>It turns out the developers actually thought about players attempting to follow NPCs to see where they go, and thus NPC behaviour is surprisingly sophisticated for something the vast majority of players will never notice. Drivers will actually go places, park and even get out of their cars rather than just driving in circles (and, rarely, floor it and drive off the road to take a shortcut). Pedestrians will enter buildings. Buses will actually pick up and drop off passengers.
Already above gta 5 and more likely 6

they missed with this game, but it's ok

I know this thread will be taken over by bad faith arguers, but when I was a kid I would just drive around Kirby Air Ride's free roam city trial mode for hours and just make my own stories and lore with a bunch of static buildings and parked vehicles in the basement area. Now imagine kids doing that nowadays in a world as vast as this one. I really don't like the games balance and think they really failed in that department. But imagine being a kid again and having a world like this. I would have loved this shit.

So they made it open world to have some npc schedules to entertain bored kids? awful excuse.

>>713679559
Modern kids are not playing Nintendo games.

>Nintendo invented NPC scheduling

>>713679158 (OP)
This used to be a standard in any game
What the hell happened?

>>713679559
Kids don't do this shit anymore, the internet has so many new options that they're constantly rotating through ADHD shortform shit.

>>713679158 (OP)
> and, rarely, floor it and drive off the road to take a shortcut
I remember seeing an npc car driving off road, it was funny

>>713681065
Gamers rewarded shitty studios who fake it like CDPR and the rest of the industry realized they were spending a ton of effort on shit gamers don't notice or care about.

>they get in buses and go on tours around the island
>get get off buses to go to restaurants
>the drivers drive to the stadiums and enter them to watch the races
>some of them walk around and rest at benches, only to go on a bus or in a car
neat

>>713681065
>standard
?
Name 30 non rpg games with npc scheduling
Name at least 20 rpg that had npc schediling for randomly generated npc in open world

>>713681461
Take your meds

>>713681194
I was out in the middle of no where once and saw a koopa casually driving around off road. Did not expect it all

>>713679559
>Kirby air ride is so fucking empty and boring that you have to do this to have any fun
bro this game literally lives only by the nostalgia of 5 years doing shit like this, it's so ridiculous

>>713679158 (OP)
>>713679559
Game has a ton of soul and attention to detail.
It's really great.
Not thrilling about 80 bucks, but otherwise it's stellar.

>>713681001
They're the only ones doing it now that Bethesda gave up on it.

>>713679158 (OP)
>they missed with this game

8.6/10 metacritic
Already a million-selling title after 3 days on a system with ZERO install base

If that's a miss then the entire industry is fucked lmao

>>713679158 (OP)
Normalfag bait.

>>713679158 (OP)
Wasn't there a quote by some Nintendo big-name before (maybe Shiggy) about the reason there isn't dog-petting bs in their games is because adding flavor like that takes away time from polishing the important fundamentals of the game that actually make it fun? I've also noticed a lot more criticisms of the core gameplay than I've ever seen for a previous mario kart (bad character unlocks, bad menu, empty open world, everything feeling lazily stapled together, etc)

>>713679158 (OP)
>Devs placed splines and npc follow
Wow, woah. What an amazing attention to detail.

I have no idea if I'm a minority in this current market but these details are important, It's the reason I buy games like Death Stranding despite the story being trash. I love it.

>>713682423
Petting dogs is player actions
NPC feeling alive, actually contributes a lot to open world games. But as Elden Ring proved that's not necessary, and warring kingdoms being no different from hollow zombies being okay too

>>713681129
Some kids will have that experience, though I agree with you most kids are having the same type in Roblox or Minecraft.

>>713682423
Was probably Aonuma because iirc that's in reference to Breath of the Wild, which is also a game where the NPCs have relatively extensive schedules and routines so, yeah this and that are two totally different things.
Well I found it, wasn't Aonuma

>>713681001
Who said it is something new and invented by Nintendo?

>>713684014
Probably same retard who said that detailed npc scheduling was "standard", despite only bethseda and gothic games really doing it

>>713679158 (OP)
>Drive around in circle for 12 hours in game hours. Drive to the next city. Drive back to the last city. And then drive around in circle for 12 hours again.
Do tendies really?

>>713679158 (OP)
>Drive around in circle for 12 hours. Drive to the next city. Drive back to the last city. And then drive around in circle for 12 hours again.
Do tendies really?

>>713679343
FPBP.
It's miss OP, let it go.
>>713679559
I also did this (hell, still do it ocassionally, I find it relaxing,) but the reality is that these anons are completely right when it comes to children >>713680849 >>713681129

Sometimes the npc cars go off road on a weird path

>>713681065
Beside farming/dating simulator like Harvest Moon and its derivative. it's not a standard at all.

>>713679158 (OP)
>sophisticated
>drive places
>get out of their cars
In what game? Because they sure as hell don't do that in Mario Kart. Half the NPCs just stand still in one spot and I tried following the other racers you can find in free roam and they just drive in a big circle.

>>713684812
>anons are completely right when it comes to children

>>713685253
>Japanese kid
Not really helping your argument DESU.

>>713679343
its just the same game over and over and over again, how could they miss?

>>713682217
It’s a miss in terms of quality

>>713679158 (OP)
I love princesses so much bros

>>713685341
Where do you think Sony is from?