re: I’m over open world games.

BoTW problem is lack of dungeons built into the open world. But instead 100 shrines or whatever. Those get old and the aesthetic just bleh. I hope they go away from that. Just felt like filler again. I just want to find some heart pieces.

I feel like the scale being that big for Zelda took away from what the franchise does best.

I do think there are positives in BoTW to build upon but it def should not have won GoTY over HZD. If it didn’t have Zelda attached to the name it’s no question.

I find open world to be overdone, if only because it means an investment in games that really don’t deserve that level of attention in a lot of cases. Even on classics like GTA3 I got tired of chasing shite like packages around the end of the second island because having to play treasure quest to find them all got annoying as frick.


I’m more likely to play something which may be more repetitive but has challenge to it and story that will develop over the course of the game, such as an X-Com style strategy shooter or a Roguelike such as Hades.

I blame publishers like EA who have been notorious for edicts from above with regard to shoehorning content into games that don’t need them like open world elements and multiplayer into series that were doing fine, such as Mass Effect. Edicts from above helped turn ME3 and Andromeda into messes that killed the franchise and the studio involved.

Agreed, great games but it is a little intimidating to have a game which requires such a time commitment to play with regards to widget-hunting or doing missions.

I may keep a few of those around but I find that having other stuff which is more pick up and play works for me better.


Hence why I haven’t played a serious RPG in years. I don’t have time for that shite anymore. Good games but I don’t have 20+ hours, let alone more, to spend chasing rabbits to unlock hidden characters and do side quests, especially if I have to spend time getting reoriented every time I have a long gap in gameplay.