Newness. I like a game that unfolds at a nice pace with moderate challenges. Games like Uncharted or Stray. I don’t like doing things over and over and over, so no to roguelikes or soulsborne games.
I’m even tired of open world games for the most part unless they reveal nicely and have good fast travel like Horizon. I didn’t finish the most recent GTA’s even, too much backtracking. I just want to be taken to a new place and see it unfold with some interesting but solvable challenges in between.
Open-world is fine without fast travel (or without using it heavily, anyway) if and only if traveling to the place is actually made fun with emergent gameplay. Running around a big empty map trying to figure out what the fuck you’re supposed to do isn’t fun, and I feel like the AAA studios have leaned on it as a way of artificially inflating the amount of time people spend in the game so they feel like they got their money’s worth.
If I can’t stand it in RDR/RDR2 or GTA among many others, I don’t think it’s something for me. I’m perfectly fine with going down a path with a few side paths to explore. Open worlds have gotten too pervasive and too big.
Newness. I like a game that unfolds at a nice pace with moderate challenges. Games like Uncharted or Stray. I don’t like doing things over and over and over, so no to roguelikes or soulsborne games.
I’m even tired of open world games for the most part unless they reveal nicely and have good fast travel like Horizon. I didn’t finish the most recent GTA’s even, too much backtracking. I just want to be taken to a new place and see it unfold with some interesting but solvable challenges in between.
Open-world is fine without fast travel (or without using it heavily, anyway) if and only if traveling to the place is actually made fun with emergent gameplay. Running around a big empty map trying to figure out what the fuck you’re supposed to do isn’t fun, and I feel like the AAA studios have leaned on it as a way of artificially inflating the amount of time people spend in the game so they feel like they got their money’s worth.
If I can’t stand it in RDR/RDR2 or GTA among many others, I don’t think it’s something for me. I’m perfectly fine with going down a path with a few side paths to explore. Open worlds have gotten too pervasive and too big.