9 months
You must log in or register to comment.
9 monthsWell, The Witcher 1 and 2 weren’t open world, and those turned out pretty well, especially 2. There’s something to be said about what a game from them might gain by doing more in a smaller world.
- Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish9 months
I tried playing Witcher 2 when it came out, but couldn’t. It’s so immersion breaking when some parts of the map are blocked by some gates or invisible walls. When Witcher 3 came out I was hesitant at first remembering my bad experience with 2, but I loved it so much.
How did you feel about Baldur’s Gate 3? Because the structure of the maps in the first two Witcher games are what most of the genre is like.
The co-founder is definitely referring to the Gwent standalone game. I played it when open beta came out but it steadily went downhill from there until they eventually stopped working on it in 2023.
- Jyrdano@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
I liked that game. Then they decided to completely rework it. IMO for the worse. It went downhill from there.
Yeah I’m still not sure where they were going with reducing it to two lanes instead of 3.
- RollForInitiative@feddit.orgEnglish9 months
They also created a standalone, story based Gwent card game that is pretty good, just in case you didn’t know: Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
It was still a really good game by the time they stopped working on it, and one of the least greedy CCG I’ve ever seen. Hearthstone was already starting to lose players, and they had a shot at being a replacement, even if the mechanics of the game were rather different.
And then Marvel Rivals came out and the CCG landscape was just overpopulated.
I think you mean Marvel Snap, but yes. Even the biggest pvp card games are struggling to retain players.
- acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
i wanted gwent on my phone, not on my PC. i forgot about it by the time it released for phones.
Yeah, I see open world games as fancier tabletop games in most cases. Which isn’t a bad thing by any means.
The cyberpunk one was great, because it was so beautiful that merely driving in it was enjoyable
TW3’s open world was boring and terrible in every way
The DLC had good open worlds, but the main game just felt too dreary and brown.
- FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish9 months
Funny because I stray away from anything that associates itself with AAA
- warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Once you go Ubi, you can’t go back to a life without climbing towers.
- sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Well, the world should have moved on to IPv6 a long time ago.
- 9 months
You’re missing out on some great experiences that indies simply can’t produce in that case
- Phen@lemmy.eco.brEnglish9 months
Any such experiences in the last few years? I think the last AAA games I’ve played where RDR2 and Spider Man.
- Phen@lemmy.eco.brEnglish9 months
Oh yeah I played Elden Ring too. Avowed I tried but didn’t like; the other two really aren’t my type of game.
- 9 months
I rarely play games nowadays and even more rarely new games. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the first one that comes to mind in recent years.
