Key Takeaways
- Bethesda's Oblivion, Diablo 4, and Skyrim offer excellent dungeon designs that offer rich detail and rewarding exploration.
- Nintendo's Zelda: Breath of the Wild and FromSoftware's Elden Ring also feature unique and engaging dungeons.
- Open world games have become a haven for great dungeon design, seamlessly weaving challenging levels into vast worlds.
Dungeon design has long been an important design practice in games, giving players the opportunity to traverse areas filled with enemies, treasure, side quests, and even receive huge rewards for defeating a boss at the end. Influenced by the same concept dungeons and dragonsDungeons in certain video games have become mainstream. Because these boastful quests for Risk are an easy way to test players.
Expanding beyond the scope of traditional RPGs, open world games have become a haven for great dungeon design. Whether it's the meticulously detailed dungeons found in Bethesda and FromSoftware games or Nintendo's clever design principles, the open world genre has developed a unique understanding of this concept. They can be hidden within the world, or sometimes so convincingly made part of the terrain that they make the entire game feel like a connected whole in some brilliant way.
The fourth installment in the long-running RPG series features excellent dungeon design.
for next iteration Elder ScrollsBethesda began development immediately after completion. MorrowindIt's targeting next-generation home consoles and PCs, especially the Xbox 360. With this, they created a large open world that is still impressive to this day, featuring some very excellent dungeons throughout the land.
It takes place in Cyrodill, Tamriel. oblivion It has the best dungeon in the franchise. Throughout Cyrodill, players will discover dungeons of varying levels of complexity, some of which feature multiple levels and secondary paths. A dungeon inhabited by dozens of goblins, bandits, necromancers and vampires. oblivion It's a joy to explore and feature Bethesda's trademark hand-crafted feel.
6 Diablo 4
The franchise's first foray into open worlds results in some awesome dungeons.
As tends to be the case, Blizzard took its time. Diablo 4It was released over a decade after the third entry. and Diablo 4Blizzard has taken advantage of the technological leaps that consoles and PC have made over the years. Diablo 4 Open world experience. It was a bold decision, but it paid off in the end. Diablo 4 It was able to establish itself as one of the most compelling entries in the franchise.
dungeon in Diablo 4 It is primarily built around aspects that enhance the Codex of Power and allow you to imprint more powerful abilities on items. It's beautifully crafted, featuring a variety of enemies and a variety of gameplay systems. Some of them are puzzle-based while others focus more on the combat and action aspects. There are over 100 dungeons, and conquering them all to find the rarest legendary aspects is one of your best bets. Diablo 4's greatest achievement.
5 final fantasy 15
The world of Eos is full of awesome dungeons
After criticism poured in final fantasy 13 With its linear and restrictive design leading to a trilogy, Square decided to go for broke with their next mainline game and created a huge, sprawling world for the new adventures to unfold. The world of Eos is incredibly large, with a world map that still feels daunting. It's filled with an excellent collection of dungeons that can still be explored and conquered today.
There are many dungeons and caves in Eos across its expansive landscape, and it all feels like a monumental effort to complete. The dungeon features an innate sense of scale and maze-like design. final fantasy 15 They often offer great rewards, including powerful weapons and items. They also have a fantastic boss fight at the end. final fantasy The tradition of optional superbosses lives on.
4 Fallout: New Vegas
The nuclear wasteland of the Mojave is home to some of the best dungeons in the franchise.
Before Bethesda bought the rights falloutA third game was being developed by Interplay and Black Isle Studios, where it was renamed. van buren. After the rights were sold to Bethesda, they incorporated the following elements: van buren~ in Fallout: New VegasWe've created some of the most interesting and engaging dungeons in the franchise to date.
good night fallout 3 Before that, 'New Vegas' Dungeons are a collection of vaults, underground dwellings and subway stations crammed into a tight, dense and spacious open world. The vaults are a joy to explore, with scary encounters with ghouls and super mutants, and some underground caves are crawling with a truly frightening amount of death claws.
Skyrim's vast open world features amazing dungeons.
It is no exaggeration to say that there will be several re-releases and ports in the future. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim was one of the greatest adventures of the 2010s, becoming a global phenomenon in the process. and in it Skyrim's Across a large and unfathomably dense world, you'll find some of the most exciting and compelling dungeons in Bethesda's history.
As the land of Skyrim It is one of the largest gaming worlds in history, and its dungeons are one of the most frequently encountered locations. These range from outdoor bandit camps where you'll be rewarded for eliminating hordes of bad guys, to full-blown multi-level caves and caves. The scale of the rooms is sometimes unbelievably large, and the variety of combat methods allows for a unique approach to each room. Eliminating enemies in the dark using stealth and a bow is just as thrilling as facing them with a sword. Because the longevity of this excellent RPG is measured not only by its mechanics, but also by its incredible dungeon design.
2 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Over 100 shrines and 4 traditional dungeons
By then skyward sword Released in 2011, Nintendo was already toying with the game. zelda Formula established in ocarina of time. In the next version, released alongside the Switch in 2017, Nintendo took the franchise in an even bolder direction by offering an open-world experience for the first time in the series. And if there's one thing I regret zelda You know the franchise is a dungeon.
with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildNintendo created an open-world vision of Hyrule that felt very familiar, but its scope was much larger than that of previous games. The dungeons received the same treatment, as Breath of the Wild offered two different versions of classic video game dungeons. The 100+ shrines offer unique challenges, enemy encounters and puzzles built primarily around some sort of mechanic, while the larger Divine Beasts have more traditional features. zelda– Dungeon in style. The game is of extremely high quality, featuring Nintendo's patented game design, puzzle structure and boss encounters.
1 Elden Ring
FromSoftware's incredible level design heritage shines in open world
After taking the world by storm devil's soul In 2009, FromSoftware honed and perfected what is now known as the Soulslike genre. through dark soul, Bloodborne and SekiroFromSoft has achieved an open level design that feels almost like a 3D Metroidvania. But in 2022 Elden RingFromSoft decided to see what would happen if they ported their original level design and combat system to an open world environment.
Thanks to their incredible attention to detail, FromSoft has fit perfectly into the open world genre. Because they've used incredible talent to create dungeons that feel intimately and honestly connected to the world. The dungeons feel like they're organically part of The Lands Between, neatly positioned in well-hidden alcoves or built almost directly into the geometry of the lands in a way that still impresses two years later.
