Generation Zero, having zero clue about it except one streamer i watched at the time played it for a video itself and i was interested, bought it on sale and it was easily one of my favorite playthroughs in the modern era of gaming. Maybe not the enemy variety as it's thin being all robots but the audio, the soundtrack, the graphics all REALLY were amazing. Even a buddy of mine who always says "if its nice outside i wont be inside gaming" played it alongside me in coop for weeks! Also, Bioshock, i played it when i came out on the 360 and man , ill never forget that intro of the plane crashing, swimming through an abyss as it was on fire and sinking around you as you arrive onto the lighthouse. Truly, one of my iconic memories for gaming to this day!
found Generation Zero this winter, played about 100 hours, then it started to pall. worth playing for a gameplay process, but don't expect much in case of story and variety of missions.
@@tomekvilmovskiy6547 As someone who got the game years ago, it's definitely one to revisit over time. The devs are continually adding more content and features; imaging my surprise when I came back to the game and was greeted with FNIX enemies (lol). Honestly it's kind of a treat and nothing I've played before really utilizes ambient noise to alert you of distant (and not so distant) threats is such an effective way! Hunters are absolutely terrifying haha
@@ItsMuffinTimePls DLCs mechs - fnix and apocalypse (maybe mechs are the part of a main game now - i don't know; base building was a dlc feature once, now it's a main game) - are fine, maps are fine, but main missions and scenarios are horrible in both dlcs.
I love the detail of Gen 0 where opening car doors to search them turns on the dome light. I know it's a small thing but it's just such an awesome attention to detail that me and my friends loved when we noticed it.
@@Spillow-CNot really…they have similar themes yes but how they’re executed couldn’t be any more different from each other. 4A Games is largely comprised of former STALKER developers who wanted to take the concept of STALKER and take to a whole new direction; being more linear and narrative focus and the Metro novels just happen to be that answer. Stalker focuses more on the survival while Metro focuses more on Narrative and player immersion, so much that I’m shocked it took them this long to finally make a VR game
Horizon concept is so stupid to me, animals/predators/diunosaurs machines in a tribal post apocalypic setting? its so childish and absurd, and the explanations that they give it for that its so forced.
@@Spillow-C that’s cause you didn’t pay attention to the game. Gaia designed the robots to rebuild the world, each having their own functions. Haephestus corrupted that idea, it was the one who built the predator machines. Gaia did have dinosaur machines in mind, but they were never thought to be predators. Each was designed to serve a proper function in the terraforming process, and you can see that throughout the game if you stop and observe them Things got pretty out of hand when humans were denied the knowledge from the previous era by Ted Faro too
@@KDB349 it’s amazing, isn’t it? There’s definitely darkness, like the forced euthanasia for ANYONE who didn’t accept to work for zero dawn, like “the hell, man?! That’s not cool” There’s so much lore on those games, but people are so fast to discard it. They deserve way more attention than they get
Farcry Blood Dragon doesn't get enough love! I also recently played Witcher 3 for the first time and i was surprised how immersive and unique that world was
Bloodborne gets so much praise, well deserved, but it truly is one of the best lovecraftian games around. Its a beautiful world and if anyone remembers the original marketing, they did not sell any of the lovecraftian themes. It was pretty hard marketed as the Gothic or Victorian monster fighting, beasts and the like. So an initial unspoiled playthrough really did feel like a proper lovecraftian adventure, uncovering the truth behind the world and it being far beyond what was initially thought.
Subnautica is very different from the games you listed, but it one of the best open world exploration games you could hope for. Its visually stunning and the building system is great, i also highly recommend Outer Wilds & RDR2
He does things like this in almost every video, it makes me think that he doesn’t really know anything he’s talking about and just reading a script someone else wrote
@@NickRoxx100 He never knows what he's talking about and is TRASH at every game. His soulslike footage is always so embarrassingly bad, like he doesn't even try to learn the mechanics of the games and tries to play them all the exact same way
Morrowind. It gets overlooked these days, but that world, the environment, the fleshed out and detailed cultures... It's so interesting when you dive into it. It's done so well and integrates fantasy concepts so seamlessly that all of the unfamiliar and alien elements feel natural and normal when you are playing. That, to me, epitomizes emersion. Everything in that game makes you say "Whoah! What is that?!" but later just feels so logical and right in that world. Crab-shell houses? Giant jellyfish cows? Legal political assassinations? Wizards in mushroom towers who applaud stealing from them? The whole world being the dream of a godhead and a villain who thinks he is the dreamer? A godlike being who is the result of being eaten and crapped out by a different one? Worship of the demon-like daedra and the moral quandary of it all? Giant bug taxis? EPIC stuff! Elder Scrolls has been becoming more generic fantasy after Morrowind.
I played Morrowind after Oblivion and Skyrim and I still had a moment the first time I got to the Ghost Fence. That had to amazing when the game was brand new and it still makes a statement.
I'm surprised at about half this list, but I think the title was the problem, so I was expecting some truly unique LOOKING worlds, not worlds with unique ideas and mechanics
I downloaded GENERATION ZERO because it was free with PS+ and absolutely loved it. A well-balanced learning curve, an unusual setting, and just a great world to get lost in for hours at a time.
That is true but i quit the game. The new drones are to Hard and that destroyed the fun in this game. Beautiful Landscape Awesome Music and a dense atmosphere, but after the Update it was to hard 😢 sad because it was so much fun.
Introduction in Bioshock is still one of my favorite gaming moments. Just made you say “Damn. This is going to be good.” Game still holds up well today.
Outside of Cyberpunk 2077 and No Mans Sky, Generation Zero might have had the best redemption story the last decade. Such a great game now vs. when it was released. Has some light survival and immersive sim elements (at least as far as the storytelling goes). Fun single player too.
HL2 will forever be the game that blew my mind and nothing has ever come close. From the first use of PhysX to the fully rendered characters on the monitors and TV screens. Just the best and I miss it dearly.
You can still play it, and pretty sure it was havoc not physX. You needed a separate physX card at the time of release as they had not been acquired by Nvidia yet. Pretty sure it was advertised as ATI optimised too
@@kingzach74 I did play the first Horizon. It was very good. I can't say the world itself was all that groundbreaking for me, but definitely a top tier to be sure.
Mira, from Xenoblade Chronicles X, is one-two punch of breathtaking and utterly alien landscapes. Some of it is famiar enough, but then every plant and creature reminds you that you aren't in Kansas...well, LA anymore. Dope atmosheric music for each biome is stellar too. Youd be forgiven for thinking Sylvalum is the "snowy" region with the aesthetic and music, but nope - its a whole ecosystem born of the ash from fiery Cauldros up north. Such a spectacle.
The synthesizer theme song in Gen Zero is top tier stuff. Game play is addicting af lol. Now... if they would just fix the constant hard crashing issue... that'd be super.
@ShyitFard69 tbh w you... it was so bad and I've tried so many different tricks and tips over the course of almost a year I'm having a hard time believing this lol. Here's to hoping, anyway
Generation zero is actually an amazing and fun game. Give it a try. Gun play is nice the world is amazing and huge. And it feels awesome to take down a giant tank or hunter
Since you included 2 games here for being uniquely good at emulating a real world setting (Red Dead Redemption and Sleeping Dogs), Kingdom Come Deliverance deserves a honorable mention for their astonishingly detailed and realistic recreation of parts of medieval Bohemia. Not only the places (which are recreated in a very authentic way), but also medieval etiquette and society and the combat just feel real in that game. The game certainly isn't perfect, since the small Czech developer studio didn't have an AAA budget and it shows in some places, but what they did manage to create with their budget is just amazing.
As far unique post-apocalyptic settings, that isn't Fallout/Metro or TWD/Last of Us types, Mad Max 2015 has a very desolate, yet beautiful, wasteland filled with interesting lore and characters.
I have a huge love and appreciation for the first two Bioshock games and that's probably the reason why I played them over and over again because it never got old.
Fallout 3 did it for me. I cannot put into words the immersive feeling of shock at leaving the vault and seeing the Capital Wasteland for the very first time.
Generation Zero mentioned, gotta love that. This game gets too little recognition, thank you so much for showing it off like this and even including it as the thumbnail
Big Zelda fan here and I agree with MyRealName. I won’t lie and say the horizon games aren’t fun because they were and if I liked dinosaurs then maybe I’d agree with you. I think I was the only kid in the 80’s and didn’t give a shit about dinosaurs
Yes to both of those games. Still haven’t found a world bursting with ideas and so interactive as BOTW and TOTK with the physics system. The air kingdom may be short but I still had about 20 hours exploring it and figuring out to get from one air island to other, or skydiving down inside Islands, swimming up streams to the water temple from a cavern, then hopping from bubble to bubble. The depths may outlive their welcome but I still had another 20-30 hours of frantic fun, carefully edging forward, as mapping the unknown, solving the fire temple, raiding the yiga, discovering treasures, and it has probably the best side quest in the game finding Master Kohga . HFW may not be as interactive (you can’t go anywhere) but it’s a gorgeous world with so much variability and sometimes I boot it up just to swim. And it’s a joy to explore- there’s so much attention to detail.
Generation Zero shows quite a bit of age at times but its just one of those games worth playing because there's nothing else like it, super accurate list for this one
Honestly Gameranx needs to make at least a part 2 or even a part 3 of this type of video because damn you missed out some very very obvious choices here. I can think of several off the top of my head: Minecraft, Baulders Gate 3, Grounded, Elder Scrolls worlds, ANY final fantasy game, Sea of Thieves, AC games (more particularly Black flag), Small Soldiers, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Far Cry games, Mario and Mario Kart, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Pokémon for crying out loud and there are so many more that deserve to be on this list...these genre defining games have spawned hundreds, if not more, of games trying to create a world as unique as theirs but simply cannot replicate what these games did and have done to make their defining mark on the gaming industry. 💁🏼♂️👌🏽
@@MistorDi clearly you have misunderstood "like no other" because as I stated in my comment, others have tried but failed to create what makes these games defining...making them "like no other" as you say.
The world needs another Sleeping Dogs. That game was truly amazing. It wasn’t even a genre that would normally appeal to me but when I got it for a steep discount and started playing I fell in love with it so quickly. The setting was for sure awesome but the whole game was just awesome.
I cannot believe Xenoblade Chronicles 1 isn't on there. You literally live on a titan that died fighting a mechanical titan. You can literally see the other titan looming over you at multiple times.
I have said it before, will say again, Sleeping dogs is criminally underrated, ya the driving kinda sucks, but the hong kong environment, the combat, the story, everything is so good, it should have been a series.
World of Darkness in general is a unique setting. From "Vampire: The Masquerade," "Werewolf: The Apocalypse," and "Hunter: The Reckoning" to lesser known titles now like "Mage: The Ascension," "Wraith: The Oblivion," and "Changeling: The Dreaming."
Any SuperGiant game could be on here, but Bastion in particular. The fact the world was literally falling apart around you and you "built" pieces of it as you walked around was so unique. Also still one of the biggest tear-jerker moments in gaming with Zulf.
What the hell? Mass Effect has one of the best worlds I've ever seen. When you have all the lore & backstories of enemies, allies, reapers & alien races. Different planets & solar systems, everything. Like our galactic core being a mass of countless black holes where the reapers live until they roam the universe wiping out all intelligent life. Just amazing! Just think Halo, but go far above & beyond.
I really enjoyed Generation Zero as well! Wish it could've come out as a singleplayer game instead with more in-depth writing. The world has so much potential. They already got the gameplay and open world exploration down so I hope they can consider it.
Honestly the Lies of P world is a great one as well on par with Bloodborne, which heavily influenced it. The only thing I didn't quite like about it was that it needed a little bit more room to explore. I don't think it should have been open world but it could have been opened up some more to let you see more of the world they built.
Bioshock will always stand out in my memory because of a friend of mine. She had it on X360, and was still using a standard definition TV. Finally, a year later, she got an HDTV and she started up a new game of BIoshock and said, "The walls have textures!" I said, "Yes, [her name], they do. We weren't telling you to get an HDTV because it was the latest shiny thing, we were telling you to do it because you were missing out." Needless to say, she was blown away by the graphical differences between SD and HD as she played the game for the umpteenth time, but truly seeing it the way it was meant to be seen for the first time. I'd like to see Bloodborne brought to PC along with The Order: 1886.
@@jponz85 Spoilers: Once you beat SotC and are reborn (after being afflicted with a curse in a forbidden land) you're reborn with horns. In Ico, you play as a boy who is cast out of his village because all those born with horns are considered cursed. Seems like they at least share the same universe.
Generation Zero made me think they may have been inspired by the artwork / worlds of Simon Stålenhag. Tales From The Loop book/artwork originally published in 2014 was/is about an alternate Sweden of the 80s that's dystopian, the tech is old/retro/futuristic. But the game, from the scenes you showed has a first person shooter aggression that is not in the artwork / TV series or role playing games based on Stålenhag's art books. The game didn't look great (destroying robots with what looks like a conventional pistol, meh) but I'd 100% play a game in that type of setting.
*Number 10:* Dishonored *Number 9:* Fallout 3 *Number 8:* Bioshock *Number 7:* Red Dead Redemption 2 *Number 6:* Generation Zero *Number 5:* Sleeping Dogs *Number 4:* Half life 2 *Number 3:* Elden Ring *Number 2:* Psychonauts 2 *Number 1:* Bloodborne Leave a like and comment if you want more of these
@@ezioauditoredafirenze8352 your comments are full of worse grammar mistakes too. Using words like would, instead of could, or there instead of are. Maybe worry about your use of them, then worry about the minor things like a hyphen, or capital letters
wait, no Skyrim? No Witcher 3? Both still holding up despite being older. I'm a little shocked, but I guess we have to be fair to include other games every once in a while!!!
Morrowind : The dusty volcanic ash setting, along with many under water caves , Marshy Landscape , city of vivec. Maybe I am talking to no one here but this game is one of the best.
The only problem is that it gets pretty shit after the tutorial. Literally every mission after that is: turn on radio, hear gunfire or panic, run to area, find dead people or a note that adds a little to the lore, do it again. Same with the bunkers actually, they are good to do but after that it’s just that 😭
@@alterego6075 of course! I agree it’s pretty fun but it has huge flaws. Especially with quests. The only enjoyable ones I have seen are the one in the DLC, but I don’t wanna pay for that ngl
The key part of Lovecraft's mythos isn't that the pantheons are antagonistic to us, it is their indifference that defines much of them (excepting some curious aliens or resource exploiting ones). Their presence is malign to us but our casualties are collateral to their own machinations.
seriously, wtf? Witcher 3's open world is so dense and filled with variety it should have been on the top of this list. The open world of that game is still being cloned by various games
@@LuriTV you didn’t play it, did you? It’s not the setting or the look; it’s the FEEL. You become immersed in TW3 and every little side quest is better than many main quests in most games. You feel like you’re having an impact on peoples lives and making the world a better place… unless you role play as a bad guy.
Sleeping dogs is heavily underrated, not only is it architecture beautiful and neon but it’s car combat is surprisingly very fun, I spent hundreds of hours in that game just driving around.
A list of 10 game worlds like no other and you don't mention Horizon? A tribal, post-apocalyptic world where you fight robot dinosaurs? Also, the Remedy connected universe. Sam Lake and Remedy are the masters of weird, meta story-telling. Basically, Sam Lake is Finnish Kojima.
Bloodborne is a must play. The first time when the transition happens, it’s really a wtf moment. And later to realize the game was setting it up all along, slowly as the moment drew closer. Everything gets a little darker, enemies get a bit crazier etc.
Bloodborne popped into my mind as soon as I saw the title, glad to see it's given proper recognition. There are 2 more titles I want to add: Soul Reaver (Legacy of Kain) and Astro's Playroom. They were released ages apart, and belong to different genres, but both stand out, are highly underrated, and quite memorable once you get into them. You'd be very hard pressed to find others exactly the same.
Title says " worlds like no other" then you feature places like America... and... Hong Kong, when there's games like Horizon that take place in the most beautiful post-apocalypse ever overrun by eco-friendly robot dinosaurs. Or Brutal Legend which looks like an 80's metal album everywhere you go. Okami: like living in a caligraphy drawing, Doom: Sci-fi Hell, Ratchet & Clank: an entire universe of weirdos, Crash Bandicoot: tropical chaos, South Park: city of cutouts. Kirby: a star shaped planet. And that's not even mentioning anything indie.
The design of a Gane's World is so important. A unique and good one can make the entire game worth playing on its own. Games like that for me were Rain World and Hollow Knight. The former especially. There's so much work being put into the environments that it astounds me.
Jak 2 Renegade from the PS2. Man this game was just incredible they completely overhauled everything from the combat to world traversal and the atmosphere is great
Half Life: Alyx is one of my absolute favorite VR games. It's just STUNNINGLY beautiful. Even though it takes a decent gaming PC to run it, it's absolutely worth it. And the VR mod for Half Life 2 is amazing as well.
Obligatory shout out to Myst for having such fascinating lore to justify its book-based world-hopping and then executing it SO WELL for the tech they were working with.
The original ni no kuni’s world had me engulfed further than many games had in a very long time. I recommend everyone explore it, really like no other.
really important tip about generation zero is if you are playing with friends. if you are the host and are doing your quest, make sure you are the one that grabs any documents or you are the one to finish the quest otherwise it gets completed but doesn't move you on to the next quest and can botch your entire game. idk if this has been patched but it happened to me
There's something really unique about going back and playing Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl. Stalker 2 is about to come out so I wanted to go back to the previous games. The OG Stalker game with the DLC is a bit janky, but very atmostpheric with you being stuck in a giant exclusion zone after Chernobyl.
The Oldest House, from Control, is simply the pinnacle of surreal architecture and atmosphere. Love it.
I absolutely love Control.
I'd call it brutalism. Magical brutalism.
Control was amazing
just installed yesterday to experience the amazing game once again.
🤌🤌🤌
Generation Zero, having zero clue about it except one streamer i watched at the time played it for a video itself and i was interested, bought it on sale and it was easily one of my favorite playthroughs in the modern era of gaming. Maybe not the enemy variety as it's thin being all robots but the audio, the soundtrack, the graphics all REALLY were amazing. Even a buddy of mine who always says "if its nice outside i wont be inside gaming" played it alongside me in coop for weeks!
Also, Bioshock, i played it when i came out on the 360 and man , ill never forget that intro of the plane crashing, swimming through an abyss as it was on fire and sinking around you as you arrive onto the lighthouse. Truly, one of my iconic memories for gaming to this day!
found Generation Zero this winter, played about 100 hours, then it started to pall.
worth playing for a gameplay process, but don't expect much in case of story and variety of missions.
@@tomekvilmovskiy6547 As someone who got the game years ago, it's definitely one to revisit over time. The devs are continually adding more content and features; imaging my surprise when I came back to the game and was greeted with FNIX enemies (lol). Honestly it's kind of a treat and nothing I've played before really utilizes ambient noise to alert you of distant (and not so distant) threats is such an effective way! Hunters are absolutely terrifying haha
@@ItsMuffinTimePls DLCs mechs - fnix and apocalypse (maybe mechs are the part of a main game now - i don't know; base building was a dlc feature once, now it's a main game) - are fine, maps are fine, but main missions and scenarios are horrible in both dlcs.
I love the detail of Gen 0 where opening car doors to search them turns on the dome light.
I know it's a small thing but it's just such an awesome attention to detail that me and my friends loved when we noticed it.
Damn I’m glad y’all were able to enjoy it , my experience was constant bugs made the robots get stuck so easy kills . Ruined it for me
Metro series should get a mention. No other game captures that slavic post apocalyptic setting
Moscow but developed by Ukrainian devs
The whole Metro series is amazing. It's been a couple years, so I'm due for my 3rd run soon lol.
Stalker did
Metro is kinda of a Stalker rip-off tho
@@Spillow-CNot really…they have similar themes yes but how they’re executed couldn’t be any more different from each other. 4A Games is largely comprised of former STALKER developers who wanted to take the concept of STALKER and take to a whole new direction; being more linear and narrative focus and the Metro novels just happen to be that answer.
Stalker focuses more on the survival while Metro focuses more on Narrative and player immersion, so much that I’m shocked it took them this long to finally make a VR game
Fallout 3 when the Wasteland first comes into focus after you leave the Vault still gets me.
I hear you, fallout 3 really nailed that post-apocalypse atmosphere and conveying feelings of despair. Definitely my favorite fallout.
yeh that shit creeped me out playing it along. dont think any other games atmosphere made me feel depressed
fallout 3 and red faction: geurrilla still have a fond spot in my heart
Horizon immediately jumps to my mind
Say what you want about the game, I’d never seen lush world being rebuilt by dinosaur machines lol
The games are great. Dark as hell but at the same time beautiful and hopeful. Never saw anything like Horizon
Horizon concept is so stupid to me, animals/predators/diunosaurs machines in a tribal post apocalypic setting?
its so childish and absurd, and the explanations that they give it for that its so forced.
@@Spillow-C that’s cause you didn’t pay attention to the game. Gaia designed the robots to rebuild the world, each having their own functions. Haephestus corrupted that idea, it was the one who built the predator machines. Gaia did have dinosaur machines in mind, but they were never thought to be predators. Each was designed to serve a proper function in the terraforming process, and you can see that throughout the game if you stop and observe them
Things got pretty out of hand when humans were denied the knowledge from the previous era by Ted Faro too
@@KDB349 it’s amazing, isn’t it? There’s definitely darkness, like the forced euthanasia for ANYONE who didn’t accept to work for zero dawn, like “the hell, man?! That’s not cool”
There’s so much lore on those games, but people are so fast to discard it. They deserve way more attention than they get
@@Spillow-Cjust so you know comments can be deleted
Farcry Blood Dragon doesn't get enough love!
I also recently played Witcher 3 for the first time and i was surprised how immersive and unique that world was
Aerondight slays all ⚔.... monsters
Ehem I got the bad ending for the witcher3 in my blind playthrough, GL.
Dlc for the Witcher 3 is completely worth it btw
Bloodborne immediately comes to mind. So dark, gothic and lovecraftian
Bloodborne gets so much praise, well deserved, but it truly is one of the best lovecraftian games around. Its a beautiful world and if anyone remembers the original marketing, they did not sell any of the lovecraftian themes. It was pretty hard marketed as the Gothic or Victorian monster fighting, beasts and the like. So an initial unspoiled playthrough really did feel like a proper lovecraftian adventure, uncovering the truth behind the world and it being far beyond what was initially thought.
Quake 1 has some serious Lovecraftian vibea
Bloodborne is loved by everyone but sony acts like it never existed
ZZzzZzz
Subnautica is very different from the games you listed, but it one of the best open world exploration games you could hope for. Its visually stunning and the building system is great, i also highly recommend Outer Wilds & RDR2
yeah, this list is kinda lacking and underwhelming
Falcon, my man, I didn't know what to think when you called the city in Rdr2 "Saint Dennis"
He does things like this in almost every video, it makes me think that he doesn’t really know anything he’s talking about and just reading a script someone else wrote
I was SHOOK
@@NickRoxx100 He never knows what he's talking about and is TRASH at every game. His soulslike footage is always so embarrassingly bad, like he doesn't even try to learn the mechanics of the games and tries to play them all the exact same way
@@NickRoxx100 he's obviously being sarcastic, if you've been around the channel long enough you'll know
@@tjmoore2356no he’s not, he genuinely doesn’t know it’s French and it’s pronounced “Saint Duh-Knee”
One of the main reasons why I play any Final Fantasy game is for the game’s world. The developers always come up with the coolest things.
Final Fantasy worlds have always been ambitious, even the 8 but games. Fantastic stuff.
Morrowind.
It gets overlooked these days, but that world, the environment, the fleshed out and detailed cultures... It's so interesting when you dive into it. It's done so well and integrates fantasy concepts so seamlessly that all of the unfamiliar and alien elements feel natural and normal when you are playing. That, to me, epitomizes emersion. Everything in that game makes you say "Whoah! What is that?!" but later just feels so logical and right in that world.
Crab-shell houses? Giant jellyfish cows? Legal political assassinations? Wizards in mushroom towers who applaud stealing from them? The whole world being the dream of a godhead and a villain who thinks he is the dreamer? A godlike being who is the result of being eaten and crapped out by a different one? Worship of the demon-like daedra and the moral quandary of it all? Giant bug taxis?
EPIC stuff! Elder Scrolls has been becoming more generic fantasy after Morrowind.
I played Morrowind after Oblivion and Skyrim and I still had a moment the first time I got to the Ghost Fence. That had to amazing when the game was brand new and it still makes a statement.
Gameranx : naming 10 dark adult worlds.
Me, 34 years old : I just want my little house in Pallet town, living with my bulbasaur.
Awh 🥹
Good choice
I'm surprised Skyrim and CyberPunk2077 are not here
None of the Final Fantasy games either.
Yeah i was waiting for him to say those two lol
Skyrim no, Morrowind yes.
@@danbardos3498 Skyrim and Morrowind are in the same world lmfao
I'm surprised at about half this list, but I think the title was the problem, so I was expecting some truly unique LOOKING worlds, not worlds with unique ideas and mechanics
I downloaded GENERATION ZERO because it was free with PS+ and absolutely loved it. A well-balanced learning curve, an unusual setting, and just a great world to get lost in for hours at a time.
That is true but i quit the game. The new drones are to Hard and that destroyed the fun in this game. Beautiful Landscape Awesome Music and a dense atmosphere, but after the Update it was to hard 😢 sad because it was so much fun.
@@denniskremer4036 One thing I did love was the unfolding of the story, with nothing being spoon-fed to you and everything being discovered in-world.
10 games that developers clearly ignored their fan base
Every game since 2013
Insert most EA/ubisoft games
Saints row
Red Dead Online
Paper Mario 😢
RDR2 starting to show its age????
Right like naw bro I feel we're starting to show our age more than the game. 😅
Yeah, that's honestly a ridiculous thing to say lol.
Me hearing that: 👴🏻
I thought the same thing. I was like huh? Maybe RDR 1. Not RDR 2. It's beautiful
No. It’s not lol
Introduction in Bioshock is still one of my favorite gaming moments. Just made you say “Damn. This is going to be good.”
Game still holds up well today.
Outside of Cyberpunk 2077 and No Mans Sky, Generation Zero might have had the best redemption story the last decade. Such a great game now vs. when it was released. Has some light survival and immersive sim elements (at least as far as the storytelling goes). Fun single player too.
I agree with you on cyberpunk 2077 but no mans sky is kinda empty
HL2 will forever be the game that blew my mind and nothing has ever come close. From the first use of PhysX to the fully rendered characters on the monitors and TV screens. Just the best and I miss it dearly.
You can still play it, and pretty sure it was havoc not physX. You needed a separate physX card at the time of release as they had not been acquired by Nvidia yet. Pretty sure it was advertised as ATI optimised too
Came here to say this. HL2 was so incredible when it came out.
Play the Horizon series, it will blow your mind with incredible gameplay and massive open worlds that are just incredibly detailed.
@@kingzach74 I did play the first Horizon. It was very good. I can't say the world itself was all that groundbreaking for me, but
definitely a top tier to be sure.
Mira, from Xenoblade Chronicles X, is one-two punch of breathtaking and utterly alien landscapes.
Some of it is famiar enough, but then every plant and creature reminds you that you aren't in Kansas...well, LA anymore.
Dope atmosheric music for each biome is stellar too. Youd be forgiven for thinking Sylvalum is the "snowy" region with the aesthetic and music, but nope - its a whole ecosystem born of the ash from fiery Cauldros up north.
Such a spectacle.
Speaking as a Kansan, that's pretty much how I imagine LA to be. They've even got unfathomable fashion senses, just like LA!
I was surprised no Xenoblade on this list. It has the best landscapes and world.
The Horizon series not on this list is criminal. But at least Dishonored got a mention. I really loved the lore in the 1st game
Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West were gorgeous and seeing the modern world in a post apocalyptic setting reshaped by machines was very unique.
I love Generation Zero. I get a vibe from it that I cannot get from any other game. Thanks for mentioning it.
Love to see Generation Zero in this video. It's so unique ❤
Glad to see Dishonored getting some love
The whole series.
The synthesizer theme song in Gen Zero is top tier stuff. Game play is addicting af lol.
Now... if they would just fix the constant hard crashing issue... that'd be super.
Youre in luck then, the team at SR is working on crashes and game breaking bugs weekly
@ShyitFard69 tbh w you... it was so bad and I've tried so many different tricks and tips over the course of almost a year I'm having a hard time believing this lol. Here's to hoping, anyway
I quit the game after the Update with those annoying drones. To hard to destroy
Generation zero is actually an amazing and fun game. Give it a try. Gun play is nice the world is amazing and huge. And it feels awesome to take down a giant tank or hunter
I'd say this list is definitely missing subnautica
Thing is though. The world in Subnautica does not really stand out as being unique.
Ah yes, just your standard underwater alien planet. Unlike the extremely unique setting of Sleeping Dogs, Hong Kong...@@Dr904
@@Dr904 Neither does Elden Ring or Bloodbourne but they are both near the top of this list for some reason.
@@Dr904 What other game has an open world ocean full of monsters that you can fully explore?
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I feel a part 2 is needed 😏
Since you included 2 games here for being uniquely good at emulating a real world setting (Red Dead Redemption and Sleeping Dogs), Kingdom Come Deliverance deserves a honorable mention for their astonishingly detailed and realistic recreation of parts of medieval Bohemia. Not only the places (which are recreated in a very authentic way), but also medieval etiquette and society and the combat just feel real in that game. The game certainly isn't perfect, since the small Czech developer studio didn't have an AAA budget and it shows in some places, but what they did manage to create with their budget is just amazing.
As far unique post-apocalyptic settings, that isn't Fallout/Metro or TWD/Last of Us types, Mad Max 2015 has a very desolate, yet beautiful, wasteland filled with interesting lore and characters.
Metro trilogy don't get enough love
The introduction to rapture, even after years of replaying bioshock, gives me goosebumps every single time
Being a Generation zero update tester seeing this game being shown here makes me smile a bit, hoping more people come to the game.
I have a huge love and appreciation for the first two Bioshock games and that's probably the reason why I played them over and over again because it never got old.
Fallout 3 did it for me. I cannot put into words the immersive feeling of shock at leaving the vault and seeing the Capital Wasteland for the very first time.
The first Far Cry when one exits the cave.
Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time. It's perfect
A 9yr old game already! Time flies...
Generation Zero mentioned, gotta love that. This game gets too little recognition, thank you so much for showing it off like this and even including it as the thumbnail
The Horizon games and Zelda should have made this list
Zelda isn't a world like no other thanks to copy cats..
Big Zelda fan here and I agree with MyRealName. I won’t lie and say the horizon games aren’t fun because they were and if I liked dinosaurs then maybe I’d agree with you. I think I was the only kid in the 80’s and didn’t give a shit about dinosaurs
Yes to both of those games. Still haven’t found a world bursting with ideas and so interactive as BOTW and TOTK with the physics system.
The air kingdom may be short but I still had about 20 hours exploring it and figuring out to get from one air island to other, or skydiving down inside Islands, swimming up streams to the water temple from a cavern, then hopping from bubble to bubble.
The depths may outlive their welcome but I still had another 20-30 hours of frantic fun, carefully edging forward, as mapping the unknown, solving the fire temple, raiding the yiga, discovering treasures, and it has probably the best side quest in the game finding Master Kohga .
HFW may not be as interactive (you can’t go anywhere) but it’s a gorgeous world with so much variability and sometimes I boot it up just to swim. And it’s a joy to explore- there’s so much attention to detail.
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Generation Zero shows quite a bit of age at times but its just one of those games worth playing because there's nothing else like it, super accurate list for this one
Falcon keeping us guessing with the pronunciation today
Yeah, Wei Shen being pronounced Why Shen 😂
Saint Dennis cracked me
I spent so much time in Generation Zero. I get the reviews since it's a bit rough around the edges, but it's still a lot of fun.
Honestly Gameranx needs to make at least a part 2 or even a part 3 of this type of video because damn you missed out some very very obvious choices here.
I can think of several off the top of my head:
Minecraft, Baulders Gate 3, Grounded, Elder Scrolls worlds, ANY final fantasy game, Sea of Thieves, AC games (more particularly Black flag), Small Soldiers, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Far Cry games, Mario and Mario Kart, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Pokémon for crying out loud and there are so many more that deserve to be on this list...these genre defining games have spawned hundreds, if not more, of games trying to create a world as unique as theirs but simply cannot replicate what these games did and have done to make their defining mark on the gaming industry. 💁🏼♂️👌🏽
Did you miss “like no other” part or have difficulty understanding it? You've managed to score zero with all your shots.
@@MistorDi clearly you have misunderstood "like no other" because as I stated in my comment, others have tried but failed to create what makes these games defining...making them "like no other" as you say.
Generation zero never gets mentioned anywhere but it’s just so fun to play with some friends
The world needs another Sleeping Dogs. That game was truly amazing. It wasn’t even a genre that would normally appeal to me but when I got it for a steep discount and started playing I fell in love with it so quickly. The setting was for sure awesome but the whole game was just awesome.
I cannot believe Xenoblade Chronicles 1 isn't on there. You literally live on a titan that died fighting a mechanical titan. You can literally see the other titan looming over you at multiple times.
Yep, I came looking for this comment. Great list, but the first Xenoblade was the first thing I thought when I saw the vid title.
Probably because it's a list of 10 worlds not 10 worlds + a million suggestions from viewers. Hard to fit more than 10 into the number 10 ^^
@@NocnaGlizda Ehhh I would say it's easily hands down the number 1 hence why Im surprised it ain't on here.
I have said it before, will say again, Sleeping dogs is criminally underrated, ya the driving kinda sucks, but the hong kong environment, the combat, the story, everything is so good, it should have been a series.
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodline's World of Darkness imo is one of the goat.
Haunted House level was a masterclass in how to horror without cheap jumpscares.
@nvelsen1975 had a few jumpscares, but indeed a masterclass. The whole game was genius imo.
World of Darkness in general is a unique setting. From "Vampire: The Masquerade," "Werewolf: The Apocalypse," and "Hunter: The Reckoning" to lesser known titles now like "Mage: The Ascension," "Wraith: The Oblivion," and "Changeling: The Dreaming."
@AdderTude Mage the Ascension is genius stuff. Though it must be super hard to adapt to a videogame.
Any SuperGiant game could be on here, but Bastion in particular. The fact the world was literally falling apart around you and you "built" pieces of it as you walked around was so unique. Also still one of the biggest tear-jerker moments in gaming with Zulf.
What the hell? Mass Effect has one of the best worlds I've ever seen. When you have all the lore & backstories of enemies, allies, reapers & alien races. Different planets & solar systems, everything. Like our galactic core being a mass of countless black holes where the reapers live until they roam the universe wiping out all intelligent life. Just amazing! Just think Halo, but go far above & beyond.
Agreed!
I really enjoyed Generation Zero as well! Wish it could've come out as a singleplayer game instead with more in-depth writing. The world has so much potential. They already got the gameplay and open world exploration down so I hope they can consider it.
Ahh Bloodborne. The sound design and music alone is my favorite of all time.
Honestly the Lies of P world is a great one as well on par with Bloodborne, which heavily influenced it. The only thing I didn't quite like about it was that it needed a little bit more room to explore. I don't think it should have been open world but it could have been opened up some more to let you see more of the world they built.
Generation zero has changed a lot from release. It's a lot more fun now.
Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time. I'd like to hunt in 60 fps on PC, Sony.
the horizon series not being here is criminal
Why? Enslaved isn't here and that looks like a spiritual predecessor.
💯%. The world building in the series is amazing. Not to mention how absolutely gorgeous it looks.
Bioshock will always stand out in my memory because of a friend of mine. She had it on X360, and was still using a standard definition TV. Finally, a year later, she got an HDTV and she started up a new game of BIoshock and said, "The walls have textures!" I said, "Yes, [her name], they do. We weren't telling you to get an HDTV because it was the latest shiny thing, we were telling you to do it because you were missing out." Needless to say, she was blown away by the graphical differences between SD and HD as she played the game for the umpteenth time, but truly seeing it the way it was meant to be seen for the first time.
I'd like to see Bloodborne brought to PC along with The Order: 1886.
I'm amazed that the Forbidden Land from Shadow Of The Colossus didn't make this list.
I mean, it’s right there! They put it in the intro! Terrible mistake not to include it - there are communities devoted to just exploring that world.
Sotc...ico...
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Aren't they the same world? 🤔
@@pc4mlc451 they look alike but no
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Spoilers:
Once you beat SotC and are reborn (after being afflicted with a curse in a forbidden land) you're reborn with horns. In Ico, you play as a boy who is cast out of his village because all those born with horns are considered cursed.
Seems like they at least share the same universe.
Xenoblade 1comes to mind for me.The world is two giant bodies of dead gods in a endless ocean.I remember being overtaken by wonder.
Can't agree more, it's such an unique concept which really changes the concept of location when every location is a body part.
Fallout 3 was my favorite in the series It had that perfect mix of science fiction and post apocalypse
based opinion
Fallout 3 truly is the greatest Bethesda game.
@@EndravenMusicChannel probably, Oblivion is a close second
Generation Zero made me think they may have been inspired by the artwork / worlds of Simon Stålenhag. Tales From The Loop book/artwork originally published in 2014 was/is about an alternate Sweden of the 80s that's dystopian, the tech is old/retro/futuristic. But the game, from the scenes you showed has a first person shooter aggression that is not in the artwork / TV series or role playing games based on Stålenhag's art books. The game didn't look great (destroying robots with what looks like a conventional pistol, meh) but I'd 100% play a game in that type of setting.
Thanks Gameranx!
*Number 10:* Dishonored
*Number 9:* Fallout 3
*Number 8:* Bioshock
*Number 7:* Red Dead Redemption 2
*Number 6:* Generation Zero
*Number 5:* Sleeping Dogs
*Number 4:* Half life 2
*Number 3:* Elden Ring
*Number 2:* Psychonauts 2
*Number 1:* Bloodborne
Leave a like and comment if you want more of these
No like for you because there are grammar error. Though only 1 error this time:
1. Half-Life 2, not Half life 2
@@ezioauditoredafirenze8352 your comments are full of worse grammar mistakes too. Using words like would, instead of could, or there instead of are. Maybe worry about your use of them, then worry about the minor things like a hyphen, or capital letters
@@ezioauditoredafirenze8352 since they're titles to a game too, they're spelling mistakes, not grammar errors
wait, no Skyrim? No Witcher 3? Both still holding up despite being older. I'm a little shocked, but I guess we have to be fair to include other games every once in a while!!!
Both of those games would be on my list!
Yeah but they are more of a traditional fantasy type setting.
Morrowind : The dusty volcanic ash setting, along with many under water caves , Marshy Landscape , city of vivec.
Maybe I am talking to no one here but this game is one of the best.
I love Gen Zero ... I think it is highly underrated and fun to play with friends.
The only problem is that it gets pretty shit after the tutorial. Literally every mission after that is: turn on radio, hear gunfire or panic, run to area, find dead people or a note that adds a little to the lore, do it again. Same with the bunkers actually, they are good to do but after that it’s just that 😭
@GrimReaper.123 Semi-customizable robot dog companions.
@@alterego6075 barely helps in combat (my experience). Equivalent to an Elden Ring summon who just distracts the bosses and enemies
@GrimReaper.123 Don't get me wrong, it's far from perfect. But I find it pretty fun. Especially with a friend or 2.
@@alterego6075 of course! I agree it’s pretty fun but it has huge flaws. Especially with quests. The only enjoyable ones I have seen are the one in the DLC, but I don’t wanna pay for that ngl
My top 1 is Atomic Hearth. It is incredible what a few people with small budged achieved.
The key part of Lovecraft's mythos isn't that the pantheons are antagonistic to us, it is their indifference that defines much of them (excepting some curious aliens or resource exploiting ones). Their presence is malign to us but our casualties are collateral to their own machinations.
I never got to play it back in the day, but I have recently become obsessed with the oddworld lore & setting lol
The world in Bloodborne is the main reason why i played it in the first place, it's so fascinating and beautiful in its own strange way.
Bloodborne imo is the absolute best world ever created in a video game. Such unrestrained creativity & immersion. 🔥💪🏻😎 Nice video
Can’t believe y’all left The Witcher 3 off this one 🤦🏻♂️
seriously, wtf? Witcher 3's open world is so dense and filled with variety it should have been on the top of this list. The open world of that game is still being cloned by various games
but the setting of the witcher 3 isn't overly unique.
@@LuriTV you didn’t play it, did you? It’s not the setting or the look; it’s the FEEL. You become immersed in TW3 and every little side quest is better than many main quests in most games. You feel like you’re having an impact on peoples lives and making the world a better place… unless you role play as a bad guy.
Because it is based on a book. I think they were talking about only video game worlds .
Sleeping dogs is heavily underrated, not only is it architecture beautiful and neon but it’s car combat is surprisingly very fun, I spent hundreds of hours in that game just driving around.
Falcon is here to give us a birdseye view. NICE!
Sleeping dogs was incredible, I do t understand why there's not been a good follow up
I click on this because thumbnail is from generation zero
Crazy that Generation Zero didn’t get more love from everyone. One of my favourite co-op games of all time
A list of 10 game worlds like no other and you don't mention Horizon? A tribal, post-apocalyptic world where you fight robot dinosaurs? Also, the Remedy connected universe. Sam Lake and Remedy are the masters of weird, meta story-telling. Basically, Sam Lake is Finnish Kojima.
Bloodborne is a must play. The first time when the transition happens, it’s really a wtf moment. And later to realize the game was setting it up all along, slowly as the moment drew closer. Everything gets a little darker, enemies get a bit crazier etc.
Yharnam better be on here
Bloodborne popped into my mind as soon as I saw the title, glad to see it's given proper recognition.
There are 2 more titles I want to add: Soul Reaver (Legacy of Kain) and Astro's Playroom. They were released ages apart, and belong to different genres, but both stand out, are highly underrated, and quite memorable once you get into them. You'd be very hard pressed to find others exactly the same.
Title says " worlds like no other" then you feature places like America... and... Hong Kong, when there's games like Horizon that take place in the most beautiful post-apocalypse ever overrun by eco-friendly robot dinosaurs. Or Brutal Legend which looks like an 80's metal album everywhere you go. Okami: like living in a caligraphy drawing, Doom: Sci-fi Hell, Ratchet & Clank: an entire universe of weirdos, Crash Bandicoot: tropical chaos, South Park: city of cutouts. Kirby: a star shaped planet. And that's not even mentioning anything indie.
Ooh! I love that Psychonauts is in this list 😍❤️
I’m shocked that cyberpunk wasn’t on here
Cyberpunk, shadowrun, Deus ex, The ascent.
Night city is beautiful, but not unique.
@@anemonana428 night city is very very unique you gotta pay more detail to the city to see that
The design of a Gane's World is so important. A unique and good one can make the entire game worth playing on its own. Games like that for me were Rain World and Hollow Knight. The former especially. There's so much work being put into the environments that it astounds me.
how is rdr2 showing its age?
Jak 2 Renegade from the PS2. Man this game was just incredible they completely overhauled everything from the combat to world traversal and the atmosphere is great
Can you please ffs put the game's title for the chapters on youtube, instead of "Number __"
he literally says the title of the game straight away, why complain about something so insignificant? just listen and watch
Then what is the point of making a video?
If he did that no one would have a reason to watch it
Half Life: Alyx is one of my absolute favorite VR games. It's just STUNNINGLY beautiful. Even though it takes a decent gaming PC to run it, it's absolutely worth it.
And the VR mod for Half Life 2 is amazing as well.
Obligatory shout out to Myst for having such fascinating lore to justify its book-based world-hopping and then executing it SO WELL for the tech they were working with.
I've completed Bioshock 1 an embarrassing amount of times.
The original ni no kuni’s world had me engulfed further than many games had in a very long time. I recommend everyone explore it, really like no other.
Dying Light deserves a place on this list. The apocalypse environment, the fear of Night. the music, the vibe all hit the spot.
6:37 "Saint Dennis"? I know you intentionally baited so you'd get a comment, but its SAN DUH KNEE !!!!
really important tip about generation zero is if you are playing with friends. if you are the host and are doing your quest, make sure you are the one that grabs any documents or you are the one to finish the quest otherwise it gets completed but doesn't move you on to the next quest and can botch your entire game. idk if this has been patched but it happened to me
I have Generation Zero. It is worth playing.
Good list, though I'm surprised Gravity Rush didn't make it on. Still one of the most unique worlds I've ever seen.
There's something really unique about going back and playing Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl. Stalker 2 is about to come out so I wanted to go back to the previous games. The OG Stalker game with the DLC is a bit janky, but very atmostpheric with you being stuck in a giant exclusion zone after Chernobyl.
The world of any Xenoblade game, Baten Kaitos, and the Pikmin series are the most unique I've come across in gaming.
I think Cyberpunk 2077 should be on the list somewhere
Amazing Video! Best channel on the net!❤❤ Just cause 3 was like no other. sunny yet chaotic. so much to do!