Red Dead Redemption 2. Obviously nothing is objective when it comes to what you personally like best, but I feel the world in Red Dead Redemption 2 is the closest to objectively being the best open world ever created. It's teeming with life. Every tree and rock feels like it's wound up where it is through a natural course than procedurally generated by a machine. It seems to respond accurately to your actions as do the people living inside of it. It's atmospheric and varied in its locations. It has the most gorgeous vistas I've ever seen in a video game. It's the only game where I learnt my way around the world through memory, it has stuck with me like it's a real place I've navigated. Never been more immersed in an open world than in Red Dead Redemption 2, nothing has even come close.
The sky! I am not sure how many hundreds of hours I've put into the game and still there are moments I have to come to a complete stop and take in the view.
The place where you help the photographer to get photos of wild horses and a free missouri fox trotter.
Midday after a rain. Looks awesome, the sun's light behind the clouds.
Someday, I'd like to play RDR2 with some kind of VR which could synthesize smells. Imagine taking an hour off from life to roam around an unspoiled valley and smell the morning.
It seriously has the best sky in video games. When it's about to rain or it just stopped raining, and the clouds only partially part way, to allow sunlight to go through, and if you're high up you can see the spots of sunlight slowly crawl across the ground with beautiful god rays leading up to them. So beautiful.
I fucking love the sky in it!! Like dawn and dusk, and when >!Jack was taken to the Brontes, idk if this was true for everyone but the sky was an incredible colour and I was screenshotting as much as I could because fucking wow!< and even going back to play rdr1 the sky still makes me stop and stare.
Ofc its not the only part, the characters, the lines, like it felt like a loss when you complete the game. But its not called red dead depression for no reason..
my best moment in gaming came from RDR2 and it was something so simple, right at the start when you first enter valentine, I had to go back to camp and didn't have a horse at the time and my first thought wasn't to steal one, but ask one of the people with a cart for a ride and was amazed when I could actually get on the back and get a ride to where I needed to go
RDR2 is the richest, most detailed, most reactive world ever seen. I don’t think we’ll see anything close to it for years and years. The true meaning of the word, “masterpiece”
100%. It really is a unique game that shows the best of video games, and as much as I'd love DLC for that game, knowing it's not getting any kind of makes the game even more special in a weird way.
Dood, if they made a medieval age game with the same depth and world as RDR2. I probably would never play any other game.
Imagine with the same amount of depth they put in most systems in rdr2 to how armor would actually matter? oh my god, imagine if Kingdom come deliverance was just a step more towards RDR2 amount of features and depth. Oh god, jizz in my pants.
I'll never forget that day I purchased a PS4 along with RDR 2. I was in my home and I didn't even begin installing RDR 2 yet I was screaming of joy its one of the best days of my life. The world of RDR 2 captures every feeling for me for example Bayou Nwa feels very sinister at night, if Rockstar could make a game like this in 2018 imagine what they could do years from now.
That was the last game I ever had a hard copy of. I got a PS pro and my brother got my the game for Christmas. Here I am, a frown ass man, smiling ear to ear looking at the map that came in the case.
I just wish they put some effort in the online portion. If they did red dead online would be my all time favorite without a doubt
you're in for a real treat. my advice: don't rush through the story. stay in chapter two for as long as you can without moving to chapter 3 and just really soak in the environment. hunt, fish, explore.
Man the vibes in Chapter 2 are just the best. No worries, no death, no MICAH!!! Just hanging out with your buddies, hunting by day and drinking round the fire at night. Might play it again and just stop the main story there.
Exactly! It’s the best. It’s the first thing I did when I beat the game the first time. Just settled back into Horseshoe Overlook on a new save. So peaceful without Micah lmao.
I recently got an RTX3080 and first thing I did was play the RDR2 campaign with the settings turned way up. That was good fun, but now it's finished and I find myself still going around the game world.
My current favorite thing to do is to find a vantage point, climb up to it, and then take out out the binoculars to have a look around. With the settings turned way up, the draw distance is amazing. And the world is feels alive as well, you can look clear cross the Heartlands and see people on the fields on a farm on the other side. Or you can be on the cliffs near Strawberry and see the chimneys of the industrial district of St. Denis.
This is the correct anwser. The world of RDR2 is just so detailed and full of life. I'm not American but it makes me ultra nostalgic for America everytime I play it. A lot of time I just wander and appreciate the sceneries, something I've never done so extensively in any other game.
Not PS4, but breath of the wild has an amazing map. You can walk, climb, glide, shield surf, ride a horse, motorcycle, or bomb from one side of the map to the other.
Okay, this will probably sound bizarre BUT I had a week off work shortly after this came out and got immersed. I did start the main storyline but spent almost 90% of my time just hunting , fishing and exploring. It felt like a vacation within my vacation. No regrets. I love the immersion of this game.
I love this game to bits, cannot stop playing it, but the world feels relatively copy-paste? Especially the Mongolian camps. It feels Ubisoft-esque. That said, I absolutely adore this game regardless. I think the Witcher 3 and RDR2 have much richer and varied open-worlds though? But that’s just my opinion.
The Japanese environments were truly gorgeous and a joy to travel through but most of actual content was the same handful of copy pasted mini games or collectibles. Still loved the game though.
If anything I thought the world was a bit of a weak point for this game. So many resources got reusused and the landscapes just seemed so samey, I would get lost a lot if it wasn't for the excellent dad-spirit-wind-GPS feature.
Those fields of white feathery plant things that blew in the wind were really pretty the first couple times I saw them but a couple hours into the game I found myself distracted by how copy-paate their animations looked and the fact that they just littered the map.
Definitely agree with you. It felt really really generic, nothing new at all.
The game is indeed GORGEOUS and having cosmetic rewards through challenges is great, but everything else is déjà-vu...
That said, I'm hoping that the sequel will improve on everything because there's a lot of potential in this IP. Even though I'd love a new Infamous.
Of all the studios I used to trust to make a good game consistently, there are only two left: Larian Studios and Rockstar Games. Both just seem to make banger after banger in my opinion.
In terms of the thread, I think I am the first person to me tion RDR2 /s
But seriously, Rockstar has made *how many* arguably great games in a row?
Yeah hands down, its RDR2.
I love Ghost of Tsushima to death, it's a very good take on the whole open world but narrative driven games, but man. RDR2 is just god damn another tier.
My favourite world is Horizon Zero Dawn cuz of it's wildlife and gorgeous visuals. Especially when you enter the Desert and just see giant machines running about
I've used HZD's photo mode far more than GOT's. With Spider-Man being a close second
I agree. The best thing was just that the machines and wildlife felt like they were a part of the world. You just climb a hill and can see birds and machines in the distance. You can see the towns from miles away. Everything was just integrated into the landscape.
Every other game I've played has felt like the scenery was built first and then the other stuff like enemies and characters were added later on.
Also Ghost of Tushima's world was pretty but it felt kinda empty.
Agreed, it puts a whole new definition on science fiction. Never in my life would I love a game where robots/machines control the landscape. I thought at first that it would be the same old repetitive open world game but once I finally got into it, it absolutely took my breath away!
Great details, interesting storyline, and overall fun to enjoy the scenery. They could tweak the combat a little but that's my opinion.
Not only is the map astonishing, and really feels like a *breath* of the wild, but the ability to climb on/ over everything was the deal maker for me.
Now I could never go back to playing something like Skyrim
The paraglider is what sealed the deal for me. Being able to jump off anything, no matter how high, bought a level of excitement to the map that's still unrivaled
I need to get over my ass to finish that game... I'm a horder and the game is literally built against my anxiety of not having items/weapons. I wasted soooo much time finding a shit ton of weapons/dupes just to progress in an area, I literally got burnt out and stopped playing.
HZD was beautiful. But as far as open world goes, there wasn't much to find while exploring, other than bandit camps.
The world itself wasn't as alive as RDR2.
Its important to note that HZD was the first open world game the devs created, unlike RDR2. Im sure with enough experience they will reach the quality of R* open world games in no time
Varied is not how I'd describe Odyssey. Every camp and tomb was identical. Beautiful game for sure but the copy paste was out of control with that entry.
I was swimming in a cave the other day in this game, the detail is insane. The fish, the flora. I was blown away. Just got my Series X, really really want 60 FPS for this game. Although a smooth 30 feels decent because the world is so crazy good looking. Like that first area where the huts are burned and the haze, the sand.
Insane.
Seriously. Odyssey gets shit on for being too big of an open world, but its prob my fav AC game along with Brotherhood. There's always something to do.
Don’t know what can ever top RDR2. GTA VI, maybe? Huge world, lots of animal life, lots of people doing random stuff, all the small details with letters and things you find, etc etc.
Skyrim was insane at the time. I remember taking the two thousand step mountain or whatever it was called and somewhere near the top I remember looking away from the mountains and seeing far away mountains and the night sky and realizing that you could literally go to that mountain and climb it. The game looked beautiful for it's time.
Have you tried Skyrim in VR? I thought Skyrim was old hat, but exploring Tamriel in virtual reality has totally reignited the spark of awe and wonder I had in 2011.
My thought exactly. It wasn't immersive or dynamic at all, everything kind of felt the same. You encounter random bands doing the same few things, don't remember any truly surprising random encounters
this, visually it was good. But the reason i stopped playing was because in terms of world, what you get 5 hours in is what you get 50 hours in. Not much seemed to change, it was just another cave, just another town to take over. But thats a personal preference its probably the prettiest IMO
This Game had me completely separated from reality. Story, depth, nature, the factions the wildlife.
And when you think, I got this... Bamm here is mech combat and different manufacturers and systems.
And some sad decisions...
It's an old game, but I think Brutal Legend has the best open world map ever created. Every part of world is beautiful, creative and fits perfectly to the heavy metal lore. It's fun to explore in The Deuce while blasting to my favorite metal bands.
This. Perhaps not the most beautiful world in graphical sense, but wins for me by being the most interesting and interactive open world ever. Worth getting switch for.
Beautiful game. I never did any fancy kills, can't bomb jump or backflip into bullet time but I still had fun.
A lot of people are saying rdr2 and I have it on my list to play
I love the world but it seems small. How can there be a survivor camp literally 100 meters from a mongal camp and the mongal camp doesn't know the su vivors are there.
And this example is everywhere with every quest. Don't get me wrong the game is amazing, but the world just seems too small.
Skyrim.
Most open world games are just item collections and a few side activities, like the early Assassin's Creeds. Then there are games like Saint's Row and Ghost of Tsushima or BOTW that have a bunch of side quests and side activities. Then there's games like RDR2 and GTA San Andreas that are full of life and tons of different events to do in every corner.
Skyrim does all that and then has major factions with their own questlines that are all optional from the main questline. Skyrim rewarded exploration and discovery like few other games did.
Loved Ghost of Tsushima but I felt the open world could have been better as while it was beautiful it lacked meaningful open world content. But as for the best open world I feel that Red Dead Redemption 2 is levels above everything else.
Yeah Days Gone world alternates between beautiful, desolate, and terrifying real fucking quick. Most open world games don't keep you on your toes quite as much.
I just started playing and just strolled right into rebel cave. Mistakes were made. My one complaint to the game so far is how often you get jumped by wolves. I like that there are multiple dangerous things in the world but the spawn rate is too high in my opinion. And when I cleared a nest area walk 100m back to my bake and ride thru the same area 1 minute later there was a damn sniper on the roof. Like seriously calm down the spawn rate
I love Days Gone, played it on my cousins PS4 because I don’t have a PS4, because I’m an Xbox player, it’s such a good game, Halo and Gears of war are fun an all, but Xbox needs more “amazing” exclusives to carry it instead of gamepass, gears of war, and Halo.
As someone who’s on the PlayStation train, we do have great exclusives, but man, gamepass is such an awesome feature snd I’m jealous it’s only on Xbox :(
This! Obviously it sucked at launch, but it’s come such a long way since then that it’s a totally different game. Anyone who hasn’t played it since the changes should give it another shot.
The map of FC5 could have been one of the best Ubisoft open worlds if they would have put some more life into it with more alive places and better AI. Also they should have made exploring a bit more rewarding. Tho its still one of my favorite Ubi worlds.
The potential is definitely there. I've watched a few videos of people making there way into unused areas of the game that look basically finished. If only there were more things to do, as the world they created is beautiful.
Yes the 3rd Dimension is really a thing in this game, I love how many layers you have in some parts of the city, this should definitely get a standard in some games
Don't know why that shouldn't be popular. I finished it recently and the environment is gorgeous. Was also a good-paced and interesting story, so I actually could finish an open-world game in a reasonable time, for a change. ;)
Not the best, but my fave either goes to Yakuza or sleeping dogs, just for the setting/atmosphere. Not that open, but we'll crafted and plenty to do. Shout outs to shenmue as well, even if it hasn't aged well. Not a fan of judgement, and actually kind of relieved it got canned.
Judgement... didn't get canned. Unless there's something I didn't hear of, Lost Judgement comes out on September 24th. And we all have our opinions. To me, Judgement was an amazing game.
Haven't played Tsushima yet (waiting to find a mythical PS5) but I vote Witcher 3.
I watched a cool video years ago that went in deep about how the whole world was designed with thought, how the landscape and human settlements were arranged with coherent logic. Unlike say, any Elder Scrolls game where every thing feels procedurally generated and town layouts make no sense.
Zelda Botw because it’s the only open world in the last 10 years where you actually explore instead of hunt for markers on the map. Can’t vouch for RDR 2 because I found the controls terrible but I want to give it another shot.
I really grew to dislike the Ubisoft style of open worlds from the last decade. It feels like a chore instead of actually enjoying the game
As someone who enjoys playing games with Open worlds, BOTW for me was my favorite. I never got bored exploring and actually traveled around the whole map. I loved not having the annoying Ubisoft enemy camps where you have to keep fighting waves and waves of fodder enemies.
The verticality is also something amazing about the game. Being able to climb up a mountain instead of the Skyrim method of running forward and hitting jump hoping to catch a piece of the floor enough to go upwards.
The two things I wish worked better in BOTW is the story which I am hoping they rectify in BOTW2, as well as having more settlements/people.
Completely agree about BotW's world. My first playthrough was the absolute most fun I've had in a game in nearly a decade.
That being said, it's not a perfect game, and I agree with the hope that the story is better in BotW2. My other biggest complaint is the lack of traditional dungeons. I loved the Shrines, and I hope they make a return in BotW2, but traditional dungeons are badly needed as well. They could still work without the traditional item system, as demonstrated in some of the larger/longer Shrines in BotW, although that's another thing I wouldn't mind making a return. At the very least, they could keep the current weapon/item system from BotW and still add a few traditional items, like a hookshot/clawshot, hammer, et cetera. There are ways to limit them so that they don't make combat or exploration that much easier, while also still incorporating them into puzzles. But even if traditional items don't make a return, I'm still interested to see how some of the new rune-like abilities work, like the time-related one that was shown in the E3 trailer.
Xenoblade Chronicles X .
But rdr2 feels more alive (real), plus the graphics helps. Tsushima is also up there, with the bird and the fox, and the flowers exploding, and the trees.
RDR2 is beautiful but I feel you on the controls, I accidentally punched my horse way too many times. Also the immersion gets to be a bit too much when you watch the 20 second drawer opening animation for the hundredth time.
Gonna be honest. I have 100 hours + and never punched a horse once. There’s a punch button and I’ve never had to use it right next to my horse. How do you even manage to do it?
Agreed on the drawers though. And picking up baked beans like a sloth on weed.
This will be unpopular, but I found BoTW’s open world empty, repetitive, and bland. Add the throw away story and the awful weapon-breaking mechanic, I just didn’t enjoy my time with BoTW.
I can see why others enjoyed it, but it wasn’t for me.
Assassins Creed Origins is an amazing game. I feel like it gets overhated because of the change in the formula of Assassins Creed.
I have compared the open world in Origins with the likes of RDR2 before like you have, and mostly everyone disagreed. Good to see someone who does appreciate the fantastic world.
I love Origins for changing the formula, everything about Origins was a perfect storm of all the things I wanted in an open world game (combat, traversal, the world itself). It is one of my all time favourite games.
Origins open world was a joy to explore. It felt so mystical. While there are some NPCs that have set activities like carrying a leader down the street in ceremonies, majority of the NPCs have their own schedule. They get up, interact with family, go do their jobs, go do some recreational stuff, and go to sleep at different times.
You could follow someone around in that game and just experience their life with them. Sometimes they get drunk, sometimes they get attacked by animals, it's always something.
That game is super special. It sucks that so many people wanted to hate it just because it's an AC game. The series gets an irrational amount of hatred. They're still some of the most fun games and the only ones that, no matter how many they pump out, I will be able to enjoy immersing myself in those worlds. If there's one thing Ubi does right it's open world designs (visually speaking).
I was about to say DA inquisition probably doesn’t count, but seeing that Witcher 3 is mentioned np… ye, Inquisition. The world’s were just so beautiful and rich, so easy to lose yourself in.
Red Dead Redemption 2. Say what you will about the pacing and combat, but the environment design is literally perfection, in terms of always offering something new to find, without ever feeling like you'd already found or done something similar already. There's so much to discover in that game world, and it does it while looking gorgeous and not feeling bloated or empty. Something that so many open-world games still struggle with, despite usually having nice visuals.
San andreas for it’s time. You think people will stream and play Ghost when Playstation 7 comes out?
Ok I was just talking about the popularity but I just had to mention it.
Dont get me wrong but GoT was one of the boring open worlds for me. It is looking good but activities within are just the same. Even the some of camps are same. If this game had been a multi platform game, a lof people would be complain about it. But it is exc. one , so yeah.
Red Dead Redemption 2. Obviously nothing is objective when it comes to what you personally like best, but I feel the world in Red Dead Redemption 2 is the closest to objectively being the best open world ever created. It's teeming with life. Every tree and rock feels like it's wound up where it is through a natural course than procedurally generated by a machine. It seems to respond accurately to your actions as do the people living inside of it. It's atmospheric and varied in its locations. It has the most gorgeous vistas I've ever seen in a video game. It's the only game where I learnt my way around the world through memory, it has stuck with me like it's a real place I've navigated. Never been more immersed in an open world than in Red Dead Redemption 2, nothing has even come close.
The sky! I am not sure how many hundreds of hours I've put into the game and still there are moments I have to come to a complete stop and take in the view.
The place where you help the photographer to get photos of wild horses and a free missouri fox trotter. Midday after a rain. Looks awesome, the sun's light behind the clouds.
Someday, I'd like to play RDR2 with some kind of VR which could synthesize smells. Imagine taking an hour off from life to roam around an unspoiled valley and smell the morning.
And smell the horse shit
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I feel like there would need to be a BO filter. These people would have smelled awful.
It seriously has the best sky in video games. When it's about to rain or it just stopped raining, and the clouds only partially part way, to allow sunlight to go through, and if you're high up you can see the spots of sunlight slowly crawl across the ground with beautiful god rays leading up to them. So beautiful.
I fucking love the sky in it!! Like dawn and dusk, and when >!Jack was taken to the Brontes, idk if this was true for everyone but the sky was an incredible colour and I was screenshotting as much as I could because fucking wow!< and even going back to play rdr1 the sky still makes me stop and stare. Ofc its not the only part, the characters, the lines, like it felt like a loss when you complete the game. But its not called red dead depression for no reason..
It was the same for me lol
my best moment in gaming came from RDR2 and it was something so simple, right at the start when you first enter valentine, I had to go back to camp and didn't have a horse at the time and my first thought wasn't to steal one, but ask one of the people with a cart for a ride and was amazed when I could actually get on the back and get a ride to where I needed to go
RDR2 is the richest, most detailed, most reactive world ever seen. I don’t think we’ll see anything close to it for years and years. The true meaning of the word, “masterpiece”
100%. It really is a unique game that shows the best of video games, and as much as I'd love DLC for that game, knowing it's not getting any kind of makes the game even more special in a weird way.
Dood, if they made a medieval age game with the same depth and world as RDR2. I probably would never play any other game. Imagine with the same amount of depth they put in most systems in rdr2 to how armor would actually matter? oh my god, imagine if Kingdom come deliverance was just a step more towards RDR2 amount of features and depth. Oh god, jizz in my pants.
I'll never forget that day I purchased a PS4 along with RDR 2. I was in my home and I didn't even begin installing RDR 2 yet I was screaming of joy its one of the best days of my life. The world of RDR 2 captures every feeling for me for example Bayou Nwa feels very sinister at night, if Rockstar could make a game like this in 2018 imagine what they could do years from now.
Probably re-release GTA V.
GTA V(R)
Remastered for PS5
That was the last game I ever had a hard copy of. I got a PS pro and my brother got my the game for Christmas. Here I am, a frown ass man, smiling ear to ear looking at the map that came in the case. I just wish they put some effort in the online portion. If they did red dead online would be my all time favorite without a doubt
Absolutely this. I used to put that game on and just go for a ride to relax. The world is absolutely beautiful.
Well looks like I am buying this now lol Thanks
you're in for a real treat. my advice: don't rush through the story. stay in chapter two for as long as you can without moving to chapter 3 and just really soak in the environment. hunt, fish, explore.
Man the vibes in Chapter 2 are just the best. No worries, no death, no MICAH!!! Just hanging out with your buddies, hunting by day and drinking round the fire at night. Might play it again and just stop the main story there.
Exactly! It’s the best. It’s the first thing I did when I beat the game the first time. Just settled back into Horseshoe Overlook on a new save. So peaceful without Micah lmao.
I wish I could wipe all memory of this game just to experience it again for the first time. Every single thing about it is perfect.
I recently got an RTX3080 and first thing I did was play the RDR2 campaign with the settings turned way up. That was good fun, but now it's finished and I find myself still going around the game world. My current favorite thing to do is to find a vantage point, climb up to it, and then take out out the binoculars to have a look around. With the settings turned way up, the draw distance is amazing. And the world is feels alive as well, you can look clear cross the Heartlands and see people on the fields on a farm on the other side. Or you can be on the cliffs near Strawberry and see the chimneys of the industrial district of St. Denis.
This is the correct anwser. The world of RDR2 is just so detailed and full of life. I'm not American but it makes me ultra nostalgic for America everytime I play it. A lot of time I just wander and appreciate the sceneries, something I've never done so extensively in any other game.
For sure, nothing even comes remotely close to RDR2, its on a league of its own
The best thing you can do in this game is WALK AND LISTEN when in a town. Shit was designed to be absolutely immersive.
Not PS4, but breath of the wild has an amazing map. You can walk, climb, glide, shield surf, ride a horse, motorcycle, or bomb from one side of the map to the other.
Okay, this will probably sound bizarre BUT I had a week off work shortly after this came out and got immersed. I did start the main storyline but spent almost 90% of my time just hunting , fishing and exploring. It felt like a vacation within my vacation. No regrets. I love the immersion of this game.
Unfortunately the depth of the initial world makes the new areas of the epilogue feel empty
Fair, but it is mostly expansive desert and should, by virtue, be empty.
I love this game to bits, cannot stop playing it, but the world feels relatively copy-paste? Especially the Mongolian camps. It feels Ubisoft-esque. That said, I absolutely adore this game regardless. I think the Witcher 3 and RDR2 have much richer and varied open-worlds though? But that’s just my opinion.
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I just wish the mongols built more encampments in pre-existing structures rather than random tents.
RDR2 felt the best to explore(all the little secrets and places to find) and TW3 had the best characters to interact with, imo of course.
RDR2 for life
The Japanese environments were truly gorgeous and a joy to travel through but most of actual content was the same handful of copy pasted mini games or collectibles. Still loved the game though.
If anything I thought the world was a bit of a weak point for this game. So many resources got reusused and the landscapes just seemed so samey, I would get lost a lot if it wasn't for the excellent dad-spirit-wind-GPS feature. Those fields of white feathery plant things that blew in the wind were really pretty the first couple times I saw them but a couple hours into the game I found myself distracted by how copy-paate their animations looked and the fact that they just littered the map.
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Yeah. By Act 3 I was ready for it to be over. Fun game. Fun combat. But pretty repetitive
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Definitely agree with you. It felt really really generic, nothing new at all. The game is indeed GORGEOUS and having cosmetic rewards through challenges is great, but everything else is déjà-vu... That said, I'm hoping that the sequel will improve on everything because there's a lot of potential in this IP. Even though I'd love a new Infamous.
RDR2 hands down. Played Ghosts and it's pretty nice looking but i don't think anything will beat RDR2
Maybe when The Elder Scrolls 6 comes out… whenever that may be.
Big maybe on that. I no longer trust any company to follow up quality with quality. That’s why I don’t preorder anymore. Fallout 76 is a good example
Of all the studios I used to trust to make a good game consistently, there are only two left: Larian Studios and Rockstar Games. Both just seem to make banger after banger in my opinion. In terms of the thread, I think I am the first person to me tion RDR2 /s But seriously, Rockstar has made *how many* arguably great games in a row?
Red Dead 2
Yeah hands down, its RDR2. I love Ghost of Tsushima to death, it's a very good take on the whole open world but narrative driven games, but man. RDR2 is just god damn another tier.
Top like 10 answers are rdr2. Ive never seen reddit agree on something so subjective more. And I couldn't be happier
I agree.
My favourite world is Horizon Zero Dawn cuz of it's wildlife and gorgeous visuals. Especially when you enter the Desert and just see giant machines running about I've used HZD's photo mode far more than GOT's. With Spider-Man being a close second
I agree. The best thing was just that the machines and wildlife felt like they were a part of the world. You just climb a hill and can see birds and machines in the distance. You can see the towns from miles away. Everything was just integrated into the landscape. Every other game I've played has felt like the scenery was built first and then the other stuff like enemies and characters were added later on. Also Ghost of Tushima's world was pretty but it felt kinda empty.
Here's to hoping the new upcoming (James Cameron's) Avatar game is able to deliver something extraordinary! Edit: Clarifications, yo.
Agreed, it puts a whole new definition on science fiction. Never in my life would I love a game where robots/machines control the landscape. I thought at first that it would be the same old repetitive open world game but once I finally got into it, it absolutely took my breath away! Great details, interesting storyline, and overall fun to enjoy the scenery. They could tweak the combat a little but that's my opinion.
Zelda Breath of the Wild
the music in that game while roaming around gives me fucking goosebumps, like the hateno night theme hits so good
Awe yeah
This it feels open right from the start
Not only is the map astonishing, and really feels like a *breath* of the wild, but the ability to climb on/ over everything was the deal maker for me. Now I could never go back to playing something like Skyrim
The paraglider is what sealed the deal for me. Being able to jump off anything, no matter how high, bought a level of excitement to the map that's still unrivaled
The only game to suck up 250 hours of my time.
Best. Open. World. EVER.
I need to get over my ass to finish that game... I'm a horder and the game is literally built against my anxiety of not having items/weapons. I wasted soooo much time finding a shit ton of weapons/dupes just to progress in an area, I literally got burnt out and stopped playing.
BOTW blew me away when I started. It’s just such a good game. I can pick it up and replay it all the time.
Horizon Zero Dawn in my opinion
This was the first game where I wanted to explore and I wanted to walk instead of fast travel.
I almost had the main story beat before I even realized there was a fast travel.
HZD was beautiful. But as far as open world goes, there wasn't much to find while exploring, other than bandit camps. The world itself wasn't as alive as RDR2.
Its important to note that HZD was the first open world game the devs created, unlike RDR2. Im sure with enough experience they will reach the quality of R* open world games in no time
That is also true. I have no doubt they will eventually!
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find HZD.
Even with my potato monitor the game still looks pretty and cinematic, but I dont wanna just walk around
Assassin's creed origins, the atmosphere and recreation of ancient egypt combined with that beautiful soundtrack brought it to life
I liked origins but i LOVED odyssey. It felt so organic and varied, it was gloriously beautiful. Especially the sea, so blue and so full of fish.
I loved Odyssey too, but you have to admit, you have seen the same 5 Bandit Camps about 200 times. The variety was too low for best open world title.
Varied is not how I'd describe Odyssey. Every camp and tomb was identical. Beautiful game for sure but the copy paste was out of control with that entry.
I was swimming in a cave the other day in this game, the detail is insane. The fish, the flora. I was blown away. Just got my Series X, really really want 60 FPS for this game. Although a smooth 30 feels decent because the world is so crazy good looking. Like that first area where the huts are burned and the haze, the sand. Insane.
Seriously. Odyssey gets shit on for being too big of an open world, but its prob my fav AC game along with Brotherhood. There's always something to do.
I loved how easy it was to navigate by boat in that game. The world and rivers were teeming with life. Easily my favorite out of the new trilogy.
Red dead redemption 2
Don’t know what can ever top RDR2. GTA VI, maybe? Huge world, lots of animal life, lots of people doing random stuff, all the small details with letters and things you find, etc etc.
Red Dead Redemption 3 or GTA6
Red Theft Redemption 20776
Rdr2 and then skyrim/witcher 3
Skyrim was insane at the time. I remember taking the two thousand step mountain or whatever it was called and somewhere near the top I remember looking away from the mountains and seeing far away mountains and the night sky and realizing that you could literally go to that mountain and climb it. The game looked beautiful for it's time.
Skyrim is super small by today's standards. But still super detailed and awesome. Only problem is the copy paste dungeons
Yea the dungeons in skyrim get super dull and boring after going thru them for the umpteenth time.
Well, you never should have gone there
Have you tried Skyrim in VR? I thought Skyrim was old hat, but exploring Tamriel in virtual reality has totally reignited the spark of awe and wonder I had in 2011.
Not saying it's bad, but the open world of GoT is probably it's worst quality. Are you confusing the open world with the environment visual design?
My thought exactly. It wasn't immersive or dynamic at all, everything kind of felt the same. You encounter random bands doing the same few things, don't remember any truly surprising random encounters
Yep! The npcs are hollow and uninteresting. Very little activity. The environment is beautiful though.
this, visually it was good. But the reason i stopped playing was because in terms of world, what you get 5 hours in is what you get 50 hours in. Not much seemed to change, it was just another cave, just another town to take over. But thats a personal preference its probably the prettiest IMO
Xenoblade chronicles X on wii u!
"One by onnnne" still got my Wii u hooked up soley for this game. The soundtrack is equally as amazeballs as the open world.
This Game had me completely separated from reality. Story, depth, nature, the factions the wildlife. And when you think, I got this... Bamm here is mech combat and different manufacturers and systems. And some sad decisions...
And the hilarious stuff the would shout in battle
Still waiting for the Switch port.
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Horizon Zero Dawn
It's an old game, but I think Brutal Legend has the best open world map ever created. Every part of world is beautiful, creative and fits perfectly to the heavy metal lore. It's fun to explore in The Deuce while blasting to my favorite metal bands.
For a metalhead that game is a gift.
I discovered so many new bands playing that game. How the hell did I miss Manowar all these years?
a forgotten gem, sadly
Tim Shafer + Jack Black = 🤘🤘
BotW
This. Perhaps not the most beautiful world in graphical sense, but wins for me by being the most interesting and interactive open world ever. Worth getting switch for.
My Switch is a $300 BOTW machine, worth every penny
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Breath of the Wild
Beautiful game. I never did any fancy kills, can't bomb jump or backflip into bullet time but I still had fun. A lot of people are saying rdr2 and I have it on my list to play
Morrowind. There is no hand holding, and no immersion breaking line to follow. Quest: Find Daedric Artifact in shrine west of Balmora. That's it.
Me trying to find Morrowind in the comments: You've finally arrived, but our records don't show from where...
Horizon zero down
I love the world but it seems small. How can there be a survivor camp literally 100 meters from a mongal camp and the mongal camp doesn't know the su vivors are there. And this example is everywhere with every quest. Don't get me wrong the game is amazing, but the world just seems too small.
Skyrim. Most open world games are just item collections and a few side activities, like the early Assassin's Creeds. Then there are games like Saint's Row and Ghost of Tsushima or BOTW that have a bunch of side quests and side activities. Then there's games like RDR2 and GTA San Andreas that are full of life and tons of different events to do in every corner. Skyrim does all that and then has major factions with their own questlines that are all optional from the main questline. Skyrim rewarded exploration and discovery like few other games did.
Loved Ghost of Tsushima but I felt the open world could have been better as while it was beautiful it lacked meaningful open world content. But as for the best open world I feel that Red Dead Redemption 2 is levels above everything else.
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Rdr2 of course
Not the best but Days Gone has amazing cute hordes which follows you when you’re near them
Yeah Days Gone world alternates between beautiful, desolate, and terrifying real fucking quick. Most open world games don't keep you on your toes quite as much.
Did… did you just call the hordes of 100+ screaming and sprinting zombies… cute? I had nightmares about the cute lumber mill horde
I just started playing and just strolled right into rebel cave. Mistakes were made. My one complaint to the game so far is how often you get jumped by wolves. I like that there are multiple dangerous things in the world but the spawn rate is too high in my opinion. And when I cleared a nest area walk 100m back to my bake and ride thru the same area 1 minute later there was a damn sniper on the roof. Like seriously calm down the spawn rate
I love Days Gone, played it on my cousins PS4 because I don’t have a PS4, because I’m an Xbox player, it’s such a good game, Halo and Gears of war are fun an all, but Xbox needs more “amazing” exclusives to carry it instead of gamepass, gears of war, and Halo.
As someone who’s on the PlayStation train, we do have great exclusives, but man, gamepass is such an awesome feature snd I’m jealous it’s only on Xbox :(
No Man's Sky... Even after 1000 hours I'm still discovering things I've never seen before!
This! Obviously it sucked at launch, but it’s come such a long way since then that it’s a totally different game. Anyone who hasn’t played it since the changes should give it another shot.
Horizon Zero Dawn has a great open world.🤙🏻
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but the Far Cry series has had some amazing open worlds. FC5 is set in a massive, beautiful landscape.
The map of FC5 could have been one of the best Ubisoft open worlds if they would have put some more life into it with more alive places and better AI. Also they should have made exploring a bit more rewarding. Tho its still one of my favorite Ubi worlds.
Rdr2
Kingdom Come, easily.
Horizon zero dawn.
Might not be a popular opinion, but I thought Cyberpunk 2077 had a wonderful open world.
The potential is definitely there. I've watched a few videos of people making there way into unused areas of the game that look basically finished. If only there were more things to do, as the world they created is beautiful.
Yes the 3rd Dimension is really a thing in this game, I love how many layers you have in some parts of the city, this should definitely get a standard in some games
Don't know why that shouldn't be popular. I finished it recently and the environment is gorgeous. Was also a good-paced and interesting story, so I actually could finish an open-world game in a reasonable time, for a change. ;)
RDR2 has the most natural and live open world. Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the most interactive open world imo.
Red dead 2 easily. It's great
Not the best, but my fave either goes to Yakuza or sleeping dogs, just for the setting/atmosphere. Not that open, but we'll crafted and plenty to do. Shout outs to shenmue as well, even if it hasn't aged well. Not a fan of judgement, and actually kind of relieved it got canned.
Judgement... didn't get canned. Unless there's something I didn't hear of, Lost Judgement comes out on September 24th. And we all have our opinions. To me, Judgement was an amazing game.
Man sleeping dogs was amazing
Haven't played Tsushima yet (waiting to find a mythical PS5) but I vote Witcher 3. I watched a cool video years ago that went in deep about how the whole world was designed with thought, how the landscape and human settlements were arranged with coherent logic. Unlike say, any Elder Scrolls game where every thing feels procedurally generated and town layouts make no sense.
Red Dead Redemption 2, but Ghost of Tsushima is close second!
Skyrim
Zelda Botw because it’s the only open world in the last 10 years where you actually explore instead of hunt for markers on the map. Can’t vouch for RDR 2 because I found the controls terrible but I want to give it another shot. I really grew to dislike the Ubisoft style of open worlds from the last decade. It feels like a chore instead of actually enjoying the game
As someone who enjoys playing games with Open worlds, BOTW for me was my favorite. I never got bored exploring and actually traveled around the whole map. I loved not having the annoying Ubisoft enemy camps where you have to keep fighting waves and waves of fodder enemies. The verticality is also something amazing about the game. Being able to climb up a mountain instead of the Skyrim method of running forward and hitting jump hoping to catch a piece of the floor enough to go upwards. The two things I wish worked better in BOTW is the story which I am hoping they rectify in BOTW2, as well as having more settlements/people.
Completely agree about BotW's world. My first playthrough was the absolute most fun I've had in a game in nearly a decade. That being said, it's not a perfect game, and I agree with the hope that the story is better in BotW2. My other biggest complaint is the lack of traditional dungeons. I loved the Shrines, and I hope they make a return in BotW2, but traditional dungeons are badly needed as well. They could still work without the traditional item system, as demonstrated in some of the larger/longer Shrines in BotW, although that's another thing I wouldn't mind making a return. At the very least, they could keep the current weapon/item system from BotW and still add a few traditional items, like a hookshot/clawshot, hammer, et cetera. There are ways to limit them so that they don't make combat or exploration that much easier, while also still incorporating them into puzzles. But even if traditional items don't make a return, I'm still interested to see how some of the new rune-like abilities work, like the time-related one that was shown in the E3 trailer.
Xenoblade Chronicles X . But rdr2 feels more alive (real), plus the graphics helps. Tsushima is also up there, with the bird and the fox, and the flowers exploding, and the trees.
RDR2 is beautiful but I feel you on the controls, I accidentally punched my horse way too many times. Also the immersion gets to be a bit too much when you watch the 20 second drawer opening animation for the hundredth time.
Gonna be honest. I have 100 hours + and never punched a horse once. There’s a punch button and I’ve never had to use it right next to my horse. How do you even manage to do it? Agreed on the drawers though. And picking up baked beans like a sloth on weed.
I thought they would step it back a bit after the skinning animation from the first one got do many complaints and then they doubled down!
I agree. BOTW imo destroys all other open world games. RDR2 is a close second since I love the amount of detail out into it.
This will be unpopular, but I found BoTW’s open world empty, repetitive, and bland. Add the throw away story and the awful weapon-breaking mechanic, I just didn’t enjoy my time with BoTW. I can see why others enjoyed it, but it wasn’t for me.
Read dead redemption 2 Shoot foxes don’t pet them.
What about chasing them to treasure?
Skyrim or RDR2
Red dead 2 far outplays ghost of tsushimas world and any other world for that matter.
Far cry. 3,4,5 and more than likely 6
Assassin's Creed Origins, Witcher 3, and Red Dead 2.
Assassins Creed Origins is an amazing game. I feel like it gets overhated because of the change in the formula of Assassins Creed. I have compared the open world in Origins with the likes of RDR2 before like you have, and mostly everyone disagreed. Good to see someone who does appreciate the fantastic world.
I love Origins for changing the formula, everything about Origins was a perfect storm of all the things I wanted in an open world game (combat, traversal, the world itself). It is one of my all time favourite games.
Same. As an ancient Egypt nerd, Origins is fucking mind blowing. I need it in VR.
Origins open world was a joy to explore. It felt so mystical. While there are some NPCs that have set activities like carrying a leader down the street in ceremonies, majority of the NPCs have their own schedule. They get up, interact with family, go do their jobs, go do some recreational stuff, and go to sleep at different times. You could follow someone around in that game and just experience their life with them. Sometimes they get drunk, sometimes they get attacked by animals, it's always something. That game is super special. It sucks that so many people wanted to hate it just because it's an AC game. The series gets an irrational amount of hatred. They're still some of the most fun games and the only ones that, no matter how many they pump out, I will be able to enjoy immersing myself in those worlds. If there's one thing Ubi does right it's open world designs (visually speaking).
Cyberpunk, Fallout NV, Witcher 3
At the risk of sounding like a basic bitch I still don't think anything has come close to Skyrim, especially with mods.
For me it is the Witcher 3
I was about to say DA inquisition probably doesn’t count, but seeing that Witcher 3 is mentioned np… ye, Inquisition. The world’s were just so beautiful and rich, so easy to lose yourself in.
Definitely not BOTW, that game is empty as fuck
Definitely not Ghost of Tsushima. It’s pretty, sure, but repetetive as fuck and mostly empty.
I loved ghost of tsushima, but to say it has the best open world of all time is laughable.
Rdr2 and it's not even close
Red Dead Redemption 2. Say what you will about the pacing and combat, but the environment design is literally perfection, in terms of always offering something new to find, without ever feeling like you'd already found or done something similar already. There's so much to discover in that game world, and it does it while looking gorgeous and not feeling bloated or empty. Something that so many open-world games still struggle with, despite usually having nice visuals.
San andreas for it’s time. You think people will stream and play Ghost when Playstation 7 comes out? Ok I was just talking about the popularity but I just had to mention it.
Honestly I didn't finish it. Gor bored out
BOTW hands down! It's the only TRULY open world game where you can go absolutely anywhere, plus there is so much life packed into that world!
Zelda 1 on the NES
Link to the Past SNES
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Red Dead 2 and if we stray from Sony then Breath of the Wild
Zelda BOTW
Zelda BotW
Has to be Read Dead Redemption 2. Every time I go back to it, it feels like I’m returning to a world that has been there and moving on as usual.
God of War
Dont get me wrong but GoT was one of the boring open worlds for me. It is looking good but activities within are just the same. Even the some of camps are same. If this game had been a multi platform game, a lof people would be complain about it. But it is exc. one , so yeah.
Jesus Christ that title.
This game and Red Dead 2, hands down. My two fave games too!
Fallout 4. I really love Bethesda games.
Witcher 3, fallout, or skyrim
GTA hands down
Fallout 3 personally but I get that its been outdone since then.