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What are actually the best games for exploring? This isn't cutting it because everything feels the same.

I highly suggest Wuthering Waves

This is the Chatgpt answer to my question so your gonna have to get creative
>>719658621
I will try that thanks

>>719658516 (OP)
Northern Journey. Don't let the fact that it isn't open world fool you. The game is all about exploring and hiking.
Also spiders. Lots and lots of spiders.

xenoblade chronicles x

captcha: 0NHSX

>>719658516 (OP)
Skyrim, Morrowind

>>719658516 (OP)
Xenoblade Chronicles X

>>719659263
>>719660072
>Wii U
>>719659778
I haven't played Skyrim since release but I recall it being fairly repetitive as well. Maybe Im wrong. Morrowind is my favorite of those three.

>>719660651
>Wii U
Emulate it.

>>719658516 (OP)
Is exploration mainly a mechanial or visual thing for you? If you want exploration to be rewarding to play and not just to see, then I'll recommend Dark Souls 1 and Lords of the Fallen 2023. If you just want to see pretty vistas even if all you do is hold forward on the left stick without thinking even once then I recommend Elden Ring.

>>719658516 (OP)
Morrowind+Tamriel Rebuilt

>>719661645
I bought Elden Ring but its too stressful. Want something where I can wonder around, explore and maybe kill some bad guys. How would recommend playing Elden Ring then? Like the catacombs have been annoying.

>>719658516 (OP)
KCD1 and 2.

>>719658516 (OP)
Witchfire

>>719663173
Have you tried Dragon's Dogma? The downside is that it doesn't have anywhere near the variety in environments as Elden Ring, but it's much easier and you'll travel with a party.

>>719658516 (OP)
Skyrim and Morrowind
Any fallout game
People shit on Bethesda but they are still one of the few companies that was ever able to pull off open world games.

>>719658516 (OP)
Skyrim with a large modlist. I prefer Tuxborn. There's almost too much to do which is how I like it.

>>719658516 (OP)
subnautica

>>719658516 (OP)
Elden Ring

Are there any open world games with a sense of danger or risk and reward to them?

I thought MMOs might have this, but every MMO i've tried the open world has been shallow and so trivially safe and easy its a joke (mmos fans will tell you unironically to play through 100 hours of a games horrible easy open world and tell you "the game is good at the end xD" when there is nothing but linear dungeons you run 1000s of times)

I want a game where I feel like i'm walking into mordor and give me the sense of "I really shouldn't be here"

Horizon zero down
Did not played second part

>>719660651
>>Wii U
Its on Switch now

>>719658516 (OP)
Enderal

>>719658516 (OP)
>> Subnautica
You really should play this game

>>719658621
How much does this shit differ from genshin, last i played it was in 2020 maybe, exploration was just open chests, kill camps of brown people, do a little copy pasted minigame puzzle, exploration there was awful

Gothic
Gothic 2: die Nacht of the kruk

Freelancer
Underspace

>>719658516 (OP)
They aren't perfect but the OG Oblvion has the Nehrim mod, and Skyrim has Enderal. Both pretty good if you want to explore.

>>719658516 (OP)
wait for skyblivion

>>719664419
I had that a lot with runescape as a kid. Wandering into the wilderness or high level areas. The first couple hours of a fallout game. Not much I can think of

>>719664693
Enderal looks fantastic and I like the inspiration they took from Gothic but it feels like such an asset flip to me. If you put so much effort into creating a game go all the way and create your own models, textures and sound effects.

>>719663415
Yeah I can't vouch for KCD2 yet but the world of KCD1 is great. More quality than quantity. It doesn't feel like a theme park, the woods feel very immersive to explore.

>>719658516 (OP)
Morrowind with Tamriel Rebuilt and the openmw total overhaul pack.

Skyrim with wabbajack

Most games don't truly reward exploration. Morrowind though you can stumble into a random cave and find lit stuff

>>719660651
Get wabbajack it's a modpack install tool, use that to download and install whatever modpack works for you theme wise and hardware wise

>>719664419
have you tried classic WoW? modern mmos have sanitized their open worlds entirely.
It's still a slow burn but there are some incredibly immersive hikes in that game. The trek through stranglethorn is great

>>719658837
Even chat gpt knows modded Skyrim

>>719658516 (OP)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly (vanilla) is great for exploration (stashes with great items around levels) and feeling of world being alive

>>719658621
>Anime trash
No thanks

>>719658516 (OP)
Red dead redemption 1 and 2.

>>719663415
Based

>>719663442
>Early access
Never.

>>719664223
Based

>>719666387
If only they'd fix up the maps so that you wouldn't see rusted trucks with 128 textures instead of 1024 or higher.

>>719667634
it's skyrim with guns, just mod it how you want it to be
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons

>>719668074
Why aren't fixed up maps part of analmeme? Pretty sure they upgrade quite a few textures. Why not the maps (trucks are part of the map, not textures)?

>>719664419
>I really shouldn't be here
Mid and end game of subnautica really nails this feeling

Valheim has endless proc gen exploration but it’s sense of danger is more in not being mechanically ready for the next zone not a sense of dread

Dying light 1 and dead island 1 are openish and have some somewhat creepy zombie infested areas

>>719658516 (OP)
Ninelives if you don't mind playing a game that will forever be unfinished

>>719664419
I'm going to recommend so called extraction shooters to you. Specifically the forever winter and synduality. They are under the pretense of collecting goods or pvp or surviving but the truth is all of the goods and collectibles are transient and consumable and what makes those games succesful is the feeling of growth and discovery in very dynamic maps. Synduality feels great to play and the eclectic map somehow reminds me of digimon world 1. The best games for exploring arent open world games, they are blobbers like dnd gold collection and non linear rpgs like saga frontier.

>719668626
>analmeme
i don't reply to autistic 10IQ (You) starved bitches, sorry.

>>719658621
>>719663415
>>719664273
>>719666760
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

>>719658516 (OP)
zelda botw and totk, unironically

>>719658516 (OP)
I always enjoy Arcanum because one day you're talking to a fucking idiot turned monk saying you're the chosen one and the next day you get called a filthy gnome by the nearest barkeep. I know that's not exactly exploration but it has some cultural "exploration" a lot of games lack.

>>719658516 (OP)
Skyrim. The first Kingdom come game without a map was pretty fun too

>>719658621
exploration falls flat after a bit, unfirtunately

>>719658516 (OP)
scavanger sv-4

>>719658516 (OP)
Modded Skyrim
Modded Morrowind
Modded TTW

>>719658516 (OP)
We need some 3d actual western rpgs to come out so badly. Its been years. todd wtf

>>719665412
This is Genshin with better combat, cool Blue Mage like skills, but worse exploration and especially worse production values.

I hear it gets better after the first arc but I stopped playing at that point.

>>719664419
Gothic 1 and 2 are exactly what you want. Extremely dangerous to explore in those games but doable and rewarding.

>>719658516 (OP)
Yeah because it ruined the art style. Play the original version.

>>719658516 (OP)
Hogwarts Legacy. Pretty much the only reason to play the game is to explore Hogwarts and surroundings.

Sad fuck trying to shill his mod.
Nobody gives a fuck about your shitty fanfic.

>shill
>free mod
learn the difference between GAMMA and vanilla anomaly and stop getting filtered by three repair items and weapon durability subhuman retard
nobody cares about lore

>>719664419
valheim is like this when you dont have the gear to go to the next biome

>>719658516 (OP)
Elden Ring

>>719664419
Valhiem
Certain Skyrim mod lists same with fallout 4. Stalker obviously modded. Morrowind with the full Tamriel Rebuilt mega mod list. Gothic 1&2, enderal, nehrim

>>719658621
zoomie brains are this rotted

>>719658621
I downloaded it yesterday but didn't play it.
Is it really that good?