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Space Compression

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Space Compression	comment	Sometimes a game's environment is blatantly not to scale. The usual culprits are fantasy RPGs and Wide-Open Sandbox games. This freakish distortion of space is becoming more common these days, as the fashion is for photorealistic detail difficult to execute uniformly in a huge world and the banishment of abstractions such as world maps. (Note, of course, that even in games with said world maps the main game world will still be drastically scaled down.) Sometimes games scale different areas according to their interest / importance to the story, so for example a game taking place in New York and surrounding areas might have Manhattan (Real Life: 21.5km long) at 1:20 scale (Result: About 1km long), but Long Island (Real Life: 190km long) at a 1:200 scale (Result: Also about 1km long). Common traits: The distance between settlements is very small, allowing one to walk from one village to another in a matter of minutes. Settlements themselves are very small (but contain all necessary features). Even the largest cities aren't larger than a village in real life. Forests and deserts aren't more than a few square kilometers large. Fields are so often so tiny that they wouldn't feed even a single person. The amount of space taken by settlements is also larger than in real life. Mountains aren't really mountains. Just hills. Ten yards is turned into ten feet, and ten feet is turned into five feet. For a large game, 500 yards is the equivalent of 500 miles. An Acceptable Break from Reality for several reasons: Using real-world travel times in a game tends to quickly become tedious, especially if the player is walking and especially if your world takes place with lower levels of technology where cars/planes/teleporters don't exist yet. Remember that it was the nineteenth century before 80 days became a plausible amount of time in which to circumnavigate the globe; walking from one side of the world map to the other would take years in a realistic scale. Heck, walking from one major city to another would take days if not weeks. Pick your poison: Loads and Loads of Loading so your hardware isn't put under too much strain as you move from one area to the next, or Loads And Loads of Lagging as your hardware bakes itself trying to render it all. Usually it's considered a bad thing for a game to overload and melt most devices available on the market trying to run it. Cutting corners to reduce business costs. Making realistically sized worlds and realistically populated cities is Awesome, but Impractical without using randomly generated maps or Non Player Characters to cut corners. It's also a waste of developers' resources to program a realistically sized city when less than one percent of the population is of any relevance to the player. Miles upon miles of the same terrain isn't exactly the most interesting of things. It could be made to look larger with fog, trees, and hills. See also Units Not to Scale, Clown-Car Base, Thriving Ghost Town, and Baby Planet.
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Space Compression / int_14d341dc	comment	Blatant in Star Trek Online. There are instances of orbiting asteroids wider in diameter than they are distant from the planet's surface. There are shipyards outside of Bajor that are almost as large as, and most certainly WIDER than Bajor's moon. One in particular orbits Bajor's moon at roughly half a mile out from it, if using your own ship's size as a scale is any indication.
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Space Compression / int_15a26aad	comment	The first game, Arena, actually inverts this. You can visit every province in the continent of Tamriel, but you can't actually walk from one town to another without Fast Travel. You could theoretically walk from a town for months in real-time and all you will encounter is an endless stream of randomly generated wilderness, dungeons, and tiny villages that appear to share the same landmass as the town you left. And even if you did use Fast Travel, every place and NPC not associated with the main quest was rather lacking in uniqueness thanks to all of them being Randomly Generated Levels.
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Space Compression / int_18a11d9c	comment	World War II Online, more of a WW II Simulator than a MMOFPS, takes place on a half-scale map of Europe complete with destructible cities, roads, and farm fields that take forever to walk across. Needless to say, Mobile Spawn Points were implemented fairly early in the games release to make attacking key objectives quicker, as previously reinforcements would have to be driven from the Forward Base to the objective constantly.
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Space Compression / int_1a09607d	comment	Solar Winds lets you fly from one end of the (ridiculously large) solar system to the other in about five minutes, even before you get the faster-than-light drive. It gets worse when you fly up to a planet and see that it's only slightly bigger than your one-man fighter (which is shown in the intro to only be about 20 feet/6 meters long).
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Space Compression / int_1ed9811d	comment	In the first Wild ARMs game, you can walk around the entire world on the world map (yes, it's spherical) in a minute or two, though you'll need a plane and/or boat to get through the ocean areas.
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Space Compression / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem games typically do this with their maps, adjusting the size of areas up or down depending on what makes most sense for the story or gameplay; presumably, we're meant to assume that the characters are as big and taking as much time as makes sense for that relative map, but it still feels a bit odd when a Pegasus Knight can breeze over a mountain in one map but be blockaded by a small building in another. This trope is averted, however, in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, where the entire continent is mapped to a consistent set of squares, with each map simply zooming in on the most relevant kingdom-sized portion. There are still some simplifications, like castles and villages all being of the same size relative to one another, and the units are definitely not to scale, but if a mountain range is meant to dominate a particular part of the country, you better believe a third of that map's area will be devoted to blue mountains.
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Space Compression / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was heavily advertised as having the largest, most expansive Zelda world yet, but it still only takes about an hour of real-life time to go from one corner to the other despite loading screens describing this Hyrule as a "continent." The lack of large settlements is somewhat justified, however, by the story taking place After the End, in which the Guardians obliterated the capital and several other towns in Central Hyrule while the smaller and/or further away villages were spared.
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Space Compression / int_22712c05	comment	Euro Truck Simulator heavily condenses Europe, with transnational journeys taking far less time than they would in Real Life and most cities reduced to a handful of trucking-related businesses and distribution centers. This is likely because, save for special cases, not many gamers have the time or patience for a real-time European road trip.
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Space Compression / int_22e5872a	comment	DK Isles seems to shrink in size between the 2D Donkey Kong Country and the 3D Donkey Kong 64. This is because it's meant to be like a 3D version of the map screens from the 2D games. That's why the jungle, which is inside the island, has an open top sky.
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Space Compression / int_2dfb1427	comment	The Baldur's Gate series is quite full of such examples, as some big cities are presented as very tiny. The city of Baldur's Gate itself, but also Athkatla, are divided into multiple areas, but still combined together you don't get anything beyond the size of a real life village (although with walls and palaces). There are even towns represented just by a few houses (Nashkel) or even less (Imnesvale, where you only see the inn, the mayor's house, another small house... and nothing else besides a couple of private cabins beyond the river). probably the most blatant example: Saradush is a major city in Tethyr and a very compressed town in Throne of Bhaal, with everything collapsed into a single map under siege that is the size of a huge mansion.
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Space Compression / int_30940081	comment	In Grand Theft Auto V you can see the scale of compression easily by comparing it to a real-life map of Los Angeles - some of the streets line up almost exactly, except that what is a major multi-lane avenue in LA is a residential side-street in GTA. Essentially, every street downgrades a level when making the transition from real life to GTA - highways become major streets, major streets become side streets, and side streets become alleyways between buildings.
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Space Compression / int_367f632a	comment	Dawn of War: Dark Crusade uses a "Risk"-Style Map to represent the provinces your army is taking over. Capturing a province only requires a single battle over an area that could easily fit in a modern city. Even worse in Soulstorm, where there are now a few provinces per planet.
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Space Compression / int_3967984f	comment	Dead Space: There is no way that planet cracker Ishimura can hold its supposed crew of 1,322. For example, a monorail car only has 8 seats in it.
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Space Compression / int_3aab82a	comment	Just Cause and its sequels are set on fictional island archipelagos, which, whilst immense by videogame standards (Just Cause 2's map is around 40 square kilometers), contain massive compression by real-world standards. For example, in Just Cause 2, you can see a snow-covered mountain range, which is just above a steamy jungle, and across a small bay from an arid desert plateau.
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Space Compression / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion follows the same development philosophy as Morrowind, but is somewhat larger as the explorable area is 16 square miles (41.4 square kilometers). Lore would have you believe that Cyrodiil is the heart of a continent-spanning empire; in-game, it's smaller than most of Europe's microstates. City Isle, which is about the size of Great Britain on the world map, is scarcely large enough to contain the Imperial City, which is as big as a large parking lot. In fact, the Imperial Province is small enough that with the visibility set to maximum and fog options turned off, a player can still see the Imperial City's central tower when climbing mountains near the border. The level of vertical exaggeration applied to said mountains is fairly incredible, too; the road from the Imperial City up to Bruma is almost all at a 30 degree (or more) slope. The chances of ever getting something such as a horse and cart up there don't seem good — or wouldn't be, if the citizens ever needed to transport anything... This is partly because while size was increased compared to Morrowind, so was the compression (as Morrowind's Vvardenfell represented a bit less than half of a mid-size province, while Oblivion's Cyrodiil represents almost all of the largest by far province).
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Space Compression / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, which are realistically the size of a small island. Despite being half the size of Liechtenstein, multiple great kingdoms ruled by actual gods and demigods have had massive holy wars across the land for around two hundred years, and an unclear number of other gods and groups have taken an interest in influencing the events of the Lands Between to their own ends. The great capital city of Leyndell is realistically only the size of a little town, and the secret forge at the end of the mysterious snowy lands beyond, shrouded in myth and legend, is actually visible from the start of the game◊ if you know where to look. Despite this, the game has been praised for how massive the game world feels, and FromSoft themselves laud it as "The largest FromSoftware game to-date", proving that it is very possible to get away with doing this without taking away from the quality of the game.
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Space Compression / int_49a88442	comment	The effect is still present, albeit somewhat diminished in its successor Final Fantasy XIV. On chocoboback getting from the southern tip of Eorzea to the furthest north one can go takes about forty five minutes. During an early quest an NPC casually mentions that going from the western gate of Ul'dah to the outlying town of Horizon is about half a day's ride. The player can reach it in less than a minute real time, and less than an hour by the in-game clock. The loading zones between maps are implied to be just as spacious, but the player never gets to see them since they immediately zip to the neighboring area. This compression is inconsistent however, especially when it comes to dungeons. For example, the Pharos Sirius dungeon is roughly the same size as the exterior of the lighthouse it takes place inside, and Haukke Manor could reasonably fit inside the overworld house that stands in for it, but Wanderer's Palace is at least twice as long as the lake where it supposedly is partially submerged.
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Space Compression / int_49ad83ee	comment	Very evident in World of Warcraft, where it takes about two hours to cross Azeroth by foot, and the villages and cities are visibly too small to host any population apart from shopkeepers and other interactive Non Player Characters. Goldshire, for example, consists of about 3 houses at a crossroad, one of which is an inn and the other two shops, yet it's stated in RPG supplements to have a population of 7,000. Goldshire was quite large in the early in the beta, but players found it confusing and all towns were shrunk by necessity. Not much of a need for 7000 NPCs when only about 15 do anything. People have used the Cartographer mod to measure the continents. Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms are each just over fifteen kilometers long, north to south. Apparently in early Alpha builds the continents were much more realistically sized, but testers and employees rapidly realized that this was incredibly boring. (A good hint... back in "Vanilla", people would complain about the flight from Moonglade to Thunder Bluff. Imagine how it'd be if it were realistically sized.) Wrath of the Lich King throws in some in-game dialogue to the effect that Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra, the two "starting" zones in Northrend, are several hundred miles apart from each other. It's nice for flavor purposes, even if it's obviously a much smaller distance than that. This would also make Northrend a very small continent, comparable in size to Tasmania. The journey to Northrend from Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor is said to take about a month on a boat. In-game, you hop on the boat/zeppelin, and you're there as soon as the loading screen completes. Absolutely necessary, because very very very few players would be willing to wait a month before they could play their character again or wander around a boat for a month. Travel in lore between Lordaeron/Undercity and Tarren Mill is said to take over 2 weeks on a horse. In game, it takes maybe 15 minutes walking, 7 minutes on a mount, or about 3 minutes on a flying mount or flight path. Battle for Azeroth has a rather blatant example in the form of Mechagon. The island is a long-lost utopia that took an explorer a lifetime to track down. In game it is within swimming distance of Kul Tiras and fully visible; there is no way the neighboring nation renowned for their navies wouldn't know about it.
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Space Compression / int_4a2b34ad	comment	Taken to ridiculous heights in Star Fox Adventures, where the setting is supposed to be an entire planet. Let's say it's not very big...
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Space Compression / int_4e2d857d	comment	Averted in Incursion, where huge monsters take up more than one tile and a single tile can be shared by more than one normal sized monster. This realistically prevents huge creatures like dragons from moving down human-sized corridors.
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Space Compression / int_4e910a46	comment	Star Trek: Bridge Commander does the same thing, with planets that show as small circles on the area map measured in kilometers.
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Space Compression / int_4f2ad444	comment	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: Impressively, the ocean map of the Caribbean is only roughly a tenth of the actual size of the real thing, which is understandable since ocean graphics use less memory than land. Still, it's off-putting that you're always close to land. It's understandable that the player wouldn't want painstakingly long voyages from one island to another, but the fact that you can always see land on the horizon takes away part of the illusion.
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Space Compression / int_5425ce75	comment	The cities in the 3D Grand Theft Auto series are comparable to miniature megalopolises: Liberty City is the size of a small suburb, Vice City is the size of a coast town, and the entire state of San Andreas is not even bigger than a large city. Ironically, the need to keep the player from traveling out of the city when the game added aircraft led to this trope going in the exact opposite direction and essentially turning Vice City and Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City into isolated city-states and San Andreas into a Hawaii analog by surrounding them with miles of ocean and absolutely nothing in the distance. It can get a bit odd when you take your helicopter out of the fake Miami and discover that you can't even see the nearest land, especially after GTAIII's Liberty City had a noticeably large tract of land that you weren't supposed to be able to explore by normal means attached to the north of Shoreside Vale. In Grand Theft Auto V you can see the scale of compression easily by comparing it to a real-life map of Los Angeles - some of the streets line up almost exactly, except that what is a major multi-lane avenue in LA is a residential side-street in GTA. Essentially, every street downgrades a level when making the transition from real life to GTA - highways become major streets, major streets become side streets, and side streets become alleyways between buildings. GTA V was probably the most egregious about space compression, since not only was the map itself clearly shrunk down, the characters still talk and act like it's larger. One mission that sees Trevor driving a semi-truck from downtown Los Santos to Paleto Bay along Route 1 has him asked how long it will take to get to their destination by Lamar, to which he replies that it will take hours, when, in-game, the whole mission shouldn't take longer than 20 minutes or so. One radio DJ mentions an area called "The Valley" which tried to secede from Los Santos, an obvious reference to the real-life San Fernando Valley... except San Fernando Valley lacks a counterpart on the map at all. Interestingly averted with the small town of Ludendorff in the state of North Yankton, due to being a linear map featured in two missions, not intended for freeroam exploration. The town itself and its surroundings look more believable in size - as you're thrown into a small "cut out" portion of land rather than an open map intended to represent a large portion of a state.
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Space Compression / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim also continues to play this straight; Bethesda says the explorable area is comparable in size to Oblivion, though Skyrim also uses winding pathways as was done in Morrowind to give a greater sense of vastness. The way the world has shrunken down stands out when comparing locations featured in Arena to Skyrim, such as the town of Riverwood. In Arena it's a bustling town that contains 200 or 300 buildings, but in Skyrim it's a hamlet with seven houses.
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Space Compression / int_59da62aa	comment	The Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas is even more egregious. While the real-life area covered is about 10,000 square miles, the in-game world is only 8.502 square kilometers. This is most notable around Hoover Dam, which, when overlaid over the actual map, grew by several orders of magnitude. The placement of locations in the Mojave Wasteland is more congruent with where they are in Real Life though, whereas a lot of Fallout 3's locations have been moved closer to D.C. in order to fit them in, relativity be damned. For example, compare real-world Fairfax on this◊ map with its in-game counterpart, which is just north of "Unknown 3". note "Unknown 3" being Andale in-game.
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Space Compression / int_5da27e43	comment	The world of Elsword is large enough to be broken up into two continents, with multiple countries within. The map is quite large as well, as seen here.◊ Unfortunately it's entirely possible to cross from the very first village on the map to the last in about five minutes, due to the linearity of the game.
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Space Compression / int_5f71a70b	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles: Since every continent in the series is a living, mobile creature, fans have spent quite a lot of time trying to calculate the exact size of each Titan. Unfortunately, extrapolating from playable area, the larger ones are smaller than Tokyo, despite having multiple biomes with fully functional ecosystems. One common figure passed around is that the Bionis is the size of Japan (377,975 square kilometers), well over a hundred times larger than the area shown in the game. The Titans in the second game are slightly smaller, but we also get a lot more size comparison shots that probably aren't accurate. If they were, then the Mor Ardain Titan, host to an empire with a good chance of conquering the world, would be... twelve kilometers tall. That's like if a country the size of Mount Everest could conquer the world.
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Space Compression / int_6104baaf	comment	In The Lord of the Rings Online, a player can run from the Shire to Rivendell in a single in-game day (in real time, it is a dozen of minutes). It took Frodo over two weeks. Perhaps the best example of the compression of Middle-earth is the distance from the Brandywine Bridge to the Bucklebury Ferry. In the books, the ferry is stated to be twenty miles south of the bridge. In the game, the bridge is clearly visible from the ferry.
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Space Compression / int_61de95d6	comment	This feature has been carried over to pretty much the entire Elite-like genre, with similar games such as Freelancer and No Man's Sky having planets no more than a few hundreds of kilometers in diameter, two minutes' flight apart, and motionless relative to one another. This is usually intentional: it would be rather boring to spend hours with engines at lightspeed to get from one planet to another. And in the case of No Man's Sky, it's also because seeing a huge planet in the sky above you looks pretty cool.
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Space Compression / int_62280c5f	comment	Totally averted in the Silent Hunter Series saga, where a patrol could take weeks mainly due to the time required to arrive at your destination and to return to your base (plus extra time if you decide to wander around). Instances of this are when you have a type IX submarine and are ordered to patrol the North American coast or the seas near-equatorial or South Africa, and the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. They show quite well why time compression is a must in that kind of game. Actually inverted, as the game world is cylindrical instead of spheroidal, so many distances are noticeably longer than they should be. At 60N latitude (roughly Scapa Flow / Baltic Sea), one degree of longitude should be about 60km, but it is nearer 120km in-game.
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Space Compression / int_6c1234ed	comment	In Dwarf Fortress, any tile can hold an unlimited number of creatures of any size, with the only restriction that all but one of said creatures are lying down. This leads to the awkward existential realization that a tile is large enough to contain a dragon, but not large enough to contain two kittens without one of them crouching. This is one of many strange aspects of Dwarven Physics. Multi-tile monsters are planned, as soon as the ensuing pathfinding nightmare can be worked around. Multi-tile trees have been implemented, which the Toady One notices makes the still single-tile giant monsters look sort of stupid. This is all still a tiny improvement over the game's model, Roguelikes, where each tile can support only a single monster and monsters can't push past each other. This can be used to your advantage by clogging the map with trash enemies while plinking something dangerous from long range. As of the introduction of minecarts (in version 0.34.07), tiles have been defined as being 2x2 meters in area and 3 meters tall. As stated by the author, "It wouldn't make any fewer dragons fit in the tile though". As of the Steam release, dragons and other large creatures are being extended to visually cover about six tiles, even though the mechanics still only consider them to occupy one.
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Space Compression / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 is nothing out of the ordinary for this article. It still hits home hard when you're familiar with the (real-life) areas and realizes you'd kill to have that kind of commute times (think minutes on foot versus half an hour in traffic)... Compare to the first two Fallout games — the world map was realistically large (so the player traveled between places on an overworld map), though the settlements themselves weren't very big. You're only seeing a small part of most of the settlements though - for example, the entrance and downtown districts of The Hub are stated to be a few miles apart by one of the inhabitants, despite the fact that it takes you seconds to transition from one to the other. This is also confirmed by a lot of the settlement maps, most notably that of the Boneyard. Still, the kicker is the Vaults themselves: The typical capacity of a Vault in the canon is 1,000 dwellers. No single Vault depicted in any game is close to holding a tenth of that. For your information, the Capital Wasteland is about 50 km in each dimension. That takes about 5 to 10 hours to cross. You might even be able to get this in-game... but the Fallout time is sped up by a factor of thirty.
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Space Compression / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has the same levels of compression applied to the greater Boston area. Most notably, the vast majority of the approximately 6-mile leg of the Charles River between Waltham and Cambridge has been compressed into a fairly short bend, squeezing out a lot of the western suburbs, including Waltham itself, and pushing Lexington almost directly north of Cambridge.
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Space Compression / int_6e0e351	comment	The Escape Velocity series and Ares do the same thing as Solar Winds you just have to smile and go with it.
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Space Compression / int_6f6fb1ff	comment	The Crew and its first sequel takes place in a shrunken mainland USA, with a player being able to drive from East Coast to West within two hours, or even one hour using the game's fastest cars. For comparison, the current record of coast-to-coast driving is a little under 29 hours. The second sequel, The Crew Motorfest, takes place on a condensed version of OÊ»ahu, which comes across as odd considering that it already appeared at near-1:1 scale in the first two Test Drive Unlimited games, and those games were released on much older consoles.
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Space Compression / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]'s mini-Manhattan where the also-scaled down Central Park is ludicrously small.
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Space Compression / int_74f7210c	comment	Hyrule's size fluctuates wildly over the course of the The Legend of Zelda games but it never seems big enough to be the powerful kingdom it claims to be (except possibly in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and that one still used Overworld Not to Scale). Also; this was part of what made the sailing so tedious in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Rather tellingly, the world of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, while using the same "boat on the water" mechanic, is much more densely packed. In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and a few others, time (in terms of the day/night cycle) stands still in towns and dungeons, but passes very rapidly in the spaces between them. It can take multiple in-game days to walk to a seemingly nearby town, implying that they are really many miles apart. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was heavily advertised as having the largest, most expansive Zelda world yet, but it still only takes about an hour of real-life time to go from one corner to the other despite loading screens describing this Hyrule as a "continent." The lack of large settlements is somewhat justified, however, by the story taking place After the End, in which the Guardians obliterated the capital and several other towns in Central Hyrule while the smaller and/or further away villages were spared.
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Space Compression / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Quite apparent in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Many pieces of dialogue suggest that locations are much larger, more extreme and/or further away than they are in game. In-game settlements are usually thriving ghost towns while major military bases have only a few dozen troops in them, at most, and are often a short walk away from an enemy base. As this comic points out, the gap between Mannett Point and the main playable island on Ord Mantell is a particularly egregious example, as the destruction of the bridge between the two is described as a major inconvenience for the residents, with NPCs stating you'll have to swim if you want to reach the other side... while in-game crossing over means walking barely a meter in knee-deep water. Less obvious on city planets such as Coruscant and Nar Shaddaa where you must take taxis or quick travel between otherwise isolated sections, though still played straight for the taxi rides themselves.
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Space Compression / int_7f02dd41	comment	The Star Wars: Battlefront series features some of the most iconic locations from the films, but usually compressed down into a relatively small and compact battle map. For example, the Death Star map in Star Wars: Battlefront II depicts locations from across the gigantic, moonlet-sized space station (such as Moff Tarkin's conference room, Princess Leia's prison cell, and the superlaser control room) as all basically nextdoor to each other.
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Space Compression / int_7f5bc680	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_7f5bc680	comment	You're only seeing a small part of most of the settlements though - for example, the entrance and downtown districts of The Hub are stated to be a few miles apart by one of the inhabitants, despite the fact that it takes you seconds to transition from one to the other. This is also confirmed by a lot of the settlement maps, most notably that of the Boneyard.
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Space Compression / int_84dfb5d5	comment	The galaxy map in Galactic Civilizations II shows densely packed star systems with planets only a few solar radii apart, to the extent that a planet can look closer to one in another system than to others in its own. Justified in-game with the explanation that starship hyperdrives can travel much faster in interstellar space than within gravity wells, so the map represents travel times rather than actual distances.
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Space Compression / int_865b5c19	comment	Runescape is one of the offenders. Towns take as much space as forests, yet stories of NPCs and history of the land might leave you another impression. One of the examples is how vampires in this game are unaware that the town called Burgh De Rott is not abandoned at all despite them being only 20 meters away from it. This is often explained by people who are interested enough to care with Scale Theory: what takes a few minutes for a player to cross is described as taking days, but things that are not important for the player character are cut out from view, leaving a much smaller and practical world for gameplay.
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Space Compression / int_86814e94	comment	In Final Fantasy XI, not only does it take roughly twenty minutes to ride from one end of the continent of Quon to the other, it takes a mere eight game hours. Mindartia is slightly smaller. Apparently even if they were designed to scale, the continents would be no bigger than, say, Maine, Ireland, or Portugal — if chocobos are comparable in speed to cars and Vana'diel has the same day length.
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Space Compression / int_93fc1d2b	comment	In Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, most buildings are the same size both inside and out, but by comparison to real-life buildings are ridiculously small. Possibly lampshaded in the second game, too: battles take place on a stage in front of an audience, but many bosses are so large that they can't actually fit on the stage (an early-game boss has to bend over to fit its head on the screen, which is conveniently an ideal thing to attack).
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Space Compression / int_9a527531	comment	The latest entries in the Avernum series effectively compressed the map by replacing the overland map with a continuous series of Geneforge-style town-scale maps, reducing the distances between towns down to few kilometers.
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Space Compression / int_9c754612	comment	Most open-world Spider-Man video games tend to have a very compressed version of New York City; in general, many neighbourhoods are drastically shrunk with many buildings missing entirely (with no game to date including Washington Heights), while roads tend to be slightly expanded to accommodate Spider-Man's Building Swing mode of travel. With the exception of Ultimate Spider-Man (2005) and Marvel's Spider-Man 2, most Spider-Man games restrict play to just Manhattan, sometimes with the surrounding islands e.g. Roosevelt, Liberty and Ellis Islands. note Ultimate Spider-Man does allow access to Queens but deletes Roosevelt Island completely while Marvel's Spider-Man 2, which features Queens and Brooklyn replaces it with the fictional prison island the Raft. Games that reference the wider Marvel Universe will sometimes replace real landmarks with Marvel ones, e.g. in Marvels Spider Man, a building for the Rand Corporation stands in for Trump Tower.
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Space Compression / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls, Tamriel, the continent which the bulk of the universe's story is set on is canonically about the size of Europe. The franchise started out with a realistically sized world, but has been shrinking with each installment. On a case-by-case basis: The first game, Arena, actually inverts this. You can visit every province in the continent of Tamriel, but you can't actually walk from one town to another without Fast Travel. You could theoretically walk from a town for months in real-time and all you will encounter is an endless stream of randomly generated wilderness, dungeons, and tiny villages that appear to share the same landmass as the town you left. And even if you did use Fast Travel, every place and NPC not associated with the main quest was rather lacking in uniqueness thanks to all of them being Randomly Generated Levels. Daggerfall also featured part of the provinces of High Rock and Hammerfell at their full size. Bethesda says that their physical size amounts to 188,000 square miles (or 487,000 in square kilometers) — that's twice the size of Great Britain. There are 15,000 full-sized towns, cities, villages, and dungeons to explore, and more than 750,000 NPCs capable of interaction — impressive for a game from 1996. However, most of the terrain is randomly generated, non-quest-related locations are procedurally generated, and traveling by foot is lengthy and tedious. In the case of cities, most houses cannot be entered even by the most skilled thieves — the player will be told "This house contains nothing of interest." Morrowind was the point where things changed, and to date is the game with the tiniest explorable area. Bethesda's game director and executive producer Todd Howard has said that Morrowind's physical size is 0.01% that of Daggerfall — only 10 square miles (or 25.9 square kilometers). Stated-to-be-massive cities contain only a few dozen NPCs at most, while many of the smaller settlements have populations in the low teens. However, it traded away the massive size of Arena and Daggerfall for a far greater content density, with the entire world being hand-build as opposed to relying on procedural or random generation like the previous games. There is also an in-universe justification: you only visit a district of Morrowind called Vvardenfell, which was only recently settled by the rest of Tamriel, and most of the population was sparse and consisted of the native Ashlanders and the worshippers of the Tribunal and Great Houses. Oblivion follows the same development philosophy as Morrowind, but is somewhat larger as the explorable area is 16 square miles (41.4 square kilometers). Lore would have you believe that Cyrodiil is the heart of a continent-spanning empire; in-game, it's smaller than most of Europe's microstates. City Isle, which is about the size of Great Britain on the world map, is scarcely large enough to contain the Imperial City, which is as big as a large parking lot. In fact, the Imperial Province is small enough that with the visibility set to maximum and fog options turned off, a player can still see the Imperial City's central tower when climbing mountains near the border. The level of vertical exaggeration applied to said mountains is fairly incredible, too; the road from the Imperial City up to Bruma is almost all at a 30 degree (or more) slope. The chances of ever getting something such as a horse and cart up there don't seem good — or wouldn't be, if the citizens ever needed to transport anything... This is partly because while size was increased compared to Morrowind, so was the compression (as Morrowind's Vvardenfell represented a bit less than half of a mid-size province, while Oblivion's Cyrodiil represents almost all of the largest by far province). Skyrim also continues to play this straight; Bethesda says the explorable area is comparable in size to Oblivion, though Skyrim also uses winding pathways as was done in Morrowind to give a greater sense of vastness. The way the world has shrunken down stands out when comparing locations featured in Arena to Skyrim, such as the town of Riverwood. In Arena it's a bustling town that contains 200 or 300 buildings, but in Skyrim it's a hamlet with seven houses.
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Space Compression / int_9e3d1858	comment	Kingdom Come: Deliverance takes place in a section of the Kingdom of Bohemia circa 1403, highly accurate in historical and geographical detail save for the fact that locations have been comparatively jammed together from hundreds of kilometers to a mere 3 by 3 kilometer world space.
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Space Compression / int_9f02efb1	comment	When EverQuest first came out, players only had a few modes of transportation: They run, they run with the Spirit of Wolf runspeed buff on them, they run with a Bard's runspeed buff, or they hire a wizard to taxi-teleport them across the world, saving the player a half-hour boat ride to get across continents. Horses and other mounts wouldn't be introduced until the 4th expansion 3 years later. In those early days, it would take a player running at normal running speed roughly 20 minutes to cross the largest zone in the game, the Western Plains of Karana in a straight line from North Karana to Qeynos Hills. During that run, you'd be lucky if you saw any type of building or if a wolf, or a griffin, or a hill giant started chasing after you.
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Space Compression / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon's towns and cities are remarkably close together; even taking into account all the Random Encounters, once all the Broken Bridges are fixed, it takes maybe an hour to circuit the Kanto region. Even the largest cities have a few dozen buildings, and maybe eight you can actually enter. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are especially notable, making the claim that it would take a swimmer three days to lap the volcanic cone encircling Sootopolis City. Not counting random encounters, it takes the player about 15 seconds to travel that same distance.
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Space Compression / int_a2dee471	comment	Also; this was part of what made the sailing so tedious in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Rather tellingly, the world of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, while using the same "boat on the water" mechanic, is much more densely packed.
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Space Compression / int_a451444d	comment	Also, Gun, in which one can travel on horseback from Kansas to Montana in ten minutes of real time and approximately a day of game time.
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Space Compression / int_aa57824b	comment	In-universe example in How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, where the first difference Diablo notices after being transported to a fantasy world based on a MMORPG is that a distance that would take three minutes to walk in-game now takes three hours.
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Space Compression / int_ae050a9f	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and a few others, time (in terms of the day/night cycle) stands still in towns and dungeons, but passes very rapidly in the spaces between them. It can take multiple in-game days to walk to a seemingly nearby town, implying that they are really many miles apart.
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Space Compression / int_b3ebd61e	comment	Rogue Squadron: In one level, after completing the initial objective Wedge Antilles will radio in that he's battling Imperials on "the other side of the planet". You are then given an objective marker, and after flying over a small hill which takes all of about seven seconds, you have apparently arrived on the other side of the planet.
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Space Compression / int_b4967d43	comment	Throughout the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, Angel Island is consistently depicted as a huge, verdant Floating Island in the middle of an open ocean. This is also the case in a Sonic Adventure CGI cutscene where it falls out of the sky... but during ordinary gameplay, it's a tiny island that's featureless save for the Master Emerald's shrine, and close enough to the Mystic Ruins to be connected by a simple log bridge. As well as the usual practical considerations, this also helps explain how Knuckles is actually able to travel between Angel Island and the mainland as per the demands of the plot.
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Space Compression / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind was the point where things changed, and to date is the game with the tiniest explorable area. Bethesda's game director and executive producer Todd Howard has said that Morrowind's physical size is 0.01% that of Daggerfall — only 10 square miles (or 25.9 square kilometers). Stated-to-be-massive cities contain only a few dozen NPCs at most, while many of the smaller settlements have populations in the low teens. However, it traded away the massive size of Arena and Daggerfall for a far greater content density, with the entire world being hand-build as opposed to relying on procedural or random generation like the previous games. There is also an in-universe justification: you only visit a district of Morrowind called Vvardenfell, which was only recently settled by the rest of Tamriel, and most of the population was sparse and consisted of the native Ashlanders and the worshippers of the Tribunal and Great Houses.
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Space Compression / int_bad035d4	comment	Games that reference the wider Marvel Universe will sometimes replace real landmarks with Marvel ones, e.g. in Marvels Spider Man, a building for the Rand Corporation stands in for Trump Tower.
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Space Compression / int_bb99f857	comment	The Naval Ops series often uses recognizable locations (say, Sicily and its immediate surroundings) on maps, but completely out of scale with everything else. A well-equipped battleship can easily cruise at 60 knots, which is ridiculously fast in naval terms, but only takes minutes instead of hours to circumnavigate Sicily.
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Space Compression / int_bca72091	comment	In Animal Crossing, outdoor and indoor maps are square grids. Character interactions with, say, furniture show that each cell of an indoor map is about one meter by one meter in size. But outdoors, an "acre" is 16 cells by 16 cells. If this is intended to call up the standard acre of 4047 m^2, that means each cell is closer to four meters on a side, and the characters don't shrink to fit, nor does the player's speed.
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Space Compression / int_c19c6efa	comment	In Minecraft, while the actual area of a game world, not counting the glitchy "far lands" is over 140 million square kilometers (~50 million square miles), biomes are at most a few hundred meters across (without the "large biomes" option turned on it is often possible to see the edge of a biome when standing in the center of it). The seemingly lightning-fast powered minecarts are actually going at around 40 km/h (~25 mph). Height, too, is extremely limited, with the tallest snow-capped mountains topping out at less than 200 meters above sea level despite players being able to build considerably higher, and most seas being shallow enough that you can see all the way to the bottom. Not being able to dig further than a little over 100 meters below sea level, at least, has the in-universe justification that the rock there is just too hard for any tools to penetrate.
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Space Compression / int_c1df404a	comment	As a text game, Achaea attempts to avert this trope using various mapping tricks, including the Wilderness (a Roguelike-ish ASCII map put in so that the developers could create distance without writing thousands of unique room descriptions, and only visible to the player a little bit at a time as he travels across) but patched-together maps made by players show that the 'continent' (which can be walked across in a game day) has significant chunks missing. The 'cities' are also very, very small by anyone's standards.
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Space Compression / int_c2463c55	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X replaced the overmaps of earlier games with life-size 3D environments that the characters walked around in. A lot of the playable areas are contiguous though, which led to you being able to walk across a whole continent in under an hour.
Space Compression / int_c2463c55	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_c2463c55	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy X (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_c2463c55
Space Compression / int_c60a63df	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_c60a63df	comment	The main town in Avalon Code is about twelve screens, including the graveyard, plaza, and arena, and is home to one or two dozen Non Player Characters. But cutscenes include an enormous crowd and several blocks of buildings and alleys that don't appear anywhere in ordinary gameplay.
Space Compression / int_c60a63df	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_c60a63df	featureConfidence	1.0
Avalon Code (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_c60a63df
Space Compression / int_d194b2db	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_d194b2db	comment	Death Stranding is meant to take place over the entirety of the United States of America. While the game map is pretty big for a video game, if you know what you're doing, it takes less than an hour to travel from coast to coast, largely on foot.
Space Compression / int_d194b2db	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_d194b2db	featureConfidence	1.0
Death Stranding (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_d194b2db
Space Compression / int_d43b726a	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_d43b726a	comment	The Settlers II did this with the World Campaign. Your regular islands are now shaped like the continents, but they are still played the same. This means that you start with your headquarters in a meadow that represents Latium, then build a barracks in what corresponds to "Tuscany" to expand in "Lombardy", then build a forester and woodcutter in Southern Italy to produce wood for the mines you are excavating in the Alps and for an iron smelter in "Switzerland"... and after you conquer Europe, you switch to the next continent: crossing Asia is just a few clicks to build other barracks to expand your territory.
Space Compression / int_d43b726a	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_d43b726a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Settlers (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_d43b726a
Space Compression / int_d4caf593	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_d4caf593	comment	In Bully, the town of Bullworth appears to be the size of a small suburb. But the entire student body of Bullworth Academy — a campus that could easily accommodate hundreds — consists of 61 students (plus four prefects). The boys' dorm seems to consist of literally a single floor for some forty boys; the girls' dorm feels disproportionately larger, despite there being only eleven girls at the Academy (one of whom doesn't even live there).
Space Compression / int_d4caf593	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_d4caf593	featureConfidence	1.0
Bully (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_d4caf593
Space Compression / int_d4f11a60	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_d4f11a60	comment	The Elite franchise has gone back and forth on this trope, either playing it straight, averting it but providing some sort of time compression mechanism, or both. And someone created a "realistic scale" mod for Fan Remake Oolite, apparently to prove a point about why this trope exists because using it entails sitting around waiting for something to happen for literal hours. This feature has been carried over to pretty much the entire Elite-like genre, with similar games such as Freelancer and No Man's Sky having planets no more than a few hundreds of kilometers in diameter, two minutes' flight apart, and motionless relative to one another. This is usually intentional: it would be rather boring to spend hours with engines at lightspeed to get from one planet to another. And in the case of No Man's Sky, it's also because seeing a huge planet in the sky above you looks pretty cool. No Man's Sky also replaced the usual heliocentric solar systems with geocentric solar systems — the old school belief that the Sun revolved around the Earth, made into a videogame — in order to reconcile having fixed planets with having a natural day-night cycle. Star Trek: Bridge Commander does the same thing, with planets that show as small circles on the area map measured in kilometers.
Space Compression / int_d4f11a60	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_d4f11a60	featureConfidence	1.0
Elite (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_d4f11a60
Space Compression / int_d5b84b32	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_d5b84b32	comment	Planets in Spore. You can find Earth and lay a colony down on it. The only areas large enough to facilitate the room of a single colony (which, in Spore, contains roughly 10 major buildings or so), without deforming the shape of the land, are Antarctica and Asia. On a similar note, most planets can only have up to 3 colonies. Homeworlds start with 10. A city cannot have a population over about 175; the effective max (i.e. assuming you're putting entertainment buildings and/or factories) is about 100. So, a stellar empire on a dozen planets... won't have a population over about three or four thousand. Even the Grox, who have thousands of colonies, only have a total population in the tens of thousands or so.
Space Compression / int_d5b84b32	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_d5b84b32	featureConfidence	1.0
Spore (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_d5b84b32
Space Compression / int_d7720ed7	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_d7720ed7	comment	Beyond Skyrim: Being massive Game Modding project for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, it intends to recreate most of the continent of Tamriel in the game's engine, and keep the added provinces to the scale of the region of Skyrim. This means that this trope will be played straight with some parts of Tamriel previously seen in older Elder Scrolls games. That said, there will be a few twists on this. The Morrowind project will see a smaller Vvardenfell than the one featured in TES III, but in return it will not restrict the player to the island, instead allowing them to explore all of the province of Morrowind. Similarily to the Morrowind project, the Iliac Bay project features a smaller version than the original TES II's take on the area, but will also allow the player to visit all of the provinces of Hammerfell and High Rock. The mod will actually also see an inversion of it with their Cyrodiil project, as since it is scaled to Skyrim, the titular province will actually be slightly bigger than it was in TES IV.
Space Compression / int_d7720ed7	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_d7720ed7	featureConfidence	1.0
Beyond Skyrim (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_d7720ed7
Space Compression / int_d9301374	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_d9301374	comment	With the exception of Ultimate Spider-Man (2005) and Marvel's Spider-Man 2, most Spider-Man games restrict play to just Manhattan, sometimes with the surrounding islands e.g. Roosevelt, Liberty and Ellis Islands. note Ultimate Spider-Man does allow access to Queens but deletes Roosevelt Island completely while Marvel's Spider-Man 2, which features Queens and Brooklyn replaces it with the fictional prison island the Raft.
Space Compression / int_d9301374	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_d9301374	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultimate Spider-Man (2005) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_d9301374
Space Compression / int_de8f1f24	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_de8f1f24	comment	Kingdom Hearts III actually features a few aversions - while it's implied that, once again, they're not going around the whole world, the areas that is just towns are parts of larger cities. This is one of the reasons why San Fransokyo and The Caribbean are so well received - you're only around some areas of the town, but they manage to be somewhat of a Wide-Open Sandbox.
Space Compression / int_de8f1f24	featureApplicability	-1.0
Space Compression / int_de8f1f24	featureConfidence	1.0
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Space Compression / int_dfabfce5	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_dfabfce5	comment	Red Dead Redemption 2, like its Grand Theft Auto sister series, takes place in a fictionalized version of the United States (though many references are made to real life cities and states as well) along with a few excursions outside the country. Stand-ins for the Rocky Mountains, the deserts of the American southwest, the great plains, and the bayous (including Saint Denis for New Orleans) are all present and packed tightly together. In fact, you can even see the Grizzlies from Saint Denis. In game, you can leisurely ride a horse from one edge of the map to the opposite in a single in-game day (66 real-life minutes). In real life, these regions span an area over 1300 miles.
Space Compression / int_dfabfce5	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_dfabfce5	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dead Redemption II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_dfabfce5
Space Compression / int_e1a87807	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_e1a87807	comment	The Saboteur places Paris within 30 minutes driving distance of Le Havre and SaarbrÃ¼cken, and squashes the city of Paris into a smaller-scale version. In reality, it is a 2-3 hour drive from Paris to Le Havre, and a 3-5 one to SaarbrÃ¼cken.
Space Compression / int_e1a87807	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_e1a87807	featureConfidence	1.0
The Saboteur (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_e1a87807
Space Compression / int_e1ec0e62	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Ironically, the need to keep the player from traveling out of the city when the game added aircraft led to this trope going in the exact opposite direction and essentially turning Vice City and Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City into isolated city-states and San Andreas into a Hawaii analog by surrounding them with miles of ocean and absolutely nothing in the distance. It can get a bit odd when you take your helicopter out of the fake Miami and discover that you can't even see the nearest land, especially after GTAIII's Liberty City had a noticeably large tract of land that you weren't supposed to be able to explore by normal means attached to the north of Shoreside Vale.
Space Compression / int_e1ec0e62	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_e1ec0e62	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_e1ec0e62
Space Compression / int_e22c949c	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_e22c949c	comment	In Dragon Quest, like most RPGs, you Walk The Earth. Normally, this trope can be avoided by assuming that only the important stuff is shown, not to mention world maps in Eastern RPGs are deliberately on wider scales than the towns. In VIII, however, the game keeps track of how far you've walked. By the end of the game, once you've walked over more or less every square inch of the planet, it tells you that you've walked maybe 500 kilometers.
Space Compression / int_e22c949c	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_e22c949c	featureConfidence	1.0
DragonQuest	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_e22c949c
Space Compression / int_e48493b3	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_e48493b3	comment	Happened when the Ultima series stopped using an overworld/town/dungeon split from Ultima VI onwards. The kingdom of Britannia went from spanning multiple continents to approximately the size of a suburb◊. (Each of those boxy shapes on the map is a single house.) By Ultima IX, the entire world map is on the order of one square mile. Even in the earlier games with the large overworld individual towns were tiny, usually consisting of four to six buildings each.
Space Compression / int_e48493b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_e48493b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_e48493b3
Space Compression / int_ea05d091	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_ea05d091	comment	EverQuest II would improve on the scale of the world, claiming to make it even larger than the zones were in the first game. For the most part this is true. The relatively small Qeynos Hills in the first game is now the continent of Antonica, the same size as the Western Plains of Karana was in the first game. They learned from their predecessor though by including automatic travel stations in the overland zones to allow them relatively fast travel from point A to point B. Depending on what zone you were in, you'd still need to sprint a considerable distance to reach the next zone that you want to go to after that. At the same time though, they made sure that you were never too far away from any major identifiable landmarks. Developers eventually realized that making overly large zones and cities wasn't very efficient. When they introduced the city of New Halas, players are expected to believe that this city compares in size and populous to other cities like Qeynos and Kelethin, but there are only the bare-bones necessity NPCs needed to serve all the game's functions, and you can cross the entire city in about 3 minutes on foot. Paineel and Thurgadin were later given the same treatment, being given very little of any environmental flavor, just the essential NPCs.
Space Compression / int_ea05d091	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_ea05d091	featureConfidence	1.0
EverQuest II / Videogame	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_ea05d091
Space Compression / int_ea91a4bf	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_ea91a4bf	comment	Daggerfall also featured part of the provinces of High Rock and Hammerfell at their full size. Bethesda says that their physical size amounts to 188,000 square miles (or 487,000 in square kilometers) — that's twice the size of Great Britain. There are 15,000 full-sized towns, cities, villages, and dungeons to explore, and more than 750,000 NPCs capable of interaction — impressive for a game from 1996. However, most of the terrain is randomly generated, non-quest-related locations are procedurally generated, and traveling by foot is lengthy and tedious. In the case of cities, most houses cannot be entered even by the most skilled thieves — the player will be told "This house contains nothing of interest."
Space Compression / int_ea91a4bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_ea91a4bf	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_ea91a4bf
Space Compression / int_eb611766	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_eb611766	comment	Planets and distances in Kerbal Space Program are scaled down to roughly a tenth of what their Real Life equivalents are. But considering these are still astronomical sizes, travelling between any celestial bodies still requires the time warp function to cut down on waiting and make the game playable. Averted by the Real Solar System mod. All object sizes, their gravity, and the distances between them, are true to life. Notably, this mod is generally considered extremely hardcore, especially if mods for more realistic rockets and life support requirements are added — like real life, simply getting to the moon becomes a major accomplishment rather than a routine excursion. Interplanetary manned missions usually require orbital construction to accomplish — and mind you, docking things in orbit is already considered a very high level skill.
Space Compression / int_eb611766	featureApplicability	-1.0
Space Compression / int_eb611766	featureConfidence	1.0
Kerbal Space Program (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_eb611766
Space Compression / int_ed422854	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_ed422854	comment	In No Man's Sky, this is played straight regarding the distance between planets. While travel times between planets may still be up to two minutes of sitting in your cockpit at top speed, the planets are still much closer together than in real life. Averted when it comes to some mission objectives, which can sometimes be located on the opposite side of the planet from where you are. If it weren't for your spaceship, it would take days to walk/drive to them.
Space Compression / int_ed422854	featureApplicability	-1.0
Space Compression / int_ed422854	featureConfidence	1.0
No Man's Sky (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_ed422854
Space Compression / int_ee384546	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077: Night City is a downplayed example; the city as shown could probably house the 5 million people it is canonically supposed to, thanks to the immense verticality of the setting, but the infrastructure is woefully underdimensioned and the uptown area should be somewhere between one and two orders of magnitude larger than it is.
Space Compression / int_ee384546	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_ee384546	featureConfidence	1.0
Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_ee384546
Space Compression / int_f1785a72	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_f1785a72	comment	In a similar vein to the above example, the Tokyo Expressway tracks in Gran Turismo Sport and 7 (especially the C1-based "Central" variants) are heavily scaled-down versions of parts of Tokyo's Shuto Expressway.
Space Compression / int_f1785a72	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_f1785a72	featureConfidence	1.0
Gran Turismo (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_f1785a72
Space Compression / int_f186f924	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_f186f924	comment	The playable area of Horizon Zero Dawn takes in an area that covers most of Utah and western Colorado; the Frozen Wilds DLC added parts of Wyoming. The actual map is about four or five miles square, with an overall scale of a little over 100:1, and the great city of Meridian consists of a couple dozen buildings. Apart from the real-world landmarks you can find, from Lake Powell to Old Faithful, certain collectible datapoints make this explicit, referring to places that in-game are a minuteâ€™s jog apart as being a dayâ€™s journey from one another.
Space Compression / int_f186f924	featureApplicability	1.0
Space Compression / int_f186f924	featureConfidence	1.0
Horizon Zero Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_f186f924
Space Compression / int_f6a54e75	type	Space Compression
Space Compression / int_f6a54e75	comment	This is quite common with most Kingdom Hearts games - despite going around multiple worlds, these worlds only seem to include maybe one town and a few outskirts areas. While some are Hand Waved due to being only being in the areas that "count", it's hard to believe just how small they are. Heck, the outside of Paris is somehow around the same size as Notre Dame in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]. Kingdom Hearts III actually features a few aversions - while it's implied that, once again, they're not going around the whole world, the areas that is just towns are parts of larger cities. This is one of the reasons why San Fransokyo and The Caribbean are so well received - you're only around some areas of the town, but they manage to be somewhat of a Wide-Open Sandbox.
Space Compression / int_f6a54e75	featureApplicability	-1.0
Space Compression / int_f6a54e75	featureConfidence	1.0
Kingdom Hearts (Franchise)	hasFeature	Space Compression / int_f6a54e75

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The Christmas That Almost Wasn't / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Animal Crossing (Franchise) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
InfinityTheQuestForEarth	seeAlso	Space Compression
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The Borgias / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
American Truck Simulator (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Avernum (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Battle for Wesnoth (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Beyond Skyrim (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Civilization (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
DC Universe Online (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Dark Souls II (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Darkest Dungeon (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Death Stranding (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Dragon Ball Online (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Empire Earth (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Euro Truck Simulator (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Final Fantasy XI (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Forza (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Freelancer (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
G.O.D.: Heed the Call to Awaken (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Gun (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Holy Beast Online (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Horizon Forbidden West (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Hunt Down the Freeman (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Incursion (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
inFAMOUS (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Infinity: The Quest for Earth (Video Game)	seeAlso	Space Compression
Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Kinder (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Metal Max (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
My Teacher Is an Alien (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
No Man's Sky (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Noctis (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Oolite (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Proteus (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Sands of Destruction (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
SimCity (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Sim Settlements 2 (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Sonic Adventure (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Spider-Man (PS4) (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Spore (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Star Trek: Bridge Commander (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Star Trek: Starfleet Command (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Test Drive Unlimited (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
The Elder Scrolls: Arena (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
The Lord of the Rings Online (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
The Saboteur (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
The You Testament (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Thrill Drive (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Train Simulator (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Warcraft (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
World War II Online (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
[PROTOTYPE] / Videogame / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Drawtectives (Web Video) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Ross's Game Dungeon (Web Video) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
The Spoony Experiment (Web Video) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression

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