I thought they fixed inventory with patches? I agree, the inventory was a mess, at launch at least. It was annoying in Dragon Age Inquisition as well. Also, Witcher 3 had a lot of interesting story content and sidequests, which most triple A games dont focus on much.
I haven't left the first main area of the game. I'm just exploring, fishing and doing a few side quests and hunts.
My main issue with open worlds are length. I typically prefer the more linear, old school direction like The Last of Us or Uncharted. I think that Witcher 3 had wonderful sidequests and stories, as does Fallout, but turning everything into an open world like GTA and Assassins Creed is dumb. I think FF15s world is beautiful and scenic and fits with the theme of a road trip. There are interesting enough creatures living in their own habitat that it feels like a safari. Xenoblade Chronicles looks gorgeous as well, as does Witcher 3.
Anyhow, I think he Jim liked FFXV enough that it made him love the series again. Also, sandboxes are usually empty w/ no real direction, while open worlds allow the player to progress at their own pace. He kind of blurred the line between sandbox and open world. No Man's Sky is more of a sandbox. Assassins Creed is more open world.
I've been playing these F2P games all year.
The F2P games I listed are not lame vaporware. They are solid games that happen to be free. And yes, there is a variety of games. Team shooter, Card & Strategy, Tactical, Team Battle Moba, Solo Action. They are solid games that should be demoed at least. There is also a F2P anime-style Hearthstone called Shadowverse.
Playing at night with headphones off is especially awful! Now trapped in a house with a demon!? Hell no!
I got FF15 a while ago, and it is pretty fun. I don't normally enjoy open worlds because I find them boring, but FF15 is doing something for me and I'm not sure why? I haven't progressed at all in the story, and I've spend a dozen hours just doing sidequests, hunts and dungeon diving. It's just really fun! I honestly don't even really need a story. FF open world clicked for me this time. Interesting?
The LEGO games are fun. I won't knock them. I loved the Star Wars ones myself. I hear a lot of praise for Lego Dimensions games too. RE games have always been great at creating atmosphere, but the more shooter centric sequels took the scares away. Being trapped in some demented hillbillies home and trying to escape is hella nightmarish on its own. The atmosphere is really great in the RE demo. It is a proper return to form for Capcom.
What's funny is that I uncovered a whole fanboy world to Hatsume that I didn't know existed, and there is hatred for this new PS4 game, but mainly because there is another PS4 game exclusive to Japan that has 200 songs compared to this US game that only has 30. There are also mentions that previous games have better music than this PS4 game, so I'm interested in playing prevous versions now.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the demo. It requires focusing on every detail of the environment in order to make progress, meaning a lot of retread and backtracking. RE games have always had this by way of adventure game features, and they work pretty well in this new context, but I'm not sure if the full game will be just the house, or if it will be larger in scale to previous games. I honestly don't see how RE6 can be topped in scale in any way. Evil Within moving inwards towards the mind was a great response to this, but I'm not sure exactly what I want from a RE sequel, except to maybe Remaster the originals or just do something new for the franchise? The demo is much scarier than the original game was for me when it first came it out in the 90s, and that and Silent Hill were proper spooky games.
That time limit was there with Valkyrie Profile, which is another tri-ace game, Majoras Mask, Dead Rising and LR. I mostly enjoyed games with this mechanic. I was able to beat LR with enough time. It's understandable though.
