Too many Sandbox games?

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Isaac Dodgson

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runtheplacered said:
I've never heard anyone try to pretend Bioshock and Mass Effect are sandbox games. I would say they most certainly are not. (both very fun games, though)
I was talking about games that pretend to give you choices, not sandbox games...the whole post was to outline the difference in sandbox games and games with choices, and how currently a lot of games come up short when it comes to these things...
 

ElArabDeMagnifico

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Eh, the only true sandbox game we will get this year is Spore anyway.

Maybe Fallout 3 if Bethesda doesn't crash that plane straight into the ground.

Also, I prefer the "This way or That" method as long as there is a lot of variety of ways to tackle an objective, like Crysis did (until about 3/4ths into it), and hell, even MGS4 is that way too, but, right now I'm replaying it on extreme trying to get no alerts and kills so there goes my "sandbox" experience.
 

mwhite67

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Lets do away with choices and go back to side scrolling left to right platformers those are the only true games if you ask me.
 

stompy

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Well, no, I don't think that there are too many sandbox games. Maybe it's because I ignore games that I'm not interested in, but I don't know.
 

1trakm1nd

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I don't call them "sandbox" games mostly b/c that seems to deminish the size of said game. It's a "Free Roamer" or just a "Roamer". I like the lack of boundaries, MOST of the time. Games like Oblivion are meant to run around aimlessly for no purpose except to throw the occasional horse down the occasionally high mountain tops. But some games take freedom and inflate it like a ballon animal, the bigger it gets the more ridiculous looking it becomes. Take for example Crackdown, this was NOT a bad game persay; however the use of overzealous status enhancers for an rpg feel made the game a little (and im being very generous) unbalanced. Running cross town shooting whatever looks funny is one thing, but bounding across 4 city blocks with one leap is a little...off.
 

FoolKiller

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Personally i think that there aren't necessarily too many 'sandbox' games in existence. I don't even mind if some of them are not the greatest quality since the efforts of some of the smaller companies give ideas and competition for others to work hard. My only pet peeve is when some or all of the sandbox gaming is thrown in as a selling point when the game really didn't require it. Some companies don't realize that a linear game is not necessarily a bad game.