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[Variahunter]

I recalculated more precisely with the official map, and a screenshot right at the entrance of Demeniss City.

So basically he's 2800 meters away from Hernand Tavern :

I've been very conservative about what is explorable, besides maybe north west, which could mean there is 20 km² to cut.
Keep in mind that the sea is explorable at least with a small boat and there's islands in the south that are not counted here.

So 144km² :

 

[The_hunter]

When a game comes bundled with a physical map you know it's going to be good.

 

[Amey]

How many banana fields?

 

[semiconscious]

'crimson desert: it's kilometers of fun!'...

 

[duck_sauce]

Map size was never a good indicator of how good / fun a game is.

 

[March Climber]

Map size was never a good indicator of how good / fun a game is.

I consider these map size threads a fun curiosity, not a direct measurement of game quality.

 

[March Climber]

Also, Light No Fire is eventually going to be the ceiling.

HelloGames did say 'actually planet-sized'

 

[BlazeEcho97]

144 km² This number not give me a shit,need to compare this to others open world games rdr2 gta 5 Witcher

 

[Three]

Also, Light No Fire is eventually going to be the ceiling.

HelloGames did say 'actually planet-sized'

Hellogames were already doing planet size in No Mans Sky. The problem is what's it going to be filled with? If these games just have some randomly generated map that makes it look vast but there is very little density in terms of points of interest then that ceiling is not much of a ceiling. Looking forward to Light No Fire nonetheless.

 

[HRK69]

 

[March Climber]

Hellogames were already doing planet size in No Mans Sky.

The planetary procedural terrain would 'loop' in No Man's Sky after traveling a certain distance on it. I don't remember the exact calculation but it was smaller than people thought.

It's why Sean clarified that the planet in Light No Fire is attempting to be 'an actual planet' and not like an NMS planet.

The problem is what's it going to be filled with? If these games just have some randomly generated map that makes it look vast but there is very little density in terms of points of interest then that ceiling is not much of a ceiling. Looking forward to Light No Fire nonetheless.

We will have to find out about it together when they do a re-reveal.

The most interesting thing about it is the fact that they want it to be just one gigantic planet, with actual different terrain, landmarks, etc. all around. They had to have figured something out with their tech to make it work.

 

[Rossco EZ]

144 km² This number not give me a shit,need to compare this to others open world games rdr2 gta 5 Witcher

Twice the size of rdr2 apparently

 

[Perrott]

144 km² This number not give me a shit,need to compare this to others open world games rdr2 gta 5 Witcher

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is ~136km².
Grand Theft Auto V is ~80km².
Red Dead Redemption 2 is ~53km².

 

[SJRB]

Strange focus on map size with this game. Surely we've learnt our lesson by now?

 

[drotahorror]

I wonder if you can swim underwater?

 

[March Climber]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is ~136km².
Grand Theft Auto V is ~80km².
Red Dead Redemption 2 is ~53km².

To also compare to MMOs:

Elder Scrolls Online (as of now): ~400km²
World of Warcraft: Variable…some say ~200km² without counting verticality, underwater content, and dungeons, and if you count everything it's up to ~950km²

I'm bringing this up because at the very beginning Crimson Desert was planned to be an MMO before they changed course.

Whether or not they had decided map size by then is another question that would need answering.

 

[Baemono]

When a game comes bundled with a physical map you know it's going to be good.

Last game I played with a map was the Witcher 3

 

[John Bilbo]

One way of making a huge map size interesting would be for the game world to somehow have the cultural and historical density of Tolkien's Middle-earth.

 

[acm2000]

so what you are saying is that its too big, better have lots of fast travel points.

 

[Shadowplay1979]

If the map had any of the designers of Black Desert on it then the world is gonna be amazing. Black Desert is crawling with tiny secret all over the place. Some ive only come upon after playing the game for ten years and never noticed before. Eeven when theres nothing there, that world has so many unique places just to see and lovely natural environments just placed perfectly everywhere.

 

[The Cockatrice]

I feel sorry for people obsessed with map sizes instead of the actual content.

 

[Orbital2060]

What a boring ass map

 

[Itchy Tickles]

As for just pure map size and ignoring potentional quality of the world, I suppose it would need to be very big given the different forms of travel and gliding etc. Wonder how vertical it is too then.

 

[vodka-bull]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is ~136km².
Grand Theft Auto V is ~80km².
Red Dead Redemption 2 is ~53km².

Assuming it's also filled with interesting stuff like RDR2 is, it's gonna be a great game. But I doubt it.

 

[poodaddy]

I've never played a game with an obnoxiously huge map that was actually fun other than CDPR games, and even then the huge map ends up becoming more of an impediment than anything.

Small maps, densely packed with content, this is the way.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

If the map had any of the designers of Black Desert on it then the world is gonna be amazing. Black Desert is crawling with tiny secret all over the place. Some ive only come upon after playing the game for ten years and never noticed before. Eeven when theres nothing there, that world has so many unique places just to see and lovely natural environments just placed perfectly everywhere.

That's a relief! Another concern to cross off.

 

[Spyxos]

Map size was never a good indicator of how good / fun a game is.

The bigger the game is, the more it has to convince me that it's not just extremely repetitive and mindless crap.

 

[Variahunter]

I feel sorry for people obsessed with map sizes instead of the actual content.

Or maybe I'm obsessed with everything with this game ! Been waiting for 6 years lol

 

[Disciple of MSSP]

Also, Light No Fire is eventually going to be the ceiling.

HelloGames did say 'actually planet-sized'

That's my next truly hyped game after this one.

GTA 6 be damned.

 

[IFireflyl]

How many banana fields?

Only one. But it's a really big banana field!

 

[saintjules]

The bigger the game is, the more it has to convince me that it's not just extremely repetitive and mindless crap.

Unfortunately it's going to look that way.

Find the cat
Follow the footsteps to find the robber
Raid this place (at night)
Find 3 berries so you can make an antidote

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

The bigger the game is, the more it has to convince me that it's not just extremely repetitive and mindless crap.

I get that like just cause 2 I think was enormous but a lot of copy pasted stuff. That being said, there's something about a huge in game map that feels special.