If you haven’t checked out S.T.A.L.K.E.R. it is a really great world to get lost in. It is split into larger open areas so not seamless but for me doesn’t detract from the sense of living and surviving in the world.
Big yes on this one. Especially if you include the mods that that combine the maps of all three games. It becomes an amazing open world survival experience.
Loved Shin Megami Tensei V on the Switch. If you're into Persona, other SMT games, or Pokemon, you might like it. It features turn-based combat with open world exploration and quests. I think it starts out a little slow so if you try it, maybe give it a chance for a few hours before giving up on it. I love how atmospheric it is too, very easy to get sucked into.
Witcher 3 is a fun game and an acclaimed one at that, so the following is just my personal experience. Not taking away anything from it... but playing a superhuman hunk constantly bumping into sexy young witches thirsty for you felt to me very, very cheesy.
Definitely the best for having believable, dense and bustling cities. While the scenery and nature in most open world games is great, a lot struggle with the cities not being super small and also boring. Where as in the Witcher 3, there is whole story arcs solely in Novigrad and it feels like a place that people would live in.
I actually didn't care for Witcher 3 all that much and in general I think it's overrated, but Novigrad may just be the gold standard for a video game settlement.
I absolutely loved RDR2, but it’s definitely not for everyone. Half of the people I know stopped playing because of the slow nature of the game, but it felt meaningful and was a nice change of pace. Great game to get immersed in, if that’s your thing.
Could not play for more than a few hours. Holding A to get to the next mission, or worse, as the start of every other mission, is not my idea of an engaging open world. Pace is way too slow.
That was the reason I stopped as well. I came to the conclusion I wasn't actually even playing a game, rather ... I was pressing buttons to advance a semi interactive film about the old west. Zero interest in anything close to that.
the pacing all around was nasty. video games are not real life and they arent supposed to be. even stuff like, it disables the run button in camp. like what? the camps are huge.
also i find rockstar's writing to be kinda, like, dumb? like not funny. just dumb. dialogue, worldbuilding, overarching stories. they're flat as hell and super dumb.
A private server of friends playing Red Dead Online is pretty fun. You wouldn't think I'd laugh so hard being dragged behind a horse to the mission point but I kept riding my horse into things and falling off so it was only fair.
Nothing wrong with that answer! Skyrim can even be played in 3rd person, and there are mods to make 3rd person combat more satisfying if you get it on PC.
Love to see Daggerfall mentioned but (I know you and probably a sizable portion of the users on this instance know already) if anyone reads this that hasn't tried it or heard of it yet, use Daggerfall Unity if you find the "original" experience in DosBox to be too complicated. ( https://www.dfworkshop.net/ ).
It's moddable that way too and already has some 400 mods on Nexus Mods under the game tab "Daggerfall Unity".
The original game and Daggerfall Unity are free.
Edit: The game is not in 3rd person as far as I remember unless they added that somehow in DF Unity yet
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