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Elena Chapella

(She/Her)
Indianapolis
As seen in: DualShockers, MSN, MSN Canada, MSN Singapore, Flipboard, CBR, TheGameSlayer
Covers:  Horror video games, mainly
Teacher • Freelance Video Game Journalist for DualShockers, TheGameSlayer • Award-Winning Writer • 日本語OK • Be warned, I'm not too active • She/her • Chaldean

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10 Ways Zelda Defined Open World Standards (And Continues to Today)

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By Elena Chapella
| DualShockers Verified
Open world games have a formula to them, a decently predictable one, forged from countless games that have morphed the genre into what it is today. If you were to trace those roots all the way back, though, I'd argue that you'd find the origins in The Legend of Zelda.
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10 Open Worlds Where Every Corner of the Map is Beautiful

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By Elena Chapella
| DualShockers Verified
Just like how you'd walk into a museum and see all kinds of beautiful artwork, there are all kinds of beauty that can be found within any video game you'd pick up. In the case of open world games, we actually get to spend our time walking through and admiring the world, and appreciate all the pretty imagery we find along the way. There are some games, however, where every single corner of the map is just breathtakingly beautiful.
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10 Open World Games You Can Easily Spend Over 1,000+ Hours In

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By Elena Chapella
| DualShockers Verified
Normally, when players are diving into an open world game, they want to spend a good amount of time in it. They want to explore the world, speak to all the NPCs, do all the quests, find all the collectibles, the list goes on — simply put, they want to invest a good number of hours in the game. There are some games you can easily clock hundreds of hours just soaking up everything the game has to offer, but there are even fewer (yet richer) games that you can spend over 1000 hours on.
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