If you want to say what the most favorite word of the upstart in the technology industry is now, it must be the metacosm. You look at that Facebook, oh no, it should be called "Meta" now, and it was changed to the top four of MetaVerse, which showed that he wanted to be the first person to eat crabs.
The news about the meta-universe is even more overwhelming, and at every turn, I will push what so-and-so enterprises rely on the concept of meta-universe to obtain hundreds of millions of VCs, so-and-so people rely on virtual real estate to collect millions of meters, etc., all the time turning to tell you: Meta-universe is now the outlet for making money, people stupid money how fast to come!
But we are a stinky game, even if the news blows the metaverse into the sky, the buddies are at most concerned about whether they can attack in the form of a "Gundam".
With current technology, I should be able to get a negative answer, and even the current metaverse concept can carry more than the virtual life experience that Minecraft brings to gamers.
However, the game can not be said to have nothing to do with the metaverse, and even occupies a large proportion of it, and the current open world game can be fully understood as the prototype of the metaverse in my opinion.
So you'll find that lately even web game ads have had to boast about their own open-world gameplay. After all, NFT digital paintings with the concept of metaversity can sell for $69 million, who will not be impressed when they see it?
That's the $69 million painting
There are many speculators who want to take advantage of the fact that the meta-universe is hot and closely linked to the game, and there are many speculators who come in and cut a leek, of course, this does not mean that all manufacturers do open world for pit money, and the manufacturers who do games in a down-to-earth manner still account for the majority.
The reason why these manufacturers do open world games is also very simple, players eat this set now, as long as you have fun, you don't have to worry about making money.
Open-world games like GTA5, The Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, and Daredevil 2 are not a problem at all with excellent quality. GTA5, a game that has been out for almost a decade, is still on the Steam hit list, which is enough to prove how popular this open world of R Stars is.
In recent years, there have also been a lot of high-quality open-world games in China, such as "Original God", although it belongs to the brother in the game contempt chain, but people have also really let the Yankees kryptonite 406 million US dollars, and currently ranks first in the domestic overseas game revenue, coupled with the huge domestic game player group, which shows that "Original God" has successfully shaped an open world that allows players to buy.
The fundamental reason why the open world is sought after by players is that it satisfies the player's degree of freedom in the virtual world to the greatest extent. Players can do what they want in this world, without being limited by the game's plot, which for most players is the main point of open-world games more attractive to them than other types of games.
For example, in "GTA5", players can spend money like dirt, live in a mansion and drive a luxury car to take the hot girl, see who is not pleasing to the eye to pick up the guy and do it, some of the exciting life you can't experience in the real world, in "GTA5" can be achieved.
There is also one of the benchmarks of the open world, "Zelda: Breath of the Wild", even if the princess and the whole Hellaroo are about to send it, they can't delay the "Link" people all over the world to catch horses, fight cocks, and find a happy life.
What players want to experience in the open world is a completely free virtual life, allowing themselves to truly feel that they are truly living in the world of the game, which is consistent with the core concept promoted by the metaverse. So why do I think of open-world games as the prototype of the metaverse, because the end of an open-world game is the metaverse.
The Matrix can be understood as an open-world game that evolves to the end
Having said all this, I don't know if you have found a problem, that is, most of the current open-world games are stand-alone or stand-alone mobile games, and there are very few end games that really do open-world.
Judging from the current technological development trend, when the real metaverse is born, the large-scale network terminal game is the best interface to access the virtual world, and if you want to meet the realism of the virtual world, the living person is indispensable, and no matter how the AI is false, it cannot completely restore the reaction and feeling of the real person.
At present, the brain-computer interface can only be played by the PC platform
As a result, mobile games and stand-alone machines are about to play the open world out of the flower, the most open world potential MMORPG in the domestic terminal game, most of them are still guarding the old way of playing, with endless upgrades, endless daily routines, and endless equipment to lock players firmly in a boring cycle.
However, even in the overall conservative operating atmosphere, there is still no shortage of enterprising people who want to engage in some new tricks.
The virtual concert launched by "Fortnite" can make people personally experience the wonderful feeling of combining virtual and reality in multiplayer terminal games. Players can not only watch the concert as immersively as in reality in the game, but also continue to extend the network and get a better viewing experience than in reality.
In the domestic large-scale end game, "Against the Cold Water" began to try to integrate some concepts of the metaverse into the game very early on, such as inviting huangmei opera masters to restore classic drama tracks in the game by using motion capture, so that players can also get a traditional opera viewing experience that is no less than reality in the game.
Even "Against the Cold Water" has also moved the second international AI conference to the game, where the world's most talented people gather in the antique martial arts world, but open the most cutting-edge technology of mankind, quite a kind of "punk" cool in it.
In the January 20th update, "Against the Cold Water" did not stop exploring the integration of virtual and reality. In the online expansion film "Destroying the World and Destroying the Earth", we ushered in the first domestic end-game open world gameplay, and at this point, the prototype of the meta-universe belonging to "Against the Cold Water" was officially completed.
In order to launch this open world, "Against the Water Cold" is equivalent to re-making a new game out, perhaps to show their determination, "Reverse Water Cold" in this update also gave the current jianghu a reboot of annihilation. The jianghu that the player is familiar with will face a catastrophe, and the player himself will lose his martial arts and look for a way to save the world in the other world.
The "mountain and sea" other world we need to explore is 2400 square kilometers in size alone, and truly realizes the mechanism of no air wall except for the border, and the seamless large map can interact with everything.
In this strange and free world, players can transform into explorers, unlock puzzles on the map or dig treasure chests with hidden strange locations.
You can also become a hunter to capture exotic beasts from otherworlds and tame new mounts.
And you can also build a lot of adventure equipment for yourself by collecting supplies.
The strange landscape of the mountain and sea world is enough to make people linger, whether it is towering ancient trees or tyrannical volcanoes, or thousands of miles of frozen snowy mountains, it will leave every visiting player with a completely different and strange experience.
The new weather and terrain, as well as the mysterious monsters that inhabit the other world, will be a challenge for players to explore, but at the same time, players are also free to do what they want in this world!
And the biggest difference between the open world gameplay of "Against the Cold Water" and other single-player open worlds is that the communication and interaction between players has become extremely ordinary. If you want to continue to explore this world, players need to work together to break the barrier to enter the next area, and you can also take other players to reward and kick people to solve their grievances, of course, the end of the world, the conflict between people is unavoidable.
These factors make the open world of "Against the Cold Water" more vivid, making it no longer a lonely world belonging to one person, but a group of people who recognize the end of the world.
While breaking through the self-breaking conventions again and again, "Against the Cold Water" will also present the promised "breathing jianghu" in front of our eyes little by little, and the open-world gameplay in the "Destroy the World" expansion pack is online, which makes people feel the slight cyclone that this "jianghu" brings up next to the ear when it breathes.
If "Against the Cold Water" can still maintain the continuous breakthrough of self and challenge the conventional "trouble" type update in the future, then when the era of the meta-universe comes, perhaps we can really experience the chivalrous life of "silver saddle shining on the white horse, fluttering like a shooting star" in this jianghu.