@@CriisTaLHD how the fuck you compared an arcade shooter with destruction and stuffy as hell pseudo realistic shooter where playing with randoms is a torture?
I am ecstatic that you guys added Kingdom Come Deliverance in this line-up. Truly one of my favorite RPG experiences. The game really makes you feel like you started off as a blacksmiths son and ended up as a hero of medieval times. Or a villain of medieval times. The perk system is very satisfying, with perks that are just so unique and compliment the player so well.
The perks, just like everything in this game, feel like the developers put a lot of time and thought into it. They're not just 2% more damage, like many other games.
I wish there was a easy mode of some kind, I wasn't even able to lockpick without losing 100 picks in the process on ps4. As a elder scroll/fallout veteran it was a quiting point for me that the lockpicking was 10 times tougher than these games, plus I died a 100 tuimes trying to quit the first village.
@@tommylee9123 I understand. In a way there is an easy mode, but it's a lot of work. If you look up a video on how to become OP early, it teaches you a couple tricks that helps you before you leave the tutorial mission. And that's the route that I took. And you aren't cheating or glitching the game, you are simply exploiting what's in the tutorial mission that most players overlook. Hope that helps!
Watch Dogs 2 is such a good and fun game. Especially with friends just goofing off. I have SO many memories with that game, it makes me sad that I don't hear about it more often
The Watchdogs franchise as a whole kinda died off with Legion's underwhelming reception but I genuinely enjoyed the first 2 games. Wd2 was fantastic and one of the most fun platinums I ever got
@@Patricswift I thin that was because Legion was not character centric. You had a collective of people you collected... but really, that is nothing like the first two games where you have a central character. I loved WD2, and really liked 1... but never finished Legion. It just could not grab me.
@@SleeplessRonin the only reason I finished legion is by using the season pass characters. I made them the central characters which made the story much tolerable to listen to
This is why I just love open world games. The level of design and immersion based on how much you can interact with the world is so much fun to explore. I hope open world RPGs never go out of style.
open world games are awesome i played a lot back in the days like barnyard ps2 gta san andreas ps3 gta vice city stories ps2 gta vice city ps2 gta liberty city stories ps2 scarface ps2 the godfather the dons edition ps3 driver parallel lines ps2 tony hawk underground 2/american wasteland ps2 red dead redemption ps3 gta bogt ps3 saint row 2 ps3 ghost of tsushima ps4 bully ps2 sleeping dogs ps3 the saboteur ps3 deadly premonition ps3 kingdom of amalur ps3 way of the samurai 4 ps3 la noire ps3 ac black flag ps3 total overdose ps2 watch dogs ps3 vin diesel wheelman ps3 mafia 2 ps3 the godfather 2 ps3
Dude ngl, playing through Watch Dogs 2 made me feel like I have actually visited San Francisco.. it's INSANE how realistic they made it feel & how unique every inch of the map is. The NPCs are so diverse with the way they dress, look & act and it isn't just a complete mashup of people, it all just makes sense and fits together so perfectly. I have such fond memories of that game & the world definitely had a lot to do with it!
As a person who used to live in SF i sometimes log into the game and just drive around saying, oh my! Look this is the coffee shop i used to visit, watch dogs 2 really did a good job with the map
Tried it not to long ago and was really surprised at how much I loved the game never played a game like that but man it definitely opened my eyes to try more games
L.A. Noire is absolutely incredible when it comes to setting the tone and mood that the player is set in. Each case is unique and all have there "big" moments and I love that a lot in L.A. Noire.
@@MODDED7 The studio that made it, Team Bondi if I'm not wrong got shut down. 2k also does the Mafia series. But, I'd like to see a NYC Noire in the future.
When I played GTA 4 a few years ago, the car chase through the time square area felt really insane to me for some reason, even though there are so many far more over the top moments. Because GTA 4 world is so convincing and immersive, it just made me think about how crazy something like that would be in real life.
The first Time I Saw GTA 4 at a Friend home: Woaah ! Got'a get that game !!!! Manhattan ! Woah. It was really better than Trucrime I got to admet... 😌😄
Watch dogs 2 is my favorite open world map ever, there's so much detail everywhere you go, I love slowly walking through the pedestrian areas banging some tunes
Played most of the games on this list, some of them multiple times, and to this day Watch Dogs 2 had the absolute best open world I've ever experienced. It was the first and only time I genuinely felt like I was in living, breathing city in a video game.
They did a good job with the remake but having had played the original on PC when it was released i prefer it, the voice acting of the characters i prefer & while some of it is janky it has an inate charm to it. Love the music from the original, too. It's was such a great game for the time & it still holds up today.
Kingdom Come is such an amazing piece of art. They have real life locations, whether it be buildings, landscape terrain, and the sounds even of the wet ground, the rain. I feel like I intimately know the Bohemian countryside
Loved the SF in Watch Dogs 2... grew up in SF and felt so nostalgic during lockdown and I legit spent hours just walking/driving around WD2 and could recognize a lot of key landmarks.
Kingdom Come is the only game I've ever played that includes a society system so deeply integrated that I was stopped by a guard who yelled at me for walking at night without a torch. Something along the lines of "What are you doing skulking around out here in shadow?!" People will judge based on how you look but also literally every other thing about you it's mental to think deeply on.
@DaTrillion So you only play as specifically one guy with one story but how you go about it is up to you. You can't read when you start the game but further in you meet someone who teaches you how and after that each book you find when you read it you gain more understanding of words. Combat is different as in you have to swing and block by using mouse or thumbstick to control your hands at different angles momentum and weight counts as well counter to your opponents multiple people are really hard to fight at first. Bows have no cross hair but doing all these things you get better which means you unlock the crosshair when aiming or Sword play becoming easier it's all relative. A very detailed game in it's combat and world you can also do crimes to be evil but obviously how you act will determine how people look at you do enough bad people will know and fear you or outright ban you from their place.
I loved the world of AC: Origins... Especially when, like me, most would expect Egypt to be just a vast open desert world but surprisingly there are a lot of lush and fertile landscapes to explore... And of course the people living there had some quite interesting stories too...
I really loved how in the first watch dogs you can just hop on a train and drive around in real time, instead of the screen fading to black. Such train systems for some reason always elevate a game world for me
@@BlueDream71071 That is called cherry picking.U saw videos of crowbcat cherry picking some details here and there and saying the game is bad.But when you play ur self you realize how good the game is and how clickbaity crowbcat is sometimes.Even though some of his other videos are correct but not all of his videos are genuine.
So good to see AC Odyssey's Greece getting some love... I played lots of open world games all these years, and this one is surely one of the most impressive beautiful! To this day I still see myself returning there.
I think Bully deservers an honorable mention here. It`s the first game i`ve ever played where the NPCs are recognizable people and you know them all by name. Also, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series had an amazing credible world too.
Glad you mentioned KCD. It has to be one of my favorite games of all time. As a medieval history buff, that game really scratched a specific itch of mine and I can't wait to see what Warhorse Studios does with it in the future.
Loved that KCD got included in the list. Outward is another game with brilliant open world mechanism. The fantasy magic RPG open world is truly worth its price.
@@Totallyharrison watch dogs 1 but I also like watch dogs 2. Watch dogs legion I can't say for sure if I like it because of all the unique mechanics or hate it for how lame the story and voice acting is.
@@mohammadashikurrahman7530 For me, Watch Dogs 2 is my favourite. Not for the plot or anything but because there's so much fun to be had in the world. WD1 is okay but fell flat in too many areas for me. The idea behind it needed developing more, which is what WD2 gave us. Legion has a great London map but like you say, the story and acting are terrible. The character tech had potential but it wasn't ready for public use IMO, and as most of the game focused on it it dragged the game down further.
That is literally exactly how I feel about the series, I recently got the dlc for the first one, and it made me hella nostalgic, I want more of the focus on crime and
I'm honestly suprised Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands wasn't on the list? The open world is massive with so many things to do! Gosh if I could go back for the 1st time. Far Cry 5 was also AMAZING!!
I'm so gratified by the attention to Mafia: DE and Watch_Dogs 2. I Don't think people really appreciate what went into those worlds! I haven't tried Cyberpunk since launch, but I wasn't expecting that one on this list
the AI may be silly and stupid but the city itself is literally so far the best in gaming for now, i have played many open worlds including GTA and Watch Dogs, but nothing come close to Night City, it also has the benefit of having freedom of being a pure fictional city rather than 'based off'
My only issue with Watch Dogs 2 is the lack of needles and shit on the sidewalks. The other issue is no drug addicts going full Ultimate Warrior rants.
The Middle Earth games have some of the most lively game worlds I've ever seen tbh. The Nemesis System sets up this dynamic world that's constantly moving and evolving whether or not the player is involved with it. Even your standard grunt had a daily schedule to abide by. It's crazy how overlooked those games are.
Division 1 in the snow feels real. The radio playing at the bases built, slowly watching the base fill with people as you build things up , finding tapes telling what happened to different people, bodies pulled up from the virus.
I appreciate the mentioning of Kingdom Come Deliverance. While it is not the most polished game, it still manages to be one of the most immersive experiences I've had in gaming.
@@haidarnaufaldy1889 there's really nothing like it. Im a huge fan of any open world RPG and in terms of just doing anything you want and the immersion of the game nothing else comes close. The combat is really fun once you get it down and Henry is such a likable guy. Im praying they make a sequel. I've played through Deliverance and the DLCs about 3 times now.
I think one gameworld that really steps out for me is Elder Scrolls Oblivion. Every character seems to have a place to go and a routine to follow. The guards, eat and sleep and patrol the city. The citizens run their own businesses, shop or take walks around each city. The game has aged don't get me wrong, but the interactions you have with each cities residents are truly special. Even down to how it connects with side and main quests. Skyrim is very similar but I think Oblivion is truly what fits with truly lived in game worlds
@@2000Smillie same here. That was a game that helped me block out alotta fucked up shit that was going on around me at the time back around 08-09ish i believe
It's going back a *long* time now, but for me - my first experience of an in-game world that was just 'OMGosh' was the 1980s Bards Tale games. BT1 on the Amstrad CPC, wondering around Skara Brae and just feeling jaw droppingly amazed that they could fit an entire city and dungeons in 64K of RAM ... Heck, if I downloaded the disk image of that game, the size of the desktop icon representing it, would be bigger than the game itself! Plus, the total freakout I used to get when you got smoke in your eyes in a dungeon and was totally lost! Great concept though guys, thank you for jogging some old memories!
I also made myself a ghetto arcade cabinet to play in it with good immersion! There was a business office just down the road and they'd thrown out one of those old 80s style executive wheely chair which was fine but for a little bit of rough and worn out patches of leather. I made a frame out of Bamboo canes that my Mother used to use in the garden, set the computer up and even had one of my Dad's old stereo amplifiers and decent speakers (JBL Control 1's). Finally over the top I had an old blackout curtain that just made you feel like you were in a tiny little cinema ... it felt amazing for my 10 year old brain! Only problem was if the chair had too much spin, it'd rip the bamboo supports out! I was never much of a racing gamer, but I do recall that Chase HQ and Pole Position were good. Elite looked awesome in the dark too, but I couldn't ever figure that game out 😄 Memories like this is why I ended up buying into VR.
Awesome vid. Do one on "Games with the smartest, most interesting NPCs with whom to interact". Not just intelligent individuals, but a fun group of NPCs that make the world feel lived in.
AC Odyssey is one of my favorite games ever, one of the main reasons being I'm a huge sucker for Ancient Greece mythology and culture. Going over the hillside and seeing the massive sprawl of the next city would always excite me, they really did feel lived-in, seeing everyone going about their commerce and daily routines. Say what you want about Ubisoft but they went the extra mile on Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla when it came to respecting the time periods and cultures.
Man, you guys really knocked it out of the park with this one. Your videos are always top quality, but this one - wow. As always, thanks for the amazing work, Gameranx fam!
I miss picking up a random trash cup in GTA4 and throwing it at someone while they're walking down the stairs from a subway. Watching the Euphoria engine do its thing as that person got hit by the cup like it was a boulder and then the tumble down the stairs is just all kinds of fun.
Not a whole game but Diamond City from fallout 4 legit seemed like a real post apocalyptic city with a mayor, plastic surgery, a bar it all seemed so real
also Goodneighbor that city with the memory den. That felt like you where walking threw a post apoc night city..which is actualy what it was supose to be in consept apprently. It was supose to be the seceond hub city after Dimond city which was also supose to be really really big. Goodneighbor was supose to have more gangs more storys and the memory den was supose to play a massive part in the story. Where you would have to deal with Memory junkies. People who are addicted to the memory den in the same way. Brain Dance addicts in Cyberpunk are. Apprently you where supose to use the memory den to peice together your own memorys which would affect the ending. With the MC we got in the final game only being one potential back story.
I'd argue the New York City in Marvel's Spider-Man nails the New York feel even better than GTA 4. I'm from about 30 miles from NYC, so like Jake, I'm a local and that game blew me away with how it felt like home.
Nobody wants to talk about how good and detailed LA Noir was.. Even tho it's kinda old it still holds up with these next gen graphics with the realistic face expressions and more. Hands down one of the best open world games and definitely should of been on this list.
The video I was hoping from you guys throughout my entire life. A world which is not about putting things together but more like a cozy, filled place that feels like a world you belong to. it's like a hometown; not the biggest but you can explore every bit of it as kids, interact with it, feels like you belong to it and can make you feel heat in a cold place, under a blanket, with yellow lights on when you think about it as your home. Another world that made me feel that way was the Mad Max game
Wow, what a fantastic video! 😍 It's so great to see all these amazing open world games that people have spent so much time in. Thanks for sharing this with us! 🙏
They're too small to really be considered open "world" but the Yakuza games are literally the only games where whenever I play them I feel like I'm really living there. I replay the games and whenever I do I feel like I've gone back home even though I've never left Aus and have lived all my life in the same town.
@@abellewis3062 okay, cool. It's one of the best rated games in the series, and the Fandom loved it. The open world jrpg nature is a wonderful evolution of yakuza, and I cannot wait for the future iterations in the style. Creators already confirmed moving forward they will be jrpgs.
Probably the same games, just bigger and with better graphics. There is no indication that open world games will revolutionize, since we havent seen anything better than RD2 in 2018.
@@thomasnielsen5580 I dont think it will change that much in the future. Open world games are no longer limited by technology, but by budget and amount of time used.
Think about games 10 years ago vs now, the difference is so huge they're literally remaking 10 year old games, then try to imagine now to 10 years in the future... scary stuff lol
@@cenciende9401 im thinking about far cry 4 vs far cry 6. 8 years apart, same game. What a difference. Expect far cry 8 yo be released in 2030 to be far cry 4 with better graphics.
Far Cry 3 (by a _very_ large margin) has the best 'lived-in" feel of any of the games in that entire franchise. Far Cry 5 and 6 were seriously bad by comparison (still fun to play, though). Just because you cram a game with more stuff doesn't mean it's more authentic. I mean, even the metacritic scores for FC5 & 6 were 10 to 15 points lower than FC3's, which is a _massive_ drop-off in overall quality. Even Far Cry 2 was better than *all* the Far Cry games that came after FC3. It felt more realistic, authentic, and lived-in. Just shy of FC3, though. And yes, I've beaten them all. Most of them more than once.
Thank you guys for the amazing videos you guys always put out, it’s really incredible. It’s so nice that if nothing else, I can look forward to a new Gameranx video every day and know it’s gonna be high quality.
Bro the fact you can call cops on npcs then stand back and watch the whole npc arrest go down, because of my set up call, is out the gate! WD2. What other game AI has NPCs arresting each other???? Mint.
I have said it before and I will say it again, Stalker, especially Anomaly with the Gamma modpack. That game is just awesome, and it have random events happening all the time, that requires no player input. Most of the time, when you walk through the zone, you hear distant gunfights or a man screaming as he's eaten by dogs or a monster, you can choose to intervene and that has effects depending on who you help. There's active wars between the factions and they can start and end with the player doing nothing, resulting in factions changing allegiances to someone they have just been at war with, bc another faction now threatens both factions or is in some other way beneficial, or they can just end up neutral with each other.
Very happy to see you add Cyberpunk to the list. Despite its follies at launch, the level of detail and AI behavior was truely next level at the time. My first play through had absolutely no issues. A few buggy things here and there but never was it enough to steal the awe of what they created. The countless hours of just exploration were so exciting.
yeah I'm not sure you can include AI behavior as one of its strongest points 😂. Test your theory, gently steer a motorbike into a pedestrian and see what happens
I mean it's a good game which I'm currently enjoying but the AI is meh at best. Even with the PS5 version of the game when you look at the traffic from a far away it just looks like shit.
Cyberpunk at launch feels like a beta rather than a full game, the level of details was top notch, but the physics and AI is horrible, it was student-project level at launch. They gradually fixing it and now it is a lot better, not the best physics ever, but it manage to keep with today's standard, the AI is still horrible tho.
Just Cause 3 definitely deserves a mention. Every town/village/military base/other infrastructure you go to, there's a lot happening, whether before or after you (Rico Rodriguez) liberate it from Di Ravello's forces. So much to do, such a huge world to explore - an excellent game IMHO. JC3 is surely worthy of a place in this type of list (maybe in a part 3?) Mafia DE is excellent. IMHO all 3 games have a nice, immersive feel to them. Ditto for the WatchDogs series.
AC Odyssey is one of my ultimate favorite games a part of is what is said here. I'm on a 3rd playthrough reaching 1,,000 hours at this point and I'm still not tired of it. I don't think I can get tired of it. The map is massive but as you say it feels like nothing is wasted and I always have a blast being in ancient Greece.
I'm tempted to do a 2nd playthrough, loved this game so much and easily put in 200-300 hours already. I agree, something about it keeps pulling you in.
1,000 hours holy hell, I just did my 140 hrs 100% completion, did the the little history tours and then called it a day, Greek history being one of my favorite subjects I absolutely loved this game
This can be considered a niche thing but it actually makes the game so so much more enjoyable when a world feels lived in. And any scale works! From the small littered alleyways of Stray to the worlds of Grand Theft Auto and even those (slightly cursed looking) simulator games cities.
I'm surprised the new Hitman Trilogy wasn't mentioned. The NPC activity is so diverse and the conversions that take place reveal so much from lore to things that took place in previous missions. Also, the interactive worlds that look and feel like real places they are based on
hitman is not openworld, its just one open-sandbox map per mission, but i agreed its very detailed environment and interactive npcs, you can finish mission with so many different ways
I stumbled onto Kingdom Come Deliverance last year, and man it’s probably one of the best RPG games I’ve ever played that was so easy to get immersed into, definitely recommend it!
I have played it 2 times since it released. Planning to replay later this year . Truly an amazing RPG. This time I am just planning to find hidden treasures and gamble it away.
I was in a rough time but being from New York and actually completing gta 4 to the 100 percent was so satisfying. Almost like you indulge in extra parts of the world if you go trophy hunting which is one of the things I love about trophies if the game has an in-depth world
Kingdomcome deliverance what a game really underrated I would say combat can be quite difficult in the beginning but it's so satisfying learning and growing the character all the mechanics make it one of the most realistic games I've ever played can't wait for the next game
I don’t know if you can count that as an open world but thief really did a good job giving life to the city, the whole point of it is that we’re in it during night under a curfew and yet we still manage to get some perks at peoples lives like listening to them behind doors, sometimes stumbling on them in the streets or just mainly robbing shops that really make you feel like there is a market dedicated to day time
Watch Dogs Legion's world is as real as it gets. Every npc lives a real life, has their own name, job and are relatives of other npcs. U can see people on the job and outside of work depending on the day and time
In Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 it’s not open world but they do a great job storytelling using the environment. Wall writings from people reacting to the infection, messy abandoned houses and apartments. Really gives you a sense of the mass panic that came with the green flu. It’s so good
I have to give it to Watch Dogs 2. The world, at least, feels exceptional. Its fun to go around, even on foot and observe the program's shennanigans. :)
Sleeping Dogs has a very lived in world. If you crash your car multiple times than NPCs will start having conversations about all of the car crashes happening recently.
Breath of the Wild's Hyrule is pretty amazing. While there's only a handful of settlements with NPCs in them, the ruins of villages and outposts really help make the land feel the most lived-in it ever has in the entire franchise. Most other Zelda games would only have maybe one or two towns for the NPCs to live in, while much of the land was untouched, and only sometimes implying lost cultures and societies when going through a dungeon. With Breath of the Wild, it felt like there really was this kingdom that was once prospering until the Calamity that kicks off the main story's events. I'm hoping maybe we'll get to see parts of Hyrule being restored in Tears of the Kingdom, even if just means a few more settlements like the horse stables that act as inns.
I really love these type of games. This actually is the only stuff I really like (open worlds). Tried other stuff, can be great, but I will still miss the open "real-ish" sandbox
Just played Metro Exodus and it was amazin! This game’s atmosphere definitely draws you into a dark post apocalyptic russia. Lots of intense moments. Id highly suggest it to anyone who hasnt played!
I just thoroughly enjoyed traveling through the world of KCD whether it be on horseback or by foot there were so many encounters and the ambushes and just going out of your way to poach.
i liked the driving mechanics on gta4 there was something fun about driving even though it was sometimes annoying for racing missions because the cars had so much body roll but other than that if you're just driving form A to B it was cool and relaxing
Battlefield 1 always made me feel like I was truly at war, the sounds of explosions and gunshots were so good.
Play Squad, trust me
Bruh, huge open world lol
@@CriisTaLHD how the fuck you compared an arcade shooter with destruction and stuffy as hell pseudo realistic shooter where playing with randoms is a torture?
I wish Battlefield could make another great game like this. In my mind, this was the best Battlefield game ever created.
Plus you were able to take down buildings with explosives....no sir you can't camp there
I am ecstatic that you guys added Kingdom Come Deliverance in this line-up. Truly one of my favorite RPG experiences. The game really makes you feel like you started off as a blacksmiths son and ended up as a hero of medieval times. Or a villain of medieval times. The perk system is very satisfying, with perks that are just so unique and compliment the player so well.
The perks, just like everything in this game, feel like the developers put a lot of time and thought into it. They're not just 2% more damage, like many other games.
@@Grapefruit5000 yeah exactly. Pretty much none of the perks are based on percentages and such. All the combat perks you get open up combos
I wish there was a easy mode of some kind, I wasn't even able to lockpick without losing 100 picks in the process on ps4. As a elder scroll/fallout veteran it was a quiting point for me that the lockpicking was 10 times tougher than these games, plus I died a 100 tuimes trying to quit the first village.
@@tommylee9123 I understand. In a way there is an easy mode, but it's a lot of work. If you look up a video on how to become OP early, it teaches you a couple tricks that helps you before you leave the tutorial mission. And that's the route that I took. And you aren't cheating or glitching the game, you are simply exploiting what's in the tutorial mission that most players overlook. Hope that helps!
@@CommanderCodyChipless thanks! Ill probably try that cause im a big medieval nerd and was very surprised that I didn't like the game.
Watch Dogs 2 is such a good and fun game. Especially with friends just goofing off. I have SO many memories with that game, it makes me sad that I don't hear about it more often
The Watchdogs franchise as a whole kinda died off with Legion's underwhelming reception but I genuinely enjoyed the first 2 games. Wd2 was fantastic and one of the most fun platinums I ever got
@@Patricswift I thin that was because Legion was not character centric. You had a collective of people you collected... but really, that is nothing like the first two games where you have a central character. I loved WD2, and really liked 1... but never finished Legion. It just could not grab me.
@@SleeplessRonin i feel the exact same way and have tried to force my self to finish it. i just cant its not gripping at all
my favorite part of 1 and 2 was hide and go seek, all the tricks to try to beat your oponent :>
@@SleeplessRonin the only reason I finished legion is by using the season pass characters. I made them the central characters which made the story much tolerable to listen to
This is why I just love open world games. The level of design and immersion based on how much you can interact with the world is so much fun to explore. I hope open world RPGs never go out of style.
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Open world is my favorite but also my most hated game format, i love the idea but only few could make it works
open world games are awesome i played a lot back in the days like
barnyard ps2
gta san andreas ps3
gta vice city stories ps2
gta vice city ps2
gta liberty city stories ps2
scarface ps2
the godfather the dons edition ps3
driver parallel lines ps2
tony hawk underground 2/american wasteland ps2
red dead redemption ps3
gta bogt ps3
saint row 2 ps3
ghost of tsushima ps4
bully ps2
sleeping dogs ps3
the saboteur ps3
deadly premonition ps3
kingdom of amalur ps3
way of the samurai 4 ps3
la noire ps3
ac black flag ps3
total overdose ps2
watch dogs ps3
vin diesel wheelman ps3
mafia 2 ps3
the godfather 2 ps3
Dude ngl, playing through Watch Dogs 2 made me feel like I have actually visited San Francisco.. it's INSANE how realistic they made it feel & how unique every inch of the map is. The NPCs are so diverse with the way they dress, look & act and it isn't just a complete mashup of people, it all just makes sense and fits together so perfectly. I have such fond memories of that game & the world definitely had a lot to do with it!
So true
As a person who used to live in SF i sometimes log into the game and just drive around saying, oh my! Look this is the coffee shop i used to visit, watch dogs 2 really did a good job with the map
@@pekegotchi666 dude same with Legion, I used to live in London & the first thing I did on the game was visit my old neighbourhood (Camden)
But game itself is dead empty ,no lifestyle missions or activities,nothing ,just storyline.
That’s cool for people that live there ig
Kingdom Come Deliverance became of my favorite games of all time, It feels like a true RPG. It also helped me realize I was a huge medieval nerd.
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The most unique game ever 💯
Tried it not to long ago and was really surprised at how much I loved the game never played a game like that but man it definitely opened my eyes to try more games
Combat sucked first person view also sucked made it hard to fight
@@LordRevanthePowerful Once you get a hang of it the combat really shines. Super satisfying, imho.
L.A. Noire is absolutely incredible when it comes to setting the tone and mood that the player is set in. Each case is unique and all have there "big" moments and I love that a lot in L.A. Noire.
Totally agree
It deserves a sequel or a proper remake at least
@@mihirvd01 I'm playing through it rn and my god Rockstar is like Valve where are the SEQUELS!?!?
@@MODDED7 Rockstar of today won't release anything but rdr and gta that's the unfortunate reality.
@@MODDED7 The studio that made it, Team Bondi if I'm not wrong got shut down. 2k also does the Mafia series. But, I'd like to see a NYC Noire in the future.
When I played GTA 4 a few years ago, the car chase through the time square area felt really insane to me for some reason, even though there are so many far more over the top moments. Because GTA 4 world is so convincing and immersive, it just made me think about how crazy something like that would be in real life.
I like the driving physics in gta 4, it's really fun. I still go back to that game
The first Time I Saw GTA 4 at a Friend home: Woaah ! Got'a get that game !!!!
Manhattan ! Woah. It was really better than Trucrime I got to admet... 😌😄
The fighting combat was fun, i would always start a fight and use alot of the martial art finishers lol.
Watch dogs 2 is my favorite open world map ever, there's so much detail everywhere you go, I love slowly walking through the pedestrian areas banging some tunes
Yes me too, I really like the game 🎉
LA Noire is another one that could be mentioned. Technically not an open-world game, but quite detailed for its time.
It's open world
Yes I agree, I hope he makes part 3
Nothing better than being immersed into the game!
Absolutely
Amen.
Watchdogs 2 was what I wanted more of in 3... The gameplay felt unusually smooth and interaction with the NPCs felt natural.
It was class of an open world
Played most of the games on this list, some of them multiple times, and to this day Watch Dogs 2 had the absolute best open world I've ever experienced. It was the first and only time I genuinely felt like I was in living, breathing city in a video game.
The only think i wish there was more of, was an apartment, I want to buy more than a car
@@John-nl8bs have you played grand theft auto?
yeah most likely everyone played grand theft auto
Mafia Definitive Edition is an amazing game. Story-wise, visuals, the actors, everything is just incredible.
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Yop!! One of the best stories in gaming, like ever..
give a try to play a original game :) it's even better
They did a good job with the remake but having had played the original on PC when it was released i prefer it, the voice acting of the characters i prefer & while some of it is janky it has an inate charm to it. Love the music from the original, too. It's was such a great game for the time & it still holds up today.
Just picked it up; excited to dive into it.
I think that Boston from AC 3 is one of the best build cities of the franchise. Walking around on the streets was truly immersive
I was really impressed in 2012, and the world holds up to this day
@@freddquadros yeah and the remake of AC 3 looks even better, the OG still looks amazing too like you said
Kingdom Come is such an amazing piece of art. They have real life locations, whether it be buildings, landscape terrain, and the sounds even of the wet ground, the rain. I feel like I intimately know the Bohemian countryside
Loved the SF in Watch Dogs 2... grew up in SF and felt so nostalgic during lockdown and I legit spent hours just walking/driving around WD2 and could recognize a lot of key landmarks.
Yeah but they butchered the east bay something terrible...
W_D 1 is a good game also!
same , i still live in sf
I had to stop playing because constantly seeing everyone's high salaries made me feel bad. I mean the librarians were making 75k
same and I loved it bc at the same time I went on a trip to SF and the exact hotel I stayed was in the Game
Kingdom Come is the only game I've ever played that includes a society system so deeply integrated that I was stopped by a guard who yelled at me for walking at night without a torch. Something along the lines of "What are you doing skulking around out here in shadow?!" People will judge based on how you look but also literally every other thing about you it's mental to think deeply on.
Is the game really detailed like that? I might have to play it cause I wanna get immersed into a game until Starfield drops.
@DaTrillion So you only play as specifically one guy with one story but how you go about it is up to you. You can't read when you start the game but further in you meet someone who teaches you how and after that each book you find when you read it you gain more understanding of words. Combat is different as in you have to swing and block by using mouse or thumbstick to control your hands at different angles momentum and weight counts as well counter to your opponents multiple people are really hard to fight at first. Bows have no cross hair but doing all these things you get better which means you unlock the crosshair when aiming or Sword play becoming easier it's all relative. A very detailed game in it's combat and world you can also do crimes to be evil but obviously how you act will determine how people look at you do enough bad people will know and fear you or outright ban you from their place.
I own the game, but I stopped midway because of how broken the combat system is. Otherwise, the open world is crazy detailed.
@@sugreev2001 once you know how to fight it won't be broken anymore, instead you will be breaking bones. Of course if you are using mace
I loved the world of AC: Origins... Especially when, like me, most would expect Egypt to be just a vast open desert world but surprisingly there are a lot of lush and fertile landscapes to explore... And of course the people living there had some quite interesting stories too...
Looooved Origins! Might be my favorite AC game
Origins is my favorite Modern AC! loved the world especially exploring inside the Pyramids
The painstaking historical accuracy of the setting blew me away, You can even see where the Roman influences took hold.
Origins nailed the Egyptian tone ❤
The only problem with Origins is that you never saw any of the fantastic cranes in the game being used!
KCD is my favorite game of all time. It truly feels like a real place. So emersive.
This is the first time I've heard someone call AC Syndicate the GOAT besides myself. Thank you, sir.
I really loved how in the first watch dogs you can just hop on a train and drive around in real time, instead of the screen fading to black. Such train systems for some reason always elevate a game world for me
In the first watch dogs trains would insta stop when u are in front of them… immersion… yeahhhh
Watch dogs is underrated
@@BlueDream71071 game felt so hollow and fragile😂
Had great shoot outs with the cops on that train
@@BlueDream71071 That is called cherry picking.U saw videos of crowbcat cherry picking some details here and there and saying the game is bad.But when you play ur self you realize how good the game is and how clickbaity crowbcat is sometimes.Even though some of his other videos are correct but not all of his videos are genuine.
Bully also had a dope lived in world, especially for it's time. Seeing kids you had class with going about their day, or teachers when not in class.
God thank you for crediting Kingdom Come, for me it's by far the most immersive game i've played, and the feeling that it's lived in really helps
So good to see AC Odyssey's Greece getting some love... I played lots of open world games all these years, and this one is surely one of the most impressive beautiful! To this day I still see myself returning there.
I think Bully deservers an honorable mention here. It`s the first game i`ve ever played where the NPCs are recognizable people and you know them all by name. Also, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series had an amazing credible world too.
How he manage to fit Metro in this list without even mention Stalker?
Yeah, Bully really managed to make you feel like you were just a student in a city where a lot of none school related stuff was going on.
Bully is really a good call ☝🏽
I think the first two Bioshock games really give a feeling of a world once lived-in. Rapture gave such an eerie feeling.
I ESPECAILY loved the parts where your walking 'outdoors' in those glas tubes and can see the parts of rapture you will never reach but want too hehe.
Or the dlc where you’re walking around in a living Rapture. Amazing.
@@turanx0 burial at sea was awesome!
@@owenbard Indeed, the good ol’ days. Life was simple back then.
Agree!
Glad you mentioned KCD. It has to be one of my favorite games of all time. As a medieval history buff, that game really scratched a specific itch of mine and I can't wait to see what Warhorse Studios does with it in the future.
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The only medieval games that i can relate. No dragons, monster, etc.
The damn game got me into medieval history, so damn good
Loved that KCD got included in the list. Outward is another game with brilliant open world mechanism. The fantasy magic RPG open world is truly worth its price.
I really enjoyed outward but i think the world design is very bland
AC Odyssey is my favourite game of all time, brilliant game, watchdogs 2 and Fallout 4 are great aswell
This is a great video. Watch dogs is such an underrated francise. It's sad we might not get a sequel anymore.
Which of the games is your favorite?
Watch dogs will get milked because ubisoft doesn't know how to make new IPs
@@Totallyharrison watch dogs 1 but I also like watch dogs 2. Watch dogs legion I can't say for sure if I like it because of all the unique mechanics or hate it for how lame the story and voice acting is.
@@mohammadashikurrahman7530 For me, Watch Dogs 2 is my favourite. Not for the plot or anything but because there's so much fun to be had in the world. WD1 is okay but fell flat in too many areas for me. The idea behind it needed developing more, which is what WD2 gave us. Legion has a great London map but like you say, the story and acting are terrible. The character tech had potential but it wasn't ready for public use IMO, and as most of the game focused on it it dragged the game down further.
That is literally exactly how I feel about the series, I recently got the dlc for the first one, and it made me hella nostalgic, I want more of the focus on crime and
I'm honestly suprised Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands wasn't on the list? The open world is massive with so many things to do! Gosh if I could go back for the 1st time. Far Cry 5 was also AMAZING!!
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Ghost recon breakpoint is better
@@rans0101 Eww, hell naw! That's why that game didn't sell as well and went immediately on sale right away!
I'm so gratified by the attention to Mafia: DE and Watch_Dogs 2. I Don't think people really appreciate what went into those worlds!
I haven't tried Cyberpunk since launch, but I wasn't expecting that one on this list
Cybperpunk’s world is one I could get lost in for hours just exploring
the AI may be silly and stupid but the city itself is literally so far the best in gaming for now, i have played many open worlds including GTA and Watch Dogs, but nothing come close to Night City, it also has the benefit of having freedom of being a pure fictional city rather than 'based off'
I mean I haven't it at all yet because I was waiting to upgrade GPU, but just from what I've seen it's an obvious choice
My only issue with Watch Dogs 2 is the lack of needles and shit on the sidewalks. The other issue is no drug addicts going full Ultimate Warrior rants.
There's barely anything to do in Mafia DE ... what a waste of a finely crafted world.
Finally some appreciation to Odyssey 😍
I loved the game so much such a story, I 100% the game with dlc , 3 times consecutively
The Middle Earth games have some of the most lively game worlds I've ever seen tbh. The Nemesis System sets up this dynamic world that's constantly moving and evolving whether or not the player is involved with it. Even your standard grunt had a daily schedule to abide by. It's crazy how overlooked those games are.
Agreed! 🎉
Agreed. Extremely amazing and overlooked
good shout on metro Exodus. one of my favorite soft open-worlds ever
I don't remember if it was on the first list, but Sleeping Dogs really nailed that lived in feeling
Yh it was in part 1
And now the start menu music will be in my head all day
Division 1 in the snow feels real. The radio playing at the bases built, slowly watching the base fill with people as you build things up , finding tapes telling what happened to different people, bodies pulled up from the virus.
The Division still holds up
@@YuniorGamboa yeah it does. I recently replayed it and was blown away by how good it still looked.
,@@WarrenWorthington3 I know right?
I appreciate the mentioning of Kingdom Come Deliverance.
While it is not the most polished game, it still manages to be one of the most immersive experiences I've had in gaming.
Watch dogs 2 still one of the best Watch dogs series. Been playing it more then 1 and 3
Metro Exodus and Kingdom Come: Deliverance have been on my gaming back burner for a while now 😅 great video gameranx!
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@Ben Smith I feel like it’s right up my alley! I’ll keep that in mind with the DLC 😂😂 thanks dude
Couldn't get into Exodus and I love the first 2 Metro. The pop on textures were horrendous
@@nonyabizz3533 How long ago did you play? I wonder if it’s been patched or anything to address it 🤔
@@GameEsthetics Played at Thanksgiving time on PS5.
I really hope Warhorse Studios makes a Kingdom Come 2. It is in my top 3 of favorite games of all time
It's a must! The ending was cliffhanging, how dare they leave us like that
@@haidarnaufaldy1889 there's really nothing like it. Im a huge fan of any open world RPG and in terms of just doing anything you want and the immersion of the game nothing else comes close. The combat is really fun once you get it down and Henry is such a likable guy. Im praying they make a sequel. I've played through Deliverance and the DLCs about 3 times now.
It's supposedly in the works... Cannot wait either!
@@TheSoleDweller yes. KCD 2 and Witcher 4
It is definitely in the development process :)
I think one gameworld that really steps out for me is Elder Scrolls Oblivion. Every character seems to have a place to go and a routine to follow. The guards, eat and sleep and patrol the city. The citizens run their own businesses, shop or take walks around each city. The game has aged don't get me wrong, but the interactions you have with each cities residents are truly special. Even down to how it connects with side and main quests.
Skyrim is very similar but I think Oblivion is truly what fits with truly lived in game worlds
Oblivion has a special place in my heart
@@2000Smillie same here. That was a game that helped me block out alotta fucked up shit that was going on around me at the time back around 08-09ish i believe
Watch dogs 2 is really underrated ❣️
It's going back a *long* time now, but for me - my first experience of an in-game world that was just 'OMGosh' was the 1980s Bards Tale games.
BT1 on the Amstrad CPC, wondering around Skara Brae and just feeling jaw droppingly amazed that they could fit an entire city and dungeons in 64K of RAM ...
Heck, if I downloaded the disk image of that game, the size of the desktop icon representing it, would be bigger than the game itself!
Plus, the total freakout I used to get when you got smoke in your eyes in a dungeon and was totally lost!
Great concept though guys, thank you for jogging some old memories!
I also made myself a ghetto arcade cabinet to play in it with good immersion!
There was a business office just down the road and they'd thrown out one of those old 80s style executive wheely chair which was fine but for a little bit of rough and worn out patches of leather.
I made a frame out of Bamboo canes that my Mother used to use in the garden, set the computer up and even had one of my Dad's old stereo amplifiers and decent speakers (JBL Control 1's). Finally over the top I had an old blackout curtain that just made you feel like you were in a tiny little cinema ... it felt amazing for my 10 year old brain!
Only problem was if the chair had too much spin, it'd rip the bamboo supports out!
I was never much of a racing gamer, but I do recall that Chase HQ and Pole Position were good. Elite looked awesome in the dark too, but I couldn't ever figure that game out 😄
Memories like this is why I ended up buying into VR.
Looks like I found someone as old a man as I am...
Awesome vid. Do one on "Games with the smartest, most interesting NPCs with whom to interact". Not just intelligent individuals, but a fun group of NPCs that make the world feel lived in.
I also hope they do a vid on this. Great AI and NPC design can make or break an open world game.
AC Odyssey is one of my favorite games ever, one of the main reasons being I'm a huge sucker for Ancient Greece mythology and culture. Going over the hillside and seeing the massive sprawl of the next city would always excite me, they really did feel lived-in, seeing everyone going about their commerce and daily routines. Say what you want about Ubisoft but they went the extra mile on Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla when it came to respecting the time periods and cultures.
Yep and it's deeply disappointing that they get a huge amount of hate just because "they're bad AC games" when they're great games on their own
Watch dogs 2 is so under appreciatedd
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Trash.
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Man, you guys really knocked it out of the park with this one. Your videos are always top quality, but this one - wow. As always, thanks for the amazing work, Gameranx fam!
Watch dogs 2 was an amazing game. Some of the gun sounds were questionable, but the overall city was incredible. Enjoyed the story too!
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Bolivia from Ghost Recon: Wild Lands feels like a lived in open world.
Great video and great picks guys, I've played all of them!
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@@gameranxTV Watch Dogs really deserved that no 1 spot. Underrated game
Ghost of Tsushima had me hooked and immersed with its world from the jump
not really lived in imo, same copy paste base camps with a few villages w actual ppl
Far Cry 6 is underrated, the dense forest, bushes, animals and The map us massive and gorgeous. The best depiction of forest in a game.
I miss picking up a random trash cup in GTA4 and throwing it at someone while they're walking down the stairs from a subway. Watching the Euphoria engine do its thing as that person got hit by the cup like it was a boulder and then the tumble down the stairs is just all kinds of fun.
When I played GTA4 I was hoping when 5 came out it would have the physics of 4 with the customization of SA, but guess not.
@@vincer7824 That actually sounds like an awesome concept.
Not a whole game but Diamond City from fallout 4 legit seemed like a real post apocalyptic city with a mayor, plastic surgery, a bar it all seemed so real
Yes
also Goodneighbor that city with the memory den. That felt like you where walking threw a post apoc night city..which is actualy what it was supose to be in consept apprently. It was supose to be the seceond hub city after Dimond city which was also supose to be really really big. Goodneighbor was supose to have more gangs more storys and the memory den was supose to play a massive part in the story. Where you would have to deal with Memory junkies. People who are addicted to the memory den in the same way. Brain Dance addicts in Cyberpunk are. Apprently you where supose to use the memory den to peice together your own memorys which would affect the ending. With the MC we got in the final game only being one potential back story.
not even remotely
I'd argue the New York City in Marvel's Spider-Man nails the New York feel even better than GTA 4. I'm from about 30 miles from NYC, so like Jake, I'm a local and that game blew me away with how it felt like home.
it’s gonna be a no for me, i have played both and spiderman doesn’t even come close to gta 4
Nobody wants to talk about how good and detailed LA Noir was.. Even tho it's kinda old it still holds up with these next gen graphics with the realistic face expressions and more. Hands down one of the best open world games and definitely should of been on this list.
Watchdogs 2 was such a charming goofy beautifully detailed open world. I love that game even still.
If watch dogs 2 isn't in this one I'm taking my view back.
... I love u gameranx. It feels good
GTA IV still holds up. It does NOT seem as old as it is... and the game itself is great.
Obviously 5 is much bigger and graphically better, but I still prefer the visual style of 4 tbh
Kingdom come deliverance is the most underrated game ever pure Masterpiece of RPG
The video I was hoping from you guys throughout my entire life. A world which is not about putting things together but more like a cozy, filled place that feels like a world you belong to. it's like a hometown; not the biggest but you can explore every bit of it as kids, interact with it, feels like you belong to it and can make you feel heat in a cold place, under a blanket, with yellow lights on when you think about it as your home. Another world that made me feel that way was the Mad Max game
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Wow, what a fantastic video! 😍 It's so great to see all these amazing open world games that people have spent so much time in. Thanks for sharing this with us! 🙏
I like visiting 1940s Los Angeles in L.A. Noire once in a while, especially driving around in classic vehicles and listening to the radio.
They're too small to really be considered open "world" but the Yakuza games are literally the only games where whenever I play them I feel like I'm really living there.
I replay the games and whenever I do I feel like I've gone back home even though I've never left Aus and have lived all my life in the same town.
They were in part 1, it tells u in this video's intro
@@Frost4Real I would have forgot if I have seen the video lol
Like a dragon is open world!
@@springpanda9393 Like a Dragon is trash to me.
@@abellewis3062 okay, cool. It's one of the best rated games in the series, and the Fandom loved it. The open world jrpg nature is a wonderful evolution of yakuza, and I cannot wait for the future iterations in the style. Creators already confirmed moving forward they will be jrpgs.
If we have these kinds of worlds now, imagine what we will have in the future... 🤩
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Probably the same games, just bigger and with better graphics. There is no indication that open world games will revolutionize, since we havent seen anything better than RD2 in 2018.
@@thomasnielsen5580 I dont think it will change that much in the future. Open world games are no longer limited by technology, but by budget and amount of time used.
Think about games 10 years ago vs now, the difference is so huge they're literally remaking 10 year old games, then try to imagine now to 10 years in the future... scary stuff lol
@@cenciende9401 im thinking about far cry 4 vs far cry 6. 8 years apart, same game. What a difference. Expect far cry 8 yo be released in 2030 to be far cry 4 with better graphics.
Thanks guys!!! I've been waiting for for a long time for a video like this in this channel. You nailed it 😉
Good job Jake!!
Glad you liked it!!
I'm glad ya'll mentioned Far Cry 6. A lot of people disregard it without even playing it, so I'm glad ya'll gave it a shout out.
For those whom haven’t played any of the metro games. From gamer to gamer please do. If you have the time play each more than once. Very satisfying.
Far Cry 3 (by a _very_ large margin) has the best 'lived-in" feel of any of the games in that entire franchise. Far Cry 5 and 6 were seriously bad by comparison (still fun to play, though).
Just because you cram a game with more stuff doesn't mean it's more authentic. I mean, even the metacritic scores for FC5 & 6 were 10 to 15 points lower than FC3's, which is a _massive_ drop-off in overall quality. Even Far Cry 2 was better than *all* the Far Cry games that came after FC3. It felt more realistic, authentic, and lived-in. Just shy of FC3, though.
And yes, I've beaten them all. Most of them more than once.
Thank you guys for the amazing videos you guys always put out, it’s really incredible. It’s so nice that if nothing else, I can look forward to a new Gameranx video every day and know it’s gonna be high quality.
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Bro the fact you can call cops on npcs then stand back and watch the whole npc arrest go down, because of my set up call, is out the gate! WD2. What other game AI has NPCs arresting each other???? Mint.
The division 1 is more than worth mentioning. Snowy New York looks phenomenal in that game.
I have said it before and I will say it again, Stalker, especially Anomaly with the Gamma modpack. That game is just awesome, and it have random events happening all the time, that requires no player input. Most of the time, when you walk through the zone, you hear distant gunfights or a man screaming as he's eaten by dogs or a monster, you can choose to intervene and that has effects depending on who you help. There's active wars between the factions and they can start and end with the player doing nothing, resulting in factions changing allegiances to someone they have just been at war with, bc another faction now threatens both factions or is in some other way beneficial, or they can just end up neutral with each other.
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Very happy to see you add Cyberpunk to the list. Despite its follies at launch, the level of detail and AI behavior was truely next level at the time. My first play through had absolutely no issues. A few buggy things here and there but never was it enough to steal the awe of what they created. The countless hours of just exploration were so exciting.
AI Behavior 😂 yeah sure dude
Ai behavior ?
yeah I'm not sure you can include AI behavior as one of its strongest points 😂. Test your theory, gently steer a motorbike into a pedestrian and see what happens
I mean it's a good game which I'm currently enjoying but the AI is meh at best. Even with the PS5 version of the game when you look at the traffic from a far away it just looks like shit.
Cyberpunk at launch feels like a beta rather than a full game, the level of details was top notch, but the physics and AI is horrible, it was student-project level at launch. They gradually fixing it and now it is a lot better, not the best physics ever, but it manage to keep with today's standard, the AI is still horrible tho.
Watch dogs 2 most criminally underrated game of all time
Just Cause 3 definitely deserves a mention. Every town/village/military base/other infrastructure you go to, there's a lot happening, whether before or after you (Rico Rodriguez) liberate it from Di Ravello's forces. So much to do, such a huge world to explore - an excellent game IMHO. JC3 is surely worthy of a place in this type of list (maybe in a part 3?)
Mafia DE is excellent. IMHO all 3 games have a nice, immersive feel to them. Ditto for the WatchDogs series.
AC Odyssey is one of my ultimate favorite games a part of is what is said here. I'm on a 3rd playthrough reaching 1,,000 hours at this point and I'm still not tired of it. I don't think I can get tired of it. The map is massive but as you say it feels like nothing is wasted and I always have a blast being in ancient Greece.
I'm tempted to do a 2nd playthrough, loved this game so much and easily put in 200-300 hours already. I agree, something about it keeps pulling you in.
1,000 hours holy hell, I just did my 140 hrs 100% completion, did the the little history tours and then called it a day, Greek history being one of my favorite subjects I absolutely loved this game
@@jo8714 Do another playthrough!!!
This can be considered a niche thing but it actually makes the game so so much more enjoyable when a world feels lived in.
And any scale works! From the small littered alleyways of Stray to the worlds of Grand Theft Auto and even those (slightly cursed looking) simulator games cities.
I'm surprised the new Hitman Trilogy wasn't mentioned. The NPC activity is so diverse and the conversions that take place reveal so much from lore to things that took place in previous missions. Also, the interactive worlds that look and feel like real places they are based on
This channel only does lobby for the shittiest companies ever, didnt you see suspicious that both the #1 and #2 are from Ubisoft and CDPR
@@budaroddy I did find it odd assassins creed got mentioned twice
hitman is not openworld, its just one open-sandbox map per mission,
but i agreed its very detailed environment and interactive npcs, you can finish mission with so many different ways
I stumbled onto Kingdom Come Deliverance last year, and man it’s probably one of the best RPG games I’ve ever played that was so easy to get immersed into, definitely recommend it!
I have played it 2 times since it released. Planning to replay later this year . Truly an amazing RPG. This time I am just planning to find hidden treasures and gamble it away.
I was in a rough time but being from New York and actually completing gta 4 to the 100 percent was so satisfying. Almost like you indulge in extra parts of the world if you go trophy hunting which is one of the things I love about trophies if the game has an in-depth world
Horizon Forbidden West has the most astonishing open world I’ve ever seen ❤
I think weirdly enough. Jak and daxter 2 and 3 had really good lived in areas for the time
Kingdomcome deliverance what a game really underrated I would say combat can be quite difficult in the beginning but it's so satisfying learning and growing the character all the mechanics make it one of the most realistic games I've ever played can't wait for the next game
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I don’t know if you can count that as an open world but thief really did a good job giving life to the city, the whole point of it is that we’re in it during night under a curfew and yet we still manage to get some perks at peoples lives like listening to them behind doors, sometimes stumbling on them in the streets or just mainly robbing shops that really make you feel like there is a market dedicated to day time
Watch Dogs Legion's world is as real as it gets. Every npc lives a real life, has their own name, job and are relatives of other npcs. U can see people on the job and outside of work depending on the day and time
I definitely have to give a shout out to Horizon Forbidden West. Such an amazing open world.
In Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 it’s not open world but they do a great job storytelling using the environment. Wall writings from people reacting to the infection, messy abandoned houses and apartments. Really gives you a sense of the mass panic that came with the green flu. It’s so good
I have to give it to Watch Dogs 2. The world, at least, feels exceptional. Its fun to go around, even on foot and observe the program's shennanigans. :)
This is one of the best open world game I have ever watched and I can't wait to buy ps4 or ps5 to start playing them i love you video
Sleeping Dogs has a very lived in world. If you crash your car multiple times than NPCs will start having conversations about all of the car crashes happening recently.
Breath of the Wild's Hyrule is pretty amazing. While there's only a handful of settlements with NPCs in them, the ruins of villages and outposts really help make the land feel the most lived-in it ever has in the entire franchise. Most other Zelda games would only have maybe one or two towns for the NPCs to live in, while much of the land was untouched, and only sometimes implying lost cultures and societies when going through a dungeon. With Breath of the Wild, it felt like there really was this kingdom that was once prospering until the Calamity that kicks off the main story's events. I'm hoping maybe we'll get to see parts of Hyrule being restored in Tears of the Kingdom, even if just means a few more settlements like the horse stables that act as inns.
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I really love these type of games. This actually is the only stuff I really like (open worlds). Tried other stuff, can be great, but I will still miss the open "real-ish" sandbox
saints row 2 has one of the best worlds and citizens I've ever seen
Metro games are all packed with good dense details....that's what really sells this franchise!
Just played Metro Exodus and it was amazin! This game’s atmosphere definitely draws you into a dark post apocalyptic russia. Lots of intense moments. Id highly suggest it to anyone who hasnt played!
I just thoroughly enjoyed traveling through the world of KCD whether it be on horseback or by foot there were so many encounters and the ambushes and just going out of your way to poach.
i liked the driving mechanics on gta4 there was something fun about driving even though it was sometimes annoying for racing missions because the cars had so much body roll but other than that if you're just driving form A to B it was cool and relaxing
Yeah, that driving was really relaxing. I would like to see these physics to be in GTA 6 or even GTA 5 (without mods of course)