What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man?

[gothic_lemons@lemmy.world]

Warframe has been making updates to the new player experience the last couple updates. Removing annoying grinds for things, changing things so new players are on more equal footing.

As for direction, I'll tell you what I wish I knew when I started.

1. Do the main storyline quests, they eventually unlock really cool rewards or weekly rewards opportunities that give all sorts of goodies. Some main story quests, are locked behind reaching certain planets on the star chart.

2. Complete the star chart, at your own pace. Getting to new planets is always good. By that I mean do every mission on a planet at least once. It will unlock the Steel Path, which is all the same shit with more and tougher enemies. Yay bigger horder! But the real reason to play it is steel path has double drop rates for resources and mods, so less grind.

3. Focus on fun. Don't overally focus on that next weapon or upgrade. It will still be there. Focus on the mission types you like. Grind at your own pace. If you a grind is really getting you down, go do something else. There is so much to do!

4. Understand the weird mastery system. Its a weird system at first. Basically, when you level up a weapon it does get better. It gets more upgrade capacity. You will need to go in and put in mods or upgrades to make the weapon more pew pew. There is more to the mastery system too but that is enough for now.

5. Trade shit on warframe.market. you can make so much plat to buy the stuff you want. I'm too the point where I mainly trade to buy cosmetic upgrades to look cool!

[aielman15@lemmy.world]

Dying Light had a mediocre story and repetitive gameplay, but the parkour mechanic was what made it interesting in the long run. Jumping around and climbing stuff was so satisfying.

As for side scrollers, Ori might not be the most difficult platformer I've ever played, but it certainly was the most fun, thanks in no short part to the fluid and dynamic movement of the main character. The camera is also very wide, to allow you to see the road ahead clearly, which is not something that all platformers do right, surprisingly enough.

[jumi@lemmy.world]

That's true, I missed that

[jacksilver@lemmy.world]

Not sure if it counts as open world, but a souls-like platformer with some great movement is Blue Fire

[Guest]

Mirrors edge catalyst then.

[Guest]

It's also a beautiful game. I would spend hours just zipping around and taking in the scenery. Thanks for the reminder that I need to replay JC3

[gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world]

This one is slightly less on target, but I'm really intrigued by a free demo I found this week called Exo Rally Championship. It's a rally car game, but set in exotic little exoplanetary environments. The movement looks really interesting especially because you're not just in a low-grav setting, you also have 360⁰ jets you can use to assist in steering or course-correction midair.

[skulblaka@sh.itjust.works]

BRC is an incredible replacement though. It's not quite the same as OG Jet Set Radio, and I think that's okay, but it is very clearly walking around with JSR's bones inside. Besides which it has probably my favorite video game soundtrack from the past decade.

[jakobfel@retrolemmy.com]

Dying Light's movement is phenomenal, a must play IMO due to its awesome parkour movement systten.

[jakobfel@retrolemmy.com]

I'd also say 2 is worth it. Not as good as 3 but still a load of fun... Ah man, I might have to reinstall, I almost forgot about it until you said this!

[renacles@lemmy.world]

Dying Light 2 has the best traversal I've seen in an open world, it had a very solid base coming from the original but it expanded it with new moves and tools.

[rozz@lemmy.sdf.org]

Tchia - it is a relaxing game, but I enjoyed it when I needed a break from intense games or intense life.

You can sail a boat, swim, glide, slide down hills, flip through the air AND transform into object and animals. When you are an object you can hop and throw yourself. When you are an animal you can do whatever they do, fly swim, run, see in the dark, poop on people, break coconuts, and more.

[agent_nycto@lemmy.world]

Not quite open world but I really like the movement in Crab Champions

[Guest]

Also came to suggest Warframe, but u beat me to it yeah it's slow to get going.. but that's the cool thing about it. You can drop it when it gets tedious and come back when you feel like it. Imho the long crafting times are good, it means you have to come back in 3 days and have something to look forward to. And instant gratification can get boring, so I really like the pacing.

[regdog@lemmy.world]

I would recommend Mad Max on Steam. It is a great open world game with much freedom of movement. Obviously, you will do more driving than walking, but the driving feels very satisfying.

The combat is mostly in Batman-style group brawls, where you have to dodge/block when a prompt appears over an enemy's head.

[Guest]

I recently learned that Mirror's Edge was written by Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Terry Prachett.