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"we want bigger game maps!" game devs: "did someone say 80% water?"

What this actually makes me realize is how small most game worlds are but how good a job the developers do at making them FEEL vast.

Best evidence that "Bigger isn't better." Interaction with the world is what's most important in these maps.

I think what would help us comprehend the sizes of these maps is to have real world cities and countries as a comparison, so that we can appreciate and learn just how large some of these maps really are.

It's so interesting how a map 4× smaller than other maps can feel 10× bigger by being filled with actual content

At the end of the day it’s how fast your character moves across the map

Man shout out to the developers for building entire fictional country size maps that’s actually insane

I wish I could re-like this video every time I re-watch it. So amazing

Pokemon GO is pretty big, isn´t it?

Weird how game maps always feel so huge, almost limitless when you first play it but when you get used to it you're like "ah yes, I shall run across the whole map in ten minutes"

I wonder how much larger places like skyrim and fallout would be if you factored in buildings that are way larger on the inside than the outside. Or if it counted second floors because there's more liveable space there. Like nobody has ever actually calculated the total square footage of all of New York's buildings. Some really tall cities probably have more square feet of liveable space than some of the smaller states.

For the record, that No Man's Sky map number in words is three sextillion, one hundred and seventy quintillion SQUARED. Which is 1.00489e+45 or in long form: 1,004,890,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which has 46 zeroes at the end. Aka a quindecillion

I find it’s not about the size of the map, it’s about how well-populated it is. I would take a small and intricate map over a big and empty one.

Camera : *goes to minecraft* Me : wants to close the video Camera : *there is another*

God, i remember waking around Guild Wars Nightfall back in the day. Took forever as you had to actually *walk* everywhere 😅

The crew was amazing. Loved every bit of it. Hope it can get a remaster some day.

Minecraft: My map is ∞. No Man's Sky: My ∞ is bigger than yours.

Zooms out so fast* :Wtf is this game? : Oh it’s minecraft.. ofcourse.

Surprised to see some of the older games so high up. Also surprised to see the Bethesda games so small. I guess Bethesda's maps are just so full of stuff, it makes them seem bigger, as opposed to the witcher, where theres just lots and lots of trees. Very cool infographic

love the way this was presented

If anyone's curious, Elden Ring is roughly 79 square kilometers, slightly larger than BotW.

Company: We have a 400 square kilometre map in our game Map: **is 80% ocean**

I can't say how grateful I am for the developers that they did a lot of work for us.❤

Just cause 2 had a pretty big map and was my favourite game when I first started pc gaming

I think its crazy that Unity's map is the smallest on this list but feels so big and detailed when you're actually exploring it.

Every time I see a bigger map in the bottom of the screen I get progressively more terrified.

I like that those last two are the only ones I was thinking of besides daggerfall :)

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Other factors that come to mind as important: Size of player character relative to the units used here, Speed of the player character, density of content, Amount of map that is playable rather than "out of bounds", etc.

Mad props to the guy who went this far out of bounds to rec this.

Runescape should have definitely been here, considering it's probably the biggest out of all of them in this video (except of course for Minecraft). Total War Warhammer 3 should also probably been included as well.

WOW !!! Amazing to see the comparison. Makes me wonder how big EVE Online, Elite Dangerous & Star Citizen would be LOL.

It's interesting to see how disproportionate some maps are to others. While some games span a whole continent, another game will span a single city that is nonetheless larger than the other game's entire continent.

You should include Google Maps

I miss Ultima Online in this list... not sure how large the map is, but feels larger than some of these at least!

Honestly it feels wrong to have procedurally generated maps on this list, the other maps were hand crafted which makes there sizes an even more impressive feat.

San Andreas is so impressive when you consider the year (2004) and how rich of details, activities and explorable interiors the map is

the last one is dope!!!!

Im ligit tripping seeing mafia here i love it lol though this doesnt account for ps2 load zone or the entrance to the country its the best to drive through with actual life for 2022 the balance with detail and size it never gets bad when you know which street or side road to go through and were road end

By that scale, Minecraft's map unrolled at lightspeed

Just like to remind you, bigger isn’t always better. There’s no point in having a massive open world with nothing to do. Sometimes, smaller maps can be better because the content is more concentrated.

This could be a great No Man's Sky ad if it literally zoomed out into a whole Galaxy scene

It still amazes me how big fallout 4 feels even though it’s 10km

So many of these games are "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle."

I think this video really shows that “bigger” does not always mean “better.”

Like your editing 😊

Dang!!!! Funny thing i was playing nms just right now and didnt expect to it here!!!!

They’re all so cool! I love huge worlds! **Opens map and clicks fast travel** 😂

Microsoft Flight Sim always gets left out. It's been a 1:1 Earth for decades now. That was really impressive on Windows 98.

Minecraft : We have the biggest map No Man's Sky : Hold our bear

I don't think GW:Nightfall map is that big. It's got some big zones, but end to end, the map isn't more than 10km. 38,500km^2 is a bit much. The zones themselves aren't more than 10 square km each. Now it would be interesting to see how big ESO's Tamriel map would rate, but they have a scale problem with some of their zones. Some don't look big, but are expansive, and others that do look big, are actually small. A GW2 Tyria map might be interesting to see in comparison, though.

Yeah but the scaling is what’s important, and how effectively they fill the map. Like Dying Light 2 doesn’t feel like a MASSIVE MAP (still large) but it is filled with a lot to do, so it feels larger

Players: we want big maps! Devs: All I can do is water.

The lord of rings being that massive is incredible for a 2007 game, also horses are too slow compared to the size and swift (instant) travel to different parts of the map unlock when you visit stables by yourself or by spending money

Kingdom Come Deliverance seems here between all the other maps small, but It feels 100x bigger because of all that details and content that is hidden in the map!

Alot of these “large” maps are not scaled properly and are largely water. (Yes I understand some games like AC-Black Flag you have water travel capabilities).

Interesting how the racing games on this list are way larger than I realized. It makes sense because you aren't regularly traveling at 80 mph through the rest of the maps

It is not all about how big the map is, it is about how vibrant and full of live a map feels to the user.

I was thinking that most of these maps are small, but I realised that nobody wants to spend hours on traveling during the quests. For example: RDR2 that has huge and beautiful map and landscapes had some negative opinions that traveling is through the map is quite tiring (for me personally that is sometimes true, especially carring hunted animals). Just think about it - if we have map 30km long, and our character moving about 10 km/h, going across whole map in striaght way take us 3h, but in most of cases there are mountains, rivers etc. so our path isn't straight. I mean - huge map is a lot of fun, but in most of games is totally unnecessary, and generate more costs for producents, and a lot of frustration for some players (especially if you have to repeat few times a mission where you can't avoid long travels...). So bigger map doesn't mean better game.

Who else kept getting surprised by how many older open world games had bigger maps than most modern ones?

While this is very interesting to see, there's so many factors to also consider. How much of a map is just barren desert or sea, how much of a map is actually populated with things to do. How much of a map you can actually traverse.

Light no fire will be interesting on this chart when it comes out.

TDU definitely felt like a huge map.

i would rather the city maps be smaller with the trade of being able to enter every building.

This video is made with a quality that touches an old gamer heart

This might be the greatest video ever created

Honestly thia muaic got me relaxed and im fried 😂😂

It doesn’t matter how big a map is, if it’s completely empty and void. Breath of the wild has a pretty good sized map and has so much stuff to see and explore. But then you have other maps that are insanely huge with absolutely nothing to do.

**When you realize Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is now bigger than Daggerfall**

It just warmed my heart to see the The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall was represented here, and still one of the largest game maps even after all these years.

That San Andreas map felt so big as a kid, always love riding the train and doing a full loop on the map

Wow I really didn’t expect there to be a world bigger than Minecraft

It's weird to think Skyrim and San Andreas are so similar in size - Skyrim feels so much larger, but I suppose as others have pointed out it's about the speed you move through the map. Planes and cars versus horseback at best.

It is also about how much of the map is worth exploring: how detail rich the environment is, how many treasures and hidden items are worth finding, also there is the vertical aspect which platform heavy games greatly benefit from and that you will not find in games like Operation Flashpoint or Test Drive Unlimited.

Great information always wanted to know that I'm curious about GTA

Minecraft be like: "Rookie numbers, try 4096000000 km²" I love that game

When I saw burnout paradise's map I first thought "no way, it feels smaller than skyrim!" then I remembered you're in a car and not on foot lol.

I find it funny how despite Skyrim and Daggerfall looking about the same size in official maps, they are extremely differently sized in the games.

04:17 - Asheron's Call (1999) I don't think most people appreciate this game's Open World. There were no load screens above ground. All the cities were open to the world. If too many players were in one city they had a mechanic called a "Portal Storm" that would make random characters in town start glowing pink & be teleported a distance away into the surrounding countryside...possibly dying. You could run from one side of the map to the other nonstop without a single loadscreen. It took hours. The only fast travel was a series of SG1 type portals that sent you to certain fixed points so you had to plan your trips to include overland travel to portals. They even had a dungeon called 'The Subway' that held a bunch of portals. Most amazing MMORPG ever.

It would be good to give not only km 2 but also Gb memory map to make a better comparision, and dont forget to start with old map of spectrum games or amiga.

If you look closely. All of those maps are actually on the wall of Mario’s Never Ending Stair Case

Some of the biggest are mostly sea or unexplorable zones -.-

It's amazing to me because RuneScape has a map size of apx 4.1 km^2 (not including undergrounds), but feels bigger than some of these other games I've played.

From No mans sky , Elite Dangerous is a 1:1 scale of the whole milky way galaxy

Me before watching this: wow, GTA V is so big omg. Me after: ah yes, minecraft.

Sorry for:🥺 EVE ONLINE RDR2 EURO TRUCK ELITE: Dangerous and many others maps

Other games: haha i have one of the biggest maps ever Minecraft: imma destroy this whole man's career

The ending was perfect- the whole time I was like I wonder what a no man’s sky map would look like

Me waiting for Minecraft: “AND THERE IT IS! THE BIGGE- oh shit forgot about No Man’s Sky.

i love how the bethesda game's maps only got bigger the further back you went

I’m most amazed with Breath of the Wild. The amount of content by just walking a few minutes in this world is incredible.

Wow, it's interesting how some of these older games have bigger maps than some newer games, but it looks like it depends on the processing and graphical limitations and art styles used in them too. Like you can have a very simple shaded art style which doesn't use a lot of processing and lets you make a massive world mad, or what some of these games so, just go up the butt with a super realistic art style that just starts eating your processing power at an absurd rate.

99% of comments : size doesn't mean quality. 0% of comments: There's a Superman returns game? Edit: wow 5k up votes. My most popular comment on UKposts! Well I guess I will have to play Superman Returns now lol

It’s a little weird to be measuring No Man’s Sky in square units.

This map is goated ive memorized it its so big sometimes it takes me hour to reach from place to place realistic but not thaaaaaat bigggg its just cool

Actually, it's not the size that matters. The important thing is how interesting a map is and how interesting you can spend your time travelling the map. For example, although, GTA San Andreas' map is way smaller than GTAV's map, almost every part of it is special and used in missions, when in GTAV the map is mostly a desert, where there is nothing to do and no mission takes place there.

The whole video i was like: - i've played that game - i love that game - i know that game . . . - Never heard of that one - when did that one came out? - is that even a game?

I've always appreciated the design philosophy of Yakuza - the map is small, but every inch of it is intricate and interactive. The stakes of the story are so much higher when you care about this one little place, with its immersive karaoke bars and Sega arcades, bizarre but always heartfelt side characters, and unique, recognisable districts that you never mind revisiting

Where tf is rdr2 map?