Magic Mushroom
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No, it will have multiple navigational paths and a sandbox approach to combat. It's not an open world game.
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Top 10 Grossing Retail Games of 2014, Ubisoft notes half were open world
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No, it will have multiple navigational paths and a sandbox approach to combat. It's not an open world game.
... only in the wrong hands. Which includes Ubisoft's hands, of course.
Barry Burton
Member
I don't have any issues with open-world games in theory, I just wish they were less cookie-cutter and took more advantage of the fact that they are open-world. A lot of the time it just serves as a place to fill up with a bunch of shallow activities. Between story missions, the majority of open world games lack meaningful, substantive content. I prefer the smaller, more intimate design of games like Deadly Premonition and Bully, where I actually feel like I'm part of a community. In most other open-world games, I'm pretty apathetic to the surroundings and fast-travel 99% of the time because I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
Marketing people do. It's a populist buzzword, so they're happy to throw it around liberally without necessarily understanding the full implications.
I dunno, I played pretty much everything here except FIFA and I had a great year.
...... and half weren't.
I like open-world games myself, but I've grown rather sick of Ubisoft's open-world formula. There used to be a time long, long time ago
where an open-world game with a good 80+ score would pretty much be an instant-buy for me. The idea of just walking/driving around in a huge, immersive world for longer than the usual game with a high bang-for-buck (important for someone like me who's budget constrained) sounded like a great thing. But now I'd rather have a linear 8/10-hour game than the cluster-fuck of some open-world games I've played.
I like open-world games myself, but I've grown rather sick of Ubisoft's open-world formula. There used to be a time long, long time ago
maybe three years
To be fair all but one of the other titles are on all platforms.
I like open world games, but the icon chasing is a big problem. You stop looking at the game world and focus 100% on the mini-map. Exploration and discovering locations in open worlds is why they are so appealing. Knowing in advance where everything is ruins the whole experience.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I completely agree, but sadly publishers seem to think things need to go in the other direction. I'd much prefer a smaller, more intimate and detailed environment like say Bullworth Town from Bully, as opposed to these massive but ultimately rather empty landscapes as seen in Just Cause 2. I like some open world games, but I'd prefer smaller more interesting locations as opposed to massive game worlds which are massive purely to have a marketing bullet point.
NullPointer
Member
Some do give you the option to disable the mini-map but its not often that you find missions designed in such a way to be doable without it.
Well, I have 435 hrs on my main hunter, 155 hrs on my second hunter and 49 hrs on my third hunter. This doesn't count the play time for my lvl 30 Warlock and Titan that I deleted. I very aware of the activities involved and what "exploring" means in Destiny. The patrol zones aren't something I would describe as large and just because you can choose to partake in a public event, continue on your mission or hunt for a treasure chest, doesn't make it "open" let alone "world".
Yes, most if not all games have boundaries, but Destiny for the most part, just handles them terribly. I find the game discourages exploring much more than it encourages exploring. There are too many places where you should be able to go somewhere as easily as walking a few feet forward, but instead are directed to turn around. One of the only moments where I felt like I was actually doing some real exploring was in VoG and as it turns out it's just a linear zone with some variation on how you get to point B from A.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Watch Dogs was by far my favourite non indie game of last year. Makes me so happy whenever I see how well it sold. Makes me even happier when I see how pissed off it makes people.
lol...this was a most played game in my home when I first got it. I like it too. Cant wait for a sequel.
uncleniccius
Member
Smash Bros in the top 10? I'm guessing that's primarily due to the 3DS?
Still the only exclusive to one platform/one company's platforms on the list though.
Still the only exclusive to one platform/one company's platforms on the list though.
Wait... did something change from this?
kuroneko0509
Member
I'm assume that smash is 3ds+wii u combined?
edit: eh same chart as in may?
edit: eh same chart as in may?
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
People really bought watch dogs.
I did. Gunplay and movement were solid.
That's the exact same chart they posted in May
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1044961
Edit: Down to that "Growing appetite for freedom" line
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1044961
Edit: Down to that "Growing appetite for freedom" line
...Huh, apparently they reissued the same slide.
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Deleted member 325805
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This makes me sad, Advanced Warfare was trash, and I'm a huge fanboy.
Yes. I am one of the 5 it seems...lol. I thought it was a good game.
SuperBanana
Banned
"Unity + Rogue." lol
Amazing how 2 games can outsell 1!
Amazing how 2 games can outsell 1!
Well, I doubt that anything changed in 2014 between May 2015 and now.
Interfectum
Member
Niro plz
shinobi602
Member
Is that a serious question? Some liked it, some didn't, like every game.
bigboss370
Member
yep, i thought i was amazing.
Interfectum
Member
I liked it. Story was meh but the gameplay and multi were great.
I didn't know how much I didn't like it until after I bought and played it.
Interfectum
Member
>.<
DrunkShogun
Member
God I feel out of touch. The only game I have a remote interest is smash and even that wasn't enough for me to buy a wii u to play it.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
I'm really suprised we haven't heard anything about WD2 yet. I wonder if they'll keep it in a 1H slot to keep their revenues looking good.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Lol at Ubisoft calling Destiny an open-world game, and their hiding the AC Unity sales by bundling them with Rogue.