Finally, I can’t wait for a new fresh face to over promise me games.

  • Goronmon@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Open world games like Skyrim are hard to make, and modern expectations are making them even harder.

    People are shitting on Bethesda for taking so long, but no other developer has managed to make a worthy competitor in the decade+ since Skyrim released.

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        Kingdom Come is a solid game, but it’s also still a very narrow game compared to Skyrim. You play as a specific character and the “sandbox” nature of the game is much more limited.

        It’s more like the Witcher where you can roleplay slight variations on one person, rather than Skyrim where you can role-play as a vast array of potential characters.

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          Yeah, the sad fact is that no one has even come close to creating a Skyrim-like. The Witcher 3 had imitators like the recent Assassins Creed games etc. but there is still nothing quite like The Elder Scrolls.

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            Cyberpunk is the most recent game I can think of that tried, and, well…

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              Cyberpunk at least in it’s current state is more like an open world Deus Ex game. It’s a really good game now though and I look forward to Phantom Liberty.

              The launch was awful though.