Yes it is open world, but it follows the pattern of other RPGs such as Gothic 3 or WoW. Yes, you can go anywhere, but if you wander into a high-level area before you're ready you'll be quickly killed.

And its free, what more can you ask for? Calling it a mod really isnt fair. Its a full-sized game thats been released for free. Seriously mate, pick a game thats been suggested and just go with it. Despite what you may think now, you may end up absolutly loving it.

you're going to have to be a little more flexible here. the number of recent high fantasy open world games is quite limited. If you haven't yet, pick up Fallout 3 or New Vegas. those are probably more RPG than they are shooter. I hear that Just Cause 2 had a quite exapnsive open setting for its sandbox gameplay, so it's worth a look -- possibly is more free-form than Far Cry 2. On the other hand when you play in sandboxes you have to expect finding some number of small dried turds, In this case I'll advise you to steer clear of Two Worlds, it does have a huge open world that's nicely populated and modeled, but there's little else going for it, and after playing Oblivion, the experience was truly soporific. I'm assuming that satisfying your desire for open world games requires more than some pretty vistas.

The reason it's not necessarily a sandbox RPG is because there are a couple areas you can't get to by adventuring, and the enemies are scaled in a way that you'll be dead very quickly if you try and explore a whole lot. After you're a decent level, you can go anywhere.

I listed Gothic 3 and Beth open world rpgs as games I have already played(MW had high level areas). That is not a turn off. I will find out more about this Nerhim then.



I liked TW2 but I have no intention of playing the first one. And of course I have picked up the Fallouts, I listed them in my opening post. I consider them to be deep rpgs, that happen to have fps like combat.



Scared 2 did not work out, MW view distance is 4 or 5 times what scared is. I can see why people don't call it open world, I hate the camera(try messing with the option.txt, still svcked) and the simple combat was not for me.

Perhaps this Nerhim will be good...

Nehrim is brilliant, well worth trying out. More than a few people prefer it to vanilla Oblivion.

Two Worlds 1 is well worth playing, I still rate it over Two Worlds 2. It`s bigger and will keep you playing a lot longer than the lame sequel.

I will pass on 1, by most accounts, including sources I trust its a bad game, as for Nehrim I can't seem to get Oblivion to work, just keeps crashing, try to reinstall, oh well damn.

Keep trying to get it to work; from what I hear it's brilliant, though, honestly, I haven't even played it yet.

Go buy some dice, get a game master, and pick an RPG of your preference and get him to run the game. At this rate, it seems like the only thing that might satisfy your urge for a good RPG is a tabletop game. Hell I know places where you can play just you and the game master so in essence single player, while he acts as the game. If that makes any sense. Then again using your imagination would probably cause your brain to explode. http://files.meetup.com/233403/Meetup%20Poster.jpg

Keep trying to get it to work; from what I hear it's brilliant, though, honestly, I haven't even played it yet.