Thread 720143453

What's your favorite thing you found in an open world game

Imagine being excited to find a hole with zero context.

>>720143453 (OP)
Ranni

>>720143453 (OP)
Anyone who seriously loved starfield has some kind of mental disorder

>>720143453 (OP)
I don't understand, you can stuff like this outside IRL.

Why would I play a video game to walk through big empty fields when those are abundant IRL?

And what content was in the crater?

STANDING

HOLY RNG

gamers are so pathetic

>>720143453 (OP)
Why would there be a marker on the map for this?

>>720143603
Dilate tranny

>>720143453 (OP)
Wow such gameplay.

>>720143754
Space crystal!

>>720143453 (OP)
Most retarded "oh man" moment I can remember was in Fallout 3.
There's these small unmarked broadcasts you can pick up on your radio dotted around the map, and one of them was some father with his wife and two kids taking shelter nearby, with one of them being sick/injured. Once you find it and go inside, you go through a small hallway to an open room with the ham radio and two skeletons who committed suicide. A little further you can find a collapsed wall and a small crevice, with two makeshift graves you can safely assume were the children.
So with no ambient music or anything like that and the broadcast pleading for help replaying over and over the entire time, I turned off the ham radio to be greeted by an eerie silence, and the slight sound of the wind.
As I said, sounds kinda stupid cause it's Fallout 3, but I guess it being wacky and violent kinda help made it hit just right.

based bethetstard being intrinsically motivated by the pure joy of exploration
>but where's the lootbox???
go drown yourself behind a waterfall

>>720143453 (OP)
Did a dev make this post? Probably the one that "designed" this crater?

>>720143453 (OP)
your mom

>>720144715
this. i can't believe people think it's hilarious that someone was able to enjoy exploration on its own merit. it really speaks a lot about the state of mind they're in.

>>720144715
It actually is cool to see in a modern game. Whenever I see something interesting like that in a game I just think "oh there's going to be some mission or set piece here later". Cyberpunk especially was bad about this, where every single cool thing I found on my own would pop up in missions later

>>720144715
>>720145835
Yeah I dislike the specific example since it's Starfield which is a boring and procedurally generated game, but I agree with the general principle, San Andreas has tons of cool unique spots that serve no real purpose that are always a joy to find, much better than just another collectible

>>720143715
Must be somewhat nice to just enjoy the shittest games tho blissful ignorance

>>720144715
If you want to explore for exploration's sake, you go outside. I play video games to be rewarded.

>>720144586
Bethesda are still kings of environmental storytelling

>>720143740
most of those places are owned by boomer rednecks who will shoot you for tresspassing. there are places in nature that the government owns with absolutely nothing there that you will get arrested for entering.

>>720144586
>>720146669
The skeleton shtick got old FAST and they have literally no other tricks

>>720143964
A lot of maps have elevation mapping, so you'd think you'd be able to see it even if it wasn't marked

>>720143453 (OP)
No Man's Buy will never have something like this

>>720143562
It's a really big hole.

>>720144586
>taking over radio bands to make your own personal broadcasts
kino

>>720146728
>they have literally no other tricks
They keep tricking people into buying their games

>>720146474
Weird, I don't think I've ever seen this. I remember finding that plaque on top of the suspension bridge that literally just says something like "this is an easter egg"

There are jo fans of this game. It is literally just Bethesda paying for posts and botting them with likes. It is happening now because of the new DLC. Just don't talk about it and it will go away.

>>720146669
Kill thyself

>>720146938
not as big as your moms

>>720143453 (OP)
the truth that we MUST BE BETTER MEN

>>720143453 (OP)
I unironically wish Starfield had more of this and less generic bandit bases. I want genuinely empty planets to explore so I really feel like I'm alone out in space. I want to walk an hour away from my ship in real time and use landmarks to keep track of where I am. I want to overlook a massive valley then cross it all the way to the other side and look back.
The problem with Starfield and most open world games is that they are full of bullshit. There is very little real exploration. Fuck Ubisoft and the Witcher 3 for making everyone think you're not allowed to travel more than 100 meters without finding some dumb side activity or chest.

>>720147186
No one cares about Bethesda anymore. Stanfield failed. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle failed. Oblivion remastered failed.

>>720147443
Autist. Just play vanila No Man's Sly

>>720147229
This.

>>720147443
You're not looking for an RPG then you massive retard. Go play Elite Dangerous.

>>720143453 (OP)
Trannies will find literally any reason to pretend something is good for political reasons. Unbelievable, whoever made that post should be kicked in the nuts.

>>720147286
we must be better craters.

South gate in Skyrim bugged and didn't have an invisible wall, so I got to climb mountains and see the White Gold Tower before falling through the terrain.
Going out of bounds in the mountains above Yosemite in Horizon Forbidden West.
The forest in Fallout 3.

>>720143453 (OP)
The cozy little shacks in the meadows of Just Cause 2. Nice quiet place to chill for a minute. Buncha losers in this thread who don't know how to enjoy the mundane and unremarkable.

>>720146669
Are they though?

>>720147534
I do
>>720147639
Starfield is already designed so that the core worlds have all the rpg content and most of space is full of nothing. I just want the empty planets to be genuinely empty and not full of bandit factories. It wouldn't take away anything because there's nothing unique to find on those planets anyways, they're pure filler but instead of being slightly unique they all have the same few landmarks repeated over and over so they all feel exactly the same.

>>720146603
That's bethesda game enjoyers in general most of the time. They're extremely impressed by the most basic shit

>>720147756
took me a while

>>720143562
>>720143715
>>720143754
>>720143740
I NEED FLASHING LIGHTS AND BRIGHT COLORS AND BIG NUMBERS GOING UP FOREVER TO GIVE MY LIFE MEANING

>>720147201
It's on the road between El Quebrados and Las Payasadas, two towns that also serve no real purpose and are never touched by the main story, it's right after the bridge north of the dam

>>720143453 (OP)
Not paying more than $20 complete edition for this slop

>>720143453 (OP)
Why is this good? You’re playing a space game why wouldn’t there be craters and shit around? idgi that’s like bare bones of a space game, craters around the map so you know you’re playing a space game

>>720147803
Who's better?

>>720143562
You're brown, only white people have explorers spirit

>>720143715
Brown

>>720143740
Brown

>>720143943
Brown

>>720144529
Brown

>>720144726
Brown

>>720146603
Brown

>>720146612
Brown

>>720147229
Brown

>>720147686
Brown

>>720143453 (OP)
the underground mall in saints row 2 was really cool. So was going back to the prison you start at
>>720147789
You reminded me of the little race track west of the main island and the blimp club in the northeast sky
most of my time dicking around was in the tri cities in the west

>>720147756
hehehe

I found an little camp near the Duke's Blighted Manse in Dragon's Dogma when I replayed it for the like 30th time earlier this year. Never seen it before.

>>720143453 (OP)
Now do BotW.

>>720143562
that’s what she said!

>>720147986
>Las Payasadas was inspired by Goodsprings, Nevada
This tiny 150-person podunk town keeps being included in the best games of all time

>>720148057
This fucking idiot again. What's next, you gonna trot out the retarded mountain climbing comparison you tried last time?

>>720148057
Based post but come on man for a video game a crater isn't really impressive enough to warrant the reaction in the OP.

>>720147959
>Big procedurally generated fields with copy paste assets and devoid of content are good actually

>>720148212
what do they eat?

>>720147959
An empty crater is an empty crater.

>>720147959
The problem is this ISN'T "placed", it's just procedurally generated.

>>720148245
give him a break
little timmy feels like a real explorer

>>720146474
those are based on a real location that was a part of route 66

>>720148353
>>720148341
It was made by human hands.

>>720147840
I'm thankful that game Devs don't listen to retards like you

>>720148025
Valve.

>>720143562
It's actually a pretty cool hole.
Not worth making a reddit post, but also not worth all the hate for the guy.
I'd probably jump in that hole and look around for a bit because it's a neat hole.

>>720148545
there is another hole just like that 5 minutes of walk away from it
And another
and another

>>720148341
>>720148353
>>720148245
>women incapable of understanding the male fascination with holes, digging holes, and strange natural phenomenon
YWNBAM

>>720148075
I just road tripped with no map from wherever they spawned me in, but I was always partial to the wetlands type area south of the mountains

>>720148057
Headcanon ad hominem fired at strangers is some pathetic mental boxing my man, and I'm not even one of the people you mass replied. Weak shit.

>>720143453 (OP)
Weird, I just watch the Sseth Starfield video and he used this image to make his point about how only dads like this game.

>>720148335
Groceries.

>>720149039
>random procedural robot hands sticking out of the ground
woah amazing

>>720149039
What's this? Kenshi?

>>720148057
>Brown
You mean like 80% of the NPCs and half of the development team?

>>720148057
Many brown people had the explorer's spirit to explore your mom's crusty vagina

>>720143562
>Imagine being excited to find a hole with zero context.
Considering it's not just a flat plain like 99% of the rest of the game I'd say it's pretty exciting.

>>720148770
>parrots internet memes
what a dork lmao

>>720149557
>she thinks it's a meme
you're not even a human male if you never dug a hole just for fun. maybe you live in a city where you weren't allowed to dig anywhere lol

>>720149773
I remember digging a hole in my back yard when I was 10 and the city issued my parents a $250 fine.
My dad beat my ass and then made me repay every cent of the fine by making me sell my GameCube and all my games.
Never got the urge to dig ever again.

>>720148770
>An asset a machine randomly placed in a map is the same as a natural phenomenon

Any other Starfield haters want to talk about the phenomena and how interesting and personal the experience of play is?
I used to think people like this were retards but I guess the idea of exploration and the reward loop is much more complex than that. On some level I understand it because I also like finding random comfy places in vidya. Oblivion and Morrowind in particular are wonderful atmospheric pieces and I remember the only moment I enjoyed about Witcher 3 was watching the wind bend the trees from a clifftop. So while through my dislike of Starfield it's easy to criticize the twitter user in the OP post, it's not a completely alien idea to me that he found finding some random fucking crater in the middle of goddamn nowhere "exploration" and the problem is more with the design of the game not the transformative experience with video games.

tl;dr I'm stupid.

>>720149962
gay parents in a gay city

how can you even get fined for digging a hole in your own yard unless you busted a pipe or cut a wire or something

>>720149773
I grew up rural and dug all the time, that doesn't make starfield any less awful or that crater any less pointless. Maybe if the player had created it it would be worthwhile.

>>720149773
Digging a hole and a finding an empty crater in a videogame are not the same thing you stupid pajeet

>>720150489
>>720150072
What about all the cool or beautiful random unmarked locations in Kingdom Come 1 & 2? Made by people, usually off in the wilderness somewhere. Is that good enough for you fools

>>720143453 (OP)
HOLY STARKINO Typical GODD HOWARD W.

>>720150625
Eh I love hiking but I don't get much out of finding random locations in a game honestly.

>>720148770
More like methhead fascination.

>>720143453 (OP)
why edit out the username? People should know

>>720150869
meth just brings out the masculine urge to dig holes and disassemble random household appliances so you can figure out how they work

>>720143603
This.

>>720150203
because you're supposed to call before you dig. all of these yards have utilities under them, and you do not own the land your house sits on even if you own your house. it doesn't matter if you didn't hit a line, because you very well could have and wound up costing the city thousands of dollars instead of just a small fine.

Uncovering the entirety of Outer Wilds was peak comfy to me. This game has everything

>>720148770
women and brown people made the copy pasted fields you're holding w across

>>720151046
damn people really are property of the government lmao

>>720151285
they're not kidding when they say you wont own anything.

>>720150625
I've never gotten into the KC series but stuff like that really does vibe with me. Something about relaxing and just taking in the digital scenery after an intense fight is relaxing.

zoomers never played real games

>>720149039
Explain Vtubing to me. Why would someone pay money to watch some ugly bitch that literally don't give a fuck about you and is fake ass hell while shit at video games?

I get why some might watch streaming like a tournament or if they are really skilled at something but watching a ugly bitch behind a anime drawing making fake cute noises and being flirty is just fucking sad.

Is this like the next evolution in the streamer slut pipeline? They don't even need to show irl tits anymore. They can just hide behind a anime image and talk while millions of sad simps throw money at them?

If you are paying for a girl you could at least donate it to a porn streamer at least there you actually get interaction and maybe some tits and pussy shots.

>>720153507
You wouldn't believe all the amazing things I've seen in roblox :)

>>720153698
slow day, Langleyfag?

>>720143740
Anon pls
The correct term for those is "women"

Lol what the fuck

>>720151240
You must be a brown woman if you cant understand the white man's fascination with exploring and discovering things.

>>720143453 (OP)
This is why starfield is the most soulful game of the generation.

>>720153698
TRVKE

>>720143562
>I need an NPC to give me an academic dissertation about a hole

>>720143453 (OP)
Pitioss Ruins. Only accessible in the post game with the flying car, no trophy or anything of the sort, you can platinum the game and still miss the coolest dungeon.

Felt nice.

>>720143453 (OP)
probably encountering the underground in elden ring since it was right at release and there was no indication there was an underground map from fromsoft at that point in time

just one of those "oh shit they put in more effort that we thought" moments

>>720143562
This nigga can't see the apple

>>720143964
Starfield has 5 different "points of interest" and randomly spawns one of them on every planet with a marker. So that hole not having one makes it slightly different.

>>720147986
The sign is a subtle joke

>>720144715
>>720143453 (OP)
if it's just openworld sloppa imo it's gay. Like the exploration in baldurs gate 3 and outer wilds work because baldurs gate is a fucking postage stamp and outer wilds has the
>if it's low detail, it's probably not worth looking at
thing going for it. Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect andromeda had worse exploration, even though I liked the mako and the planet missions, it was kind of a slog to drive around and find everything without a map or a mod. Vs outer wilds and the first 2 acts of baldurs gate 3 which were obviously designed to push players towards finding things. also, I'd say BG3 kind of sucks if you know where everything on the map is, imo

I thought this was something you could encounter as a kid playing FO1. Scared me shitless thinking about such giant creature that might pop up somewhere.
A time before I started thinking "This is a silly little surprise thing because how would it even work to fight godzilla in this isometric rpg lol".

Starfield is better than Skyrim

both games suck

>>720157534
>"This is a silly little surprise thing because how would it even work to fight godzilla in this isometric rpg lol".
"Huge offscreen enemy with just the feet showing" is kino

>>720155804
It's a point of disinterest.

>>720143453 (OP)
A headless body in a pond in the middle of nowhere in Oblivion.
With a note he wrote to someone he secretly wanted to court.

>>720160938
Oblivion felt a bit too empty for my taste for random finds to have meaning

>>720143453 (OP)
we all saw the hole but he married it

>>720146669
Trvke

>>720143453 (OP)
what game?

>>720143453 (OP)
My twinky dex faith character pogged out when he saw the Lake of Rot

>>720147986
neat

>>720143562
I wish somwone could find my hole but every boy has always said ew

>>720143453 (OP)
Everything in Subnautica.

Open World doesn't mean "randomly generated slop"

>>720143453 (OP)
>oh wow a big hole
Yes and how interesting did you think that would stay?
This was interesting for about 10 seconds.
Then it's just a hole with no content.

>>720147959
back in my day you found some cool shit and beyond that cool shit there was a whole-ass video game level waiting to challenge you.

>>720168891
> This was interesting for about 10 seconds.
> Then it's just a hole with no content.
perhaps it's a perfect metaphor for starfield as a whole

>>720149039
Obedience is pretty freaky
shame Kenshi is half-finished

>>720158641
Fun fact, the way they change color like that is they have tiny sacs filled with black pigment throughout their body. When they relax the pigment spreads out into small capillaries which cover a big surface area to be more visible. To turn transparent they suck the pigment back up into the sacks so they're just a bunch of tiny black dots that are hard to see.

>>720143453 (OP)
Just stumbling on something expectantly? I suppose Siofra River from Elden Ring. I was just walking around the woods when I found a odd structure. I thought it was going to be small, but there was an elevator. Even as the elevator went down, I wasn't expecting much. But it just kept going down and down. Then the stars become visible and it hits me that I stumbled into something special.

>>720143453 (OP)
In Shadow of the Colossus for PS2 there's like two areas in the enormous open word that have a tortoise just chilling and I thought that was just the swellest most delightful thing ever as a kid.

>>720147201
The Easter egg is telling you that there are no eater eggs and to go away.

>>720154812
What does that even mean?
>My game’s map has geography im a genius.
No. You’re a tranny.

>>720143453 (OP)
I thought the issue was that this was a common occurrence rather than just a design feature

>>720149039
Kenshi has some great exploration and Obedience has to be one of the greatest open world locations of all time on concept alone. How many open world games offer a location like this just waiting to be discovered with no incentive in terms of quests leading you there or rewards beyond the discovery? Not many

>>720147756
Wtf why am I taking damage?

>>720143754
sometimes mercenaries spawn there and you can board their ship

>>720143740
>>720146723
You can visit an actual meteor impact site, I have
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

>>720143453 (OP)
In Fabled Lands if you climb the mountains at the edge of the world you can board a space ship and go to an ancient alien spaceport if I remember correctly. There's lots of other cool hidden stuff like visiting the underworld if you find a dead guy in the steppes.

>>720143453 (OP)
I wish I could find a big meaty horsepussy in an open world game. All games should have it.

>>720147854
the power of marketing

I decided to explore the map in Dying Light before doing any of the story, the cool thing is if you don't progress early on, the night cycle never starts, so you never have to deal with those night assholes.
Anyway, I found a house with a man that committed suicide via gunshot, judging by the candles and the picture around them, I assume he did so because his kitty died.
Its also the earliest gun you can get in the game.

>>720147986
came for the gameplay, stayed for the dick jokes

>>720143453 (OP)
Entire covens of naked bitches in Daggerfall

>>720171749
I recently found out that Dagerfall Unity has porn modders now

>>720143562
but enough about dating in the modern world

>>720169646
Well, ain't that something.

>>720146474
I literally couldn't care less about shit like this.

>>720172516
Might your skin color perhaps be of the melanated variety

>>720169646
SOTC was pretty cool to explore back then. WoW also had some really awesome places when you could wall walk up mountains and stuff.

>>720143453 (OP)

marika's gilded droppings

idk about favorite but i still remember finding blackreach in skyrim

>>720143453 (OP)
A gas giant in elite dangerous with a metallic ring system tilted 90 degrees perpendicular to the star, fully illuminated at all times and visible from anywhere in the system. I discovered it, too.

>>720143453 (OP)
LEfant Plaza in fallout 3. that piramid of crystal.

>>720143603
based. I was really pleased with myself when I figured out her quest completely on my own

>>720143453 (OP)
>>720144715
>>720145835
For me, it was finding the crashed glowie drone in S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat. Just very cool and unexpected.

>>720149773
Digging holes is tedious unless the soil is like pussy-soft. I've buried many a kitten in my lifetime, i know what i'm talking about.

>>720149181
>procedural
kek

>>720143562
nigga never got laid

>>720173852
>I've buried many a kitten in my lifetime,

>>720143740
Yea this. It's not as impressive in games because instead of a formation being sculpted over a thousand or even a million years it's done by some jeet at below minimum wage in a few hours and then thrown into procedural generation slop.

>>720148335
Kids

>>720148341
Wrong. Debunked.

>>720143562
This is how I feel about people who praise nu-zelda.

>>720143754
The user review score

>>720173852
Are you the kitten fucker outt here diggin in da DIRT

>>720169079
Phoneposting should be a bannable offense.

>>720173852
Anon why are you burying peoples kittens ?

>>720169079
Whats with the weird space infront of your meme arrows

>>720171990
Filthy tourists.

>>720148770
nigga you don't even go outside irl to admire the marvels and beauty of nature, instead you're sitting here drooling over procedurally generated jeetslop

>>720149962
surprised your father was around considering his ethnicity

>>720143740
it's 100 F outside and i am 300 lbs

>>720143453 (OP)
It's so moronic every time I see Redditard say things like, "Starfield just needs 100 new procedural POIs!!"
The problem isn't the copy-pasted POIs. It's that there are absolutely no quests that start inside a POI and lead to something handcrafted. We need things like a distress signal from space, a lost courier's package, a flyer that leads you to a suspicious gang. You know, elements like Meridia's Beacon.
But there's none of that. It's all just radiant quests. Even on the hardest, level 100 planets, there is nothing to find. I genuinely wonder what was going through the heads of the idiots who approved this design.

>>720154812
>implying this requires imagination
you know they teach kindergarteners about asteroid impacts right?

>>720143562
>redditor midwit defense squad

Yikes.

>>720147789
Based Just Cause 2 enjoyer.
I think any location of note is used in a mission, but the map is so massive that it doesn’t feel as themeparky and staged as most other games despite that. They also put quite a few chaos items and pickups out in the boonies from marked locations.

>>720170656
That place is so awesome.

>>720143453 (OP)
What game?

>>720143453 (OP)
Sierra Army Depot (hidden military base near New Reno) in Fallout 2 on my second playthrough. It was so cool to discover it and investigate what happened, there were also terminal requiring very high science skill, adding more mystery.

>>720143562
NOOOOO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND
THE MYSTERY IS THE APPEAL

just think of all the possible causes for that crater, such as an asteroid, or.......... a guy with a shovel....... or an asteroid.....
THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

>>720143453 (OP)
I bet this faggot didn't go in it.