Red Dead Redemption 2 didn’t make it into the top 10 in the top 100. For Fabiano, the game is even at the top.
If I had the power and the money to pour my very personal demands on an open world into a single game, the result would probably be utter chaos. For me there is simply no perfect open world game that completely combines everything I love about it. Sometimes my preferences are simply far too blatant for that.
I wouldn’t say that I love every form of the open world. But to concentrate only on one single aspect that is most important to me personally, that just doesn’t work. I tried it in the run-up to the top 100 best open worlds. And now again – unsuccessfully. But what I can say with absolute certainty is the following:
A couple of certain open world games don’t stand a chance on my personal list!
You will certainly not find a game at this point in which I am tied to a pilot or driver’s seat. Get away with all that Forza, Elite, or Freelancer stuff. Neither cars nor science fiction can ever fascinate me so much that I would put these games in my top 10. The competition at the top is simply too great for that.
Probably the romantically transfigured historian penetrates me again. As soon as something is even remotely historical or takes place in a medieval fantasy world, it’s my interest. On the other hand, what is going on in the present or even the future will very often fall on deaf ears with me. Exceptions prove the rule. These exceptions include Star Wars – which has no relevance here – and another fantastic setting, but I’ll talk about its special position in a moment.
The author
In addition to role and strategy games, the open world is Fabiano’s favorite game element. Especially since role-playing games with open worlds often go hand in hand anyway. The most important thing for him is to get the feeling of really diving into another world. No matter how good the story of a linear action game turns out, as soon as a world is not open and free, Fabiano never gets rid of the feeling of sitting in front of his computer or console. That doesn’t automatically make every open-world game good, but it does increase the likelihood that Fabiano will completely lose himself in it.
Another world, another me
Anyone who knows me will now be anything but surprised. Quasi surprised. I’m a role-player through and through, and an open world wins for me if it becomes my stage. A stage on which I can live out my bold character ideas.
I love it when developers create a world that I can open up from different perspectives. That gives me the opportunity to become a part of it. Whatever the absurd way. And no other game series does this better than The Elder Scrolls.
In my case, it started with Morrowind, which I didn’t really understand at the time. I was simply overwhelmed when I was not given a clear path. But what I immediately recognized back then: I can be who I want here! Go where i want I was able to leave the ship in Seyda Neen and roam the country as an orc and pillage. As a Lord of the Rings fan, I was still firmly convinced that orcs had to be evil. In fact, I only wandered around at night.
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