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The point people are making is that due to how the new maps are seamless, in terms of scale and not actual traversal, the newer games are a lot smaller. In the older games the implication of the loading screen transitions is that you're traveling absurd distances and protecting the entire countryside. Meanwhile in the newer titles the actual area you're covering in the entire game is about the same as a single map from the past games, the sense of scale is completely off.