The Black Shroud map in FFXIV 1.0 looks like a nightmare. Never played 1.0 myself but my girlfriend has shared a number of horror stories with me.
Hyper Light Drifter's map is also ass.
Great game otherwise, though.
You all need to get on the level of Thief: The Dark Project. You start off with this in the first level.
And later on you get gems like this one for Constantine's Mansion
And don't forget this masterpiece!
I thought the idea was pretty nice but it turned me off on the game pretty darn fast. Found out I couldn't map shit easily. I should give it another go sometime.Can't have a thread about maps without mentioning Miasmata.
What a phenomenal game, and it's basically about cartography.
I can't explain it in a good way so I'll just link to the wiki's great explanation.
But basically triangulation yada yada. Might not sound like fun but I absolutely loved it. I think I might need to do another playthrough...
Arkham Origins: Blackgate (I think that's the title. It's the one on Vita) has a map that's flat out unusable.
Here's the map:
Oh, btw, this game is in 2.5d.
So where the fuck are you?
Just to add another example to the list of why Metroid Other M is a game design nightmare, the pause menu map and the in game HUD's minimap are completely different.
Here is what the pause menu map more or less looks like for Sector 3, Pyrosphere:
Here is Samus traveling south in the thin vertical corridor on the west hand side of the above map. Note that the minimap arrow points upwards. The entire minimap is backwards in this particular corridor--the minimap twists and turns in arbitrary directions all throughout the game, it's not tied to your direction, and there is no "North" on the compass.
And here is a picture of Samus traveling through the big, roughly rectangular room in the top map. The pause menu map not only does not correlate to the minimap's cardinal directions, the pause menu map's rooms are often not even the same damn shape or even remotely accurate. The gigantic rectangular room is actually three distinct paths of islands crossing a lava lake that are later connected by Grapple Points. The pause menu map doesn't even remotely tell you what the room's structure actually resembles.
I have yet to see another game with a map system this terrible. The map is essentially useless for the main game, as the game is constantly just funneling you down linear corridors and flat out locking extraneous doors to do so, but going for 100% in the post game really highlights just how obnoxiously terrible it is.
Ancient forest is literally hell to navigate in any way.Good luck following a flying monster in this mess of a map.
edit: That's ancient forest of Monster hunter world.
Right? Maybe next time don't let Riddler draw the map.
The Doom Eternal map is the best 3D map I've seen. It very clearly shows you where you and the level's secrets and enemy encounters are located.
The red circle is an edit. It's not actually there in the game.
Cam here for this. It's such a mess, I never got the grasp of it and that's coming from someone who liked the Control map just fine.Jedi fallen order maps sucked.
Yikes
I got so lost early in Fallout 3 looking for an exit to the underground. That map was awful.Fallout's Pipboy maps. The world map is serviceable, but the local maps are pure , confusing, green garbage. To make it even worse, they never improved the maps from FO3 to NV to FO4. All terrible.
What the... I don't remember this AT ALL.May I present to you this useless piece of hot garbage in Tomb Raider: Underworld we got instead of a map:
No offence to you, but I wish people would stop posting this. If you took most open world maps l, turned on all icons and zoomed out to the level Unity allows, they'd look just as cluttered.
AC Unity with all icons turned on.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I remember downtown DC was a pain to get around in all the streets since they were destroyed and filled with dead ends so you had to go through the sewers, pop back up to the street, go down another sewer, etc.
Wasn't this just a regular 3D map that you could move around in and zoom out and stuff?May I present to you this useless piece of hot garbage in Tomb Raider: Underworld we got instead of a map:
Yeah, it was very similar to the maps of the Metroid Prime trilogy. These maps can be confusing at first but I don't see how it could be done better.
Yuhtunga Jungle in FFXI. It took me moths to finally understand how it works, meaning there would be parties I'd get invited to only to end up leaving because I could not figure out how to get to them. All those little ends do not come out at the nearest one like you think they would It's a clusterfuck of a map.
I too thought about Black Shroud for FFXIV 1.0 for a few reasons but overall Yutunga was worse for me so I went with that one. I'm glad to see it was mentioned anyway.
Wow, I've never even heard of that area. Gotta look up it up. That map is garbage...Final Fantasy XI as a whole had some really bad maps. My least favorite was Yorcia Weald. This is the in-game map, for anyone who has never played the game:
These are the actual paths through the zone:
The actual in-game map is basically useless because you can't really find any of the maps on it. It literally was useless when Seekers of Adoulin launched. The map was bugged and your location marker on the map didn't line up with where you actually were.
As a rule, I always find 3D maps unusable and anxiety-inducing. This one is my exception.The Doom Eternal map is the best 3D map I've seen. It very clearly shows you where you and the level's secrets and enemy encounters are located.
The red circle is an edit. It's not actually there in the game.
