SvennoJ on 20 February 2012
| cr00mz said: I don't mind open world games, as long as they are good like Just Cause 2 or Crackdown. Just cause 2 is the best open world game ever made. Spent dozens of hours just playing around the island, conquering every military base, city/village, etc. Taking the helicopter and just flying all over the place, skydiving. It doesn't hurt that the island is so incredibly varied, with jungles, snow covered mountains and deserts. Unfortunately most open world games I've played are just dull, They are big, but there is nothing to do in them (nothing fun at least) which makes it boring. Also after a while it gets tedious traveling all over the place, a good example is Red Dead Redemption, in the end i just used quick travel. |
Different tastes. I like open world games too but Just Cause 2 and Crackdown are 2 games that I don't enjoy at all. After the demo I was already bored with the whole concept. It feels like a giant checklist, checking of places to conquer.
RDR kept me interested by it's story and immersive landscape. I didn't even know it had a fast travel option. The open world of SotC is one of the most immersive I've seen and yet there's almost nothing to do in it.
Assasin's creed II is a good middle ground. Good story with beginning, middle and end, some sidequests but not overwhelming, and some what I call checklist activities, discover/collect/kill/conquer/upgrade x nr of things.
