Hacker News Reader

Comment by galangalalgol | Hacker News Reader

I'm glad someone is working on an open world rpg at all, but that looks very promising. Its been 11 years since skyrim and there have not been many first person sandbox rpgs since. I actually can't think of any at all unless you count things like grimrock.

View on HN

The Witcher 3 scratches that itch fairly well to tide you over, if you haven't played it, although it is a bit different.

Theres a lot more if you don't mind stepping outside of fantasy themed games. Stuff like the Far Cry series, Cyberpunk 2077, The Outer Worlds, the Dying Light series, and the Metro series.

But in the fantasy realm you're right I can't think of anything since Skyrim off the top of my head thats open world AND first person.

cyberpunk 2077 is about as far away from an open world RPG as you can get, it's a relatively linear story driven game. Besides the massive number of launch day bugs, that was one of them many points of contention across the reviews of the game, since the game was marketed as an open world sandbox style environment.

> Far Cry series, Cyberpunk 2077, The Outer Worlds, the Dying Light series, and the Metro series.

Metro is about as on-rails as you can get? It's all "go down this one tunnel and shoot everything" or "follow this actually quite narrow and linear path across the rubble and shoot everything". Some of the missions are literally on rails (you're in a subway, after all)

Far Cry is much more open than Metro, and often has some quite fun things to do if you stray off the mission path and talk to the right person. Depends how much you like to hunt and fish amidst blowing up the bad guys!

Metro Exodus is semi open-world, more like "open levels" that you can traverse freely and then never come back to again.

I'm not sure I'd call Far Cry series RPGs. Don't mean that in a bad way (I fuckin love Far Cry), I've always seem them as an FPS with stats (a la No One Lives Forever) in an open world.

I really wanted to like The Outer Worlds, but the writing seemed extremely juvenile; it touches on a lot of heavy themes (LGBTQ romance, corporate power, worker exploitation) extremely hamfistedly and without nuance. I had to put it down as I couldn't stop cringing at the writing...

Now, Outer Wilds on the other hand...

I put Outer Worlds down because I thought the combat was lackluster and clunky. Granted, I had been playing Doom Eternal just before Outer Worlds...

Yeah the combat was eh and for some reason it gave me motion sickness.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com