gaming Favorite Open World Game?

[Jessper 735]

Aslo, I forgot: Divine Divinity and DD2. Not well known, but pretty damn great.

 

 

Their games have flaws, which I'm strangely unable to pinpoint. Thank god my amazing analyzing skills.

 

 

That's the great thing about most Bethesda games, they are flawed and buggy and each part alone is pretty mediocre, but as a whole, they tend to be pretty epic. That is if you like freedom on every turn with minimal guidance. And it's the easy modding that makes those one of the best games ever.  

Edited January 20, 2013 by Jessper

[uuunph 288]

I have Morrowwind but never got around to be playing it. Jeez, what am I missing out on?

 

Skyrim and, if you count it, Spore were two excellent free-world games. Fallout looks good enough too.

 

Also, Dawn of The Dragon is an EXTREAMLY underrated game with ridicously great graphics and amazing gameplay. It has free flying for petes sake

 

I'd definitely say give Morrowind a try, if not just to see what everyone's talking about. You play in Vvardenfall, populated by mainland Dunmer, most of which give you a hard time for not being Dunmer, and even if you are a Dunmer, they still criticize you for being an Outlander. Slavery is legal as a native right of Morrowind's people, and the cities are owned by the Empire, or the Great Houses. What I'm trying to say is, there's a lot more in the way of politics and history to the place. It's just a million times more interesting than the later two games. The story is actually good, makes you think about some stuff, if I were to not spoil anything.

 

Level scaling is done very lightly, but don't look up guides or anything. That'll make you terribly OP. Explore at your own rate, and if you manage to find some awesome artifact by chance, then that's awesome. You'll get your ass kicked in the early game though. You have to take it really slow paced.

 

Other than that, combat is terrible. The graphics are terrible. The AI is insanely basic, etc, etc, etc. There's just not much that makes it better than modern games. You probably wouldn't get addicted to it or anything, but again, it's worth going through for one playthrough. Mostly for the story and background of the place. They really, really did that well in comparison to the other two games.

[Guest]

Burnout Paradise is my favourite open world game. I'm pretty sure someone mentioned this earlier, but the world it's set in is admirably unique. I loved driving about in an extremely fast toy car and smashing into others. The ability to do mid-air stunts is also a really neat feature. There's never a boring moment to be had in that game -- I once spent an entire summer in Paradise City. 

[Retro*Derpy 3,186]

1. Fallout 3. It blew my mind

2. SR3. Really fun.

3. Fallout new vegas. Not even close to size as Fallout 3, but still fun to explore.

4. NFS: Underground 2.

5. Midnight Club: LA complete edition

[Radiance64 7,053]

Xenoblade Chronicles- huge huge HUGE environments that are huge, you can do like or more 50 sidequests before ever advancing the story if you want, almost unbelievable that it's a Wii game.

Pokemon- the post-game is open world enough for me, since you're free to do whatever you want then. Mountains of content there, especially in collecting, but you'll stay for the battling.

I'll also mention Bully and Scarface: the World is Yours, which are probably my favorite traditional, non-RPG open world games.

[Yes-Man 597]

The Fallout series as a whole is excellent for me, F:New Vegas in particular!

Jak II is pretty fun, too. If you count it as a open world.

[TheCraftyWhiteFox 371]

i would have to say either skyrim or mh3.  mostly cuz they are really the only ones ive seriously played but also because its my personal favorite style 

[FizzyImp 1,838]

The Grand Theft Auto series is one of my all time favorites for open world mayhem, and Minecraft gets second place.

Saints Row is alright, but it doesn't have the same kind of replay value as GTA. It's wacky, but a little too wacky.

I prefer the sandbox styles of these games, where you can do pretty much whatever you want.

 

Skyrim is incredibly huge and amazingly detailed, but because it's not the kind of world where I can mess around a lot, Skyrim and other games like that get a much lower rank than usual.

[APonyToRemember 31]

Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas are all pretty great along with titles like Oblivion and Skyrim. Fallout 3 is easily my favorite though, I have around 280+ hours or so on that game haha couldn't put it down and I STILL play that and New Vegas on PC from time to time

[Dr. Eggnog 203]

Spider-Man 2 is my favorite open world game.  I love the controls and doing the challenges and finding skyscraper tokens.  Infamous and Skyrim are fun as well.  I'm not really into GTA.

[~ Piston ~ 83]

Fallout 3! Man, I can't get enough of that game. I just love the gameplay and look.

 

I haven't tried New Vagas yet, but alot of my friends think it's not as good.

[Koori 156]

I guess in my case, it's a tie between Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas. Both have a very wide open world where you can freely do whatever you want and in both games you get pretty many random encounters (enemies mostly) while walking around and in both you are either a friend or a foe to specific factions and if you're absolutely hated, you get a bounty on your head one way or the other.