The☂ standard of the Horizon Forbidden West side quests is wowing open world fans.

“I know this is a b𝓰old statement to make,” whose post was upvoted by 1,400 others on Reddit. “[But] after 30 hours or so I feel confident in saying that HFW is the game with the best side content in recent memory.”

Players have praised the 🎐backbone of deep storytelling that propels these quests, as well as the uniformly-applied production value🔴s that see even incidental NPCs blessed with best-in-class facial animation and voice acting.

“I feel like the folks at Guerrilla really valued the player and did everything in their power to avoid losi🥂ng our timꦰe with meaningless fetch quests or errands,” the Redditor went on. “In my opinion this should be the standard for any developer moving forward.”

I𝓀t’s my sense as a journalist that deep side quests are, indeed, becoming the standard in AAA open worlds. The Witcher 3 brought the expectations of RPGs to the genre, setting up side quests that were dense with dialogue and surprise - short stories which often, ultimately, led you back into the themes and events of the main plot with a greater understanding of what was going on in the world. 

It’s no easy feat to mimic 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CD Projekt Red in this regard, but evidently developers are now shooting for more than the traditional map-hoovering distractions familiar to open wo🌞rld fans.

It’s worth stopping to appreciate the sheer number of side quests in Forbidden West, too - 27 of them complement the 17 main quests in the game. “There’s always the subtle encouragement to revisit earlier areas to discover what you’ve missed,” wrote Sam in GamesRadar+’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Horizon Forbidden West review. “And because of the strength of the game’s side quests and other narrative 🌸beats, you won't want to miss a single thing.&rꦯdquo;

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