World Maps or no world maps?

[zuhane]

Really does depend. Final Fantasy 10 is my favourite ever RPG but has no world map, which makes it what it is. Yet I prefer world maps sometimes.
Really depends how the story is.

[Red Fox]

No world maps for me. Just maps with monsters walking around.

[A Forgotten Legend]

It also depends on how BIG of an area your character can actually set foot on.  If it is a HUGE world.  You may have some problems creating all those routes map wise.

[Red Fox]

Aye, kinda depends on what kind of game it is. If the player follows a specific "route" or if he can roam around and make side quests, visit different towns/dungeons that hasn't anything to do with the story. On the latter I would probably use a world map.

[Miss Muffet]

I don't like point and click maps either. They just take away from the sense of adventure. Anyways world maps are fun (if you don't have an excess of monster encounters) and they also make the game longer ( i dunno if thats good or bad). But I stink at making world maps.

[Archem]

No world maps. Make everyone walk through miles and miles of city streets and hillsides to get to their destinations. It's more realistic that way, and everyone knows how hard it must be for the characters to walk that far in mere seconds.

They must be sprinting like motherfuckers.

[Zerlina]

I think ff12 is reason enough why you should have a world map.