There are plenty of other teams that can do th Both these games were made by teams who showed masterclass in level design when creating more linear games, and that knack for it transitioned into Open World. Worlds that give the player freedom, but feel intricately designed to make ensure that they are having memorable, eventful and challenging journeys as you immerse yourself in them. Overall though, despite their different approaches, I hope BOTW and Death Stranding set trends and that we get more open worlds that are true design marvels in the future. Even the gameвЂ™s enemies such as BTs and MULEs I would say are more environmental hazards to overcome instead of supposed to be a dose of combat. Every aspect of the world is placed where it is in order to provide the player a challenge to overcome. Bridges will save your life in rivers but wonвЂ™t be too useful on mountains, climbing anchors wonвЂ™t be too useful if youвЂ™re trying to get UP somewhere.Дeath Stranding is unique in that itвЂ™s not an open world game that aims to entice exploration at all. The tools the game is constantly giving you all have strengths and weaknesses to different types of terrain. Terrain is not designed to entice exploration, but goes fully in the direction of вЂњeverything is a hazard that you need to overcome.вЂќ Every bit of terrain has an impact on how you go about planning your routes.Дo you take a route across a deep river where you need to bring or find metals to build a bridge, do you climb up a steep slope and bring tons of ladders and find the right spots to place them? Do you have a big, flat field that you could walk on foot but it would take so long that youвЂ™d risk damaging cargo and bring a vehicle with some spare generators? Often times the game puts multiple different types of terrain in the path to the next destination, adding a whole new depth to the planning. However, they do this in very different waysДeath Stranding, on the other hand, finds itвЂ™s entire meat in the journey. Every aspect of their worlds seems to be placed exactly where it is to entice curiosity or provide different approaches to gameplay. However, Death Stranding and Breath of the Wild both feel extremely deliberate in going all in to make their vast worlds themselves an integral part of their gameplay. While once you got to a camp, the possibilities and depth of gameplay was off the charts, the test of the world is just dead with collectibles to scoop up on your ride to the next camp.

Even KojimaвЂ™s previous game, Metal Gear Solid V often fell victim to this. They just served as big areas to fight enemies.

The environments didnвЂ™t entice me to explore or provide obstacles to me themselves. Horizon: Zero Dawn was like this for me, which is why I dropped the game without completing it. Or some ultimately accounting for arenas where you fight enemies. To start off, Open World games have had a problem with their worlds not feeling interactive enough, or mainly serving as window dressing for immersion as you go to the next waypoint. This is a thread about something that, despite how vastly different these games are, both do extraordinarily well and I hope they set trends in this area. To start off, this is not a thread about вЂњWhat Death Stranding can teach Breath of the WildвЂќ reactionary thread, so if thatвЂ™s what the title makes you think, youвЂ™re wrong.

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