One that fulfills the promise of adventure and immersion
>>719650117Skyrim
Hollow Knight
>>719650117skyrim (forma de 1,200 mods)
>>719650117The first one you play, before you get wise to the tricks they all use.
Dune awakening
>>719650384This guy gets it. Fallout 3 was amazing, Oblivion was really cool, Morrowind had very fun moments, Assassin's Creed 1 I saw a lot of potential, and it's been downhill ever since. From Emperion Galactic Survival to AC valhalla. I think Dragons Dogma was the only other open world I really got into. Great combat, good open world, funny and serious times and the everfall was a surprise endgame. Dark Arisen was fun too but not open world in the general sense.
>>719650353The level of immersion that is possible with modded Skyrim is pretty amazing. Its hard to imagine Elder Scrolls VI living up to it.
>>719650117Dragon’s Dogma Dark ArisenDark Souls and Stalker if you count those.
>>719650117It'd probably have to be Breath of the Wild. Admittedly, the map is kind of shit, but the interaction with the vegetation and having monsters like the Guardians chase you around is something that other games do not do, not even its sequel.Another contender that comes to mind is Assassin's Creed Origins, which has just the most incredible map I've seen. Less interaction, but it just has incredible biodiversity and dynamic events.
>>719650117Elden Ring>>719650179lmao
>>719651421you need to play more games lil bro
>>719650117World Of Warcraft
>>719651486>Elden Ring shitty movie game
>>719650117idk if it counts but this game was the only one that made me feel like your pic
>>719651421I would say Breath of the Wild simply due to how hands off it is. Likes sure, you have the typical map towers, but they only reveal topography and not where anything is. TotK does it too, but is a little too dense. BotW had a really great balance of wide open vistas vs things to interact with
>>719651486I don't even like Oblivion, but it's still infinitely better than Eldenshit.What are you, 15?
There is no such thing as a good open world game.
>>719650117Gothic 2. Maybe the story is generic, and maybe you don't like the combat, but there is no game with a better open world. It hit the absolute golden ratio of the perfect world size and density. Add to that a whole bunch of hidden treasures and places, a moody, mysterious soundtrack, and it's just the most satisfying exploration an rpg can ever offer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ALuREEIZU
i wonder
>>719651643I still need to finish this, I got stuck in the troll caves with all the spiders
>>719651854I really need to replay this game. Haven't touched it since 2019. I remember the last thing I did was find the Viking helmet
>>719651486Elden Ring has cool environments but that's all it has going for it
>>719651643Yeah, the gameplay was pretty basic but every level had a new setting, atmosphere, and enemies.>the troll caves with all the spidersWhich one?
>>719651643good taste
the maps are small but packed with soul
>>719651514This is open world games we're talking about. I suppose I could bring up Mafia 1's free ride or Arx Fatalis if you want me to age myself because I like walking in those worlds, but adventure is difficult to do and I think that Breath and Origins have done it the best so far despite being far from perfect.>>719651690Tears had too much junk for me to enjoy and I also didn't like how the caves weren't dark. The sky islands and underworld did not live up to their potential either; it would have been better if the game had a new map.
>>719652058oops, also meant to quote >>719651951
>>719652058the areas in the game are all amazing in their own way. Even sourwood which is filled with ticks and witches still has a great atmosphere to it. I really only think it started to fall off when you get to the iceberg and its bad platforming with constant combat arenas.
>>719651643Cool game, some of the areas have great atmosphere. I especially liked Granite Gash.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Naxt51rdkBut it's not quite an open world game, you're kinda forced to go in a specific order area by area, and the later areas become less and less open themselves, too.
>>719650117Honestly it’s gotta be oblivion. It’s really the only game that has reliable ways to surprise the player with content. Doesn’t mean it’s the best open world game but it’s open world is one of the most taken care of imo. If we’re talking the complete package that game doesn’t exist, there’s always something putting an open world game down
Outer WildsI can't get over it and how good it is
>makes /v/ manchildren seethe
>>719651643I like how freaky this game was. More games need to be willing to be scary without being horror outright.
Open world games need to be smaller and focus on more interactivity instead of collecting shit in a bland, empty world.
>>719650117Outer Wilds.
>>719650117breath of the wildinb4 nintdroidI pirated this game and haven’t touched a shitendo console since the Wii. That being said, I don’t think other open world games really capture the fun of exploring like BOTW does. Every other open world game just feels like a gay quest marker simulator where learning the next part of a quest is across the map just leaves a garbage feeling in my gut, but in BOTW, sure, there’s a marker on top of a mountain but getting there is actually fun too its the game that i think i used fast travel the least in.
>>719652549Actually, open world games need to be larger and discourage feckless travel by not having waypoints and fast travel.
>>719653029I didn’t know you could fast travel in oblivion until i did it on accident at the end of the main campaign. It kept me engaged still lel. Love that game but I’m too jaded and crusty to feel the magic on in anything I play
>sailing from island to island with your crew, the ocean and salt spray and pirate songs ringing in your ears>arriving at the shores of some distant isle >getting caught up in truly massive country-spanning warfare To date this is the only nuCreed that did anything for me. It wasn't AC classic, but it was something new and interesting.
for me it's Genshin
>>719650117Morrowind.
>>719650226SPBP. Everything else pales in comparison.
>>719651421BotW almost reaches the same kind of atmoshpere that can be found in SotC. Which is great.Only problem is that when you play enough, those big ass assassins start spawning and ruin the almost immaculate vibes.
>>719651817Gothic 1 is a better "open world" imo. I prefer the slightly smaller, condensed scale. The remake is gonna be goated
>>719650117I’ve been playing BOTW for the first time recently and it’s easily BOTW.Other games are more engaging in different ways but BOTW is the only open world game that truly feels like an adventure. You see something in the distance, or a funny shape on the map, and then you go find out what it is. Simple shit.But other games are too pussy to allow you to walk really far without there being villages or rest stops or fast travel points along the way. E.g. every point in Skyrim is roughly equidistant to a major city. You can really go to nowheresville in BOTW.
Death Stranding
>>719650117Adventure: Elden ringImmersion: KCD 1 & 2
>>719654426this feeling totally dies when you realize that almost everything in the game is just going to be a generic shrine though
>>7196543892 is larger, but I don't think it's less dense at all.>The remake is gonna be goatedI highly doubt that, but I guess we'll have to see.
>>719650117Modded GTA V
>>719651582What's a movie game, you fucking faggot retard.
>>719654663elden ring
>>719654507Honestly yeah.I really wish there was a fantasy RPG that had Death Stranding travel and encumbrance mechanics.Hell, can we even get a fantasy RPG where your inventory is actually in a backpack instead of magical hammerspace?
>>719650117Elden Ring>>719650179>Can instantly fast travel everywhere>Auto-leveled scaling mobs>Not even PROPERLY scaled, you end up fighting Bandits in super gear>Demonic invasion? Dremora open up portals just waiting for you to shut them down>Hero of Kvatch that destroys an Oblivion Gate at level 1Not only Oblivion per se is awful (no dialogue options, no questline options,...) but the open world is especially awfulWhat a joke, go to bed Todd, Shitblivion is awful
>>719650117No fucking open world touches TOTK
>>719654619Somewhat agree. IMO the shrines are a nice little reward. Especially if they’re puzzle shrines.But running into enemy camps with the generic three enemy types fucking sucks and there really needed to be more fancy rewards beyond shrines for super special moments like with the Shrine of Power or whatever.
>>719650117The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
>>719650117None Maybe dragon's dogma open world is easily one of the most dogshit genre that should not exist
>>719654507I'm still in the first area. Does it really open up or is it more like MGSV?
>>719654812>No interactivity>No Physics >No towns>Lifeless NPC>No day and night cycle thats dynamic>No weather>No traversal options>No story>No puzzlesElden ring is the worst open world. Literally did fuck all for the game
I think the one that felt the most like an adventure to me was Breath of the Wild. I wouldn't call it overall the best open world game on every merit but I liked how traversing this super big and open world felt. It's funny that open world games have been around for so long and yet I still feel like the one that defines what the Open World genre can do still hasn't come out. They're almost all too flat in some particular field. Bad exploration, bad traversal, bad regular gameplay, bad writing, it's always something.
>>719654942>No day and night cycle thats dynamicThat's actually incorrect.
>>719654953dragon's dogma 2 was meant to be "the" open world game but we're in the dark timeline
What is a open world?Is metroidvania open world since it offer more freedom of exploration than typical open world games
>>719650179ewww
>>719650117Morrowind and it's not even close. It's one of the only well done worlds in games, to the point where fast traveling is contextualized into the game world.
>>719650117New Vegas, Elden Ring and Gothic 2>>719650384Bullshit. The first open world games I played (excluding Gothic) were Morrowind Assassin's Creed, Oblivion and Fallout 3, in this order, and I hated all of them but the first one because of their fault, repetitiveness and shallow game mechanics.What you are REALLY saying is that you were just a kid and got wowed by the scope of such games and were unable to critically
>>719655051Open "world" uses to mean well crafted WORLDS you can get immersed in through strong world-buioding and lore. Open world now means empty space you ride a mount or car through.
>>719654942>>No interactivity >>No Physics >>No towns >>Lifeless NPC >>No day and night cycle thats dynamic >>No weather >>No traversal options >>No story >>No puzzlesAll wrong btw
>>719655196Literally all facts but ok. Elden ring is the worst open world game lmao
>>719650117Xenoblade X DE, best PC game I played this year by far
Hard to say. The Assassin's Creed games always are beautiful and full of life. Fun to traverse and are very technically impressive but nothing really to explore. That tends told true with lots of open world games that simulate real places and cities, like Spiderman and GTA. Elden Ring is breathtaking visually and exploration is fun, but the world is so dead. I don't know op. I haven't played a ton of open world games. Skyrim was cool.
Soulsniggers really going to sit there and tell you a NPC standing in a single spot forever until their "quest" dictates them to magically teleport into another spot to remain completely static until they die isnt lifeless. Reminds me of the masterfully crafted questline in Jarburg where you talk to the small jar sitting on some stairs, rest at the site of Grace, then repeat this five more times until his "quest" can advance and whoops he died - WHO could have seen that coming?
>>719655402>Skyrim was cool.Oh and I forgot to mention Cyberpunk was very cool too.
>open-ended exploration without any quest markers, mechanics-driven traversal with climbing and tools >A map with some verticality that takes meaningful advantage of this traversal and isn't just something you run around from poi to poi on>good, genuinely engaging combat (if the game asks for it) that's able to take advantage of the map design>puzzles and storytelling ala outer wilds or riven with overarching mysteries and eureka moments/discoveries that change the context of large parts of the gameit's out there... someday
>>719650117Skyrim for the comfinessDragons Dogma for the Fellowship feelThe Piranha Bytes template for the quest interactionJust Cause 2 and 3 or Red Faction Guerilla for the freedomSan Andreas for the soundtrack
>>719650117Morrowind. The key to making open world fun is to make travel scarce and risky.
>>719650117Elden Ring
elden ring's weaknesses were imo combat balance and traversalthe lack of any movement aside from walking around and spirit springs feels cheap the combat isn't terrible, it's serviceable- but it gets samey fast and large swathes of the game are brainlessly easy
>>719655543You described Elden Ring
>>719655890>quest markers>no puzzlesYou failed
>>719655829>elden ring's weaknesses were imo combat balance Git gud>and traversalNah>the lack of any movement aside from walking around and spirit springs feels cheapIt didn't, go fuck around with Spiderman if you have ADHD>the combat isn't terrible, it's serviceable-No, It's a fantastic combat, and you completely and utterly suck at it to the point its depth is beyond your reach>large swathes of the game are brainlessly easyPost your own gameplay
>>719655890>>719655829 pretty muchalso it doesn't really do big puzzles, like there's the law of regression puzzle that gives you a big lore reveal but that's it. It's really not a notebook game at all.
>>719655890>without any quest markers>mechanics-driven traversal with climbing and tools>puzzles and storytelling ala outer wilds or riventhese are definitely my favorite parts of elden ring
>>719650179BASED The first post is truly best post
>>719656032>>quest markers False>>no puzzlesThe picture he posted is one of the many puzzles in gameElden Ring has better puzzles than any other open world game out there, people who shitpost and claim its open world is bad didn't even play it
>>719653928Why? Genuinely asking, what's good about Morrowind's open world? I dropped the game precisely because I felt the world was too large and empty, while the tombs and caves scattered about were simply uninteresting both in the challenges they posed and in the rewards they had.
>>719650117It's got to be one of the elder scrolls games, at least in those games the world was the point of the games.
>Retards really propping up Ubislop, but the mini-map is turned off, as a good open-world gameFromdrones are a lost cause.
>>719656297if that's the repeating catacombs puzzle that's memorable but that's not really an environmental puzzle in the vein of outer wilds, it's just another dungeon with a little brain teaser gimmick. some of those dungeons had fun tricks make no mistake but it's nto really the same
>>719656297>>>quest markers >Falsewrong
>>719650226Based
>>719656181The game has indeed all of theseSome puzzles involve dungeons with hidden paths or meddong with your perceptionsOthers include navigatong hidden enviroments with low visibilityFinding dungeons is in itself a puzzle, especially in the DLCThere's also puzzles involving hiding from status proccing elements and following snow trails (actual traces, not Shitcher 3 bahman vision)You don't know that because you are a shitposter that didn't play Elden Ring>>719656056Wrong
>>719656590elden ring's puzzles are on the same level as botw shrines. some of them are kind of neat but obviously nothing like myst or outer wilds
>Elden GoyslopLmao no
I like to play open world games without using fast travel and without using the map
>>719656486>Oh yeah but it doesn't count because... Uh...Play the game>>719656529Where's the quest marker telling players how to enter Prospector Town in SotE?
>>719656297>ER Puzzles>Find the 4 glowing Turtles on this section of the map :)wow epic
>>719656721>the game doesn't have quest markers because... uh... some of the quests aren't markedlol
>>719656758>Finding shit in puzzle games :)>Finding shit in Elden Ring :(
>>719654820Agreed. You have access to most of the world from the start, you can traverse it in various ways, and there's almost always something on top of that mounting, near that solitary tree, behind that hill.The downside is that there isn't that many interesting things to actually find. Weapons wear out, there aren't really any equipment to find, ingredients are plentiful everywhere making them less special... there aren't many "wow, I found something great" moments for a game that's so long to play through, with so much space to explore.
>>719656803That hardly qualifies as puzzle in any game lmfao
>>719656758no way anyone with a brain consider this a ""puzzle""
>>719656771Then I guess Outer Wilds has quest markersNigger
>>719650226This
>>719656721Volcano Manor questline has obvious bright red quest markers. And I'm pretty sure they added NPC quest markers and a quest marker for the meteor landing after the Radahn boss fight in later patches.
>>719656887>the sun is here>WOOOW NICE QUEST MARKER
>>719656892>No spears>No spellcrafting>>719656865All puzzle games are by nature fetch quests mixed with exploration
what ever you say it's not rdr2
>>719650117Ass in creed: black fagNo seriously, it's the only game I can think of where open world didn't feel like a detriment
>>719656892>Dragon Claw doorMakes me wish they actually used the inspect feature in more quests and puzzles.
>>719656985There is so much more to puzzles than fetch quests. Go look at Hogwarts Legacy. Fantastic example of how varied you can make puzzles in an open world game
>>719650117tale of two wastelands and dragon's dogma 1 or 2
>>719657047What about the rest of the assassin's creed games? I didn't find Black Flag to be much different from the others as far as the map goes. They always get that right
>>719656964>Nav points to any planet, asteroid and known location are not quest markers>But the next castle isRetard>>719656948>NPC quest markersNo such thing, npcs are marked like they are in puzzle games (if we assume Outer Wilds to be the benchmark of puzzle games)>>719657220>Basic ass cipher
>>719657353i dont know what you think youre going to accomplish by lying about elden ring. we've all played it
>>719656635Funny how you didn't address any of the examples he brought, you just threw a baseless statement
>>719657353There were more to it than that. Environmental puzzles as well, games, platforming and item based puzzles, etc. It totally blew ER out of the water (not that they were competing). ER is a great game but the puzzles were dry as fuck. So dry in fact that you can barely call them puzzles at all.
>>719650117Dragon's Dogma (not the second one)
>>719657451>helol. anyways you listed a bunch of small-scale gimmicky puzzles
>>719657353?
>>719650179so zastyit IS better than skyrim. it IS nearly EQUAL TO and in some regards BETTER than morrowind. ACCEPT it
>>719657451>All that fucking trash loot
>>719657560>T-they don't count>>719657578Npc marker is not a quest marker
>>719657790yeah when the topic is puzzles like riven and outer worlds small self-contained single-use gimmicks do not count. good job
>>719657790Guess I worded that funny. Still, finding those fuckers is more of a challenge than their actual quests.
Genshin Impact, unironically
>>719650117Skyrim with mods for the immersive adventuring and sexFallout New Vegas for a world that feels lived inBOTW for a world that is fun to traverse and also comfy
>>719657957genshin impact on release was great, but inazuma was too cluttered with shithaven't played since ayaka's twelve years banner
>>719658032>Fallout New Vegas for a world that feels lived inI like New Vegas, but fuck no. You can feel how empty and restricted that game is because of consoles.
>>719657712There's no trash loot there
>>719658220everybody's favorite item "glass shard". it's like a prism stone but without the thing that made them useful
>>719658220Nothing but trash. Game was way too fucking stingy with Smithing Stones considering the metric fuck ton of weapons it has. Then SotE they made a big, beautiful, empty world and that's when they decided to stop being so stingy with Smithing Stones, but they were all you fucking found.
elden ringzelda totk
>>719657301I hate assassin's creed games but black fag is probably the best pirate game
>>719658076Inazuma is very dense. Sumeru and Natlan has lots of open space to just traverse
>>719658220Catacombs by design are filled with trash loot because they have a bunch of glovewort which does literally nothing unless you didn't beat the game
>>719650117Morrowind. Last good open world game.
if FF7 rebirth didn't had to do lists and let you found all that it's already on the map by yourself it woudl be kind of close to it.I don't hate chadley as a character per se, I hate what they did with him, he could still give you rewards for your findings and unlock materia, but the fucking grocery list was a bit too much.
>>719657957>World is empty as fuck except for boring daily shit you have to grind for a month straight I genuinely cannot think of a worse open world
>>719658929lol retard
>>719658961>>World is empty as fuckit literally isn'tI can't thing of a game that I've played with more shit to just randomly discover
>>719659091nice argument
>>719659226thisat the risk of starting a shitstorm, I just realized again how empty wuwa is in comparison
>>719659469>wuwait really is a shame, the game is beautiful and they tried with huanglong, but in rinascita there just isn't anything to find, everything is already neatly marked so you already know that there's nothing outside of those marked locations which means the gameplay just consists of flying between checkboxes
>>719650117Dragon's DogmaKCDBotWGothic 1/2MGSVJust Cause 2/3The Forest/Sons of the ForestShit open world games:Anything by RockstarAnything by CDPRAnything by BethesdaAnything by UbisoftElden RingKCD2
>>719650117I'm gonna throw Thief and Thief 2 in there. Definitely more open world than any ubisoft game.
>>719660412>KCDIII like the first map but am just not really enjoying the second map. What do dislike so much about II?
>>719650384So Assassin's Creed 1?
>>719650226>>719654012>>719656586>>719656892shitrim is a joke
>>719662414I felt the same way, but its still an amazing game. I think the jewish shit and the black character really burned a lot of people.
>>719662414The quests in the game do not support the open world like the first game did. It tried too hard to be a railroaded cinematic experience from what I played.>>719662101Thief and Thief 2 are some of my favorite games, but they aren't open world.
>>719658961That's just a lie. Just say you don't like the gameplay, design or gacha aspect, but pretending the overworld is full with "daily shit" is just wrong. The game has been running for years and is filled to the brim with world quests. Is it mostly the same running around solving easy puzzles and fighting weak enemies? Sure, but if you enjoy the scenery and soundtrack, the general exploration gameplay is very well enjoyable.
>>719666443god I am so fucking ready for nod-kino
>>719651643KINO
>>719650117The *best* open world games aren't even open world but really just narrative games where you occasionally return to areas.So basically metroidvanias.
>>719650117>Xenoblade X is my favorite open world game>Skyrim is the most replayable open world game>Elden Ring is the most visually pleasing open world game>Zelda BoTW is the most immersive feeling open world game I think the Great Plateau in BotW is best open world area ever made, and as much I liked BotW, it peaked right there
For me it was Gothic 3
>>719654942>>No storythis is good btw
Has to be runescape back in 2004 when I was 8 years old. Hadn't seen anything like it and to this day I still haven't.
