The most linear open world game I've seen in a long time

[Zarquon]

I've watched a 4 hour playthrough so take this with a pinch of salt.

A lot of the terrain is not traverseable, you cannot climb over mountains or on top of structures. In the gameplay i saw the streamer tried to climb over a building only to be met with an invisible wall.

This reduces the places a player can go, several times they are forced into narrow paths where other open world games would allow you to travel over or around them.

There are environmental puzzles typical of the genre but each only has a single way of completing it. Other open world games encourage multiple ways to tackle these. For example you need to blow up a door, the game tells you this is done by hitting an explosive barrel down and blowing it up. That is the only way to get past the door. No opinion to lockpick or blow up using weapons or set it on fire or find another way around etc etc.

The environment itself is CP2077 level of interactivity; that is a beautiful cardboard cut out that is meaningless for anything other than looking at. Very little to interact with, loot or modify.

Obviously the openworldiness is only a minor part and the game may have lots of redeeming qualities making it overall a great game.

However the "open world" nature of it does not appear to be a selling point.

[Baumi]

Lmao. There are abilities that you can aquire/unlock that you need in order to progress some areas. As has been said multiple times by the developers. You can even see that in a lot of the trailers.

[Zarquon]

are there abilities to remove the invisible walls?
what about abilities to fill the world with interactable objects?

It isn't saying much when you say that the "one thing" you have to do to open a door or get somewhere is unlocked later in the game. It's still a single way of progressing through the area. Whilst technically openworld that's a very linear way of doing it.

Abilities like the limited flight unlocked later will help make it feel more open world, but won't actually make it more so. We'll still be traversing a set path, just at a different speed and height.

[Baumi]

Originally posted by Zarquon:

It isn't saying much when you say that the "one thing" you have to do to open a door or get somewhere is unlocked later in the game. It's still a single way of progressing through the area. Whilst technically openworld that's a very linear way of doing it.

Ayy, lmao. This your first Open World RPG? I guess Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn are also not Open World games according to you. :D

[Zarquon]

I can't speak for Horizon zero dawn, haven't played.

Watch any game play at all and look as far as you can into the distance. There are always larger areas that you play in that are locked in by the surrounding impassable terrain with paths to other large areas.

In the witcher with a combination of luck and skill you can get over that terrain by jumping etc, you are not destined to set paths, it is open. In Bio-mutant this is impossible (from what i've seen).

harvestable plants and loot are also far more common in the witcher.

As i said before in the title and in the post you replied to, bio-mutant is an open world game, just the most linear one i've seen in a very long time.

[Baumi]

I'll be my own judge of that, thanks.

[Retro]

Still going to play the heck out of it I never expected it to be an open sandbox world like KENSHI or Skyrim

[Tim]

It's funny how there's all of this criticism of the game when the game hasn't even released yet. Watching game play videos from a streamer is like watching the highlight reel instead of the whole Super Bowl. It's not the same thing. The point is the game hasn't released yet. Why not wait for release and find out what the game does and doesn't do before complaining?

[NumaNumaYaeTTV]

Honestly I discovered this game 1 day ago. I just wanna make a critter and kill ♥♥♥♥. I know a lot of people dont like the art style. But I think its cute af. I have no expectations for this game.

[dustin1280]

I didn't really get this game for the open world nature...
I got it for the RPG system...
So if it has fun loot, crafting, character customization, and a good combat system, I am happy.

The open world piece isn't actually very important to me.

[Sygmaelle]

Not every game can be Botw / Fenyx

[Gearhart]

Imagine watching other people play video games.

[Solid Grim]

A lot of open world games have a linear tutorial.

[Zarquon]

Originally posted by Kyte:

Imagine watching other people play video games.

Do you have a time machine and money is meaningless to you?

Because you are implying the only way to get knowledge about this game is by playing it, which is currently impossible.

Is there any other way to experience actual gameplay right now other than watching someone play it? Or do you buy things without any prior knowledge at all?

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Sygma:

Not every game can be Botw / Fenyx

This one seems to be trying to be fenyx though. Similar systems in every regard, but Fenyx's downfall imo was too many damn puzzles. Everything else, story, presentation, combat, exploration, was all top notch.

Where as biomutant looks exactly like what it is, an indie title, but it is a very, very over priced indie title. From janky animations, to floaty combat, to interesting sound design and my personal favorite, the laziness of not adding voice actors either due to budgeting, or trying to persuade the player that they cannot understand their native tongue and instead, has a narrator reading off the entire thing. That tutorial part with Sifu made me just shake my head.

[Tomatokek]

So basically like God of War. Eventually you unlock a blimp that you can traverse the world with so this is most likely a linear tutorial area.