Why are open world games so overrated?

Good open world games are underrated

Reminds me of my 7 year old niece. When she's watching a film and there's a scene without any action, dancing, or singing, she goes "Why is nothing happening?"

>>715667007
Why are you alone with your niece?

>>715667064
Get help, anon. Seriously.

>>715667007
Future patrician

>>715667147
Yeah, I seriously need help to shove your fatass into a woodchipper.

>>715666884
such as?

>>715666493 (OP)
Why have you never had sex?

>>715667449
They're too strong for you.

>>715666493 (OP)
Because, when done right, they have an unmatched feeling of exploration, freedom, and character progression. It’s hard to get right though.

>>715667449
Arx Fatalis

>>715667449
Gothic 1+2
Stalker
and no, the niche cult communities don't do these games justice, every normalfag should be forced to play games like this to realize how bad open world slop has become

>>715666493 (OP)
Why are third world kids who don't play games but make worthless images and collages so stupid?

>>715666493 (OP)

>>715666493 (OP)
The real purpose of open world games is to allow you to explore it just a bit to find new things during your normie 15 minutes of playtime.
GTA delivers this correctly, dark souls deliver this correctly, the open world slop zeldas deliver this correctly.

Everyone else just stretched a linear game and don't understand why the normies don't give a fuck for their games.

>>715666493 (OP)

>>715667449
Link To The Past

>>715669661
ubishit made billions before everyone got sick of it after like 20th iterations of the same formula
skyrim is still loved and people cant have enough of it

>>715667354
Your pajeet is showing.

>>715666493 (OP)
The two best selling games of all time are open world games
you lost

>>715670776
I had forgot about those.
My theory still holds water, but i was more thinking on shit like watchdogs.

>>715671196
Minecraft is a creation game too, it's a brand new genre that no one can exploit right yet.
One where the shit you created can be used and is affected by the way you created it would sell a gigazillion units.

i sure do love empty world games op

>>715670541
Not open world. Way too tiny. I don’t get immersed at all when playing it because there’s no way a place like that could exist. Everything is like a five second walk from everything else.

Ocarina of Time’s Hyrule, now that world I could get into. Not that it’s open world by the current definition but it feels like a real place.

>>715666493 (OP)
I will never understand why people praise Elden Ring's open world. It's this image but ten times worse

>>715666493 (OP)
Is this what you want?

>>715672280
>Way too tiny
>I don’t get immersed at all when playing it
>there’s no way a place like that could exist
>Everything is like a five second walk from everything else
Literally none of these have anything to do with whether a game is open world.

>>715673258
Wrong as fuck. If the game map is postage stamp size it isn’t open world.