Open World games have built up this reputation for being big, boring, and repetitive. And I’ve felt disheartened while playing a lot of them. But new games like Elden Ring have felt like a breath of fresh air for the genre.
Why is that? Why is Elden Ring or Breath of the Wild any different than games following the standard Ubisoft open world formula? Let’s try to answer that, and find out why I’m tired of open world games.
(Fun Fact: I say the word “world” 112 times in this video, for an average of once every 15 seconds)
