Hi all!
I've played SoT with my friends months ago.
Since our first game sessions, we like the world design, completely. It really gives you the desire to go around in adventure!
... but we also expected to find some life!
There was, and there is, an always more common problem in games: no friendly/neutral NPC that roam/walks (pigs and chicken excluded).
Friendly/neutral NPC are glued to the ground.
Ports are different by shape but just a big island + "interactive statues".
After our very first game session, we already were like:
"they should add here and there a shipwrecked guy rowing alone on a lifeboat that ask you for a ride. Maybe he have a chest, and once on board of our ship he will sing/play songs, until you rescue him to a port".
or
"it would be cool to find in random non-port islands some gang of pirates that are making a party, drinking, dancing and singing, etc etc.. even if they ignore the players, just to give life to the world" ... or some similar lively small events.
or
Some quest where you have to rescue/capture an npc. Be it a kidnapped to save or a wanted pirate to capture. Bring it on board... like a npc, not an object (he/she walks, sometime speak, etc etc).
or
Some npc making a party in the port bar or somewhere else, not always, but it would totally give a more immersive feel of the world. Currently you don't expect anything from a port you never visited.
I'm talking about the free roaming of the world, not during a quest. During a quest everything is just a scripted 3d video animation (instanced, probably), it's not the same thing.
We would like to see the "base structure" of the world game that is more lively!
But no, in our last games we got more boring-ish fights against endlessly spawning monsters, bullet-sponge monsters, and similar stuff.... we lost hype of the game.
And so, we are no longer playing since many months, but this is sad, because the world design is perfect and it really scream "come to adventure!".
Did the game world got more life?
(not talking about during quest, but the free roaming part)