pezus said:
Reasonable said:
Rainbird said:
Reasonable said:
He means they think they're going to delivery characterisation and narrative that is deeper and different than anything else in the industry - and given almost all games have shallow, weak characterisation the bar they need to jump isn't that high. In fact arguably the bar this gen for those elements has been set by ND themselves.
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I hope ND will accomplish this, but I fear they will go the Uncharted-route of making the game extremely linear to accomplish it. It's still early days of course, but I'll remain unexcited until I see that ND can deliver high quality story telling without locking the player into a very strict path.
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That's probably true and the price to pay. No open world has come close to handling narrative (and I include RDR, GTA, Skyrim and others in that statement). Open world means loss of narrative flow and character cohesion (although I do think there are ways this could be improved) at the moment.
My expectation would be somewhat open, freeform encoutners along a structured narrative.
Which suits me. I love narrative in books/films and while I wouldn't want it in all games I do want it in some and ND are among few developers able to deliver at the moment in this area.
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I'd love it if they tried to perfect what Crytek did with Crysis 2. Have large open spaces but still not too large to keep the narrative flowing.
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If I had to guess I'd figure on something like that from the final shots of the clip. I'm guessing a mix of claustrophobic interior stuff mixed with larger open spaces where you pick how you're going to proceed. If I had to guess a bit further I'm expecting a mix of stealth, combat, melee (and no doubt some platforming although I expect a much more dangerous, nervy approach vs Uncharted) with a focus on conservation of ammo/resources with a fairly grim, downbeat tone and a narrative the evaluates the price of survival vs the loss of ethical behavour both at the personal level of the characters and the larger background of the world environment.
