Biggest single player game map

[mParadox]

just curious though..do you guys actually manage to use all that space? In MinecrafT?

is't the world in minecraft 8 or 16 tims the size of the real earth

Exactly. So what the hell people do with that much space?

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

Minecraft.



You can never run out of space. Ever.

Our current Minecraft server is 250mb + in size

 

[Fooz]

Mass Effect
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False. The flying in space sections don't really count.

Correct answer: Minecraft.
Each generated world is 8 times the size of Earth.
Booyah.

I always seem to be ninja'd on anything Minecraft related.

Anyways: Yeah, Minecraft.
Eight times the surface area of earth!
I don't think any game has beaten that...yet.

and i dont think any game ever will in the forseeable future

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

just curious though..do you guys actually manage to use all that space? In MinecrafT?

you would have to use a single save file for roughly three entire years, and thats not counting the time you spend in mines or anything like that.

so no, no we don't.

 

[Iron_will]

Noctis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctis] possibly. Apparently 'The Noctis galaxy, Feltyrion, is approximately 90 thousand light-years in radius'.

 

[Cabamacadaf]

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Seriously Guild Wars Nightfall is in the wrong place! I've played through that campaign, I could walk south to north in under an hour. That can't be right.

Really interesting though thanks for that post.

Yeah some of them don't seem quite right, if you compare the roads in Burnout Paradise to GTA 3, they're almost as wide as half of one of the islands. But I think most of it is at least close to the real sizes.

 

[ImprovizoR]

I'm gonna say Morrowind because I actually got lost in Morrowind once. The only transport you have are those stillriders. No stillriders around - you walk. And the world just felt so huge when you had to walk everywhere and the road was filled with danger. So maybe geometrically it isn't the biggest world, but it feels like it is.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

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actually, Minecraft maps are randomly generated: as you walk east new scenery is created, whilst the west is deleted and replaced when you go back by something else.

Actually, if it's been generated then it can't be altered by the game (without a large amount of creepers *rage*) since then you would have to stay by your house all the time. The game saves the 300x300 block square, with you in the center, in RAM, and the rest (that has already been generated) is saved in your HDD and is loaded when you travel back to it.

Have you ever seen half mountains that look like they were cut in half? The side that WAS generated was part of 1 chunk, and the chunk next to it hates mountains.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

ArmA II? It has 225 square kilometres of usable area.

God damn ninjas..


this or Microsoft Flight Simulator, it's the size of the Earth.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

guys this might sounds vulgar and rude but seriously "PISS OFF" with saying that a game can be 8 times the size of earth that has gotta be some BS!

The size of Minecraft's map is only limited by technical limitations. In the future, it could very well be infinite.

 

[Riddle78]

Minecraft
Eight times larger than the surface of Earth,and calculated to take around six years to travel from spawn to one corner.
I think we're done here.

 

[Cheesebob]

Galactic Civilisation.

Burn bitches.

 

[Kristoffer Mattila]

Correct answer: Minecraft.
Each generated world is 8 times the size of Earth.
Booyah.

But the question was which had the biggest map. Not world.
And Mass Effect definetly has a map. A galaxy map in fact

Are we really going to split hairs?
Whether you call it the biggest map, or biggest world, it's the same thing.
We're talking about game-space. Where you can go.

Mass Effect's map, when you actually consider how much of that space is playable, is really not that large.
Minecraft's, however, is. It's just massive.

Way to get a joke

 

[onewheeled]

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So they're saying that Burnout Paradise's world is BIGGER than WoW?

Bullshit. I can drive AROUND THE ENTIRE MAP in under ten minutes. I know I'm in a car for the duration of that, but still. It's not that big.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Can't anyone here read the thread? We're talking about the biggest SINGLE PLAYER game map!

 

[jamradar]

Minecraft.

No already done. How about Spore.

No that one to. Daggerfall?

Damn it.

Far Cry 2.

No one posted it so I consider it a victory.

 

[jamradar]

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Those are some huge worlds.