Tom's Hardware Giveaway - Just Cause 3!

[DBNinja]

One that doesn't come up often is Xenoblade Chronicles. It has a beautiful world for you to explore, and plenty of incentive to do so. There are dozens of quests available to you that you can choose to pick from that take you from locale to locale.

 

[Farid-ab]

It's definitely the elder scrolls skyrim. it had everything to make you play it for hours,there were always some places to explore ,some stories to be heard and some jobs to do. you could have different experiences every time.It was perfect!!

 

[Syrus Hussain]

Skyrim, any where you go you just get lost into the world. I go to do a simple side mission for a bloke to get something from a town. I leave with about 30 other side missions that lead to more missions, to a point where i forgot which is the main quest line and which isnt. And i love it. Still havent finished the main game yet xD

 

[Bjorkus]

Fallout. You can spend so many hours exploring every little inch.

Saints Row 4 and Just Cause 2 are great for sheer random mayhem and laughs.

 

[Wrongness]

I would say Fallout, not because 4 is trending right now, but because I grew up on Original and Sequel. And with 3 and 4 come with some open world experience so it fits in this topic.
Also Saints Row series was a blast to play.

 

[Twigman]

Well you didn't specify if it had to be a PC game, so;

Metroid Prime Trilogy - Full of lore, an amazing story/plot and even though some people knock the Wii for its less than lackluster hardware it displays some extremely impressive visuals. You explore one area, leave it mostly unexplored and then come back to the same area multiple times to make sure it is fully explored, every secret and puzzle discovered and solved. From Prime, to Echoes, and finally to Corruption, this game has been my absolute favorite since it's release back in 2009 and nothing else even comes close. Picked it up for a tenner in GAME, funny how it now sells for £150 on amazon.

I do have a (rather active) steam account if that's coming into question.

 

[SCUZNUTS]

Mercenaries 1 & 2
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Sweet f**king explosions

Just Cause would be pretty sweet to get! might need to shell out for a new gfx card though.

 

[jtmiraglia]

i gotta go with skyrim mostly because it was the game that made me love open world games all over again

 

[Gnom]

Just Cause 2 for the great fun of creating mayhem and shaking the police afterwards.
Fallout 3/New Vegas for finding so many stories over every hill.
Haven't played GTA yet.

 

[mike42hunt]

gta 5, after playing over 400 hours, is still fun

 

[jakjawagon]

I've always enjoyed running around the rooftops of the Assassin's Creed series, finding creative ways to kill the archers.

 

[Gam3r01]

Other than more hours of gameplay, my persona favorites are from exploration. Nothing like playing terraria and mapping out terrain underground as you go, or road tripping it with armored trucks with some friends in JC2 multiplayer mod

 

[Zanderif]

I gotta give it to Fallout 3 and 4 right now. There are tons of easter eggs, from teddy bear hospitals to toasters in bathtubs. All are hilarious, as long as you keep an eye open.

 

[none12345]

Im going to go with mass effect. Best storyline of any game ive played in the last decade. Ya the ending of the 3rd one kinda sucked, but really there was so much good in the rest of it i can forgive it. Loved the story, loved the lore sprinkled through. And im still left wanting more. Story and environment are the most import thing to me for a game.

If you want to go old school tho, i think id have to choose star control 2, but then we are pre 3d games. Again for storyline, characters, customizible ship was cool too, first game i had seen do something like that.

 

[ninjustin]

Far Cry 3 was great. I really felt like I had a lot of options on how to accomplish taking over bases.

 

[dominyon]

Terraria, Elder scrolls games and fallout games

 

[glez13]

Bethesda games always seem to be good with open world games were you can go anywhere and do almost anything. For my more realistic fix I usually like GTA games because of the big cities inspired in real stuff and they are also funny most of the time.

 

[SherbetAddict]

I really loved a lot of open-world games for their long playtime. Here they are in no particular order:
Skyrim TESV: The swathes of mods for this game really made it special on PC. With a texture mod and an ENB, the graphics can contend with modern AAA titles. Not to mention dragonshouting kids off cliffs is pretty fun. XD
Fallout Series: I really loved the atmosphere in these games and it was better on PC for the same reason as Skyrim: Tons o' mods.
FarCry Series: The graphics were really nice for the time and the stealth gameplay and open-world setting really differentiated the games from other FPS titles. Also, I mayyyyybeee had a thing for Citra... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Just Cause 2: Of course I had to include this. I didn't really play JC1 much, the graphics are..... aged. The map was MASSIVE, and of course I may have been a little... reckless in the towns.

 

[FreeXminD]

Old School? (relative to my age) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time. Classic open world, amazing game. Just Cause 2 is definitely up there, but I would have to say Skyrim tops my list!

 

[rtware923]

Fallout 4, Skyrim, Just Cause 2, and Far Cry 3. Huge Environments!!!

 

[JackFunk]

The Elder Scrolls games, particularly Morrowind, were all great. Fallout 3 and New Vegas were amazing. Just Cause 2 was also incredible. I did not know what to pick.

Then I remembered an early incident in Far Cry 3 that really struck me as a completely different experience then I had had in previous games. I was stalking a guard checkpoint on a road. Two jeeps with 3 or 4 guys basically blocking the road. I was getting into position to attack when out of nowhere a cheetah launched at the enemy, tearing into their ranks. I was dumbfounded. I'd never seen anything like it in a game before. Little did I know that it was the first of many situations that I would have playing this game and it's sequel involving animals. So often I would use animals to soften up a base before attacking. That coupled with the many interesting locations to discover, the variety of vehicles, and the great main story missions (like burning the farm), Far Cry 3 became one of my all time favorite games. And I have been computer gaming since 1982.

 

[KChen1250]

Open exploration games are really fun, like GTA V and Just Cause 2, since you can choose to do specific things, or just go around and have fun. I also really like Minecraft , that sandbox game is really fun and I can get creative with architecture (as well as the basically infinite world size).

 

[CRITICALThinker]

As for open world games ant their generally awesome buggy physics, I am currently playing Just Cause 2, Far Cry 3(almost done) and I have yet to play my copy of saints row 3, though it is great. I am hoping to get my hands on GTA V over the summer after School finishes, but $70 CAD is to rich for my blood. Thanks for The GA!!

 

[Heri_2]

I love skyrim. Why, I just love all the conversation and stuff, the atmosphere and of course the mods!

 

[webbwbb]

Just Cause 2. I am pretty certain it was my first truly open world game, really got me into the genre. I've literally been waiting for a sequel to it since I first got JC2 with my GTX 460.