- Dec 24, 2018
- 2,270
- 13,605
And Ocean's got enough to do with getting all his renders cooked. The best thing about choices like this is that the different paths actually fel different. Most RPG/adventure style games have one main plot, with peripheral info that broadens the story. Already through the choices, but following one person, you miss out on a lot of back story. I'm sure we'll find out about Nia or Zara, or Ceril in different ways, but I think it's possible to actually miss all of the details about Melanie so far, if you're not curious. Nami's statement about Nika having been charged in the past is another great example - everyone's so caught up in Siegbert they forget they could just avoid the cat by not goin gon the raid.You do talk some absoluite tosh. NO INCEST!!!
This completely, nothing in free roam cannot be done with simple choices and flags. Sit with someone, the other option is no longer available etc. Free roam and sandboxes are for people who want to make a game but don't actually have the real skills or dev team behind them and/or like to waste people's time to account for a lack of actual story content.
By the time free roam and all the pointless crap is coded and tested etc, you could have made another 50 renders to actually progress your story.
What I'm hoping for is much more of this branching content. Sure we'll likely all get to the same point by the end of the next release (I doubt Ocean will do different cliffhangers for different paths) but we'll all know different things.