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[Stilton Disco]

Open world is fun to mess around in, but it's detrimental to storytelling, forces meaningless, repetitive busy work and once you've seen one you've pretty much seen them all.

I can only really be bothered to play one or two a year. The rest are all linear or smaller games.

 

[sainraja]

I’m fine with it. People equally complain about linear being too common as well.

I think, at this point, there are definitely more games that adopt the open world aspect vs linear. We still have our linear games but all the main ones tend to be open world now.

The Batman games managed a very cool way to merge linear with open world. Once you were on a mission, that was pretty much linear but once you were done you could explore the city and do side missions etc.