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Open world games are better than linear ones, says Ubisoft

One of the developers working on Far Cry 4 has said that he believes linear games that tell a set story in a set way will “suffer” in the current gaming market, and that games set in open worlds are the future.

That’s also the company line. Ubisoft has gone so far as to even bet the farm on it, with their heavy focus on open-world games with the likes of Assassin’s Creed: Unity, The Crew and Far Cry 4 headlining their development efforts.

Far Cry 4 developer Alex Hutchinson says the reason he feels open world is the future is because of the emergent gameplay that they make possible, where players have different experiences of the same game which they then share with one another over popular video-streaming services like Twitch, image-sharing services like Flickr and Twitter and others.

He told TotalXbox.com that “I think linear story games are really going to suffer in the modern marketplace. They’re already super high-quality, and we’re already seeing their audiences migrate to the big open world games. If I open my friends list and see everybody on the same mission, doing the same thing… I think that’s nowhere near as strong a sales pitch as opening your friends list and seeing 40 people doing completely different things.”

The gaming world is clearly a very different place now than it was even five years ago, with YouTube channels showing off what people get up to in games bringing in millions of hits and dollars. Without cool content to share, that wouldn’t be happening, making games that make those things possible more likely of commercial success, and therefore appealing for big companies to develop.

Ubisoft has a good point, then. I’m just happy they are throwing money into a concept that I’m personally in love with, not because I want to share every little thing I do but because I love the adventure and exploration that open world games offer, and I am really looking forward to seeing what that money has produced when I get to play Far Cry 4 and AC: Unity in November.

[Source – Totalxbox.com, Image – Far-Cry.Ubi.com]

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