Claradoon wrote:
You're going to laugh but I hope you can help me. I love GTA. But I use it to take scenic drives. I let all the racers go ahead and then tootle along happily. Sometimes I pick up speed but mostly I'm alone (true to life!).
Anyway, I lost my best GTA when my computer died without backup years ago. Then I bought a newer one and it won't let me out of Hawaii because I didn't win. Every location is a level I have to win. Obviously I don't want to play to win. I want to drive slowly in the beautiful scenery.
Does anybody know of a GTA (best scenery) that will let me do things my way?
There really arent games like that as far as I know. Not among the AAA group, anyway. To most gamers, sandbox games are either A: like GTA, or B: like Minecraft.
For other games... that are JUST about exploring and such... you'd have to go to indie games.
I mean, I can think of other GTA-ish games that do scenery VERY well, most notably Just Cause 2, BUT, you get attacked pretty frequently in that game. There's lots to look at and the game world is HUGE, but while there's lots to explore, the devs stuffed in tons of action, which means frequent enemy attacks. That type of sandbox game is like that. The sandbox-ness is there, but alot of gamers also want STUFF to do, and they want action. So you get tons of missions or tons of enemies or both. It's just how it works. That's what sells.
You'll want to look elsewhere for the sort of experience you want. Alot of games focused mostly on exploring and scenery, though, do not have vehicles (or roads). You'd have to spend some time looking though; unlike AAA games, where the publishers come to you, shrieking and jumping up and down so you cant POSSIBLY not know their games exist, anything else takes some browsing and searching to find.
I'd give suggestions, but a pure scenery/exploration game would bore me too much, so I have none to give. I just know they're out there.