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Seems to be a pretty decent showing at E3 this year. There's another Fallout and Just Cause (both open world), a FF remake, and we still have more to come.

 

The below caught my eye this morning. Damn that looks impressive.

 

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And then there's another Tom Clancy title, The Division, that's been eagerly anticipated for a while now...

 

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Ghost Recon has me intrigued, but apprehensive.

The series went way off track starting with the second game and Ubisoft have butchered the whole Tom Clancy franchise mercilessly ever since.

GR:W looks to me like Far Cry re-badged with a slightly more military vibe. For me it will all depend on whether you can control your team members and how they implement it.

 

In the meantime, Fallout and Uncharted should easily fill the rest of the year along with the 40+ X360 and dozen PS4 games I have never touched in my cabinets...

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In the meantime, Fallout and Uncharted should easily fill the rest of the year along with the 40+ X360 and dozen PS4 games I have never touched in my cabinets...

 

:lol:

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Ghost Recon has me intrigued, but apprehensive.

The series went way off track starting with the second game and Ubisoft have butchered the whole Tom Clancy franchise mercilessly ever since.

Agree completely with the GR franchise. The last one I played was the first one. Never did care for the direction they took the franchise.

 

Regarding the new one coming out my biggest concern right now is will this open world be a living one. That last scene of the trailer with the pan out shows all those targets you can hit. Well... when you hit one will the world act like a real one? Will the enemy forces share info about you and will the world change to reflect that? Or will it merely be an open world where each objective is its own mission that never changes based on what's happened in the world and the only thing open about it is the fact you can walk all the way there? If it's merely the latter than meh, no thanks. If it ends up being real with a constantly evolving world based on your actions that will be fucking epic.

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Ghost Recon has me intrigued, but apprehensive.

The series went way off track starting with the second game and Ubisoft have butchered the whole Tom Clancy franchise mercilessly ever since.

Agree completely with the GR franchise. The last one I played was the first one. Never did care for the direction they took the franchise.

 

Regarding the new one coming out my biggest concern right now is will this open world be a living one. That last scene of the trailer with the pan out shows all those targets you can hit. Well... when you hit one will the world act like a real one? Will the enemy forces share info about you and will the world change to reflect that? Or will it merely be an open world where each objective is its own mission that never changes based on what's happened in the world and the only thing open about it is the fact you can walk all the way there? If it's merely the latter than meh, no thanks. If it ends up being real with a constantly evolving world based on your actions that will be fucking epic.

 

So GR:W is finally coming out soon, reviews are starting to trickle in, and my fears were realized - it's not a living world. All it is is a really big map with static, repetitive missions that don't influence the areas around them in a realistic manner and which apparently leads to rather repetitive and boring play rather quickly. It's a shame that a game in development this long and as expensive as it likely was to make has so little to offer other than a big map.

 

It's six years from Skyrim. We should be looking at the next step in open world gaming. We shouldn't be taking a step back.

 

Edit: It's interesting looking at the games mentioned and how basically all of them have been letdowns. The division was interesting to folks who got it at launch for about a month and then it died. The latest Deus Ex was just meh (buggy with gameplay that hadn't evolved any since its predecessors). Now GR:W appears to be a flop.

 

Where have all the good games gone? (Or, more importantly, where have all the good game studios gone?)

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They have gone into micropayments, and casual games. Because that's where the money is.

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If you like tactical games like GR, you could try Project Reality or Squad.

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