Ghost of Tsushima - Fastest selling new PS4 IP - Director's Cut is now out

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Mafro wrote:Getting big Witcher 3 vibes with added Assassin's creed from this so far.

From the reviews, or you're playing it?

Got it this morning from ShopTo.

Nice, so I assume that's a positive assessment?

Yeah I'm enjoying it so far.

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OrangeRKN wrote:The problem with Fallout and Elder scrolls is that even the biggest cities are made up of ten houses, thirty named inhabitants (not all of them with houses), and hundreds of nameless guards.

That's more or less the same as any other open world game.

Except Witcher 3 which was part of my point above. Yes a lot of population is bulked out by random people, but they go much further to make things appear like functioning cities and the design and layout of these places actually works and makes sense logistically and functionally. Novigrad is probably bigger, denser and better designed than the entire of the populated areas in the last few Fallout and Elder Scrolls games added together.

Skyrim even has ridiculous situations where it does things like trying to subdivide sections of its already tiny cities and make out they have distinct a distinct character and role to them. Various people refer to things like the "residential district" in Whiterun, it's like 3 tiny houses!

I honestly don't see anything different about The Witcher 3's big cities to that of Assassin's Creed 2 and the like.

I'm not disagreeing with you about the short comings of the Bethesda games but I think we have to accept that there is always going to be limitations in a game that lets you go everywhere and pick up every object compared to one that can populate a large area with buildings that are essentially walls of a maze. It's not an apples to apples comparison.

You're right

One game had terrible B movie world building, the other one doesn't.

It's like comparing apples to a dog turd.

Being able to move around a roll of cheese doesn't excuse that

Whatever does it for you I guess. Having the same few lines of dialogue repeated in either an over the top cockney or northern advent doesn't make the world feel for more realistic to me.

You're saying that like Skyrim doesn't so the exact same thing, but with worse world design

For the record, I don't even really like the Witcher, but it makes you realise how terrible Bethesda games are in comparison.

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Jenuall wrote:

Hime wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:The problem with Fallout and Elder scrolls is that even the biggest cities are made up of ten houses, thirty named inhabitants (not all of them with houses), and hundreds of nameless guards.

That's more or less the same as any other open world game.

Except Witcher 3 which was part of my point above. Yes a lot of population is bulked out by random people, but they go much further to make things appear like functioning cities and the design and layout of these places actually works and makes sense logistically and functionally. Novigrad is probably bigger, denser and better designed than the entire of the populated areas in the last few Fallout and Elder Scrolls games added together.

Skyrim even has ridiculous situations where it does things like trying to subdivide sections of its already tiny cities and make out they have distinct a distinct character and role to them. Various people refer to things like the "residential district" in Whiterun, it's like 3 tiny houses!

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Jenuall wrote:

Hime wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:The problem with Fallout and Elder scrolls is that even the biggest cities are made up of ten houses, thirty named inhabitants (not all of them with houses), and hundreds of nameless guards.

That's more or less the same as any other open world game.

Except Witcher 3 which was part of my point above. Yes a lot of population is bulked out by random people, but they go much further to make things appear like functioning cities and the design and layout of these places actually works and makes sense logistically and functionally. Novigrad is probably bigger, denser and better designed than the entire of the populated areas in the last few Fallout and Elder Scrolls games added together.

Skyrim even has ridiculous situations where it does things like trying to subdivide sections of its already tiny cities and make out they have distinct a distinct character and role to them. Various people refer to things like the "residential district" in Whiterun, it's like 3 tiny houses!

I remember when I first got to Whiterun and kept hearing about 'The Cloud District' and assumed it was gonna be a huge DLC or something.

Nope, it's 'the bit up those stairs with that house'.

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That looks really cool. Does the one hit kill work like a parry system?

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