Open World ? Not so

[CyberBeast]

Its a semi open world, its not like the witcher where you go anywhere from the beginning

[Monjac]

Why does everything has to be open world ? Open world =/= great games .

[CyberBeast]

Originally posted by Monjac:

Why does everything has to be open world ? Open world =/= great games .

its an rpg , open world is important

[aris.indulens]

I think I remember being mentioned in one of the interviews some areas are walled off at the start for story reasons, but really, that is your primary concern worthy of starting a topic.
Not that companions might be walking boring forgettable tropes, and the absence of a 10/10 waifu for romancing.
Not the possibility of uninspiring story and forgettable villain. I don't even remember who the generic evil dude in Technomancer was, that how poorly designed it was.
Not the utterly garbage loot system. Great, I found/crafted a gun with 10 more damage. My char keeps gradually increasing damage output to keep up with the curve of gradually bigger and bigger hitpoint sponge enemies as the story progresses, zzzzz, snore. Gear management in BBF/Technomancer was a timewaster chore, zero excitement of ever looting anything cool.
Not the completely mediocre skills/combat, and boss fights. How many memorable bosses even are in Spiders games. Ok, there's that last fight in BBF with the dragon. That was pretty epic, both in difficulty curve and mechanics, and in visual representation. But other than that? I'm drawing a blank.
But no, your worry is, that you will not be able to immediately go to the endgame area where aggro critters walking around have so much stats you need to hack at them for half hour doing chip damage, while avoiding being one shot in your noob tutorial gear. Open world is overrated. I'll take a well written linear RPG over a Bethesda game any day.

[Falwick]

no open world no buy

[CyberBeast]

Originally posted by ♔ Habsburg Monarch ✠:

no open world no buy

its an open world , but in a linear way that you dont go all over the map from the start. i hate it, i want to explore

[sonntam]

How on earth is it not open world? You only are restricted to return to the main continent after you leave it. It's on the other side of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ world, of course you can't return to it on a whim. It's not what the game is about either, it's just an intro location.

The other place is an entire island where the rest of the game plays out. It's separated in three locations, but it's not like Spiders has confirmed that you will be walled off and unable to visit those from the very start of the game.

So what exactly is your problem?


https://wccftech.com/greedfall-hands-off-preview/

Especially so as a result of what was explained will be on offer within the continent of Teer Frade. This is a continent that is seemingly designed to be more open than any other Spiders game so far. You won’t find that each and every area is now segmented from the others, but the game will be considerably more open. The new continent is split into three different regions – with dungeons and such as those. These regions feature a city each and multiple outposts. The control of these outposts will vary from faction to faction, depending on your actions and your interactions with these factions.

[CyberBeast]

Originally posted by sonntam:

How on earth is it not open world? You only are restricted to return to the main continent after you leave it. It's on the other side of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ world, of course you can't return to it on a whim. It's not what the game is about either, it's just an intro location.

The other place is an entire island where the rest of the game plays out. It's separated in three locations, but it's not like Spiders has confirmed that you will be walled off and unable to visit those from the very start of the game.

So what exactly is your problem?


https://wccftech.com/greedfall-hands-off-preview/

Especially so as a result of what was explained will be on offer within the continent of Teer Frade. This is a continent that is seemingly designed to be more open than any other Spiders game so far. You won’t find that each and every area is now segmented from the others, but the game will be considerably more open. The new continent is split into three different regions – with dungeons and such as those. These regions feature a city each and multiple outposts. The control of these outposts will vary from faction to faction, depending on your actions and your interactions with these factions.

NO, if you cant go anywhere from the begininng then its not OPEN WORLD

[dustin1280]

Open World =/= Good Game, nor is it required for an RPG. Sounds like it's semi-open world which is not damning in the slightest except to the most picky people.

[Daniel]

Perhaps might be what, A Plague Tale: Innocence is? Even though that game is more linear, but might have open world sections instead of like W3.

[Cpt_Weisemann]

The game looks great and as long as gameplay, story and characters are good, open world is not mandatory.

[bishd]

Default expectations of an open world as so arbitrary. Let the developers explore what they wish to do, looks like they are still allowing exploration and crafting alongside questing. Enjoy the ride

[Grandmaster of Pwn]

Originally posted by CyberBeast:

Originally posted by Monjac:

Why does everything has to be open world ? Open world =/= great games .

its an rpg , open world is important

while it might be your preference (and important to you) to have open world rpg (there are several good ones, fallout new vegas, elder scrolls, witcher3); its not true that its that important or integral to an rpg experience (knights of the old republic, mass effect, baldurs gate, vampire the masquerade, witcher1+2, deus ex, etc etc.)

as long as its a good game i dont care if its open world or not. quite frankly im burned out of open world quite a bit (usually open world just means walking in a straight line towards the next waypoint, so might as well be linear).

[AbedsBrother]

Originally posted by CyberBeast:

Its a semi open world, its not like the witcher where you go anywhere from the beginning

Go anywhere from the beginning? If you want to be constantly on the run from enemies because you're under-leveled, then yes, that is possible in the Witcher 3. But, because of the potential frustration, not advisable.

Try running everywhere in Elex when you're level 5. Sure you can go anywhere. You'll also get one-shotted by the first enemy you see. Not my idea of fun. Not many other people's idea of fun either.

What's next? "Kingdoms of Amalur isn't a true go-anywhere RPG because you can't jump whenever you want, whereas in Skyrim you can"? Because I've had that argument before.

"But it was just my opinion!" Sure it is. And that's fine. But I don't want Spiders devs checking this forum and suddenly start thinking they should put more sandbox stuff in their game. I want to see the game that THEY wanted to make.

[Gloomseeker]

An RPG doesn't have to be open world.

You can have a hub based world and get a much more satisfying experience than a pointless open world with areas that are supposed to be open but turn out to be level gated.

[Bearim]

Originally posted by CyberBeast:

Its a semi open world, its not like the witcher where you go anywhere from the beginning

Witcher 3 is also not completely open world either! It has big maps true but also smaller ones and they are not connected as one big map like the The Elder Scrolls games and the Fallout games. By Witcher you even need to complete the story parts by the first map before you can continue to the next map. Cyberpunk will be a real open world game.