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Open World Games
Etchwarts
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Hey there SE++
I'm installing Saints Row The Third for the first time, and it got me thinking. Aren't open world games neat? Let's talk about those!
Personally, my most anticipated open world game is Just Cause 3! What's yours?
I'm installing Saints Row The Third for the first time, and it got me thinking. Aren't open world games neat? Let's talk about those!
Personally, my most anticipated open world game is Just Cause 3! What's yours?
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I JUST WANT TO SHOOT THINGS IN THE POSTAPOCALYPSE
I'm getting them both and I don't know what I'm gonna do
The Mother Base and free-form stealth shit in MGS looks incredible and the reactions to Mad Max's game play a while back were pretty mixed.
I want it to be great because a vehicular open world game sounds great!
But it looks like it could be pretty bad
I've actually never played any of them, so I assume I'll have the best experience possible!
Yes. Play and beat 3, its great. Then get 4 and oh my god 4 is so good
Favourite open world game? Hmm, none have quite hit the mark for me. SR3 was pretty good. Minecraft is pretty good. I spent a lot of time wandering Oblivion when I did a 'no quick travel' game. That was a lot of fun.
I think I'd say Oblivion.
That game just hit a lot of the right buttons for me
Far Cry 2 was African happiness, while Just Cause 2 started to feel, after a certain point, like destroying everything was just another substitute for collecting everything. But it was still fun because I was "collecting" by using a fighter jet I stole from half a map away.
But, definitely my favourite. A Mount and Blade crossed with Oblivion would be perfect, having both small scale npc interactions and large scale battles and wars.
I am in love with that game. The driving is passable but they made it a ton of fun with the simple edition of a ram button, they made shooting a joy by just going "here have a ton of slowmo", and the melee combat honestly has no right to be as good as it is for an open-world gta style game. After I beat it I kept going back just to beat up random thugs while listening to podcasts.
Part of the reason I'm so excited for Mad Max is it looks like it's going to be hitting some of the same beats in its melee combat that Sleeping Dogs did. I know it's not really the focus of the game, but that's cool since the car stuff customizing stuff looks great too. I love the idea of combing the wasteland for new parts.
Like apparently the Wasteland doesn't really have an endpoint, just, when you get too far outside the world you start hitting sandstorms and the farther you go the more damage you take until you eventually die. But the devs also threw a bunch of parts out there, so you can go on suicide runs to get good gear, and that is awesome.
I think you'll like it
Just be forewarned that there's some gross sex trafficking stuff in the very middle
Otherwise it's a blast!
Just Cause 2, in an alternate universe (where I play games on PC), is probably my favorite game ever
Alas, on consoles, the health mechanic and the constant lack of ammo killed a lot of that enjoyment
Just Cause 3 seems like they are taking a smarter approach to it so I really hope they they can pull it off, I really want to like that series more than I do
Aww, man
It's not working for some reason?
Like, I can go on the menu and start up a new game
But as soon as it starts to load into the game proper, the whole thing just crashes without any messages or anything
Kind of a bummer!
That said, Prototype is a great game and you can hella jump kick helicopters in it,
I remember getting GTA3 back in late 2001 and just how completely insane that game felt at the time, the idea that I could just drive anywhere and do anything and if I ran over people, an ambulance would come, and then I could steal that ambulance and drive people to the hospital to make money, all that stuff was so insane at the time
GTA3 was actually the first open-world game (and only GTA) that I ever got 100% in, I scoured the shit out of Liberty City looking for all those hidden packages
I've found all the GTAs to be pretty fantastic experiences, but there haven't been as many gaming experiences that felt as "holy shit" new as GTA3 did
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission was........you ever had one of those Egg White desserts, that look yummy but are filled with a lot of air and yummy?
Does Don't Starve count?
And for some reason its the only game i've ever been good at driving in. Every other game I play im terrible, where I routinely murder dozens of people anytime I get in a car. Makes playing GTA a chore as im nearly always in a police chase.
Shame about Mercenaries 2
I'd love to see a revival somehow, though I imagine Disney now has the rights
I was watching a video on IGN demonstrating the destructible buildings in multiplayer and it kinda made me anxious that they're overreaching, I have no idea how handling destruction on the cloud is going to hold up.
And I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out how amazing Driver: San Francisco is.
MGSV, Fallout and Just Cause are the one's I'm looking forward to most from the rest of this year.
Witcher 3 is also really good.
I'll probably check out Arkham Knight & AC Syndicate at some point as well.
I've seen a lot of folks expressing the exact opposite opinion.
I'm kind of in that camp?
Mirror's Edge was at its best when you could smoothly pull off a good stretch without interruption, and a linear path would encourage that. Open world makes you tempted to deviate from the path which breaks the flow.
That doesn't sound great
It's overrated. Also a resource hog.
I could play sleeping dogs again