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[Panajev2001a]

That article is a load of nonsense.

One of the best features of the original was how alive and dangerous the open world felt? Are you fucking kidding me. It’s the most barebones of all Sony open world games and that’s saying something. It should have been a linear game. That’s how shitty the open world was. A fox to pet. Yay. Beautiful grass. Get real.

If this game doesn’t drastically improve the liveliness of the open world then we have another 6/10 game on our hands.

Nah, cannot agree one iota with you here. The open world of the original was one of its best qualities (of a great game to boot). It integrated well with the story (Mongol invasion of a fierce island, local resistance, high chance of meeting enemies and/or people in understandable distress). It oozed atmosphere and charme. Character well written overall and wind and birds used as sublte way points in one wonderful backdrop after the next.

Sometimes less is more and stuffing it with even more stuff to suit all tastes would have ruined a very good balance they achieved. Still, one of the best open world adventuring I have ever played.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Chasing a Fox wasn’t a quest though. It was a non mandatory side activity to increase your charm slots. Much like the bow challenges and bamboo slicing activities.

I thought the side quests themselves were very well written. Gameplay wise I’m not sure how much variety you can inject in a game starting a Samurai.

Indeed, but people that want to try to nitpick mountains out of molehills will… do that…

 

[nial]

Ghost will probably be March or April. September the latest.

Nah, that's a bit too early.
I'm expecting Lost Soul Aside to be March, DS2/Convallaria in April/May (could be either for each one) and Yotei in June or July.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Nah, that's a bit too early.
I'm expecting Lost Soul Aside to be March, DS2/Convallaria in April/May (could be either for each one) and Yotei in June or July.

I expect Ghost to be October at the earliest, and may slide into 2026 if a certain game comes out in that timeframe.

Death Stranding 2 is a summer/fall game as well. Earliest I expect is July, but realistically September.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Horizon is developed in the Netherlands, though?

Huh, Sony set HFW to release in February when Elden Ring was planned for January, then it was ER that got delayed to February.

Devil's in the details huh?

 

[nial]

I expect Ghost to be October at the earliest, and may slide into 2026 if a certain game comes out in that timeframe.

Death Stranding 2 is a summer/fall game as well. Earliest I expect is July, but realistically September.

I'm just not expecting any of SIE's big budget games to release near GTA6's launch.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Nah, cannot agree one iota with you here. The open world of the original was one of its best qualities (of a great game to boot). It integrated well with the story (Mongol invasion of a fierce island, local resistance, high chance of meeting enemies and/or people in understandable distress). It oozed atmosphere and charme. Character well written overall and wind and birds used as sublte way points in one wonderful backdrop after the next.

Sometimes less is more and stuffing it with even more stuff to suit all tastes would have ruined a very good balance they achieved. Still, one of the best open world adventuring I have ever played.

Yeah the Open World was one of the better ones. A lot better than Ass Creed. Beautiful, soothing open world, with small things to discover.

It's not on the level of Zelda or Elden Ring, or RDR2.....I am hoping that GoY has more "emergent" cool things to discover that are distinctive and give the open world more character/

 

[Skifi28]

Ghost will probably be March or April. September the latest.

I feel like the date would have been announced already if it was that soon, unless it's coming any day now.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I feel like the date would have been announced already if it was that soon, unless it's coming any day now.

They've been pretty good at announcing some dates a month or two out.

 

[LordCBH]

GoT was my 2020 game of the year. I expect nothing less from GoY

 

[Skifi28]

They've been pretty good at announcing some dates a month or two out.

 

[jason10mm]

Can I use her to seduce my enemies

A Geisha minigame would be pretty dope

 

[SJRB]

That article is a load of nonsense.

One of the best features of the original was how alive and dangerous the open world felt? Are you fucking kidding me. It’s the most barebones of all Sony open world games and that’s saying something. It should have been a linear game. That’s how shitty the open world was. A fox to pet. Yay. Beautiful grass. Get real.

If this game doesn’t drastically improve the liveliness of the open world then we have another 6/10 game on our hands.

Yeah the article makes things needlessly inflammatory with dumb statements like these. GoT is excellent on its own without straight up lying about its shortcomings.

The "open world" was beautiful, yes. Visually striking to an extreme degree, it was like a painting in motion. Fun to navigate through because of how beautiful it looked. But alive? Dangerous? Once you realize the spawn rates/distances it becomes overwhelmingly mundane. There's literally nothing happening aside from the bird or the fox and the patrols that spawn at set intervals.

It is ultra barebones, maybe even the most barebones open world I've ever played aside from Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

 

[Skifi28]

There's literally nothing happening aside from the bird or the fox and the patrols that spawn at set intervals.

Hey, you forgot the bears!

 

[cash_longfellow]

Ghost of Tsushima with guns?

So we can do horse-mounted drive by's?

The best thing about Battlefield 1

 

[Aion002]

Will it star Tom Cruise tho

He is on another PS5 exclusive:



/s

Anyway, I am extremely hyped for this.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Hope you can put some Jesuit missionaries to the sword.

 

[Boss Man]

I enjoyed feeling like I was participating in a historical event in the first game. Bummed they decided to make the samurai a lady bc “womyn r physically strong warriors too” or whatever retard political beliefs drive these decisions.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Edo period? Wasn't this when Japan had settled most civil wars and then murdered any foreigners until uncle Sam sailed in with big guns and said open the fuck up.

 

[saintjules]

I feel like the date would have been announced already if it was that soon, unless it's coming any day now.

Maybe they do something at the next SoP. That's still supposedly rumored for February right?

 

[DinoD]

Surprise!

 

[Skifi28]

Surprise!

 

[NeonDelta]

Unexpected dangers can only mean one thing

 

[Shaki12345]

GoT is just as bland of a game as any Assassin's Creed. Plastic NPC's, horrible copy paste side missions with no character or soul and a main story that could have been written by the average highschool student.

The game has charm and ambiance (audio / visual) and the fighting is nice, but the rest is uninspired bloat in disguise.

But now with GoT 2 we have guns. Wow, guns! So original.