BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
Player agency is not gaming's only valuable currency, and can often be to its detriment
You're viewing a single thread.
The corridor was only physical. Bioshock's appeal was not where the player could go, but how the player overcomes the obstacles along the way.
Something a lot of games forget. Customization and personalization is more of a dress up sim anymore, strategy is all 'the meta' and build paths and efficient strategies. I miss OG Deus Ex where I dunno what I'm doing but suddenly I found a vent and now I'm hacking a turret to kill the robot that beats my ass. Didn't know any of that was possible five minutes before.
Games are all predictable, the systems are the same and the same engines/obsession with graphics make a lot of games play the same. The Witcher, Last of Us, Fallen Order/Survivor and Hogwarts Legacy they all feel the same in body language, controls, interactions, it's stale.
Might I suggest playing some modern CRPGs? Rogue trader and Wasteland 3 have a good bit of that, though im pretty sure everyone ends up turning Abelard into an Angron tier melee combatant in Rogue Trader.
I hear you, but real quick for any developers reading this, do NOT take this to mean you should completely remap the controller so absolutely no muscle memory from every other game carries over.
And give me a goddamn jump button.
absolutely 100%