Fat slag.
Couldn't give a toss though tbh. The original was utter garbage, proper bloated popamole wank masquerading as a deep game and should have been 5-10 hours long at the most, so I wouldn't touch this with a barge pole anyway.
Being on the opposite side, I am intriqued. To put things into perspective, what do you find a quality-narrative game(s) for example?
If you want action and a proper story to back it up, Deus Ex.
These trash open world games are bullshit. The Witcher 3 had more in common with GTA than an RPG.
Honestly if you're after an open world jolly with a great story Saints Row 4 is king. At least it knows it's not an RPG, and has a laugh with what it is. Seeing these other games trying to disguise repetitive junk tasks as "quests" or "hunts" etc. is laughable. Saints Row 4 says "we're gonna take the piss out of all that, and give you a game to nob about on", which works.
I see. Well, Deus Ex is a masterpiece of masterpieces, of that is no doubt. That's why your answer makes me sad. I must dissagree. Although failing at some approaches or being bloated, as you yourself say, what W3 and Horizon excell at are the stories and the characters. How they engage the player to care about what is going to happen, where and to whom. And last but not least, the fact the player can create wildly different outcomes.
That's a good balance post chap, but pacing is as a big a part of storytelling to me as the story itself. For events to hold dramatic impact stories have to be structured well, and thus in games the game around it.
For example, it's no good telling me about The Wild Hunt in a game called "The Wild Hunt", setting up a main quest to protect your daughter from The Wild Hunt, and then totally forgetting about the Wild Hunt for 90% of the journey whilst not really developing any of the characters in the Wild Hunt during that time either. That's not good storytelling, and thus not a good story.
I didn't play HZD long enough to comment on the story though. The game was just awful, and the world felt incredibly repetitive. I ragged in after around 7 hours, and just have a bee in my bonnet about these bullshit open world games in general. Most are utter trash.
Like I say in my above post, the reviewer gets excited about HZD2 implementing gameplay elements which have been around since 80's & 90's SHMUPS. That kind of hype is just piss funny.
