Game Worlds!

[Drofder2004]

Intersting comparison of the development and the biggest game worlds!
Just to give you all some comparison:
The biggest game (ES II: Daggerfall) has a game world larger than England, or half the size of Germany!
If Daggerfallwere a perfect square of landmass, it would take ~5 days of nonstop walking (3mph) to get from corner to corner.

[Soviet]

Interesting, although it is all relative considering that a person can cross from one side of Burnout Paradise to the other in about 3 minutes and when you take into consideration the lack of detail on that map it makes it not nearly as impressive as games like Oblivion and Far Cry 2.

[Drofder2004]

Just did a little research into Daggerfall (while editing the mistake of "Morrowind") and the land is randomly generated and is estimated to have 750,000 NPC's...

Yet, all of this still only requires 200mb

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

Yeh I already knew that Elder Scrolls 2 was the biggest world in gaming history. Pretty impressive concidering how old that game is.

Surprised why Fallout 3 isn't here though since that world map is just one square and I'm curious how big that world is compared to Oblivion.

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

There's still a lot of variation in it though. When you reach the snowy mountains in the north, the landscape slowly changes eventually being completely white.

Oblivion is probably the best SP game I've ever played. I've completed it countless of times. But there's so many hours into this game it's insane. There's so much things to do. Only downside is the voice acting sometimes, could use more diversity.

I'm curious if they're making another Elder Scrolls.

[Azabael]

Always cool to know these kind of facts.

[Drofder2004]

# Morrowind - 10 square miles
# S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl - 11.5 square miles
# GTA San Andreas - 13.9 square miles
# Fallout 3 - 15 square miles
# Oblivion - 16 square miles
# Two Worlds - 16.2 square miles
# Horizon - 20 square miles
# Sacred 2: Fallen Angel - 22 square miles
# Ultima (pre-expansions?) - 30 square miles
# Far Cry 2 - 31 square miles
# Superman Returns - 80 square miles
# World of Warcraft (pre-expansions) - 80 square miles
# Everquest (pre-expansions?) - 90 square miles
# Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising - 135 square miles
# Star Wars: galaxies - 200 square miles
# Burnout Paradise - 200 square miles
# True Crime Streets of L.A - 240 square miles
# Just Cause 2 - 385 square miles
# Azerons Call - 500 square miles
# Test Drive Unlimited - 618 square miles
# Fuel - 5,560 square miles
# Guild Wars Nightfall - 15,000 square miles
# WWII online - 17,200 square miles
# Lord of the Rings Online - 30,000 square miles
# Daggerfall - 62,394 square miles (random generated)

[Pedsdude]

Interesting, although it is all relative considering that a person can cross from one side of Burnout Paradise to the other in about 3 minutes

Yeah, it takes ages to get across San Andreas!

[BulletVive]

......wtf XD

[Infinite]

Considering how large WoW is, alone, this is quite an interesting topic.

[ConnoR]

Surprised Fallout 3 is only 15 miles. But is that with all the addons?

[matt101harris]

Must have taken ages 2 make .

[Rezil]

Must have taken ages 2 make .

Well big studios have a lot of people working on world geometry, especially in GTA or RPGs. Lol@Dagerrfalls accurately measured area.

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

Thanks Drofder. It's not that big afterall.