How Large Will Game World Get?

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Aeolus451 on 28 April 2015

No Man's Sky. I'm sure no game will come close to beating it's game wo.....galaxy size.

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Soleron on 28 April 2015

If game words get bigger and production values get higher but budgets are the same, that means lower content density.

In the MGSV trailer and in the Zelda trailers they actually had to timeskip the boring travel between content areas. What's the point of a bigger game world if it means more time spent not playing?

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KdxlavkdX on 28 April 2015

I think game worlds are fine the way they are now, no need to make them bigger unless there's a ton more content.

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Platina on 28 April 2015

Tell be as big as people want them to, so I'm thinking that they will expand to a certain threshold before capping off

I doubt they will get overly massive because that would be a huge burden for developers..

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Teeqoz on 28 April 2015

Wild (you know, the "indie" shown at Sony's gamecom conference last year) apparently has an open world map the size of Europe. And as far as I know, that's not randomly generated or anything either. That's the most impressive game world size I can think of, if it's not randomly generated of course.

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Ultrashroomz on 28 April 2015

As large as the gamers want it to be, if not, larger.

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

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Zappykins on 28 April 2015

Well, back in the late 80's or early 90's I had a fractal generator, and if you zoomed in the highest level, then zoomed out, with an average large monitor (thinking 21 inches at the time) The size was roughly the same as the orbit of Jupiter around the sun. So really, really big.

But when does it get too big to be fun? I love Skyrim and Red Dead Redemption, but so glad we get some fast travel options here and there. Witcher 3 is supposed to be 3-4 times the size of Skyrim (or something like that). I remember some game years ago was roughly the size of Great Britain.

Anyone ever figure out how big World of Warcraft is?

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Barozi on 28 April 2015

Size isn't everything. There have been big to huge games before that were largely empty.

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Barozi on 28 April 2015

Zappykins said:
Well, back in the late 80's or early 90's I had a fractal generator, and if you zoomed in the highest level, then zoomed out, with an average large monitor (thinking 21 inches at the time) The size was roughly the same as the orbit of Jupiter around the sun. So really, really big.

But when does it get too big to be fun? I love Skyrim and Red Dead Redemption, but so glad we get some fast travel options here and there. Witcher 3 is supposed to be 3-4 times the size of Skyrim (or something like that). I remember some game years ago was roughly the size of Great Britain.

Anyone ever figure out how big World of Warcraft is?

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