Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end
Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end
He says he’s currently trying to shrink the map in his new studio’s debut game…
(By game size he means scope of the game and huge open world maps, not game install size)
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I don't get why open worlds have to be so big. 95% of the time, they have next to nothing in them.
To be able to say "our map is 100x100km!" The only games where it is worth it to have a huge map like that, is army simulators and RTS. Anything else could probably be better off with polish in some other place, rather than a huge map.
One of the notorious examples in PS3 gen era that's now can't be purchased at all. It's a derpy offroad racing game in what looks like a procedurally generated world emptier than ash deserts in Morrowind.
Maybe you can explain this to me... I've heard this countless times over the years, but I can't figure out how it's measured?
Is it based on if MC is taking average human strides? It seems like a ridiculous metric.
Games / game engines use units which correspond to size IRL. It's needed to keep scale consistent. The characters are usually around 1.8m tall for instance
Well they gotta have the right balance, otherwise they'd end up be "open small town" instead of "open world"