The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Every Screenshot You Need To See

Skyrim certainly felt gigantic, but you rarely felt like you needed to make your way through it with any sense of haste for your own safety.

Witcher 3 has this idea in spades, as if you venture out into the ocean in the middle of a storm chances are the sea itself will eat you alive. It adds a really cool element to planning your quests, and makes the best use of the feature to move time forward in the world, changing everything along the way.