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Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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(By game size he means scope of the game and huge open world maps, not game install size)

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[-] kalr@meinreddit.com 22 points 1 month ago

I'm burnt out on open world games. Some are good with dense rich areas that are interesting and make you want to explore but most these days are just bland, overly large and filled with generic quests.

Games need to stop being open world for the stake of being open world. I think for a lot of games, having multiple open-ended areas can work much better.

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve been mulling over this the past few years, having finally kicked the WoW habit in the second year of Shadowlands (approaching ~3 years now)..

..but how often are quests/missions/objectives etc. just a combination of go to x, collect x of y, kill x of y? At a certain point, all of these become generic - right?

[-] kalr@meinreddit.com 2 points 1 month ago

Yep pretty much. All games boil down to what you mentioned above but the execution can vastly differ. I guess the low end is the Ubisoft approach where everything is just a generic world and its go climb this tower/ capture this outpost etc and the high end is the Rockstar approach where it might be drive there, do this but things could be different in between that keeps it engaging. I guess it feels more like a living world.