I've been listening to a few podcasts that have discussed the HZD event from a week ago and while most impressions seem to be positive, there was one where the person was expecting HZD to be this new and different thing and was surprised that it played similar to other open world games like Far Cry.
I wonder how many people here, for example, are really expecting the game to be this new experience and the game just isn't going to live up to that. I'm pretty stoked for it but I'm expecting a good looking well playing open world game that uses most of those open world conventions we've seen employed time and again. As long as its done well and in the context of the world they present I'm fine with that (example being climbing those tall neck things and hacking it to reveal more of the map, sort of like your typical ubi tower).
That being said, I'm expecting the usual accoutrements that go with this style of game; fetch quests, hunts, crafting and resource gathering. And I'm expecting these things to take up a fairly substantial part of the game. I just wonder if anyone is expecting the game to eschew those conventions, only to be disappointed when it doesnt (and it won't)
I wonder how many people here, for example, are really expecting the game to be this new experience and the game just isn't going to live up to that. I'm pretty stoked for it but I'm expecting a good looking well playing open world game that uses most of those open world conventions we've seen employed time and again. As long as its done well and in the context of the world they present I'm fine with that (example being climbing those tall neck things and hacking it to reveal more of the map, sort of like your typical ubi tower).
That being said, I'm expecting the usual accoutrements that go with this style of game; fetch quests, hunts, crafting and resource gathering. And I'm expecting these things to take up a fairly substantial part of the game. I just wonder if anyone is expecting the game to eschew those conventions, only to be disappointed when it doesnt (and it won't)