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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 2 2013, 09:28 PM (396 Views) | |
| dataDyne | Feb 2 2013, 09:28 PM Post #1 |
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Video games have given us some of the most creative, wonderful, scary, loathsome, awful and just plain AMAZING worlds ever thought up by mankind. But the question is, which is your favourite? Hard decision, I know. For me, it's hands-down Rapture from Bioshock 1 and 2. This place absolutely blew my mind, and scared the absolute bejeezus out of me at the same time. What an amazing concept: an underwater metropolis for the world's elite. And its terrible fate just makes it even more fascinating, albeit terrifying. There's nothing scarier than being trapped in a ruined city at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean in the world, running for your life from demented humans. Whoa!
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| stinger9142 | Feb 2 2013, 09:32 PM Post #2 |
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Incredible topic idea dD I will throw an odd one out, Isla Innocentes on Battlefield Bad Company 2. Why? Well for one it feels like a second home to me after spending probably 300 hours playing that level alone. I know it as if I had truly been there. It is a beautiful and unique looking place. After that. I will say Rome on Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Beautiful and full of atmosphere!
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| The Red Shadow | Feb 2 2013, 10:23 PM Post #3 |
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I can't narrow it down to one but I can safely list these three as my favorites. 1) Gaia from Final Fantasy VII - From Midgar to the Gold Saucer to Cosmo Canyon, I can't think of a video game world I'd rather live out my days in. After all that messy Meteor/Sephiroth/Jenova mess got sorted out, of course. 2) Azeroth from World of Warcraft - After having spent the better part of 3 years in that world I can say with all certainty that I could spend several more there(even though I've quit playing and don't plan on going back unless they go free to play). I'll always vividly remember the first times I entered into some of my favorite zones of the WoW world, like Dun Morogh, the home of the dwarf capital city Ironforge, the vastly diverse zones of Outland, and especially the altered topography of the great Cataclysm. 3) The Forbidden Land from Shadow of the Colossus - As ridiculous as this might sound, one of the first "additional features" I wanted to create for SotC was the ability to build a house in this amazingly simple but vast land that was home only to birds, lizards, turtles and 16 monstrous colossi. To be able to ride my horse around, go fishing, sun bathe in the desert and go swimming in the ocean, then saddle up for a journey to topple a mighty beast, well, it sure seems like an unconventional paradise to me.
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| Kerr Avon | Feb 5 2013, 09:00 AM Post #4 |
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This is an interesting topic! Rapture is of course one of the most interesting and well realised game worlds, but I wouldnt want to live there! I'd like to visit, and pick up some of the plasmids and tonics, though! GTA San Andreas' game world is very interesting to explore - not nearly as detailed as GTA IV's, but much more interesting and varied. When GTA 3 first came out, I spent ages exploring that. Nowadays, when every fourth game is a GTA clone, GTA 3's world is blah, but at the time the detail and freedom to explore was staggering. Mafia's game world was beautiful (within the limitations of the console/PC technology of the time), but like most games of it's type, the world was all show with little interactive content - you couldn't enter most buildings, you couldn't interact with the pedestrians (other than running them over or otherwise hurting them and then escaping punishment as the game world 'forgot' your crimes) etc. The Elderscrolls III: Morrowind has a varied world that rewards exploration. Skyrim and Oblivion are much more beautiful to look at, but they sacrifice the variety that Morrowind offers, giving more beautiful but less varied game worlds to interact with. Other games, such as The Saboteur, Just Cause 1 and 2, Saint's Row 1 to 3, inFAMOUS, but if I had to choose one game world to live in, I don't know what I'd pick. I know one thing, though; whatever game world I choose would be one where you ate food to restore your health! Imagine, instead of bandages, stitches, hospital operations and weeks/months of recovering, you just eat some food and you're back to full health! That's the thing I most wish real life had in common with video gaming. |
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| YogurtStorm | Feb 5 2013, 09:10 AM Post #5 |
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ONE favourite game world? That tough, man! So many good words like Conker with the poop level I'll go with The Ishimura from the original Dead Space. That ship composed the most horrifying gaing experience I can truly remember. Horror games were something I've always LOVED ever since I had my first nightmares watching my dad play Resident Evil, but it's a lackluster genre these days. That said, nothing prepared me for what EA had prepared. The delicate touch of atmospheric ''weight'', the light sounds of bending metal, clicking on metal grates and tiny 'hisses' coming from everywhere... This game had me doing 180's on myself all the time JUST to make sure my back was clear. I am a little bit claustrophobic, and this game totally put that to the test. I mean, how can you be more stranded than within an abandoned Planet cracker full of necromorphs!? Corpses rapidly rising from the dead to jump at you offer plenty of cheap scares and it's just such a TENSE and STRESSFUL game the entire way. |
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| SicCooper | Feb 5 2013, 09:12 AM Post #6 |
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Pokemon.
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| Phantom | Feb 5 2013, 09:14 AM Post #7 |
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I love the Uncharted games worlds, they are done fantastically in all three games, i really like the desert in Uncharted 3 for some reason, it really makes you feel like your all alone and it is such a vast environment. If you want amazing scenery Uncharted is fantastic for it. |
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| floorcat | Feb 5 2013, 01:46 PM Post #8 |
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Great topic, Data!! I'd only played the first few levels of Bioshock... always wished my FPS motion-sickness would've allowed me to play through both games. But even from just those few levels, I could tell that the detail the devs put into the game world was IMMENSE, all the way down to the Ayn Randian philosophies! And I totally agree... it was a verrrrrrry freaky/scary game!! It didn't really have any true monsters or demons like most traditional horror games do... but what it did have in spades that made things so much scarier for me were the "monsters" created from the the darker side of our own human nature. *shiverrr* Maybe one of these days I'll stock up on the Dramamine to get through the 2, soon to be 3, games in the series. Anyways... MY favorite game world (about which I feel I can speak with a little bit of authority) is absolutely, without a doubt... Dead Space (surprise, surprise). From the very first game, EA Redwood (which later became Visceral Games) created an immense, immersing, and believable world. Much like in Bioshock, most gameplay involves exploring a world formerly inhabited (and obviously destroyed), and you make your way through the levels battling the "remnants" of that world. When you're not pre-occupied fending off things that want to stab you in the face, you're always picking up little clues of the former inhabitants... little text/audio/video logs of survivors at various points before (or during) their last moments. The way they've implemented this I find ENTRALLING, as you're often given an inside view into their, suspicions, fears, ulterior motives, and mental state. Even though they're little recorded snippets of these minor characters' lives ultimately unimportant to the main plot-line, it really adds incredible depth to the story. Speaking of the story, they've really done a fabulous job... even my partner (who was mildly interested as I played through Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and scoffed at the various plot elements I'd talk about for Hitman: Absolution) finds it to be a very engrossing story! For those who are curious, this trailer sums it up pretty nicely: As I had mentioned in other threads, I've been following Dead Space in just about every channel their marketing team has used, from promo-websites, to web-series (and physical) comics, to animated movies, to novels. Though some methods shine better than others in entertainment value, everything fits in very nicely in the Dead Space lore. I've heard (when Dead Space 2 was releasing) that the writers have kept EXTREMELY tight control on the story, even though there's been (and continues to be) so much freedom to expand through all the other channels of media. |
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| dataDyne | Feb 5 2013, 06:05 PM Post #9 |
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Thanks for your replies gentlemen. Some of the most interesting posts I've read in a while!Dead Space definitely earns an honorable mention from me! I only own the first installment (I picked it up after MANY recommendations from floorcat :P), and I was blown away by the Ishimura and its dark secrets. I'll never forget the first time I saw that poor man pinned-up against the wall by the slimy looking stuff, before...TENTACLES!!! NOOOOO!!! Hoo boy that scared the sheeeeeeeeaaaaat out of me. Still, nothing has ever compared to Rapture for me. My eyes just about jumped out their sockets during that first bathysphere ride through Rapture. Truly video games have given some of the most creative people in the world the opportunity to amaze us with their work. This video pretty much sums up everything I love (and loathe) about Bioshock and Rapture. WARNING: The following video may disturb you just a teeny bit...muaahahahahahahahahaha. Edited by dataDyne, Feb 5 2013, 06:05 PM.
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| floorcat | Feb 5 2013, 06:16 PM Post #10 |
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*shiverrr* "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." ― Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Phantom | Feb 5 2013, 06:22 PM Post #11 |
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Your going all out with the Dead space lately Floorcat I do agree with you tho it is a fantastic gaming environment.
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| Flare Dancer | Feb 15 2013, 11:33 PM Post #12 |
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Oblivion. No contest. |
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| Xephyrian | Feb 16 2013, 01:13 AM Post #13 |
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I'm gonna have to go with Fallout 3 here with Gielinor (Runescape's world) as a close second. |
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| Mk II | Feb 16 2013, 04:33 AM Post #14 |
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Elite
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Hyrule
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| Grizzmeister | Feb 16 2013, 11:02 AM Post #15 |
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Mushroom Kingdom.
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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| zar | Feb 18 2013, 08:37 AM Post #16 |
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My favorites are Dinosaur Planet from SF Adventures, Tallon Overworld from Metroid Prime, almost every Zelda world especially TP's Hyrule Field & Termina, Kannon's Klaim from DKC2, Impact Site from Pikmin, Nagrand from WoW and the Okami world and probably a lot more lol. Many are from the GameCube, man I love the GameCube
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| The Red Shadow | Feb 18 2013, 09:10 AM Post #17 |
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Quite a few good ones there, especially loving a shoutout for Nagrand! That is a beautiful zone, for sure. I could probably make quite a list just from WoW zones.
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| Agent of Ligar | Feb 18 2013, 12:09 PM Post #18 |
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That is a very hard question to answer. There are so many I love, so this is by no means my definite answer (as I am uncertain), but simply one that has always been significant and inspirational: Treasure Trove Cove .............from Banjo Kazooie (music is awesome too) Normally my favorite levels in video games are snowy-forest levels (as I love snowy forests in reality), but I also love island levels. I suppose I like almost any nature-based level/world with lots of plants, but there are some exceptions to that rule, and there are some urban/man-made/artificial environments I enjoy too (though probably very few)............though I can't think of any at the moment. In general, most worlds/environments/levels from Banjo-Kazooie, the Donkey Kong series, and various Mario games are my favorites. |
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