Biggest single player game map

[CODER]

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.

 

[GiantRedButton]

Hey you guys!
I was bored and thought hey, I wonder what single player game had the biggest map, all I can think of is either Oblivion or Fallout 3, but then they are the only games i can think of at the moment.

Oblivion? Even a previous games in the series was bigger, alot
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.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Spoiler

 

[RedBeta22]

Fuel.
http://n4g.com/news/332548/fuel-officially-set-to-feature-biggest-game-world-ever

 

[Tsunimo]

Fuel.
http://n4g.com/news/332548/fuel-officially-set-to-feature-biggest-game-world-ever

Note it says biggest Console game ever.
We are talking computer games as well, so minecraft or dwarf fortress has this beat no problem

 

[SimuLord]

Daggerfall is 487,000 square kilometers with 15,000 cities, towns and dungeons.

Minecraft is 8x the size of Earth with as many things as you care to put on it.

(but yeah, I came into this topic thinking "Daggerfall, dude!")

 

[RedBeta22]

See? Why the fuck do I open my mouth. Im fucking wrong. Everyone is smarter then me. Fuck me. I have no place here. By fucking pc fuckers. Wait, Im the fucker. Your all gods. Fuck. I ngf

 

[Dexiro]

Just Cause 2 is the biggest open world I've seen with no randomly generated terrain.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is another contender.

Bethesda claims that the scale of the game is equal to twice the size of Great Britain:[1] around 487,000 square kilometers. The game world features over 15,000 towns, cities, villages, and dungeons for the player's character to explore. According to Todd Howard, an Elder Scrolls programmer, the game's sequel, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, is 0.01% the size of Daggerfall, but it should be noted most of Daggerfall's terrain was randomly generated.

Minecraft.

Eight. Times. The. Size. Of. The. Freaking. Earth.

I'm pretty sure thats bigger than Great Britain.

 

[Nazz3]

Minecraft is the right answer.

 

[Ziggy]

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

 

[mrF00bar]

Spore. It's a galaxy.

A minecraft map 8 times the size of the earth can't compete with that.

 

[Canid117]

Mass Effect
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It has to be a single map not a bunch of smaller maps.

I have heard that New Vegas has a larger map than F3 but I have yet to play it so I dun't know for sure.

 

[Yureina]

That i've personally played? Fallout 3.

 

[omicron1]

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.

 

[natster43]

From what I have read, Mine Craft is the Biggest thing ever made by man ever with it's 8 times the size of the earth thing. So that.

 

[JWAN]

I would have to hazard a guess at Supreme Commander (There is ONLY 1)
Any time you shrink 20,000 square kilometers into a videogame map you have a...well..a large map.

 

[RandV80]

As others said I'm thinking Daggerfall... it is randomly generated, but that was done by the developers so when you install the game you get everything. Unlike...

Minecraft: technically the biggest, but I don't know if it's fair when you randomly generate as you go. The max size is only theoretical as well, and not practical in application. Plus if you were to expand it to the max you could get some wierd shapes as it generates in chunks, you'd have to move in a spiral unless you wanted to get the most squished planet ever. This isn't a knock on minecraft, but just pointing out that the map is a variable size.

Dwarf Fortress: noteworthy as well like Minecraft, but isn't it technically just a bunch of ascii text?

Any game involving Space: Shouldn't really count because that's just too damn easy to make a big void.

Personally, with the recent success of Minecraft, I'm hoping other RPG developers like Bethesda are taking note and consider going back to randomly generated style world like Minecraft. The hand crafted worlds are nice to but more limited, and it would be great to have actual variety.

 

[Cabamacadaf]

Some comparisons:

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[s0m3th1ng]

Sins of a Solar Empire has maps spanning several solar systems. Unless something like X3 has is bigger, I think that wins.

I just finished a 16 hour game on SINS: Entrenchment. 6 stars, 194 planets. All the AI set to insane. Shit was epic