Open-World Games that became a little too ambitious with their worlds

Summary

• Some ambitious open world games fall under their potential due to technical restrictions.

• Incomplete and quirky open worlds can still be charming and earn a dedicated fanbase.

• Despite the first deficiencies can open world games such as Cyberpunk 2077 improved after launch with DLC.

In its nature, open world games are ambitious. It is difficult to imagine a greater ambition than trying to simulate as much detail as feasible the real world in a whole digital space, and sometimes that ambition can result in strange open worlds that bite more than they can chew.

Still, there is a clear charm for the many open world games that strive for greatness, even though they don't really reach it. This list is ranked by how much the ambition was and how admirable the attempt ended up. Please note that some games here have improved their worlds and should receive credit for it.

8

Fuel

The game was not as interesting as its world

Getting out of Gates with a new competition game IP is always tricky, as the competition giants take up a lot of real estate. So 2009, Fuel Had a simple but effective sales plan: the largest Open-World Racing game ever made.

That is also true. The world of Fuel is really huge, just rival by The crew Games later in the 2010s. Unfortunately, the actual game did not really use the incredible technical performance that was pulled out on the console hardware in 2009, which left the critics cold, but it should be praised for its incredible technical efforts.

7

Fatal prediction

A charming world, but with a little too much jank

Today, players live in a world where billions of dollars can be poured into play, which makes them polished and business products that are really good, but lack some personality. The farther back in history's game history goes, the more the strange, imperfect attempts stand out.

Fatal prediction is one of the best examples of this. The game is patent strange and often broken with a bizarre open world that barely works, but it absolutely oozes with charm from top to bottom and serves the legions of fans. Given that it is clear Twin tops And David Lynch Inspiration, it's not a surprise.

6

Pathological

A rough -edged ambitious simulation of a plague

Throwing a stone in the Steam store and a applicant player is likely to find piles of strange Eastern European or Russian games with poor translations, sky-high difficulties and experimental gaming mechanics designed to punish and drive players to new places.

Pathological is the prototypical example of this type of game. It is a stone -called classic, without a doubt about it, with an incredible story to start, but its world is full of fucking design and sincerely strange decisions. The ambition to simulate a whole plague is commendable, and it sets the foundation for its sequels that improved almost every element.

5

Watchdog

The player never really feels like the epic hacker they should

The last major change in the console power was between the PS3/Xbox 360 generation and the PS4/Xbox One generation, with new open world games that promised to use outstanding power for new game mechanics, the tip of Ubisoft's hacking game Watchdog.

While the prerequisite for hacking something was compelling, it never worked as effectively in Watchdog As promised, especially after the downgrade account. Yet it lays the foundation for the brilliant Look at dogs 2showing the ambition was well placed in the concept.

A massive world that needed a little more personality

These days, Elder rolls Games are known for the Epic RPG put in Cyrodil, Morrowind and Skyrim, but classic RPG fans know that the games have a long-lasting pedigree that extends into the 1990s, with Dolkfall To be one of the individual ambitious RPGs in that generation.

Using procedure production and algorithms, Dolkfall Tried to simulate large notches of Tamriel's map on hardware that was decades from pulling it well. The world is massive but a bit lacks personality and marks a lot of experimental ambition that spoke to the success that Bethesda would soon experience. But there are many fantastic mods that make it much more accessible in modern times.

3

Cyberpunk 2077

An incredibly open world with launch bugs and crashes (initially)

Most players are well aware of the tidal wave of controversy that engulfed Cyberpunk 2077 When it was released in 2020, bugs, graphic downgrades and strange gaming decisions went. Still, no player could really say that Night City, the game's attitude, was a download.

Until today, Night City stands as one of the largest open world settings ever made. While in the years since the game has been fixed and filled with a fantastic shining DLC ​​in Phantom freeNight City stands as proof of CDPR's ambition, although the release version did not live up to it, full of things to do for even the boring player.

2

Assassin's Creed Unity

A dynamic Paris filled with bugs and technical problems

2014 was a very exciting year for players, with every large studio that promised enormously improved graphic allegiance and game systems in their flagship titles, and Assassin's Creed stood to make most of the winnings with their pedigree about careful reconstruction of city and massive crowds.

Unfortunately the result of that ambition Assassin's Creed Unity, which was released in a notorious buggy state. It's a shame, because the ambition was done with some of the best audience dynamics in play, but it didn't really hit the brand.

1

No man's heaven

A completely simulated universe filled with nothing to do (initially)

Ambition can be measured in many ways, but on an objective scale it is difficult to imagine that a game developer is more ambitious than simulating billions of procedurally generated planets in a universe that will never be fully explored. That's what No man's heaven did, and the results were mixed least.

In fact, the game was a disaster. Still, during the years ago, Devs has worked tirelessly to improve every single system in the game, released lots of free DLC and updates, which makes the game really brilliant to play in modern times and finally live up to the promised ambition from the hard 2016 days.