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Microsoft says the 2-3 year development cycles of big-budget games are over (www.axios.com)

submitted 1 year ago by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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[–] thegameoverguy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just want to know why everything has to be open world today. It seems like developers are just constantly increasing scope and making games almost too big now.

[–] Lund3@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

I can assure you it's not the developers changing the scope...

[–] bigpphaver@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Easier level design. I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of open world games just had their landscape generated and then slightly tweaked afterwards.