New Switch RPG Silk Promises The "Biggest Handcrafted Open World Of All Time"

This looks like it would at home on the Acorn 3000

This looks right up my street , loved games like eye of the beholder and Bards tale. One to keep an eye on

Bigger then Daggerfall? Jesus. I played that for 3 years when it came out. Never saw everything either. I cant even...

@Bunkerneath Came to the comments to make a similar jibe.

Triple A graphics there

meh... not sure if want...

Looks a bit like lords of midnight but without any of the gameplay that made it fun

I like a minimalist art style in games, but the one here is straight up bland.

Feels charmles to me. Good thing it's not my kinda game. Whats the fun in exploring a huge world when it looks as inspiring as a dry cracker?

Damn, that’s ugly

This is quite ugly, but if he nails making it 'feel like a real place' it could be amazing and then the ugliness definitely won't matter.

I love this game in theory, it's right up my ally, but the gameplay looks really bland. Going to have to see more about it when it comes out.

Open World is good and all, but most games miss the most important thing: it must be fun to spend time in it.
Take Skyrim, e.g.: a really big, open world that looks amazing, but is filled with no real life. Most Quests are boring, there is nearly no person in it that I really care about (or remember) and the fighting is always the same. The game itself is fun to play, but it's nowhere near, let's say, Xenoblade 2.
So the "Biggest handcrafted open world of all time" is good and all, but if there is no life in it, it's just a pretty picture. And this absolutely looks lifeless - in my opinion.

The Daggerfall comparison is apt. The playable area was huge, but there was no point in manually traversing between towns and dungeons versus using fast travel. Daggerfall did have some highlights like a real branching plot and great character creation. I'm intrigued by the historical aspect, but it looks so bland with highly abstracted combat.

@Entwickler No life in Skyrim?

It sounds like a great concept for a game, but it looks so cheap and nasty, and I can't stand those stiff grid-based movements.

This would have been revelatory between 1989 and 1991, but these production values simply don't cut the mustard.

Wow, I never thought I'd see the day that a Commodore Amiga style game would arrive on the Switch...

But in all seriousness: this game looks bad, and not at all as ambitious as the developer wants to make it sound. A game like Skyrim may be smaller, but it has moving characters, voice acting, a complete, living, breathing world, and ACTUAL motion, instead of Myst-like stop motion animation.

In this day and age, underwhelming crap like this has no place on consoles and PC's that can do SO much more.

Does size matter?

weirdest mario kart snes mod ever !!

Is this by the developers of Supra Mayro Kratt?

Looks terrible.

@SenseiDje
Yeah, i was wondering if someone could hack MK8, CTR, or Forza Horizon run like this game. Just because its a terrible idea.

Dear god, those graphics. It looks like the textures were done by MS Paint. And even Kid Pix.

Love the art style, but my avatar probably gives that away!

3 million square miles of THAT? No thanks.

Wait a second, that trailer was actually supposed to get me excited for the game? Hahahahahahaha. I’m okay. I’m okay. Hahahahaha!

Looks like something that would have been cool on a early 90's PC but now a days that is just extremely dated video game design.

@Entwickler Even BotW, although it was fun to just walk around, it's hard to argue most of it is wilderness with nothing but Koroks.

Handcrafted by whom? Preschoolers?

It's so easy to make a large open world when your game looks so basic. I'd rather play The Oregon Trail than this, lol