Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC
Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC
Information originally from MinnMax's Ben Hanson. There is an existing game used to describe this new game to Hanson as a point of reference, and all we know is that that game is not Hitman.
"Let's give them lots of player freedom this time!"
Play testers continually don't look at a set piece vista the developers and artists spent 400 hours creating.
"Well, that's enough of that. Back to the rails."
Every WoW developer ever.
Ironically I looked at shit far more when I (finally) got a flying mount in each expansion than I ever did while stuck on the ground.
I'm reminded of the techniques Valve used for this type of thing in the Half-Life episodes.
Say, for instance, they have a bit of destruction physics that they think looks memorable and they want people to see. They'll have a Combine soldier shoot at you from that direction, to force your attention that way. They may also set the event on a "Look Trigger" so that it will only happen while the player is looking at it.
Yeah. Valve invented most of the attention direction techniques for Half-life (light, motion, etc, etc.) Trailblazers.
Alright, can't really get hyped without anything else to go on.
I was pretty fine with the way Last of Us 1 and 2 were handled, did a pretty good job at telling a story, without making it feeling like a linear corridor game. More freedom in a similar type of game would be nice, but generally it just seems to mean more downtime traveling between objectives occasionally interrupted by random encounters. If that is what they mean with more freedom, and not something else like character creation or branching storylines or whatever.
Reading the article, he refers to Elden Ring. I personally hate that kind of story telling though. I know a lot of people are absolutely lyrical about the game, but that's probably more thanks to the gameplay. The story in that game is just being dripfed without much context and they are being intentionally vague about so many things. It's more like a passive way of revealing little bits of the world without ever fully explaining anything.
There are certainly people that specifically like that kind of storytelling that puts the onus on the audience to do some digging. It's why Malazan Book of the Fallen is popular, for example.
It didn't do as much for me in Elden Ring, but I enjoyed it in Dark Souls 3 and it's why Demon's Souls has one of my favorite moments in gaming. Wouldn't have worked with more explicit narrative.
Open world slop nr 1648371625 les gooo
Last of Us 1: "You have the freedom to kill this doctor, or you can just shoot him in the leg or something."
Player shoots him in the leg
Last of Us 2:
I wish TLoU 1 gave you the option to sacrifice Ellie. Have an alternate ending where they find a vaccine and everyone lives happily ever after (except Ellie).
Players: Can we have more co-op with a sturdy storyline, and maybe offline play?
Game Developers: lol fam 💀
Truthfully, all sorts of players are asking for all sorts of things, and you've got co-op story-driven games still coming out from other sources. Systems-driven games are way up my alley, and I'll happily take one of those even without co-op. Besides, if a PlayStation game came out with co-op, it wouldn't be offline co-op.
News news news, it may also be using a game controller to translate user input into character actions.
The freedom to make a PNS account maybe?
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Naughty Dog did some solid storytelling in TLoU. It would be great if they could figure out how to apply that well to a game that isn't on rails.
“I think some of the best storytelling in The Last of Us – yes, a lot of it is in the cinematics – but a lot of it is in the gameplay, and moving around a space, and understanding a history of a space by just looking at it and examining it.
I do appreciate this in game worlds, although this alone is not enough to make an open world fun. The world has to be interesting and diverse, full of unique things, places, and situations to discover, so players will want to spend their time exploring it.
Here's hoping Naughty Dog makes something brilliant in this genre that they aren't known for (have they ever done an open world?) rather than repeating the mistake other studios have made by churning out another open world of monotony.
Will it be fun though?
lust of ass 3
Expecting an empty, repetitive open world game. Hoping to be wrong.
For Naughty Dog? They have a solid track record of great games. I'm more enthusiastic than pessimistic, but it sucks it'll likely be a PlayStation exclusive for a while.
I'm mixed on it. They just cancelled their multiplayer game because it wasn't their ballpark, now they want a studio known for linear story-driven experiences to make an open world game (I assume). Could go either way.