Cool open-world mechanic in AC Origins (Gaming)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, January 11, 2018, 11:19 (2509 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I was trying to think of games that do and don't do that sort of thing.

For ones that don't really let you switch between quests or take on a new quest mid mission I came up with:

• Batman: Arkham Asylum - I don't recall having the ability to choose between different objectives so much as there being the main story and then little always ongoing side quests like solving the Riddler challenges.
  
• Gravity Rush 2 - You pretty much do one story mission or side mission at a time and all the other mission markers are disabled until you complete what you are doing. I'm not even sure you can back out of a side mission if you don't like it or want to do something else...
  
• Destiny & Destiny 2 - You are pretty much either on Patrol or are on a Patrol Mission, Adventure, Strike, or Story Mission. You can back out and do something else but beyond checkpoints for Raids, mission state is rarely saved.
  
• Fable 2 & 3 - I think both of these were basically one mission at a time. Could probably switch missions whenever but I don't think you could start another mission while you were already on one.
  
• Assassins' Creed: Black Flag - Seems like you had to back out of a mission to get back to the open world where you could select a new mission.

But for games that do allow you to start and stop I came up with:

• All the Mass Effects. It is perhaps clearer in Andromeda where you can designate an actively tracked mission, but even in the original you could leave Novaria and go back to Feros most any time you wanted to do another piece of the various missions.
  
• Batman Arkham City and Knight - I know you could pick which mission to track in Knight, and it seems like there must have been some mission system for City or else how would you know where to go to encounter Bane or Mr. Freeze or any of the other side missions?
  
• Skyrim / Fallout 3 & 4 - Many many quests going at once and you could select one or more to be tracked on your compass.
  
• Witcher 3 - Can select a mission to track but all the other missions are there as well. Early in the game you are heading to an inn as part of the main story but pass by a deserter tied up on the road, for instance.
  
• Horizon: Zero Dawn - Certainly some quest givers can still exist in the world while you are on a mission. For instance, I was on my way to the snowy area with the skyscraper you climb to see the conversations about the robot swarms going out of control but I would pass the guy with the Focus I previously saved and he'd shout at me to help him save his family or some such thing.
  
• GTA IV - You could pick an active mission and I think you could even leave to do something else can come back with your mission progress saved or at least checkpointed.