What I like about Dead Ialand 2 was that it looks exactly as advertised and the game didn't have any bugs. I had more fun with Dying Light because there is so much to do but I hope they continue the Dead Island series. For the time being, Danbuster should focus on adding more content for Dead Island 2. Haven't been on for a while. Maybe there is more now.
They also added some outfits but most of them are locked behind dumb stuff like special editions or having to link your amazon prime membership and some other websites accounts to your deepsilver account, oh and also they're timed exclusives so yeah....................
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 at launch and I can’t tell you how glad I am that I waited to play til after 2.1, I’ve enjoyed exploring the city without any prejudice or preconceptions and not to mention this play through is my first time trying mods and its freaking awesome! 🤘💯
@@manashieldmediaNot really, most of the criticism didn’t come from PC users, I am one myself, but from ps4 and XBONE users since it wasn’t ok in thouse. Also idk how it is now, but the game felt truly life-less, you could park your car in the middle of the road and people just stopped behind you, not at all real reactions to stuff you did, I personally didn’t have much bugs on pc but didn’t like how lifeless the game felt.
At last someone is giving well deserved recognition to Season: A letter to the future. That game is nothing short of a simulated immersive journey. Glad to see it here.
I'm quite impressed with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. I expected *WAY* less from this game. I got positively surprised by all aspects, especially the graphics and scenarios.
Cyberpunk is in my top 5 favorite games ever now. They really redeemed themselves and have went over and above adding even more to make it how it should have been. PL is amazing.
@Rawgangsta it's honestly like a rpg as far as gameplay, if you run through the story, or if you like to run through the side missions and complete the game, 40-80 hours, give or take 10 depending on how u play each mission. Actually u can add 15 hrs with the Phantom Liberty DLC also.
Ditto choom, even before Phantom Liberty, this game became my top 5 all time favorite game also, been doing multiple playthroughs since day 1. Each update has given me a new reason to play again. And Phantom Liberty has only added on to those playthroughs 😅
@@AS34N you will get your moneys worth, if you just wanna cruise thru the story you can do that as well. You can put an easy 80 hours into it or play like 20 if you choose. The side content is totally worth playing though.
A few weeks ago I started cyberpunk 2077…the 2.0 and 2.1 update have done amazing things and I’m happier than ever that my first experience of the game is version 2.0
I started a new playthrough for cyberpunk 2077 yesterday and its STILL not fixed 3 bugs in 2 hours. I dont know what people are gushing about. The bugs are not game breaking , but it does affect immersion.
@@arun199113 Which platform do you play on? I’ve just started my second playthrough on ps5 and it runs very smooth. There are only a few insignificant bugs. You really have to be a snob to dismiss such a great game due to such trivial bugs
I still think it's incredibly overrated. I also played it for the first time with 2.0 and it's like 80% cut scenes and after 18 hours the story is over. It just felt very forgettable and I wasn't motivated to play a lot of the sidequests afterwards. The atmosphere is good at times during some of the heavily scripted sequences but that's about it. Plus there are still tons of bugs and glitches. People floating in the air. Terrible physics.
@@Grapefruit5000yeah physics in that game is mess i don't know why people are still defending cdpr they clearly advertise it as most immersive open world experience to date and when it launched people were like oh it's rpg details don't matter like what why they still defend that game is beyond me
Sons of the Forest is absolutely a beautiful game. I very rarely purchase games as soon as they’re released anymore but I purchased it within the first hour of the official release.
It's "beautiful" but it's a crappy game, one of the most bland and boring I've played in recent years, an empty shell. Plus the graphics are pretty, ok, but we don't even really enjoy them since the map is insipid, what's the point of having pretty graphics if there's nothing that makes you want to explore and discover the world?
@@theemptyhandofdc2458 doesn't even have an open world it has open segmented zones that you can fast travel to through menus and there's nothing on most of them except the same 5 or 6 repeated "points of interest." All separated by SIXTEEN TIMES THE LOADING SCREENS
Not sure if this is just a list of games or if they’re supposed to be in ranking order 🤷♂️ and even if it is, it’s all just somebody’s opinion. Who cares?
Yea, it's pretty hilarious that Starfield and AC Mirage are even on this list. Just make the list shorter. These are not games that need to be celebrated.
Tbh im so glad to see Avatar make it to this list. The game is fantastic and Ubisoft did a TERRIBLE job marketing it. Massive did an AMAZING job making it.
The game sucks, I can pay 1 dollar to buy Far Cry 3, and I would have played the same game. Then i would have saved so much money, but i prefer to save that last dollar and not play any of those games.
Love it when Jedi: Survivor gets some love. Based on first-hand experience on PC, Patches 7 and 7.5 more or less ironed out majority of the release day wrinkles and it's far more playable now than back then.
I loved Jedi Survivor so much. It had everything I wanted from a Jedi Fallen Order Sequel and more. It feels like it went from a fun little Spin Off story with Fallen Order to becoming its own identity with a ton of content, great characters, amazing villains and insane set-pieces
i have a 16gb ram and rtx 2080, yeah it's an old GPU but it's still way above average (according to steam data) and rtx 2080 is above the recommended settings of the game. and i still CAN'T play jedi survivor on a stable 60fps at LOWEST settings. and in the times i get 60fps, the stuttering is still annoying. totally unplayable for most people. worst thing is, it doesn't even look THAT good like RDR2.
@@SnafuWT that fricking sucks. IDK what to tell you, I've not had problems with the game but your experience is absolutely valid too. Just wish everyone who wants to play it can enjoy it problem-free
@@fadeT0grey010 yeah i'll probably just wait till they patch it or till i get a PS5. i ABSOLUTELY LOVED fallen order, i want to play jedi survivor so bad. i've seen some performance mods for it on nexusmods but i dunno if it'll work.
I liked alot about dead island 2. But just felt bit short in terms of content. Wanted crafting/upgrading to be bit more impactful. But the gore system was hands down my fav.
I'd put Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores on this list, since DLC is allowed. For me, it's the best of the year. I'm also fully enjoying Starfield, in a totally different way - but HFW: Burning Shores is far and away my favorite game of 2023, and among my top 5 games of all time.
HFW easily has the Best Graphics ever on PS5... That game is just insane looking... I played on my 55 inch 4K TV and mind was blown when I first started it... Only game that can surpass that game in terms of graphics will be GTA 6
nah the crew being online only is not a positive thing. as soon as they shut down severs like they already proved they will is not ok. stop defending devs who do that
It's definitely unfortunate. Would love a dlc every year until cyberpunk 2. Obviously, they would be smaller than phantum liberty with the amount of resources going to cyberpunk 2.
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(If modders have shown anything - the engine is not the problem for Bethesda. On top of that, switching engines would impact the Bethesda Modding community the most. But I digress, entirely different combat systems have been developed in the engine. Modders have created Sekiro's combat inside of Skyrim. It's not the engine. That said, I'm not opposed to a new engine that's still as flexible for modding in the same or similar way - but the narrative that it's the "engine" is just categorically wrong)
Starfield is not, by any definition, an Open World Game. It is a game. An OK, even good, game. It is an Open World. It is not an Open World Game. It is an Open World "Game". All the time I played it I was either thinking about how good FO4 is in comparison, or about the first review I read about Assassins Creed, which was, basically, "they have built an incredible world but forgot to put a game in it". The latter is probably the best definition I have for Starfield. Incredible world. But they forgot to put a game in it.
8:15 wasn't a fan of the movies and never felt enticed to read the books... but hooo boy, the game was so much fun XD my face muscles started cramping with how much I was grinning, I enjoyed the game a lot
I'll never buy another The Crew game. F Ubisoft and their 'always online' b.s. I bought the first game on both disc and digitally and never really got around to playing it much. Now it's being permanently taken down effective March 31st. What a joke.
Hogwart's got a hard shake because it is SUCH a good game. If you want to avoid benefiting a bigoted billionaire when you buy something, you're going to have to boycott like... most games. If you think buying an Activision or WB game is a "pure" purchase you are deluded.
No. Stop. This is not a thing. Both companies falsely advertised incomplete, broken games, then finally got around to making them playable. No applause necessary
@@mgiebus1869 So, in your opinion, these companies don't deserve a second chance? They screwed up their launch, so they're dead forever? Do you hold yourself to such a standard?
@@MatthewTyreeKS any other industry wouldn't put up with this, let alone praise it. So yeah, I hold myself to the same standard. Pizza place sells you a pizza and half of it's missing, that pizza place won't be there long. Car dealer sells you a car that isn't finished, you crash and die, car manufacturer's out of business. Game company sells you half a game, you patiently wait, then praise them for finally giving you what you paid for
@@ryanshoults123 I'm playing the game right now dumbass. People still driving invisible cars, constant pop in and pop out. So no, it's not fixed. The saddest part is the potential it had because the graphics and world are great
@@TrashcanActual At least 5 of the games suck. They are not a channel for game recommendations, because they are void of opinion. The information they give on games is designed to offend the fewest people possible to maximise their profit. This channel can only be used for video news summaries.
I'm so happy to hear that Falcon is a fellow Avatar anti-fan. I've never understood the hype and thought the original film looked pretty, but was really boring.
BG3 while being an AMAZING game isn't really open world. Baldurs gate the city alone is like 4 different maps if you don't include all the smaller dungeon maps inside of the city areas.
It’s not an open world tho. We can love everything that bg3 is. But they can’t be on every top list just cuz of that. Lmao its everything but a top 10 open world game of 2023
The only reason these Zelda games are praised so high is because its a console locked game and everyone who paid for Switch tryna justify their purchase
It still blows my mind that Hogwarts Legacy had no romance. A school full of teens and there's no love in the air? I honestly find that more unbelievable than the magic.
Even though Atomic Heart does have an "open area", I found this area extremely hard to explore and enjoy due to the infinitely spawning enemies. There is really nothing to discover except for those training grounds (mini dungeons?) and it serves no major function besides going from one main underground area (Main dungeons) to another in order to advance the story. In terms of level design I think it's more comparable to BioShock 2, where you could traverse the open sea to go from one area to another. I really hope the developers decides to do another Atomic heart because the world, setting, and story they created deserves to be further explored. They just need to decide whether to do an open world kind of game or a more linear one like bioshock.
Thank you. I quit after I got to the open world. It’s literally just being pestered by endless AI enemies that are annoying to fight while trying to find your way around an annoying area
The game was absolutely peak when you were in the enclosed spaces like the underground areas but the open world was awful. Still I completed it but I would definitely rank it below something like Jedi Survivor
It'll take a lot to get me to consider Starfield. It'll have to be a heavily discounted ultimate edition and modding will have to be easily accessible and not paid mods like Bethesda is trying to do.
They plan to release the dev tool(creation kit) early next year so I would wait till after the and defo discounted. Biggest BGS fan going and even I'll admit starfield is abit of a letdown, especially performance wise.
Must've been a bad year for Open World games if AC Mirage made the list. I've not heard any good from it. Even positive reviews say it is a "step back" for the franchise.
I don't care if it's just a list but Cyberpunk 2077 with 2.0 and phantom liberty having that at #14 while STARFIELD is at #3 should be an actual FELONY.
CP 2077 is the best game in the list, it's not even close. the person who put this list together is a casual gamer and didn't play CP2077 fully, Game like that with so much content require as much time investment to appreciated. 2077 puts Starfield to shame in everything 😂
Wicked year for games. FF16 as an open-world is a bit of a misnomer. I think SE struggled to flesh out how to go about that aspect without embracing a true open world formula. Superb game nonetheless, and I can't wait to see where they go with FF17. Zelda TotK is just, wow. It has so many problems, and yet the new tools and gameplay mechanics are undeniably a thrill. Nintendo just missed the holy grail with it by not fixing BotW's innumerable issues. I do miss the old Zelda formula, but hey, what we got this year was pretty fun.
Here you guys go Final Fantasy XVI 7/10 Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty 8.5/10 The Crew Motorfest 8/10 Sons of the Forest 6.5/10 Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 9/10 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 8/10 Hogwarts Legacy 8/10 Dead Island 2 7/10 Season: A Letter to the Future 8/10 Diablo IV 6/10 Atomic Heart 6/10 Assassin’s Creed Mirage 6/10 Starfield 5/10 Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 7/10 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 9.5/10
I dont know about Diablo IV being great but it was at the start. Then Blizzard pretty much drove D IV off a cliff by forcing you to create a new character when a new in-game season starts because a previous character you made from the previous season will have no access to the contents of the new season.
I really love open world games where you can go wherever you want do whatever you want at your leisure like minigames, visit clothing stores, restaurants and so much more that I can think of.
I loved Atomic Heart mainly for the incredible environment and cool enemies...but I admit it was far from perfect. That being said, I really hope Mundfish learns from their mistakes and comes out with an even better game next time.
Their last 2 games before starfield were worked on by a different team as they were both mmo style and starfield was a completely new team, you can trust that the next elder scrolls/ fallout will be good
Story is very good, no cap. Visually it's amazing, accepted. But the open world design is very Ubisoft and boring. Spiderman is a 7.5/10 at best. Open world is a 4/10.
@@RvkKJgameplay is easily above a 10, and that’s the most important part. Add to that how fun the traversal is, the game is EASILY a 9, which is what it got
The game got me back into the series, literally booked a trip to Harry Potter world in universal just because I enjoyed the game so much. Only downside is the story is meh
The main issue I have with The Crew Motorsport and the new Avatar game being on this list is, in the light of Ubisoft's removal of the Crew (and the ability to play the single player portion offline on your own), we have no way of knowing if we can play these games later in the future. What they did with The Crew makes it more of a rental than an actual purchase than we have seen before and I feel they need to think on hard on such a decision. I am, for example, not buying either of these 2 until I figure out if they plan on releasing an offline patch so I can play this game on my own.
They kind of did the same with the Trackmania franchise, where it's now just more of a service type game where you rent it for a year, or whatever tier you want to pay for, and will never be able to be played in the future because it's no longer an offline game. You can play it for free, but it's more limited now than it was when it first released as Stadium.
@@DKTronics70 It's true that Trackmania is less than it used to be, but the Crew will be unplayable once this change goes through. This sort of idiocy should give everyone that wants to buy any more games digitally (which, let's be honest is quickly becoming the only option) reason to think twice since they have no idea what their purchase will be worth down the road. This goes double for any sort of game with a multiplayer mode baked in like the Crew's.
I agree 100% with your picks of cyberpunk, hogwarts legacy, starfield, dead island 2 and atomic heart. I love all these games ive beaten all 5 of them on the hardest difficulty these games are amazing experiences. A lesser known open world i wouldve personally added would be the talos principle 2 that game is like open world portal with gorgeous graphics. I just started star wars jedi survivor and its great!! 🤟
I feel like Atomic Heart is probably the most difficult on highest difficulty, but the others are fairly easy still on hardest setting, just gotta use patience and pay a lot more attention to your surroundings. Especially in Dead Island 2, because using the elemental stuff like shocking the puddles and stuff becomes crucial.
For me Dead Island 2 was super average. I feel like everyone expected a complete dumpster fire so when it came out and it wasnt people immediately started to give it more credit than deserved.
As much as I adored Spider-Man 2, I do feel it’s a shame that there’s only 2 things to do after you 100% it - random crimes and replaying Mysteriums. I loved using stealth in the Hunter bases, would be great to replay them at will (we could replay bases in the first game, not sure why it’s not a thing here).
This year was amazing for gaming (and VR gaming), and a large chunk of the plethora of great games was Open World games, and I have to give it to Cyberpunk, because it obviously wasn't one of 2020's best, but as Falcon already critiqued (more elaborately), they turned that game around in a big way, finally making it the game we all wanted at launch. But Hogwartz Legacy.. THAT was the biggest surprise hit for me, and I'm not even a big HP fan, it's just a really good open world game with some excellent combat and progression
