@PredatorRules:

Please tell me this game isn't nearly as obnoxious and "hehe so randumb and meta XD" as this trailer makes it out to be. Because it surely didn't convince me to play it - it had the exact opposite effect.

@saintsatan

I'm sorry, but none of these really fit,

Dragon's Dogma, while certainly an open world game, is pretty much empty when it comes to any sort of content. Apart from Gran Soren and Cassardis there are no settlements of any kind, there are, like, 3-4 major dungeons, and that's pretty much it. The rest of the map is just empty fields of grass.

Kingdoms of Amalur, while rich in content, looks and feels pretty much like a single player MMO, so it does a thing I have the biggest problem with when it comes to open world games.

Finally, Fable's world isn't big or expansive at all. It's just a series of narrow passageways connected to each other.

Not when you have to pay five times more for it than everybody else. You wouldn't really want to buy it if you had to pay 1500$ for the Switch and 260$ for Zelda, now would you? Because, when compared to the average salary in my country, that's pretty much the price equivalent.

Already played it. I liked Starbound much better, though, due to it having more overall content and its focus being more on the adventure side, rather than just being 2D Minecraft.

My PC can't even run many of the games from 2014 and 2015. Do you really expect it to run an AAA game that just came out?

Already played it. A fun game, I admit, but it's not open world in a sandbox sense. It also doesn't have any side content whatsoever - literally everything you stumble across is progress in one way or another.

If you mean this then I'm not even gonna bother with it. It looks like garbage in every imaginable way.

I played Shadow of Chernobyl back when it came out. It definitely was something else and I liked it a lot, but I don't think it's what I'm looking for right now. What I'm after right now is something where adventuring in dangerous places feels cool, fun, and rewarding, not a simulation of how adventuring in dangerous places would look like and real life, where you end up in some hole, wounded, with no ammo and food, slowly dying from radiation poisoning.

The Solus Project looks kind of interesting, but I don't think it's the type of experience I'm looking for. It's a game without combat, which focuses on puzzles instead, and I suck at puzzles and would prefer it to actually have some combat. I'm not ruling it out completely, though, and I might actually check it out, but for now I think I'll wait for more suggestions.

As for GRAV, it looks good, but it's Early Access, so I'm not touching it with a 10-foot pole. Maybe when it actually gets finished, I'll give it a try.

I tried playing Dying Light, but my PC is too weak. The framerate was shitting the bed hard pretty much every time there were more than 3 zombies on the screen, so it was unplayable more or less 99% of the time.

If you live in a first world country, which I don't. Hardware is pretty expensive here and you can't just buy a 1TB HDD with money earned from a day of burger flipping.

It's among the Bethesda games bullet point. I think I played literally every Bethesda game there is (even the retro ones such as Daggerfall, Arena, and Battlespire). I didn't mention it, though, because Skyrim probably my second least favourite Bethesda game (the first one being Arena) and I only mentioned my favourites.

Hmm. I remember hearing about this game, but I've never given it a try. Now might be as good of a time as any. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Played it. It's probably my least favourite mod/DLC for Mount and Blade, despite the historical period in which it takes place being one of my favourite ones in Polish history. Because of its small scale, covering pretty much just Poland, it got pretty samey really quickly, especially in terms of units.

Yeah, they do, but Souls games aren't open world in a sandbox sense, so they're not what I'm looking for.

As for the rest of your suggestions, they aren't what I'm looking for either. They're all linear games that allow little to no exploration and don't have any side content in them.

I'm not looking for something super exceptional, though. Something that isn't complete garbage and has a charm of its own is good enough. However, I'm having a really hard time finding even something like that.

Not yet. I'm waiting for the PC release.

I'm very starved for a decent open world experience right now. I'd like an open world game that's more on the sandboxy side, where I can truly feel like an adventurer. Something that's more gameplay than story-driven and where there's very little urgency. Something where the world destruction I have to save everyone from can wait until I actually start giving a **** about it.

What I want is something with a vast, open world that's interesting to explore, where I can just go on a lonely adventure (preferably with my own created character, but that's not a dealbreaker), full of immersive experiences, exploration and interesting discoveries. Something where almost every few steps there's a new, unique cave/tomb/dungeon to explore and plunder, an atmospheric landmark to look at, a village/town to restock my supplies in, or an interesting quest to complete.

In general, I'd like the game to have a very fleshed-out side content department and a world that doesn't feel empty, so that I won't get bored of playing it too quickly. The problem with finding such a game is that many of today's open world games feel pretty much like single player MMO, where the world is just a lifeless, barren space, with some monsters sprinkled around, and where the quest variety begins and ends with "bring me 10 wolf pelts because reasons".

At the risk of repeating myself, but at the same time to give you a good idea of what I'm after exactly - I want a game that's like what people are hyping Breath of the Wild to be. I want this awesome sandbox experience, where I can just go as far as the eye can see and even further, and always stumble across something cool to see or do. I said specifically "what people are hyping BOTW to be" because my skepticism (backed up by experience), as well as the videos I've seen and threads I've read about this game really make me think that it's all just hype because it's new and because it's Zelda, and in reality this game isn't nearly as good as people make it out to be. Still, all that hype really made me crave for such an experience.

Here are some examples of games that have scratched that itch for me in the past, to a larger or smaller extent:

• Starbound. Its slow-paced nature that required from you to explore every planet thoroughly really did it for me. Not to mention its godlike map generator that always managed to surprise me with something new I haven't seen yet. Villages, ancient temples, tombs, research facilities, military bases, abandoned mineshafts, even whole underground cities - this game had a lot of going on when it came to variety of optional shit you could find. Also, chests filled with cool-ass loot lying everywhere! It lacked heavily in the quest department, but the aforementioned factors really compensated for it.
• Bethesda games. I think there isn't really much to say about them that isn't already known. My favourites were Morrowind (it had a really unique world, full of interesting places), Oblivion (tons upon tons of really well-written sidequests, plus some really nice vistas), Fallout 3 (New Vegas had better story, but FO3 had a much more expansive world), and Fallout 4 (the world was very condensed, but it had tons upon tons of cool, optional locations you could find and explore; unfortunately I could only play it up to a certain part before it started being unplayable due to my weak PC combined with shit optimization).
• Assassin's Creed 4. Its side content got a tad bit repetitive after a while, as per usual with Ubisoft's games, but the world was super fun to explore. The atmosphere was unmatched, too. I haven't played a better pirate-themed action adventure game than that in my entire life.

Here are my PC's specs. It's pretty low-end, which I'm aware is a heavily limiting factor. Unfortunately, I can't afford to upgrade it at this moment, so you're gonna have to work with what I have currently:

• AMD Ahtlon II X4 @ 2.8GHz
• 4GB RAM
• AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB

So, based on that, do you have any ideas for a game that might scratch that itch for me? I'd really prefer something that takes place in either a fantasy, or any other setting where the main method of dealing with conflict is via melee combat, since those kinds of settings are the best ones in conveying the feeling of good ol' adventuring, but other settings are also fine with me, as long as the game meets the criteria given.

Also, don't suggest The Witcher 3. I know I'm making it hard on you by ruling it out, since it's probably the closest thing to what I want, but the problem is that I don't have enough hard drive space for it. I have a pretty small hard drive, with lots of important files on it that I can't just delete, so I simply can't spare 50+GB on a game, no matter how good it is.

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

So, a pretty specific request I've got here. I hope it's not too specific and the thing I want exists.

Recently I tried playing the good ol' Metal Gear Solid 1 (in the most hated by everyone for some reason version - The Twin Snakes). I found it way too hard, though. Mostly because I suck at stealth, but the game's difficulty isn't exactly forgiving either.

However, I really like the game's setting, its over the top 80s action movie-like atmosphere, the wacky characters, and the perspective the game is played in, with the fixed, pseudo-isometric camera angle and all. Most of the time, though I wish I didn't have to sneak around and instead could just shoot all the baddies and move on.

Therefore I'd like to ask: Is there a game that's similar to MGS1 in the terms of stuff I like about it, but focused on combat and action instead of stealth? Preferably something comfortable to play with a controller, and involving little to no precision aiming.

Available platforms: PC, PSX, PS2, Gamecube.

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

PS. I'd also like to include a screenshot from MGS 1, for better understanding of what I mean because there might be some people who either don't know or don't remember what pre-MGS3 Metal Gear Solid games looked like:

@Pedro

$10 is a lot where I live, so yes, I actually need this much pondering.

I've watched some gameplay videos of it. All I could bring out from them was that the game is an ugly-looking JRPG. Sometimes in case of games like that, however, there's more than meets the eye and I'd like to know whether it's true or not in this case. If it doesn't make sense to you then you can leave instead of wasting your time trying to convince me my thread doesn't make sense.

Cause one side of me wants to try it because there has to be some reason behind all this praise (it might be what Gue1 said it was, but it might be something else), but at the same time the other part of me is highly skeptical of that game because 3 out of 4 times I tried a highly acclaimed game, I ended up not liking it at all and not seeing any reason backing up its praise whatsoever, so I need someone reasonable to explain what made this game so highly acclaimed, so maybe I could join the crowd of this game's fans. Enough of a reason for you?