Nightmare Genie asks you: Every game is open world OR every game is multiplayer
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Just because a game is an Open-World doesn't mean that the world has to the size of the universe.
So if the devs can just focus on content density in an open world, that would not only be great, but probably a breath of fresh air from the current wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle open world design.
With multi-player only games your experience will always depend on other players, which can often be a nightmare, so Open-World all the way!
So if the devs can just focus on content density in an open world, that would not only be great, but probably a breath of fresh air from the current wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle open world design.
With multi-player only games your experience will always depend on other players, which can often be a nightmare, so Open-World all the way!
Uhh Open World? MP is incredibly destructive to a games pipeline, you can do a lot of interesting things in an open world. MP requires sooo many other factors.
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You start playing the game, and within five minutes, you are either thrown into some form of multiplayer that directly affects your experience (co-op/pvp mission, invasion, other players shopping at the same store you're in buying up or selling items that affects the stock available to you, etc.) or you are engaging with the open world in some tangible way (current mission will involve some form of travel, will need to go out to gather a given resource, or systemic stuff like a roving herd of wild animals can complicate current objective).
Multiplayer/open-world is unavoidable while playing. You are always engaging with the one chosen—there's no point at which the open-world games feel like linear experiences, or no point where multiplayer isn't affecting your game.
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If the multiplayer is optional, then multiplayer.
If the multiplayer is not optional and you have to interact with another human either locally or online in order to play every game, then open world.
If the multiplayer is not optional and you have to interact with another human either locally or online in order to play every game, then open world.
Open world. Light work. Not every game needs to be open world, but I'm never mad when a game IS open world. If every game is multiplayer I'd be livid.
Looking at the poll it's really a vocal minority sort of thing. MP only is losing badly.
My roommate is one of the most personable guys I know. Loves going out, loves hanging out with everyone else in the house. He hates MP outside of fighting games, and rarely plays those. Why? And I quote: "People ruin my gaming experiences."
Takes all kinds to make a world lol.
I know you're OP but I'm choosing to ignore this because there are tons of open worlds where missions will occasionally feel like linear experiences. XD
Could not care less if a game adds drop-in multiplayer or connected feature. It's fun chaos in basically every kind of game, including most traditionally single-player games. And the option to play with multiple people doesn't harm single-player games unless they severely modify the design of the game to specifically revolve around multiple players. We've seen this in Souls games for over a decade now.
If I'm forced to interact with other players INSTEAD of playing PvE, then I choose to nuke all video games from a tremendous height.
Edit: OP's binaries are so extreme they do not describe a single real video game. So I'm choosing to ignore them lol
If I'm forced to interact with other players INSTEAD of playing PvE, then I choose to nuke all video games from a tremendous height.
Edit: OP's binaries are so extreme they do not describe a single real video game. So I'm choosing to ignore them lol
So does that mean under the "open world" nightmare, Elden Ring does not have Legacy Dungeons and is 100% just the bloat parts?
Open world doesn't have to mean sprawling. There's a ton of potential variety here. This isn't hard.
Multiplayer mostly sucks. I can live without the handful that actually hook me.
Multiplayer mostly sucks. I can live without the handful that actually hook me.
multiplayer solely for the possibility that it would make this website more interesting to read
Gaming as I've gotten older is almost exclusively now hanging time with my buddies when we can arrange it.
Having access to EVERY gaming experience over CO-OP/MP would be truly amazing.
Having access to EVERY gaming experience over CO-OP/MP would be truly amazing.
Multiplayer. Then at least you have co-op, competitive and PvEvP games. That sounds pretty rad actually.
I can only play like, a couple open world games a year before I'm burned the fuck out.
I can only play like, a couple open world games a year before I'm burned the fuck out.
Yeah, I really don't get it either.
Everything open world. Developers who aren't good at making open worlds or don't have huge budgets can just exploit the system by making a game that's still linear but has a massive empty ass landscape around the obvious path you are supposed to go. And give players a waypoint.
its almost like despite a very loud minority in this site people actually like open world games. which is why they keep getting done
But MP games are like that, they all want your time (and money) exclusively
Multiplayer is one of my biggest turn-offs for a game, and I actually like open world games quite a bit, so this is an easy choice
Remember when Capcom was shoe-horning co-op into all it's franchises (Resi, Dead Rising, Lost Planet etc)? Those were the days..
Except you can`t ignore forced multiplayer. At all. Fallout 76, one game that people insist "isnt like that", i keep bouncing off because i cant go five minutes without someone appearing where i am, killing the enemies im fighting, constantly inviting me to join to something and when i dont angrily plink at me. As much as era likes complaining about bloat, nobody is forcing you to do sidequests or explore 100% of the map. I literally can't play F76 alone (unless i pay up for a private server or something like that which is ridiculous - paying to get rid of people)
