What games besides pic related truly give you the feeling that you're traveling the world?

What games besides pic related truly give you the feeling that you're traveling the world?

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Wind Waker.

I enjoyed the feeling of travelling in Little Big Adventure.

The Witcher 1.

Monitoring this thread with interest, I love a good traveling game.
Golden Sun comes to mind, though pretty much any fantasy JRPG also potentially qualifies.

Xenoblade has some comfy travels

FFXII, though it's more like country hopping.

Maybe i'm being too broad with my question, since i'm genuinely curious of what games could show me a good time through travels. Like I picked Romancing Saga as my OP due to the shitloads of different cities and towns across the different continents, I was wondering if there was a game to replicate that sort of scope and scale in a not-really-open-world way.

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>MRSAburg

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Romancing Saga on the PS2

Romancing Saga for PS2

Very good, only issue being you have to beat it 8 times to get 100%

>travel around a small city and the surrounding area
>traveling the world
uhhhh

Dragon's Dogma has a lot of "ooh what's over there".

Secret of Mana
Seiken Densetsu 3

I've heard Grandia is good for those adventuring feels. It's in my backlog after i tackle BOFIV

Why has nobody posted this?
You explore every nook and cranny of an entire fucking planet.

Xenoblade Chronicles
Star Ocean First Departure/Second Evolution
Grandia

What is every JRPG ever.

It's what the genre has always been best at.

Zelda is a good example too.

Dark Cloud 2

This is literally the only good tales of game.

Symphonia was ruined by it's sequel

>This is literally the only good tales of game.
Take your bitter cynicism out of here, there are tons of great Tales games.

>there are tons of great Tales games.

Name 4

you do that in a lot of rpgs.

At least Xenogears explained why it only had like two cities on the entire planet.

I wish there was a SaGa game thst felt finished. Their ambitions always seem far too big for the shoestring budget they're given. Frontiers probably the most obvious example with like a quarter of the game being cut.

not him but

tales of vesperia
tales of berseria
tales of phantasia (ps version)
tales of destiny dx

dark cloud 2 is one of those games that i think has a really great sense of adventure

you travel to all different sorts of areas and all the town building and character recruitment is super comfy

>MFW being able to summon Ramia for the first time and seeing just how big the world really was

How have I never heard of this game? It looks awesome, downloading it now.

As for some other games like that, definitely Xenoblade and it's sequel. Some of the best exploration in vidya, imo.

Legend of Mana is neat too. Not really an "exploring the world" feeling, but you go around doing a series of standalone quests in a whole bunch of areas. Romancing Saga seems kinda similar, with the whole lack of a strong central narrative and focus on player choice.

Unfortunately.

I say unfortunately, because it really does make you feel that way, but has bugger all else to show for it because sailing round to all the tiny islands is so repetitive and unrewarding.

Any JRPG would fit the bill, but the best for this is Grandia. The characters always treat it as a big deal when they reach a new milestone in their journey which was refreshing from some games which were like "oh we're on a flying ship. meh"

Who's the best guy to start out with? besides albert of course

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this

you can really feel the distance of your journeys when you're on Mechonis and can see part of the Bionis that you were once standing on

Never played this game, but I always liked the art style and the opening song

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Skies of Arcadia
Legia 2

What's the best way to play this game, emulation? I know there's a remake coming out for 3DS soon but I hear that it's kinda gimped.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

Nothing wrong withe the ps2 version, both versions have their ups and downs.

Does it have framerate issues or anything like that? I know a friend of mine still has a copy of it, might just borrow it from him.

Skies of Arcadia, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma.

I'd say best way to play it is emulated and upscaled to HD if you can.
Or if you have a PS2 phat with an IDE hard drive and the network adapter download it on to there. Same as playing it normally, but it helps the load times a bit.

There are only slight framerate problems that occur sometimes on the world map, and even that might only be when you have the aspect ratio set to 16:9.
The 3DS version has some tempting features, chiefly the removal of random encounters and 2 new party members, but they don't seem worth it imo. The graphics/art style is one of the best parts of the game. Also, it looks like the US 3DS port might not have the orchestrated soundtrack, which is really great in the PS2 version.

It's nothing. It's always nothing.

Grandia

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>travel around empty oceans where you can't even fish
>every other non ocean game has fishing

pottery

Absolutely this. Grandia did it perfectly. Went from snot nosed shits wanting to adventure to growing into an actual good save the world plot.

Getting over that wall is still one of the best video game moments.

Agreed. It truly was an adventure

FFX got a little janky with its world from time to time, but finally reach Zanarkand felt like making it to the North Pole.

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>finally reach Zanarkand felt like making it to the North Pole.
Fucking this.

first post worst post

>The world is a smouldering mess by the end of the game and there are only like 15 NPCs hiding out in the ruins of Shevat praying that they aren't found by Deus

That kinda got to me when I played Xenogears, how almost everyone and everything we knew was dead or dying

>Not Grand Day
1 job

You could label a genre for JRPGs that end with the world being nearly destroyed and empty.

>tfw rushing to ER7 so I can get Captain Silver
>tfw traveling around the world trying to recruit Myriam & Diana
>tfw each area FELT unique
>tfw you hear the final battle mix for the first time

God damn Romancing Saga: Minstrel's Song was so fucking good.

FFVII, VIII, IX.

I managed to play through White Knight Chronicles in the remake on 2, but by the end of it I didn't really want to roll into the second one. The combat system is okay but it would have been better off with less resource management, more like Dark Cloud 2. I just wish there was another game like Dark Cloud 2.

>Travel to every damn island.
>At many points in time.
Just let the Almighty free and not even done.

Leave the Barbara for last, because she starts at ER 0 and if you have never played a Romancing Saga game before its REALLY easy to fuck yourself over. Not to mention its incredibly easy to get all the fatestones if you start with her as well(mainly because she starts with one)

I'd recommend Claudia/Hawke/Grey for a first timer because they have relatively easy starts and you can get good party members relatively quickly. Albert is OK, but he can't recruit his sister Diana who is ridiculously good. Jamir/Aisha are moderately hard starts, Sif is hard if you are trying to keep ER low, easy as fuck otherwise