Best Open-World Games of ALL TIME.

Originally posted by KingD19
Yes...

Let's be serious though. We know CD Projekt RED is gonna knock it out of the park. The gameplay vids alone have me quivering with excitment

It was a rhetorical question.

Sure, it looks (really) good. But so have a lot of other games that went on to be shitty or bug-laden.

Originally posted by One_Angry_Scot

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

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I think I'll add Darksiders 2 to my list.

Ooh, I forgot about Darksiders II!

Shemue 😖hifty:

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
It was a rhetorical question.

Sure, it looks (really) good. But so have a lot of other games that went on to be shitty or bug-laden.

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I think I'll add Darksiders 2 to my list.

Originally posted by Impediment
Ooh, I forgot about Darksiders II!

Shit, I forgot about Red Dead Redemption. That is probably my favourite open world game.

Red Dead Redemption and Fallout New Vegas are probably my favourites.

Sometimes I like to dream about what New Vegas would have been like if Obsidian was given more then a year of development time.

I feel that was about KOTOR 2. They dropped a shit ton of extra content, missions and extras, and about 5 planets because Obsidian was rushed to finish in time for a holiday release.

Modern Warfare 2, probably.

Completely forgot about Shadow of Mordor. You gotta admit that game was pretty damn good.

Borderlands 2 was good.

Erm... 3D Dot Game Heroes, anyone???

Do you guys think that the Riddick games would count? Dark Athena/Butcher Bay?

Skyrim.

Kingdom Hearts??????

Originally posted by Jmanghan
Do you guys think that the Riddick games would count? Dark Athena/Butcher Bay?

Psuedo Open World I'd say. The games are pretty big, but you mostly have a clear way to go the whole time within a limited area.

Skyrim, for me.

Originally posted by Bentley
Shemue 😖hifty:

That. And as far as any game closest to Shenmue's style, I also want to bring up the Yakuza series (insert Yakuza 5 localization hype here), not so much in terms of the size of the world, but the amount of things there is to do that's almost comparable to a GTA title. Between no fewer than a dozen or so mini-games, several times that many subplots, a surprisingly fun beat-em-style combat system and the game's ever expanding scale (Yakuza 5 is said to be the biggest game yet), I was hooked since day 1.

Xenoblade Chronicles. The reveal of the Gaur Plains alone at the two or so hour mark was enough to show that it was only the beginning. I never go back to that game without a quick trek through that area. Needless to say, the follow-up, Xenoblade X seems to be taking it to the next level what with the mechs and if the supposed 5x larger world is to be believed.

Kingdoms of Amalur is definitely worth a mention if it counts. Crying shame what happened to the property.

Dragon's Dogma's actual world was modest in terms of scale, but was fairly sizable and varied in its own right, and played well on the non-linearity aspect. The main draw was mostly in its action and customization, like Amalur.

And I can't give a tin shilling on how polarizing Assassin's Creed 3 is, the Frontier was the most rich, dense, and visually appealing land area in an Assassin's Creed game I've ever played. Sure, the Caribbean sea was in a league of its own as far as seafaring areas go, but ACIV had more than its own fair share of too many flaws that leaves it bordering on overrated.

But besides that, yeah, on its own merits as an open world, Black Flag is still in a league of its own as far as Seafaring worlds go.

That FFXII game for the DS was pretty Open, and I remember loving it to pieces when I had it.

For its time, I still say the best ES game was Daggerfall. Obviously it got passed by the others, but when it came out, nothing has replicated the feeling of awe I got from its sprawling, nigh-infinite world and open gameplay.

Seeing Digi's post reminds me.

Spiderman 2 👆

Originally posted by BloodRawEngine

And I can't give a tin shilling on how polarizing Assassin's Creed 3 is, the Frontier was the most rich, dense, and visually appealing land area in an Assassin's Creed game I've ever played. Sure, the Caribbean sea was in a league of its own as far as seafaring areas go, but ACIV had more than its own fair share of too many flaws that leaves it bordering on overrated.

👆 @ the Frontier.
Have you played Rogue yet? If so, what did you think of the River Valley?

Originally posted by Tzeentch
Seeing Digi's post reminds me.

Spiderman 2 👆

Skyrim is also one of my tops. for obvious reasons.