cigaM

5y

u probably smell like doritos leave me alone

dont worry bout me worry bout why FromSoftware is using Tower points in their "cutting edge" open world game

so far the main innovation is playing 4 player coop Dark Souls in an open world

the more they copy elements from Ubi/BOTW/Witcher the more people will be upset because they expect more

CrimsonArk

5y

I’m scared that this gonna get delayed at the last minute.

Soulo

5y

It won’t. This game has been delayed behind the scenes multiple times now

rise zero

5y

Put Elden Ring and UbiSoft in the same sentence again and I'm mailing you a bomb

rise zero

5y

Put Elden Ring and UbiSoft in the same sentence again and I'm mailing you a bomb

Elric

5y

Which of these guys games did you want me to play again, Sekiro?

rise zero

5y

Bloodborne's the best starting point if you've got a PS4

Sekiro's amazing though. Will have you raging for the first 5 hours or so before you get the flow of it.

Elric

5y

What's the exploration like? Almost considering firing up Oblivion

Elric

5y

What's the exploration like? Almost considering firing up Oblivion

cigaM

5y

AC Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla might as well be as close to BOTW as u can get in terms of massive open world with regions locked behind towers

one could argue that Far Cry 5 and The Division open worlds are just as well made as BOTW albeit a little different

just because it became a trend to hate Ubisoft the last 5 years doesnt mean the games i mentioned are bad at all, the worlds and the stories and the gameplay is always top tier

difference with BOTW is just a nice artstyle + less handholding + more unknown exploration + gliding

finding and doing all shrines = trash

unoriginal 4 corners map biome = trash

korok seed hunting = trash

boss dungeons = trash

number of unique enemies = trash

austin_butler_fan4

5y

all those ac games u mentioned are like way worse versions of witcher

austin_butler_fan4

5y

imagine posting on a internet forum then crying when someone replies

anyways

cigaM

5y

imagine having substance to ur comments

and now this?

ur a loser buds

Stardust

5y

Botw to me does the "open" open world aspect better than all of them.
Botw feels like a playing ground throughout the entirety of the map thanks to the durability system and the "chemistry" system and of course the main concept of being free as soon as you leave the great plateau, with the only real objective being beating ganon, and i, as someone who doesnt value story as much as gameplay in games, was very happy with that.

Also, the world design was to me better, with the help monolith hyrule is full of interesting places to go to that the game never forces you to see, and its gameplay mechanics help make the experience of traversing hyrule personal to everyone. I can go hours talking about what i discovered in the world and how and i know my experience wont be the same as others, and to me thats the quintessential feeling of "adventure" open worlds should strive for and the original zelda for the nes was going for. Sharing your stories with others on how you found evertide island or the satoru mountain or how you found the huge ass horse are a main aspect of the game, since you can go to those places at any time and depending on when you might have a easier or harder time, which creates other scenarios and stories to tell. All of this without endless cutscenes or linear missions that are needed to follow in a certain order for the story to progress and reach the end. Like how cool it is to go straight to ganon as soon as you leave the great plateau, when they talked about that at e3 2016 my mind was blown and seeing people doing it today still blows my mind.

The closest an open world gets to this feeling is red dead 2 but that game to me is hindered by its antiquated mission system that hasnt evolved in any open world rocksar game since the ps2 era. The non open world game that comes close to this feeling for me was dark souls 1

austin_butler_fan4

5y

now kindly dont quote me

Everest

5y

I feel like the baseline INGREDIENTS of Ubisoft style open world games aren’t the problem

It’s how their implemented within boring worlds, samey gameplay, repetitive enemies and gameplay loops

If this game has those same core gameplay beats but with the typical FromSoft style creativity, difficulty, tension, combat etc.. I can only see it being an amazing thing

It’s not like any game with towers is instantly lesser ‘art’

austin_butler_fan4

5y

spittin

botw is revolutionary and i hope more open world games follow what it did instead of what ubisoft is doing by s***ting out these mid ass open world games

Elric

5y

Feel like Oblivion set the template for open world games... BOTW just felt so much different because you could climb anything and soar off cliffs

Stardust

5y

We could go even further back and say the legend of zelda nes was basically the first template for open world games