So is fallout4's world map really so tiny?

[*| Lion Heart |*]

"It takes the player about 10 minutes and 40 seconds to traverse the main map."

Asording to a recent article...that feels really tiny...for such a supposed "large world"

[WolfVonD]

it may be smaller but with no instances, it's quite bigger.
imagine if skyrim had no or very tiny loading screens for dungeons etc.

don't measure fallout 4 in sq ft. but cubic ft.
the area is smaller but you also have large buildings to scale and no mountains in the way.

the skyrim travel from one side to the other had A LOT of obsticals to avoid. it wasnt just a straight line from A to B, it consisted of blockage and un accessible areas.

[Tanya Degurechaff]

if you call skyrim tiny,

[nomadpad]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από OakSK135:

Yeah, yeah. Let's forget caves, metros, buildings, towers, and vaults full of quests and loots.

OR you want it like GTA 5? Large game with like 20 side missions and empty, meaning-less towns?

Yes please!!!!!!!!!!!! I want a garbage game!!!!! Lol

[Brandybuck]

If you could fly in the game, and took a good look at Skyrim, for example, you would see that it's much smaller than it appears on the ground. It's what I call the "Disneyland Effect". When Walt Disney built his park he used a lot of perspective trickery to make stuff look bigger than it was. The details on the castle and the Materhorn get smaller the higher they are to make the whole structure seem taller. Also some strategic placement of buildings to make the different areas seem further apart than they are. Same thing in Skyrim. Same thing in MOST open world games. I usually play Oblivion with a light fog effect, and the world seems absolutely huge because of it.

Just looking at the map doesn't tell you how big the world will feel. You need to compare the map to those of other games. The Fallout 4 map is slightly larger than the Skyrim map, and without the mountains it's going to feel even larger.

[3 Peopleₙ]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από nah:

In most open world games there are dead areas that aren't used for anything other than making the map look bigger. Fallout 4 will put every bit of world space to good use.

kinda disagree, fallout 4 feels empty to me.

[danconnors]

Fallout 4 is too small. That's why we spend a lot of time waiting for things to repopulate. If the world was big enough we would be continually moving to new areas--not sitting around the same few areas waiting for those green mushrooms to regrow. They do a good job making the world seem larger than it is. But there's only so much you can do with the tiny actual space.

They have the technology and the equipment to vastly expand the next world they make. All they need to actually make it MUCH larger is the will, and programmers that can actually use the new equipment they have. I ran a thread similar to this in which I proposed a world for Fallout 5 at least ten times as large as Fallout 4.

[Tesityr]

If I may, I could not find anybody that just 'ran normally' across the map [the 'jog' that the character does, not Walking or not Sprinting - I found through some quick Searching that there was a person that did a traverse but they were Sprinting across] - so I did one myself, to find out for sure:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1759383612
It apparently takes about 14 minutes and 45 Seconds to 'just jog' across the map in Fallout 4 - from the upper-left corner (behind Vault 111), to the far South-East corner (past Spectacle Island).

I will Upload the entire Video when I get a chance, this was just a quick 'make a GIF to share' thing here - it was kind of fun though; other than just finding out 'for sure' how long it takes, I found a few places out in the water (as in, in-the-middle-of-nowhere) that I didn't know even existed lol

There are a TON of places in Fallout 4... even if the map isn't the biggest (it is larger than Fallout 3), it has locations packed in like crazy - you can't run a full minute without finding a neat little nook to explore, a place to talk to someone, bump into a random encounter, or a location to go into and take tons of loot out of [to Build up Settlements with!], heh

HTH - don't forget to Just Have Fun out there, all!

[blairweescot]

I can see Boston from where I live if I walk ten minutes in real life. Then it would take me two hours to walk to the outskirts. Probably four miles away.

OK back to a game. I want empty areas for many reasons in an open world game. But I also understand playability. Oblivion for example had a goblin lair under every rock it seemed. Skyrim was a bit better.

I sort of like how W3 handled it better still. F04 seems a big compromise to me. W3 did a good job of masking the problem. Not sure if it's player speed or distance scaling on that count.

[Nite69]

the map is big enough, for an entire playthrough with everything explored and completed it took around 400 hours

[Muu]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Tropical Sun:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από nah:

In most open world games there are dead areas that aren't used for anything other than making the map look bigger. Fallout 4 will put every bit of world space to good use.

kinda disagree, fallout 4 feels empty to me.

why the ♥♥♥♥ did you bump a thread from 2015?