Your favourite area/environment in a game?

Probably dozens of these threads already made this year but what the hell, let's go again.As the title says, what is your favourite location/area/environment in a game? It can be a whole world or one specific place or town in that world.

One I love after making a video for it recently is Flotsam in the Witcher 2, that little village is awesome. The huge trees and the little old timey houses and buildings are great. The people and the atmosphere there feels great and I loved listening to the people, felt like the place was actually alive.

Another one I love is Skyrim, the whole world ad environment is fantastic. I am partial to snowy areas in games, especially trees though. But I just loved walking around in that game doing nothing but sight seeing. The NPCs were dull as fvck but the world itself was very atmospheric.

Special mention goes to Metro 2033s tunnels too.

Every area in Metro 2033.

Xenoblade, all areas

Phendrana Drifts in Metroid Prime; Though I like almost all the areas in Metroid Prime.

The New York of Enslaved OTTW.All the enviroments of that game were great though.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles:Sky Sanctuary Zone

I actually really liked Skyrim. I could wonder around for hours in it. Also, the Old West from Red Dead Redemption.

Max Payne's early New York subway/apartment/street levels. I find the following 2 acts less enjoyable for some reason.

Jungle areas in general; Far Cry, MGS3, Crysis, etc.

Snowy areas; ditto Skyrim

The first few missions of Halo: CE. Landing on and exploring the Halo for the first time is a high the series could never really reach again.

GTA: San Andreas countryside; exploring, dicking around, killing, driving a chain of 8 tractors off the top of Mt Chiliad and floating down on a parachute, etc.

The many areas of this world are so beautifully intertwined

Skyrim- Lost Valley Redoubt.

gets even better once you make it to the word wall at the top.

Damn...Well, a lot. I'll just mention Nier. Pretty much every environment/area in that. Sure helps that they're accompanied by the beautiful ost.freedomfreak

I don't like this switch you and michael did, it's confusing as fvck :P

Stalker: SOC had some really neat areas. Can't remember their names for the most part, Pripyat was pretty neat.

I really like Esamir in Planetside 2, has a really cool (get it) vibe going on.

The trench map in Red Orchestra 2 that came out with the GOTY edition is also really awesome.

Flotsam? lolwut

Umm idk how bout new elizabeth or whatever it's called from RDR.

The many areas of this world are so beautifully intertwined

Blabadon

+1

This is what I think it would look like on current gen too, which is awesome

Flotsam? lolwut

Umm idk how bout new elizabeth or whatever it's called from RDR.

parkurtommo

Hell yes, you think this isn't beautiful?

[QUOTE="freedomfreak"]Damn...Well, a lot. I'll just mention Nier. Pretty much every environment/area in that. Sure helps that they're accompanied by the beautiful ost.seanmcloughlin

I don't like this switch you and michael did, it's confusing as fvck :P

Elwynn Forest from World of Warcraft

Music

To anyone who has quit WoW I warn you that opening that song up could lead to a re-sub

The Tibetan village from UC2 comes to mind first, drawing a blank on other environments for some reason.

Spencer Mansion wins.

My favorite environment in a game would probably be from Skyrim. The natural world there is so well done. The second would be Gears of War 3's environment. The torn apart world is fantastic.

Hmm, probably Arkham City, its atmosphere was great, it was big, flying around it was fun.

I would love to live in the Forbidden Land.Blabadon

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]

The many areas of this world are so beautifully intertwined

seanmcloughlin

+1

This is what I think it would look like on current gen too, which is awesome

[QUOTE="parkurtommo"]

Flotsam? lolwut

Umm idk how bout new elizabeth or whatever it's called from RDR.

seanmcloughlin

Hell yes, you think this isn't beautiful?

Dark Cloud - Norune village + Queens

Tenchu - all villages

FFX - Besaid

MGS2 - Big Shell

Dragon Quest 8/Shadow of the Colossus - too many

Skyrim, and since I came back from watching The Hobbit, I want to play more.

Plane of Tranquility from EQ1.

Basically any place in Metroid Prime 1/2, Morrowind, or Majora's Mask. A few places in Shadow of the Colossus too. They don't make em like that anymore. Hopefully Dark Souls has some good ones.Cherokee_Jack

I also love this, the whole castle in DS is awesome

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[QUOTE="parkurtommo"]

Flotsam? lolwut

Umm idk how bout new elizabeth or whatever it's called from RDR.

parkurtommo

Hell yes, you think this isn't beautiful?

I'm biased towards forests, and the colour palette in Flotsam is much nicer than the rest of the areas. The camp has that awful bloomed out sky, And the last area is a bit meh. Vergen is nice though

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[QUOTE="Blabadon"]

The many areas of this world are so beautifully intertwined

BrunoBRS

+1

This is what I think it would look like on current gen too, which is awesome

Do you have to nitpick absolutely everything?:evil:

[QUOTE="parkurtommo"][QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

Hell yes, you think this isn't beautiful?

seanmcloughlin

I'm biased towards forests, and the colour palette in Flotsam is much nicer than the rest of the areas. The camp has that awful bloomed out sky, And the last area is a bit meh. Vergen is nice though

so many areas in Mass Effect... The citidel, tuchanka, ilos, my god so many areas.

Red dead redemption... Marston Ranch, Mcfarlane ranch

Fallout 3... megaton

Bioshock... rapture.... period.