• Sanctus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    83
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    Homie, I’m sorry but open world really just means its one map and it implies you might be able to go anywhere on the horizon. Rain World has an open world, Elder Scrolls definitely does except for Arena, pretty much any MMO, Astroneer, your OLD GAME No Man’s Sky is open world. Seriously take a step back from your own project and breath for 4 hours before making announcements. That being said, Light No Fire looks ridiculously good and I can’t wait for it.

    • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      43
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      11 months ago

      I think they’re just talking about the game being open world in a full planet that you can clearly see is a planet and is large and diverse enough to actually feel like a full planet.

      Still not the first at that either. Valheim for example is a round planet and open world and has several biomes. But there the world isn’t really impressive, so maybe that’s what they are trying to be the first of?

      Based on the trailer they are clearly trying to be the first game to actually achieve something but it’s hard to define what that something really is.

        • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          Oh I must’ve got it confused with some other game then, I could swear the world map was presented as a globe.

        • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          11 months ago

          Haha wow seriously? I played that game a lot but never actually bothered to sail to the edges of the map…

            • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              11 months ago

              Yup. I remember messing around with some mod once that let you find gear with a bunch of cool, random enchantments on them. I ended up finding some pants that let you walk on water… was pretty silly just running across oceans, but it actually led me to explore more of the world then I would have bothered to do otherwise.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        11 months ago

        I would say the original Legend of Zelda holds that title as it came out in 86 and FF came out in 87.

        • Jerkface@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          11 months ago

          I mean if we want to keep going down that road, there’s Ultima which was released in '81. I bet there’s something even more obscure that predates it.

          • Sanctus@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            11 months ago

            Oh yes! Funny, I was going to comment somewhere else on this chain about Ultima’s ecosystem that was present at launch and quickly removed. The players just killed everything with no regard, which was not taken into account when designing the system.

            So I’m left wondering, first real what? Ultima had an open world and ecosystem, rain world has an open world and ecosystem, Spore even has an open world and its ecosystem is not really an ecosystem. This game looks great, I’ve wishlisted it. But they clearly need help with the marketing so it doesn’t just sound like Randomly Generated Survival Game 3498.

    • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      They’re being cheeky. It IS the first world that is fully open in a game.

      No Man’s Sky had open WORLDS. With an S.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      11 months ago

      Arena is one of the most open world of TES games. You can go anywhere in Tamriel. That said, it’s fairly limited with what it can do, but it’s so much more open than later games. Daggerfall is similar, except it got limited to one region.