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Anonymous12/03/25, 17:30No.727438758
How can developers address open world fatigue
Can open worlds be salvaged or is there something new that should replace them
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Anon12/03/25, 17:34No.727439005
>something new that should replace them
There's something old that should replace them.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:46No.727439880
There is no fatigue.
Linearity is objectively shit.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:52No.727440313
the main hurdle to overcome is content and its repetition
eventually you start to see the world as nothing more than bandit camp, randomly generated dungeon, ubisoft tower, korok seed etc and it loses its magic and encourages you to not even engage with it
if I knew there was no copy-pasted content it would feel a lot more magical and surprising, rather than a by-the-numbers waste of time
also, fast travel is an admission that the game's world and/or traversal sucks and is nothing more than a loading screen
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Anon12/03/25, 18:03No.727440983
You can't make a game world out of "open world" without an actual game that can stand apart from the open world, it is an interstitial fabric for an actual game to pad itself out with.
Like you could have a boss rush game with a level select, or you could ride a horse from location to location.
If the large world isn't meant to be interstitial fabric, the scope suits the development team and, there is actual structure, then you just have a Metroid style game, which most people don't think of as open world.
In theory you can have a Metroid game with an open world interstitial fabric that isn't the game world, like for instance you just ride a motorbike through a desert to get from game world to game world, but that sounds kind of dumb and I don't think anyone would do that.Anyone trying to make the open world BE the game world without a separate game world just doesn't have an interesting game idea to explore or is relying on the fact that so much of it can be thrown together last minute, so that they can overpromise and still deliver when they are pressed for time.
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Anon12/03/25, 18:08No.727441416
A good open world is both wide and deep as an ocean; both quality and quantity. If its missing either width or depth then it will fail at immersion and consequently will contribute to the fatigue of. Most games only focus on one of the two aspects but good open world must do both. That is why there aren't that many good ones, they require far more labor and consequently money. I dare say a truly good open world game can not be made by indie or even AA studios as they simply lack the manpower to fill vast worlds with enough content to make them truly great.
And considering how majority of AAA companies are faring right now... yeah we will wait long time before we have another game to be truly immersed in.
