitely linear. you just have a choice in which line

 

[Why-Fi]

just realized he said ‘strict order of events’, different argument than the one I made (or not) but I disagree with that too. it’s not going anywhere

 

[Fctftl]

I like linear if it's good. example: love FFX, dont like FFXIII. both were linear games but the former had a better world, better story, better characters. soundtrack is debatable cuz I really feel like Masashi Hamauzu did a good job, but id still give FFX's music the edge. (13 had one of my favorite battle themes ever tho).

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

but id still give FFX's music the edge. (13 had one of my favorite battle themes ever tho).

The only fukking good that came out of that cursed novella Crystallis doo doo

 

[bigde09]

Huge Zelda fan but was disappointed with botw and totk. The series might not be for me anymore

 

[Deltron]

Huge Zelda fan but was disappointed with botw and totk. The series might not be for me anymore

my friend and i were talking about the games last time he was in town

he don't fukk with either and truly believes BotW was a reskin of a potential new IP that Nintendo was afraid might fail, so they slapped the zelda name onto it. and here we are.

 

[Jaguar93]

Wide linear, but I wouldn’t say open world. You can tell how much experience they didn’t have with how empty the shyt was.

Kojima knew

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Thread title should read

"Zelda creator Eiji Aonuma is a moron"​

 

[MeachTheMonster]

same starting point and end goal, definitely linear. you just have a choice in which line

This holds true for every game even open world games.

The “choice in line” is what’s the difference.