as you may or may not know Daggerfall is a gigantic elder scrolls game, and it was declared the second largest game in the world (its about the size of the UK if it where real), and I tried to look up the largest, but to no avail. I am just wondering what the largest is. oh and I don't think it is grand theft auto, I am pretty sure that was smaller than Daggerfall

If what led to believe, http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.68619-Frontier-Elite-II-A-Retrospective-Review. And here the http://www.classicamiga.com/images/stories/jreviews/games/F/manuals/Frontier_Elite2%28map%29%28scan%29.jpg. There was also a bit of discussion about large ingame map in this old thread one can look at: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1091456-large-video-game-worlds/

Its probably a mmo... WoW mabye?FF XI? Just Cause series?

According to the map from the Large Video Game Worlds thread, Just Cause 2 is 400 miles squared, and Daggerfall 62394 miles squared. WoW 80 miles squared.

But yeah most of that huge world of Daggerfall isn't really worth exploring.

That looks like a port of the original Elite game for the BBC Micro (that I still have). Apparently a scaled-down one, as the first version covered multiple galaxies with a Hyperspace jump between them. You had a number of maps like that, one for each Galaxy. That game was probably unique in using two different screen resolutions at the same time, one of which was monochrome, and the other color! I suppose you could consider them a single game, though, and include Freelancer as well (since it was based on it). So maybe Daggerfall is #2, but I'd expect there are a few more interplanetary games out there to push down the list.

However, in Elite etc. I don't think you ever land on a planet's surface, just visiting the orbiting stations, so you could argue they have no planetary area at all.

How about EVE Online? there are an awful lot of stars to visit in that game. Not sure if you could actually fly between them without using the jumpgates. Somehow I doubt it, but each system is pretty big.

what about Arena? doesnt it include all of Tamriel?

That's in fact EVE Online:

* Morrowind - 10 square miles
* S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl - 11.5 square miles
* GTA San Andreas - 13.9 square miles
* Fallout 3 - 15 square miles
* Oblivion - 16 square miles
* Two Worlds - 16.2 square miles
* Horizon - 20 square miles
* Sacred 2: Fallen Angel - 22 square miles
* Ultima (pre-expansions?) - 30 square miles
* Far Cry 2 - 31 square miles
* Superman Returns - 80 square miles
* World of Warcraft (pre-expansions) - 80 square miles
* Everquest (pre-expansions?) - 90 square miles
* Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising - 135 square miles
* Star Wars: galaxies - 200 square miles
* Burnout Paradise - 200 square miles
* True Crime Streets of L.A - 240 square miles
* Just Cause 2 - 385 square miles
* Azerons Call - 500 square miles
* Test Drive Unlimited - 618 square miles
* Fuel - 5,560 square miles
* Guild Wars Nightfall - 15,000 square miles
* WWII online - 17,200 square miles
* Lord of the Rings Online - 30,000 square miles
* Daggerfall - 62,394 square miles (random generated)
* Eve: Online - ≈ ∞

infinite? how?

Almost infinite.

Eve is the largest mmo I am looking for the largest game, thats not online

MMOs are games too :mellow:

[edit] or do you mean "Eve is the largest mmo, I am looking for the largest game that is not online"? Either way, its a pretty arbitrary distinction. Large is large.

What interests me most is the math on those. GW's map was huge, but most of the land was not explorable or did not exist at all beyond the ingame map.

That's true of most open world games.

It has a map of all of Tamriel, but each city and dungeon are in a pocket. You can walk to the edge of the map, but it just loops. You can't walk from one city to another or anything.

The largest map in a non-mmo game is in fact: The Elder Scrolls II, Daggerfall.


Edit: Hi Aliotroph? remember me? :gun: