What is your favourite game world?

Gamer Bhoy 89

I saw a thread of something like this elsewhere, and it was very interesting to read. I'm now interested to know what other Boardsie's favourite world is in games.
(Post pictures if you want/can)

Personally, I think the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3 is my favourite.

DeSelby83

Rapture

KilOit

Mass Effect, love space sci fi settings, you can just go anywhere and looking at stars and different planets is just brilliant
Also Dead Space 1, USG Ishimura was one hell of a scary place

Dozen Wicked Words

Hyrule. So many fantastic worlds in modern games though. Loved the Wild West from Red Dead Redemption too.

Temptamperu

Nirn.

Gta 5 pretty cool

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

jesus, this is a toughie

the capital wasteland is up there alright, along with the zone of alienation and lordran.

Magill

Hyrule, Azeroth and Lordran ! The best.

ShadowHearth

I cant put just one favourite, I got so many!


Rapture and Bioshock Universe as a whole.
Witcher universe. Proper mature fantasy setting.
Fallout universe.
Stalker Universe
Starcraft universe. I would love a proper Starcraft mmorpg
Warhammer 40k universe.
Eve online universe.

Thats just the top of my head.

Glebee

World of Warcraft will always have good memories.
City of Dunwall in Dishonoured...

ShadowHearth

Glebee wrote: »

World of Warcraft will always have good memories.
City of Dunwall in Dishonoured...

I used to LOVE Warcraft Lore and universe in WC3 + TFT. Still Loved it in first 2 expansions. After that it went tits up for me and with new expansion they are just going underpants on head retarded....

Gbear

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Starcraft universe. I would love a proper Starcraft mmorpg

Remove the filthy MMO part of that and we'll talk.

ShadowHearth

Gbear wrote: »

Remove the filthy MMO part of that and we'll talk.

I would not mind any form of SC game at all. Its a shame I suck at SC2

Harps

Too many to choose from, a few standouts from the top of my head would be Lordran, Rapture and Chernobyl/The Zone

Lordran for the atmosphere and visuals, not many games out there with such varied locations or sights like this

Combined with the bleak atmosphere and sense of mystery and discovery I'd probably call Lordran my favourite

Rapture for the excellent and unique world they created, genuinely interesting and with plenty of back story and symbolism

The Zone again for the immersive atmosphere, Stalker was probably the most immersive game I've played in terms of getting totally absorbed into the game world

A nod to Super Metroid for the brilliant world design and sense of exploration and to Super Mario Galaxy for the perfect world design and out and out fun

Dave_The_Sheep

Mass Effect - probably tops my list.
Starcraft, 40K - despite the similarities between those last two, they're both great in their own right. Very depressing but still awesome.
Fallout - either the Wasteland or further out in Vegas.
Dunwall - I really liked, though it doesn't have as much to it yet as some of the rest. Great atmosphere though. Hopefully there'll be more and more world/setting to explore in future Dishonored games.

That'd probably be my top 5.

Honorable mentions though to the city of Thief, Flashback (loved that setting as a youngster) and the sick world of Max Payne.

Kirby

Rapture would be up there as a totally believable world that really sucked me in. But the Mass Effect Universe just edges it. Loved it to bits.

The giant wait between ME3 and the new game is irritating me....as is the complete lack of information on the next one. A total vacuum of info. I'm hoping they are just being secretive and a lot further along in development and will reveal a bunch of stuff at once. Because if they haven't even started it yet....it's going to be another three years which is a killer.

cloud493

Kanto

Mr E

Rapture and Pandora.

Pushtrak

Favourite how? Well realised or would like to visit? Or both? I think a lot of people are looking at this question in different ways. For instance, I woudln't want to visit the world of Fallout or Rapture... Well, Rapture after things went bad at least. Mass Effect is an obvious choice for me. Though, when looking at Mass Effect, you could also look at say, Knights of the Old Republic. I'd say Tamriel too having spent so much time playing Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. The world of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons was great too.

BrianG23

The Zone in Stalker I have to agree with, *****iest(in a good way) atmosphere in gaming

dreamers75

Tamriel

Just so much in it via games rather than game.

Gamer Bhoy 89

Pushtrak wrote: »

Favourite how? Well realised or would like to visit? Or both? I think a lot of people are looking at this question in different ways. For instance, I woudln't want to visit the world of Fallout or Rapture... Well, Rapture after things went bad at least. Mass Effect is an obvious choice for me. Though, when looking at Mass Effect, you could also look at say, Knights of the Old Republic. I'd say Tamriel too having spent so much time playing Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. The world of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons was great too.

I would guess just a world you enjoyed in the game, wheter it was looking at it, playing in it. You could say both if you like, I suppose I didn't really specify, did I?

calex71

Fallout 3 + NV
Borderlands 1+2
Dark Souls 1+2
GTA 3 I think this is where it began for me in terms of worlds I loved !!!!

so any hours spent in those worlds, hell months in those places!!!!

gizmo

Xen.

Overheal

It would be hard not to say Azeroth in all honesty, just vast wealth of lore material there, and as a game not to mention the amount of time sunk in to the place. Take aside that if you played it 5-7 nights a week it got pretty repetitive in the short term, you can't argue there wasn't plenty that you could be doing. In theory there's enough content in the game to never get bored (reasonably).

Tamriel is also great in a few ways, but I never got really sucked into its mythos. Especially beautiful thing in Skyrim but otherwise, its alright.

I'll be unconventional and give a shoutout to Freelancer. Though the game's engine really fudged up the sense of scale, arguably I have never in my life had a better time (offline at least) just cruising around space, hauling cargo, picking fights with pirates, and monging out to music. That IP is overdue for a modern revamp

Player 2

"The Land of the Dead" from Grim Fandango, specifically Rubacava.

I loved hanging out in Manny's casino, visiting the cat-racing track, popping into the beatnik poetry club, etc. It had a great atmosphere.

ghostchant

Zebes in Super Metroid. Not a place I'd want to visit though..

super_furry

Morrowind hands down. It felt like a genuine place with its own very real history and stories. New Vegas is close though as was Azeroth in WoW up until after the Lich King expansion.

gimli2112

Far Cry 3's Island would be up there but the place I always felt happiest was in COD:MW2's maps - can't explain it just do.

mewso

Myrtana

Daith

The City - Thief series
Rapture
Hyrule
World of Darkness - I would love to see more Vampire: The Masquerade games
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