New Fallout Map Size?

They're already as wide as an ocean and as deep as a puddle. Bigger map isn't necessarily better, unless they bring in vehicles and allow us to stunt-jump over legendary ghoul tapeworms.

 

what i want is having verticality and dense content per area ratio. having massive map but is single panoramic and empity is over done by lot of open world game. even witcher 3 is one of it

 

Well, witcher 3 is different setting, vertically stretched map would cause lots of questions.

 

I want to fight a Thresher Maw in a Vertibird, because that would be COOL and BADASS. Yep.

 

Fixed.

 

I think the maps should be big. Like How GTA Vs map is. Even though GTA V's map is "empty," there's a lot of minor details. GTA V's map is empty in regards to things to do and people to talk to, but all the little details add up. In a wasteland, there are less details because everything has been blown to bits or fallen off over time, so the devs could theoretically make a GTA V-sized-map with as much content as Fallout NV. Hell, that size and you'll be able to have vehicles so stuff wont HAVE to be densely packed.

 

I wonder what it would be like if the game map was basically a cube with points of interest more-or-less evenly distributed in 3d. I guess to do that the game would pretty much have to take place in a very large and dense urban environment with lots of tall buildings covering the map. And the map footprint would have to be relatively small in order to keep the general game depth at a decent level.

 

So like the classic Fallout games?
Fallout 2 full map:


As someone wrote on Reddit:

Yeah I know that in older games we can't really explore all of the map, but with the random encounters and random maps for those it simulates it quite well for the time.

I can say this though, using Gamebryo or Creation Engine will never allow to make a really bigger map than what we have now because those engines are naturally flawed and have problems with performance and optimisation (I guess we could have a really huge map but mostly empty, that could work, maybe).

And yeah this post is not to be taken seriously because I understand what the OP means, I am just bored and like to joke .

 

i would be honored to present you;

DOOM and Deus Ex mankind divided map

that two games have damn fully ultilization of what make 3d engine is 3d. you could ask member around here about the Doom Map
as for deus ex MD


starting from 7:22

 

Cool, thanks for the suggestions. I will have to check those out.

 

Wasnt daggerfall randomly generated though? I dont care for tons of area that is empty. A world map ala fo1/2/t is far superior to me

 

Anything they could do to make the games feel like they take place in a bigger world would be an improvement imo. Maybe they use larger maps with a travel system like F1, F2; or maybe the maps are somewhere between F3 and GTA5 size with hubs of locations that are walkable, then in the larger expanses of wasteland between the hubs, fast travel or some transportation system could be used. Anything that would prevent the experience of a player walking well across the map then turning around and seeing that the location they came from is really not that far away.

 

The thread won't be full without this video.

Too bad encounters is not shown yet.

 

I say what's the point of having a bigger map if you can't bother putting in lots of content(in Bethesda's case)? Only reason to have a bigger map is to boast about how much bigger it is then other game's maps. If I had to choose between a big empty lifeless map or a smaller filled to the limit with content map I would choose the later.

 

I understand that but the wasteland isn't going to be dangerous fore- nevermind it's Bethesdian Fallout. I don't like how empty and devoid of life it is. Dangerous enemies? Better believe it. Lacking humans? That's ridiculous there's only tens of people left to populate it. When the world is so empty besides these theme park places it just becomes dull and boring. I know people will disagree with me but I'm just sick of these walking/hiking simulators with added pew pew.