Most games people hate Like Halo and MW2 have many different landscapes you can play in.
Also Garrys Mod. :tinfoil:
X-COM Series. In the first game, you can fight anywhere on the earth, and then also in alien bases, and then the surface of Mars. In the second, you can fight [i]in the fucking ocean[/i], as well as on land, but only on ships, port cities, and islands. You also got to fight in an alien citadel where a thing like Cthulhu lives.
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series. So much fun to explore in.
[QUOTE=thisispain;19794461]I can imagine two girls doing it.
Why would I though, there's porn on the internet.[/QUOTE]
That's like saying why read a book when you can watch a movie.
Some things you can't get from movies you can get from books. I don't see a Night Angel movie.
[QUOTE=seano12;19793294]Oblivion with mods.[/QUOTE]
This.
[QUOTE=RSahlgren;19795616]This.[/QUOTE]
Which I totally did not say in the beginning post, right?
[QUOTE=Confused111;19795370]That's like saying why read a book when you can watch a movie.
Some things you can't get from movies you can get from books. I don't see a Night Angel movie.[/QUOTE]
no it's like watching a movie with words on screen
that's what dwarf fortress is
[QUOTE=sk8a13;19794139]Pokemon :smug:[/QUOTE]
grass and snow
:geno:
and sand
[QUOTE=ashxu;19795962]grass and snow
:geno:
and sand[/QUOTE]
And mountain, and water, and house, and gym
Fuel
Mass Effect had some nice environments to explore. Although all the prefab ships, research facilities and mines got very old. I knew where everything was even if I had never been to a location before.
[QUOTE=Stickmna;19796152]Mass Effect had some nice environments to explore. Although all the prefab ships, research facilities and mines got very old. I knew where everything was even if I had never been to a location before.[/QUOTE]
And I got tired of seeing worlds devoid of any plants or trees, even the ones that were green and had trees in the description had nothing but green ground and cliffs. I hope that is better in the next game, it was still interesting exploring them due to how cool some of them looked though.
ArmA 2, with addons.
You could be in Africa with African Units, guns, etc. You could be in Afghanistan with the USMC and Insurgents, guns and all. You could be in an ex-soviet state, or a large island based off satellite images. open area, you can make the missions, a big sandbox..
[QUOTE=BlueSaint;19794051]Books can't have modern graphics either.
:smug:[/QUOTE]
They can if the author tells you to imagine it as brown but shiny.
[QUOTE=Banned?;19793468]No. Oblivion has some of the most "samey" landscape ever.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/index.php/Unique_Landscapes[/url]
FUEL, race in forests, on snow, in mountains, in deserts etc.
STALKER is actually incredibly [b]not[/b] diverse. It is all irradiated grass/swamps/forests.
I would have to say San Andreas.
Fallout 3 and Oblivion have some really repetitive landscapes.
Some parts of Farcry 2 were fantastic...Most was pretty repedative though :(
[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;19797131]They can if the author tells you to imagine it as brown but shiny.[/QUOTE]
Thats the thing whit books, you imagine/see things the way the author tells you to but whit games and movies you see the things the way you want and notice the way you want.
KotOR perhaps?
Fallout 3 has an open world with many things to find... not just enemies
but also more vaults, towns, rare equipment and more.
World of Warcraft. Rate me dumbs for reccomending a MMORPG but it has one of the most diverse landscapes you could possibly find in a game. Everything from molton lava to snow, from deserts to swamps.
[QUOTE=Num Lock;19798222]World of Warcraft. Rate me dumbs for reccomending a MMORPG but it has one of the most diverse landscapes you could possibly find in a game. Everything from molton lava to snow, from deserts to swamps.[/QUOTE]
The landscapes and lore is one of the main reason I kinda want to play Wow.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;19792813]GTA San Andreas. WoW has lots of places to explore, so does Star Wars: Galaxies.
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Also, apparently Wurm Online[/QUOTE]
You can modify san andreas to have a huge snow area on the iceland in the bottom left area of the map.
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If you're willing to play on tiny DOS resolution with an interface you'll need to get a bit used to, try [URL="http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/frameset.html"]Noctis[/URL]. It's exploring, simple as that. You fly around a procedurally generated millions-strong galaxy of stars in your spaceship, land on one of the planets and wander around. Big range of different terrains, sometimes you'll find things like ruins and plants/critters. Not a full game you can spend hours on, though.
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If you want a game that isn't completely based on unique landscapes try [URL="http://www.a-astra.com/index.htm"]Ad Astra[/URL]. The gameplay's an Elite-like affair - freeroaming gameplay in space, fight pirates (or become one), take missions, mine things, trade, take mission contracts, that sort of thing. The interface again is very difficult to get around at first, and on your first few attempts to play you'll either be confused as to what you want to do, or you'll get steamrolled by a gang of pirates. But like Noctis it has a nigh-infinite procedurally generated galaxy. You can fly into planet atmospheres seamlessly and look at the little animals and stuff flying around. Fly into the rings of a planet and watch the disk sprite turn into a mush of rocks you can mine from. Piss-poor sound and music, dated graphics. But still fairly entertaining.
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Both of the above are free. But if you don't mind spending some money try buying [URL="http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/evochronlegends/index.htm"]Evochron Legends[/URL] or playing the demo. Like Ad Astra it's an Elite-like space freeroaming game. Again, seamless planet transitions, but this time around you only have a hard-coded small number of stars that you'll still be hard pressed to explore and get bored of fully. I've played its predecessor Renegades and it's fun, so Legends should entertain you as well.
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[URL="http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/"]Dwarf Fortress[/URL], despite being made entirely of ASCII graphics, is very fun. Not only does it use more procedural generation technology to give you massive worlds, you can carve into it, which is genuinely fun in itself. Then you go to admire your fort in some visualiser or use your imagination. Don't be turned off by the graphics, it's actually a lot more beautiful than you might think. Setllement-building type gameplay (or freeroaming RPG if you do adventure mode). Free. Huge range of animals you might run into, and real-life features like chasms, volcanos, mountains, underground rivers, magma pipes, aquifers, real-life layers of rock and real-life minerals (you don't mine iron ore - you mine haematite, magnetite or limonite).
Arma 1, but it may not be exactly what you're looking for.
Definitely WoW, and X3: Terran Conflict has some unique places, though the differences are a bit more subtle since it's space.
The main thing with X3, though, is that the farther you explore, and the further you actually feel from the familiar, the stranger and more "lost" you feel, even though you might not be. It's very novel and cool.
[QUOTE=nERVEcenter;19801384]Definitely WoW, an X3: Terran Conflict has some unique places, though the differences are a bit more subtle since it's space.
The main thing with X3, though, is that the farther you explore, and the further you actually feel from the familiar,the stranger and more "lost" you feel, even though you might not be. It's very novel and cool.[/QUOTE]
The environments aren't that different though. Different colours of nebula, different planets to stare at when you're not doing anything and whether or not it's spammed with asteroids. You can explore if you like but you'll have seen it all before too long. It's a great game, just not really in terms of flying around and going "wow I've never seen that before".
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