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Aonuma says that many of the younger staff on BOTW2 are playing and inspired by RDR2
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RDR2 is kinda divisive on Era. Most folks either fucking love it or fucking hate it.
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They were impressed by Skyrim's big promise of a big open world map to explore which doesn't mean they were going to carbon copy it and same here.
Both devs/studios can learn from one another.
Rockstar is the absolute best in the business when it comes to open world games.
Rockstar is the absolute best in the business when it comes to open world games.
Game will be great people need to chill out, both Botw and RDR2 were both great in their own ways.
In terms of things like world simulation and like crafting a great overworld with interesting locations and events to find and explore, cool. RDR2 was great with that kind of sense of a living breathing world, but can't say there's a ton else I would like to see them take pointers on. I liked RDR2 a lot, but it's way different experience.
Cool.... can't wait to get a game over because the braindead Zelda NPC ran into the middle of a firefight I can't even see because of the janky ass cover mechanics.
fine with me. give these franchises to a new gen of devs that can continue to bring fresh ideas.
I am a big fan of RDR2, but for all the reasons I don't play Nintendo games. I hope they stay as far away from RDR2's game design philosophy as possible.
The best game of the generation is getting inspired by the other best game of the generation. I don't know if I can handle this. I want it now.
Holy shit what the hell happened to this topic? They're just saying they're playing the game, not that "oh yeah BOTW 2 will be a spiritual successor to RDR2" or something. They mentioned the staff playing a lot of Skyrim during BOTW's development. Did that make the game have all the trappings of an Elder Scrolls game?
This is brilliant news, hopefully we'll get an open world as dense and rich as RDR2. I doubt it though, RDR2 seems unattainable for even Rockstar in the future IMO, still cant believe it was possible.
BoTW world was barren and lifeless in comparison, like, a generation apart. Good news nonetheless. Also, take notes from RDR2 perfect horse mechanics.
BoTW world was barren and lifeless in comparison, like, a generation apart. Good news nonetheless. Also, take notes from RDR2 perfect horse mechanics.
Good.
Obviously, I don't want the same experience from BOTW 2 as I got from RDR 2, they're very different and it wouldn't make sense for a Zelda game to be as "mature" as RDR2. But RDR2's world is the most immersive world I've ever experienced in a game, and it'd be cool to see what Nintendo could craft with that level of immersive world-building in mind
Obviously, I don't want the same experience from BOTW 2 as I got from RDR 2, they're very different and it wouldn't make sense for a Zelda game to be as "mature" as RDR2. But RDR2's world is the most immersive world I've ever experienced in a game, and it'd be cool to see what Nintendo could craft with that level of immersive world-building in mind
It's fine. RDR2 focuses strongly on narrative. That's what Zelda lacks most IMO. Gameplay is still king to Nintendo, so they're not going to learn the wrong lessons from RDR2 in that department.
They can do their thing and still bring inspirations from other games, you know, like the towers in BotW.
Easily.
I'd love to discuss it though. Which games do you think have it beat? Large cities, small towns, a huge amount of wildlife with incredible AI, an absolutely incredible sense of scale, a staggering amount of environment detail and diversity.
We could say there are better "open world games". But when it comes just to the world itself, and how it behaves around the player, RDR2 is unmatched
Voice actors were fine and plenty of them even work in many parts of the VA industry, as well as some acting and theater acting. The problem was the voice direction being all over the place.
How about taking inspiration from Zelda! We need dungeons, nothing else matters.
But yes a lively world with NPCs with great storylines would be nice too. And guess what MM did that.
But yes a lively world with NPCs with great storylines would be nice too. And guess what MM did that.
It is in that it too is squarely mechanics first, and that it has a laser sharp focus on one end, a bunch of systems to achieve that, and then it runs with it.
Obviously it has a scope far beyond anything else Nintendo do does, however.
So like Skyrim then?
Keep in mind Aonuma said he also used Skyrim as an influence for BOTW.