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[krypter3]

In no particular order.

Morrowind
Red Dead Redemption
Fable 1 (at the time of it's release, it was amazing)
Sleeping Dogs
Assassins Creed 3

[Paranoid Android]

Morrowind - the graphics are dated now, but the world was just absolutely immersive.  Much more so than Oblivion and Skyrim (which I also rate highly, just not as good - graphics on these games are gorgeous, though).

[AsteroidX]

EVE online. Steep learning curve but Sandbox 100%

RIFT was a great sandbox MMO but has lost some of its luster. Great graphics and lots to do open world style but you have to teamplay to access the endgame and they left lots of good content behind when they came out with expansion. So EVE gets my vote as best sandbox game Evar !!

[DKO]

No particular order.

Skyrim

GTA: San Andreas

Fallout 3 / New Vegas

[AsteroidX]

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Skyrim

GTA: San Andreas

Fallout 3 / New Vegas

Im not picking on your choices just posted as easy examples...

I see those as open world games...But sandbox in my experience is reserved for the MMO genre at this time. I could be wrong and have played Skyrim and thought it a wonderful open world game but it did not have the sandbox...Sandbox to me means you can build and destroy empires and have a fluid ever changing environment that can only be found in a few games.

I see no other EVE players here so I guess my perspective of sandbox may be skewed as they advertise on  it as a sandbox game.

So I guess Im asking is there a difference between open world and sandbox and what are others thoughts ? Anyone up for the challenge.

[krypter3]

AsteroidX, on 04 March 2013 - 05:31 AM, said:

EVE online. Steep learning curve but Sandbox 100%

RIFT was a great sandbox MMO but has lost some of its luster. Great graphics and lots to do open world style but you have to teamplay to access the endgame and they left lots of good content behind when they came out with expansion. So EVE gets my vote as best sandbox game Evar !!

oh yes, EVE is amazing.  Once I have a steady income I plan to get back into it.  It's such a hard game to get into seems all these guys have been playing it for years are are extremely well off lol.

[AsteroidX]

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oh yes, EVE is amazing.

30-50k 23/7 on a single server mmo thats ten years old; somebodies doing something right. But yeah I think there future development is gearing towards making it more accessible. They were the first to get 500vs500 spacefights stable on a server. I remember the days of 1fps as being good....ahh the good ole days.

[krypter3]

AsteroidX, on 04 March 2013 - 09:16 AM, said:

30-50k 23/7 on a single server mmo thats ten years old; somebodies doing something right. But yeah I think there future development is gearing towards making it more accessible. They were the first to get 500vs500 spacefights stable on a server. I remember the days of 1fps as being good....ahh the good ole days.

I love how everything happens in game, it's like a real functioning world you can immerse yourself into.

If you have the time to do so of course lol.

And you can be whatever you want, cargo runner, courier, miner, battleship captain.

You name it, EVE online will only continue to grow.

[Paranoid Android]

AsteroidX, on 04 March 2013 - 06:49 AM, said:

But sandbox in my experience is reserved for the MMO genre at this time. I could be wrong

Being someone that does not have access to Multiplayer Online Services, I find this a very limited definition of the "sandbox".  It's games like GTA: San Andreas, Fable, or Elder Scrolls that actually allow us non-Cable Internet folk to play Single Player RPG's and therefore play in our own "sandbox".  Maybe the internet has a different definition, but I can't separate them.

[DigitalDreamer]

GTA V is going to definitely be number one in terms of sandboxy games! I do in fact like the newly invented word,rather fun to say

[B Jenkins]

Sandbox (imo) = Open World/free roaming

My definition is more loose.

[magicbob]

IMO in no particular order:

- GTA 4
- The elder scrolls(Oblivion and Skyrim)
- Fallout

and I don't  know if you guys consider that a Sandbox,but Okami is a GREAT game too!

[krypter3]

While I liked skyrim well enough to play about fifty hours.  After that, I started to see how repetitive it is, the voice acting, the quests.  A sandbox for me isn't just an open world, it's about what you can do in the open world.  Being able to do pretty much anything you want, Skyrim was basically made up of fetch this for me or kill that quests.  Which in turn involved you going underground sooo much, that it just got dreary looking at stone walls 80% of the game lol.

Morrowind is the only Elder Scrolls that really stuck in my head many years later, beautifully crafted for it's time.

I can only hope Elder Scrolls online captures it's magic.

[B Jenkins]

krypter3, on 05 March 2013 - 10:08 PM, said:

While I liked skyrim well enough to play about fifty hours.  After that, I started to see how repetitive it is, the voice acting, the quests.  A sandbox for me isn't just an open world, it's about what you can do in the open world.  Being able to do pretty much anything you want, Skyrim was basically made up of fetch this for me or kill that quests.  Which in turn involved you going underground sooo much, that it just got dreary looking at stone walls 80% of the game lol.

That is one of the biggest reasons I was turned off of Far Cry 2. You are just an errand boy throughout and some missions/quests will become multiple errands before the missions/quests are finished. This element is probably in most if not all sandbox/open world games yet some are riveting and compellingly written, characters are fleshed out, and can be quite an emotional experience, see--> Far Cry 3.

And other games it becomes "been there, done that... oh crap... another one!!!!!" workman-like chore, see--> Skyrim and in partial the Borderlands games.

I completely agree with you I  too got sick of screaming draugrs most of all and after awhile all the missions/quests just melted into one basic objective. At first, the boss draugrs were an intense experience than I just began to resent the underground missions/quests, especially after I acquired awesome weapons that would be blown all over the place and the first thing I would do after killing a boss draugr is scour the area to recover my precious weapons. Sometimes I had to do this during the fight just so I could beat the boss draugrs. That got old and irritating after awhile.  

And all the backtracking too.

Edited by B Jenkins, 05 March 2013 - 10:33 PM.

[thewild]

I love Skyrim. I always will. I am not done exploring it all the way because I have a job and school so I am drawing out playing it probably for the next 5 years.....