Open-World or Plot-Driven?, Which do you prefer? Options

[TheDreamWriter]

This is the basis of a new long-term game project that I am developing (Explorer, exclusive to RPGRev).

It is an open-world explorer with no pre-set plot. The game will evolve around the player's game style.

If you complete a quest, it may unlock one quest but lock another from access. But, at the same time, you could sit at home farming.

Do people think it would be better for a game to be open-world or plot-driven?

~TDW

[amerk]

I never said it only worked for MMORPG's, but in most cases I've seen, open world concepts are usually MMORPG's. Given, a lot of newer console games do include a lot more open-world concepts now than they have in the past, but the games you are listing are commercial development, which usually has a whole team of experts working on a part of the project. That's nowhere close to the same thing as an indie developer trying to make a game by himself/herself.

Can it be done? Certainly, if one person is dedicated enough. But the chances of it happening on any game editor is slim to none if you don't have a team helping you out. I've played through over a thousand indie games, and while I'm sure there's plenty more I have yet to play, I have never seen one decent open-ended rpg made with RPG Maker that makes it passed the planning/demo stage. The majority of them wind up being cancelled because it was too much for one person to do.