7 Games Where Your Actions Affect The Open World

open worlds and video games can be amazing huge detail but they don't always let you actually change it hi folks its Falcon and today I'm game makes seven games where your actions actually affect the open-world starting out with number seven its Far Cry twos fires now this was particularly cool on account it was procedural it's spread realistically and it took a really long time and a real large amount of passion from the person who was in charge of implementation the gameplay programmer who was actually in charge of this spent a year on the fire propagation alone that was like their main job for a year in this game they researched models of fire representation in other computer generated situations films to other video games to simple actual like just simulations for simulation sake there are actually quite a few experiments that are done inside computers before they attempt them at all but what it resulted in was this amazing feature especially for the time keeping in mind Far Cry 2 is like more than 12 years ago if I remember right and you had this feature you could actually use in strategy like let's say you wanted to make it so that somebody was stuck somewhere or you wanted to make an explosion bigger and and more difficult to deal with by having a fire roaring around it before you even start it or maybe you want to cause an explosion using fire it wasn't just a cool thing that changed the look it actually was used in the game and it's a really neat feature in that respect and number six fallout 3 actually let you blow up one of the earliest towns the game Megaton because you're sadistic I don't know but it completely changes how your playthrough plays out there's a fair amount of quests lenser just automatically failed when you do it but if you do it you get a suite in Tenpenny tower as well as new things to do now I want to just go ahead and and note just how it goes down if you do destroy a Megaton like if you want to see a rural town get nuked from a balcony in a luxury hotel that's what this is and also let's go ahead and say the guy egging you on to do it he is a little too turned on by the nuclear explosion he'll even just the thought of it like in the lead up he's gonna press the but then he starts calling it beautiful but like you're really just watching like a bunch of people get nukes to death but then again that's also kind of what fallout is trying to present to you not only the consequences of nuclear weapons but the kind of person that you would have to be in order to want to use them obviously it's strayed a bit from this theme in recent years but when they did it man did they do it good at number five this isn't really an open world but Dishonored two's clockwork mansion is perhaps one of the most ingenious levels ever designed it's just amazing it's this incredibly cool like convertible house basically how it works is the mansion has different states which you can switch it between which will make rooms pop out of walls it'll transform floors corners arrangements into something completely different and you're just like wow and not only is the animation beautiful but like just the conceptualization of how this would even work is it it's only weirdly mechanically beautiful there was also a mission in Dishonored 2 where the only tool you have is this weird time mirror thing I don't really know what to call it it has a shape that is very strange but you travel backwards and forth in time within the confines of the house you're in and everything you do in the past affects the future so you can change things pretty fundamentally and it's not just like you find the right set of things that you change in the past and then you get through it no there's actually several different configurations that allow you to do different things and it's honestly just brilliant like the game is brilliantly if you've never played Dishonored - let me just go ahead and say if you're somebody who likes first-person stealth with kind of weird powers and stuff play this game it's it's that completely it's the best version of that I'd even say at number four is hack and slash a game that probably should have been bigger than it was because it's a pretty sweet game but it had this very very cool very very interesting mechanic called the hack sword now what the hack sword did was not necessarily deal damage but when you connected it to an enemy meaning you hit them with it it allowed you to change the actual attributes of the enemy or whatever else you could hit it because it wasn't just enemies double fine actually explained it in a video prior to the game's released because they knew it was a cool enough feature that it might get some people in the door and I think it probably did because frankly it does kind of feel like hacking because you're adjusting the real attributes for the object you can make an enemy literally deal no damage you can make it so they have no health you can make it so they drop tons of Hearts when you destroy them by making their pelts zero again you don't actually deal damage with the sword you're only allowed to change attributes and in theory that makes you all-powerful now obviously there are limits not every single object allows you to do this like I said its enemies and a select amount of other objects but a lot actually does and being you pretty much have some degree of control over every interactive element in the game through this sword it's really something that lets you fundamentally shape your experience almost like a cheat except probably more powerful than most cheats because it's not single purpose though you can make an enemy just spin in circles forever it's borderline silly at number three grand theft auto vice city stories actually allowed you to buy land plots and develop them into well the features called empire building so if you can imagine what that means you basically build an empire I mean a business empire you can't like conquer by city or anything but I mean you can sort of create a combination of legal and illegal businesses and you'll be progressing the businesses through to three different stages small time medium venture and high-roller you'll also have to defend these businesses from right gangs which I'm just gonna go ahead and say I think it's just like a fantastic idea for a grand theft auto game and in my opinion probably is part of the impetus of like how they thought grand theft auto online might work I mean I'm not saying that's exactly how grand theft auto online turned out but you can kind of see how somebody would be thinking about this and be like what if you could do this two-player or three or four now I said early you can't conquer Vice City but you can't conquer individual businesses and just kind of steal them from rival gangs and develop them from whatever stays there into a bigger stage and make all of the money like I said there are legal businesses you can do this with whether it's you know some kind of store or if you want to get into the illegal like the prostitution rackets protection rackets selling drugs etc if you gain ahold of all 30 of the businesses in the city they stopped attacking though because you own everything at number two its grow home and its sequel grow up so you get to actually grow bean stocks and they affect the open world by well being grown I guess they actually genuinely reach above the atmosphere and your input is more or less centered on these goofy minigames which more or less give you the options to branch it off growth stems etc guram has one of these and grow up has several but that's not the only stuff that grows in there obviously growing is obviously a pretty distinct feature in the grow home and grow up games I mean they're both centered entirely around growing a plant to oxygenate a planet but you can also plant a bunch of little plants and that fundamentally changes things as well they affect navigation to say the very least all in all it's a cool game that's kind of weird and different and I would say the sequel is probably actually better than the first rather than worse which is always a good thing but it kind of just builds on the concept of the first makes it bigger and better check them out and finally at number one it's Alda breath of the wild and tarry town the town that you build yourself now this is one of those things where I'm not gonna tell you is like the most useful thing in the game it is I mean you can get some diamonds out of it you get an inn with unlimited access and shops selling items at good prices but it takes a lot of work and it's not just building the town it's also finding people who live in the town well you obviously need a lot of stuff like wood and then again you need people and the only people who you can recruit to live in this town our people around the world with names that end in Sun so like Grayson the Goron Feist and the Rideau merchant captain Ozora and several other people that I don't need to list because this is it's just a list of names like the town itself is really cool when it's completed it's actually kind of pretty but beyond that the location ooh you would have to pay a lot to live there it's on that kind of Island things up in the middle of the lake in a kala and by the time you get done doing it you won't even remember why you're doing it but you get a sense of accomplishment from it that you didn't expect you see that town in the zelda world in hyrule I built that feels good doesn't it that's all for today though but what do you think leave us a comment and let us know if you liked this video click like if you're not subscribed now's a great time to do so we upload brand new videos every day of the week the best way to see them first is a subscription so click Subscribe don't forget to enable all notifications and as always thank you very much for watching this video i'm falcon you can follow me on twitter at falcon hero and we'll see you 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Keywords: open world games, change game worlds, physically affect game worlds, alter the game world, alter the world in open world games, open world games with business, buy sell business in open world games, gta vice city stories, legend of zelda, far cry 2, fallout 3, gameranx, falcon

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 13 2020