Comments on: Top 7 Sandbox Games of All Time

By: TactialLameSace

TactialLameSace — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:34:00 +0000

Why do reviewers still mess up the “Sandbox” Any of those games are’nt sandbox in any way, you cannot build anything, you can just roam around the world and do missions, that isnt sandbox at all, that is open world title …

By: Hodswatchingstonswitcherstonia

Hodswatchingstonswitcherstonia — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:07:00 +0000

At least one of the Elder Scrolls or Fallout games deserves to be on here somewhere.
Credit where it is due.

By: Wasin Chintapanyakul

Wasin Chintapanyakul — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:10:00 +0000

In reply to M.P.. mojang term?!?!?!?!?!?

By: Wasin Chintapanyakul

Wasin Chintapanyakul — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:09:00 +0000

where minecraft?

By: Taylor Lance

Taylor Lance — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:39:00 +0000

In reply to iceminecrafter. This article was published 3 years ago ,fag.

By: cam

cam — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000

THIS IS FREE-ROAM NOOB

By: WaKKO SicK

WaKKO SicK — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:25:00 +0000

all these games are OPEN WORLD games NOT SANDBOX at all. None of them give you any sand to build with so it really pisses me off when i see an article claiming that these games listed are sand box when they are not. Eve is a sandbox Skyrim is an open world. X3 is a sandbox. Minecraft is a sandbox. Darkfall is a sandbox. yet none of these games our on your list. Which makes me think gamingbolt is filled with idiots who can’t understand the english language enough to pick up a dictionary.

By: Martyn John Ward

Martyn John Ward — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:13:00 +0000

In reply to Robbie Stevens. but they are not sandbox games so the list is misnamed by a retard at best

By: Boba-TalkingStuff

Boba-TalkingStuff — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:11:00 +0000

This is a horrible list…
First of all Sandbox games should allow for free playing. You can do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it. Simple as that. You are confusing that with…free-roaming. In a sandbox you play whatever game you can with the sand that’s given, even foraging new elements with what you have (either mentally or literally in the game like in Minecraft, or making Sims and houses in Sims 3), with ‘free-roaming’ you just move about the world without excessive restiction. Linear games have plots that MUST be followed, Non-linear games have deverse choice, (however i’d argue that a choice ‘tree’ is still linear.) So… basically all the content must be avaliable to be enjoyed whenever the player desires.
So to be clear, a sandbox game must allow for freedom of choice(when and what) at its most basic level. Higher levels include freedom of progession (how the story goes), and or freedom of objective (what you are trying do, on a mental level (emergence) and higher up on an actual level. Even higher than this game elements themselves can be manipulated to create new content. Though a sandbox game can potentially have a linear story (like Oblivion for example) the way to avoid a non-sandbox experience is to allow for that story to be opitional or not. (No forced choices.)
Heck even Harvest Moon fits into a Sandbox category.
This list is FATALLY flawed. First off, Assassins Creed gives the player the ability to move freely in the game DURING each mission, but the game is still heavily resticted to a linear story. Free roaming per mission, but not even CLOSE to a sandbox. Not…even…a little bit. Especially considering you have no choices, just do this and that…and succed…or fail and be forced to try again. Nothing more.
Another Fatal Flaw…
Where is Oblivion?????? This is…by far…the most ‘sandbox’ like game on the market at the time of this article…and its not even given an honorable mention? That’s messed up.
Now I will admit I haven’t played all the games on this list, but I’m that if Assassin’s Creed is at the top of the list…the others…many of them, below will be horrible flawed as well. I will admit that Fable 2 is a game I have played an loved, I will say that as a ‘free-roaming’ game it fails. Many of the maps seem…streamlined, and all of them require loading screens. There isn’t much to explore excessively, and though you could do this, much of the content of the game lies in the missions and objectives that are setup in game and by the user themselves. That’s what makes it sandbox, the freedom to choose what you want to do, for how long, and why. The freedom to avoid the story, if there is one, or play through it. Assassin’s Creed…simply was not like this.
Fable= Run a moke and blow up a whole time, turning blue and getting devil horns all the while.
Assasin’s Creed = Uh…your character does not kill people! Desuncrenization emenant!
????
If I wan’t to choice to do something…I’ll do it in Sandbox. Simple as that. There will be a consequence…but they make room for that…they don’t forece you to start over unless you die. >.<

By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:22:00 +0000

Dear Corakus.
Fable 2 do allowe you to do sidequests, I do not know why you cant do’ em, but since your game is broke you should argue about that the game can brake and not whats happend when you are lagged out and say the game itself is broken.
I will like it if you try to “repair” your game in a sort way or buy a new one, you will find it more enjoyable then.