Why are Vikings not just enduringly popular but arguably the most popular they’ve ever been? Quite frankly, my puny brain was not capable of solving this conundrum, so I turned to an expert for the answers.
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While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
100% agree
All these ubisoft titles, Farcry, AC, Ghost recon, boast huge maps, but with the same, 3 missions or the same base to clear 100s of times. Hour 1 of any of those titles is the same as hour 100, there big for the sake of being big, with the illusion of player freedom, where we really want depth and player expression.
Give me a solid 15-20 hour engaging single player driven IP any day. Life's too short you dig.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.
Filler, it's like a 80 episodes show where only the first and last episodes actually matter
It's been a problem with pretty much every modern AAA game all through last gen and this gen. God forbid you point it out tho because all these big games are masterpieces and people lose their minds if you criticize them. Death Stranding is a fetch quest fest, but people will die defending it cause it's a "masterpiece".
They've had better translations/representations in games and movies lately.
Short answer: That "topic" hasn't been beaten to death. Yet. Anyone remember when Zombie games came back.
Viking Culture-based Art/media saw a rise in general, it's not just video games. See the success of music bands/projects like Wardruna, Danheim, Heilung as examples. There are also tv series like Vikings, Movies as well as Books about the topic.
I think it has some political reasons that many, especially in Europe want to learn more about Viking, Germanic Tribes History and Culture these days.
??? There only has been one good Viking game to come out over the past years, and it definitely didn't come from Ubisoft.