Groundbreaking Open-World Games That Introduced Mechanics We Now Take for Granted

Innovation in gaming is pretty hard to come by nowadays, as aside from a few minor tweaks, a lot of the core mechanics are pretty similar between different games. The open-world genre, for example, hosts a load of games that all share similarities, using a framework of systems like fast-travel, leveling, and character customization, but in slightly different ways from one another.