Dacon
Banned
What I mean is, with the amount of money, time and art that goes into these games, wouldn't it be better to build upon these existing worlds instead of just using them for one game and then moving on?
Rockstar has a real gem with RDR2's game world. It would be awesome for them to take the game world from that game, add incremental upgrades to the world, and introduce new activities, npcs and systems into that world. We could have a whole other 40 hour game with the same setting, next gen graphical updates, AI improvements and a whole new interesting cast of characters and scenarios for fun and surprising mission design. They could even add new counties and towns expanding the borders of the existing world.
They could even use that same world to create games in different genres using the world as a template.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it feels a bit wasteful to just move on, and build from the ground up a whole new world yet again. Especially when you can use what you've already built to lead to an even greater, larger world in the future.
Now I'm not saying that every game should just reuse assets and never create anything new, because they certainly should. I just think we should be getting more mileage out of these worlds, beyond a multiplayer mode that gets updated here and there.
Rockstar has a real gem with RDR2's game world. It would be awesome for them to take the game world from that game, add incremental upgrades to the world, and introduce new activities, npcs and systems into that world. We could have a whole other 40 hour game with the same setting, next gen graphical updates, AI improvements and a whole new interesting cast of characters and scenarios for fun and surprising mission design. They could even add new counties and towns expanding the borders of the existing world.
They could even use that same world to create games in different genres using the world as a template.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it feels a bit wasteful to just move on, and build from the ground up a whole new world yet again. Especially when you can use what you've already built to lead to an even greater, larger world in the future.
Now I'm not saying that every game should just reuse assets and never create anything new, because they certainly should. I just think we should be getting more mileage out of these worlds, beyond a multiplayer mode that gets updated here and there.