I touched on this idea recently when writing about the phenomenal indie game Ape Out, but after playing DMC 5, I’m realizing that we shouldn’t have to rely on indies to provide streamlined experiences. Just to be clear, I think a number of these games are good, some even great, but many of them featured content that I would either call unnecessary or plain boring. But even Call of Duty ditched its campaign with Black Ops 4, and Nintendo moved its two most popular franchises to true open worlds with their latest entries.
Sure, sports games top the charts, and first-person shooters like Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 have linear, mission-based campaigns. Think: Overwatch, the Call of Duty franchise, Horizon Zero Dawn, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2, the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Tom Clancy’s The Division, Destiny 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Grand Theft Auto V, Fallout 4, the Far Cry franchise, and Marvel’s Spider-Man. Bayonetta 2 A contest of contentįor the past several years, the majority of popular AAA games are either multiplayer-oriented or open world. Before that? Bayonetta 2 for Wii U in 2014. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End launched earlier that same year, which mastered the art of creating a sense of openness inside a linear path. Each of its levels had optional side quests, but they didn’t get in the way of the critical path. I’m thinking it was Dishonored 2, at the end of 2016, more than two years ago. Nero shows off his sweet new demon-killing arm in ‘Devil May Cry 5’ trailerĪfter finishing DMC 5, I tried to think of the last AAA action game I played that could be described as linear.
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