{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "MGS Phantom Pain's free on PS4 this month, so playing that. It's striking how much \"open world\" is its own genre that's quietly...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/166911942863/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/166132918318/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>MGS Phantom Pain\u2019s free on PS4 this month, so playing that. It\u2019s striking how much \u201copen world\u201d is its own genre that\u2019s quietly but TOTALLY indebted to MMORPGs, particularly WoW</p>\n<ul>\n<li>you ride a mount</li>\n<li>collecting plants and animals and minerals</li>\n<li>around an open world full of enemies you see before you aggro</li>\n<li>or sneak by</li>\n<li>to collect treasure</li>\n<li>for the townbuilding and crafting money sinks cause why not?</li>\n<li>but sometimes you\u2019re in a special enclosed space for a scripted run</li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n<p>i waved this off for a bit but it\u2019s really getting to me now</p><p>how I\u2019m pretty sure aggro radius scales with level, and how much they encourage you to play old content (missions/dungeons)</p><p>by way of bonus challenges for completionists and an even more streamlined way that it leads to the new gear you want</p><p>it\u2019s like the abortive gear level/instancing of AC:French Revolution finally met&hellip; ohh, whatever point I was trying to make GTA Online made it already</p><p>but I haven\u2019t even gotten to the stage where the game apparently becomes an online townbuild/attack/defend resource gatherer with a real-money currency to hurry things<br/></p><p style=\"\">which sounds so on the nose it might be a Kojima tease no matter how much the mechanics suggest it</p><p style=\"\"><br/></p><p>the outlier as open world games go is Just Cause, which somehow took its physics energy seriously enough to invent a \u201cphysics\u201d base to match Skyrim\u2019s \u201cRPG\u201d and Destiny\u2019s \u201cFPS\u201d and MGSV\u2019s \u201cStealth\u201d and Zelda\u2019s whatever</p><p>coulda been HL3, just saying<br/></p>"}