Which game has the best "distant far off strange land" to discover
Where reaching it feels like an achievement and there's great new things to see and do compared to the early game
Which game has the best "distant far off strange land" to discover
Which game has the best "distant far off strange land" to discover
Where reaching it feels like an achievement and there's great new things to see and do compared to the early game
elden ring
>endgame is a five minute walk away from the starting point
Nope
homosexual
No it isn't.
You didn't play the game
Yeah it's too tiny for me
well at least you admit you don't play games
no
ironically open world never feels big or grand
I agree though I feel that's more of an implementation problem than a hard inherent problem with open worlds, three examples that make me think that
>Far Cry 2
Stringing together multiple open world maps tied to story progression where you can't go back to the previous ones would work well for creating the feeling of scale
>Minecraft
Genuinely infinitely huge game where you can walk for hours but the problem is that you can never find anything interesting
>World of Warcraft
Just a huge handmade world and traversing it feel like an achievement
It looks nice, like an old painting, but it rarely takes much to get there and really nothing to discover when you arrive besides either another copypasted boss or a useless spell
The rewards for exploring are really underwhelming. They shouldn't have placed so much crafting stuff around. Gimme equipment/spells/upgrades.
and when you got there there was nothing to fricking do
What do you mean? It's a dungeon, you climb the tower.
Pretty sure Pharos is considered to be the biggest mandatory slog in the whole game since it's just so fricking long to get trough.
Great Crystal and Pharos are both very labyrinthine.
at least the great crystal is short and fairly linear if you're not trying to get to Crystal Peak/Ultima or Mark XII. Pharos is just fricking massive, and then there's an entire basement section after you're done
Elden Ring
see
First thing that came to my mind was finally visiting Lemuria in Golden Sun: The Lost Age.
FFXII was full of those.
Giruvegan always gave me an uncomfortable feeling. As if it was a piece of something much bigger, and not a mere 'City of the Gods'.
must be unbearably loud as frick there being right on the edge of a massive waterfall
Xenoblade Chronicles kind of scratches that itch (only the first one)
Despite all its flaws, FFV did it for me, at least in the first open area where the crater is. If only the game had stayed of the same quality going forward.
Honestly no good 3d style games do this to be honest. This type of idea would be suited to an open world game as well not some 2d sprite slop shit. Potentially something like Crimson Desert could achieve this if it actually ever releases and is good. The original full open world concept of FF Versus 13 would have probably done this too but we all know what happened there.
Chrono Trigger. I'm noticing a trend here
Finding Zeal for the first time is definitely a magical experience
You posted it.
Fallout 4 The Institute, epic fricking reveal and everything is completely different, like a prewar time capsule.
AC Valhalla with all the nav shit in the hud turned off. Ignoring the story entirely, just mounting up and picking a direction and wandering aimlessly and finding cool shit almost feels hyborean.
Shadow of the Colossus
baten kaitos
unironically
I just can't get invested into gacha knowing how soulless it is
It sucks that it's not a retail game but for a F2P one it's great.
at least post Enkanomiya or something
no, u
A key component of this feel is the difficulty or impossibility of going back which means open world games are right out
not exactly what you are asking for but ys viii has a nice island to explore with a lot of different terrain and landmarks
the parts about building up a base camp with shipwreck survivors are atmospheric too
The first Dark Souls.
fromtrannies are so annoying
I genuinely wonder what compels them to claim the games contain things obviously not present in the games
Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition on the Nintendo Switch.
Skies of Arcadia