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[Maria Caliban]

Mordaedil wrote...

Game Design is a delicate balance, and the Bioware team has had maybe, I dunno, 60-80 people working on it for a duration of 5 years? That's a long time and a lot of mouths to feed and they have way more writers than Bethesda has. They also have more voice-actor talents and more lines than Oblivion and Fallout 3 put together.

Over the last five years, there's been as few as 5 and as many as 140.

[Eshaye]

So in other words, an open world is just not the style of game DA is simply. Bioware vs Bethesda seriously what's the point? They both make good games, some of us appreciate one style more then the other, but it remains we have choices of RPG's and am for one grateful they don't try to copy each other.



You want to run around a lot and build yourself a house in the wild while saving the world from certain doom, go play Elderscrolls, you want an intensive story driven epic adventure go play anything Bioware.

[Mordaedil]

Of course, a lot of people are desiring some sort of middleground to that.

An open world with a few things to do and a story that is both fun and cohesive.

The closest we'll see of that is probably Fallout: New Vegas, that is a joint operation by both Bethesda and Obsidian. If you know maths, you'll know it'll be something to look out for.

[Doug84]

I think, really, there are places in this world for zoned and zoneless RPGs.



Zone RPGs tend to have more detail, and each area tends towards an increased degree of uniqueness as they have few areas to design in the same time and so can devout more energies to each zone. Also, by channeling the player's movement opinions, they can generally increase the quality of the plot as the possible routes a players can take are more finite and reduce the number of bugs as the engine has a better set of definitions.



Zoneless games tend to be more 'natural' and feature vast, impressive worlds and vistas. They tend to be more open to player actions and so forth.



Anyway, I think both games have there place in modern RPG world.