/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10797235
>bigger is not always better
>not always

And sometimes it IS better. Banjo-Tooie's problems are not because of its large size. Admittedly, the large size did not HELP Tooie's actual problems and Tooie being so large made the problems worse. But the problems do not COME from the large size, the huge worlds would be fine if the game was designed a bit smarter. The problems come from other poor design decisions, such as

>Maps are way larger than Banjo-Kazooie, but the main characters' default walking speed was not increased to match (a glaring problem, because Tooie also has lag)
>Areas are often confusingly laid out
>Music Notes are in bundles of 17, which means they cannot serve their intended purpose of a breadcrumb collectable that guides the player
>There is no Ratchet and Clank-style map to keep track of what areas you haven't visited yet
>The game throws too much information/tasks at you all at the same time, without any real tools to keep track of what you have or haven't done. If you put the game down for a week, you're FUCKED.
>Tooie does not fucking differentiate which collectables are unobtainable on the first visit and which aren't, which itself causes several mini-problems
>it trusts the player's sense of direction too much---a lot of people actually DON'T have naturally good sense of direction, and Tooie just straight up isn't designed to accommodate you if you're not naturally skilled with directions
>The content density is way lower than in Banjo-Kazooie. Still 10 Jiggies, but the worlds are huge. So there's long long long stretches of time where it feels like you make no progress. They needed more Jiggies per world (many of which being simple easily-obtained ones) or a new tertiary collectable in order for the maps to not be so empty
>It is too fucking slow. Just everything about it is way too fucking slow and takes way fucking longer than it needs to

Never forget what they took from you

>they took this from you.