best open world games?

What are the best open-world games out there?
I played all the GTAs, batman AA, assasin's creed (didn't really like it), prototype, spiderman, the saboteur (sucky engine, didn't like it), crysis (it is an open world as well, right?), that would be all. I generally prefer action games, fps aren't really my type.
Any suggestions ?

 

You may try 'The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion'. It is good open world type game. 'Tomb Raider:Underworld' doesnt really fall under open world category (just like Crysis) but that will be fun for you if you enjoyed playing Crysis.

 

How come you didn't like Assassin creed? I thought it was awesome, though very repetitive.
The sequel should be way less repetetive and will have a few rpg elements, you can buy upgrades for your armour, weapons, built your own villa, and so on.

 

thats exactly why i didnt like AC, it was repetitive, all missions were the same, so i gave up at a certain point, got bored of it
i also forgot to mention: i played oblivion a long time ago, enjoyed it but not so much, i ussualy prefer games where you have a storyline to follow, but it was good, also played tomb raider underworld, actually i still have it in the notebook but i kinda got bored of it, i don't really like the engine tbh, i might go back to it after a whilte tho...
also played max payne and hitman, but not all series

 

Oblivion had a storyline, you just didn't need to follow it. That's what makes games "open world" IMO.

Every try MMO's like WoW? they are very open world, and wow is near seamless.

 

mmos ate my childhood, no thanx im not going back to them even if they are the last games on earth

 

That made me lol, as MMOs ate my entire life =p

It does seem to me like you're requesting action/adventure more-so than open world, so I'll recommend the God of War and Prince of Persia franchises.

 

You should give The Saboteur a try. Saints Row 2 is really fun if your system can make up for the sloppy lack of optimsation.

 

Saints Row 2, it's the GTA clone that's better than the actual GTA4. There are a LOT of things to do in it and it doesn't have all the annoying changes GTA4 made like people begging you to take them bowling or ruining the driving physics by making them too realistic. The character and clothing customization is just plain ridiculous too and you can even customize your gang members and their cars. Oh and it has colors.

I'll second Oblivion and add in Fallout 3 if you think you'd like a first person RPG.

Crackdown is also pretty fun if you have an xbox, scaling and jumping across buildings like some kind of super hero to find those elusive agility orbs so you can run and jump even better is really fun. And of course you get to slaughter gang members with all kinds of weapons and super strength, and get to drive really cool cars, many of which transform into crazy upgraded forms when you get your driving skill high enough.

 

arma 2 is one of them
it is now fun since the 1.05 patch release
you can go anywhere you want
I didn't like elder scroll because it started to become too repetitive with few action after a while

 

saints row looks interesting, but wow, whats with the ridiculous characters?
i doubt i would enjoy such graphics hehe
i liked how arma 2 looked on youtube btw, i might give it a try after i read some other reviews

 

Fallout 3 is your best bet.

 

believe it or not, fallout 3 didn't get me, i just didn't like it, i'm not the type of guy who likes to spend hours just walking arround and discover things, i prefer missions like in gta, thats why i didn't really like oblivion as well
and im very lucky i first tried a no-cd crack for fallout 3 before buying it, i didn't like it at all

 

Arkham Asylum?

BioShock? Somewhat open world games.

 

Oblivion and fallout 3, as mentioned.

If you're into 4X space games, try the X series ( www.egosoft.com). Horrible interface (improved in the latest version), performance hog, and buggy, but that game consumed a frightening amount of time by simply being ridiculously open-ended. Giant learning curve though. Even more so when you learn the scripting engine and spend literally days writing AI scripts for your huge fleet/resource convoys.

If you like MMORPGs, you can also try EvE. Another exponential learning curve. But open ended beyond your imagination. You can function perfectly well without even stepping outside the station (I used to do daytrades and arbitrage opportunities with the market system there).

If you're feeling particularly adventurous, you can try to tackle the Battlecruiser 3000AD series ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD ), perhaps the longest developed game in history. That ... thing is less of a game and more of a full-on military simulation than anything. I'm not hardcore enough to venture there ... yet.

 

Try Borderlands once you get into the game there are quests that you get similar to the missions in GTA and you can choose which ones to do and when to do them. The difference is that it isn't set in a dynamic setting like GTA where you can have fun just going around causing mayhem. And unlike fallout although the guns have stats it is still very much a fps. It runs great being built on the unreal 3 engine although there are minor bugs here and there, none have caused me any problem.

red faction 3 is also fun, destroying buildings with a hammer is great.

 

If you want open world try oblivion with the open cities mod for it.

 

No, just no.

 

Saints Row 2 is the lousiest, most unoptimized POS to ever foul open world gaming.

 

dragon age anyone? its sort of open world. I highly recommend oblivion for open world. That place is huge.

 

Get the xbox version then

 

Is that some ninja editing I see there?

 

weird , i didnt see farcry 2 mentioned in this thread

but u may not like it , coz the missions are kinda repetitive

also battlefield series , u might wanna save ur cash for the new one which is comming soon ,,,

 

I greatly enjoyed Red Faction: Guerrilla. The incredibly in-depth physics engine made it the ultimate playground.

 

How about the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series? I enjoyed the first when I played it.

 

Another for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky. Call of Pripyat will be out in February as well. Also another for Red Faction: Guerrilla the PhysX is amazing. Big fan of Saints Row 2, much better than GTAIV, way, way more fun.

Here's some videos of Saints Row 2 played on a Toshiba X200.
Saint's Row 2: Stilwater Chainsaw Massacre

 

And look at the framerate, as a testament to how unoptimized and crap it is.

And the graphics remind me of San Andreas.

 

lol running FRAPS at full settings? Someone should have waited till the Steam patch that fixed the performance problems in SR2. You do know FRAPS can cut a game running at 30 FPS down to less than 10 right?

 

it was great on the xbox 360, Saint's Row 2 on PC is the bad game.

if you own a ps3, i would recommend InFAMOUS...tho you most likely won't.
i would give recommendations to borderlands and dragon's age in your scenario.

 

If you like racing, crashing (and seeing metal go *crunch* ), and doing stunts, Burnout Paradise is a good game.

You do events by driving around the city and pulling up to certain stop lights.

However, you can also just drive around and find different places to do stunts and the like.

I love it.

 

I do know that FRAPS can affect performance, but with a laptop like yours I would be expecting only a 30% drop.

 

Assassin's Creed 1 was a big let down. If you didn't like it, I highly suggest trying the second one. It is a MAJOR improvement, with very little repetitive missions.

Also another good one is Fallout 3/Mass Effect (kinda old, Mass Effect 2 is almost out).

 

Another vote for Borderlands here. Was quite fun. Open world and you do quests and upgrade weapon and shields plus character skill build up.

I'd recommend Dragon age but I just started playing it. So far, it's an awesome game.

 

i already played and completed dragon age, most epic game i ever played, the only single player game that actually didn't let me sleep in the nights.

mass effect isn't really my type, i don't usually enjoy sci-fi games with future themes

and when is assasins creed 2 coming out on the pc?

 

try recording a video of some demanding game with fraps...

 

I have done. On my desktop I have recorded some Crysis gameplay, and I'd say at most I had lost 30% performance. This is being done with a Q6600, and I think Darkness has a Q9000 or a QX9300 from what I remember.

EDIT: Just checked, I was close, he has a T9900, which would perform better than my Q6600.

 

Q6600 @ 2.4GHz stock with 4 physical cores (also apeshiz crazy overclockable...) vs T9900 @ 3.06GHz with 2 physical cores.

C2Q owns that C2D

 

Fraps only docks performance if you're recording a video. Other than that, there's absolutely no performance hit whatsoever.

 

FRAPS has great performance compared to some other solutions I tried (camstudio anyone?). I can actually record video with my ati x1400 powered e1505 in some games, which is quite an accomplishment in itself.

Too bad it's not free.

 

did you use camstudio in a video game :|? what on earth did you expect?

 

I don't know, but certainly not what I got (horribly jerky; just plain horrible)

 

Prototype or WoW (if WoW counts)

 

^^I was just going to say no one mentioned Prototype so far. You might like it.


How I wish they ported Hulk:Ultimate Destruction to PC.

 

i played prototype already, got bored of it in time so didn't manage to complete it, but i might go back to it one of this days, as i still have it in my PC

 

Hard to please much?

How about Sacred 2...lot's of action, sort of questy and WFO.

 

Deus Ex, Fallout and Fallout II.

 

For Deus Ex, I far preferred the 1st one to the sequel. By far the most memorable is the secret base and the entire VersaLife lab sequence (no more spoilers, so I'll stop.)

Dragon Age was open, but I am really tired of Bioware's "intro sequence, go find/fight a bunch of stuff in a bunch of cities that are all basically disconnected from one another, fight final boss" formulaic gameplay. Repeated in NWN (the XPs were excellent and original in comparison), NWN2, especially NWN2: SoZ, and now this.

I really need to find and try the original Fallout series.

 

Only in games that utilize it properly. And the only game I have that would do that would be GTA IV, and then I'm held back by my 8600 GTS...

Yeah, I know it's begging for an upgrade, but it will void the warranty...it's a long story.

 

Except NWN2 wasn't Bioware...same engine, not arguing the formula, but it was developed by Obsidian.

 

Same gameplay formula, different way of displaying the eye-candy. Obsidian did not create a bad product if you look at it objectively, but I never picked NWN2 because of the high system requirements of the time and the initially poor optimisation.