Many open world games that focus on survival and role-playing want to avoid making you feel superhuman, at least at the start. Immersion is important, and a great way to draw players into the lives of their characters is by making their characters not so different than the players themselves.

If you must include a sprint meter, here are some ideas on how it could work better: Make the sprint meter match my (in-game) physique I can’t imagine anyone actually complaining to developers that their character can sprint unchecked, and a mod called “Now You Can’t Sprint Forever!” probably isn’t going to get a heck of a lot of downloads. That slight loss of realism won’t hurt it, though. Will the game be a trifle less realistic by letting you run at top speed endlessly? Sure. Not to mention, it puts a strain on your pinkie with all the shift-toggling (or shift-holding, if the game’s designers weren’t even considerate enough to make it a toggle). Sprinting for fifteen seconds, then slowing to let the meter refill, then sprinting again, then slowing again just isn’t an enjoyable way to explore a huge open world. Games can be more compelling when they veer closer to reality, but when they get too close, to the point where simply getting from the place I am to the place I want to be becomes an irritating hassle, they can lose a lot of their enjoyment. I know it’s not realistic that my character can run at top speed for hours and jump up the sides of mountains, but it’s not realistic that I can carry fourteen spare sets of armor and heal open wounds by eating a wheel of cheese, either. Consider deep-sixing the sprint meter altogether.

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