Zelda: Breath of the Wild

[Kakariko Kid]

I am so sick of that comparison. "It's bigger than Skyrim, isn't that amazing!?" Answer no, Skyrim is constantly aging and what it did back when it was released is going to be outdone, plain and simple. It's to be expected, and comparing the size of every open world game to it is stupid and annoying. Bigger and better is an expectation as times goes on, so let the past be the past, and let new games with open worlds be their own thing, without having to compare to an older game. Skyrim is not the end all be all that people think it is.

Wew lad, pacify your jimmies.
As far as I'm concerned, the article posted makes no allusion to "bigger is better."

Using Skyrim and other game maps as a unit of comparative measurement makes much more sense than just giving measurements in KMs or miles. Skyrim is an excellent base measurement because so many people have played it, and are familiar with it.

Agreed. I just started playing Skyrim this week and I am very, very impressed by the size and detail of what I have seen so far. If bigger were better, I think it would be safe to assume that Nintendo could have made a map the size of the one in Daggerfell with cut-backs on graphics and vastly varying landscapes.