8 Tips For Open World Games Efficiency and Tackling The Backlog

[@thefailuregamer1438]

I think that the trophy percentage and reading rather than listening were both very valuable and alone could save us tons of time.

[@sinclairandrew1699]

Just found you channel, I was surprised to see you only had 300 subs. Keep going you have a lot of potential!

[@OliveOcelot]

Thanks for commenting and tuning in, I just started recently. Did you come from reddit?

[@diverman467]

This was so helpful and encouraging. I think the games that set me down the path of wandering in open worlds was infamous. There, everything felt achievable, and the worlds weren’t so big, so collecting items, beating factions, and reaching 100% was doable. Compare that to games I’ve played recently (Horizon Forbidden West and Cyberpunk) and there’s a lot more space that can eat up your time, and rewards you really don’t need to enjoy the story and world

[@OliveOcelot]

Games like infamous and Spiderman, the traversal is the attraction. So they don't seem as bad cuz you're having fun. Horizon was pretty good about not repeating the same side quest. It always had a story. But it's sin was leaving the sunwing mount until near the end. That woulda been so helpful early on. Luckily I kinda knew about it so I left the majority of side quests until after I defogged most of the map with it. From there on, it was all fast travel and I got the plat much faster than if I had to traverse. I did waste time hunting for parts to upgrade weapons though. Some habits are hard to break.

[@MichaelBecx]

Thank you so much for these tips! I've been struggling with my backlog for way too long XD

[@kopd117]

Turning down the difficulty and just having fun has been a game changer for me. Especially when I can just turn it back up if I want a challenge, then turn it back down when I'm in the mood to just advance the story, or if I'm frustrated by a section that I'm just not good at. It's a single player game. Nobody will know or care what I did.

[@zawarahmed5205]

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[@OliveOcelot]

Wow thanks so much!

[@OliveOcelot]

I have a problem: I can't not be a completionist. But hopefully this video will show you a few tricks to see if a game is even worth completing in the first place. If not, but you still want to play it, you can speed through it with these tips. Are there any more obvious time saving tips that I missed?

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

Algorithm has recently been throwing me the occasional video with just hundreds of views from new/small creators with pretty low sub counts. Which is pretty cool, so I've been going out my way to give them a chance. I like fully exploring open worlds but can't find the time now that I've got a kid, so this video was perfect for me lol. Subbed and comment for the algo

[@OliveOcelot]

Thanks for watching, commenting and subbing! It really does make a difference to the algorithm. This video is geared towards us older gamers who don't have as much time as we used to. I'm happy the algorithm found you somehow. I tried to include more entertaining game clips and funny glitches to stand out from similar video essays. Hope people will notice, took years of gaming collecting those lol.

[@SupremeLoui]

You are son underrated, your gonna blow up soon man!

[@OliveOcelot]

Thank you! I just reached 500 subs and I'm excited.

[@emadou9]

The title of this video really pulled me in! I feel like I am guilty of almost every trap you've mentioned... Death Stranding was the last bigger open world I played and got stuck because I think I tried to do literally every delivery. After that I've definitely been avoiding larger open world games. I think this was the counselling session I needed to get back to it! Thank you!

[@OliveOcelot]

Was it the title or the thumbnail? Lol. Thanks for the suggestions. I learned so many mistakes way too late in DS. Only when I went in for plat did I realize I should've been doing things differently. Found out about priority orders way too late. Spent way too much time getting perfect rating and also building roads (there wasn't even a trophy for roads and I sunk more hours into that than anything else) I was gonna make a video on it before I even started this channel. Now that DS2 hype is here cuz of the trailer... Maybe I should do a Death Stranding video?

[@emadou9]

It was all very well done! I was determined to build the entire road in the thinking that it would end up making life easier and actually speeding up my play time. Another trap? Such a unique game and interesting story, will have to try to go back and finish it. Would love to hear about other games with fun, unique or just plain odd mechanics that you've come across.

[@Sycokay]

"Making a game less time consuming" is something that never ever crossed my mind. Either I enjoy it, then I want it to last forever, or I don't enjoy it - then I don't play it.

[@OliveOcelot]

Well that depends on if you bought it or if it's on gamepass/psplus and how big your backlog is. With subscription model, you're paying monthly for hundreds of games and if you spend a few months on just one game, you're wasting time and money (probably better just to buy it) If you did buy it then by all means sink hundreds of hours into it to get your moneys worth. The more time you spend on one game, the less overall games you play.

[@Sycokay]

@@OliveOcelot Sounds like being in an all-you-can-eat buffet and you want to stuff into yourself as much as possible to make your moneys worth...that makes perfect sense. I'm not into subscriptions because I'm into owning stuff, so I wouldn't know.

[@OliveOcelot]

Yea exactly. Thanks for understanding. I used that metaphor in a dif video. Like paying for a buffet and only eating chicken. You can just buy the chicken by itself for cheaper.

[@Sycokay]

@@OliveOcelot umm...replied, got deleted, wonder what I wrote that was unacceptable.

[@OliveOcelot]

@@Sycokay it's still there. I didn't delete anything.

[@KamalMustafa01]

man love your videos it really helped me to enjoy games once again

[@OliveOcelot]

Thanks man. I appreciate the positivity! What game did you pick back up?

[@KamalMustafa01]

@@OliveOcelot far cry 6 but after watching your videos i started playing short games and to be honest loving it so far its kinda refreshing

[@OliveOcelot]

@@KamalMustafa01 I got far cry 6 just to make this video but it's not that bad tbh. Did you play the stranger things side mission? It's better than the whole game!

[@KamalMustafa01]

@@OliveOcelotits not that far cry 6 is bad im a huge fan of far cry franchise even platinumed every game except far cry 6 but i was kinda bored playing far cry 6 thats why i take a break from triple A titles and now im enjoying short games altho i will platinum far cry 6 in the future

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

Did I miss where you showed what website you went to to get those graphs and charts for gameplay time? I'd love to see those! I'm back into gaming after not playing since PS3 days and along the way, I've worked on myself a lot mental health wise. Why is this relevant? I don't care about perfection as much anymore. So being a completionist is less of a thing. I just play the game and do side quests when I want but if they are repetitive (like spider man 1) I'm like meh wtv. If i'm in the area and feel like it, I do it. And then sometimes I bump into side quests or find things by accident and it's like a bonus and happy feeling and then I don't feed into that to complete all the other ones to get the thing. I'm a much happier gamer and enjoy it. And I have a crap ton of games to catch up on 😅 so no time to waste! Only playing to enjoy

[@OliveOcelot]

Happy you worked on yourself and are a new kind of gamer. It's addictive when we get into the chore aspect of it but also it makes it less fun. The main stories are great and worth experiencing but the repetive stuff is why our backlogs are so huge. The website was howlongtobeat. Com. I wish you a speedier tackling of the backlog with your new found efficiency!

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

@@OliveOcelot I even removed the trophies notification, I removed notifications from my phone ages ago when I was addicted to social media and did a whole cleanse (vid on my channel if you're curious) and it's just been better for my mental health. I find that really helps on focusing on the game. And giving me trophies for the main story I find just meh, I don't need any of that

[@OliveOcelot]

@@GadgetsGearCoffee I watched the Instagram cleanse and subscribed! I was also on only ps3 until 3 years ago. Then got ps4 and a year later ps5. So I have a lot of catching up to do. Backlog is huge, hence need to start being more efficient. I usually focus on short games only on this channel, it's way more satisfying and less of a grind. So much innovation in indie titles that you start to notice the big games are basically 3 or so games copy pasted.

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

@@OliveOcelot I already subscribed to yours :p great channel and content! My god I have such a big backlog, I have a google sheet of all the games and put priority statuses on them, if I own them and are playing or not, what I want to buy etc. >.< Surprisingly most are PS4 games, not many PS5 exclusives but I guess that's to be expected with COVID. Seeing some stuff now in 2024 though. I saved your short game list right away and scrubbed through already, there are some really interesting games in there I don't think I'd be exposed to otherwise because you mainly hear about the large ones but indie games deserve some love too

[@OliveOcelot]

@@GadgetsGearCoffee lol I totally have excel spreadsheets too. Initially the 55 short games was a screengrab of my excel sheet in a dif video and ppl messaged me wanting a full video on the list. It's constantly changing and hard to keep up with. There's like 17 new good ones since I made that list. So I made one column metacritic rating so I can at least play all the 80+ ones and not waste time with bad games.

[@badbones777]

Really enjoyed this -possibly dumb question- is there a way to view a game's trophy list without having bought, installed and started it on Playstation? I realise you can look online just wondered if it was possible to do directly on Playstation. Thanks for the video!

[@OliveOcelot]

I know that you can compare trophies with your friends. Through that menu you can see games they've played and you haven't and are able to access the trophy list that way (to games you've never played or owned) but I'm not sure how to do it in a game right from the store.

[@TwoValuesOfK]

Hello! Do you have any tips on how to handle unique items and missable gear like weapons or armor? Especially when it's just aesthetic

[@AleksiJoensuu]

Hmm. I have never ever 100%:ed a game, nor do I ever plan to. Still, I have enjoyed many of those games immensely. That doesn't necessarily mean that other players' propensity to 100% some games wouldn't correlate with me enjoying them, but I don't intuitively feel like it would, either. I think I would rather look at something like rate of completing the main story.

[@theramenspot]

I don't agree with most of this, as I'm not the type of gamer to rush through a game for times sake, but this vid is hilarious. Loved your takes, and I'm glad to see it has helped people!

[@OliveOcelot]

Thanks for watching, it's specifically for people who access online subscriptions. Sometimes you find a game is leaving with only a month's notice and it demands 100+ hours. Howlongtobeat shows some people beat it in 30 VS 130 hrs and you wonder how they beat the same missions and side missions while spending 100 less hours overall. So this vid is for people who want to be more efficient. On the other hand. Lots of people buy open world games outright. And in that case spend all the time in that world and get the most out of your buck. But with subscriptions, time is more valuable than money. The more time you play one game, the less games overall you play.

[@theramenspot]

@@OliveOcelot Yea, I understand that's how some people see it, I just look at the situation differently. You know how you compared games to movies, and you have lots of other movies you want to watch? I can tell pretty quick once i start playing a game if it's something I'd enjoy actually playing (like Horizon, God of War, etc) or if it's something where the story is great but I can do without the gameplay (like The Last of Us); and in those cases I drop the game and watch a cutscene recap or something. I love PS Plus but I use it more for trying out all the games that look interesting, rather than actually playing all of them. But when I do decide I like the gameplay of one, I generally love playing all of it. So my PS Plus games are either all 1 hour of playtime or total completion lol. Still, great job on the video. I'll be looking forward to seeing more!

[@beardedskyrim8652]

Why would you want to play an open game world if you dont want to spend time in that world without stressing? Play a non open world game

[@danielg.5070]

WRONG. Sometimes we want to play a game and it happens to be open world. We got interested due its studio or due its story or anything else, not because it is open world. So should we refrain to play it? Of course, no!

[@beardedskyrim8652]

@@danielg.5070 Of course you can play it, but open world games is a genre where people who actually enjoy open worlds want to spend a lot of time.

[@OliveOcelot]

Depends on the game. Some games are great for getting lost in and worth getting the platinum. Other games are just linear games with filler that make you walk from point a to point b the long way (with nothing interesting inbetween) ​to make you feel like you have a choice. At @3:51 you can see people beat Horizon and the side missions in 39 hours, while others took 130 hours to achieve the same thing. Only difference was 100 hours of distractions. Which is what this video is addressing. *Forbidden West was actually pretty good for interesting non repeating side content.

[@beardedskyrim8652]

@@OliveOcelot Fair point, I dont actually consider Horizons an open world game, played it for ten minutes and it was another assasins creed times ten

[@Oncearanger88]

@@beardedskyrim8652 I’m not a gamer. I have played Hogwarts Legacy, red, dead, redemption, two, and grand theft auto five…. and I honestly don’t know how to play open world games. Everything is so overwhelming. People like me who don’t normally play don’t know where to start or tips and tricks to explore the entire world….

[@juliocrmferrari]

Hello from Brazil.

[@11josb]

Persona enters the chat

[@OliveOcelot]

I've heard so many good things. I'm sad it was removed from the playstation classics collection. I wasn't able to redeem it with the purchase of ps5. How many hours have you lost to it?

[@11josb]

I'm still playing it, i'm quite a fan of JRPGs but persona is one that i've never played before so i'm trying it right now. Just the main story have around of 120h to finish and there's a lot of extra content too, right now i'm into 37h in the game and still barely in the beginning hahaha. If you like turn based JRPGs and games with a focus in the story you should give it a try@@OliveOcelot

[@11josb]

I think the game is in game pass if you have Xbox, i had to buy it for PC though. I think it's a love or hate type of game because it has a really slow pace and tons of dialog text, so if you are willing to play, make sure you are going to enjoy it berfore buying Edit: forgot to say, i'm playing Persona 5 Royal, all the others i never played but i'm planning to play some day, i'm really liking the game

[@Wowgoodforyou]

🙌🙌🙌

[@BusterDarcy]

Horizon has the most overstuffed and unnecessary dialogue I’ve ever seen in a game. Thank goodness for the skip button.

[@fogzombie35]

Meow