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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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Big enough that I lose interest or notice the padding.

A lot of it boils down to execution. The more urban areas of a Sleeping Dogs or the TW3 map with the Bloody Baron (not the viking map) feel geuinely massive enough though both are on the smaller end. Whereas something like GTA5's San Andreas actively pissed me off because so much of the game was just driving to and from set pieces on the interstate.

That said: I actively don't care about completion unless I really love the game. So if something was 40000km^2... I might never leave the two square kilomters the actual game takes place in and not care about the rest.

As for Just Cause 2 and 3? Neither felt overly large but both were broken down into regions and I mostly just played those whenever I felt like over the course of a month or two. So it really was closer to "levels" than anything else.

Contrast that with a Far Cry 2 which is downright tiny and... I'll never have the patience to drive past even one outpost ever again.

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