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
Deus Ex

CallMeFlo

Same as a lot of others..

Rapture and Hyrule!

Oh and the Monkey Island universe for sure

Black Mesa, Rapture & the Land of the Dead (Grim Fandango)

CiDeRmAn

Tallon IV in Metroid Prime is amazing
Lordran from Dark Souls is best of generation imho.
Silent Hill from the second game is brilliant.
The whole map from SMW!
Bay Bridge and Big Forest in Virtua Racing as well.

Sierra Oscar

dreamers75 wrote: »

Tamriel

Just so much in it via games rather than game.

Yep, Tamriel would have to be mine too. I always get the feeling that the world is just so expansive when I play Morrowind / Oblivion / Skyrim.

The changing nature of the environment really adds to that too.

I like the setting in Fallout 3 too, very bleak and eery. Sometimes it can feel a little repetitive though, but I guess that is what a post apocalyptic world would look like!

mayordenis

City 17 and it's surroundings, after all, we don't go to Ravenholm.

I think Azeroth was realised in a spectacular fashion.

And sure look, it still hasn't quite got the full reinvention it so long deserves, but Kanto deserves mention.

zola80

Fallout3 - Wasteland is still no. 1 for me, after which comes Gothic II (too bad they've ruined all in the sequel)

Akrasia

Oddworld from Abe's oddysee

MadYaker

The Half Life 2 world as pretty cool.

Fnz

Favourite world might be the village from Project Zero 2: Crimson Butterfly. Dripping with atmosphere and never felt at odds with the creepy lore.

CiDeRmAn

Raiden 2, beginning to end, each level is so full of character, beautiful work.
Raiden DX is probably better but I haven't played enough to be sure.

quarryman

Tamriel. No question.

And to be more specific: Cyrodiil

Ol' Donie

There are many, but if I had to visit one (apart from Hyrule), it'd be Delfino Plaza. Loved it, with it's beaches and canals. Loved the music and the announcement jingle especially.

CiDeRmAn

Ol' Donie wrote: »

There are many, but if I had to visit one (apart from Hyrule), it'd be Delfino Plaza. Loved it, with it's beaches and canals. Loved the music and the announcement jingle especially.

Yeah, that was a good one, oddly though, Super Mario Sunshine came in for flak from some quarters because of the Delfino setting.
I played a bit of Sunshine and couple of weeks ago and was impressed at how it still looks pretty great some twelve years after its release on the Gamecube.
Luigis Mansion and Metroid Prime similarly have remained quite ageless.

Ol' Donie

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Yeah, that was a good one, oddly though, Super Mario Sunshine came in for flak from some quarters because of the Delfino setting.
I played a bit of Sunshine and couple of weeks ago and was impressed at how it still looks pretty great some twelve years after its release on the Gamecube.
Luigis Mansion and Metroid Prime similarly have remained quite ageless.

It's one of my favourite games, possibly my favourite of that generation. I've wanted to give it a run through again for a while, but I'm sure it'll be re released sometime, on eshop or hd or whatever, so I'll wait till then.

krudler

Super Mario World, loved the dinosaur land setting.

Rapture, fantastically moody and the art deco setting is lovely

Lordran, where everything wants to kill you, repeatedly.

Red Dead Redemption, limited by the tech available but still a stunning looking open world, slowly ambling through a town or out in the wild on a horse never gets old.

johnny_ultimate

The world of Jazzpunk. Often, when you venture off the main path in a game, you're greeted with an invisible wall, a pointless collectible or the like. Jazzpunk's world is all about countering that - exploring every corner, where you will inevitably encounter something bizarre, funny, imaginative or irreverent. Its mini sandboxes feel alive with detail and surprise: you could be playing a wedding themed parody of Quake one minute, and using a metal detector to find a buried frozen mammoth the next.

That it achieves consistency despite it indulging every wild idea the designers can think of is down to tone and aesthetic. The world is realised in vibrant primary colours and the characters joyfully abstract (reducing many general NPCs to blank emoticons is an inspired touch). Using the iconography of paranoid Cold War thrillers, analogue technology and acid trips all blended into one insane cocktail, it manages to be familiar (the designers find much comic mileage in subverting the recognisable) and yet at the same time fresh and unexpected. The soundtrack lives up to that odd title.

Mostly, though, it's just really ****ing fun to explore.

Fawk Nin

Hyrule, purely for the characters it contains.

callaway92

Thread needs more pics/screenshots of beauty.

Yeah though, it's pretty hard to disagree with either Rapture or the Wasteland in Fallout 3.

Schwiiing

Florence from AC2.
Vice City.

Ol' Donie

Schwiiing wrote: »

Florence from AC2.
Vice City.

Two great ones there.

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