| Ka-pi96 said: The impression that I got from it is that it's more about making the battles bigger and giving you more ways to approach them, rather than the linear maps they had before (seriously, later entries got so much worse for linearity!), rather than throwing in silly side quests here and there. Kind of sceptical myself too, but I expect it to be a campaign only thing with cutouts from that being used for free mode or whatever, so at least that shouldn't change Besides, the real benefit of open world will come when we get to the inevitable DW9 Empires |
I really hope you're right, but considering the team's recent track record, I'm still worried. And I definitely agree with you about Empires! While the main games in the series have been getting worse and worse (well, it's not all downhill, but I think the series is worse off than it was during the 6th generation), the Empires games have been getting better and better (with the exception of DW6: Empires, which did have some nice improvements, unfortunately along with some bad design decisions). Open world could really add a lot to the Empires series if done properly.
