Suggestion: Wide Open Sandbox

I think this image is pretty good and it explains the trope well:

That fits Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer better.

I'm not sure that's true... Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer is about mini-games in a larger game, not a larger game that is a Wide-Open Sandbox. I'm not sure this image is good for that, either, though... it describes what players often do with GTA's sandbox, but not the trope.

Changing it to a pie chart of stuff like

• Main quest
• side missions
• other side missions
• Minigames
• Exploration
• Random stuff

and such would work.

I agree with a chart like that.

What, like this?

Suggest indicator lines from all "outside-the-pie" labels, like "Main quest"... e.g. also "Minigames" and "Random stuff"

The main feature of this trope is not that you do nothing but the main quest, but that you have so many options other than the main quest.

Yeah, you tell that imaginary whiner. He's got it all wrong.

I like Catalogue's second pie chart.

Catalogue's second image is very good.

Bump; comments either way on the second pie chart? I was wrong, the first looks better I think: in #6

edited 8th Feb '12 1:14:34 AM by rodneyAnonymous

Seems to work. The largest part is exploration, which is in line for the trope.

I like the pie chart.

I'm gonna make a sort-of executive decision and go ahead and put up the second pie chart since it's got more of a consensus than the first. Locking up.

edited 14th Feb '12 7:53:11 AM by Willbyr