{"id":159,"date":"2022-05-17T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/the-next-decade-of-open-world-games-is-going-to-suck\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:13:43","slug":"the-next-decade-of-open-world-games-is-going-to-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/the-next-decade-of-open-world-games-is-going-to-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Decade Of Open World Games Is Going To Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/the-next-decade-of-open-world-games-is-going-to-suck_62836745ec7f5-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/the-next-decade-of-open-world-games-is-going-to-suck_62836745ec7f5-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/the-next-decade-of-open-world-games-is-going-to-suck_62836745ec7f5-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/elden-ring\/\">Elden Ring<\/a> is going to change the face of video games forever. While few will adopt the mega-tough boss battles or obtuse menu systems, and might not even be prepared to trust their playerbase enough with such a hands off approach to storytelling, Elden Ring\u2019s influence will still be felt. After years of growing increasingly frustrated and bored with open world maps stuffed with quest markers, Breath of the Wild came along and offered more freedom than we\u2019d seen before on such a grand scale. It\u2019s why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/ghost-of-tsushima\/\">Ghost of Tsushima<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/horizon-forbidden-west\/\">Horizon Forbidden West<\/a>, both great games in their own right, feel dated and played-out. While titles like Genshin Impact, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and even Forbidden West with its gliding and climbing have taken inspiration from Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring is the first to build on BOTW\u2019s foundations, not just steal flowers from its garden. Given both are critical darlings, that means we\u2019re going to feel their influence for the next decade or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/next-decade-open-world-games-elden-ring-breath-of-the-wild\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elden Ring is going to change the face of video games forever. While few will adopt the mega-tough boss battles or obtuse menu systems, and might not even be prepared to trust their playerbase enough with such a hands off approach to storytelling, Elden Ring\u2019s influence will still be felt. After years of growing increasingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}