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Sunset Overdrive because it made me not care for fast travel.
Problem I have with Xenoblade X's supposedly great world traversal is that, on foot or in a mech, fast travel is just way better. In fact, by the time you get a mech, you've unlocked the mech, you (probably) have the entire map tower'd out, making the mech a novelty apart from its combat use...Xenoblade Chronicles X crushes all. Not just the mechs, but even just exploring on foot. You jump like a kangaroo on steroids.
BOTW easy.
Being able to climb anything without any fuss or muss plus massive verticality and really great terrain variety gives it an easy win. It has to be the best designed open world out there.
Man, a lot of people didn't play Xenoblade X...
Witcher 3, loved to do anything, from traversing the sea by boath, to exploring woods... I liked to go by walk a lot instead of taking an horse, it was such a beautiful place!
Would insta-buy another expansion.
Breath of the Wild is good, but the poor horse mechanics drag the overall score down.
Man, a lot of people didn't play Xenoblade X...
I'm playing Horizon now. Just beat Botw. You can climb but not everything. It's killing me.
Sunset Overdrive. Movement is an art in that game. It's everything. It's honestly the number one reason Insomniac is such a great pick to be making Spider-man.
Sunset Overdrive because it made me not care for fast travel.
Except the posts I quoted are literally saying BoTW does traversal and gliding better than any game, so I'm just listing games that unequivocally does them better. As for Grow Home, i prefer that mechanic to stamina based climbing.
BoTW
Everything is climbable and you can glide anywhere
There's a difference between exploration and traversal...
If BotW had a hookshot, then maybe it would be great at the traversal part. Climbing and running is soooooo slow in the game. Couple that with the stamnia bar...nope. Traversal can become a chore in the game.
Dying Light, Xenoblade X, Gravity Rush, Infamous SS, Just Cause 3, Crackdown, Protoype..all have better traversal methods, and more fun ones too.
To me, the traversal in Saint's Row 4 is the most fun one.