I feel the empty spaces in rdr2 actually make it feel more real.. how they're filled with animals doing their thing, filling ecological niches... It just feels natural
That’s what I enjoy too, a lot of games now have too much city in the game, GTA has a similar style but its map is just a city and mountains, RDR2 has environment changes everywhere and it’s nice being able to experience different environments
Also its not entirely empty, theres active campsites with people doing unique things, abandoned campsites, abandoned homesteads, and all kinds of random encounters.
Not just that but they even have different star cycles on clear nights, people getting robbed, people out hunting shop keepers going home at a certain time everyday the little things make this game phenomenal
One of the better details that's in rdr2's world is that over time since you play through years of Arthur's life there are houses and regular buildings that start off as just foundations and if you go back to them through almost every chapter there's progress made to them. Like there's a house where a guy is building it with his 2 sons and it actually gets finished later on. Really nice attention to detail that rewards you for paying attention to subtle details
Saint Denis is so jarring after spending hours connecting to the wilderness and wildlife of RDR2. The moment I set foot in Saint Denis I felt completely out of place and just wanted to run back to the open planes and mountains and pick herbs and shot animals.
@@gerricdraconis5296 Truly a redemption arc. Of a man doing his best to right the wrongs of his past, and to do the best for his family. *Cut to you slaughtering innocents, and kidnapping lmao.
A weird but in my opinion worthy addition to the list: Dying Light. For an open world game inhabited mainly by undeads, with so many repeated assets featuring in every loot centered interior you can visit while roaming around, it really gives a dynamic and satisfying feeling when you parkour your way through it. It was very unexpected to me when I played this game, and I think that a large part of DL's success was due to the surprisingly enjoyable open world it features.
I went back to Dying Light after only playing Dying Light 2 since it’s release last year. I couldn’t agree more, Dying Light 1’s open world feels so real and you really feel like you’re living in it. I only wish Dying Light 2 was like this as well.
"Arthur is just a visitor there, it's not a world made for Arthur" exactly, unlike most video games you can literally feel how helpless your character is
I am currently in the middle of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and having visited Greece many times I find it utterly convincing. To be able to walk around places you have really been to and seen as ruins such as the Parthenon in Athens and experience them as they were is just mind-blowing. I love RDR2 too and agree it is the best. In 4K on a large monitor, these worlds are like being on a vacation during these dark COVID-19 days and keeping me sane.
Bro u MUST try a vr system. Like oculus quest 2. Just the other day I bought the virtual desktop app so I can mirror my pc screen to the oculus, and so I was able to play doom eternal and rdr2 on the oculus quest 2. It was amazing. Worth it just to mirror ur computer screen.
The cities are really nice but i felt the wilderness in odyssey is kinda meh. Same ish and lot of filler, not much to stumble upon. RDR2 on the other hand has something unique in every square meter. (Incase u haven't yet, dont visit the small hut located west in the great valley, just south of the creek, West Elizabeth.)
They have games out where it's just the assassin's creed cities and you can take tours and history lessons and it will tell you the real history of the places you are. It's actually quite cool. There is zero fighting or danger or assassin's creed but just the world and history and tour guides. It's called discovery tour. They have ancient greece and ancient egypt.
@@Kerveros1904 don't buy the assassin's Creed game for that feature it doesn't have it. It's a totally different game you have to purchase called discovery tours
Witcher 3 for me is the best experience i have ever had with a video game and i have played 8 out of 10 on this list. There is just so much to do. The side quest stories are so in depth and well written, you'd come off it thinking it's part of the main quest.
@Toxic Gaming I fully just went and completed vice city last week, never got the chance as a kid cause i was always doing stuff in San Andreas, loved it. After completion I couldn't find much to do though, whereas SA being a newer game they must have thought of that aspect a lot harder cause the replay-ability is wonderful. I spent a lot of time in GTA IV as a kid as well, the open access interiors made it hella immersive, something I feel like 5 really lacked.
@Pig in a Blanket i have a friend that actually spent 700 hours on this game and the game files got corrupted at the end. Lifeless bitch I spent lots of times of video games But 200 hours is my max Such as witcher 3 Persona 5 Or RDR2 But Not 700......
For all its flaws, I feel Fallout 4 needs a spot on this list as well. There's so much detail in the environment, the ruined city and the gear people wear. There's history in every bit of scrap on the ground, and every cobbled-together piece of equipment.
Ahh yes, love the outpost customisation too. Building bases and what not. Wish game developers would implement this more. Only game I saw that has base building is no man sky, state of decay but limited to prefab bases, skyrim but also limited to prefabs, and no im not gonna mention minecraft, ark , rust or other multiplayer games. Wish a game like middle earth would pop out too where you can customize fort and build a kingdom and be an overlord conquering other kingdoms and choosing generals, so much potential in middle earth som and sow.
I'm surprised that Kingdom Come: Deliverance didn't make it on the list... Say what you want but that game has a very realistic world. Every citizen doing their day to day work, takes a break and eat, go to sleep at night and locking their doors at homes, guards patrolling at night and takes shifts and cares about their hygiene sometimes.
Or when u wake up on the ground in ur underwear on top of a mountain with a bottle of whiskey in hand hungover. And ya have to walk LOL Loved switching to trevor ya never know what hes doing
To be fair yeah. Started riders republic yesterday and the world is big and its got loads of details. No where feels dead. Its crossplay platforms. Fun game .
RDR1 was great too. I remember in Armadillo you could shoot the top hat gang members, and the sheriff wouldn't care. I once shot the gang members, caused a lot of ruckus, the deputy drew his gun and pointed it at me, I had mine aimed at him, then I holstered, and he holstered too, and we went our separate ways. Really amazing and fun sandbox interaction for me.
would love to see a “least lived-in worlds” or something along those lines basically for games like Dark Souls or Hollow Knight, or similar titles that make you feel alone
@@danielmoktar since AC3 it doesn't have really much to do with history. :D Don't get me wrong, games are really cool (new ones too, but not origins for obvious reasons). I've had a feeling with AC3, that the more this series will keep going, the less realistic/ history based it will be.
I'd give an honourable mention to Horizon Zero Dawn. Both on the animal/wild side (or should I say machine?) and on the human side, everything feels so insanely REAL for a post apocalyptic future
RogueAssassin finally someone who agrees with me, I thought the game was cool in gameplay with the boxing rings, the gang attributes, the train HQ, the two assassin’s, ect. But the story was completely forgettable, so when I say I like the game people always attack me 😂
Kingdom Come Deliverance is one of those living in worlds I consider to have some of the best AI. The AI has a full day and night cycle, and I must say one of the most memorable stories. Made by an Indie Developer which was crowdfunded, it puts CyberPunk and most of the games here to shame.
It's easy to remember the good parts instead of the constant need to sleep, eat, wash, dying constantly, learning a fighting control scheme that seems to be hard just to be hard, not to be enjoyable. But yeah, other than that, it was a pretty amazing experience. Oh yeah, almost forgot about dealing with artificial scarcity for saves.
My favorite thing about the worlds in Witcher 3 and RDR2 is the weather. In the Witcher I sometimes felt glad to be inside and out of the harsh winds of Skellige. And waking up in the morning as Arthur in the cool light with that distinct morning fog... You can almost smell the forest! Amazing stuff!
I recently played Dishonored for the first time and I fell in love with the art style. It's a mix between cartoon and realism but on a grand scale. Dishonored is a great example that an artistic style can be more compelling than pure visual realism.
Sleeping Dogs is so underrated. The game had one of the best stories ever, the game looked so beautiful, the characters were so interesting, the combat system was interesting, the fighting and shooting was good. The only thing I wasn't a fan of was the driving system. Damn, I wanna play it now.
Driving wasn't bad, similar to gta 4. Great game, except driving across the map to acquire a gun and then it vanishing all the time when you need it lol.
Kingdom Come Deliverance felt very lived in for me. And what makes it even more awesome is that the area is real, and you can see pictures of it! The developers really put their heart and soul into it and it shows, definitely waiting on KCD 2. Another one is L. A. Noire. I love how as you go through the story, the people on the street react to you and how you've been handling cases.
It was lacking stuff to do and more balanced mechanics to feel truly immersive. If they do Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.. with the experience of the first part and the cashflow from the sales.. that could be something truly special.
I feel like Watch Dogs 1 and 2 should have been here. The amount of animations, dialogue and the NPCs interacting with one another on the streets while they were just walking simply astounded me.
Especially the 2, it's very detailed, you can interact with NPCs, they have conversations with each other, hacking them and seeing texts and phone calls that rarely get repeated, petting dogs, bars and restaurants, it's excellent
@Oasis have you played watchdogs 2?! You can talk to the npcs, fined loads of cool stuff. If a car bumps into you the driver will get out and you can have a full on conversation with them
@@overkill726 he definitely hasn't played it. The people who don't like the game are likely people who just assume the game is as bad as the first one. That definitely isn't the case.
The Watch Dogs series, especially 1 & 3 deserve a mention. In all three, the NPCs behave very realistically. They made Chicago, Sam Francisco and London very explorable after you finish the game.
Watchdogs 2 is the best one in terms of NPCs. The NPCs in 2 are whack, having their own conversations, drama, and fights and doing stuff on their own. In Watchdogs Legion though the npcs just feel like a background prop. They don't really do much aside from walk around and do loop animations. You get someone being arrested or mugged once in a while but that's about it, no story with it whatsoever.
Have you heard of mafia 2? The mafia series really is kind of the only series which has the potential to compete with the gta series but sadly the devs are not being ambitious enough with it. Mafia 2 is a masterpiece Just give it a go It really is as good as gta 4 if not better (both came around the same time)
@@exploretheinternet2334 Mafia is definitely a great game but it's not underrated. Many, many people have played it and almost everyone have good things to say. Sleeping dogs, compared to mafia, is way underrated
I finished RDR2 and I cannot set my mind into anyyy game I play after it. RDR2, Arthur, John the vast open world and the music just sticks into the mind for a long long time to come. Every other game feels nowhere near satisfying
@@gageky RDR2 was so good it made me disinterested in replaying GTA V. The next two games I played I definitely didn’t care as much about, but then I tried Fallout 4, and with everything that happens in the first twenty minutes, I was completely hooked.
I agree with your sentiment. But notice, it says "lived in". Division games have very much going that for them. Every single location in the games look like it was definitely a place where LOADs of people bustled around and lived at some point in time.
Dude I love how you actually quoted out dishonored hear that game had a good place in my heart. the atmosphere, the story, everything seemed so real AND YES TH-cam ALGORITHM ACTUALLY DECIDES TO SHOW THIS A YEAR LATER
witcher 3 has outstanding human settlements by far every region feels like a whole different culture how they talk different dialects and everything i just love it
Bradley Rae The thing is, Skyrim is a great game, was my favourite game for years, then i played Witcher 3. And for me Witcher 3 is 100 times better than Skyrim
Living near the Bohemian border, climbing and hiking thete for about 25 years, Kingdome Come is for me the most lived-in game ever. Even the maps are similar, only shrunken. The villages, the country side the fortresses. It looks like that till this day, only with modern paint and flush down toilet. Even the food is recognizable.
thanks for posting this. You must've been very excited when you found out about Kingdom Come Deliverance being developed. BTW, so the area you hiked is near Czech Republic?
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is another game with an amazingly well built world. The developers Warhorse Studios built a realistic version of middle ages Bohemia with towns that really existed (and still do).
@@joemichael9521 Combat does not even need to be mastered IMO. Just enter the training grounds and grind some stats and you'll find it does not matter that much if you are good, just if your character is good.
My pick is Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Each NPC is scripted with their own daily routines, from getting up in the morning, working during the day and hanging out in the taverns in the evening. Guards have designated patrol routes and you can have so many random encounters during your travels. It really feels like a genuine 15th century world.
In my depressed younger years being in a crappy toxic relationship and going to a uni I didn’t want to be in, Skyrim was an escape. Now that I’m older and married (to a better person), I’m glad I don’t feel the need to escape to such open world games anymore.
@@kevinmach730 ...and hopefully soon sharing it with them. 😏 In the meantime playing with your spouse for the pleasure. Seriously though, past the fact that some games helped you in time, glad to read that you are living happier times... 🙂
I dont Agree if you see below the surface, dont get me wrong its an amazing game but the npcs that just walk around only says like "huh" and " wha" and they feel like lifeless machines going from a to B and the locations Are really great but Even that has its flaws with a bit cut and paste landscape in some parts, like you cant walk up to trees like in Skyrim and go up under them but instead just walk through them,but the cutscenes in quest or when you talk to quest givers etc feels like a living a world and it dose all the right things in quests and so but after you talk to them there is ofte a second with black screen and then you go back to the ingame and when you walk up to them after that they has alot less detail in them then when you talked with them in the "cutscene quest" and they often stand there doing the same motion and all these littel things do drag the game world down a bit ( with that Said these things iv noticed Are in alot of games) and i like that they use folklore and darker side of fantasy and its almost flawless but i remember an old game like half life 2 Even though its not an open world it had all the things in the game "in game" and i dident have to Wait for a cutscene to play for a second before takling to someone. and the grapics looks a bit worse "in game" then in the "cutscene quests/ conversations" in wicher 3, the same can be Said about there newer game too but that is more serious, my point is although wicher 3 is a perfect game in alot of aspects the newer games Will copy them and take the good parts ( i see some things similar in the newer assasins creed) but Even if they copy the good things like quests and stuff they might make it a habit in copying some bad stuff like stiff npcs, less detail in the smaller things in enviorment like " a tree is just placed there to be there" kind of thing instead of Skyrim which did a better Job( i feel) with placing a making more detailed forests etc that you could walk up to inspect and that you dident just walk through like a ghost, although the face animations in Skyrim Are not as good of course, and again wicher 3 is a perfect game but its not flawless i feel
its my all time fav game...the storyline, the side quests, the treasure hunts, contracts, dlcs, the characters, the soundtrack, the environment, all those different enemy varieties and how dealing with them differently...everything about witcher 3 is mesmerizing....
Jup it was fcking fun and cool loocking with the black and white turning into colour and the moulin rouge vibes. Tho7ght the tumbnail whas from that game at first
Indeed ! I played a while in the cabaret and around, even before going forward and meet any danger. I was driving, appreciating all the details evokating the era, including the car, the houses, the landscape. It has a well realised ambiance and deserve this mention.
I definitely root for the Elder Scrolls games here simply because everything is accessible, every house can be broken into and so on.. I'd really rather see a new GTA etc being a lot smaller, but sharing more of this philosophy. That's to me what makes the world feel lived in... Much more interiors!
So many good things about RDR2. As a big fan of GTA, I was expecting it to be literally an Old West version GTA, but it was not. It's its own game, and it's incredible
I feel that way about Unity as well. There were times I completely forgot was I was doing just to wander around Paris for a while....which is probably just as well because the story was pretty basic.
@UCBoiv6QLy_l2QuaqhXGfU5A it's massive but it lacks any real depth. Even compared to the first games in the series it's lacking. I'd take Monterigioni any day over over odyssey's world.
ever played Saboteur? takes place in Paris, you can parkour and the gameplay is something between GTA and Assassins Creed- pretty great game that not a lot people know about because there was something with the studio going bankrupt or something like that
It makes me sad that Metro Exodus was overlooked for this list. It was released the same year as RDR2, and it 100% matches or exceeds its attention to detail, environmental storytelling, atmosphere, and that lived in feeling. Such an underrated game by a stupidly talented team.
yup 100 percent agree, Metro is one of my favourite franchises to date, the world building through all three of them was amazing. The only problem I had with Exodus was I was surprised when it ended. While I belive its better to have a short polished brilliant game. Rather than one that's padded out, open world bullshit. I still reckcon an extra 5 to 8 hours on Exodus would have been right on the money.
While I enjoyed Metro, the game was buggy and boring, if I remember rightly also had a glitch where one of the trophies is unobtainable, preventing platinum which is annoying as I didn't find out till had all other needed for plat
Metro Exodus is great, but calling it open world is stretching it a bit? Sure, there's freedom to move on the maps, they're on the small side compared to some of these and the later levels are rather...fenced.
Never liked the franchise, and I played the first one not much before it released. But I gotta say, I was impressed with Syndicate. The series truly refined the formula well and I am eager to try the DLC missions.
Lively world doesn't necessarily mean having a lot of npcs. It means you can almost interact with every npcs, have random things happening around the world, details, etc
i disabled the fog effect inthe settings ini file for AC Syndicate and it made the game look so much better. the view distance was something else with that.
Kingdom Come has THE most realistic and beautiful forests I've ever seen in a game, there's never been a game that truly made me stop and stare at the scenery while I was lost deep in the woods, the closest would be The Witcher 3 but even then exploring in 3rd person perspective is not as deeply immersing as 1st person
Currently playing it myself it’s just so amazing at how realistic it feels sometimes I’m riding my horse across an open plain and just stop to take in the sight
GTA IV. People going at their own way, coming home from shopping, using cellphones to call each other, cops arrest criminals, Niko can go to cafes, use dating sites, etc It’s a LOT more believable than GTA V
Can't believe Watch Dogs 1&2 weren't included. Yes they might not be perfect games but they are very lived in. You can see everybody's occupations, their income and even their hobbies and/or an embarrassing secret about the person. The conversations that NPCs have with each other, especially in 2 are funny, relatable and wacky. And NPCs won't hesitate to give you a piece of their mind if you act like a dick. A lady once pulled me out of my car and slapped me right across the face for driving on the sidewalk. I literally saw a woman destroying her ex boyfriend's car with a baseball bat while she was cursing him out in Watch Dogs 2. I also saw two men start a fight in the street because one didn't apologise for bumping into the other. I mean it's very difficult to not appreciate Ubisoft's efforts here. This is just my two cents of course but yeah.
Watch Dogs isn't great at making the world feel lived in IMO. All the things you said are true, but IMO a world feeling lived in is more about show, don't tell.
Came to the comments for this. I was surprised it wasn't in the list. That fucking tailor in the main city didn't show up for work until like 11am everyday
I really love the world of Zero Dawn, every culture is clearly different and organized through their belief and economic background. The game took much from the witcher 3 in that aspect and for the better.
I 100%ed it on 360 including dlc. I'm going to get the Definitive Edition on Black Friday for $5 off the Xbox Store to play on Xbox Series X when it releases
@@V_For_Vigilante Dude is everything to you just a ripoff of something else? You are either a troll, or you are straight up on crack. Guessing from your channels name it leans more towards a shitty troll that may, or may not be also smoking crack at the same time.
Despite how bad of a game it was AC unity was really immersive there was even random executions going on in public and every where you went there were riots. But Origins had incredible AI where they would actually have full day time routines to do including going to the bathroom.
really love the map but with the pedestrian AI, car driving AI and how police works (just spawns in and leaves you alone if you drive away) it wouldn't be in this list for me either
Shit I'm already 143 hours into my Cyberpunk playthrough lol on a 7 year old PS4 - so I beg to differ, after all it just came out. Did any of you play Skyrim on release? It was so much worse lol, but its Bethesda and it's a norm for them now so everyone let it pass. Internets just blowing up with CP2077 cause everyone wants that next click bait video lol, but theres a reason everyone on my friends list is still playing it :P
The Witcher 3 is the only game I've ever played that I want to replay the story and really explore the world. It's become impossible for me to find a game that can top the Witcher 3.
@@jakeguy6050 i dunno, citadel definitely doesn't feel empty. Most of the places you visit in me1 make sense to be small in population as they are on planets extremely far from anything. Colony outposts like eden prime mostly. Feros seemed populated, most of the outposts do. Just not as exciting as say afterlife, the club on Omega. 2 and 3 really sold it with better graphics engine.
0:00 Skyrim
1:31 AC Syndicate
3:01 Fable
4:35 GTA5
5:49 Sleeping Dogs
6:43 Yakuza
8:17 The Division
9:19 The Witcher 3
10:43 Dishonored
11:44 RDR2
Thank you since he didn't out it in the info box and for that I'm going to dislike this video
dmexikan16 ur gonna dislike a video because u couldn’t find out when a certain game placed on a list , 😂
Thanks
comments like this should be in the top. sad it's underrated though
@9600GTMAN Syndicate truly was an absolute disappointment
The fact that sleeping dogs will never get a sequel makes me sad, underrated and deserves more recognition
Why is it never getting a sequel? I love the game!
@@shutup.2046 Didn't make enough money.
There is an unreleased sequel of 2015
Exactly, one of the best open world games ive ever played period.
Come play in Hong Kong for real, get a wanted level as soon as you say the word “democracy”
I feel the empty spaces in rdr2 actually make it feel more real.. how they're filled with animals doing their thing, filling ecological niches... It just feels natural
That’s what I enjoy too, a lot of games now have too much city in the game, GTA has a similar style but its map is just a city and mountains, RDR2 has environment changes everywhere and it’s nice being able to experience different environments
It’s not even empty space. It usually densely packed with trees or animals
Also its not entirely empty, theres active campsites with people doing unique things, abandoned campsites, abandoned homesteads, and all kinds of random encounters.
Not just that but they even have different star cycles on clear nights, people getting robbed, people out hunting shop keepers going home at a certain time everyday the little things make this game phenomenal
Well you gotta picture the prairies!
One of the better details that's in rdr2's world is that over time since you play through years of Arthur's life there are houses and regular buildings that start off as just foundations and if you go back to them through almost every chapter there's progress made to them. Like there's a house where a guy is building it with his 2 sons and it actually gets finished later on. Really nice attention to detail that rewards you for paying attention to subtle details
WELLLLLLLLL
Let me have a ruler and a saw and a board and I'll cut it!
Thats probs rhe least interesting thing to do on red dead but i get ya point. The game has endless hidden wanders. IT DEFO PAYS TO EXPLORE IN RED DEAD
@@godseye13k guy never said it was interesting, he said it's one of the better attention to details lol
Lmao and the guy who builds it is always complaining the sons
@@RSpracticalshootingI’LL CLIMB UP A LADDER WITH A HAMMER AND A NAIL AND I’LL NAIL IT!
Saint Denis is so jarring after spending hours connecting to the wilderness and wildlife of RDR2. The moment I set foot in Saint Denis I felt completely out of place and just wanted to run back to the open planes and mountains and pick herbs and shot animals.
I felt the exact same way lol made me hate the city
That's the same way Arthur feels. Amazing game
It showcases what Arthur felt when he first stepped into the city
Your not lying!
Ok know
RDR was also an incredible open world, it felt real even back in 2010 or 2011.
I mean they probably said to themselves only one each of Rockstars franchises else half the list would be GTA and RDR
I remember hatchet murdering and kidnapping people in black water xD
@@gerricdraconis5296 there's even an achievement for hogtying a woman to the railway tracks and having the train run her over xD
@@gerricdraconis5296 Truly a redemption arc. Of a man doing his best to right the wrongs of his past, and to do the best for his family.
*Cut to you slaughtering innocents, and kidnapping lmao.
and for some reason I played poker for hours on there even though I could play online in a way more efficient fashion.
your safehouse in Syndicate being a MOVING TRAIN is still one of my favorite gaming mechanics ever
Yes
I've seen better mechanics then that trash game.
*than
@@Daniel-nn8mr why u mad about the game 😂😂😂 its just a game just don't play it
@@Daniel-nn8mr not really need in this convo as i hate fortnite do u see me bashing kids h😂😂
A weird but in my opinion worthy addition to the list: Dying Light.
For an open world game inhabited mainly by undeads, with so many repeated assets featuring in every loot centered interior you can visit while roaming around, it really gives a dynamic and satisfying feeling when you parkour your way through it.
It was very unexpected to me when I played this game, and I think that a large part of DL's success was due to the surprisingly enjoyable open world it features.
YESS DYING LIGHT IS FREAKING GOOD!!!
Brilliant gameplay & great a story.
I went back to Dying Light after only playing Dying Light 2 since it’s release last year. I couldn’t agree more, Dying Light 1’s open world feels so real and you really feel like you’re living in it. I only wish Dying Light 2 was like this as well.
"Arthur is just a visitor there, it's not a world made for Arthur"
exactly, unlike most video games you can literally feel how helpless your character is
lol bro yeah i felt so helpless when every other mission was me killing 800 people and getting shot 43 times but being just dandy
@@lord_voldemort44 thats not always the case you probably talking about gta
@@lord_voldemort44 did you not feel him struggle with mortality
@@iim2284 he probably just played it for an hour and complained about how there isn't any cars 😂🤦♂️
@@iim2284 alot of ppl just play the missions to finish the game instead of paying attention to story
"Skyrim may feel old in this list..."
Later on talks about Fable I and II.
Was surprised too. With the right mods, Skyrim is like the newest in regards too Combat, AI, Sound and Graphics (Enb).
He meant time setting
I am fairly sure Skyrim will get at least 4 more re releases before we get a new one so its sorta recent
I didn’t like fable II, but I loved the original fable
@Matt jackson graphics shit game play is still amazing
I am currently in the middle of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and having visited Greece many times I find it utterly convincing. To be able to walk around places you have really been to and seen as ruins such as the Parthenon in Athens and experience them as they were is just mind-blowing. I love RDR2 too and agree it is the best. In 4K on a large monitor, these worlds are like being on a vacation during these dark COVID-19 days and keeping me sane.
Bro u MUST try a vr system. Like oculus quest 2. Just the other day I bought the virtual desktop app so I can mirror my pc screen to the oculus, and so I was able to play doom eternal and rdr2 on the oculus quest 2. It was amazing. Worth it just to mirror ur computer screen.
The cities are really nice but i felt the wilderness in odyssey is kinda meh. Same ish and lot of filler, not much to stumble upon. RDR2 on the other hand has something unique in every square meter. (Incase u haven't yet, dont visit the small hut located west in the great valley, just south of the creek, West Elizabeth.)
They have games out where it's just the assassin's creed cities and you can take tours and history lessons and it will tell you the real history of the places you are. It's actually quite cool. There is zero fighting or danger or assassin's creed but just the world and history and tour guides. It's called discovery tour. They have ancient greece and ancient egypt.
@@Taylormade2350 thanks for this info. I am not interested in playing. So i will buy it for this feature.
@@Kerveros1904 don't buy the assassin's Creed game for that feature it doesn't have it. It's a totally different game you have to purchase called discovery tours
Witcher 3 for me is the best experience i have ever had with a video game and i have played 8 out of 10 on this list. There is just so much to do. The side quest stories are so in depth and well written, you'd come off it thinking it's part of the main quest.
For me it’s RDR2
@@Alisonn2 It's a close 2nd for me. Another Masterpiece!
witcher 3 is the best single player rpg of all time
Definitely the greatest game of all time in my book. Does it still hold the record for most game of the year awards?
@@breakmanradio2530 Unfortunately, No. Suprisingly, Last of us 2 has that crown.
The open worlds I spent a huge chunk of my childhood in were : Skyrim, San Andreas & Runescape
San Andreas was the game of my childhood, good memories
A Link To The Past, Wind Waker and Fable 1 were the open worlds I played the most as a kid.
Skyrim voice. is very... Same like
Damn don't remember asking tho 😳
@Toxic Gaming I fully just went and completed vice city last week, never got the chance as a kid cause i was always doing stuff in San Andreas, loved it. After completion I couldn't find much to do though, whereas SA being a newer game they must have thought of that aspect a lot harder cause the replay-ability is wonderful. I spent a lot of time in GTA IV as a kid as well, the open access interiors made it hella immersive, something I feel like 5 really lacked.
Love seeing Sleeping Dogs here. That was such a fantastic game.
I always thought they were going to make a part 2 but apparently not very underrated game
Same. Still hoping for a sequel but that might be wishful thinking 😂😅
I just beat the main story and I'm planning to 100% it. An extremely underrated game
A man who has never had a pork bun is never a whole man!!!
Just watched for the first time today. Hollow just started playing it
No-one:
Me: *Sees skyrim in list* ah shit here we go again
_plays 5000 hours again_
You said a hecking word
Facts
Get a life
@Pig in a Blanket i have a friend that actually spent 700 hours on this game and the game files got corrupted at the end.
Lifeless bitch
I spent lots of times of video games
But 200 hours is my max
Such as witcher 3
Persona 5
Or RDR2
But
Not 700......
@@mohamadabdlghani1550 cool
For all its flaws, I feel Fallout 4 needs a spot on this list as well. There's so much detail in the environment, the ruined city and the gear people wear. There's history in every bit of scrap on the ground, and every cobbled-together piece of equipment.
Totally agree
Ahh yes, love the outpost customisation too. Building bases and what not. Wish game developers would implement this more. Only game I saw that has base building is no man sky, state of decay but limited to prefab bases, skyrim but also limited to prefabs, and no im not gonna mention minecraft, ark , rust or other multiplayer games. Wish a game like middle earth would pop out too where you can customize fort and build a kingdom and be an overlord conquering other kingdoms and choosing generals, so much potential in middle earth som and sow.
@@a.syching678 That sounds so dope, id love to see that irl
Definitely Fallout!
Fallout 4 is painfully overlooked
I'm surprised that Kingdom Come: Deliverance didn't make it on the list...
Say what you want but that game has a very realistic world. Every citizen doing their day to day work, takes a break and eat, go to sleep at night and locking their doors at homes, guards patrolling at night and takes shifts and cares about their hygiene sometimes.
JCHunter248 who developed that game ?
@@justdoit3375 its developed by Warhorse Studios and published by Deep Silver.
A very underrated company with an underrated game imo 🙁
Same as oblivion
Good ol Henry simulator
Still waiting on a continuation.Shit is what go me back into RPGs
the best thing to come out of the gta v map was switching to trevor shouting “scoooooooter brothers”
Or when u wake up on the ground in ur underwear on top of a mountain with a bottle of whiskey in hand hungover. And ya have to walk LOL Loved switching to trevor ya never know what hes doing
@@cavemanlovesmoke4394 or wearing a dress hehe
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Really hated switching to trevor because I honestly hate escaping from the cops
I always get him throwing some dude off a bridge
No matter how many fuckups Ubisoft has done, we gotta admit they really know how to make beautiful open worlds
Naah bro they ain't living up to their name anymore from software is the best developer ever born
To be fair yeah. Started riders republic yesterday and the world is big and its got loads of details. No where feels dead. Its crossplay platforms. Fun game .
THEY DID
@@repawn3610 nah they still do. just look at ac mirage
@@JohnSmith-nk9xq you didn’t even read my comment properly
RDR1 was great too. I remember in Armadillo you could shoot the top hat gang members, and the sheriff wouldn't care. I once shot the gang members, caused a lot of ruckus, the deputy drew his gun and pointed it at me, I had mine aimed at him, then I holstered, and he holstered too, and we went our separate ways. Really amazing and fun sandbox interaction for me.
Probably cause the sheriff was too scared to go against you at that point. Probably out of respect.
would love to see a “least lived-in worlds” or something along those lines
basically for games like Dark Souls or Hollow Knight, or similar titles that make you feel alone
The recent Dynasty Warriors sadly would take that.
To be fair, games like that can also fall under the category of "post apocalyptic". Those worlds are empty because they're supposed to be.
old minecraft
Anything from ubisoft
Basically every walking simulator ever.
AC: Syndicate is truly my guilty pleasure game from the series to play. I feel it didn't get enough love specially since it came after Unity
No problem, I love it.
Is that enough?
Started off my assassins creed series with Syndicate and been loving it since. Came odyssey and origins, nothing beats London
@@danielmoktar since AC3 it doesn't have really much to do with history. :D
Don't get me wrong, games are really cool (new ones too, but not origins for obvious reasons).
I've had a feeling with AC3, that the more this series will keep going, the less realistic/ history based it will be.
I got bored with that one. Black Flag is my favorite.
Unity was better
We all knew number 1 would be RDR2 let's be honest 🤠😌
Azerrzzzz hiiii I’m a big fan i love you and your impressions. I wish I could meet you, you’re such a funny, entertaining, and kind human being😊❤️
What the hecc you doi’n here bro?
You're everywhere bro
Boring asf game. Literally fallen asleep riding the horse 20mins in an empty as world to reach a mission. Worst 60 bucks spent
@@Rabiiid it takes 20 minutes to ride all the way from east to west... and it’s full of random encounters. Maybe play better🤔
I'd give an honourable mention to Horizon Zero Dawn. Both on the animal/wild side (or should I say machine?) and on the human side, everything feels so insanely REAL for a post apocalyptic future
I see Syndicate, I click. The environment was so so good
@Niek Warnas is it as bad as Odyssey
Roque Rubio definitely not!!
It was good gameplay wise but bad story wise
RogueAssassin finally someone who agrees with me, I thought the game was cool in gameplay with the boxing rings, the gang attributes, the train HQ, the two assassin’s, ect. But the story was completely forgettable, so when I say I like the game people always attack me 😂
I found the environment and atmosphere better in Unity actually better
I have high hopes for Cyberpunk 2077 after watching this
They wil have to change the top 3 for sure for this game i think!
So i saw this guy called just some guy with a mustache and saw that hes way older account and apparently an avid commentor such as you
The lore grows deep
I assume hes the original when i found him it felt like unpacking a legendary yugioh card or some shit wtf is this
IT'S HIM AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Kingdom Come Deliverance is one of those living in worlds I consider to have some of the best AI. The AI has a full day and night cycle, and I must say one of the most memorable stories. Made by an Indie Developer which was crowdfunded, it puts CyberPunk and most of the games here to shame.
It's easy to remember the good parts instead of the constant need to sleep, eat, wash, dying constantly, learning a fighting control scheme that seems to be hard just to be hard, not to be enjoyable. But yeah, other than that, it was a pretty amazing experience. Oh yeah, almost forgot about dealing with artificial scarcity for saves.
@@rBennich yeah it was a rough experience, but note how you remember all those things just the same. One word: memorable.
@@TrevonMorris Hah, sure..
Thank you, I love fable and everything about it… but I could’ve replaced Fable with Kingdom
Memorable lol it ended before it got good and dont get me started in the lame asf battles
My favorite thing about the worlds in Witcher 3 and RDR2 is the weather. In the Witcher I sometimes felt glad to be inside and out of the harsh winds of Skellige. And waking up in the morning as Arthur in the cool light with that distinct morning fog... You can almost smell the forest! Amazing stuff!
Suggestion: 10 game levels we dreaded replaying a game
The submarine in the mountains mission in Just Cause 2. Those missiles are way more advanced than anything wr currently have.
Basement level in the Last of Us
JD FROM ATL 10 game levels we dreaded replying in a Video game
@@liamjewell6783 it wasn't that bad, just grab the keycard, turn on the generator an run
Phantom Aviator personally the white tiger mission was a pain long and boring and the guy chane I think kept dying failing the mission.
3:50 "...same bustle of NPCs..."
Also literally a completely empty street
Ahan Bhalla bruhhhhhhh
Haha first thing came into my mind
I remember when Skyrim came out I spent a hole week without any social interaction at all, ahhhh... good times...
Jose Encarnacion Now you can do it again, & this time, the whole world can do it with you
I had a similar experience when I started The Witcher 3. Dumped around 20 hours into it during my first 3 days playing.
I did that with witcher 3. Finished it in 123 hrs in 9 days. Still can't believe that i did that.
Just wait until Cyberpunk comes out my friend, it's gonna be a Skyrim experience all over again :)
Bangin' Badger I dare say even better than Skyrim
The feeling of exploring The Witcher 3 world for the first time is truly an amazing experience.
“Most recently we have Skyrim”. Best quote
most recently in the elder scrolls series.. online really shouldnt count
@@ZIEIaou r/wooosh
@@bit_link1264 r/woosh*
@@bit_link1264 imagine wooooshing on someone who tried to fix the joke
Reddit moment Keanu chungus 100 wholesome
Skyrim is fucking overrated and boring, I played it till whiterun and couldn't continue
I recently played Dishonored for the first time and I fell in love with the art style. It's a mix between cartoon and realism but on a grand scale. Dishonored is a great example that an artistic style can be more compelling than pure visual realism.
Dishonored is great. But is it Open World? I only played the first game and don't remember it to be an open world game.
I just played through it a couple months ago as well! Great game!
@@TheMirandalorian so is it open world? I don't remember
One of my favourite games !
i played it a little and it reminds me of bioshock a little
Sleeping Dogs is so underrated. The game had one of the best stories ever, the game looked so beautiful, the characters were so interesting, the combat system was interesting, the fighting and shooting was good.
The only thing I wasn't a fan of was the driving system.
Damn, I wanna play it now.
hated the driving in that game
Yeah,it was much better than Gta 5 or Yakuza for me.
Driving wasn't bad, similar to gta 4. Great game, except driving across the map to acquire a gun and then it vanishing all the time when you need it lol.
Kingdom Come Deliverance felt very lived in for me. And what makes it even more awesome is that the area is real, and you can see pictures of it! The developers really put their heart and soul into it and it shows, definitely waiting on KCD 2.
Another one is L. A. Noire. I love how as you go through the story, the people on the street react to you and how you've been handling cases.
It was lacking stuff to do and more balanced mechanics to feel truly immersive. If they do Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.. with the experience of the first part and the cashflow from the sales.. that could be something truly special.
I’m gonna start playing that game in couple of days
I love the concept and the medieval environment
You said it best by saying that the RDR2 world wasn't made for Arthur, but rather he is just a visitor there.
I feel like Watch Dogs 1 and 2 should have been here. The amount of animations, dialogue and the NPCs interacting with one another on the streets while they were just walking simply astounded me.
Especially the 2, it's very detailed, you can interact with NPCs, they have conversations with each other, hacking them and seeing texts and phone calls that rarely get repeated, petting dogs, bars and restaurants, it's excellent
@@ryanelkadi3196 and very very very boring
@@reportteemo4690 Have you actually played the game?
@@ryanelkadi3196 yeah, you can even be a pervert to girls. Lol
@@theleanbusinessman5431 i have, wouldnt have said anything if i didnt.
I feel like they left out Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Watch Dogs 2 just so people would comment on the video. it worked tho.
Nathan Willoughby I agree
@Davik Arora lol
Ya man totally agree on both.
@Oasis have you played watchdogs 2?! You can talk to the npcs, fined loads of cool stuff. If a car bumps into you the driver will get out and you can have a full on conversation with them
@@overkill726 he definitely hasn't played it. The people who don't like the game are likely people who just assume the game is as bad as the first one. That definitely isn't the case.
The Watch Dogs series, especially 1 & 3 deserve a mention. In all three, the NPCs behave very realistically. They made Chicago, Sam Francisco and London very explorable after you finish the game.
Watchdogs 2 is the best one in terms of NPCs. The NPCs in 2 are whack, having their own conversations, drama, and fights and doing stuff on their own.
In Watchdogs Legion though the npcs just feel like a background prop. They don't really do much aside from walk around and do loop animations. You get someone being arrested or mugged once in a while but that's about it, no story with it whatsoever.
FACTS
Got 'em all, I just love the franchise, is a good alternative in you get bored of Los Santos for a while.
I am more of a fan of Sam Fisher, but Sam Francisco also seems to be nice.
@@BlackAge2k this comment deserves an award
theres a part 2 follow up , hope you can watch it
I feel like kingdom come deliverance should be on this list
Jake Foad lived in... and died in... many, many times in increasingly gruesome ways
I 100000000% agree with this
I was just about to say that as well. It is such a great world
beat me to saying it
110% true
You forgot kingdom come: deliverance it’s insanely detailed and the cycle of day and night is incredible
AC: Syndicate is extremely underrated. Glad you're singing its praises, it deserves it.
Deff one of my favorite ac creeds
Odyssey mate
@@themsky8905 it sucks your point
I don't understand how I've literally never even heard of it
Very underrated game.
Sleeping Dogs: all feel distinctly different. *walks past three separate people wearing exact same shirt*
Rdr 2 is absolute beauty
Yes
and boring (online) .Im level 250 and I completely lost interest, theres nothing to do. It's so repetitive.
Iv spent less time doing missions and spent dozens of hours roaming in the wild, hunting. Its just so engaging.
I've had the game for like 3 weeks and I already have 3 total days on it lol
@@oreo7259 that amounts to 144 minutes in real world. Not much tbh
Sleeping dogs- worlds most underrated game
Titanfall2
Is one
Agreed SD is awesome... its Just a pity it didn't have better PC KB&M controls
Have you heard of mafia 2?
The mafia series really is kind of the only series which has the potential to compete with the gta series but sadly the devs are not being ambitious enough with it.
Mafia 2 is a masterpiece
Just give it a go
It really is as good as gta 4 if not better (both came around the same time)
@@exploretheinternet2334 Mafia is definitely a great game but it's not underrated. Many, many people have played it and almost everyone have good things to say. Sleeping dogs, compared to mafia, is way underrated
I liked Mafia 2. The city was wonderful to roam around & the Music was great.
Same here! Lol i remember playing this game when I was like 12 years old and I would be so excited to find the playboy magazine collections xD
It's one of those games I keep coming back to. I'm so glad it's on ps4 now as well since my pc could never give me a proper frame rate, haha!
All mafia games are garbage
@@V_For_Vigilante why don’t you like them? And give a reason and don’t just say “EvERyThInG ItS TrASh”
@@jorgetheyellowgreenbean5908
Mafia is a downgraded gta clone and the game is outdated as hell
I finished RDR2 and I cannot set my mind into anyyy game I play after it. RDR2, Arthur, John the vast open world and the music just sticks into the mind for a long long time to come. Every other game feels nowhere near satisfying
I have experienced the same exact thing. I used to play a variety of games but RDR2 ruined me. I’ve never been so immersed into a game
Play Ghost of tsushima
@@gageky RDR2 was so good it made me disinterested in replaying GTA V. The next two games I played I definitely didn’t care as much about, but then I tried Fallout 4, and with everything that happens in the first twenty minutes, I was completely hooked.
@@eddixon2015 yea but now it’s becoming outdated
After rdr2 I just went back to rdr1 honestly
"Lived-In"
Also, here's Division 2.
Me: Ok.
The first division was incredible. The division 2 sucked
@@jonnybgoode7742 pls reverse your comment
I agree with your sentiment. But notice, it says "lived in". Division games have very much going that for them. Every single location in the games look like it was definitely a place where LOADs of people bustled around and lived at some point in time.
Makes no fucking sense to me too man
Used to live in.
Arthur looks so hungry and tired, for God sake give him some food and rest 😂
The lack of "The Simpsons Hit and Run" is criminal, to say the least
Game is dogshit compared to the other games on the list
Look at the absolute disrespect being thrown at the priceless diamond of game that is Simpson’s hit and run. *disgusting*
It would have been unfair to mention ‘hit n run’ coz it’s just too damn good
PB Richie Errrm no.
PB Richie That is not respectful thing to say
Dude I love how you actually quoted out dishonored hear
that game had a good place in my heart. the atmosphere, the story, everything seemed so real
AND YES TH-cam ALGORITHM ACTUALLY DECIDES TO SHOW THIS A YEAR LATER
witcher 3 has outstanding human settlements by far every region feels like a whole different culture how they talk different dialects and everything i just love it
Most overrated game ever. I downloaded it around a month ago for the first time and it is rubbish. Skyrim is 100x better imo
@@Br666d witcher 3 rubbish? Haha you are funny
Best open world all time honestly
@@Br666d troll
Bradley Rae The thing is, Skyrim is a great game, was my favourite game for years, then i played Witcher 3. And for me Witcher 3 is 100 times better than Skyrim
“Truly lived in” *cuts to bodies hanging from tree*
I was thinking the same thing 😆
“Truly occupied”
Lived out
"Lived" Is more of a past tense than a present one.
Well, to truly feel lived in, it must also feel died in.
Playing the RD2 is surreal! I loved it from start to finish!
First and only game I never used fast travel...not even once.
Living near the Bohemian border, climbing and hiking thete for about 25 years, Kingdome Come is for me the most lived-in game ever.
Even the maps are similar, only shrunken. The villages, the country side the fortresses. It looks like that till this day, only with modern paint and flush down toilet. Even the food is recognizable.
thanks for posting this. You must've been very excited when you found out about Kingdom Come Deliverance being developed. BTW, so the area you hiked is near Czech Republic?
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is another game with an amazingly well built world. The developers Warhorse Studios built a realistic version of middle ages Bohemia with towns that really existed (and still do).
definitely over Skyrim, agreed
I was searching the comments for this so that I didn’t have to write it, didn’t have to go far
should i play Kingdom Come: Deliverance? I got it for free and only played the start
@@zenoox9073 i quite liked it but i gave up because i wasnt that good at the combat. if you can master the combat, its a fun game
@@joemichael9521 Combat does not even need to be mastered IMO. Just enter the training grounds and grind some stats and you'll find it does not matter that much if you are good, just if your character is good.
My pick is Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Each NPC is scripted with their own daily routines, from getting up in the morning, working during the day and hanging out in the taverns in the evening. Guards have designated patrol routes and you can have so many random encounters during your travels. It really feels like a genuine 15th century world.
At some point I need to play this its still sitting in its package.
Gabriel Berger then games like mgsv get praised for how they "do open world right"
It's amazing how Gothic series had this kinda stuff such a long time ago.
Blu Magi it’s amazing, you really should!
I love that game so much
I love how he talks about "realistic worlds" and in 1:47 a guy drops a newspaper after reading it
lol nice catch
i do that too sometimes
Shocking news I guess.
In my depressed younger years being in a crappy toxic relationship and going to a uni I didn’t want to be in, Skyrim was an escape. Now that I’m older and married (to a better person), I’m glad I don’t feel the need to escape to such open world games anymore.
Until you have children, and then you will need the escape again.
@@kevinmach730 ...and hopefully soon sharing it with them. 😏
In the meantime playing with your spouse for the pleasure.
Seriously though, past the fact that some games helped you in time,
glad to read that you are living happier times... 🙂
Uni degrees are next to useless these days! Getting a trades the way to go...
@@NathanChisholm041 Engineers, doctors and lawyers make 3x-5x more than the trades.
@@jaypostsvideos4011 Not here in Australia. A good tradesman can make far more than any of those examples
Honesty I’ve never been a fan of returning to “older games” but I will never stop returning to Skyrim, it is truely a masterpiece .
My fav Game Of all time.
Skyrim is love
I played the heck out of it on PC with some mods. Vanilla Skyrim doesn't compare to Oblivion or Morrowind imo
I've actually never played it, though I am planning on picking it up for the switch.
@@jamesmartin6737 Its a fantastic fantasy, set aside time to play because it will suck you in.
Just finished playing it again
Love myself some Mafia 2. Especially the winter. Loved the sad coziness of the city with such a good soundtrack.
ah man the mafia 2 soundtrack is epic!! Especially the 1940's, I always play it at christmas
Me too 🥺
Hitman’s levels always feel really lived in and are amazing
Personally, I loved and really enjoyed the real world exploration, free roam and how beautiful it is in Days Gone.
8:01 - "... all in a believable way." _Proceeds to high kick two grown men off the ground_
I laughed so hard at this lol
He did 100 squats, 100 pushups, and 10km run every single day.
"Most lived open world"
Put division on the list
I didn't expect that
witcher 3 was love and adapting whole game has literally best feeling in life
literally feels like im living a double life when playing the witcher. goddamn i love that game
Amen to that
I dont Agree if you see below the surface, dont get me wrong its an amazing game but the npcs that just walk around only says like "huh" and " wha" and they feel like lifeless machines going from a to B and the locations Are really great but Even that has its flaws with a bit cut and paste landscape in some parts, like you cant walk up to trees like in Skyrim and go up under them but instead just walk through them,but the cutscenes in quest or when you talk to quest givers etc feels like a living a world and it dose all the right things in quests and so but after you talk to them there is ofte a second with black screen and then you go back to the ingame and when you walk up to them after that they has alot less detail in them then when you talked with them in the "cutscene quest" and they often stand there doing the same motion and all these littel things do drag the game world down a bit ( with that Said these things iv noticed Are in alot of games) and i like that they use folklore and darker side of fantasy and its almost flawless but i remember an old game like half life 2 Even though its not an open world it had all the things in the game "in game" and i dident have to Wait for a cutscene to play for a second before takling to someone. and the grapics looks a bit worse "in game" then in the "cutscene quests/ conversations" in wicher 3, the same can be Said about there newer game too but that is more serious, my point is although wicher 3 is a perfect game in alot of aspects the newer games Will copy them and take the good parts ( i see some things similar in the newer assasins creed) but Even if they copy the good things like quests and stuff they might make it a habit in copying some bad stuff like stiff npcs, less detail in the smaller things in enviorment like " a tree is just placed there to be there" kind of thing instead of Skyrim which did a better Job( i feel) with placing a making more detailed forests etc that you could walk up to inspect and that you dident just walk through like a ghost, although the face animations in Skyrim Are not as good of course, and again wicher 3 is a perfect game but its not flawless i feel
Yeah all the npcs say the same thing and most look the same. The open world is the worst part, it's empty and void of anything to do
its my all time fav game...the storyline, the side quests, the treasure hunts, contracts, dlcs, the characters, the soundtrack, the environment, all those different enemy varieties and how dealing with them differently...everything about witcher 3 is mesmerizing....
One of my favorite Open World games that was done extremely well (especially for it's time) was The Saboteur
Jup it was fcking fun and cool loocking with the black and white turning into colour and the moulin rouge vibes. Tho7ght the tumbnail whas from that game at first
Indeed !
I played a while in the cabaret and around, even before going forward and meet any danger.
I was driving, appreciating all the details evokating the era, including the car, the houses, the landscape.
It has a well realised ambiance and deserve this mention.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance? One of the most immersive games I've played, although the AI can be a bit weird
I can't stop playing KCD! What did they do to me?!
Well people in real life can be weird too so
The ending was very disappointing though. :( I love that game
I was hoping someone would mention KCD! I think it fits this category mentioned here very well.
@@feraligtr3151 I thought the ending was pretty good tbh, but the Vengeance quest and epilogue were kind of annoying though
Watchdogs 2 has one of my all time fave open worlds. They crafted San Fran beautifully, defo deserves to be on the list!!
Rosie May we need more sf games
I agree.
DavidGAZ123 gta in sf would be so amazing
I was just saying that it should've been on the list as well
@@julianoseguera5887 You have San Fierro in San Andreas
Ahhh Sleepings dogs was on a whole different level with those feels
Sleeping Dogs > GTA (any)
Poor Jackie :(
Gabriele Mariotti RDR2 > any game
I definitely root for the Elder Scrolls games here simply because everything is accessible, every house can be broken into and so on.. I'd really rather see a new GTA etc being a lot smaller, but sharing more of this philosophy. That's to me what makes the world feel lived in... Much more interiors!
AC UNITY had some interiors
Agreed.
So many good things about RDR2. As a big fan of GTA, I was expecting it to be literally an Old West version GTA, but it was not. It's its own game, and it's incredible
I liked unity's open world more than syndicates. Paris was beautiful and more interesting.
Love just parkouring and exploring
I feel that way about Unity as well. There were times I completely forgot was I was doing just to wander around Paris for a while....which is probably just as well because the story was pretty basic.
The parkour in this game is the best but for me syndicate is better
If there's something I couldn't do in Unity was parkour, that thing was way too buggy
@UCBoiv6QLy_l2QuaqhXGfU5A it's massive but it lacks any real depth. Even compared to the first games in the series it's lacking. I'd take Monterigioni any day over over odyssey's world.
ever played Saboteur? takes place in Paris, you can parkour and the gameplay is something between GTA and Assassins Creed- pretty great game that not a lot people know about because there was something with the studio going bankrupt or something like that
It hit me when he said “I will continue to be long after he’s gone...”
SportsNGames 😭
When?
@@RipChordProductions 12:27
YOU will?
He kinda spoiled that for people who still haven't played the game hu? yeah..
It makes me sad that Metro Exodus was overlooked for this list. It was released the same year as RDR2, and it 100% matches or exceeds its attention to detail, environmental storytelling, atmosphere, and that lived in feeling. Such an underrated game by a stupidly talented team.
yup 100 percent agree, Metro is one of my favourite franchises to date, the world building through all three of them was amazing. The only problem I had with Exodus was I was surprised when it ended. While I belive its better to have a short polished brilliant game. Rather than one that's padded out, open world bullshit. I still reckcon an extra 5 to 8 hours on Exodus would have been right on the money.
While I enjoyed Metro, the game was buggy and boring, if I remember rightly also had a glitch where one of the trophies is unobtainable, preventing platinum which is annoying as I didn't find out till had all other needed for plat
Metro Exodus is great, but calling it open world is stretching it a bit?
Sure, there's freedom to move on the maps, they're on the small side compared to some of these and the later levels are rather...fenced.
hey look they released part 2 and metro exodus's in it
"Assassin's creed syndicate is massively underrated AC game" so true..
Better than 4 imo
@@IllaMatik222 Hold up... syndicates good, but not THAT good
I liked syndicate, but I absolutely hated to play the brother. The sister was way better imo to play with.
Fritz Kato I respect your opinion, but it is wrong
I like Unity more than syndicate, syndicates world seemed so dark and depressing
Assassin's creed syndicate is surely one of the most underrated games of this generation....
It's because it's bad
@@remordreemurr It honestly doesn't deserve the shit it gets. It's a great game, even in my personal top 5 AC titles.
Unity*
prqdgy no
Never liked the franchise, and I played the first one not much before it released. But I gotta say, I was impressed with Syndicate. The series truly refined the formula well and I am eager to try the DLC missions.
I feel like Watch Dogs should be on this list, the first one in particular, every single corner of Chicago was filled with life
Chris Reghel one of my friends found his uncles house in the game
The first game has a bland world asf ,if u think WD has a lively city then u clearly havent played Witcher 3 or Fallout
At first it did but after a few hours of playing it faded away slowly... Like most games for me.
Lively world doesn't necessarily mean having a lot of npcs. It means you can almost interact with every npcs, have random things happening around the world, details, etc
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i disabled the fog effect inthe settings ini file for AC Syndicate and it made the game look so much better. the view distance was something else with that.
Check out Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It's one of the prettiest and most realistic open world game I've ever played.
Alex BP I’m playing it right now and I agree
I came here to say this same thing! Awesome game
Fully agree. That game gets no love on this channel, it seems.
Kingdom Come has THE most realistic and beautiful forests I've ever seen in a game, there's never been a game that truly made me stop and stare at the scenery while I was lost deep in the woods, the closest would be The Witcher 3 but even then exploring in 3rd person perspective is not as deeply immersing as 1st person
Currently playing it myself it’s just so amazing at how realistic it feels sometimes I’m riding my horse across an open plain and just stop to take in the sight
Rdr2 is still breathtaking to look at
TheyLive just started playing a couple days ago and wow its amazing
@Ib7 h not really
@@marrgielaa22 It is
Ib7 h for me it’s 2nd only to HZD.
What do you mean still? Its still a new game..and there is no game with better graphics..of course it looks great
GTA IV. People going at their own way, coming home from shopping, using cellphones to call each other, cops arrest criminals, Niko can go to cafes, use dating sites, etc
It’s a LOT more believable than GTA V
"Nope you're just nitpicking and biased, i win bye bye"
And still dumb ppl say gta v is better
@@abdouu5300 Taste is subjective, i may value graphics more than having a lively city, heading me towards my likeness for GTA V.
Debatable and I find it hard to believe 4 is better than 5.
GTAV is more realistic, GTAIV is more NPC and detail realistic.
The Hitman trilogy also delivers that perfectly, especially in a location like Sapienza
Can't believe Watch Dogs 1&2 weren't included. Yes they might not be perfect games but they are very lived in. You can see everybody's occupations, their income and even their hobbies and/or an embarrassing secret about the person. The conversations that NPCs have with each other, especially in 2 are funny, relatable and wacky. And NPCs won't hesitate to give you a piece of their mind if you act like a dick. A lady once pulled me out of my car and slapped me right across the face for driving on the sidewalk. I literally saw a woman destroying her ex boyfriend's car with a baseball bat while she was cursing him out in Watch Dogs 2. I also saw two men start a fight in the street because one didn't apologise for bumping into the other. I mean it's very difficult to not appreciate Ubisoft's efforts here. This is just my two cents of course but yeah.
Agreed, these do not get mentioned enough. Though Watchdogs' 2 silicon valley was a joke....
Can't agree more, especially WD 2, it even feels better than GTA 5 world in term of NPC Activities and interactions
Ivan Mintarja gta5’s NPc AI is trash lol it’s updated for today’s game
Watch Dogs isn't great at making the world feel lived in IMO. All the things you said are true, but IMO a world feeling lived in is more about show, don't tell.
Completely agree.
"Feels like a convincing mediterranean, medieval paradise with a sinister side." I can say the same about Canada.
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I’d say Kingdom Come: Deliverance deserves top 3 at least
Came to the comments for this. I was surprised it wasn't in the list. That fucking tailor in the main city didn't show up for work until like 11am everyday
Amazing game
Miles Mulligan - LOL
Oh god yes, I don't know how they put the Division on the list and not KCD
Totally agree..... WHERE IS KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE?!
This guy needs a synonym for the word bustling
Moving? Living? Active?
sprawling
It thought the same thing. He like that "apparently” kid.
teeming
Breathing world'
Drink every time Jake says “Bustling”
Bruh
Or "Living", for that matter.
I see Jake like his women... *BUSTY*
Used more than 'the' I believe.
Alcohol is banned during my country's lockdown... So we wish we could
Thought Dying Light would make the list. Give us Sleeping Dogs 2: Who let the Dogs Out?
Just finished replaying dying light yesterday.Oh boy dying light 2 can't come soon enough
In an undying sort of way, it would be one of the most lived in 😛
@@doctorwho01 I agree. I liked it so much I played it twice on Xbox 1 and PS4. From what we can see, the world in part 2 will be even bigger
Yeah, I presume it's because the story is lineair. It's really good looking though.
@@komeeguks8981 yes mate,it's the best zombie survival game ever made imo
Rockstar will probably never be topped, they’re on another level.
They fell off
I really love the world of Zero Dawn, every culture is clearly different and organized through their belief and economic background. The game took much from the witcher 3 in that aspect and for the better.
nolastname i wasn’t sure if HZD was going to be on this list and i was looking for this comment lol
Atleast someone thinks like me. Did they even visit meridian?
I wish the world felt bigger. Running from one biome to another felt way too fast considering it's based on real places.
What about a post post apocalypse world?! That was innovative.. It took elements from a lot of sci fi tropes we were already familiar with
Sleeping Dogs : Except we ain't sleeping. That game never gets old too underrated
I 100%ed it on 360 including dlc. I'm going to get the Definitive Edition on Black Friday for $5 off the Xbox Store to play on Xbox Series X when it releases
Sleeping dogs is a yakuza rip off
@@V_For_Vigilante nah just 10x times better
@@V_For_Vigilante oh hi ps fanboy (I think you’re that one ps fanboy I found on yt)
@@V_For_Vigilante Dude is everything to you just a ripoff of something else? You are either a troll, or you are straight up on crack. Guessing from your channels name it leans more towards a shitty troll that may, or may not be also smoking crack at the same time.
I love horizon Zero dawns world! So dope 👏🏾
One if the best I have ever seen back in the day....Gothic! That world was crazy, it was way ahead of it's time. The simple fighting held it back.
I love Gothic, my childhood RPG!
I always loved AC2's Venice. Whenever I play it I love watching jesters on the streets, people in costumes during the carnival. Idk I always loved it.
Ac2 did have a great environment
Despite how bad of a game it was AC unity was really immersive there was even random executions going on in public and every where you went there were riots. But Origins had incredible AI where they would actually have full day time routines to do including going to the bathroom.
Cyberpunk 2077 wouldn't be on this list, unfortunately =(
Cyberbug
really love the map but with the pedestrian AI, car driving AI and how police works (just spawns in and leaves you alone if you drive away) it wouldn't be in this list for me either
@@poyrazanims8498 cyberjunk
It’s the Delorean of the gaming world.
Shit I'm already 143 hours into my Cyberpunk playthrough lol on a 7 year old PS4 - so I beg to differ, after all it just came out. Did any of you play Skyrim on release? It was so much worse lol, but its Bethesda and it's a norm for them now so everyone let it pass.
Internets just blowing up with CP2077 cause everyone wants that next click bait video lol, but theres a reason everyone on my friends list is still playing it :P
AC: Odyssey, Kingdom Come: Deliverence, and Skyrim are definitely at the top of my list
@Jack C Irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
Jack C every game is repetitive but it can be fun
Gotta give The Saboteur some love !
@Jack C why are you so triggered my man, tell me is everything okay at home ?
@Jack C here is that attention you desperately want, enjoy it while you have it.
The Witcher 3 is the only game I've ever played that I want to replay the story and really explore the world. It's become impossible for me to find a game that can top the Witcher 3.
Mass Effect Trilogy. Every species has a distinct style and the world felt lived in and bigger than just your part in it.
But it isn't open world, I thought. (Never played one, but it definitely seems like a linear game)
@@elijah4168 Neither was dishonored but that made the list
@@elijah4168 its not a sandbox game. It is def an open world game.
I'd exclude Mass Effect 1. It feels so empty upon replaying after 2 and 3.
@@jakeguy6050 i dunno, citadel definitely doesn't feel empty. Most of the places you visit in me1 make sense to be small in population as they are on planets extremely far from anything. Colony outposts like eden prime mostly. Feros seemed populated, most of the outposts do. Just not as exciting as say afterlife, the club on Omega. 2 and 3 really sold it with better graphics engine.