Why The Best Open World Is A (slightly) Closed World

Support the channel on Patreon!: Follow me on twitter!: Check out Codex Entry: Open World games have been in a bit of a rut for years now, ever since Far Cry 3 set the tone for the genre more than a decade ago, every single open world game has been held prisoner by a single feature: Towers. The bane of exploration-lovers everywhere. Or are they? The Architect has seen a fair share of towers, and they’re starting to doubt whether towers really are at fault for bad open worlds after all - hell, even Elden Ring has them, and that game has a great world! After saddling up and exploring the worlds of Hyrule, The Mojave and now the Lands Between, finally the secret of good world design is within grasp... It’s just inside this innocent looking chest, I swear... You Saw: Halo Infinite - 2021 Batman Arkham Knight -2015 Horiz