/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1067178
Too bad the FF7 map was so empty.

>>1067180
Nigga what?

Probably Daggerfall. I don't really count that though. I can't think of anything else at the moment.

What was that game where you're exploring an alien planet where the dude wears an awful orange sweater and runs like he shat himself?

Also, Ultima 7's was pretty big and detailed for something not procedurally generated or just endless tiles.

>>1067403

Outcast?

>>1067409
That's it.

God, that fucking jersey and running....

Daggerfall of course, or maybe Ashes of Empire.

>>1067495
I don't think Daggerfall should really count for the same reason that space-sims don't : there's nothing there.

Questron, Legacy of the Ancients, and Curse of the Azure Bonds had strikingly large maps for their time. The Dragon Warrior series also had some surprisingly large areas to explore.

square miles: dagger-fall

scope of the map: any one of those civilization like games thats place across galaxies

I thought the FFVI map was more interesting

http://gvgmaps.com/ffvi/

I pretty much shat myself when I got to the world of ruin after Kefka wrecked everyone

The Link to the Past one was also pretty bomb too

http://gvgmaps.com/linktothepast/

>>1067505
Confirmed for always having fast traveled. There's tons of stuff in-between, it's just boring stuff. Nothing comparable to the emptiness of space

Scale-wise? Probably something like pic related or Elite or something. In-game-wise? It probably is Daggerfall.

I didn't play FFVII until January of this year, and it still blew me the fuck away. I really wish I hadn't missed out on it back then, but I was an N64 guy busy playing Zelda instead.

Anyway, this was the first 3D FF I had ever played that featured a world map (I had previously played IV, V, VI, X, XII, and XIII), and it just made me HNNNNNNNGHHH in the best possible way.

The world map is an integral part of classic Final Fantasy, as is the ATB, a relatively easy to understand story with lots of party banter, lots of optional dungeons and equipment, and a sense of adventure. Final Fantasy VII has this all in spades, with the added flair of the 3D FF's cinematic sequences. It is by far my favorite Final Fantasy now that I have played it, and it improved on VI in every possible aspect, including the world map. When I got the submarine and realized you could explore all of the world's oceans, my mind was fucking blown.

One of the reasons I have hopes for XV is because the world map will finally be making a comeback, complete with vehicles and everything. I'm really hoping on that game to save FF.

>>1069328
>ATB

Nope. Linear turns only. I always hated atb.

>>1068675
>There's tons of stuff in-between

Flat ground (even in the "mountains") and trees? There might as well be nothing.

What's the difference between that and space?

There's really no difference between 1 square of nothing and 100 squares of nothing in terms of manufacture. Even more so when said manufacture is done automatically.

You can do the same with space.

Just randomly generate all the star systems and there, you've got a world 1,000,000,000 lightyears across.

>>1067409
kinda funny looking at it now, back when it came out this game had the best graphics ever.
makes me wonder where we'll be in 2025.

>>1069328
dat underwater submarine music

One thing I really wish Daggerfall had was forests.

Like, there are trees, and I guess technically you could call them forests, but you never really get the feel of being in a dark and gloomy RPG forest.