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[WrenchNinja]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KYjq3xbNBY

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/cxqisv/gt-countdown-top-ten-open-worlds

Taking exploration to a whole new level, these games have areas that are tough to move away from. In all the years this genre has been around, what are the best worlds to visit?

10. Deus Ex
09. Lego Marvel Super Heroes
08. Fallout: New Vegas
07. Assassin's Creed II
06. Red Dead Redemption
05. Batman: Arkham City
04. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
03. The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
02. Grand Theft Auto V
01. World of Warcraft

 

[BennyBlanco]

Just wanna take a second to thank you for not spoilering this list, OP.

 

[A-V-B]

Deus Ex isn't open world, it's hub-based.

 

[bathsalts]

lol no Morrowind, throw that list in the garbage.

 

[Creaking]

Deus Ex isn't open world, it's hub-based.

As is Assassin's Creed 2, though they are large hubs. Black Flag would have been a better choice for an actual seamless open world.

 

[Majestad]

No Fallout 4? Hmm.

They should have waited for Xenoblade to make this list.

 

[Karl Hawk]

>Witcher 3 on the list

Jawbreaker and Concept17 am cry

 

[BatDan]

No Just Cause 2? Come on GT.

 

[Garlador]

No Fallout 4? Hmm.

They should have waited for Xenoblade to make this list.

Why wait? Xenoblade's Bionis and Mechonis world is already awesome.

... And, yeah, Xenoblade Chronicles X too.

 

[BatDan]

Why wait? Xenoblade's Bionis and Mechonis world is already awesome.

... And, yeah, Xenoblade Chronicles X too.

Well, the first game is more "hubs" than open world. The hubs are big yes but it's not seamless.

 

[Damigos]

Just wanna take a second to thank you for not spoilering this list, OP.

./love

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Fuck, OP list spoiled me

And where the fuck is MGSV

 

[Cloyster]

No Fallout 4? Hmm.

They should have waited for Xenoblade to make this list.

Fallout 4's open world is a theme park pretending to be an apocalypse. It feels very fake.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Batman Arkham City. On a top ten list for best open worlds.

Nice try GT! You gave it your best!

 

[a916]

Come on OP, at least spoiler tag that.

 

[Lulubop]

Come on OP, at least spoiler tag that.

Spoiler tagging least is a no, no. You come on.

NV should be higher

 

[Alienfan]

Fuck, OP list spoiled me

And where the fuck is MGSV

In the top 10 most boring and lifeless open world lists?

 

[JeffZero]

I prefer FO3's open world over NV's. I should clarify that this is one of very few departments in which I prefer FO3 over NV, but yeah. NV's doesn't do much for me atmospherically.

 

[Coroner]

lol no Morrowind, throw that list in the garbage.

Easily the most memorable open world I've ever experienced.

 

[Majestad]

Fuck, OP list spoiled me

And where the fuck is MGSV

Jocking? The open world of MGSV is garbage. Boring, ugly, monotonous garbage.

 

[epmode]

Jocking? The open world of MGSV is garbage. Boring, ugly, monotonous garbage.

True. But the open design makes the actual base infiltration so much more interesting than anything in the previous games.

 

[Trace]

Everything about this list confuses me. Like there are maybe 2 items on that list that I agree with being RDR and WoW, but the rest just sucks.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Well, the first game is more "hubs" than open world. The hubs are big yes but it's not seamless.

And yet Witcher 3 is there, so I don't think that was the reason

 

[Taruranto]

Gothic 2 still the king.

 

[Dombrowski]

The Witcher 3? Ehhh..

And Fallout 4 is better than everything in the list. Simply because exploration is more rewarding, and its map is not full of marks that tell you "EXPLORE HERE."

 

[Deputy Moonman]

I don't know. It seems like if you include mmorpg's such as WoW, you kind of have to include others too: Guild Wars, Dark Age of Camelot, etc. An mmorpg's open world is going to be far better than any console game. I would have included Ocarina of Time personally.

 

[inm8num2]

I loved exploring Arkham City, solving riddles, taking on side quests, etc. That game world is so wonderfully constructed.

 

[Courage]

The Witcher 3? Ehhh..

And Fallout 4 is better than everything in the list. Simply because exploration is more rewarding, and its map is not full of marks that tell you "EXPLORE HERE."

wat? New Vegas is pretty much the same thing with a more interesting world.

 

[Cloyster]

The Witcher 3? Ehhh..

And Fallout 4 is better than everything in the list. Simply because exploration is more rewarding, and its map is not full of marks that tell you "EXPLORE HERE."

Fallout 4 is seriously a worse open world than every single item on this list.

 

[Xav]

I loved exploring Arkham City, solving riddles, taking on side quests, etc. That game world is so wonderfully constructed.

I agree.

Batman Arkham City is an open world game with the tightness of a linear game. Everything else by comparison just feels big for the sake of it and full of padding.

Batman Arkham Knight is also pretty cool but too many tank battles hurt an otherwise great game.

 

[Dombrowski]

wat? New Vegas is pretty much the same thing with a more interesting world.

The difference being is that the garbage you find in NV is useless, in FO4 it's materials.

 

[Trace]

Fallout 4 is seriously a worse open world than every single item on this list.

Fallout 4 is a better open world than Skyrim at the absolute worst, which should put it at number 4 on this list.

 

[TheDarkKnight774]

I'm disappointed Yakuza isn't on the list.

 

[tuxfool]

The difference being is that the garbage you find in NV is useless, in FO4 it's materials.

Of course. The quantity of garbage available is the determinant of the quality of an open world.

 

[Cloyster]

Fallout 4 is a better open world than Skyrim at the absolute worst, which should put it at number 4 on this list.

I actually forgot Skyrim was on the list. Yeah.

It's better than that.

 

[Acquiescence]

Shenmue and Sleeping Dogs are glaring omissions.

Skyrim's world is bland as fuck. It only takes a few hours of play before you realise a lot of the locales and dungeons are copied and pasted.

 

[Cloyster]

The difference being is that the garbage you find in NV is useless, in FO4 it's materials.

Yeah, I sure do love when I'm walking around this apocalypse theme park where all the park employees give me such "interesting" quests, and then go on their break where they don't need to eat or anything, and have so much interesting trash to make the "world" feel so "real". Instead of, you know, just making an actual cohesive world that makes sense.

 

[valkillmore]

Sorry but GTA 3 needs to be on that list too. That list deserves three Rockstar games.

 

[tuxfool]

I actually forgot Skyrim was on the list. Yeah.

It's better than that.

This puts the whole endeavour on a weird plane:

NV>FO3 (not on the list).
FO4<FO3.
FO4>Skyrim.

how is the list then Skyrim > NV.

The list is broken.

 

[a916]

The Witcher 3? Ehhh..

And Fallout 4 is better than everything in the list. Simply because exploration is more rewarding, and its map is not full of marks that tell you "EXPLORE HERE."

That has nothing to do with the criteria they laid forth....

 

[toddhunter]

Jocking? The open world of MGSV is garbage. Boring, ugly, monotonous garbage.

Isn't that the definition of what a modern open world should be? Certainly all the games on this list tick those boxes.

See Ultima 7 for a real open world.

 

[Kerned]

I'm glad Fallout 4 isn't on this list. It makes sense to wait until something has been out for more than 3 days before tossing it on a Top 10 Best Ever list.

 

[Vincent Grayson]

Fallout 4 is seriously a worse open world than every single item on this list.

You really fucking hate Fallout 4, huh?

 

[hydrophilic attack]

In the top 10 most boring and lifeless open world lists?

Jocking? The open world of MGSV is garbage. Boring, ugly, monotonous garbage.

The open world makes the mechanics of the series really shine, and gives this game the best gameplay in the series by far.

Open world completed the MGS formula for me.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

I'd like World of Warcraft more if it wasn't for the patchwork nature of the map. I'm not even really sure I can call it open world, since each continent is separated. Even the Blood Elf and Draenei starting areas are cut off from the rest of the continents.

I did love Manhattan in LEGO Marvel.

 

[Dombrowski]

That has nothing to do with the criteria they laid forth....

"Taking exploration to a whole new level.."

Admittedly tho, I didn't watch the video (can't at the moment). But what is the point of exploring a world that doesn't reward such act? That's the problem with most open world games, "worlds" that are just pretty backgrounds with no point in exploring them.

 

[Whompa02]

I agree with that list pretty much 100%

Weird...I generally hate this top10 crap

 

[Maligna]

No Shenmue games = Fail.

Those worlds are so dense and real. What with the historically accurate weather and the characters who have a complete daily schedule and relationships with each other.

 

[swearing-circle]

The open world makes the mechanics of the series really shine, and gives this game the best gameplay in the series by far.

I believe that MGS5 uses its open world for a different purpose to the games listed above. Hence why I like it so much.

 

[Vincent Grayson]

"Taking exploration to a whole new level.."

Admittedly tho, I didn't watch the video. But what is the point of exploring a world that doesn't reward such act? That's the problem with most open world games, "worlds" that are just pretty backgrounds with no point in exploring them.

Exploration of an interesting world is its own reward.