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Open world, whether it is in the world of dream memory or in reality, it can be said that it is a very popular game type for players.

In Dream Memory, open world games are mentioned.

Countless people have a masterpiece of their own in their hearts, "The Witcher 3", "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", "The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim", "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey", "Cyberpunk 2077", " Mount and Blade: Lord" and so on.

However, players who understand what kind of game the open world is, dare not say 100%, but at least 90% will mention a game manufacturer and their two games.

Rockstar Games, players affectionately call them R stars, and their two different series of open world games "GTA" series, and "Red Dead Redemption".

The former is a crime-themed game that took place in an urban setting, while the latter is a game that took place in the era of the Great Western Development.

If there is any similarity between the two, then both "GTA" and "Red Dead Redemption" are extremely great open world games, and at the same time, the players in the game are not upright characters.

They do good things, but more often than not they do bad things.

Unlike open world games like "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", players can have countless ways to play, and games that use game mechanics to generate more whimsy are different.

In fact, whether it's "GTA" or "Red Dead Redemption", it's more like an online game.

But the key is that the game can be said to have truly created a complete world, providing players with too many choices to play.

This gives players a feeling of incomparable freedom.

If you have to make a metaphor, the game "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" is like an undecorated house. It depends on your own choice how you want to decorate the house.

And "GTA" and "Red Dead Redemption", two games with different themes, are like giving you a dozen sets of renovated houses. No matter what style of decoration, you can find where you want to live. .

It can be said that the open worlds of the latter two games are piled up with countless details, so that players can truly feel that this is a large open world where they can do whatever they want.

Even if you have to force it to say it,

For players who don't know much about the game, they may think that "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" is not a real 3A masterpiece after first seeing and experiencing it.

But when faced with the latter two games, even if no one said it, they would have a concept.

This is the so-called 3A masterpiece.

A lot of time (a very long production cycle), A lot of resources (a lot of production resources), A lot of money (a lot of money).

This is the standard of 3A masterpieces that people often say. Of course, this is already an old calendar. With the development of game technology and the prosperity of the outsourcing industry, the production cycle of games has actually been greatly compressed.

The 3A standard currently on the market, and the 3A in the mouth of the players, refer more to the graphics of the main era, and the game development technology that is at the forefront.

Yang Chen also thought a lot about choosing "Red Dead Redemption" as the main game to be developed next.

Open world games, although there is already a "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" under development, but at that time as the escort work of the switch platform, Yang Chen did not plan to port it to the PC platform, at least in the Yang Chen didn't think about this before the switch platform became stable.

Secondly, Yang Chen wants to create a truly top-notch 3A masterpiece, not the kind of 3A masterpiece that everyone thinks currently.

Graphics, game engine, expression techniques, everything is at the forefront of game production.

In fact, there are still many games that Yang Chen likes in the dream memory. If it is done step by step, as long as the current Xingyun game is under Yang Chen's control, it can even be produced like an assembly line.

But Yang Chen didn't want to do this. He tried his best to make the game in his dream memory as perfect as possible, so that more players could experience the fun of it. This is what Yang Chen wanted to do.

As for making money, the period when Xingyun Games was first established and the period of development was the main thing, but now it is not the main thing, but incidental.

For the game "Red Dead Redemption", or this type of game, the gameplay is secondary instead.

The real key is whether the accumulation of details in this game and the shaping of the entire open world can make players feel a sense of immersion.

If you can't polish the world in the whole game extremely well, any gameplay and plot will be nonsense.

Is the gameplay of Red Dead Redemption good?

In fact, it can only be said to be rich enough, but it is not amazing;

Is the plot of "Red Dead Redemption" exciting?

The same can only be said to be excellent, but it is not really amazing;

But the key is that "Red Dead Redemption" has created a illusory western world of the last century for players, allowing players to truly integrate into it, and has a strong sense of immersion.

Just ask, if "Red Dead Redemption" becomes an ordinary 3D pixel-style game, and most of the details are deleted, then there will still be so many players while retaining the original plot. Immersed in it?

It's not to deny anything, but games of the type "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" are the performance of the top game skills.

Maybe it doesn't have an excellent gameplay, no amazing map level design, no epic plot and various unexpected flips.

But being able to create an open world that players can immerse themselves in is enough to make it a great game.

"How long will the new project development cycle take?" Xu Yu asked Yang Chen.

This is still very important for him to plan overseas Nebula games in the future.

"I'm not a god. This is the only thing that has been completed in the new project." Hearing Xu Yu's words, Yang Chen who was sitting in front of the computer angrily pointed the computer screen at Xu Yu, and pointed at the computer screen that was just opened. Create and name a blank folder and say.

How to develop "Wild Redemption: Redemption", as well as the related GDD, and the entire team.

He hasn't prepared these things yet, how could he give the development cycle.