Image: Rockstar – Quadrupeds and Bipeds are mighty different beasts. Horses instill a sense of speed and freedom in the player that drives home the idea that they really can go anywhere. This also means that anything that catches the player’s eye – that crumbling tower on the hill, that dimly-lit shack in the woods – becomes a detour they can reach and check out within a few seconds rather than something to ignore for now and try to find again later. Suddenly, the whole world opens up.īeing on horseback allows a player to move freely and quickly across a digital landscape, gallop across mighty plains, and leap over crags and crevices, in order to reach their destination ten times faster than walking or running. Give the player a horse, however, and suddenly that daunting expanse between them and their next objective is no longer quite so daunting.
But if the distance between objectives is too great, most players will stick to the beaten path and do whatever they can to minimize that journey. Remove a player’s ability to fast-travel and they will be forced to make their own way across the world and, hopefully, engage with what they encounter along the way. So without something to draw them towards these distractions, many players will choose to ignore them in favor of the main story.
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As developers attempt to cram them full of things to do to inflate playtime and keep players coming back for more, these worlds can feel a little overwhelming. Image: Rockstar – There’s a whole world out there.
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