Favorite RPG Overworlds

[WarZidane]

Although I don't lament modern RPGs' lack of old school world maps as much as some others, I did prefer them overall.

There's just something about wandering on the overworld like that, and later sailing and/or flying across it. The first time you get to walk on the overworld it's nice to see distant places that you can't reach and just the scale of the world, then when you get new methods to travel across the world map you're like "oh man, now i can reach that area and those places!"

With the other "world map" methods I just don't get that.

Secret of Mana's world map is still one of my personal favorites because of the impact it had on me (being my first RPG). At first you have no idea what the world map is even really like, you see small glimpses here and there when you travel using the cannons. Then slowly you see the world unfurl until you get Flammie and suddenly you can go *everywhere* and it was awesome.

I'm also very appreciative of Dragon Quest 11's world map because it's one of the very few modern RPGs with an old school overworld like that.