The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you want to have an enormous open world, some copy-pasting will be necessary, even for games with huge budgets. Tweak the AI for one so the moment the goblins see you they all leap out of it and rush you. Each time you find a “Geoglyph," you watch a cutscene which shows a sliver of what happened to Zelda.

Cutscenes 92

Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 92

Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The scripting on WoC made for better combat too, because you weren’t stuck with just the built-in combat AI for your enemies. AI had more sophisticated combat tactics, because designers could add fresh behaviors to the monsters. Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. A bit of ACTS scripting from LegendMUD.

Sandbox 59

Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 59

Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.

Open World 130

Open World NPC Cutscenes Terrain 130

Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. There's no Destiny-like seamless matchmaking and no Left 4 Dead style good-enough bot AI. But not really.

Studios 246

Studios Co-op Open World Cutscenes 246