That applies to most open world games. They have an open map, but they are not an open world and rarely ever use the openness to benefit the gameplay. Even worse, a lot of them use the openness for unskippable cutscenes where you have an NPC giving a boring monologue while you drive from the mission quest to the actual mission start. Rockstar is especially guilty of this.
Skyrim is mid but one thing I can absolutely compliment it on is that if you see a snow covered peak way off in the distance you can just go climb that shit. There might not be anything there but a couple of iron arrows and a resist frost potion but you can do it.
I would disagree. That's not the exactly the type that I was complaining at first. But that sort of open map doesn't serve any gameplay purpose and has actually "forced" devs to waste resources in chasing trends beyond their scope. Just Cause 2 is a much better example of open world from the same era, every place actually had a challenge or a collectible or just fun stuff to blow up. The huge map was not connective tissue between missions (my initial complaint) or merely available for flexing (your praise of Skyrim). It was fun for the sake of gameplay.
There's only 1 snow covered mountain in the game its right in the center of the map, all other peaks indicate the boundry of the map and have invisible walls on them. "see that mountain you can go there" is a meme based on a lie.
just cause 2 takes the ubisoft collectathon approach on their open world map whereas skyrim is more exploration free shit.
you can still go there though with your horse though
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Has it even released yet?
Yeah for those who pre-ordered it physically.
It probably wouldn't be this bad if people stopped preordering and paying for early access. Not paying anyone in advance unless absolutely necessary is one of the most important lessons in life.
I still think that gaming peaked with the GTA IV teaser. Not a single word was spoken (as far as I remember) as they clipped elements of the moving city to Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack.
My best friend is a bit of a normie who used to pre-order stuff and I told him I disliked it and why it's not convenient. Yesterday we chatted a bit and he started agreeing with me after every sloptuber he watches started pushing the opinion "pre-order bad". It may have taken him a while, but I'm glad that my retarded friend is slowly learning the lesson.
we'll round that one out to 50 dollar, which fair enough, though i still get games for as much of a discount as i can ideally unless i think it'd be worth getting near launch like hitman 3 or something. wouldnt have spent 70 bucks for metaphor refantazio but i got it on sale for a little under 50 during the summer sale
The virgin Arknights: Endfield WORDSWORDSWORDS trailer vs The chad GTA IV "Life is Complicated" trailer
Reminds me of these two trailers from the same era. It was a really neat style for trailers.
If Trombonista in particular gives you one it's because you make sense
Crafting as a simple, optional bonus is fine (Paper Mario) or just in very limited amounts to give you a bit more freedom in ammo, but as a primary mechanic it's almost always tedious and gay, worse if it's complicated too.
The forced autosave is one of my biggest gripes with the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon remake. You lose all items when you're defeated, and if you're holding a rare item, well, tough fucking luck. It just discourages me from bringing items because I don't want to lose my Friend Bow and have to trek to floor 30 of a specific dungeon to get it back.
Single slot autosave is the worst kind of saving system. I remember how in one of the old Ass Creeds I couldn't even try out a crossbow because the game would save right after buying it. You could get it somewhat early, but it was expensive.
