Zelda Boss Teases A "Trick" For Handling Open-World Storytelling Issues

@khfreak9: Ya me too. I just plan on doing everything before beating the game. Pretty much what i do for most good games.

@dorog1995: more JRPGs and Action games such as Uncharted or The Last Of Us and not so much RPGs i mean does anyone give a shit about the main story in skyrim or fallout lol

@vid-lock: 'Open-world' means just a that, a large openly traversable world with no loading to interrupt or segment exploration. In that respect both Dark Souls and The Wind Waker are 'Open-world' games, and those two games couldn't be more different.

I think the real problem is that these days 'open-world' inevitably comes to mean the ubiquitous 'Ubisoft' genre of game. And it's the same dull game irrespective of whether you are a caveman fighting taming sabretooth tigers or an assassin racing through Paris. In these games it doesn't really matter where you go or how you get there as it's all the same thing after about an hour or two of gameplay.

Nintendo, however, looks to be taking a more unique approach to open-world design, that allows the player to be a bit more free form in how they explore and approach problems. And with ripe incentives to explore (decent upgrades for your character).

@vid-lock: Agreed, the problem is big game devs/pubs see that the open world games sell more, just like games with multiplayer do, so they tailor games to what shareholders think will sell more copies as well as their own research and past sales data.

It's the world we live in, every publisher want to sell 75 million copies like GTA 5, even if that's ridiculous.

@vid-lock: We already have Dying Light, which is a horror sandbox game. It looks really fun TBH

But no, you're not alone on this boat. I don't see why every game should be like that. Fetch quests in empty worlds. What else could a gamer want?

@tjb90: That'll happen when you only make 400k for the U.S.

@skip23: Yeah, and let's also hope it doesn't have the same mundane environments, horrible combat and bad pacing which the Witcher 3 had.

@lionheartssj1: I understood that reference!

@txuzai: Zelda is not a gnome!

@txuzai: Why even make such a statement when you've obviously never played a Zelda title before. Fanboys, lol.

@txuzai: It really sounds like you have been playing Mario and not Zelda....

@txuzai: "same enemy each game because the princess is in trouble."

So you never played a Zelda game, that's good!

@txuzai: ''none of the Zelda games have ever had a good story''

* rage intensifies *

@txuzai: You haven't played very many Zelda games have you?

@videogameninja: gravity rush 2 - ""i need to head over and see what lisa wants"" but it turns into ""i need to side quest and level up before i go to lisa"" -............""i need to speak to vogo urgently and find out why he needs me"" but that turns into ""i need to side quest again to level up then head to vogo""

final fantasy 15 - ""we must head to meet gladio sister"" - ""yeah but im gonna need to level up excuse me for a few hours while i hunt , fish for food, side quest fetch items for all these other people, THEN we will go and find your sister - she'll be fine""

and other games try to continue the main story but get the game over screen because not levelled enough that you have to take a step back to gain skills and experience (world of final fantasy)

@videogameninja: I like sidequests in games but I hope Zelda won't have that many sidequests that just makes you forget about the main plot... Like Skyrim did.

I played more than 100 hours on Skyrim, I've never in my life, beaten Alduin. After I killed the second dragon with Delphine, I just go around making all the side quests I can, that doesn't annoy me at all because that's what I like to do, but I feel like in Skyrim, it's something not important maybe because it's my first Elder Scroll while BOTW is not my first Zelda and I'm a huge fan of the series.

However, I'm curious about that thing that Aonuma did.

@txuzai: Not really, Witcher3 follow the same old "there's a mainline that you can avoid and forget and the sidequests" so when you are again in that main story you might feel like "what the **** is going on, OH RIGHT, i need to find her! silly me chasing monsters and such" so that is a problem.