Video Game World Size Comparisons

Doesn't count because it never ends, it doesn't have a set map and the maps are constantly random (without using the same seeds).

actually it dose.
htwins.net/scale2/ (shows the size)

I stand corrected.

someone needs at add "Your mom" at the end of that.

But that's a glitch.

They're not actually infinite, they go 32 million blocks in each direction. Which means that they are 64 million x 64 million.
One block is approximately one meter, so the map is 64.000 km by 64.000 km, or [url deleted] square kilometers.

The reason they're not infinite is the way they are stored. When you go past that number of blocks, all subsequent blocks become "ghost blocks", and eventually, you get stuck outside the world, and the game crashes, no matter how much ram you've given it. Not to mention the horrible lag around this area, the ram usage is enormous. It's the same reason we had what was called the Far Lands, the terrain generator doesn't work when you're this far out.

The game world has never been infinite, ever.

Also, why are you so hostile? I pointed out that you were wrong, nothing more.

I don't even remember typing this, I think I was drunk when I responded. I know I don't like reading when drunk so that's probably why I was so aggressive anyway sorry about that. It was actually quite interesting and thank you for posting it. Really? I thought when it went first went into BETA the map wouldn't end and it ended up causing a lot of problems for players.

No problem.
Around the time minecraft went into alpha, the map was made "infinite". You could keep going until you hit the far lands. If you managed to keep going, you would eventually crash, because of the limits with coordinate systems and computer code.
Around the end of beta, something was done to increase this radius, which got rid of the far lands. Currently, the radius is 30 million blocks in any direction, and the game will act strangely and will stutter, and eventually run out of memory. If you do reach 30 million blocks, the blocks will appear, but they are "ghost blocks", and has no physics. If you go too far out (I think 4 blocks or something like that), you will be frozen in place and will crash. If this is singleplayer, you need to externally move your character to a place closer to spawn. If it is multiplayer, someone else needs to do this, if the server doesn't just crash completely.

minecraft doesn end, and if because it is randomly generated, then daggerfall wouldn't count either

It does end, in fact.

typo, was supposed to be 'does'

My desktop background!

I don't think minecraft counts due to the fact that it's not designed, it's just generated terrain

In short: The MC world is about as big as uranus.

Nice copying and pasting.

Something like that.

So minecraft is only 24. 7 sq miles?

I think you're missing a few digits. It's 24710.528 square miles.

Oops.
Put the decimal a tad too far away huh?

You guys did it wrong that way too. It's not a square. It's more of a circle. you can go in 32,000,000 meters in ANY direction.

pi x 32,000,000^2 = 3.2x10^15 square meters

32,000,000 is about equal to 20,000 miles.
Which would make Minecraft about 1,256,637,061 square miles

Wut? How is it a circle, if you can't go round it? It's a square, we don't count the depth/height, when we go for surface area.

Definition of a circle means that the perimeter is equidistant from the center at all points. If the center is spawn, and you can go 32million meters maximum in any direction, that means that 32milion is a radius. If it was a square, 32million would be half the length of one of the sides. If it were a square, it would have corners, which would be further from center than 32million meters, which I'm assuming is not possible.

Let me say this. If I were to walk straight on the positive y-axis for 32million meters, I would hit the end. Now say I return to spawn, and I proceed to go the opposite direction, but this time I go plus or minus 45 degrees in either direction. IF it were a square, I should now be able to go more than 32 million meters in that direction, because I would be heading to one of the corners of the square. This is not possible. 32million is max distance, in ANY DIRECTION.

I know it's not perfect, but here's a drawing

As much as i'm aware the units in minecraft are measured only for the X,Y,Z... su goin 30 million x; and 30 million y; would provide you with sqrt(30^2+30^2) which is more than 32? Though i don't know how exactly minecraft percieves distance enabling debug mode only gives x;y;z and i'm pretty sure THOSE can't exceed 32 mil.

uhhh. wtf were you trying to calculate there? That wouldn't give you an area, that gives you the length between the tip of the x and y axis.

Roughly

[url deleted] square kilometers.
I did the math, and it is explained a little further up.

Far cry 3's map is roughly 310.685596 square miles.

i was just wondering the same thing, i shall see what i can find

That was a good fucking game...

But I can't see the map being too big. Though it might have just felt small because of being able to ride your faithful horse Hagro

Agro*

It's my favorite game ever. I think it felt big because you only traveled so fast.

That's what she said

they mentioned Daggerfall on the right of the post

I read that it took a day in real life to travel to some regions of the game unless you fast traveled

The Elder Scrolls: Arena was 6 million square kilometers. That's a little smaller than Australia.

Procedurally generated, meaning - towns that are almost exactly the same every time. Gets boring.

daggerfall or morrowind I forget which was three times that of skyrim

And Arena was even bigger. And ESO is going to be bigger than that!

Also it says dagger fall is the biggest ever

Daggerfall was around 62 miles. They literally weren't able to come up with numbers for Arena.

Maybe because Arena's regions were randomly generated and never ended...
I could be wrong, i was walking in one direction for about an hour once and shit still looked the same, daggerfall had more diversity though, you came across dungeons often.

62 thousand miles and not possible all games need to have a maximum out put for a map.

It was procedurally (randomly) generated every time somebody started a new game. So not much actual space was needed.

Minecraft is the same way but even that has it's limits

I missed something in the content. I'm burnt out from work, haha. www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/697303/elder-scrolls-ii-daggerfalls-map-is-massive-hows-it-compare-to-oblivion/ Here's my source. But you have to think: Daggerfall was randomly generated, and it's also only one province of the world. Arena was randomly generated and it was the WHOLE world of Tamriel.

too bad eso is going to be shit, like hell im paying for a subscription, ill pay 60 dollars one time, maby another 40 (battlefield 3) but not monthly.

i dont like mmo's

It's not a subscription. You just have to pay 60 for the download.

no, you pay monthly fee

Since I can't find any developer info confirming either at the moment, I'm just going to drop it.

most mmos do that

ESO?

Elder Scrolls Online.

Ah

"Now that's a fine shield you got there. And not merely dwarwen isn't it?"
"No. Get that accursed maze away from me!"

Slightly smaller than Oblivion.

skyrim would be in between far cry 2 and WoW at 40 km squared

Good physics in an open world game is boring, hell I can't play Saints Row 2 without Low-Grav on all the time, shame the feature was taken out of SR3...

I felt like buying the game after watching the gameplay of someone having stupid fun with it. Realism is boring. I wanna grapplehook and parachute myself around

Tyria is much bigger than Elona...

eh, a huuuge part of daggerfall's randomly generated

Minecraft World isn't premade so it doesn't count. No effort to make a world that big. Also, quit being a WoW fanboy because there MMOs like GW2 and Aion and Tera which have maps a billion times bigger.

You know... It had a flight simulator on it.

My grand uncle has a fake job as a pilot on flight simulator.

He's really too old for his own good

A virtual airline pilot?

yep. He got grounded once (by a fake air traffic control) And didn't play the game until he was allowed to fly again.

Minecraft's infinite now if your processor's good enough

its been infinite, it just turns into fallout 3 all over again once you get to the "end" of the world

its like a matrix(unless it was changed)

There's still a theoretical limit of ~4,722,366,482,869,645 km^2
Although after a certain point the map stops generating anything of worth and just makes dirt stone sand and water

In GTA everything is just miniature, in burnout everything is normal sized.

Why is this actually kinda mindfucking me?

Look, xXMAQXx. Everything the light touches is OP's bung-hole.

Minecraft will generate the map till it reaches 32,000,000 x 32,000,000 blocks. After that fake chunks will be generated where you can neither walk or place any blocks. One block is about 1x1 m.

If there was a computer capable you could reach much further.

i have that exact seed 0.o

and that is why... fast travel

There are bigger ones on the side of the picture

Arena still isn't mentioned.
Technically there's also Spore (an entire galaxy) and Minecraft (~4,722,366,482,869,645 km^2)

i dont even know how you would measure spore. i mean god, the creature stage felt big and then you went to the tribal stage and realized that was just one small part of the region, and then you went to the civilization stage and discovered that it was just one small part of the continent, and then one small continent on the world, and then one planet in the solar system, then one solar system of a region of systems and then just one tiny region on one of the galaxy's arms.

Spore maybe, but Minecraft is randomly generated and Arena and Daggerfall are mostly randomly generated. They don't fit really.

Also, I'm not even going to bother checking, but pretty sure Minecraft's been mentioned anyway.

Daggerfall actually is substantially less than Arena.

6 million square kilometres vs 160,000 kilometres