Open world maps

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>>386293834

How do you even calculate distances in fantasy maps? How does one decide what a "mile" is in WoW and Oblivion?

That comparison seems horribly out of proportion, speaking as someone who has played all of those except Far Cry

Too lazy to find a pic, but Witcher 3 is the only game I feel did open world really well

>>386293834
Since it's really rare that a huge open world is actually filled with content(read: not fetch, kill or go-there-and-take-in-the-nice-view shit) i'd rather have a big hub or linear levels with hand crafted content and narrative. Spent enough time with "go make your own fun" games to last 5 life times.

>>386295198
I just wish people would stop being retarded and realized that the Pokémon world has the same geography as the real world.

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This game was way more fun than expected, and combat while basic was fun to watch; love the graficss.

>>386295198
>Orange Islands
???What game?

>>386296908
its from the anime.

>>386293834
For how little you could play on, Burnout's world should have been larger.

>>386295460
top kek

>>386297905
?

>>386295198
i didn't know half of these existed

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>http://tartarus.rpgclassics.com/btb/world.shtml
Feel like the only person who loved this game.

>>386293834
I never understood using real world units to measure virtual spaces.

It's not like you can actually measure it unlike real life, because everything's arbitrated.

>>386295460
I love this game but the world always felt way too small. Like there are so few locations and the game blows through almost the whole world in the first 10 hours, probably why 3-6 had to do the lazy thing of introducing new worlds. Compare it to 9 where you don't have access to the whole world until the end of Disc 3.

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I hope they revisit this place at some point and flesh the map to include the rest of Chernarus

>>386295667
I'm guessing it's based on what an average human's size would be and then making an estimate based off that. It's still pretty stupid though.

>>386295460
Just realized that, at the first part the group splits up, Sabin completely goes the wrong way. He could have just walked along that river or the coast. Instead he travels across half a continent in the complete wrong direction.

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>>386293834
played the fuckshit out of this stupid game

>>386296539
You would have though that since kanto is a place in japan and its a japanese game.

>>386300331
Fuck...
I wish.

>>386302828
>1000000 miles of nothing
just like the real US I guess

>>386303426
kek, keep crying eurocuck

>>386294189
>schelchberg
kek, I miss the days when you could get away with making fun of jews in games

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>>386304551
>he lives in a flyover state

>>386305010
How about you fuck off cancerous ironic meme normalfag piece of shit, midwest is better than your reddit faggot european ass. Go jerk off ahmed, that's all you're good for.

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>>386305608
But I live in the Northeast Megalopolis.

>>386294189
The island's a dick with no balls.

>>386305608
You're more pathetic than us, how does that make you feel? And shit, you make us look more educated too.
t. southerner

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>>386305732
>90% of his paycheck goes to rent

>>386305932
Trump taking a hit to section 8 housing funding will lower rent

>>386305608

>this insecure

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Dead Rising is honestly the only open world game I've truly loved. Maybe it's because the map is pretty damn small, or maybe it's because there's the time limit forcing you to get a move on and do things, but yeah.

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>>386305932
>the entirety of the northeast megalopolis is in manhattan

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>all these idiots posting maps but not what game

good thing I have literally every game map and every game ever made committed to memory

>>386299350
is that Lego Island?

>>386306885
I think so, the GBC version of lego island 2.

>>386307170
is it better than the PC one?

>>386293834
Where is BOTW compared to these?

>>386307231
Only played the PC version, loved it as a kid. I might be wrong if that's the gbc version, I think it's the gba version.

>>386293834
ya that map is b.s.
Some guy on gtaforums busted San Andreas being that small by comparing the bridge in SF and overlaying it on JC2.

The games have different scaling. You can't use roads

>>386305745
Extremely underrated. Getting a flying robot changes everything too.

>>386293834
the burnout map is incredibly wrong
>normal road in burnout is as wide as an entire block in SA

>>386293834
>big = good
This is why open world games are now shit

>>386298397
if you take the average (human) game character to occupy ~0.25 m^2 of space, you get a reasonable order of magnitude estimate

>>386298481
Chernarus is a top tier map

>>386295198
this is wrong; johto and sinnoh are connected

>>386306807
>Cyrodiil
>Imperial capital
>less urban than Argonia, a swamp, and Valenwood, a wild forest

>>386295902
This.

It's basically the only large game that actually had crafted stories occurring randomly throughout the huge world.

>>386309139
Kvatch was a massive city but it was destroyed.

>>386293834
Just Cause 2 has a small ass map. You can drive around the big island entirely in less than 20 minutes.

>>386310083
Bethesda hasn't done a massive city since Vivec.
And Kvatch can't be as massive as the Imperial city. Too bad it sucks.

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>>386300331
fuck me why didnt this game have splitscreen

>>386293834
Daggerfall truly is the king of games.

>>386310414
vivec is retarded, hardly any people, with copy-pasted buildings.

in what kind of city can you walk around outside and see *nobody* except for the odd guard or gondolier?

>>386295198
Unova is based on New York City not Japan like the previous ones though, that's why there is no pokemon from the earlier regions.

>>386300331
>>386302828
>>386310792
What is it?

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All 3 Guild Wars 1 maps. I love that the game actually lets you map out every corner of the globe yourself and gives you increasingly prestigious Cartographer titles as you progress. Only real shame is that the 3 maps are separated and you can't look at all of them together at the same time.

>>386313464
A map combining the GTA maps. You can see Vice City on the bottom right, or Liberty City on the top right

>>386308932
Which is why those roads in the burnout map are wider than that giant ass stadium in GTA 3.

Must be eighty-lane highways.

>>386313737
>the GTA maps
Only Liberty City and San Andreas are actual GA maps, the rest (Vice City, San Fierro, Las Venturas, and surroundings) are fan-made.

>>386293834
What about ESO? It's like all the elder scrolls games maps added together plus more

>>386316052
More like it's two of the elder scrolls games copy pasted over each other with everything then taken out.

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>>386317040

>>386317040
Gotta admit, that's a really fucking cool concept. Game?

>>386317743
UnderAge

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>>386316646
Good

i miss guild wars.

>>386304827
In GTA 5 there's a building that says Schlongberg-Sachs

>>386319059
GTA 5 was the last game before SJW's destroyed the industry.

>>386313265
I love this game but fuck mine fields.

>>386317226
Fucking stupid. They compiled this from a bunch of throwaway jokes.

>>386319171
Okay, buddy.

>>386293834
>a city block in burnout is the size of the entire map in GTA 3

bullshit

>>386295198
Sinnoh is north of Johto it's not an island.

>>386297450
>have to pay to access 70% of the game world

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>>386319431
GTA 3 was really, really small.

>>386319816
Damn, It didn't feel like Lego Island at the time

>>386319816
doesn't change the fact that the burnout map is not nearly as large at the op image shows

>>386319982
In Burnout you're traveling at 300km/h.
In GTA 3 the cars are incredibly slow and Rockstar used a heap of camera tricks to make it seem fast.

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>>386319982
It's actually bigger, that map cuts off a chunk.

>>386319982
all the roads you see in the burnout map are multiple lanes my guy

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>>386320185
like >>386315286 said, a normal road in burnout is wider that a fucking football stadium in 3, this shit image is just wrong

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>>386320401
You've made the terrible assumption that the stadium is even remotely to scale. Its not.

>>386320669
I hope you're aware that the tank is flying over the stadium in your image, its not actually on the ground

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>There will never be a sequel.

Fuck...

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most intricately crafted open world in existence, but I wouldn't expect the uncultured plebs on here to understand

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>>386320669
the lanes are bigger but the rest of the map and the cars are the right size, it's still a bigger map

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Rest in piece

>>386320792
it isn't that far off the ground, just look at the stadium in the map and compare it to the street. The field is barely wider than the two lane roads, which would make it like 20 feet wide tops. When in reality a football field is 160 feet wide. The one in GTA 3 is just over a tenth the size of the real thing at most.

>>386320669
What are you trying to prove by showing a screenshot of a tank flying above the stadium? He scaling in the OP is completely off, it's based on marketing claims from the publishers themselves, it's not representative of the true comparative map sizes at all.

>>386321059
the image is still bullshit though, I assume the guy that made it just searched numbers from marketing blurbs and did not attempt to do any kind of actual comparison

>>386321059
It's very far off the ground. Trust me, I used to use that same cheat to fly around in the tank all the time. The stadium is massive.

>>386320869
It looks bad, but Pandaria is far more content-dense than Outland. Hellfire Peninsula is especially bad since it's one of the largest zones in the game yet only has 70~ quests.

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I love the official art of the Pokemon maps. They combine a more realistic feel with that grid based OCD satisfaction

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>>386305745
>want to start a new game to experience it all over again
>don't want to lose the perfect-stat weapons I spent days grinding for
just fuck me

>>386307864
>>386305745
I admit I haven't played the game so I could be totally wrong, but this map looks boring

>>386293834
no way burnout paradise is that large

>>386322098
The pic doesn't really give any scale or show stuff like cave systems, but trust me when I say it feels pretty damn big (on foot, at least)

The Burnout Paradise map is scaled incorrectly.
>Paradise City has an area of 26 square miles, and approximately 218 miles of drivable road. This does not include Big Surf Island.
Whoever made this image probably mistakenly used the figure given for the length of all the roads drivable roads in the game as the area.

>>386322461
I'm sure it is but i dislike how it just extends in 3 directions off the starting city instead of being fully interconnected. I'll actually try the game before I judge though

>>386293834
how the fuck is daggerfall so damn big

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>>386323184
Random generation, and you move across the map via a travel system not actually walking. Though you can walk around in the space between actual locations, literally nothing is there.

>>386323184
Procedural generation.

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>>386293834

>>386318935
Why the fuck is New Zealand there

>>386320669
here's a better comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE1BAoT7YhI

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Someday, years from now, this map will be completely filled out and Morrowind will be the most ridiculously huge open world RPG this side of Daggerfall. Other modding communities, are you even trying?

>>386307473
Somewhere between Oblivion and Far Cry 2 probably.

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>>386323616
Greenland and Iceland is also on there as well.

>>386323756
Wait, Tamriel Rebuilt has finally expanded beyond mainland Morrowind?

>>386305745
Oh baby, it's so good

>>386323616
All of strangreal is made by jumbled up real world Geography. Sotoa is Australia, Yuktobania is Eastern Europe + most of Russia. Usea is Western Europe. Wellow is Greenland. Osea is a very distorted North America.

Why was GTAV's map so shit?

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Rest in peace.

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>>386323951
Skyrim Home of the Nords and Province Cyrodiil are by other teams, headquartered over at http://project-tamriel.com/. They each have a release out.
http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44921/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44922/?

They're working with Tamriel Rebuilt for compatibility along the borders of Cyrodiil, Skyrim, and mainland Morrowind though.

>saved this image from 4chan
>it's too big to upload to 4chan
>have to compress it more
I don't understand.

>>386324497
Image size limit varies from board to board.

>>386295667
Abilities have minimum and maximum ranges in WoW, so there already is a distance set.

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>>386324497
The original .png of that is 41,7MB.

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>>386318935
>islamic europan union

>>386324497
this looks like Vvardenfell in eso xD

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>>386324910
will soon to be

>>386325268
Random New World gen is so retarded.

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>>386320669
Dug out my PS2 just for you sweetie.

>>386306509
My nigga

>>386295198
I'm, like, 90% sure Unova is meant to be on a different continent to Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh

Same with Kalos and Alola

>>386320794
fuck kingdoms of amalur

don't know how the got me to play it for 30 hours

it's fun for the first 5 or so then it becomes extremiley boring and i don't know why, since combat is fun (maybe because even on hard it's super easy?

>>386324062
I wish that east was north in real life

>>386325783
Doesn't change the fact that it is a tenth of the size of the real thing.

>>386325783
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>>386326618
>the real thing
It doesn't exist you silly billy

>>386319582
sinnoh is based on the island oh hokkaido tho

>>386326265
>then it becomes extremiley boring and i don't know why,
You're max level before you're half way through the game so everything beyond that becomes a lot less significant. You still have plenty of map before the final boss, the drops are garbage because you probably have more useful equipment of a lower tier and more buff and healing potions than you know what to do with.

>>386320794
I thought the lore was great, something to build upon. God dammit Curt Schilling.

>>386306807
>that 250 miles scale
in your dreams. it's more like 2 miles.

what bothers me with all games since a while is, that so called mountains are way too small. like in skyim the highest point is maybe 400meters high. that's not a mountain.

>>386327138
I wish there was more content in the north desu. Fucking early access garbage.

And even though the south is low level you just get ganked if you go there so what's the point of it even existing?

>>386327385
The scale presented in game does not match the reality of the locations in the lore. Bethesda has made this very clear, they want to leave things open for them to entirely redo regions that they revisit way in the future.

>>386324117
>Islamic Republic of Sotoa
>Australia
It's Africa

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>>386327714

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>>386320618
is this tibia?

>>386320181
Top speed of the cheetah in GTA3 is 230km/h. Just admit you got bamboozled by a shittily calculated image.

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>>386327915
>All of morrowind and surround islands never

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>>386328000
They're getting there.

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>>386324117
Sotoa is clearly Africa. You can clearly see Red Sea, Horn of Africa, Arabian peninsula. Fucking Levant is it Levant. Europa is literally Europe. There's Anatolia, Greece, Italy, Iberia. Up in the north there's Scandinavia and the Kola peninsula and the White Sea.

>>386325268
>whoever controls the Vagina Strait, controls the trade to Europe
Seems cool as fuck.

>>386329047
ah yes, ants row was a good game

>>386305745
came here to post this

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This is the perfect map.

- pretty big, but still reasonably sized
- one large city, a few smaller settlements
- countryside so it isn't just urban areas but not too much
- borders that actually make sense
- no bullshit barriers inbetween that force you to drive halfway around the map to get somewhere

>>386305745
I was checking to see if this was posted. Not disappointed.

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>>386305745

wow lot of people like this map

>>386305745
This and BotW really show how monolith soft is at the top of the open world design game, can't wait for XC2

>>386295902
I liked how ME: Catalyst tried something different with open world. And it worked, mostly.

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>>386328748
I liked the game, but when I have arrived at the Grazelands I loved it.

>>386318473
This looks really familiar. Dragon Warriors 7?

>>386295667
Measure the speed and then just run from the northernmost point to southernmost point and from east/west to west/east as straight as possible. You can measure the speed either by looking on an in-game indicators, like distance to quests or just by finding something with measurements and using it in relation to your movespeed. Map in the OP is wrong by the way

>>386328676
elona makes me so nostalgic

the only map i fully vanquished

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>>386330181

>>386327979
No, this is tibia 3D, Runescape.

>>386295198
This is the most fucking retarded garbage.

>>386330519
This gave me an aneurysm.

>>386295198
Sinnoh was best desu

>>386309616
My nigga. The world was probably the best thing about the Golden Sun games.

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My favorite MMORPG, if only for nostalgia.

>>386320181
Racing games totally lie about the speed you're travelling at though. I mean, start any modern racing game and drive at 80km/h - you'll barely be moving.

>>386329908
10/10

>>386309102
Since when? Its not even possible, johto is for sure connected to kanto, you sirf to kanto in gen 2. So the only available space is the east coast of sinnoh and the west coast of johto but the east coast of sinnoh is ocean.

>>386331973
>Since when?

HG/SS

>>386332060
They just changed it up? That's fuckin weird

>>386332130
Its definitely immersive. Can't forget Sakuragaoka and the other one which I'm forgetting.
https://youtu.be/7Xq-q30Y-IE

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>>386332305
It's the best Japan simulator there is.

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Can't believe nobody actually posted this yet. I am feeling old.

>>386329413
that's spain bruh

>All these open worlds
>Nothing to actually do in them

When will it end?

>>386320975
what game?

>>386332852
Came here to post this

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>>386296571
The world was absolutely amazing. Serpent Isle is great as well - I'd even say that the cities are even better, especially Fawn.

>>386306553
That's what people outside the US think of the US Northeast. An appendage to NYC (and other borough appendages to Manhattan).
t. yuropoor.

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Name a better map

>>386331973
You know that the first four games are all literally real locations from japan, right? And that Orre was specifically stated to be Arizona.

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>>386293834

>>386332981
Legend of Grimrock 2

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>>386333637
If anybody criticises the lack of things to do, I will fight you.

Open world != Sandbox, despite how games have historically conditioned that relation.

>>386293834
why can't rpgs make oceans interesting?
usually, you just get transported from continent to continent by cut scenes, but, when you can sail across the ocean, there is nothing interesting there

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>>386293834

>>386333795
Mafia is one of the few games that will not be trashed upon on /v/ in spite of massive flaws.

>>386305745
my nigga

>>386333869
It's not like oceans are interesting IRL as well. "Interesting" oceans in games have to work in a way fundamentally different than the ones we have; this is a creative task most developers probably shy away from. What could you do? Make the ocean a clusterfuck of storms, kraken and other dangers? Traverse it in a submarine? What about the borders? Filling an ocean under the surface with content would make the size of the game explode; since it is three-dimensional space. And if you just slap a shitton of islands in the middle of the ocean, you could just as well play a cutscene between each of them.

You see, it's just easier that it's done right now.

>>386305745
The ONLY criticism I can find for this map is it failed to make the oceans interesting, be it with giant Tyrant battles over it, or hidden dungeons

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one of the coziest worlds out there

>>386334004
oceans are very interesting IRL
why "the size of the game exploding" a valid excuse? just don't make more land cities, and make a couple of underwater cities
or just get rid of oceans entirely
its just fucking lazy when game developers pad out their games with big oceans with nothing to see, or explore

>>386333904
Mafia, maybe. But Mafia 2 gets pretty regular criticism. Mostly for the treatment of Tommy, empty world, and the DLC.

>>386334204
>oceans are very interesting IRL
Not if you are on a boat. Then they actually appear quiet empty.
>why "the size of the game exploding" a valid excuse?
Because you want to get games at all, I guess.
>just don't make more land cities, and make a couple of underwater cities
or just get rid of oceans entirely
Putting one or two underwater cities is something different entirely than oceans you can feely explore and are interesting enough to warrant that exploration. How would you get to that city? Via a cutscene?
>its just fucking lazy when game developers pad out their games with big oceans with nothing to see, or explore
I'd like to see interesting oceans as much as you do, I just want to outline the problems connected with it.

>>386334612
obviously there is problems
so, if the developer can't deal with those problems, then they should just get rid of the oceans, so only the parts of the game with interesting content exist

>>386334720
Obviously there are problems with every idea in every game, so developers should just give up making games entirely, I guess.

>>386334806
i mean, if the developer has no interesting ideas, then they should not make games
the only things that should be a part of a game world are content, not padding

Would you rather have a smaller map that rewards exploration or a fuckhueg map that makes the world look big for immersion's sake?

>>386296310
Morrowind's paper maps were so good. Why are the new Elder Scrolls maps such boring shit?

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>>386293834
I know it's not open world, but fuck you, it's good.

>>386326658
this post is comfy, but it also makes me realize how lonely iam

>>386315664
>all the old mario kart tracks all over the place
Nice

>>386328213
Morrowind felt like a distant island but it's so close to the mainland...

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Hand drawn maps are the best

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>>386336673

>>386333209
Too bad there's hardly anything worth seeing in most of those systems.

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>>386305745
I remember thinking Silvlia would be a snow area.

I was not prepared.

>>386337250
That's space in a nutshell, though.

>>386320914
Honnestly, pandaria started the theme park mmo thingie. I prefered wotlk style zone but whatever. Argus might just save legion if it's done well. The place looks incredibly polished.

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>>386336102
Well, that's about how it is geographically, it's just the landmass didn't exist in the vanilla game, they only made Vvardenfell.

I'm a big fan of Might and Magic 4-5's drawn maps even though I think 3 and 6 were better designed.

>>386313530
Underrated

>>386337398
Source.

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http://dofus-map.com/

Despites its other shortcomings wildlands has a pretty nice map. There was clearly a lot of time put in to it.

>>386324062
>evil hordes who want to conquer the world

>>386333209
Is this current? When did PL Start taking sov?

>>386319096
>>386319403
>>386319590
Dammit anon, making me remember the overworld music in each game.

>>386337786
https://exhentai.org/g/378522/3ee04f09a3/

>>386339049
>Demophobia
>Vore
How the fuck I did not recognize it the heroine
Thanks anyway anon.

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>>386339246
And it's not soft vore.

It's hard vore.

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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon rising has a huge, incredibly realistic and fun to play map. It feels incredibly good since they fucking scanned and reproduced a real island. It's such a waste, the game is short and it doesn't let you fuck around, and they didn't put some more points of interest
I'm absolutely sure if an autistism fueled community like ARMA took that map it would be awesome to play it

>>386339460
What even

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>>386330063
Dropped

>>386330895
It went to shit after 2003.

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>>386293834
>violin starts paying

>>386300331
i didn't know the midwest was a giant ocean

>>386340405
This is wonderful. However, most of the overworld map is just absolutely nothing.

>>386335350
Fallout 4 lost me pretty quickly, but I have to admit I did like wandering down into the wastes in the south-west and seeing that I was walking off the edge of the boundaries of the map.

>>386340606
>the tutorial in driver
holy shit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vctFJqoG8

>not a single person in this thread has posted this video

kinda disappointed /v/

>>386340853
Is there just an actual high resolution image so I can look at it without the spinning and shit?

>>386340853
>Burnout is oversized as usual.
Shit video.

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The map of Test Drive Unlimited is fucking amazing

>>386340853
maps, that are procedurally generated or divided into zones with loading screens between each zone, shouldn't count shouldn't

>>386295667
Wow has ranges expressed in yards, some addons based their estimation on that.

Open world is the shittiest meme. In those huge maps, the actual, non copypasted content is less than the average non open world game.

>>386341016
Bully was too fucking good.

>>386313265
nice batman/assassin's creed melting pot for the first 10 hours, after that it gets boring pretty fast.

>>386293834
San Andreas for familiarity, Dark Souls for inter-connective between areas, Just Cause 2 as the best fuck around.

>>386335502
TF2 has some amazing maps

>>386324305
>big cities only stem from naval trade

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I liked U9's map