I can only play 'sandbox' video games nowadays. Anyone else?

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I grew up with the early Sinclair, Commodore and Amiga (in that order) games. Shadow of The Beast 2 was awesome!

Earliest PC games I played were the likes of original Prince of Persia.

Then I got into the original Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, again in that order, along with many many FPS game engine licensees with similar games. And I also liked the Warcraft series (not WoW) and Age of Empires.

But nowadays I can't stand to be ushered down the same 3D corridor again and again, gun in hand, with the walls opening up when I pick up an item and releasing the same monsters again and again. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. I've been doing that for 15 years.

I like these games: Morrowind, Oblivion, Grand Theft Auto series, Flashpoint, ArmA, Far Cry 2.

See a pattern? They are all sandbox-type games where the game environment is huge and the player is allowed to roam around and do whatever they want.

I don't know if I got burned out or what, but I can't really play a game unless it falls in the sandbox category. ArmA2 just came out. Hopefully that will tie me over until Elder Scrolls V.

Anyone else? Can you recommend any more sandbox games?

Not me. I still find fun in a game regardless if its open world or not. Besides, there aren't too many open world games that I like. The best ones I've played were Mercenaries and Oblivion.

I think Crackdown is open world and received good votes. Maybe also Red Faction Guerilla ?

I prefer straight videogames instead, I tend to get anxious if I don't know exactly what I have to do.

Ever heard of Trespasser? Maybe you'd like to give it a try...
And I find it more interesting to actually design a level than to play them...

Crackdown is the only traditional sandbox game I like. It was just crazy fun. Typically, they're not able to tell a strong enough story or compel me to keep playing. GTA games are extremely boring after an hour or so.

I know some games, but they aren't story line based. They are more... eh, how do I say this... logic? games.

Phun is a physics game, cool way to waste a few hours, and Armadillo Run is a good puzzle game. You could try these, as they are a sandbox type environment, but they may not be what you are looking for. You sound like you want open worlds.

Every "sandbox" game I've ever tried seemed to focus too much on creating a huge world, and ended up skimping on the gameplay and graphics.

GTA, for instance, every time I try to play one, I goof around and run people over for a while...but then when I try to do the actual missions, I get kind of bored. And for a game series that claims to give you so much freedom, I found it silly that the missions forced you to do criminal acts, instead of giving you a choice.

Tresspasser was fun, but like STALKER, it definitely promised a lot that the publishers would not allow them time to deliver =/

It got a bit linear in places, too...I hated when I'd find a safe mountain passage to sneak past some raptors, only to find that it was clipped off

Some sandbox type games I've enjoyed, for a while at least:

The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Ultimate Spider-Man
The Destroy All Humans! series
The Sly Cooper series
Fallout 3
inFamous (currently playing)

I don't care whether it's open-world or not, as long as the game is an FPS and it meets a few other criteria.

I don't know, you might enjoy Crysis, at least in the early levels. Like Far Cry, they allow a bit more freedom than in most games.

I guess I often like sandbox games, it can be fun to go exploring, or just enjoying the amount of content. Though I often get a bit of anoyed at the amount of time to travel, though most of my games are sandbox so I guess it is my main type. A good one I got is called Prototype, it was fun being a super powerful being, speeding around New York, consuming people and causing major havoc.