Set in surprisingly accurate recreations of some of Japan’s rowdier neighborhoods, the various installments have padded out their crazy, operatic crime stories with tons of ridiculous minigames and sub-stories that gamify dating, friendship, eating, drinking, smoking, gambling, karaoke, disco dancing, polite conversation, and even managing a hostess club.
If you want big city night life, Yakuza has you covered. Sure, you can be a badass warrior who saves the world (yawn) OR you can play as a horny idiot skeleton lizard who talks to dogs, turns people into chickens, picks locks with his gross little bony fingers, and is rude to everyone. Brian Altanoĭivinity: Original Sin 2Divinity’s world might look like standard top-down western fantasy fare at a glance, but where it shines is how much it lets players make its world their own through exploration and choice.
Windwaker provides the exact kind of exploration I’m not getting at home right now. Lucy O'Brien The Legend of Zelda: The Wind WakerAs I pace around my small city apartment, alternating between stress eating, telecommuting to meetings, and peering out the window expecting a day where the government yells “everything is normal again!” I desperately long for the freedom of a sprawling, gorgeous open world to explore. Michael Swaim BioShockThough you explore BioShock’s Rapture in a more linear fashion than any of the worlds listed above, its Utopia-gone-mad is no less seductive for it. Max Scoville Fallout: New VegasMy personal favorite open-world RPG to revisit time and again, New Vegas boasts what is widely considered the most engrossing plot in the Fallout series, and what puts it over the top for me as far as a quarantine game goes are the stellar and highly-replayable DLCs: Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road stepped up what a DLC can be, and how much care can be put into one. Jon Ryan Far Cry 3The Far Cry formula’s gotten a little long in the tooth, but Far Cry 3’s wonderful pairing of gorgeous tropical paradise and chaotic sandbox mayhem managed to satisfy my need for a relaxing beach vacation and my need to blow up a great white shark with a rocket launcher. With a gorgeous, if bleak, world to explore and some of the best car combat in recent memory, Mad Max is a (now heavily discounted) must-play for any open-world enthusiast. Lucy O'Brien Mad MaxIf you haven’t given Avalanche Studios’ take on the world after the Water Wars a shot, you owe it to yourself (and all of us holding out hope for a sequel) to check it out. Whenever I want to recapture that giddy rush of walking through Tokyo streets, this is the next best thing to being there. Tina Amini Persona 5Persona 5’s Tokyo is astonishingly evocative of real-world Tokyo, from its idiosyncratic subways to its Shibuya buffets. Some of the more harrowing quests will stick with you, too. Matt Kim A singular, ultimate quest takes so many diverging paths in where you explore, who you meet, and what you’re hunting.
#Games to play when bored at home online full#
Matt Kim The Witcher 3A great choice, no matter if you're finally going to dig into the DLC, which might as well be full sequels, or just finish up sidequests. Lucy O'Brien If there’s ever a good time to try and Platinum one of the best games of all time, this is it. The story of Yarnham unfolds in its intricacies whispers through windows, forgotten treasures, and men driven mad. Tina AminiīloodborneIt may be a grimy, hostile world, but Bloodborne’s Yarnham is beautiful nonetheless. The level of AI comrade engagement in ME2 is next to none.
Jon Ryan Mass Effect 2Saving the universe through a combo of deft combat and pure wit and will is one thing, but you get to do it alongside a group of both human and alien friends (and then some). What else do you need? A gorgeous, sprawling open world full of interesting characters and discoverable secrets? Well. Lucy O'Brien Horizon: Zero DawnYou hunt giant robot dinosaurs with cool-ass retrofuturistic caveman tools. If you think you can do something in Breath of the Wild, you probably can. Tina Amini The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildGiven the breadth of Breath of the Wild’s systems, the Kingdom of Hyrule is a constant joy to explore and mess around with. Plus, Arthur Morgan is a beautifully written character with an incredible arc. Red Dead Redemption 2An amazing follow-up story with incredible detail you can get lost in over campfire chats or barreling through raucous heists. Worlds to Get Lost In Epic stories in big, beautiful worlds. Check them out in the gallery above, or scroll down for the full list.
0 kommentar(er)
