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For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? (lemmy.world)
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There are already some huge maps out there, Just Cause 2 and 3 both have maps at around 1000km^2^, and those games are beloved by their players. But if the next Cyberpunk game was announced with Night City now being the size of an actual large metropolis, say like New York, would you say that's too big? What determines what "too big" is?

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[–] 114 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's too big when the developers are unable to fill it with enough interesting things to do and discover to keep my attention. But there's no absolute size I'd automatically consider too big, as it also depends on things like traversal. If you ride through the map on a mech going 400km/h, it can be much larger and more spread out than if I have to traverse the entire map on foot.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That's definitely a key point. Absolutely loved the first Forest game, the map was just the right size for what content it had, then the sequel has a map 4x the size that is just completely empty for 90% of it. They did make some improvements over early access but it was still mostly a waste

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