Open world games have become so common because they're easier to shit out

[Stupid Clown]

The reason open world games have become so common isn't because because they're simply "le next step in video game evolution." Nor is it a product of artistic vision. The reason why there's so many more open world games now is because they're easier to make. Notice that most of the open world games produced by large companies are empty landscapes with a few copy pasted objectives, dungeons, etc... etc...
I assume that for larger companies this takes lesser effort (hell they can even use ai to procedurally generate it) than crafting tight well paced linear levels.

It also allows them to artificially inflate game length so they can brag their game is 70 hours long. When in reality it's 70 hours of walking and copy pasted content.

This has become such a common occurrence now that even cartoon platformers like sonic and Mario are doing it. The next Doom is going to be open world so expect this in regards to it as well. It's a shame normies are so retarded that they actually gobble this slop up.

 

[Skelly]

When it works it works well but yeah they're just copying the trend in pursuit of the infinite content cash cow without understanding why open-world games worked so well

 

[starystulejarz]

Open world hits that primal instinct that men had for thousands of years, we want to travel around the globe, conquer it and gather resources, fight against wild animals, kill natives and steal shit from them. Sadly most of the time they are extremely lazy and there are barely anything to discover it's as you just explained it's a procedural crap.

Worst example how to do open world is Elden Ring, BOTW and Witcher 3 they have too much of procedural shit around the map without showing anything meaningful or have unique items to find.

Xenoblade games are also full of nothing absolutely nothing they made those huge worlds because they could but it doesn't mean they should at least with X you have mechs to fly around while other games have no excuse to exist in current state.