I'm pretty sure this is a common complaint about "western" games too.
Forespoken Demo Impressions - Forget it
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Not really. GTA's are pretty well liked. Horizon's open world isn't an issue, The witcher 3 is one of the best open world games ever made, and Spider-man is wonderful.
The only "western" open world games that get shit on are Ubisoft ones, but that's mostly because they are the fucking same everytime.
That's because those open worlds tend to be smaller and densely packed with sub-quests, and leisure reactivities your character can do when not doing a main story mission.
You can add Tango Games to the list. Though I have not played Ghost Wire Tokyo. I have played Evil Within 2. Similar to the Yakuza games, Union doubles as a semi-open world and hub area. There are tons of a side quest that reward you for either doing or completing them. Do I get new weapons, new lower or character info, or cease Sebastian's past and personal struggles. The open world in Sonic Frontiers is actually great too.
Depends on which ones you are talking about, and those that have aged well or not.
Debatable. Nothing against The Witcher 3, but I've heard too many people say that about almost any open world game since the 7th generation. Before that point, it was either Just Cause 2 or Saints Row 2.
As for Horizon, there were a few that had a problem with the open world or felt it didn't do too much different from what Ubisoft was doing. Robot animals and dinosaurs aside. Spider-Man of course, is doing wonderful like you mentioned. Most superhero or superhero style games with an open world, tend to do fine.
TW3 is a great game brought down by the fact that its open world, as someone who did 100% of the activity, that was the wrong way to play that game and I should have just skipped everything except main storyline and a couple of major side quest.
Most of those badly aged arguments are about the gameplay itself not really the worlds though. Yeah some of those GTA's are a bit rough by today's standards but their cities are universally pretty good.
Forspoken demo is actually nothing like the final game says producer | Metro News
Apparently the demo is not representative of the full game.
Apparently the demo is not representative of the full game.
In what universe did this guy think THAT statement would help him?
When Forespoken was first reveled I assumed it will turn out to be one of those overhyped-till-outta-space-but-nonetheless-duds titles (cough* No Man's Sky cough*) that's supposed to "breach genres and drive the industry forward" and it seems I was right. Even at the dawn of 2023, there are very few actual reasons to buy a PS5 (with Demon's Souls topping that list). And this is coming from a diehard PS fan. Bloodborne 2 can't come soon enough...
Bloodborne 2 is never happening. I don't know why people keep whipping themselves into a frenzy leading to disappointment. The closest you're going to get is Lies of P.
Same reason people keep believing in Half Life 3. Shit aint happening ever never ever.
I still remember on the old Escapists forum, the dead IMDb forums, and the old GT forums that people got pissy whenever I said Half-Life 3 would be the new Duke Nukem Forever.
Another case of words no longer having any meaning. Used to be that "demo" was short for "demonstration", i.e. giving you a taste what the game is actually like.
We did get that VR game. I know it's not the same but that was still way more than we were expecting to get after so long.
If Half-Life 3 ever comes out, no matter the quality, it won't live to nearly every fan or critic's overly high expectations.
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It could bring about world peace and give free no-attachment oral sex and still not reach the expectations a wait this long has wrought.
I dunno, I’d be pretty satisfied with that but I’m easily pleased compared to most gamers