All I asked was how it was objectively better How are you measuring that?
....lenght
Sure. It's not just about the lenght of something but the content and it's quality. But I thought that was obvious.
A lot of games have big areas and terrain to explore. But what's the point in roaming the pixelated maps of Thunder Brigade for hours in your hover tank ? ^^
If I didn't make it clear in my earlier post, I meant the level of sophistication, impact and quality when I listed points like game design, mechanics, content, story writing, I'll also add character progression which is very important, freedom, choices and decisions you are offered as player, that influence the game and it's outcome, and also influence future game development. Aka in short the quality it offers as not just open world RPG but as a game in general.
Going by those measurements and impact, yes absolutly.
You mentioned historical/game dev impcat.
Witcher 3 set a higher standard just in terms of story telling and quests especialy when it comes to open world games, and that's not just my subjective view or opinon.
For example, back in 2017 or earlier, EA openly stated that they would make their newest Mass Effect title ( Andromeda ) similar to Witcher 3 in regards to quests and sidequests, because they had learned from the mistakes of other games where quests were not as meaningful. So W3 factualy inspired the developers of another great franchise, which is Mass Effect, to improve upon. Androma obv didn't exactly turn out to be the greatest title in the franchise, but that impact is a fact.
Mass Effect: Andromeda will have 'meaningful' sidequests akin to The Witcher, says game producer
Mass Effect Andromeda Will Have Witcher-Like Meaningful Side Quests
People also argue that AC:O was heavily inspired by Witcher 3, and I totaly agree with that assessment judging by some eary similarites. This is a more positive example.
'Assassin's Creed Origins' Learned Important Lessons From 'The Witcher 3' And 'Dark Souls'
But I won't go as far as others who claim it's a "rip off", because it also borrowed elements from ME.
btw, you misspelled "analyze"
Yeah, I know that I have to improve on my English. How is your Georgian btw ? : P
you probably wouldn't have
Sure it's not the same level of impact as the first ever game in history had on all other games that ever followed, but if we measured everything by just that ( like in some of the articles quoted ), than you are probably right in that those games had the greatest impact of all. But we are not talking just about historical impact and wheter the first ever steam powered vehicle was more important than the latest achievements in vehicular technology.
But we
are in fact looking at a product that directly impacted the development of other, and competing products, in the same time period.
So in this case, we can add historical/game dev impact to the list as well, which is not a small feat. Those are at least two big franchises it impacted.
Sim City and the Sims was a completely groundbreaking franchise
No doubt.
The Witcher 3 is also regarded groundbreaking and inspired other games.
.....who think it means something.
It was one of the most anticipated games because of it's successful prequel, and I mentioned earlier Witcher 2 subjectively did some things better even.
Exactly what greater value do the scores of a couple or more dozen critics have compared to tens of thousands of "non-critic" consumers ? every individual human is a critic of the product they buy, consume and rate. "Critics" are just as opinionated as everyone else.
Are the masses of consumers who gave Witcher 3 a higher rating than anything listed on the first page of such IGN "Metascore" that "critics" rated with +90, to be treated like they didn't know what they were doing, and are just heavily biased towards Witcher ? that's not objective.
But what
is a fact, is that the user score on those sites, lists, and distribution platforms rank the game one of the highest, and that is objectively true.
Wheter the first ever pixels on a screen, influenced game development aeons ago is not a measurement for the quality of more sophisticated games.
Besides I just provided an example of how Witcher 3 directly influenced the development of at least one other great sophisticated franchise in the same time period. I didn't even consider that something to measure modern games because every single product was inspired or influenced by something else ( first of all, if given, by their source - which in this case is literature ), and has to stand on it's own and compete with others. But since you brought it up, there you go.
I know a TON of games that were better in every way than the GOTY for their release year. I also know studios that deliberately time their releases to have weaker competition for GOTY for the boost it gives sales.
Oh sure, no doubt. Me too. But Witcher 3 def deserves the praise and it's not just GOTY, and on top of that it was highly regarded despite it's sloppy release, and long before the DLCs came out and the devs smoothed everything out.
It's entirely possible that if Fallout had listed as an FPS that it would have won, but Bethesda chose to categorize it as RPG and put it head to head with Witcher.
Maybe. But that's mere speculation, and well, it is an RPG so : P
. Looking forward to the game.
