If you've ever wondered why, every few years, lots of games start having similar mechanics, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield's♎ lead designer, Willജ Shen, has some answers for you.

Like any artistic medium, video games have trends. They're slower to catch on to new ideas than films or paintings because development takes half a dozen years, but the trends are easy to spoꦉt once you start looking.

In an interview with Kiwi Talkz, Shen explains: "All of a sudden, games like Skyrim and other open-world games really hit their stride with enough content to get past the tipping point where you can almost play it forever. That became the big trend that hit the games industry. You can see 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dark Souls and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring being a secondary trend: 🦩let's make third-person action combat really hard." 

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Soulslike boom has been big, with games like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stellar Blade, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nine Sols, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lies of P t💞aking inspiration from the tough combat. These games can also get away with being shorter because we'll all spend hours facing the same strong foes over and over again.

Shen mentions another trend: "Everything became survival crafting because 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft became super popular." I think of games like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Horizon Zero Dawn, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dragon's Dogma 2, and even Elden Ring, which allꦺ have gathering and crafting mechanics. Horizon's was far more necessary and felt baked into the plot, but Elden Ring's you can take or leave.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Crimson Desert looks like it'll combine tough Soulslike combat with crafting mechanics, and I'm very excited for it to come out🌜. So even though trends can make games seem similar, if done well, they can elevate the open-world genre.

While you wait for the next big trend to emerge (my money's on couch co-op making a comeback), check out all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:video game release dates for 2025 and beyond.