It’s definitely more like Xenoblade. I think the MH comparisons arise from having a central town act like a hub. A game can take inspiration from multiple sources, and in this case they are BOTW, Xenoblade and MH, not just one or the other
yeah that makes the most sense to me as well. I honestly can't wait to see an actual gameplay demo of this game just to solidify the gameplay loop since there are still a couple of mysteries, but I'm excited.
If you only paid attention to the surface level stuff they released about this game you’d think it’s open world. People have been speculating it wasn’t since the second presents featuring the game though because that’s when we first saw the segmented world
) and when their assumptions don't pan out, they freak out. Has the Pokemon company at any time said Arceus is a open world game?nope. though I'm not gonna completely blame people here. the gameplay footage looked very open and there's no way of telling how the game is or isn't segment in the footageThis is a major problem with the "internet". People make assumptions and speculations and take them as FACT (why the do that, I dont know
I think what's more dumb here is that a gaming media outlet had to reach out Pokémon Company for confirmation rather than see the marketing materials where this is showed clearly.
I mean its fair, and it should have been made clearer, but the statement did clarify that there would be multiple large open areas explorable, so I assume the areas themselves will be relatively open and there will be no internal gating within them, and thats great especially seeing how many sub areas just the opening area Obsidian fields has
I did answer your question with teh first sentence, they never said it was open worldYou didn't answer my question though.Did at anytime they market it as open world?
the fact they can have flying in the areas shows that these areas are gonna be quite big. even the maps show that if the guesstimations of scale are correct. pretty much Crown Tundra and Isle of Armor combined. and there's 5 of these
The last thing I want is to be associated with the angry nerds and other miserables, but the first trailer used a lot of BotW-like imagery:This is a major problem with the "internet". People make assumptions and speculations and take them as FACT (why the do that, I dont know
Nope, nobody even assumed that. The whole Pokémon: BotW thing might have misled some.
Game Freak with both swsh and legends, clearly liked botw and take influences from it. It's just a matter where imo, being influenced by a game doesn't mean having every element from it. Just like how botw itself supposedly has influences from skyrim etc. You can execute aspects from botw without being a seamless open world. It's also very clear from other trailers now it's influenced by games like monster hunter particularly I would say world with the "you are venturing into an uncolonized land with an expedition group and will study the local fauna" aspect. I have no doubts a subset of folks who liked botw and other games it will be influenced by will like Legends, so I don't necessarily think they have misled with how they have portrayed the game. Could they have from the onset said more specifically how the world is laid out? probably, but this is also a factor where, some of these distinctions matter more for fans and enthusiasts than actual game devs when it comes to execution of vision and intent.
As someone who is a fan of both MonHun and Xenoblade, this style of structure sounds really good to me.
they can always do level scaling and/or caps. like how competitive is always at lvl 50.
