After this years E3 especialy MGS5 cought my eye and Ubisoft..mostly Ubisofts AAA games are open world and with the horse power the next consoles offer this seems very obvious. So I think Open world is the right direction to go next gen.

what do you think is open world the future ?

I think it will be, but I hope that it won't all be open world.

I need my linear games from time to time

I have an orienteering merit badge and I get lost in video games all the time.

For the sake of the industry I hope not. Not because I don't like open world games, but because this type of games are known to be expensive to make.

open world games are evolving each year/generation its really no surprise we saw so many of them at this years E3. but also they sell pretty well no matter what genre... so much less linear 1st person adn 3rd person shooters I guess...I also think this is a good thing as people got a bit tired of the same stuff thats happend this gen. I mean everyone loves to feel free and explore a big world just for that its almost a selling point and developers seem to realized that. I dont see any other option on how to take the industry one step forward.

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maybe. but shooters and plataformers will be always here

Not neccesarily, this looks promising too

Procedurally generated endless open world.

But I wouldn't want to miss a tight well costructed narrative now and then, placing those in an open world is a lot more challenging. I don't mind it being linear if that's what it takes to get the quality of a game like The last of us. Making that open world with the same level of detail would definitely blow the budget.

That's the thing, knowing how AAA publishers work they won't go with this type of artstyle or non-narrative structure. 

yes because now they have the ram and power to do it. no more loading times (hopefully)