What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man?
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JC3 is fun to just spend hours dicking around in, or seriously investing it with the gameplay. It's honestly amazing how good of a game they made around the concept of "blow up some shit, and then blow up some more shit"
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
Prototype 1 & 2, you'll love the glide movement
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maybe not quite what you're looking for but the shadow of mordor series has a liiiitle bit of that. obviously not as city-focused as arkham or spider-man.
Your character becomes a double jumping revenge ghost sprinting through the environment pretty early in the second one.
Good suggestion.
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Prototype was my jam back in the day, since I had Xbox and not a PS3 and couldn't play Infamous.
Having played Infamous finally on PS5... Prototype is actually better anyway and it's insane how it was overshadowed by Infamous to begin with.
Ahh good old times, jumping from building to building like hulk. It had good story too which I didn't appreciate the first time I played cause I was young and couldn't understand it fully.
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the story is much better in jc2 but it's so hard to go back to with how well executed the movement was in 3. it's a shame they skimped on the writing.
like, the final boss in 2 is a fist fight on a flying cluster of ICBMs. the final boss in 3 is... a helicopter.
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
Mirror's Edge
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Mirror's Edge
I haven't played it in 15 years or so, but I think it wasn't open-world?
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I tried it years ago and soon saw that you need to start paying or progress gets difficult. Immediately deleted it.
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There's so much I want to like about Warframe, but last time I tried it I couldn't get any sense of what a new player's supposed to do to start progressing, or to get the story in a comprehensible way. The build timers also made me sad. I got all the parts, just give me the Rhino.
Still though, "We All Lift Together" is a certified banger.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
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.
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I haven't played it in 15 years or so, but I think it wasn't open-world?
That's true, I missed that
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
Not sure if it counts as open world, but a souls-like platformer with some great movement is Blue Fire
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I haven't played it in 15 years or so, but I think it wasn't open-world?
Mirrors edge catalyst then.
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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
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
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.
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Unfortunately Jet Set is not sold on steam anymore
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.
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
Dying Light's movement is phenomenal, a must play IMO due to its awesome parkour movement systten.
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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!
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
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.
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I want to grapple, glide, wall run, etc around a big open world. What are some games you think are fun for that?
I picked up Sunset Overdrive on a sale, and the rail grinding is fine I guess, but it's just not clicking with me.
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.
