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*CHAPTERS:*
00:00 Best Open-World Games 2026
00:25 Just Cause 3
01:31 Days Gone
02:37 No Man’s Sky
03:41 Death Stranding
04:50 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
06:04 Far Cry 5
07:23 Fallout: New Vegas
08:24 Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
09:34 Cyberpunk 2077
10:45 Horizon Forbidden West
11:59 Subnautica
12:58 Ghost of Tsushima
14:07 Grand Theft Auto V
15:45 Elden Ring
16:59 Skyrim
18:04 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
19:11 Red Dead Redemption 2
20:25 The Outer Worlds
21:29 Kingdom Come: Deliverance
22:47 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
24:18 More Recommendations
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In your opinion, which game has the most alive world? I'm talking NPCs, physics, and random encounters.
Fighting games bore me to tears now. I much prefer games where the fighting can be easily avoided. I'm no longer a fan of the "boom boom ratatatatata brrrrrrrrrt tchac tchac kill kill kill rhaaaaaaaaaaa (drooling)"
Those both CD projekt Red games are masterpiece I will never forget those games and I still install both of them in my PC and playing it
got all these came here to see which is best to play and still cant decide. lol
Nup they took away Aloy's slo mo, bow work. Now she float like sinker with a brick tied to her head.
Using a pc. They force to use wasd in some quests that totally fks it up for a mouse centric player.
Aloy is fine with the mouse steering and aiming UNTIL She tries to ride a horse, in the racing side quest. Or fly a bird in the reset flight paths quest. At least the flight ones are possible. BUT it takes 15 to20 minutes to do a 5 minute course.
Find the height, Rise/lower the bird to it. move the angle. go to a point. Rinse and repeat to the end of the track.
A couple have attacker part way through them so take them out or fail and have to repeat the whole thing again. The plus side, lots of time. And no other racers trying to knock you off. Like the horse racing one.
Why they didn't keep the same steering as Aloy has on her feet is beyond me.. It's not as if using mouse steering is new. Extremely BIG disappointment.
Interesting story.
Some companions are the enemy within type. (Fallout 4 player will know what IO mean.)
Getting in your road and generally being bloody stupid. The worst bit is catching your shots aimed at the enemy instead if staying out of the line of fire. And the reload point sare game decided. So you could end up at the start of the quest. IF your not careful.
Graphics as good as The Witcher 3 bit with fog, lots and lots of fog and mist. Unlike the Witcher where the views can go forever. And that was 2015.
NewGame + is good if you are like me, and play the Tourist, as well as a quest now and then.
A great world for a wanderer's, holiday.. And no airfare to get there.
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For the whole story play the first one first. Or you'll have story gaps..
For context I've played both
HZD 5344 hours
HFW 2600 hours
So neither are that bad they are not worth playing. On a PC beware of the limitations in H forbidden West. If your a console user, it's made for you.
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Cheers.