Just from an open world perspective

We can talk about how Sonic controls all day, but just in terms of the open world, Frontiers beats Elden Ring any day.

i hope you step on a nail.

Doubtful

no

what about Skyrim?

Never played it.

Open worlds are extremely hard to get right. Most of the time you’re just walking or riding thousands of meters holding the stick forward, or you’re fast traveling everywhere. It’s boring.

There are very few exceptions I can think of, and Sonic Frontiers is one of them.

I n Skyrim, the open world is huge and it takes a while to get t places, I don't think you can fast travel, but you can get a horse or find a wagon and rent it to go to that place

That’s the thing. The smaller the open world, the better. Or at least the faster you can get around the open world, the better.

Far Cry 2, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Sonic Frontiers. Part of the reason why those are my favorite open world games is because walking or riding across them only takes 5 minutes tops, and you’re not just holding the stick forward to get places.

If you’re going to make me walk around to get to certain levels or missions, then you need to make that walking around fun. Otherwise I’m just going to think you’d be better off with a level selection screen.