Playing Mass Effect 3 got me thinking about how the first game used the same environments for all the side missions. I've played other games that did the same thing such as Everquest 2 and Dragon Age 2. What other games are bad in that department?
Worst offenders of "zone rehashing"
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Joeboo
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A lot of older games with "randomly generated" areas were pretty bad about this. Makes me specifically think about Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall. The vast majority of the dungeons and towns were randomly generated, yet there were very few basic pieces that were randomly pieced together, so most ended up looking pretty similar.
This was basically what came to my mind. 90% of Inn's, caves, and towers are (were?) identical when I stopped.
Mist
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Daggerfall was bad for this.
Dragon Age 2 was terrible.
DAoC reused the same dungeon layout in each of the 3 realms, but had different kinds of mobs, different entrances and made it a different level dungeon for each realm, so you really couldn't tell.
Most MMOs reuse caves and minidungeons.
Dragon Age 2 was terrible.
DAoC reused the same dungeon layout in each of the 3 realms, but had different kinds of mobs, different entrances and made it a different level dungeon for each realm, so you really couldn't tell.
Most MMOs reuse caves and minidungeons.
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Caves yeah but buildings are by design since Warcraft was a RTS game.
What about EVE? Very few buildings with about four designs of each, limited planet types and the rest is a usually black skybox!
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WoW especially. Copy pasted Caves, Mines, Inns, and now rehashed instances and heroic versions of the same instances.
Halo. All interior was pretty much a copy paste. Over and over. And that library level. Ugh.
Alan Wake. Copy paste areas, but worse, copy paste gameplay. (Still a decent game in it's own right) Path, walk path, kill things, get to light, go to cabin, cut scene, repeat. Same cabins, same paths, etc.
Was that FF14 from the first edition? I have not ran into much in the 2nd edition.
Halo. All interior was pretty much a copy paste. Over and over. And that library level. Ugh.
Alan Wake. Copy paste areas, but worse, copy paste gameplay. (Still a decent game in it's own right) Path, walk path, kill things, get to light, go to cabin, cut scene, repeat. Same cabins, same paths, etc.
Was that FF14 from the first edition? I have not ran into much in the 2nd edition.