/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3480815
>Imagine having the whole city be explorable

Fantastic. 7 houses and 3 shops. No thanks. You should never be able to access the whole city. And if you were to have access to specific parts of different districts, you shouldn't be able to travel seamlessly from one place to the other, because then you can't have the undefined distance between them, and it shrinks down the city.

Letting the player have seamless access to the entire City would be as stupid as implying that the first hub of Deus Ex Human Revolution is meant the represent the whole Detroit. No. It's just a tiny part of it, so that you won't turn a major metropolis into a small village Watch_Dogs style.

Deadly Shadows did it badly, but not horribly. It's the one instance where the loading screens are a good thing. You don't know how far away the districts are from one another. You don't get to walk across the Shale Bridge and witness the tiny ditch that the River is due to level design limitations.