Your favourite area/environment in a game?

The Village in Resident Evil 4. jg4xchamp

The Capital Wasteland from Fallout 3

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"]The Village in Resident Evil 4. drinkerofjuice

The Times Square remake in GTA IV.

Particularly because my buddies and I had some pretty freaking amazing moments around that area in multiplayer (Bringing in two police helicopters to extract buddies fighting with the cops on the ground, bullets flying everywhere, sh** exploding, flying in between the buildings, felt like I was in a movie)

And Skyrim was pretty damn beautiful in spots if you ask me.

Some of my favs

The Citadel (Mass Effect series)

Skyrim (Skyrim)

Xcom HQ (Xcom Enemy Unkown)

Charr Starting area (GW2)

Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms ( vanilla WoW)

Shadow Moses island (MGS1 and specially MGS 4)

Arkham City (Batman Arkham City)

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

TheEroica

this.+ Virmire, Omega, Ilium

I could list alot of other stuff but I give the nod to mass effect 1 + 2

I actually adored Morrowind. The whole feel of it was entirely different from what the other RPG's were doing.

Also: Bioshock. Jeezus that place is just amazing. That word is thrown around a lot for 'good' things but Rapture really was an amazing enviroment

Probably every outside location in the Elder Scrolls games (my favorite one though is the Shivering Isle, that place is just fantastic). Mass Effect 2 also has some great outside locations on the different planets. Bad Company 2 had some nice vistas such as the Jungles, but forget the desert and mountain top levels, those were just bad. I'd also say that Arkahm Asylum had a great atmosphere and environement to it, especially given this was really the first time we could truly explore the island and I think they did a great job at reimagining it. Fallout also has a great environment to it, really feels like a post-appocalyptic future.

As for Metro, fvck the tunnels. They were just boring and bland, imo, now the outside specifically the end as well as those weird I guess "dream" sequences now that crushes EVERYTHING the tunnels could do.

Everything in FF7-9, Bravely Default, Zelda OOT, WW, MM, Whsipered World, Kings Quest games, Mass Effect, Shantae 1-2, Fable 1-2-3-Journey, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon etc

Far Cry 3

From ground level:

To the summit. Schweet.

The two gaming worlds that overwhelmed me the most with their shear size and content were

-The Great Ocean from the Wind Waker

-The world of Dragon Quest VIII

Dust 2 in CSS. I've spent hundreds of hours there and i'm not even bored of it.

Skyrim, basically all the snow areas.

Bioshock, all areas.

Alan Wake, Lovers Peak.

Uncharted 3 when SPOILER Drake goes into the lost city of the sand and oh god how amazing that view was of the city, the moving statues, amazing music all at the same time, i stood still looking at that city for about 5 minutes lol

Uncharted 3 when SPOILER Drake goes into the lost city of the sand and oh god how amazing that view was of the city, the moving statues, amazing music all at the same time, i stood still looking at that city for about 5 minutes lol

finalstar2007

Plenty of zones in WoW. Teldrassil, Ashenvale and Feralas are obvious favourites, but I also liked The Barrens, mainly because every time I think of it I remember running along the savanah's listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Zangarmarsh while listening to Gorillaz... Man, good times. There are plenty of other areas in that game as well.. To be honest, every area below level 30 at least was amazing, and most above that were as well.

Kikori Forest from OoT is pretty awesome as well. The village and Seafront in NIER are amazing; Seafront, with the "City of Commerce" background music, was especially relaxing. I'm sure there's plenty more that I love that I've missed though.

Boletarian Palace from Demon's Souls. Also, The Spring from Final Fantasy X.

There were some great environments in The Precursor Legacy and UC2 and UC3.

In addition to that, I thought Kingdom Hearts' rendition of classic Disney worlds was also pretty sweet. Then there's FFXII, Skyrim, the Sly Cooper series, The Witcher 2, and hell, let's not forget Assassin's Creed. 1 and 2, especially, epitomized authenticity and really engulfed players into a believable, breathing world, so props to UbiMontreal and their researchers for that.

And then there's BioShock as well (and by that I mean practically the entire city of Rapture) -- in sum, there's a very large amount, actually, that I simply can't name off the top of my head atm, but really succeed in captivating with their aesthetics. One day I'll make a list and return to this thread with more, lol.

Maybe it's time to pay homage to a modded game world. Arma 2's Taviana map is probably one of the most convincing renditions of a Post-Soviet states I've seen in any media.

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

Nintendo_Ownes7

Same here. I regularly play MP again just for the feel of some of its locations. That game is poetry; though I also agree with TC on Flotsam in TW2.

HL2 - City 17

Alan Wake - The mental institution

GTA IV - Manhatten, or whatever its called in GTA

Dishonored - Flooded District

Alan Wake - The mental institutionR4gn4r0k

So many...

• Earth on Mass Effect 3
• The island of God of War II
• Mount Olympus (top) from God of War III
• Train on Uncharted 2
• Darnassus in World of Warcraft
• Los Santos in GTA

Maybe it's time to pay homage to a modded game world. Arma 2's Taviana map is probably one of the most convincing renditions of a Post-Soviet states I've seen in any media.

DraugenCP

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]Alan Wake - The mental institutionfreedomfreak

Yeah it does, I'm on my third playthrough :P

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]I would love to live in the Forbidden Land.BrunoBRS

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]Alan Wake - The mental institutionfreedomfreak

The many areas of this world are so beautifully intertwined

Blabadon

This, definitely. ICO as well.

So many to choose from.

Zeal from Chrono Trigger, many of the areas in FFX and FFXII, the Prime games, a lot of the areas in Yoshis Island, SMG2, MGS3... I could ramble for a while about this one, nothing like some great environment design to pull you into a game.

All of Demon's Souls. Some places in Skyrim. Nepal in Uncharted 2. All of Uncharted 1. Shanghai in Deus EX HR. All of Assassin's Creed 1 & 2. Ilium, Bekenstein, Omega, Citadel, Tushanka,Aiteetc. in Mass Effect 2. Feros in Mass Effect 1.

Besaid Island from Final Fantasy X. I adore the music and the incredibly peaceful atmosphere. It's just a really beautiful place.

I really love beach/oceanic environments in general. It's probably one of the main reasons Chrono Cross is my favorite RPG ever.

Everything in FF7-9, Bravely Default, Zelda OOT, WW, MM, Whsipered World, Kings Quest games, Mass Effect, Shantae 1-2, Fable 1-2-3-Journey, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon etc

loosingENDS

No offense, but everything in Blue Dragon looks like plastic.

Skyrim.

Ivalice from Final Fantasy XII. One of the most beautiful and fully fleshed out RPG worlds. AcidSoldner

Shanghai in Deus EX HR.themajormayor

Everywhere World of Warcraft.

the entire setting from journey.

Nothing else comes close for me from this gen.