10 Open-World Video Game Tropes EVERYONE Is Sick Of

Every game has some bugs in it when they're released. One of the boons of the modern online era is that developers can release patches to fix them.

Unfortunately that, along with tight development cycles, has led game makers to become complacent with their QA tests. And open world games suffer the most because of this.

Sometimes a linear game with very little room to deviate from the designated path will have a weird spot where you can clip through a floor, get caught on a wall, or shoot through a door but not through the gap in a railing.

Open worlds have so much open space, and yet so many moving, interconnected parts to consider, that even with months of crushing QA it would be tough to find - not to mention fix - every instance of weird bugs.

But the unforgivable annoyance is when these games are left for years without blatant glitches getting fixed. Elex came out in 2017 but still has story quests you can complete by exiting the dialogue tree too soon. Given lacklustre sales compared to other games cited in this list, I doubt those will ever fixed.