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Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Elite Dangerous ???????
Why was there no "Eve online"?
After all the elder scrolls games that got put in, why no elder scrolls online?
satisfactory?
"we want bigger game maps!"
game devs: "did someone say 80% water?"
When? In what
game?
heck_of_a_car assassins creed odyssey and just cause is two for starters
No mans sky " our map is bigger but it is technicaly mostly empty space you can only travel in with a space ship and land on seemingly earth like sized planets it was confirmed the game is infinite only depending on your hard drive space
Subnautica: Pathetic
How does one even put a universe in a 2 dimensional map?
It's so interesting how a map 4× smaller than other maps can feel 10× bigger by being filled with actual content
Nature can easily be content, depending on game. Distance can be a huge game mechanic.
it's also interesting how claimed lore size, or size relative to the modeled area of land, is used instead of actual in-game size... burnout paradise is nowhere near that big in the actual game.
@@rawhide_kobayashi not to mention the biggest factor, movement speed.
Also true of real life
New York City has so much more content than say Arkansas, but the experience in one has more
You can make it both bigger and interesting for example witcher 3 map is fairly big.
Best evidence that "Bigger isn't better." Interaction with the world is what's most important in these maps.
Yeah fuel wasn't that great and some of those big map games i've never heard of.
3 words: World of Warcraft.
That's what she said
i mean, is it? the two biggest games are both great, and i mean, a lot of the big maps are good too. the just cause games have very large maps but are packed with content and are just really fun games- relative to their times anyway, just cause 2 is a bit outdated but just cause 3 100% still holds up as a great game
Man shout out to the developers for building entire fictional country size maps that’s actually insane
Just cause 2 was only 6gb
At the end of the day it’s how fast your character moves across the map
It really is - botw map feels enormous and just cause 3 map is bit but not huge but Zelda’s map is much harder to visualise and link has his legs and maybe a horse but Rico gets jets etc
Flat Girth yea Skyrim looks small here, but you can’t travel across it fast.
yeah a lot of these games feel much smaller than in the video, while others like skyrim feel huge but in reality are significantly smaller than Burnout Paradise? like wtf
Dr Wang ofccc also botw map is much hillier + the view distance must be shorter plus it’s art style makes it look bigger I think
No truer comment t have I ever seen
What this actually makes me realize is how small most game worlds are but how good a job the developers do at making them FEEL vast.
These are not accurate cuz they made these maps by each game own size counting. For example fortnite map is only 4x smaller than pubg not 8x that's because 1meter in fortnite is 15 cm irl and idk about pubg but these systems are not real in games
@@Tyborz im just saying that this video is incorrect. Guy took infromation from internet without checking it.
@@cupcake_toucher445yess exactly my thoughts it has so many wrong things
@@princerawat4297 finally someone who gets it
@@cupcake_toucher445 So what is the real size? owner of the truth without any proof.
I think what would help us comprehend the sizes of these maps is to have real world cities and countries as a comparison, so that we can appreciate and learn just how large some of these maps really are.
Just look up states sizes in km ^2
Look at no man's sky
Then look at a random country
I live in Paris, which is 105km2 (the city center alone).
I have a good comparison in mind when I read about size maps. Sometimes it makes me laugh when I see BOTW map for example : it’s smaller than a 100km2 city, yet it’s filled with volcanos and mountains and different climates😂
I personally like to move around long distances in a game, with different vehicles. Anything under 200km2 is a waste of time for me, I will get bored.
@@user-sb8qi6db3wMy interpretation is that these worlds are significantly larger than presented, but for obvious reasons you can't create a game world where you spend 3 real world days just walking across the country lol. In-universe, Breath of the Wild's Hyrule probably is an entire country, if not an entire continent
@@itsmeike « continent » and yet it only takes 30min to cross. I wouldn’t mind a greater map size, maybe spend 2-3 hours to cross it
I wish I could re-like this video every time I re-watch it. So amazing
Pokemon GO is pretty big, isn´t it?
Well one earth but minecraft is about the size of neptune and No Mans Sky appearently even bigger. Idk about Space Engine woch technically has the entire observable universe
Pls dont use mobile games as GAMES
@@TheReptain what do u mean?
@@beatauryszek5452 mobile games arent real games lmao
@@TheReptain Mobile "games" That darn word is still there.
Weird how game maps always feel so huge, almost limitless when you first play it but when you get used to it you're like "ah yes, I shall run across the whole map in ten minutes"
Skyrim be like
That’s because you usually start underequiped, underleveled, unable to quickly best obstacles, be that enemies or challenges, and you’re usually getting lots of quests and side quests, so you don’t want to leave the area for the first few hours. By the end of most games, all the challenges and activities are done, all the quests are completed, any roadblocks are gone, and most fights take a few minutes maximum, so it’s much easier to traverse and just ignore everything to get to your destination.
I just put on some tunes and ride it out, it’s not the most thrilling gameplay but traveling is a piece of the game itself and I intend to enjoy every part of it
Ye it's true but it can take weeks or months to run thru the minecraft Map and not logging off:D
Yeah.
Was surprised at fall out 4 being a quarter of the size of 3.
But what really got me was tscale difference between burnout and the witcher, burnout is fun but the map feels a lot smaller than the witchers map but that might be because of the speed of movement differences..
For the record, that No Man's Sky map number in words is three sextillion, one hundred and seventy quintillion SQUARED. Which is 1.00489e+45 or in long form: 1,004,890,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which has 46 zeroes at the end. Aka a quindecillion
In short a big ass number.
@@who-ny5oe yes basically. Lol it took me and two of my friends like 4 hours to figure all that out lmao
Wish the planets had more to offer but i love the game
God, i remember waking around Guild Wars Nightfall back in the day.
Took forever as you had to actually *walk* everywhere 😅
Minecraft: My map is ∞.
No Man's Sky: My ∞ is bigger than yours.
@@WabsenS It is if you have space on your hdd or ssd
Nuh uh
@@WabsenS well yes and no
@@Shodown1 Not anymore, it used to be. They changed it like ~4? Years ago? Before you got really fucked up Wildlands. Btw there are twitch streams going to the end of the map, it still takes ages.
@@WabsenS What?!
Company: We have a 400 square kilometre map in our game
Map: **is 80% ocean**
I know what game you mean
World of Warships be like: ah yes the largest map in game *100% water*
Also Daggerfall
Subnautica is 98,5% Water
La tierra consta de un 70% agua
WOW !!! Amazing to see the comparison. Makes me wonder how big EVE Online, Elite Dangerous & Star Citizen would be LOL.
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I find it’s not about the size of the map, it’s about how well-populated it is. I would take a small and intricate map over a big and empty one.
See, people always think I'm joking, but this is why I always felt of all the games I've played, Undertale felt the most alive.
And I've played most of the games on this list.
Not to mention Undertale isn't even a sandbox.
@@somename6955 I completely agree. Nothing makes more sick of a game quicker than an expansive open world map and massive travels between missions. Those games are the ones that people religiously use fast travel on which is a shame because the “effort” going into making the map was wasted - may as well make several different areas with load screens in between.
The world is big and empty
@@S1lverFr0sty absolutely, but a big and empty video game isn’t all that fun. Of course this depends on whether it’s a sim where sometimes that big, open and empty world adds to the fun
It's ABOUT drive it's ABOUT power
If anyone's curious, Elden Ring is roughly 79 square kilometers, slightly larger than BotW.
Literally looked at when this post was made while watching it to see if Elden Ring specifically would make it on here. Surprised to not see Rdr 2 on here since they had the first one, would’ve been interesting considering it’s like double the size.
@@tateparker8112 Well, it's a two year-old video.
ark crystal isles is i believe 150
@@tateparker8112 Unless the creator is a time traveler how would they have added elden ring?
@@michaelross1452 they could be a time traveler I believe
The crew was amazing. Loved every bit of it. Hope it can get a remaster some day.
It is thin air sadly but yes, We want an upgraded version of The Crew.
I like that those last two are the only ones I was thinking of besides daggerfall :)
I think its crazy that Unity's map is the smallest on this list but feels so big and detailed when you're actually exploring it.
Player speed is very relevant in this, if your character has a slower speed or the map is packed more densely it may feel larger.
Also, for cases like NMS, only a very small amount of space is actually worth visiting.
In these ways, Unity may technically be small, it competes with a lot of other maps because they utilize space better
@@VertietRyper and you can enter almost every building
@@VertietRyper That's why Morrowind feels so much bigger than Skyrim lmao
@@danielgiovanniello7217 mhm but daggerfall is the biggest but daggerfall is also random generated just like minecraft also the minecraft map looks realy weird
The size between ESO and then Daggerfall made me laugh out loud.
The last three don't feel fair, tbh.
Zooms out so fast*
:Wtf is this game?
: Oh it’s minecraft.. ofcourse.
There is another
I swear it was going to be FSX
I just waited for minecraft 😂
No Man Sky Come
I think I read something somewhere that minecrafts surface is bigger than that of earth
love the way this was presented
I can't say how grateful I am for the developers that they did a lot of work for us.❤
Ayy bro it's FOR money which we pay.
@@WalrusWinking they give you entertainment
@@DavidGome-sr2dc They didn't "give" me anything period. They sold me a product for money.
Mad props to the guy who went this far out of bounds to rec this.
The Bushy boy uh
@@weeze2188 wat
The Bushy boy this a joke?
@@weeze2188 yeah...?
@@weeze2188 r/wooosh
Camera : *goes to minecraft*
Me : wants to close the video
Camera : *there is another*
Yeah
Meh...
Nyeh
Сонный мыш so true. I was waiting for Minecraft. But then out of the sudden. Fuckin No Mans Sky 1000 times the size of Minecraft lol
God how much I wish YT would make it so that editing your comment would delete the likes as well.
Just cause 2 had a pretty big map and was my favourite game when I first started pc gaming
Kingdom Come Deliverance seems here between all the other maps small, but It feels 100x bigger because of all that details and content that is hidden in the map!
Every time I see a bigger map in the bottom of the screen I get progressively more terrified.
@Joshua Tree I have that. Not cool. Especially around planes, bridges (NYC), bigships/boats, but surprisingly not sky scrapers. Crazy stuff
Yeah I felt my heart jump at the last few which is weird ! Like those fever dreams where everything feel astronomically huge and tiny at the same time
@@EBTS-3 me too
@@EBTS-3 oh my god, that is a common dream? I thought I was the only one. It is such a weird dream and I can never really explain it. Also most of the times I am a sphere in the dream.
When I saw minecrsft "oh that's the last one right? Surely nothing is bigger that that!" Then I saw some numbers on the edge of the screen *wha-* oh it's no man's sky yeah that makes sense
Other factors that come to mind as important:
Size of player character relative to the units used here, Speed of the player character, density of content, Amount of map that is playable rather than "out of bounds", etc.
Absolutely however the only units calculated are player reachable places. Everything seen on the map can be reached by a player at some point
why would speed of character be important in establishing size of the map? The map would still be its size it'll just change the time of traversal. However, density of content is a great point. counting bodies of water with no POI is bullshit lol
@@BaconNDCheese I think higher player speeds can give a false sense of great density. Let's say a map is made 4x size by pure scaling without any effort and player speed is increased by 4x as well. Then the content density will feel the same while also giving a false illusion of a really big map.
This is when you start getting into special relativity, time and space relationships within the game. Einstein stuff. So really all the games should be compared relative to a unique scale per se. If he used the size the author discloses it can make these comparisons wack
Lol that has nothing to do with map size… hes comparing map size not how they actually feel..
Surprised to see some of the older games so high up. Also surprised to see the Bethesda games so small. I guess Bethesda's maps are just so full of stuff, it makes them seem bigger, as opposed to the witcher, where theres just lots and lots of trees. Very cool infographic
unfortunately ive realized bethesda makes small maps out of laziness, not out of the want to cram it with details
I think if you add all the dungeons and of course Blackreach, the map would be much much larger. There’s something like 200 dungeons in Skyrim
The ending was perfect- the whole time I was like I wonder what a no man’s sky map would look like
It's interesting to see how disproportionate some maps are to others. While some games span a whole continent, another game will span a single city that is nonetheless larger than the other game's entire continent.
Yea, it makes no sense to compare map sizes from one franchise to another. For instance, it makes sense to compare GTA III to GTA San Andreas, but comparing LOTRO to GTA III... there's just no logic to it.
@@SgtGuarnereDD how does it not make sense?? are you supposed to believe that people in those continents that are the size of cities, are also giants? you know, because of proportions.
@@azzor4134 it's moreso that the physical size of a map doesn't necessarily match the size in lore- for instance skyrim would be significantly larger than any grand theft auto, lore wise
@@EmeraldCoasttt Well I mean, it and GTA V’s San Andreas (the state) could be kinda comparable, seeing as how San Andreas is basically California
…in fact, in lore Skyrim is about 105,000 square miles, whereas irl California (which San Andreas is based on) is 163,696 square miles.
They’re all so cool! I love huge worlds!
**Opens map and clicks fast travel**
😂
Every Fallout
Red dead 2 and Red dead redemption undead nightmare
Every ubisoft game
Ark
We love huge worlds
But have the patience of a grape when it comes to moving through theme
Honestly thia muaic got me relaxed and im fried 😂😂
San Andreas is so impressive when you consider the year (2004) and how rich of details, activities and explorable interiors the map is
In the scale of a lot of game maps it's pretty damn small but you can get lost in all of the Cities every single one of the cities is just perfect in its own right my personal favorite is probably San Fierro besides Los Santos
Fr, I'd have been happy if GTA5 had half the stuff SA had, not saying it's a bad game.
But SA felt so dynamic.
@@uptheworker yeah you could eat and do exercise
@@giovannicervantes2053 a lot of maps in this video that are over 4000+ sq km in size are from games that were released in 2000-2009
@@f3nrir_ JESUS!
By that scale, Minecraft's map unrolled at lightspeed
Legend has it the no man’s sky map is still rolling out
Minecraft map is unlimited
@@adeluchiha1854 Nope. It has a world border.
@@szymonszymon1834 miguel laughts on that comment, you can go cross the border and keep walking you know?
@@szymonszymon1834 Nope, it's infinite. I sprint flew and left a weight on the keys so that the game went by itself. I flew for around 2 1/2 hours before coming back and I was still going.
I’m most amazed with Breath of the Wild. The amount of content by just walking a few minutes in this world is incredible.
Great information always wanted to know that I'm curious about GTA
Honestly it feels wrong to have procedurally generated maps on this list, the other maps were hand crafted which makes there sizes an even more impressive feat.
Elite Dangerous
I agree bro!
@@Versuffe It's still a PG map, you can argue that no map is ever randomly generated since a computer cannot create truly random numbers, Where minecraft uses a seed that a player puts in, and throws it in an algorithm(perlin noise) other randomly generated maps use other variables not controlled by the player such as time of day or something like that to generate. But minecrafts map generation does fall under what we call procedurally generated.
@@TheNardDog1996 Not only that, because if you go far away from your respawn point, you reach the Far Lands, a glitch because the game's doesn't understand what the hell is happening on the seed. So yeah, Minecraft doesn't count.
@@Versuffe having a seed doesnt mean its not procedurally generated, in fact the presence of a seed MEANS its procedurally generated. thats what the seed is FOR.
Players: we want big maps!
Devs: All I can do is water.
Or useless mountains. Gta 5
@@Zen78383 Not useless if you have fun with vehicle stunts
@@shannonmitchell8515
True! So many hours spent trying to survive my own stunts up or down the hills and mountains (or use God-mode when doing them).
@@37theEnigma Or even just running from the cops. The hills and mountains are my go-tos because cops can't seem to go fast over mountains without blowing themselves up
@@shannonmitchell8515
Yoooo, that's crazy you said that because I was thinking about the cop chases as well! At some point, after evading them so much, it always leads to me having full stars, and basically playing "King of the Hill" against the cops 😂😂 Hell, I even did it on rooftops
The lord of rings being that massive is incredible for a 2007 game, also horses are too slow compared to the size and swift (instant) travel to different parts of the map unlock when you visit stables by yourself or by spending money
This might be the greatest video ever created
So many of these games are "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle."
can you name some so i can avoid it
@@kitni Fuel, Test Drive, The Crew, Minecraft, Mafia 3
@@AAA-xt2gq Minecraft Is inevitable
@@AAA-xt2gq Minecraft is not deep as a puddle, it's the deepest game shown in the video. Mechanics-wise it is already deep, but based on "what can you potentially do", it is fundamentally infinite.
@@lako8368 what you can do: place block and kill skeleton
I think this video really shows that “bigger” does not always mean “better.”
Yeah- obviously! See Samantha, bigger doesn't mean Better, you will still like my tiny friend... Right-? 😟
@@berthamcdurtha8554 cringe
@@frdvz ur cringe
@@berthamcdurtha8554lmao
You're right, look how boring the elder scrolls II looks
This map is goated ive memorized it its so big sometimes it takes me hour to reach from place to place realistic but not thaaaaaat bigggg its just cool
Where tf is rdr2 map?
Just like to remind you, bigger isn’t always better.
There’s no point in having a massive open world with nothing to do. Sometimes, smaller maps can be better because the content is more concentrated.
RIght like why have such a large map with nothing for you to do while exploring at least in skyrim there is random encounters and stuff that you need along the way
I agree in the general sense, but with mods I wish Skyrim had a bigger and emptier map to fit in more mods.
I felt this about AC:O, honestly. Huge and beautiful map, but a lot of it is just window dressing.
Fortunatley, minecraft has ALL of the content spread across THE ENTIRE map
Depends on the game in my opinion. Some games like Just Cause 3 are games where openness serves a purpose in making your exploration around the map a lot more fun. But then others it’s just so they can say “our map is 3x bigger than before” and get away with a boring empty map
You should include Google Maps
i forget this ! 🙏🥺🙏
*Pokemon go*
@@REDSIDEofficial when the new flight simulator comes out you'll have to
@@REDSIDEofficial
It's not a game yet, so it's all good :P
Next year is the chance with flight simulator...
What do you understand by the word game?
It would be good to give not only km 2 but also Gb memory map to make a better comparision, and dont forget to start with old map of spectrum games or amiga.
the last one is dope!!!!
Microsoft Flight Sim always gets left out. It's been a 1:1 Earth for decades now. That was really impressive on Windows 98.
Funny to think that the Minecraft map would still be 8 times bigger than the Microsoft flight sim map
@@mworld2611 Minecraft is randomly generated, MFS is a 1:1 of the Earth. You decide which one is more impressive.
@@panzerkampfwagentigerausfb6378 what about both
@@panzerkampfwagentigerausfb6378 MFS is way more impressive for sure. I was just saying it's funny to think Minecraft is bigger than earth
Minecraft is larger than the earth
Interesting how the racing games on this list are way larger than I realized. It makes sense because you aren't regularly traveling at 80 mph through the rest of the maps
Exactly what I was thinking but dang if it knew LA was that much bigger than gta5
No shit sherlock
Wow you are so smart
@@Panchoproductions2069 wow you’re so condescending
@@Panchoproductions2069 yep. And you didn't 👁️🗨️
VERY nicely done!!!!!
It is not all about how big the map is, it is about how vibrant and full of live a map feels to the user.
Ye, Daggerfall would have to say something about that.
**When you realize Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is now bigger than Daggerfall**
The whole earth in one game😂
Minecraft laughs in infinite
@@thelegendepic4042 its not
NMPerdue ight then no mans sky laughs in galaxies
universe sandbox²:Am I a joke to u?
It is also about how much of the map is worth exploring: how detail rich the environment is, how many treasures and hidden items are worth finding, also there is the vertical aspect which platform heavy games greatly benefit from and that you will not find in games like Operation Flashpoint or Test Drive Unlimited.
Yea many of the maps here included tons of water with nothing on it and No Man's Sky is probably including the mostly empty universe
and the genre of the game
How much of that space in Minecraft actually has new things to find and do before it gets repetitive? How much of that map will you actually explore in survival?
Yeah, that’s the problem. You can have a massive map, but if there isn’t anything to do or interact with… then it sucks and gets repetitive. For example, The Witcher III has a massive map and lots of things to do, hence why it got game of the year. Far Cry 2, on the other hand, has very little to do outside of getting ambushed in Africa
Exactly. Kingdom Come Deliverance feels massive due to its level of detail.
It's amazing to me because RuneScape has a map size of apx 4.1 km^2 (not including undergrounds), but feels bigger than some of these other games I've played.
Light no fire will be interesting on this chart when it comes out.
Yeah but the scaling is what’s important, and how effectively they fill the map. Like Dying Light 2 doesn’t feel like a MASSIVE MAP (still large) but it is filled with a lot to do, so it feels larger
It's also keeping it engaging so you don't get bored or overloaded with stuff like BotW vs Fallout 4
Minecraft’s map is actually infinitely scalable. You can change the border radius if you launch a server and change it in it’s config.
perfectly said. the scale is what is the real ratio. just like racing games. the map can be earth sized but it takes you 5 min to walk entire map. flight simulator has a true to scale.
I agree. If they made it larger it would be boring and if they made it smaller it would be on your face all the time. For the amount of activities it has, DL2's map is just the right size.
Also when it comes to raw size, the internal surface is more significant than the geographical surface. A cubic labyrinth 10km³ large filled entirely with corridors of 2x2m the map would be 2.5 million kilometers long - which is like 5 times the surface of France.
I find it funny how despite Skyrim and Daggerfall looking about the same size in official maps, they are extremely differently sized in the games.
In the lore they are about the same size for example someone mentions that whiterun is about a day away from riverwood but in game it is basically just around the corner, they scale the map down for pacing.
If you play daggerfall, you'll know that moving between towns only a pixel or two apart from eachother takes about 10 minutes, even on horseback.
@@pyroparagon8945 yeah in Skyrim running from one corner of the map to the other takes 10-15 minutes so long as you don't get interrupted.
@@heavenlysteel8337 you'd have to test at a constant speed to be fair, in Skyrim you have to sprint and take breaks to regen stam, but in fallout 3 you always move at a strangely fast jog.
@@pyroparagon8945 was that fun or more anoying? That you had to run so much in daggerfall
Wow, it's interesting how some of these older games have bigger maps than some newer games, but it looks like it depends on the processing and graphical limitations and art styles used in them too. Like you can have a very simple shaded art style which doesn't use a lot of processing and lets you make a massive world mad, or what some of these games so, just go up the butt with a super realistic art style that just starts eating your processing power at an absurd rate.
Even though the map is very large, it still fits in this video
This video is made with a quality that touches an old gamer heart
@@SlahnyaUndead appreciate the work man, don't just say its a bad video it's take effort you know
I like how the maps are there waiting to unroll
Nice editing but the facts don't seem to be believable.
When I saw burnout paradise's map I first thought "no way, it feels smaller than skyrim!" then I remembered you're in a car and not on foot lol.
Yeah, that surprised me. Usually I get lap the game world several times in a half hour, it feels so small.
That's because this video is wrong. The burnout paradise map propably isn't even 10% of what is claimed here. Some of these were taken straight from that garbage "Large video game worlds" image.
That's because it is smaller, the actual map of Paradise is way different to the actual game. The map in this video was a early version, 12 months before the game was finished
@@blanket444 That’s cool. Is the map accessible? How complete is it?
@@michaelh404 I'm not sure, the airport to the right got turned into Big Surf Island. This vid is the first I've heard of their being a bigger up
Like your editing 😊
thanks for taking into account dying light 1 and 2
Alot of these “large” maps are not scaled properly and are largely water. (Yes I understand some games like AC-Black Flag you have water travel capabilities).
I feel that too. If this is the case, Elite Dangerous wins every time...
Yea I'm pretty sure fallout 4 has a bigger map then fallout 3
@@ninjaclan83 doesnt No Man Sky beat Elite: Dangerous? It has infinite space and 16^16 planets
@@randomgamer1433 it doesn't.
@@pyroparagon8945 Minecraft infinite you mean, Elite Dangerous is the entire milky way Galaxy+. Since it's release only .42 of a precent has been explored by both Xbox and PC combined.
Who else kept getting surprised by how many older open world games had bigger maps than most modern ones?
Daggerfall for example was randomly generated..basically just walking on some terrain with occational trees popping up. Nothing to see. A lot of the newer games like oblivion, skyrim and probably more are handmade.
It’s because mordern games has more polished terrain than older ones, therefore it needs more time to make and time isn’t a thing you can waste in the game industry
prescription yah like daggerfall
@Greg Walker stfu
@Greg Walker okay boomer
This need an update version! Didn't search for one.
Asheron's Call, my first MMO and addiction. Good memories.
A pretty good video, but it'd be really nice if the maps were actually to-scale relative to each other... especially those last few.
If you look closely. All of those maps are actually on the wall of Mario’s Never Ending Stair Case
never ending staircase my rear end! There's just a cheeky zone midway through the "endless" staircase that sends you backward seemlessly.
Enthusia: Professional Racing (PS2)'s Ocean Bridge is also infinite
@The Man feck! I've been had!
I thought i put enough tone and silly wording in there to make it clear i knew it was a jonk.
@The Man burn is a burn, can't argue.
Ovr Surge I like the way you said my ass politely
Me before watching this: wow, GTA V is so big omg.
Me after: ah yes, minecraft.
I was thinking "What could be bigger than Minecraft?" And then No Man's Sky popped up and i was like "Ok, yeah." No Man's Sky is ridiculous
Vroooo i got exactly the same reaction
The xbox's minecraft map is tiny as shit.
@@TigaToonsELTiagor If you call that tiny clearly you haven't played the early version(s) of pocket edition where the world is 200 by 200 blocks maximum
Hahahahah
Важно не насколько большая карта, а как много в ней интересного, npc, квестов, просто уникальных видов хотя бы.
I once measured a continent in World of Wacraft by walking it. From coast to coast it was like 3 km. The walk was still like 30 min or so.
i would rather the city maps be smaller with the trade of being able to enter every building.
Dayz every building you can loot
Skyrim
@Charles Stanford well, skyrim is a good game
That's how I felt about Spiderman 2 on GameCube when it came out. Damn good game.
Agree
It's weird to think Skyrim and San Andreas are so similar in size - Skyrim feels so much larger, but I suppose as others have pointed out it's about the speed you move through the map. Planes and cars versus horseback at best.
What's weird is that Fallout 4 is supposedly smaller than Vice City
@@zenmonk5403 traveling across fo4 without fast travel is agony
To add to that: Skyrim is really well designed in terms of where you need to walk to reach certain locations, it's impossible to walk between most settlements in a straight line due to the geography. Thus traveled distance and time increases :)
Well, you can fly on DRAGONS! But, you can't control them :(
@@jappleng8283 i ride thanos car, or tommy wisso, get on my level u peasant.
Great Video!
I knew Just Cause series would be here since it has biggest maps ever compared to other open world sandbox game
It doesn’t matter how big a map is, if it’s completely empty and void. Breath of the wild has a pretty good sized map and has so much stuff to see and explore. But then you have other maps that are insanely huge with absolutely nothing to do.
I don't call a map filled with a single collectible that gives you a useless golden poop for 75% of it not empty.
@@cloudwalker9572 that is true but there is so much story and easter eggs behind all the land and it keeps gameplay refreshing with the variety of loot and situations scattered across the map. Never have i gone to a location in botw and thought, wow there’s nothing here. the landscape is beautiful and it tells an even beautifuller (i made that word up) story of how hyrule has massively changed over 100 years
@@balavenugopal2312 this is actually exactly what I love about the game! That and the diversity of the mechanics gets me. There's so much to do everywhere that it's pretty hard to 100% the game (at least for me it's hard)
Edit: Any recommendations for similar games? I'm not much of a fighter. More of an explorer lol.
@@amandagrey1330 Breath of the Wild was amazing
@@cloudwalker9572 You clearly have not played the game, mate.
Me waiting for Minecraft: “AND THERE IT IS! THE BIGGE- oh shit forgot about No Man’s Sky.
Aznponie12 just found out about no mans sky having the biggest map
@@jfkshotfirst4686 yes
Aznponie12 pretty sure Elite Dangerous is bigger
@baileysmithful You can say the same for Minecraft. The maps are only limited by the hardware's and/or software's limitations. Short version is that floating points eventually cause bugs.
@baileysmithful technically you can map it. It is procedurally generated, but from the same sees number it alwaYs generates the same map.
04:17 - Asheron's Call (1999) I don't think most people appreciate this game's Open World. There were no load screens above ground. All the cities were open to the world. If too many players were in one city they had a mechanic called a "Portal Storm" that would make random characters in town start glowing pink & be teleported a distance away into the surrounding countryside...possibly dying.
You could run from one side of the map to the other nonstop without a single loadscreen. It took hours. The only fast travel was a series of SG1 type portals that sent you to certain fixed points so you had to plan your trips to include overland travel to portals. They even had a dungeon called 'The Subway' that held a bunch of portals.
Most amazing MMORPG ever.
Botw has always stood out to me as having a great map, because you can pick any spot on the map, it can look like the emptiest most deserted area ever, and you can still find things to do there! I also like that the way the map was planned out, you can see huge landmarks in the distance, they don't render at a certain distance away, you can see Divine Beasts from aaalll the way across the map, and I think that's really cool!
True I feel the same but I do regret restarting since no teleport to shines anymore
@@savageenderman202 what do you mean?
Probably one of the most if not the most well designed map I know
Sorry, what do you mean by Botw? :)
@@Merc4477 Botw is short for Breath of the Wild!
i love how the bethesda game's maps only got bigger the further back you went
That's because the older games are big empty spaces. The newer games are small but are dense and full of stuff to do.
@@Scionilex317 yeah but it kinda loses its fun when each time you walk for a minute you discover something, It's cooler when the map is larger and you find something
The reason why dagger fall is big is because it's mostly randomly generated villages and such
@@Scionilex317 HAHAHAHAHHA ever played fallout 4 ? xD
@@Kiwoeoe we're talking about elder scrolls. What the hell does fallout have to do with this?
This could be a great No Man's Sky ad if it literally zoomed out into a whole Galaxy scene
I feel like the long dark would be pretty up there
I've always appreciated the design philosophy of Yakuza - the map is small, but every inch of it is intricate and interactive. The stakes of the story are so much higher when you care about this one little place, with its immersive karaoke bars and Sega arcades, bizarre but always heartfelt side characters, and unique, recognisable districts that you never mind revisiting
Yakuza's the only game where I've felt I could genuinely disable the map and compass and still know exactly where everything was after a while. By the end of the first one I played, I could have been given organic directions by a character like "across from the arcade, the one with the Space Harrier machines" and I'd know which alleys to use to get there quickly. It's a masterclass in design density over size.
Same with Bully. The fact that every NPC had a name and was unique added another level of immersion that games with massive maps and generic NPCs can’t touch. I’d be interested in another “small town” experience like that, but with a fully working economy and consequences of getting on the wrong side of people. In Bully the fact that Jimmy was limited to cycling or walking also limited him to how fast he could get around and gave the game a good reason for him not being able to travel too far.
Yakuza maps are too damn small. They should at least be the size of RDR1.
@@theseoldbeats Jimmy wasn't limited to only cycling or walking. You could also ride a motor scooter, go cart and a skateboard. You just had to unlock the motor scooter and go cart. For the go cart you have to win all go cart races in every part of town.
I played Yakuza 0 first and seeing the same place in the 2000s I could tell how much the back lot really was an important asset in the plot. A lot of things changed but most of the city still felt the same
Some of the biggest are mostly sea or unexplorable zones -.-
Jack Hammer exemptions being mine craft and no mans sky
Looking at you, AC4, ACO (both ACOs) and JC3.
@Thugs Bunny : Technically, NMS has a lot of emptiness and Minecraft has a lot of ocean biomes.
@@nouche Not if you shrink or disable them in world settings
Checkmate liberal
Nouche yes but the seas are filled with animals and things to explore.
4:38 I was waiting all the time for this game. I really enjoyed driving around. Too bad cars couldn't roll over lol
I don't think GW:Nightfall map is that big. It's got some big zones, but end to end, the map isn't more than 10km. 38,500km^2 is a bit much. The zones themselves aren't more than 10 square km each.
Now it would be interesting to see how big ESO's Tamriel map would rate, but they have a scale problem with some of their zones. Some don't look big, but are expansive, and others that do look big, are actually small.
A GW2 Tyria map might be interesting to see in comparison, though.
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RDR2
EURO TRUCK
ELITE: Dangerous
and many others maps
Also probably Elite: Dangerous, if you take NMS into account...
Space Engine: All universe
Most wanted ?
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RED SIDE non from forza series😰 u could maybe make part 2 there tons of maps left
The whole video i was like:
- i've played that game
- i love that game
- i know that game
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- Never heard of that one
- when did that one came out?
- is that even a game?
-i want that game
-Why is that game even a thing?
"wait that game is actually THAT big?!"
- 1:28 is that a game map or a hacker's desktop?
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Its like a gigantic desert with nothing in it vs a house full of interests and things to do :)
While this is very interesting to see, there's so many factors to also consider. How much of a map is just barren desert or sea, how much of a map is actually populated with things to do. How much of a map you can actually traverse.
In all of ubisoft’s open world games it feels so dry and empty. Just a bunch of pointless space with nothing in it, especially when you progress further in the game
@@tradeka4206 I really liked the Wildlands map though. The missions became bland and repetitive but the map was varied and beautiful. They built the game around the map which was why Breakpoint was such a disappointment, being a map built around a game… an unimaginative and boring game.
Hitting that right balance of proper map population must be tough. A lot of these bigger maps are simply empty - not only of things to do, but even empty of interesting things to look at/explore. On the other hand, some of the smaller maps feel too crammed with locations, quests, and random encounters. Skyrim, for example, may be fun, but to me it feels too crammed to come across as a believable world and feels more game-y for it.
This is why TES Daggerfall is a bit underwhelming. The thousands of cities in the game are many real life hours apart but they all look Very similar, aside from being in the desert, a forest or a Dense Forest and the things you actually do in these various cities are also more or less the same.
Facts, so many of these games I love turn out to be really small in terms of map size but then I realized, oh wait I can actually do more than 2 things for every square mile.
Getting to those bigger maps and looking inwards on the circle at how small the other maps look is mind boggling. I thought Skyrim and Xenoblade X were huge. And I never even knew Daggerfall had such a huge map in the first place.
Well, the most of the Daggerfall's map was generated rather than created by hand...
@@usernameak My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
@@usernameak So is Minecraft and No Mans Sky. That was obviously not a disqualifier. I personlay love the irony that Bethesda games which are known for big explorable open world maps are listed in reverse release order (or close to reverse order). By the trend TES 6 should be the smallest yet of all the TES game worlds.
@@TheFinagle Daggerfall also doesn't have a ton going on in most of the map either to be fair lol
@@K0sm1cKid Neither does skyrim really.
The end was expected but damn just cause map is huge.
To put into context, no man's sky has 256 galaxies all of which are around 6-7 times larger than the milky way and seeing as galaxies are very distanced, the no man's sky map is probably the size of a few superclusters
It is impressive that there is literally no zoom out level at which Minecraft stops looking all blocky. Visual consistency at its finest lol 😂
There actually is a point, the video just doesn't have a full Minecraft world (no one has ever even generated a full Minecraft world) XD
fr a mc world is so big to get a full map of it
@@thezen9 actually, someone has, but it bricked their computer. You need a supercomputer to do it
@@okamiexe1501 no one has generated a full Minecraft world, it's just not feasible with current technology. And based on the way you drop the term "supercomputer" in this conversation I get the feeling you don't know what a supercomputer actually is.
@@okamiexe1501 nobody has generated a full Minecraft world (at least not a vanilla one), but it's not difficult to generate the LAYOUT of a full Minecraft world, since Minecraft's world generation is deterministic, that's why seeds can exist.
This is also why mods like JourneyMap can exist, because it uses Minecraft's deterministic nature to show you areas that haven't been generated in your world yet.
The deterministic nature of world generation is also why you can calculate the hypothetical size of a full Minecraft world (it is ABHORRENTLY massive, no modern hard drive has even CLOSE to enough space to hold one. Most modern hard drives hold a maximum of 2000-4000 GB. A full minecraft world? I mean we're talking gigabytes in the hundreds of millions. I don't even think the $10 mil computers at NASA have enough disc space to hold the absurd amount of data a full Minecraft world requires).
5:00 Although the Daggerfall map was mostly just procedurally generated, it's still nonetheless an impressive feat for a first-person RPG from 1996.
Someone who reviewed it said that none of the towns were more interesting than "say, Norwich on a wet Sunday afternoon", which... yeah.
@@colbyboucher6391 For someone who played it, it was still absolutely mind-blowing at the time.
@@MrBarlien Oh, absolutely, in fact I'd love for Bethesda to try a take on modern Daggerfall now, since they seem so much better at gameplay loops than quest design. I'd love something that was almost a cross between TES, Mount & Blade and Kenshi, with a Daggerfall-sized world again.
@@colbyboucher6391 Which does sound pretty accurate for a pseudo medieval setting
@@colbyboucher6391 that actually sounds dope