I'm very starved for a decent open world experience right now. I'd like an open world game that's more on the sandboxy side, where I can truly feel like an adventurer. Something that's more gameplay than story-driven and where there's very little urgency. Something where the world destruction I have to save everyone from can wait until I actually start giving a fuck about it.
What I want is something with a vast, open world that's interesting to explore, where I can just go on a lonely adventure (preferably with my own created character, but that's not a dealbreaker), full of immersion, exploration and interesting discoveries. Something where almost every few steps there's a new, unique cave/tomb/dungeon to explore and plunder, an atmospheric landmark to look at, a village/town to restock my supplies in, or an interesting quest to complete.
Basically, I'd like the game to have a very fleshed-out side content department and a world that doesn't feel empty, so that I won't get bored of playing it too quickly. The problem with finding such a game is that many of today's open world games feel pretty much like single player MMO, where the world is just a lifeless, barren space, with some monsters sprinkled around, and where the quest variety begins and ends with "bring me 10 wolf pelts because reasons".
Here are some examples of games that have scratched that itch for me in the past, to a larger or smaller extent:
- Starbound. Its slow-paced nature that required from you to explore every planet thoroughly really did it for me. Not to mention its godlike map generator that always managed to surprise me with something new I haven't seen yet. Villages, ancient temples, tombs, research facilities, military bases, abandoned mineshafts, even whole underground cities - this game had a lot of going on when it came to variety of optional shit you could find. Also, chests filled with cool-ass loot lying everywhere! It lacked heavily in the quest department, but the aforementioned factors really compensated for it.
- Bethesda games. I think there isn't really much to say about them that isn't already known. My favourites were Morrowind (it had a really unique world, full of interesting places), Oblivion (tons upon tons of really well-written sidequests, plus some really nice vistas), Fallout 3 (New Vegas had better story, but FO3 had a much more expansive world), and Fallout 4 (the world was very condensed, but it had tons upon tons of cool, optional locations you could find and explore; unfortunately I could only play it up to a certain part before it started being unplayable due to my weak PC combined with shit optimization).
- Assassin's Creed 4. Its side content got a tad bit repetitive after a while, as per usual with Ubisoft's games, but the world was super fun to explore. The atmosphere was unmatched, too. I haven't played a better pirate-themed action adventure game than that in my entire life.
Here are my PC's specs. It's pretty low-end, which I'm aware is a heavily limiting factor. Unfortunately, I can't afford to upgrade it at this moment, so you're gonna have to work with what I have currently:
- AMD Ahtlon II X4 @ 2.8GHz
- 4GB RAM
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
So, based on that, do you have any ideas for a game that might scratch that itch for me? I'd really prefer something that takes place in a fantasy, or any other setting where the main method of dealing with conflict is via melee combat, since those kinds of settings are the best ones to convey the feeling of some good ol' adventuring, but other settings are also fine with me, as long as the game meets the criteria given.
Also, don't suggest The Witcher 3. I know I'm making it hard on you by ruling it out, since it's probably the closest thing to what I want, but the problem is that I don't have enough hard drive space for it. I have a pretty small hard drive, with lots of important files on it that I can't just delete, so I simply can't spare 50+GB on a game, no matter how good it is.
Thanks in advance for helping me out.
What I want is something with a vast, open world that's interesting to explore, where I can just go on a lonely adventure (preferably with my own created character, but that's not a dealbreaker), full of immersion, exploration and interesting discoveries. Something where almost every few steps there's a new, unique cave/tomb/dungeon to explore and plunder, an atmospheric landmark to look at, a village/town to restock my supplies in, or an interesting quest to complete.
Basically, I'd like the game to have a very fleshed-out side content department and a world that doesn't feel empty, so that I won't get bored of playing it too quickly. The problem with finding such a game is that many of today's open world games feel pretty much like single player MMO, where the world is just a lifeless, barren space, with some monsters sprinkled around, and where the quest variety begins and ends with "bring me 10 wolf pelts because reasons".
Here are some examples of games that have scratched that itch for me in the past, to a larger or smaller extent:
- Starbound. Its slow-paced nature that required from you to explore every planet thoroughly really did it for me. Not to mention its godlike map generator that always managed to surprise me with something new I haven't seen yet. Villages, ancient temples, tombs, research facilities, military bases, abandoned mineshafts, even whole underground cities - this game had a lot of going on when it came to variety of optional shit you could find. Also, chests filled with cool-ass loot lying everywhere! It lacked heavily in the quest department, but the aforementioned factors really compensated for it.
- Bethesda games. I think there isn't really much to say about them that isn't already known. My favourites were Morrowind (it had a really unique world, full of interesting places), Oblivion (tons upon tons of really well-written sidequests, plus some really nice vistas), Fallout 3 (New Vegas had better story, but FO3 had a much more expansive world), and Fallout 4 (the world was very condensed, but it had tons upon tons of cool, optional locations you could find and explore; unfortunately I could only play it up to a certain part before it started being unplayable due to my weak PC combined with shit optimization).
- Assassin's Creed 4. Its side content got a tad bit repetitive after a while, as per usual with Ubisoft's games, but the world was super fun to explore. The atmosphere was unmatched, too. I haven't played a better pirate-themed action adventure game than that in my entire life.
Here are my PC's specs. It's pretty low-end, which I'm aware is a heavily limiting factor. Unfortunately, I can't afford to upgrade it at this moment, so you're gonna have to work with what I have currently:
- AMD Ahtlon II X4 @ 2.8GHz
- 4GB RAM
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
So, based on that, do you have any ideas for a game that might scratch that itch for me? I'd really prefer something that takes place in a fantasy, or any other setting where the main method of dealing with conflict is via melee combat, since those kinds of settings are the best ones to convey the feeling of some good ol' adventuring, but other settings are also fine with me, as long as the game meets the criteria given.
Also, don't suggest The Witcher 3. I know I'm making it hard on you by ruling it out, since it's probably the closest thing to what I want, but the problem is that I don't have enough hard drive space for it. I have a pretty small hard drive, with lots of important files on it that I can't just delete, so I simply can't spare 50+GB on a game, no matter how good it is.
Thanks in advance for helping me out.
