Environments that made you shed a tear

[similar.squirrel]

Nutty Acres in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. This post is going to stick out like a sore thumb, but that level was amazing. I don't recall crying, though.

 

[Naheal]

Say what you will about the game, the terrain was awesome.

 

[OceanRunner]

For me it would be the Crashed Frigate in Metroid Prime. Everything in it is so well done. The looks, the music, the way everything moves in the water, just blends together into one of the most perfect levels every made.

My favourite is the Phendrana Drifts. The bright snowy environments are exquisite to explore, topped off with a gorgeous piano theme.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

Our's. It's dying.

 

[Sebenko]

Morrowind.

Special mention goes to Crysis. I keep forgetting how damnably pretty the game is.

 

[Nazz3]

Nothing has ever made me shed a tear, but in Mass Effect 2, on the beginning when you go outside of Normandy and see all the planets and stars, that was fucking beautiful. It was like, the Normandy is on fire, everything is exploding, its chaotic, then you just suddenly step out of the ships forcefield, theres no sound besides your breathing, you see all the planets and stars which didnt look just like a cheap low res skybox, that was awesome.

 

[Jojo1378]

Porbably the second I scrolled out in Spores Space stage...that is quite insanely huge!

 

[ultrachicken]

Standing on top of suicide hill, looking at dementia and mania was a "whoa moment" (The Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion). That was a "whoa moment." I have yet to shed a tear for an environment.

 

[Space Spoons]

There are many areas in Red Dead Redemption that fit this description, but Ojo del Diablo around sunset and Tall Trees around sunrise... Just amazing.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Uncharted 2...

Spoiler: better have some tissue

 

[demoman_chaos]

God of War had quite a few plaes that I was awstruck by.

 

[PPB]

I never shed a tear over a game environment, but the closest was the aforementioned Normandy crash site in Mass Effect 2.

 

[Pegghead]

While I've never cried for a game's environment (Or a game in general) I think Fallout 3 really nailed that sense of having the whole world as your oyster, the music, the sunlight and of course the beautiful wasteland.

 

[V TheSystem V]

I would have to say a lot of places in Red Dead Redemption. Getting to the top of Nekoti Rock, the highest point in the game, is pretty awesome, as is the view over Beecher's Hope and just looking down the road in Armadillo. The last place just made me think 'I'm in a real western!'

 

[slipknot4]

MGS 3, the end when you meet boss and have a talk about stuff. I don't know if it was the setting of the scene or the writing, but never the less. I cried like a baby there.

 

[ziggy161]

Hyrule Field, Ocarina of time and
most of the areas in Shadow of the Collossus :3

 

[ziggy161]

For me it would be the Crashed Frigate in Metroid Prime. Everything in it is so well done. The looks, the music, the way everything moves in the water, just blends together into one of the most perfect levels every made.

My favourite is the Phendrana Drifts. The bright snowy environments are exquisite to explore, topped off with a gorgeous piano theme.

Yeah I loved that area...

 

[Gonswell]

pretty much any moment in half life 2.

 

[Doctor Polaris]

Bioshock blew me away the first time I played it. The very beginning when you're swimming around in the water looked absolutely amazing. At any point where you actually got to look outside and see the rest of the city was breathtaking as well.

 

[MarsProbe]

One environmental occurence that had me stunned was in Red Dead Redemption when I was riding through Thieves Landing and noticed everything had a slightly subdued tone to it. I stopped near one of the small bridges going over the water and wss able to look to the horizon to see the sunrise. I just left Marston sitting there to watch the sun come up. That was one amazing moment.