Why The Best Open World Is A (slightly) Closed World
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Open World games have been in a bit of a rut for years now, ever since Far Cry 3 set the tone for the genre more than a decade ago, every single open world game has been held prisoner by a single feature: Towers. The bane of exploration-lovers everywhere. Or are they?
The Architect has seen a fair share of towers, and they're starting to doubt whether towers really are at fault for bad open worlds after all - hell, even Elden Ring has them, and that game has a great world! After saddling up and exploring the worlds of Hyrule, The Mojave and now the Lands Between, finally the secret of good world design is within grasp... It's just inside this innocent looking chest, I swear...
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Comments
Dylan JB
Great video. Interesting how fast travel too can be either a negative or positive part of open worlds, depending on how it's implemented. And on another note, Elden Ring almost does have towers when you consider the map-stones. I always find myself aiming to get to them first in a new zone to unlock the map, as I would a tower in other games.
Adam Millard - The Architect of Games
Only footage of the first five hours of my first playthrough with no story or main dungeon footage either, so basically less spoilery than the trailers!
Calliope Rannis
May I ask how spoilery this video is in regards to Elden Ring? I'm still trying to avoid seeing lategame areas without their proper initial context, as futile as that may sound. XD
