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IgoRPGam3R on 07 November 2015

I don't like them because they usually suffers from boring and repetitive environments and gameplay, fetch quests and lack of story and characterization.



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atomicblue on 07 November 2015
RolStoppable said:
Indifferent. Open world games usually fail to satisfy because they consist of lots of different pieces of which none are great. Due to their scope and size, development teams are split into smaller teams that work on individual parts. This in turn usually results in games that lack in coherence. Open world games boast with lots of content, but so much of it is utterly forgettable.


Exactly what I came here to say. I've played a relatively small number of open world games (Fallout 3 + NV, a couple of the GTA games, I've watched my partner play a lot of The Witcher games) and they generally seem to suffer from being "jack of all trades, master of none". It's not that they've looked bad, exactly, but they've had lots of chunks that felt merely adequate and not a whole lot that felt like it was truly great.



LipeJJ on 07 November 2015
DakonBlackblade said:
LipeJJ said:

The story was so boring all the time that I didn't even care about it past the middle of the game anymore, so the most important thing about the game seemed to be the world and sidequests to me.


Taste is taste, each one has its own, however not liking something shouldnt make you incapable of seeing that the tale is well told, and that the characters develop trough the story. Someone could read Lord of the Rings and say they hated the story, thats perfectly fine, anyone who reads Lords of the ring and say Tolkien cant write for shit and he doesnt know how to create characters and a world is just nuts.

Yeah, no. I agree with you... they can write a good story and develop the characters well, it's like you said, a matter of taste (and for my taste I didn't find the story compelling, it was boring for me). That's what I tried to say, maybe I expressed myself badly. 



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Platina on 07 November 2015

I like open world games, because they give you freedom to do a lot of things as you like.

Linear games are great too, but I don't think I'll get burnt out for either.. :/



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bananaking21 on 07 November 2015

The Witcher 3 was fantastic, loved it.

Dying Light was ok, it was fun. not great though.

Mad Max sucked big time. sad, because it showed so much promise.

generally i am a big fan of open world games (when done right). but i also love some linear games as well. it really all depends on the quality of the game.



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zuvuyeay on 07 November 2015

i like the fantasy worlds like dragon age,skyrim etc,haven't bought witcher 3 yet

i would like to have co-op for games like elder scrolls.dragon age type worlds not like an mmo style but drop iin/out co-op where you can join a friends game or vice versa



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