10 Small Open World Games With DEEP MECHANICS
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
- Sometimes the games with smaller open worlds have the more interesting gameplay mechanics.
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10:23 Number 5
11:48 Number 4
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16:07 Number 2
17:48 Number 1 - Hry
Falcon must love that bird pooping mechanic.
Carry through to other animals.
Birds seriously need to learn to put on some diapers before they take flight over communities, the disrespect is real
For me it kinda turn me on but that’s just my kink i guess…
The Yakuza series really fit into this too! Modern ones have made it bigger, but most games in the series take place in a couple city blocks, most of your time in the series you spend in a couple neighborhoods and yet it is just so packed with content and life it’s amazing
I'm sad that Yakuza wasn't even mentioned
Excellent point. Like A Dragon would have fit perfectly in this list (that’s the only one I’ve played)
@@TrevorLahey3 the Ichiban games are actually the biggest ones, they actually feel like the city has multiple different neighborhoods, but the games that take place mostly on Kamurocho feel even smaller in scale but never even a bit smaller in scope, it may just be one neighborhood, but it is just as much packed with content
Was looking for this..
@@daniellins4114 I was very surprised at how much content they managed to pack into Like A Dragon. A game hasn’t made me laugh so much like that one did in a long time either. Fantastic game.
Prey is one of the most underrated games ever made. Its incredible!
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Completely agree! Though, I have doubts we will get the sequel we deserve
I hate the reviewers who gave it a low score because of a bug. We won't get a sequel because of them.
On my back log! Hopefully get to it this year !
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Batman Arkham City is one of most dense, small open world games. I always take it as an example of open world done right.
Bully is still my favorite rock star game and it is probably in my top 10 games of all time. I love how you can just mess around for hours just doing stupid crap and it just keeps you entertained.
The music is iconic as well
The music sets the tone perfectly, it’s still one of my favorite gaming scores. What makes bully my favorite rockstar games is that it maintains a certain level of innocence in contrast to their other titles. It still has that rockstar humor, but steers away from darker, adult themes.
Same!!! And that soundtrack was a masterpiece.
Bully is so good. I used to play it on the Wii. What a throwback lol
It is such an underrated game
I think Deus Ex Mankind Divided deserved a spot on this list. Mostly set in a few blocks of a city but very detailed. It feels really lived in.
Currently (re)playing this after completing my first playthrough of Prey - which was phenomenal, and I’m clearly on an immersive sim kick right now - and totally agree. Prague is VERY satisfying to explore.
coming back from their most recent list where MD is mentioned lmao
@@quinnmarchese6313 watching it now, they knew they had to give it some love 😉
We need more games like this today. Technology is so advanced today that if we took the art of detail and put it in smaller and more manageable open world's, we'd get more enjoyable experiences
I would 100% prefer this over the push for photo-realistic graphics.
This is the difference between actual gamers vs casual posers.
@@user-sl4hx8vs9wlame!
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I feel the exact same way, I just replayed metal gear solid 2 on ps2 and I was amazed they can make a game that deep on ps2, it’s so intricate and there are so many little details that just isn’t in games anymore, the problem is deadlines and the cost of making games , developers are afraid to take risks because they need to be able to sell as many copies as possible and reach a larger audience to make profit, that and studios rush development to hit deadlines and it takes away the ability to make interactive worlds and characters, now most games are the same gameplay with different stories and looks,
My character died within the first 5 min of starting Disco Elysium, while trying to put on his pants in his hotel room. That's when I realised this game's environment was unlike any other! 😅 Nice game though!
Way of the Samurai is one of the best small open worlds for sure. I've played and own all of them and to this day I love them. I didn't get it as a kid but still had fun, and now that I do actually understand it's even better!
I still play WOTS 2 on occasion. We need a remaster of these games on modern platforms
If you could only play one which would you recommend
@@Himself42 2
@@Himself42 Will second that 2 is the one to recommend. Idk what is but there's something about that game that just puts it above the rest. But having said that all of them even 1 are fun as heck as long as you remember, they're a cheesy 70s kungfu/samurai flick.😂
@@Himself42 just note that only 3 and 4 are on Steam, you'll have to emulate the others. i can however recommend 3 easily
Wow, Yakuza not being here is a crime.
Honestly the modern Lego Games always impress me particularly the super hero ones. It’s pretty cool you can fly in the air across sky scrapers, then swap to a speedster and fall to the ground then sprint around, before diving into the ocean and swimming anywhere you want. It’s shame no other super hero games could figure this system out
Crew has been doing that for almost ten years now with better graphics. I feel ya though, once you experience that it's hard to adjust back.
@@tomguglielmo9805 the Ubisoft racing game?
@@lawrencetalbot8346 yea, the crew 2. Maybe it's not 10 years old, maybe 5 or 6, but crew 2 has fluid air to land to sea in literally like 10 seconds. Its a cool experience
@@tomguglielmo9805 so you could fly in a plane then instantly swap to car and fall onto the ground with no damage and drive right into the water, instantly swap into a submarine and dive down to the bottom of the ocean?
@@lawrencetalbot8346 everything except diving down into the ocean, yeah. Everything but that. And it's more so about stunt moves in a plane, racing etc. I havent played any Lego games in YEARS but yeah that's pretty much how it is, besides deep ocean diving.
Not much makes me happier than that little “bloop” at the beginning of a Gameranx video.
10. 0:39 Prey
9. 2:48 Bully
8. 4:51 Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes
7. 6:38 Dead Rising
6. 8:38 The Witness
5. 10:24 Pathologic 2
4. 11:49 Chia
3. 13:53 The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask
2. 16:08 Disco Elysium
1. 17:49 Way of the Samurai 4
Real 1
I'm so glad Way of the Samurai is getting some love, I love those games.
I need Way of the Samurai 5 yesterday or at least remastered collection of 1-4
Dead Rising 1 was amazing. I’ve passed it a lot of times. It’ll always have a special place in my heart.
I will always remember how difficult the achievement was to get for killing as many zombies as the town population using cars in the underground parking garage.
I want Bully 2....
We all do 👍
Not if it's the current E.A. putting it out
They would need to add an online bullying mode to sell Shark Cards for before even considering it.
@@universalentropy3610You mean Rockstar???
We working on it
No love for Sleeping Dogs? I loved going around Hong Kong, such an underrated gem.
Nice to see Tchia getting some attention. The game is incredible and has some of the most stylistic and gorgeous vistas this side of Ghost of Tsushima. Those sunsets are something else.
The fact you could pick up bricks and smash windows in GTA 4 just isn't talked about enough
Gta 4 is better then 5 in my opinion
GTA 4 in general isn’t talked about enough. Infinity better than GTA 5 in almost every way possible. 15 years later and it STILL gives modern sandbox games a run for their money.
@@MrSkullMerchantThe story and driving was definitely better than 4. There was far more to do in 5 though. Still think I prefer 4 though. Nikko is better than Franklin, Trevor and Michael.
@@bronzin1445GTA5 had way more to do and see, IMO.
@@NealMohansMicroPenis i respectfully disagree
The first Dead Rising harkens back to a time when games didn't hold your hand all the time. The time management dynamic is one of the things that made the game stand out. Was it frustrating at times? Sure, but trying to save as many survivors as possible without missing any story beats is incredibly satisfying. No other Dead Rising game after it nailed that sense of stress and relief like the first one did.
It was also a great thing for replayability too. I don't think it was possible to save everyone or see everything in a single playthrough, so on your second or third playthrough you'd try and target other people to save or try and uncover all of the story etc. You'd try and find things you'd missed the first time through.
The more you played it, the more you learned the lay of the land, and _where_ things were, _when_ things happened, best routes to take to get as much done in one go etc and you'd start to become much more efficient with every playthrough. It was a bit like the Hitman games in that regard. The more times you play it, the better you get at it.
@@BadgerOff32 and also on top of that, just the persistent skill system with PP, and how every time you started a new game, you were not only more knowledgeable about the Mall and whats goin on, but also you had more health, could carry a few more weapons, probably had some WWE moves to use instead of a weapon or could do that zombie walk thing, etc.
Many, myself included, suffer from openworld fatigue. i wish devs would go back to smaller but more detailed world design like in DarkSouls1 or even like Shenmue.
Agreed. The only large open world I got truly sucked into in recent memory was Cyberpunk. Other than that, the larger the world the less likely I am to actually explore it.
yeah it allows for far more detail
Ive got open world and soulslike fatigue.
@@misterel5548I guess there have been a lot of souls likes and dark souls wannabes recently
@@Deadspace123100personally I'm exactly the opposite. I hate, hate, HATE soulslike games. Some linear games are good. I loved Bulletstorm for example but I tend to stay away from the straight forward lines. I perfer to go and progress at my own way and speed. Unless it is a very large open world game, I likely will not buy/play it. Games like Fallout 4, skyrim, both Marvels spiderman games, the Horizon games, Witcher 3, are the types of games I want.
Tchia is super underrated. The exploration is so much fun and beautiful. Theres some moments too where it stops being a “kid” game and really makes you go wtf. You can feel the love they put into it beginning to end.
Tchia was an absolute joy to play and was a clear labor of love from the developers. Criminally underplayed/underappreciated.
I haven't even heard of it. People would rather focus on crying about bad games then talking about good ones.
The whole time I was watching I was thinking about Majora's Mask. I grew up playing it and it is one of my favorite games of all time that sometimes gets overlooked
Outer Wilds. I know it’s a freaking solar system-sized game but, compared to the ridiculously large environments of most open-world(s) space games out there today, Outer Wilds is comparatively “puddle-wide but ocean-deep” to such a tight-knit, fully considered and appreciable degree. Quite simply, it transcends beyond the medium.
I love Prey (truly!), but there’s a reason Outer Wilds ranks much higher in my book - like, 2nd favorite vidja game of all time - and you can say I am a VERY seasoned gamer, fwiw.
I really enjoyed the monastery quest in kingdom come deliverance. That game in general is awesome overall too. ❤
great game
The thing that always stood out to me about Bully was how the game simulated time and and mundane activities. You had Halloween, Christmas etc to look forward to in the upcoming school year where you could go trick or treating or throw snow balls. It was such a unique system, I really miss it. Used to repeat the Halloween night over and over.
The first Way of the Samurai is to this day one of my favorite games, the mechanics of the different styles you can learn are so well done, huge replay value.
Same here. Every single instance of interaction has multiple potential outcomes. Such a brilliant game
I’ve replayed Prey four times.. I need a sequel.
100% one of arcanes best games tied with Dishonored for me such an underrated game as well not enough people know about it.
@@mukundarepass7584Prey is an all time great for me, but I couldn’t get into the Dishonored games. I chalk it up to coming into the series way late, though that shouldn’t matter for a truly great game so idk. Not my cup of tea I guess
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Prey is Arkane's homage to Looking Glas' System Shock as are Arx Fatalis (Ultima Underworld) and Dishonored (Thief series).
I really wish they'd return to making the Way of the Samurai games, they're so good.
The Witness has some pretty cool mechanics. The developers must have thought that most people would just look up the solutions online (I'm guilty of that lol) and so they put a puzzle at the very end that's randomized (rendering guides useless) and would require your explicit understanding of the puzzles you've been doing throughout the game so you can't cheat your way through it. It's brilliant.
Awesome to see some love for WotS! I spent so many hours experimenting with the second game as a kid when we didn't have internet!
I hate time limits, but what drew me to Dead Rising, is the fact that everything is a weapon. Also, slicing, bashing, grinding up, exploding and running over zombies is satisfying in all 4 games. Also....also, I love how 3 and 4 give you way more time or even all the time you need.
I'm alwaays amazed by all the categories you guys can come up with to make videos about.
The Yakuza serie provides the best small open word experience. The official chapters and the spinoffs (Like a Dragon and Judgement) are located in the same neighbourood for the most part, and it's so small you don't really need the map to move around.
i like how Kamurocho and Sotenbori and the other areas in Yakuza change as well. you can memorize the map with one game, and then later ones are easy to get around in but there are new things, like how Yakuza Kiwami 2 added the underground walkway, or Kiwami 1 rearranged some of the city around Millennium Tower after the Empty Lot kerfuffle. Im just waiting for Ishin to drop in price so i can see what they did with the Older Era Kamurocho
definitely stretching the definition of small as it a “small” solar system but outer wilds is a must play, once in a lifetime experience, the less you know the better!
Played every single Way of the Samurai. Love em all, even though the story became more and more outlandish and the characters became blander and blander.
You even had certain NPCs and missions that only appeared at certain times under certain conditions with some great rewards.
Way of the Samurai was so good! Loved that game and it's replayability.
Same here!
They should make a Bully 2 that takes place in college years. Also have it take place in a similar era as the first one just before the wide use of internet and cellphones. Or that point around 2010. Would be nostalgic.
Way of the samurai 2 on Ps2 hours, and hours, got every katana, character, and ending. Those were the days so happy to see the mention here.
Capcom should do what they did with Resident Evil and create a remake of Dead Rising. I'd buy that in a heartbeat
Theyll do that if theyre assured they can milk you of your money constantly for one game within 5 years.
Same I love dead rising 1 the most out all the games in the franchise it such a unique game I would take a vr version of the original aswell I always wanted it the attention to detail is amazing
Bully 2 in a college scene would be sick
Ehh. I don't know. I think Jimmy is 15 so that is either 8th or 9th grade. I would like a more highschool focused one. I mean in College you are basically free and wouldn't be stuck in a boarding school, which was most of the charm of the first game, being stuck in Bullworth with all the characters.
This has put me onto so many games I had overlooked.
Thanks Jake! this is exactly the list I've needed!!
Prey is top 5 game of all time for me
Well, this vid has made me interested in giving Prey another shot 👌 Well done Gameranx
Doesn’t matter how big, it’s how you use it, am I right boys? 😉
We’re gamers we dont even use it😔
That's what I want to believe, but it just doesn't seem to be true
No.
"Like the guy with the huge one would have no clue how to use it, right?" - Norm Macdonald
😂😂😂
That's not what she said
Excellent list! I'm playing through System Shock 2 right now and thought of it as a competitor for this list as well. I need to replay Prey as sometime, too. And Dead Rising 1 and 2 are so good! I love them but they're challenging to play - you really have to focus to get through them, and you'll feel stressed doing so.
Remember when Jake thought The TMNT controller was pizza flavored? Haha If I ever run into IRL Jake, Pizza is ON ME for that one dog haha. We love you man you are most of our daily ritual of info, appreciate you man!
I will always love you guys for the recognition you give Dead Rising ❤
Shadow of Doubt. Great game. Super underrated
Wish you put Darkwood on this list. Crazy open world game. Time management intense combat, it was a masterpiece
You articulated that perfectly, the whole point of gaming is to have fun, immersing yourself in the world and having complete control over the actions, story narrative, and enjoying the surrounding and hard work of the developers.
That's why I gamed so much growing up when I wasn't at school, out with friends, or at judo. Gaming was alot more enjoyable for killing time then watching tape after tape/dvd after dvd, or waiting for your favourite show to come on.
As a kid/teen, the closest I got to that level of immersion was reading.
That's also why I bought and played Mafia Definitive Edition, Hitman 3 twice, and got back into rdr2 during the pandemic.
I also wanted to continue and beat Mafia after almost 20 years! I also came home from work and played FH5 during a huge snowstorm late December 2023 and imagined I was in Mexico!
It's insane to leave Shenmue 1&2 off this list lol, it's like THE game for the video title. It's still deeper and more detailed than most open world games today.
yup, its the OG. Dreamcast, baby
Shenmue 2 on Xbox was better
Gameranx will never run out of ideas, watching these videos while having dessert after a hard days work is a treat ! ❤
I 2nd that Motion 👋🏼
The original Outcast (1999 or something) really needs a mention somewhere; i feel like it was one of the first truly open world games, certainly in the 3d space.
As for small open worlds, i guess it depends if small is just a scale thing or a development size thing, but Project Zomboid comes to mind. Very deep mechanics.
THIS is the video ive been waiting on!
Arkham Asylum is my personal pick. Just the right size, dense with content and no filler.
Do you mean Ham Aslume ?
It was the first Metroidvania done right in 3D IMO. It had memorable scenes youd want to come back to anytime coz it was just fun.
My favorite type of games. Small tight open world games packed with detail
Yeah I feel smaller open worlds can include more things to do whereas larger open worlds can feel empty
Literally playing bully rn 😭🏆one of my all time favorites. Crazy how it still holds up
I loved the time limits in DR1 and hate that they were removed for the later entries. The time limits made that game so replayable and interesting!
Yeah added a sense of urgency
How you dont have a Yakuza game in this list?
Seriously like wtf is that about?
Yakuza deserves its own list
Yakuza is a huge game
@@1nitniuq the open world of yakuza games is quite small
@@1nitniuq Maybe Infinite Wealth was, idk I didn’t play it yet, but nearly all Yakuza games take place in a small, dense open world. It’s kind of a huge part of what the series is known for. What are you talking about? Lol
can you plz make a “before you buy south park snow day” i’ve been debating on getting the game but you guys haven’t made a before you buy video
It's supposed to be awful.
For what it's worth Snow Day feels like you playing a beta of a presumed game. The combat feels awkward and clunky, you can get dogpiled a lot and in general it feels like there is still two thirds of the content missing.
That's a great list! We definitely need more games like this. I could also see games like Yakuza and Fear & Hunger in it.
How are you posting so much?! Killing it
metro exodus, underrated gam small but deep
Not really... It's just stealth and shooting.
A man can dream and this man dreams of Bully 2. A Gen Z Bully would be sweet. Sure Rockstar could put a unique spin on it.
How about a beat em up full of ipad kids as enemies? Satisfying. 😂
way of the samurai series is amazing and no one ever talks about it. big ups gameranx
7:15 I used to think that the time limit hurt the game too, until I played the 4th game. In the first game, there was a sense of urgency and care that went into where you were gonna go and what you were gonna do while you had the time to do it. The 4th game did away with that, which was nice at first until I realized that without the timer it really kills the tension of what you are doing. I see now that Dead Rising is meant to be played multiple times to get everything you can out of it.
I’d love a follow up to Prey
Add Deus Ex too. Cut from the same cloth for the most part, a DE by Arkane would be pretty cool
@@Alex-hm7ntDon't get your hopes up. Embracer group canceled the Deus Ex game that was in development. Yay Embracer (bunch of fking morons.)
As a long time fan of Deus Ex that news really, really made me hate Embracer group.
Bring Dead rising back
The majestic and beautiful music while soul jumping and then the bird poop got me CACKLING
Bully is still my all time favorite game! Still play it regularly, completed the game 20 times or so and can speak alot of the lines from the game haha.
how was yakuza not mentioned
the dead rising stuff has always been some of my best memories and i would say it turn me into the gamer i am. even though im one of those older mil simy type most the time now days . this video did inspire me to download dead rising and see what this 4080 can do , Wolfenstein blew me away
Games like RDR2 and Kingdom Come Deliverance with big open world RPG's but daily NPC lives and routines which can be affected by dropping alcohol in their food and making them too drunk to walk or leaving poisoned food in their chest kind of combined with Skyrim and Fallout 4 volume of exploration and quests and characters has really kind of set the bar to the standard of where we expect it to be right now. We want big open RPG worlds which have very mundane boring and detailed normal things because you get to choose to do something crazy, go explore the wilds and fight wolves or steal a train or sneak into a castle and raise an army to take over the land... so going fishing and picking some herbs to cook that fish for your dinner so you don't get hungry in your bank heist just makes everything feel so much more earned and invested and risky and exciting and fun and new and meaningful.
Whenever I see rdr2 now all I can think of is jack black singing videogames
My favorite game series made number 1 on your list!!!
Size doesn’t matter, it’s how you use it
That’s what she said
Prey was a wicked sick game and felt so unique but familiar at the same time
Last year I re-started The Witness and nearly immediately stumbled across the puzzle that opened the credits sequence that I didn't see during my first try. I was in awe about this design.
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Steambot Chronicles for the PS2 will always stand out to be as a truly unique title. You had a control scheme that used the triggers for the arms of your robot, the joysticks for the legs, and had to use them all in sync to move efficiently across the world and in combat. There was a dialogue system that let you act just about in any manner you wanted. You could be nice, you could be mean, you could act weird and salute everyone as your preferred method of greeting. Hell, within the first 10 minutes of gameplay, you could dress yourself like a cowboy. Why? Because you found a hat, boots, gloves, and the clothes during your early exploration. And the game would reflect this, too, with a reputation system of sorts where you gained a new "title" every few days depending on your actions and your choice of outfits. All of that said, the game wasn't without flaws, it was clunky in the controls, it had a weird failstate system where only random battles could get you a game over, and the visuals were pretty meh for a 2006 PS2 title. Still, I'd do anything to see the cancelled sequel get revived, or even a remake of the original that could expand and refine many of the original's mechanics.
Mafia 2? 🤔
I'm a simple man, I see Dead Rising 1, I upvote.
First game I had on the 360… I think if u played it back then it’s in ur all time top ten.. right? Lol
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Man when I was younger and dead rising came out I absolutely killed it haha, I remember doing everything so I could unlock the mega man gun lol 😂 i forget exactly what I had to do but I know I did everything possible in that game, absolutely loved it 🤙
Also love the videos jake, keep up the great work man ! Take care and stay safe! 🤙💪🏼
Shenmue 1 and 2 deserved a spot, great detail and depth
Wish Hogwarts Legacy used the Bully model
exactly my thoughts!!!! so much wasted potential (its a good game tho)
@pleucido I agree, so much potential but still a solid harry potter game.
Are we gonna get a South Park snow day before you buy ?
TLDR: Dont buy it's short and boring
I like the collection of games you have here, they’re all great and I’m perfectly content with the #1 pick. Awesome choice
I remember playing the first way of the samuari on ps2 and my first play through i beat the game in like 2 hours but then went back and made different decisions and realized how many different endings you could get. It was deff an experience.
Good video! I mean kingdom hearts is sorta open world and still have side quest it’s pretty good!
im online too much
I'm convinced that the Yakuza series was the spiritual successor of Way of the Samurai. Within a relatively small map that is Kamurocho, you can do tons of things there. And future games expanded to many cities. But the top games were where you get at most 2 towns to explore
Not really. Yakuza is very linear, but has tons of fun side stuff to do. Way of the Samurai is opposite of Linear and you have to replay it several times, as you are going to fail again and again in trying to archive good ending if playing without an guide.
Yakuza sadly bears no relation to WotS. However, it IS actually a spiritual sequel to Shenmue and Shenmue 2, as producer Toshihiro Nagoshi worked with Sega AM2 on the Virtua Fighter games before supervising Shenmue 1 alongside Yu Suzuki before creating his own branch.
Way of the samurai 1+2 were some of my most favorite childhood games! cool to see the series on this list.
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The first Dead Rising is one of the best games ever made. Change my mind…
It's all subjective everyone has differenr tastes. Personally I don't like dead rising at all
Eh… Off the record (if u ignore the plot)
I'm more of a Resident Evil guy.
@@drakkar33 Give it a chance if you haven’t already.
@@Pkblazer099 You cannot beat the first game. It was simply too good!
#1 is what im into too 👍🏽 pick up items on the way and use them later on too, fights or during convos
I didn’t play Prey until it had been out for 2 years. One of my all time favorites.
Arkham asylum?
No Shenmue? I'm reporting this video for "false information"
R U a hater ?
GREAT video Jake! Thanks for starting my morning off right! 🙏
& I hope all you fellow GameRankers out there have an awesome day!
During the Christmas holidays I went back to dead rising for achievements and completely fell back in love with the game, it’s a classic
Edit* I know no one asked but I needed 8 achievements and got 6, still needing to do the 5 and 7 day survivor but I will return