13 Things That Could Completely Ruin Upcoming Video Games

By Jack Pooley / March 24, 2017

4. Too Much Reliance On "Emergent Gameplay" - Sea Of Thieves

Rare has been suspiciously evasive when discussing their new multiplayer action-adventure game, refusing to commit to many answers about its mechanics during interviews.

As such, it's easy to be skeptical that Sea of Thieves' focus on "emergent gameplay" and "allowing the player to tell the story" (rather than having a more conventional narrative-driven campaign) will result in a disappointingly empty end product.

How Likely Is It?: Probable, but not guaranteed. Impressions from the alpha testing period have been mostly positive, yet this reportedly provided a very narrow slice of the game, so it remains to be seen exactly how varied the gameplay will actually end up. Best to be skeptical for now. 7/10