Who will probably be prime targets for slavers...
how am I supposed to know? do you think I played fallout 3?
thanks for reminding me that absolutely silly things like FNV's boomers get a free pass for being ridiculous
I guess that does make it a bit more theme park-y, but at least for me, that's a good thing. Realistic amounts of tedium don't serve games well; they're games, let them abstract over boring things.
When I get the urge to traverse a realistically proportioned landscapes with immersive gameplay, I go for a hike. I've even done a few runs with hardcore survival mechanics. I think they call it backpacking. Check out these graphics:
Games like Death Stranding or Outward are proof you can have traversal games that are fun to play, with proper mechanics.
Minecraft doesn't have any attractions though. Really, I don't think it makes sense to apply this term to games that aren't RPGs. And it's not true that it only critiques narrative and setting concepts, rather it criticizes the game's open world execution – the "open world" is, in reality, a mostly empty, bland area serving only to let you traverse between various locations. These locations then tend to have zero bearing on any other location, on the world around them, or even the NPCs across the world – they're perfectly isolated experiences that, if one were to remove a couple or add a couple different ones, nobody would notice, as they're just that modular. This is not much of an issue when it comes to random cave #163 whose only purpose is to be looted by the player, but when it comes to places featuring NPCs with various quests and backgrounds and what not, it becomes rather stark.
Minecraft has attractions, there are dungeons and villages that operate exactly how you describe save for being procedurally generated. I can see what you're getting at, but I guess my thinking approaches from a different angle. They might not have much relation to one another in a literal sense, but in terms of gameplay they feel very interconnected. Your encounter at any location and the resources/experience you encounter there informs how you approach every other location. And that's the more abstract notion of game structure that I'm talking about. Now if you want to distinguish between Skyrim and very open games like Minecraft or Rust, then fair, Skyrim is more of a theme park than either of those.
I maintain my position that moving from point A to point B can be turned into something interesting. It is not easy, but possible.
Oh, it's a very cool concept that I hope more devs experiment with. But the initial idea is like 10% of game design. A lot of devs/players rub me the wrong way because they think merely having the idea warrants praise. Death Stranding at least invested a lot into pulling it off so that deserves credit.
The writing of Fallout 3 was a mishmash of content making sense for a game set two years or so after the nuclear apocalypse, content making sense if set 20 years or so after the apocalypse, content making sense half a century or so after the apocalypse, and content actually making sense for the ostensible date of two centuries after the apocalypse. Thus the game simultaneously presents edible packaged food lying around in supermarkets (2 years), an abandoned attempt to de-radiate the region's water supply (20 years), or the backstories for Rivet City and Megaton (50-60 years or so).
0/10, no light shafts.I guess that does make it a bit more theme park-y, but at least for me, that's a good thing. Realistic amounts of tedium don't serve games well; they're games, let them abstract over boring things.
When I get the urge to traverse a realistically proportioned landscapes with immersive gameplay, I go for a hike. I've even done a few runs with hardcore survival mechanics. I think they call it backpacking. Check out these graphics:
You mean, like Morrowind or Gothic?
No, it does not. The fact you think so only marks you as a dumbfuck.
No, like as in a real life theme park. Thus the comparison to six flags and disneyworld.
I rate this rating 0/10, they're called God rays. Hello?
Or, maybe, your posts lack clarity (among other things).Maybe some people are stupid they need to be guided all the way from start to end
Morrowind is an open world sandbox.
Morrowind is a perfect fit - it's an "open world sandox" and the "rides" there are unmarked. And it still didn't stop people from exploring the world to find the "attractions" hidden therein or making The Elder Scrolls series popular.
