Watch Dogs: Legion
An open-world action game where you can recruit and play as almost any character.
Where Watch Dogs: Legion comes up1 episode or test
- Structural overhaul of the game
- Focus on meaningful emergent stories
- Generates narratives
- Recruit and play almost any character
- Surface-level borrowing
- Lacks structural depth
Brown: these things can't touch Mordor for narratives
From Mark Brown on Mordor's Nemesis system
What was said about Watch Dogs: Legion
Play as Anyone borrowed the Nemesis idea but stayed surface-level. Watch Dogs: Legion lets you recruit and play almost any character, but it lacks the structural overhaul and the focus on meaningful emergent stories that make Mordor's Nemesis system work. Mark Brown says it cannot generate narratives the way Mordor does.
The lesson is not to bolt a story system onto a game without structural depth. Brown's verdict: "these things just can't touch Mordor when it comes to generating narratives."
How the Nemesis System Creates Stories
Its Play as Anyone feature borrows the Nemesis idea but stays shallow. It lacks the structural overhaul and the focus on emergent stories.
Play as Anyone borrowed the Nemesis idea but stayed surface-level. Watch Dogs: Legion lets you recruit and play almost any character, but it lacks the structural overhaul and the focus on meaningful emergent stories that make Mordor's Nemesis system work. Mark Brown says it cannot generate narratives the way Mordor does.
The lesson is not to bolt a story system onto a game without structural depth. Brown's verdict: "these things just can't touch Mordor when it comes to generating narratives."
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