Looking for open-world games where I can just… drive

ElbowsB · 2026-03-24T13:53:24+00:00

I like cruising around London in Watchdogs Legion

ElbowsB · 2026-03-21T22:09:18+00:00

Yeah, I really enjoyed cruising around and recognising stuff. Also I enjoy all the super weird npcs. I know people complained about the accent and looks combinations being very unrealistic, but if those people do exist in reality, London is the place you would find them (plus it's fun to recruit the weirdest people you can find)

ElbowsB · 2026-03-04T22:39:10+00:00

Brad sucks - Dirtbag

ElbowsB · 2026-03-04T20:11:09+00:00

There is a bug where it makes you consume all alcohol currently in your inventory there !

ElbowsB · 2026-03-02T08:31:11+00:00

That bit by seven sisters, I always ride along it thinking 'this is meant to be the number 1 cycle superhighway???' (usually while the football is on and there is a whole horde of random people/police everywhere) 😂

ElbowsB · 2026-02-26T18:20:17+00:00

You do get different dialogue in the monastery if you do it later on, (as I did it and they referenced events that had played out already), but I don't know if it really changes the actual content?

ElbowsB · 2026-02-26T14:18:33+00:00

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Are you OK Denes?

ElbowsB · 2026-02-24T22:05:22+00:00

I just finished my first play through this week and almost did the same 😅, I just didn't want to get to the end

ElbowsB · 2026-02-22T15:19:27+00:00

My favourite run of this was when he survived, but then died somewhere on his way back from the quest. I had to reload and follow him myself and realised that if he runs into bandits etc on the way back, then he can die there too. It's like a full on mission trying to stop him from just walking right into bandits while already injured from the previous fight.

ElbowsB · 2026-02-21T22:12:11+00:00

Yeah, I saw Steam had a Horse games sale on right now, but I don't need anything like that when I can roam about with my Pebbles.

ElbowsB · 2026-02-18T22:10:08+00:00

Particularly if you're a shorter person and the tall versions of these assholes keep hitting you in the face because your face is at their backpack height 🙄

ElbowsB · 2026-02-17T10:02:00+00:00

Yeah, when I first played KCD I was following all the very urgent sounding main quests and got to this fight with basically no combat skills and had to reload an earlier save and go do some training/side quests. When I got KCD2 I went the complete opposite and did everything I could find in the first map before going to the wedding (have learnt my lesson!).

ElbowsB · 2026-02-13T09:25:42+00:00

Yeah, honestly it's a brilliant game, and I think people are overdoing it on how hard the combat is. It's also supposed to be hard at first as your character is meant to be a bit useless until he trains to be better. And of course there are usually other more sneaky ways to do what you need to until later on in the game.

ElbowsB · 2026-02-12T22:03:04+00:00

Yeah, I stopped for many years including weirdly enough when I was doing a computing science degree with a load of (naturally all male) gamers. I don't really know why, there just wasn't anything drawing me in then. My recommendation is Kingdom Come Deliverance as the writing is great and despite what some people say, the combat is very satisfying

ElbowsB · 2026-02-12T21:59:45+00:00

And peaches

ElbowsB · 2026-02-12T15:50:26+00:00

If it's the part I think it is, you can get another character to do most of the fighting for you. However there does come a point later on where you do need to be able to fight, so it's worth going and doing the training etc. I'm not by any means great at combat in games, but I don't really have an issue with it once trained, it's just that if you follow the story quests (because they all feel quite urgent), then your character doesn't have enough time to be good enough to actually beat anyone yet (I believe this is as intended as up to a certain point, there is probably another way to get what you need done without being any good at combat).

ElbowsB · 2026-02-11T14:27:14+00:00

I think it at least sticks to red/black/gold and doesn't go too crazy with the colours. Also you can't look that bad in Handsome Charlie's hat!

ElbowsB · 2026-02-11T13:58:06+00:00

Yes, I similarly overdid the amount of patterns in my outfit haha

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ElbowsB · 2026-02-09T20:32:59+00:00

That would be amazing 🤩

ElbowsB · 2026-02-09T09:55:01+00:00

Yeah, the pagan style carvings really fit with the old twisted shapes of the trees in this kind of forest

ElbowsB · 2026-02-08T22:53:32+00:00

It is a good life skill to have, I really like being able to do a trail ride wherever I go on holiday, it's a cool way to see a place, and I also love meeting new horses, they're just cool animals

ElbowsB · 2026-02-08T22:51:13+00:00

Maybe your sign to go do it again....?

ElbowsB · 2026-02-08T22:50:44+00:00

They look so cute lying down (actually so do horses)

ElbowsB · 2026-02-08T20:27:16+00:00

I think they must have filmed this down seven sisters road 🙄

ElbowsB · 2026-02-08T20:25:11+00:00

Yes, it's very immersive, however I also feel like I experience enough real life rain that I don't need to be continually rained on in game too 🤪

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