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spaciouscoder78, do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?
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As long as it has fast travel I don’t mind having a big open world but if the open world itself feels empty without much life then I’m immediately turned off by the game

faintwhenfree,

Reminds me of no man’s sky and it’s empty bajillions of planets.

spaciouscoder78,
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I have 90 hours in no man’s sky and I got pretty burnt out on it. After a certain point, every planet feels the same and lifeless.

faintwhenfree,

They have done some good work in last few years, specially the events here and there are fun. But after the event campaign is over. There is nothing else to hope for.

invertedspear,

Funny, I have the opposite complaint about Fallout 4. In what is supposed to be a nuclear wasteland of a city where everyone is struggling to keep their small communities going, there are just too many people in such a small space to make this feel real. I liked Fallout 3 and New Vegas more because the world was properly empty, but still had so many things to discover.

Blackmist, do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

Depends how full it is, how interesting is it (note this is not the same as full), how fast you can travel, and how fun movement is.

There’s a lot of elements to open world and a lot of devs get the balance very wrong. You end up playing in a map rather than the world.

Red_October, do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

It's not a question of the world being too big or too small, it's the density of interesting things. A giant world with very little worth doing doesn't accomplish much, but similarly a small world where you're absolutely tripping over things that feel like you shouldn't skip them will also feel claustrophobic.

Additionally, the traversal system can help a LOT here. Even a world that has a lot of wide open dead space can feel good if the process of crossing that space is itself fun. Dune: Awakening comes to mind here, where there are large spans of open desert that you need to cross, but ripping across the dunes on my sandbike was so much fun I didn't mind the dead ground.

Phil_in_here,

Do you remember LoZ Wind Waker? Maybe it’s the nostalgia goggles, but ripping through the open water just felt good. I don’t even think it was particularly mechanically fun. Maybe it was just the music.

burntbacon,

The music and the bright colors in that cel shading style were great. They also did a really good job with the seagulls and the barrels and the silhouettes in the distance as you were sailing. Maybe it was just the contrast with all of the ‘dark’ games at the time. It was a gigantic mood swing from majora’s mask. The music really helped sell it.

I think wind waker is good example of how to handle ‘open world’ without letting on that you’re controlling the experience. I don’t think any of the official ‘next steps’ ever had you sailing more than three squares away. The teleport was right when the world ‘opened up’ to you doing whatever you felt like, and the easily grasped concept of one square=one island with some interaction made sure there was no loss of focus on the developers or players. Obviously the main islands had more to do than the ones with just a platform/reef, but it worked.

SlartyBartFast, do games w The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective

3DS was 3DBest, I love mine with all the Picross games

prole, do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

I prefer smaller open worlds, like in the Yakuza series

dom, do gaming w Thought's on this month's Humble?

Pharaoh is fun. Its like the old Caesar games.

Minnels, do gaming w Thought's on this month's Humble?

Last month was not for me. This looks a lot better. Since i already own Total Warhammer 3 maybe I can finally get a friend to play it. Gifting = no choice. He he.

B0NK3RS, (edited ) do games w The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

I really liked my 3DS and especially StreetPass and getting all those puzzles pieces. I’d take it to work with me everyday but once I lost all my progress I eventually just stopped playing on it.

I’m keeping an eye on the new dual screen handhelds but will wait a bit longer and see how it fares.

For a recommendation, the Boxboy! games are great fun.

justsquigglez, (edited ) do gaming w Thought's on this month's Humble?
@justsquigglez@leminal.space avatar

Personally, Another Crabs Treasure and Paleo Pines makes it worth it.

I’ve also wanted to play No More Heroes so I’m definitely more into this months than last months.

slimerancher, do games w Day 474 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
@slimerancher@lemmy.world avatar

Oooh, Max Payne!

I played them when they were released, and they were such great games for their time. Don’t remember much about the story though, some dream sequences, and there was some subway in start of the first game I believe, remember trying the slow-mo from different angles there.

Looking forward to play the remakes!

MyNameIsAtticus,
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The subway in the first game is iconic too me. I still remember the layout in my head and think about it from time to time

slimerancher, do games w Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
@slimerancher@lemmy.world avatar

It’s interesting when games do that, though as someone who rarely replays game, I never really notice these things.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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It’s rare for me to replay games too. Ever since i’ve started doing these screenshots though i’ve started going back and replaying a few things. It’s really changed the way i play games

Rokin, do games w Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Rockstar is remaking Max Payne 1 and 2!

Coelacanth,
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Even better, Remedy themselves are! Rockstar are publishing it though as they own the rights to the IP. I’m super curious about how they’ll turn out, especially with James McCaffrey’s passing.

winkerjadams,

Can’t be any worse than the GTA slop they did a couple years ago, right?

Coelacanth,
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Remedy made some GTA slop?

eRac,

No, Rockstar outsourced a ‘remaster’ of the early 3D games that was poorly handled.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I saw! i heard Remedy is being involved in it (and based on some photos i’ve seen i think they’re heading it) so my hopes are high

ech, (edited ) do gaming w Thought's on this month's Humble?

I’ve only played parts of Synergy and Another Crab’s Treasure. The first was interesting for a city builder, which is usually not a genre I dig into. The latter was a capable Souls-like with a very different vibe. A parody of the grim-dark world of most others while still putting up decent combat mechanics and difficult boss fights.

Kolanaki, do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?
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ARMA 3’s Altis map is too big.

Unless you’re flying a jet. Then it’s still too small!

Thekingoflorda, do gaming w Thought's on this month's Humble?
@Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world avatar

I kinda like it, wanted to play some of these games anyway so might pick this up.

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