Linear and Open World Games
Opinion by Scientist on Jun 23, 2009
I'm sure a lot of us like to explore on our own, go at our own pace and figure things out at our own leisure but can too much open ended get boring? As much as I love my open world games I do have to say it does in fact get boring from time to time. Most open world games to me seems like they can't focus on action as much as linear type games can because they push you towards the action making you react in the heat of combat or situation while in the open you have more to run around with.
I think it's awesome being able to choose how you want to deal with a situation in an open world game, take a Fallout 3 scenario for instance: You see some raiders coming in the distance and you see you can either go in a house, hold in there and shoot them down or run up a cliff side and get the drop on them. When you start blasting away it gets chaotic and sometimes messy or not as well put together as a linear game may script it out to be. Another example would be my poor attempts to play a Grand Theft Auto game because instead of doing the missions that make the game amazing I would go drive around randomly instead just because it was so open to do so.
I'm not particularily bashing on open world games but if you open your mind and take in what I'm trying to get at you may also realize that there comes a point in which a break from an open world game may be needed to get back right into the action with a linear game that brings you there face to face.
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