Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
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They aren't as different as you make them out to be. Sure, traditional world maps were a lot more common back in the past due to technology limitations. FFXV's open-world today is the equal to world tradition maps back in the past. As you had pointed out in your post, in the past the open-world was not able to be accurately depicted. If the worlds of some of the past FF mainline games were to be realistically scaled, they would turn out like the world of FFXV. The biggest difference today is that the person doesn't have to try and insert imagination nearly as much to generate an image; technology can make it happen.