Games on an open world that were too ambitious with their worlds

Summary

• Some ambitious games in the open world do not reach their potential due to technical restrictions.

• The imperfect and unpredictable open worlds can still be charming and earn a dedicated fan base.

• Despite the initial shortcomings, games like Cyberpunk 2077 with DLC can be improved.

According to their nature, the games of the open world are ambitious. It is difficult to imagine more ambitions than trying to simulate in as much detail as the feasible real world in a completely digital space, and sometimes that ambition can lead to a strange open world that bites more than chew.

Yet there is a distinct charm of many games with an open world that is trying to size, even if they do not reach it. This list is evaluated depending on how great the ambition and how admirable the attempt ended. Note that some games have improved their worlds since then and should get credit for it.

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Fuel

The game was not as interesting as its world

It is always difficult to start from the gates with the new IP racing game, because racing giants occupy a lot of properties. So in 2009, Fuel It had a simple but effective sales playground: the largest racing game in the open world.

It's also true. World Fuel is really huge, only rival Crew Games later in 2010. Unfortunately, the real game did not use the incredible technological performance pulled out on the 2009 console hardware, which left critics cold, but should be praised for its incredible technical effort.

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Deadly premonition

Charming the world, but with a little too much

Nowadays, players live in a world where billions of dollars can be poured into games, making them polished and company products that are definitely great, but lacking a small personality. But the further it is in the history of the history of games, the more strange, imperfect experiments excel.

Deadly premonition He is one of the best examples of it. The game is obviously strange and often broken by a bizarre open world that barely works, but completely spills the magic from top to bottom and earns the legions of fans. Given its clear Twin Peaks And Inspiration of David Lynch is not a surprise.

6

Pathological

Rough ambitious plague simulation

Hit a pebble into a steam store and a search player is likely to find piles of strange Eastern European or Russian games with poor translations, problems with high sky and experimental game mechanics designed to punish and push players to new places.

Pathological It is a prototypical example of this kind of game. It is a stone classic, there is no doubt that it is an incredible story, but its world is full of Janky's design and honestly strange decisions. The ambition to simulate the whole plague is commendable and has set the foundations for its continuation, which improved almost every element.

5

Watch dogs

The player never feels like an epic hacker who should

The last great shift in the console force was between the generation PS3/Xbox 360 and generations of PS4/Xbox One, with new games in the open world that promise to use unprecedented forces for the new game, at the head of Ubisoft hacking games Watch dogs.

While the assumption of hacking anything was convincing, it never did not work that effectively Watch dogs As promised, especially after the controversy of downgrade. Yet it laid the foundations for brilliant Watch dogs 2The pointing ambitions were well placed in this concept.

A massive world that needed a little more personality

These days, Scroll Games are known for epic RPG set in Cyrodil, Morrowind and Skyrim, but classic RPG fans know that games have a long -term pedigree that stretches within 90 years Dagger be one of the most ambitious RPGs of this generation.

Using procedural generation and algorithms, Dagger He tried to simulate huge lines of Tamriel's map on hardware, which has been well of it for decades. The world is massive, but a little lack of personality, which means many experimental ambitions that spoke about the success that Bethesda would soon experience. However, there are many great modes that are much more accessible in modern times.

3

Cyberpunk 2077

An incredible open world by intertwing errors and accidents (initially)

Most players are well aware of the tidal wave of controversy that has absorbed Cyberpunk 2077 After his release in 2020, he intertwined with errors, graphic downgrads and strange playing. Yet neither player really could say that Night City, the environment of the game, was a decline.

To date, Night City stands as one of the largest open world settings. While in the years since the game was fixed and filled with a tremendously brilliant DLC Phantom LibertyNight City is a testimony to CDPR ambitions, although the version version has not fulfilled it, full of things to do even for the most bored players.

2

Assassin's Creed Unity

Dynamic Paris full of errors and technical problems

The year 2014 was a very exciting year for players, with each large studio promised significantly improved graphic loyalty and game systems in their flagships and Assassin's Creed He stood to make the most profits with the pedigree of careful reconstruction of the city and massive crowds.

Unfortunately, the result of this ambition was Assassin's Creed Unity, which was released in the infamous buggy. It is a pity, because the ambition was clear with some of the best dynamics of the crowd in playing, but it did not completely intervene the brand.

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There was no male sky

The whole simulated universe full of nothing (initially)

Ambitions can be measured in many ways, but on an objective scale it is difficult to imagine that the game developer is more ambitious than simulating billions of procedurally generated planets in space that will never be fully explored. That was what There was no male sky He did and the results were at least mixed.

In fact, the game was a disaster. Yet, since then since then, the Devs has worked tirelessly to improve each individual system in the game, released tons of free DLC and updates, which made the game truly brilliant to play on a modern day, and finally based on this promised ambition of those intoxicating days 2016.