Any good open-world adventure games to recommend?

Hello!
Let me begin by stating that I love open world games. I've beaten the whole Assassin's Creed series and I love it. I love the history, story line, and depth that the game has to offer. It is my favorite. Are there any other similar games that have that level of depth? Skyrim and Oblivion are bloody fantasy games, with no real history or meaning, correct? GTA is just a game where you driver around, rob people, kill people, and do other illicit activities from my understanding. Are there any good open world adventure games where you aren't just killing to kill? And you are on a real quest that has meaning and purpose? I love historical games, but to me it seems there are no other games like Assassin's Creed. I am on the lookout for more, so correct me if I'm wrong! I'd love some suggestions!
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Thanks!

 

Are you looking for a historical setting or are you looking for depth? You seem to be using the two terms interchangeably and they are not the same thing.

 

Have you tried them?

 

Well either; but both preferably. What games did you have in mind?

I have watched tons of gameplay for Skyrim and have Oblivion modded with FCOM superpack, but I have never gotten into Oblivion. Everytime I play, I just get bored and go play AC or IL-2 Sturmovik 1946.

 

Watching these games is one (boring) thing, playing them is something else entirely.

From what you describe, Oblivion is too 'hard core' at the moment, as it really requires a heavy dosage of patience to get the ball rolling. Skyrim is much more a pick and play experience, and it could, and should, hook you very quickly. Nothing is quite like an Elder Scrolls experience.

But if you are willing to tolerate quite a few shortcoming, there's Age of Pirates:
Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales - Buy and download on GamersGate

And its sequel:
Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships - Buy and download on GamersGate

Both of these strive to be very historical, although they are bug infested and very hard to get into, as they are very unforgiving. I bought both of them and Pirates of the Caribbean, which despite being older, was the better game of these 3 from the same company, but Pirates of the Caribbean (originally called Sea Dogs 2 until Disney took over) is nowhere to be legitimately found at the moment:
Pirates of the Caribbean (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That, or you can simply wait until Assassin's Creed 4 will be released, which is something I look forward to, despite the fact that I couldn't stand the previous games - all those desyncs, platform puzzles and rooftop races really took the fun out for me in those. In Oblivion and Skyrim there are no desyncs, if you missed the ledge you get right up or find another way, which is how it should be, IMO. Retrying something over and over until you get it just like the game intended you to really ruins the whole 'open world' thing, but to each his own.

 

I'll check out Skyrim when I can find a good deal on it. Also, I'll check out the above games. Thanks!

 

you could also check out the first Dragon age... great game there, the 2nd not so much.

il second Skyrim, the expansions are great too.

of course they are fantasy based games.

I would love to see more historically based RPGs, I used to love playing Titan quest for its varied Greek, Egyptian and Chinese environments.

 

While I feel that Skyrim was quite an enjoyable game, it does feel purposeless sometimes. Quests are almost always standalone with VERY few quest trees. You would more likely enjoy the Fallout series; Fallout 3 in particular over New Vegas. New vegas was more open and did a lot of things better, but it lacked the intricate feeling of purpose in your mission. Whereas Fallout 3 had a better storyline and much more memorable characters. There are penalties to killing people in Fallout, you can't just kill people for no reason; guards will attack you, whole towns become hostile, you lose shops and quests and all sorts of things. It might be a nice setting to try.

As for Skyrim and such, there is a lot of lore and mysticism in those games. If you've never played Skyrim, then you can't really judge it. Watching people play it (ESPECIALLY experienced people) will not give you an accurate representation of how the game is played or experienced. They've tuned it to the point of a well oiled machine. They know what to do, why to do it, when to do it, where to do it, and will not explain their reasons to you because why should they? When you're new and you're testing things out and you're trying this and that and experiencing it for yourself, and then when you're finished with the game and you mod it to add cool new things and breath some life into the game... that's the good times.

 

Mass Effect series. Sci-fi space based but very well done and with lots of quests and storyline.

 

try tomb raider

if you like ac, this is a natural thing to try. its semi open world and its got some historical/mythological flair to it.

edit:
but imho the best 'open world' action adventure series is batman

 

Cool stuff guys! I'll check em out!

 

Saints row series (Especially third and 4) is a crazy open world game of pure silliness. maybe you can try that out too if you wish.

 

Sleeping Dogs is definitely a realy good open world game.

Sleeping Dogs - GameFanShop

 

Sleeping dogs...wait, Sleeping dogs? And Saints Row 4? What's next? Borderlands 2? Crysis? Red Alert 3?

No offense, but you guys should really look up what 'open world' gameplay is

 

I'm confused, how are Sleeping Dogs and Saints Row 4 not open world games?

 

If you mean "when I start to play I can just wander around and do random stuff and like the map is open to me" then you're talking about Saint's Row and Sleeping Dogs and GTA and Prototype and Far Cry and Just Cause 2. If Assassin's Creed is more your style of game that's one thing, but we've pretty much been calling mostly all open world games here.

 

I also like to say I agree that Assassin's Creed series is pretty damn enjoyable when it comes to history and story ^_^

hell I like it so much I even have Connor (with a dose of derpiness) as my avatar

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Also like to point out that I don't think Mass Effect series or Dragon Age Series is open world, its purely RPG.
Regardless of that its still awesome game that has the best RPG elements that I ever seen in any RPG game. If you plan on playing any of these, try out the first games (because they both utilize a save import system that imports your save to the sequel of a game so you may continue with your adventures along with decisions you made from the previous game and it makes the experience of the game even better.)

 

Open world gameplay isn't just wandering and doing random stuff.

An open world gameplay means a large open area with many ways to reach an objective, emphasizing exploration of new areas and interactions with its environment.

Saints Row 4 and Sleeping Dogs, or even GTA allow roaming of the city, but don't offer the level of exploration and interactivity required.

But I guess the discussion is moot because that's open to interpretation, just like the term 'Roleplaying Games', since anything can be a RPG these days.

 

Red Dead Redemption.

But seriously, the Witcher games

 

Morrowind.

It's an older game, but with mods like the Morrowind Graphics and Sound Overhaul 3.0, it looks up to date and pretty. Other than that it's just a fantastic open-world RPG. Mod it to your heart's content and you will have hundreds of hours of gameplay to enjoy.

 

"Skyrim and Oblivion are bloody fantasy games, with no real history or meaning, correct?"

whaaaa???? I cannot believe my eyes, am I reading this wrong? *** INCORRECT!!!!!! ***

 

By your definition of this, Crysis 1 and Warhead are Open World. So... yes, to answer your original "What's next" question: Crysis 1 and Warhead.

 

I'm going to try Skyrim, then maybe I can get into Oblivion.

 

You seriously cant go wrong with Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind. Perhaps go for Oblivion or Skyrim if you're more the inpatient type.
Maybe even try out LA Noir which is pretty good if you don't want so much senseless killing.

 

Also, I just figured out that this guy wants open ended games, not open world. Like Dishonored would be something he'd be more interested in.

 

Are you trying to say GTA is not an open world game? Lol!

 

Yes, that's exactly what he's saying. And which is why I posted above that I realized he wants open ENDED games where they give you objective A and whatever you do to complete it is your decision (like Crysis Warhead, Dishonored, Deus Ex GOTY edition, Far Cry 2, etc). He isn't interested in having an open map to derp around or keep yourself entertained in, he just doesn't want to be bogged down in most missions. He is very confused on the terminology though, unless pretty much everyone else is confused and we actually have no name for GTA/JC2/Fallout/Skyrim/whatever and he's the only one who is right. But I highly doubt that.

 

Well the OP and the person I quoted are two different individuals.

 

GTA is an open world RPG with strategic elements and a hint of MMO with a slight indie flavor.

Anyway, ignore.

 

I can't understand the logic behind saying GTA is not an open world game. I think you're just making up your own definitions for things. It's widely agreed upon that games like GTA and Saints' Row constitute open world gaming.