>>725417828
When I was a teenager playing them for the first time and you run into that room with the soldiers and they tell you they've been looking for you for weeks, it really sold the fantasy of the size of the place to me. Like, OOC, I've been playing for however long, but IC Kratos has been in this giant temple for weeks. He's had to camp and stop and shit. Maybe thats just a kid's imagination filling in a lot of blanks with imagination, but I'll never get over that feeling.
As for other games, I think in a lot of places and maps Guild Wars 2 does it pretty damn well.