PS5's Ghost of Yotei Features Some Kind of 'Foraging' System, Sucker Punch Confirms

I'm all for busy work like that, but I really need a deep dive into combat gameplay and see what they've improved upon. At the end of the day we all know this game is going to slap!

Please don't be bloat collection stuff like ubisoft

Just wish devs would focus more on creating more dynamic, living, reactive and evolving worlds, that feels alive around you. World's that change more dramatically with your decisions, or even world that naturally evolve and influence your approach.

Board of dead and stale worlds. There is a severe lack of innovation in this area. At least that's the way I feel.

The first game, while beautiful aesthetically, was boring for me.

Gotta hand it to Sucker Punch, they do a great job in getting to know the locales and culture they use in the Ghost games.

Press circle next to glowing plant. This is a cultural victory.

Hopefully it’s more meaningful and in depth than “Press X to gather feather” 20 times before being able to craft arrows. That sort of admin is so tedious.

Is this just pressing x to collect plants, and then using them to craft consumables. Not really much of an experience in game, or indeed anything new gameplay wise that hasn’t been in open world games for years. Hoping to be proved wrong and they add something of substance to it.

honestly if i like a game enough the little collectable and stuff i don't mind at all , adds an extra to the game besides the side stuff and the main story. the first game was great to me because of that. i know thats not every ones cup of tea and that's fine, but it never bothered me to find the shrines or the foxes , ect ect ect.

Is hugh fernly whittingstall involved? I can just see him with his basket foraging in the hedgerows for nettles

But we got this in Tsushima or im wrong push the button and gather flowers 🤔 i assume now you can craft some healing items or power up items

Less rush in favour of a more mindful approach suits this series so much!
And that's what I hope this kind of thing leads to.

Tsushima, as we mentioned a while back, was just slapping a button as you sprint around the environment to collect lots of everything for no real reason. So what we need is less total stuff to collect in favour of a more considered, sparse approach, and then have the player appreciate they are part of the environment, not just dashing around collecting junk like the suped up roomba that was Jin 😅

Open world design is tough, but simple and realistic is usually better than crammed full and unrealistic.

What you mean foraging though, ya mean collecting crap for potions and upgrades, like every other rpg, not to mention the games predecessor...if this is the tid bits we will be fed until release they can leave all to " surprise" also worries me thinking about it deeper, are they saying we haven't changed much of core game..just location 🤔

I would appreciate it if they add cooking or just being able to eat, maybe at certain locations.

@Jimmer-jammer I'll take DIPA

People complaining about collecting stuff with the press of a button. How else are u going to collect stuff if not pushing a button on the controller? Swiping on the touch pad would get real old real fast. Also did nobody collect anything when playing through Ghost of Tsushima? Flowers, bamboo, "supplies" etc.

So exited for it

I just got the words forage and frottage mixed up in my head and got very confused when reading that headline

@PapaGlitch The question now is, which kind of frottage you had on your mind?

@Nexozi While I get your point, I guess what's actually meant here is, that it probably doesn't require any engagement from the player beyond pressing a button. So that you just mindlessly collect all stuff in sight and simply have enough when it's needed. It would already be a difference if collectable stuff was somewhat rare or hard to reach. Then the act of how to get it into your inventory would be secondary. Also, there is pressing a button and make the stuff vanish into your bag in an instant (like in Ghost of Tsushima) and having an animation played out, which makes your character vulnerable for a few seconds, like in the Horizon, which at least requires some timing consideration when in a fight.
Avatar - Frontiers of Pandora actually has more complex interactions to gather plants, which change the resource output based on your performance, if I remember correctly.
But I think the important points here are the amount of collectibles, how to get them and not to inflate their value.

Sucker Punch needs to make another Infamous game!

@Migoshuro Yea GoT was just a matter of pressing the button to instantly get it. Though also think it was good in away when just out and about on the horse taking in the scenery u could just grab stuff and keep walking. Rather than having to get off the horse and then collect. There wasn't the same sort of emphasis with it in the way it was done in Horizon. Like having to create ur arrows out of what u gathered. I think that is harder to implement in a game like Ghosts. As your main weapon is the sword. They could make it more interesting. It will be interesting to see what all they use the collecting for. I wouldn't like it to change into like a necessary thing for survival. Like being able to create ur own health potions would be a good implementation. It would not be good if it was a matter of gathering to feed yourself to keep ur energy up in the game. Think that would be overkill. I have Avatar in my backlog but haven't got playing it yet. The ever growing backlog! Sounds interesting but does it not get tedious? Is it like a mini game and is there any variation?

Aw man that’s a sucker punch. Get foraging hippies you know t he drill

• People complaining easy task that they must press a button to collect stuff
• People complaining open world game has activities
• People complaining they must collect material for crafting items / weapons / upgrade in a open world game

Sounds like some people shouldn't touch open world game if it's annoyed them or make them bored. Just go play FPS, hack & slash, beat em up, shmup, racing, puzzle, platformer, fighting, or RPG.

Anyway. It's cool that SP put a good effort to learn Ainu culture and activities and then implement it in the game.

Don't tell me we'll have to gather plants and skins to refill our health and craft some gear... we already have those in Horizon.
I don't mind foraging, but we need some fresh ideas about what we can use said items for, they should come up with something new if they plan to include it...
Like gathering diverse tea plants to make various tea blends to use in special ceremonies that you can offer (in limited numbers) to specific NPC's. During which you get to know and befriend said NPC's. As a reward, depending on the ceremony type and tea blend used, they can give you unique side-quests tied to them, or discounts, secret item locations, etc. Doesn't necessarily have to be historically accurate, if it's fresh and entertaining, it will be appreciated.

The foraging of plants and supplies is definitely something that can go either way — from the mundane to the frustrating.

Collecting can be very game-y, with a simple press of the button (or even in some games where your character just needs to be in the general vicinity of the item and it swoops up into your inventory through magnetism automatically.). Or it can be more like a sim, such as with RDR2 where you have to watch each intricate movement of your character as they reach over and pick up their hat, or skin an animal, while you have time to go and make yourself some tea during the whole animation. Both approaches have their fans.

I would like to see this game do something both deep and complex enough to be satisfying, but not laborious where the 100th time you go through the process you just want to move on with it.

Maybe the first time you collect a certain variety of plant there’s a meaningful animation and education process about it, but each subsequent find of that item is a quick button press that simply adds it to the pack. Then when you experiment with eating, crafting, wearing, planting, or whatever it might be with said item, then it changes what you can do with it or how it helps you.

@Deadlyblack Good after how badly they handled Delsin being an Indigenous American it's good they took the criticism in the right way.

sounds like the game is going full Ubisoft then.

The only way to make foraging realistic/interesting would be to have the precious-ingredient plants surrounded by worthless (and sometimes poisonous) plants which you could also pick. So you'd have to identify the right ones, with the exciting possibility of diarrhea/death if you choose.. poorly.

Is this more advanced than typical resource gathering, or are they really passing off a 360-era mechanic as revolutionary?

As long as there's no forced foraging I'm ok, hoping there's tons of action man😂

Hope it's not something of a chore like damn haikus.