Is witcher 3 responsible for RPG elements oversaturation in most games?

Hello friends

I have been noticing one thing. after the huge success of witcher 3. many developers are now adopting 2 things. open world and RPG elements in every game. the grinding, levelling up, damage sponges is getting norm now.

there has been many times when certain game get blame for runing other genre like COD ruined FPS and gears of war ruined TPS by introducing cover system and thus killed TPS for good.

when ubisoft released assassins creed and it success, they decide to turn all thier games into AC clone as a result far cry, ghost recon, watch dogs become same open world games with far cry taking place as assassins creed of FPS. before that ubisoft used to released quality titles like old splinter cell.

now ubisoft also decide to turn thier flagship series into RPG by introducing RPG elements into assassins creed and make it even worse than it was before as they want to make thier own version of witcher 3. infact RPG assassins creed made originals feel like masterpiece. then far cry also add RPG elements and even wolfenstein added RPG elements.

so my friends is this highly critical acclaim game to be blame for introducing RPG elements into almost every game? lets discuss in civilized way my friends.

No. The publishers/developers that keep pushing this design are.

No

The best thing to happen to assassins creed

Even more RPG elements in the next instalment and with the Viking setting

Day one for me

This.

Frustrate the player, waste their time.

Even games like SFV have this garbo latched on like a blood sucking tick.

Nah. Plenty of things I dislike about TW3, but not gonna put that blame on it.

RPG elements creeping into other genres has been going on for years, steadily increasing.

Same with open world design.

These things were in motion well before TW3, and there wasn't some surge post TW3.

/voteban ghosts4ever

I think in the case of AC specifically it might be, but things have been heading in that direction for a while

but after post TW3 we have seen more and more games adopting this lazy and tedious design.

we fans have been waiting for pure action game like Max payne 3 but we wont because developers are only interested in open world and RPG.

but before TW3 we have seen more and more games adopting this lazy and tedious design.

even wolfenstein youngblood is now more RPG. disgusting

see cup/hanky, this is why im looking forward to Halo now as its safe from RPG and open world crap.

Is there like, a group or Discord or something?

Who are these people, Ghost?

Ill take open world over levels / stages any day of the week... and twice on tuesday.

dafuq, you just call Cup... hanky?

Anyways ghosts, best to just stop expecting great things from AAA Hollywood. Those games don't even register as part of the same hobby for me anymore, who gives af what's happening with Ass Creed?

Occasionally I'll put up with a bit of nonsense to enjoy an otherwise great game. Stuff like Nioh and its loot shit for example. But every game I've played this year has been good shit, and none of it had jank open world or rpg elements.

its something only me and cup can understand actually.

lol probably best that way

and no wonder why i lost interest in every game other than FPS nowadays. last non FPS game i enjoyed was jedi fallen order but then again game was also full of upgrades and damage sponges enemies. some light RPG elements. but still RPG elements i hate.

theres the reason why only non FPS game would interest me is next Batman game.

This. Open-world design being everywhere started years before TW3 and RPG elements being everywhere also started shortly before.

No. Action games and action-adventures were already pushing RPG elements long before TW3. COD4 had already popularised RPG elements in FPS back in 2007. And before that, DMC popularised RPG elements in action games back in 2001.

For sure man.

If we just disregard what all these other genres are doing, and ignore the fact that there are other action games way better than Batman, that also do it with less padding.

Yeah, absolutely.

Very homoerotic my freind.

Like Bush and Blair without the war crimes.

lmao

Please point to location on the doll where RPG touched you.

You are almost making it seem like bad developers are responsible for bad games :O

@ghosts4ever said:

I'm beginning to see why you hate so many games.

Your PC is total crap.

@R4gn4r0k

😂😂😂

Bro I saw this and was like what the fu...lmfao.

so a game with lets see i put in 300 hours in witcher 3 and still not done is a lazy and tedious. but yet a 6 hour game like max payne is not? making an open world game with hardrive is a feat in it's self. just that part alone is not lazy. if you played witcher 3 you will realize there side quest are different from one another. even has a story behind them. now if you said assassin creed then maybe i would have giving you credit.

nope

No, and as long as they are correctly implemented, I welcome it.

Nope! Destiny, Division, Borderlands did.

@R4gn4r0k: lol. That's all I could think of seeing this. Where did that screenshot come from? Looks like very low settings, and still getting the framerate of a damn movie. Gross.

Looks like one of them "lower than lowest" settings.

Not even the console version looks that bad xD

The game is a masterpiece the DLC was better than most open world games this generation.

@R4gn4r0k: seriously, is that a mod that makes Witcher 3 run in the Witcher 1 engine? Lol

This is the answer.

No

@ghosts4ever: why did you post the worse screenshot posible? We all get it you only like fps that are 6 hrs long and the best game ever is doom eternal. All other games are shit.

I'd dislike TW3 as well if it looked like someone smeared vaseline on my screen.

I blame desire to pad campaign lengths.

No, game developers have been trying to ruin good gameplay with rpg elements for ages. The Witcher 3 didn't influence shit.

Honestly loved TW3 not sure why you put so much blame in it when most of the evolutions that came from TW3 were pretty positive ( non linear side quest, better world building etc.

What do you mean by RPG elements?... And how exactly is it ruining games?

You are the definition of click bait, you title your threads with a point but then your opening comment on the subject goes no where.

The irony is that The Witcher 3 was a massive step up from the lazy, generally awful design of other popular open world games and RPGs.

The Witcher 3 showed that you can fill an open world game with content that is every bit as good as the best linear games. It was revolutionary, and there hasn't been an open world game since then that has been at the same level of quality.

Nope, they have been here long before the witcher .

And no the rpg elements are a plus for a game not the other way around imo.

Your love for Fps is fine, but come on, no need to expect all games to carry up that design.

Diversity is good even if you happen to hate it!!!!

@R4gn4r0k said:

@ghosts4ever said:

I'm beginning to see why you hate so many games.

Your PC is total crap.

Geez I'm no graphics whore but if that's what casualbandodger4ever is sporting then my X shits all over it and it will only get worse when the SeX comes out, and he says Halo is being built for the PC, not his PC lol, what a fucking idiot he is lol.

No.

The Witcher 3 was if anything trying to push games in a direction where the side content open world stuff had more quality to them. Sadly games like that are still very rare.

Most of the moving towards open world RPG stuff in the modern era is usually credited to Skyrim more than anything. Remember how every game was seemingly inspired by that game?

And for the record.

Open World Pseudo-RPGs are not even the most oversaturated thing. Tribal Wars clones are. Especially with Clash of Clans booming like it did.

That crap started way earlier than The Witcher 3. Are you fifteen years old?

Big negative there chief. If we're talking strictly presentation, writing, n story quality. Sure, props to CDPR. The playing it part even if we ignored Geralts combat kit, would not stack up favorably to the best linear games.