Biggest single player game map
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Sins of a Solar Empire has maps spanning several solar systems. Unless something like X3 has is bigger, I think that wins.
uhh... DF, Minecraft
& an oldish space fighter game i have. it has about 20 stars, and the distance from one to another... a very long way. you can quick travel, but it is just that, traveling quicker. you can slog it out using your conventional engines, and slooooooowly move to the other stars, but you will not get to the other planets, much less the other stars. there is no actual world edge, it extends in all directions X,Y and Z.
its BIG.
& an oldish space fighter game i have. it has about 20 stars, and the distance from one to another... a very long way. you can quick travel, but it is just that, traveling quicker. you can slog it out using your conventional engines, and slooooooowly move to the other stars, but you will not get to the other planets, much less the other stars. there is no actual world edge, it extends in all directions X,Y and Z.
its BIG.
Oblivion? Even a previous games in the series was bigger, alotimnotparanoid said:
Bethesda said the size is as follows:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion -- 16 square miles
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind -- 6 square miles
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall -- 62 square miles
But few games beat daggerfall in size^^
The no multiplayer limit makes it interesting, otherwise i'd say some Mmo
But Daggerfall seems to be the biggest in the rpg section.
Minecraft.varulfic said:
Eight. Times. The. Size. Of. The. Freaking. Earth.
I'm pretty sure thats bigger than Great Britain.
Well, if MMOs were included, Infinity: Quest for Earth would take top prize no problem, with Eve Online in second.
Practically speaking, the size of Minecraft is limited by the amount of hard disk space you have; with a kilometer taking about a megabyte (estimate) that 8-times-the-size-of-earth map would be approximately 4 petabytes in size. This ain't exactly within the reach of the average consumer's hard disc storage. Practically speaking, a couple gigabytes - a few thousand square kilometers - is a more practical limit, and nearly every game will top out at less than fifty.
Space games tend to blow the lid off the "possible maximum size" argument - it's not an issue at all to generate new star systems, and I once made a simulator that generated literally hundreds of galaxies, each with hundreds of millions of stars, each with up to a dozen planets... but that's not really usable area. I think Dwarf Fortress actually makes the largest useful maps.... but that's just my opinion.
Practically speaking, the size of Minecraft is limited by the amount of hard disk space you have; with a kilometer taking about a megabyte (estimate) that 8-times-the-size-of-earth map would be approximately 4 petabytes in size. This ain't exactly within the reach of the average consumer's hard disc storage. Practically speaking, a couple gigabytes - a few thousand square kilometers - is a more practical limit, and nearly every game will top out at less than fifty.
Space games tend to blow the lid off the "possible maximum size" argument - it's not an issue at all to generate new star systems, and I once made a simulator that generated literally hundreds of galaxies, each with hundreds of millions of stars, each with up to a dozen planets... but that's not really usable area. I think Dwarf Fortress actually makes the largest useful maps.... but that's just my opinion.