Most Beautiful Video Game Location?
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out of all the games I've played I would probably say the setting of Red Dead Redemption, just everywhere you go looks awesome, hanging rock during a thunderstorm remains one of the best looking things I've seen in gaming
As much as I hated it, the field in Final Fantasy 13, "what field?" you may ask and I shall reply "the only field". It showed just how beautiful and fun the game could have been if it had been as open as that one map for the whole game...
Otherwise anywhere in Oblivion, I liked Morrowind more but Oblivion is the more beautiful and scenic.
Otherwise anywhere in Oblivion, I liked Morrowind more but Oblivion is the more beautiful and scenic.
Seeing the enormity, scale, and scope of Aperture Labs in Portal 2 had me absolutely amazed. The environments created in that old, flooded salt mine, to the modern caverns composed of fully-customizable rooms, and even the persistently degrading third act, seeing how it all intertwined, how the modern and aged portions all interacted--it was just mindblowing. I stood for minutes at a time slowly panning around the nothing-short-of-monolithic 'scapes, taking in as many details as were put into the design as I could.
Honorable mentions go to Metroid Prime's various eye-widening environmental glories, and Just Cause 2's enormous but entirely rendered glory. Hells to the yes.
Honorable mentions go to Metroid Prime's various eye-widening environmental glories, and Just Cause 2's enormous but entirely rendered glory. Hells to the yes.
I fudged my pants, that's what happened (that was probably after the fight too, that was REALLY challenging).Hanibal_Rising said:
Also, I thought that Crysis was more beautiful than Crysis 2, only because of the whole tropical island thing. I'm surprised by how little people think the same way.
Mass Effect's vistas, for one.
Another thing that comes to mind are Halo: Reach's Condemned or Highlands maps. Condemned is set on a space station thats orbiting Reach as its being glassed, and the view is truly spectacular. Highlands has Covenant Cruisers routinely glassing in the distance. The contrast between the beauty and the destruction is fabulous.
Another thing that comes to mind are Halo: Reach's Condemned or Highlands maps. Condemned is set on a space station thats orbiting Reach as its being glassed, and the view is truly spectacular. Highlands has Covenant Cruisers routinely glassing in the distance. The contrast between the beauty and the destruction is fabulous.
I know that pain. You get this perfect idea that satisfies all requests yet also manages to be in tune with your desired village, but then you find that you need one extra space, or two more pieces of river, or just that one extra road piece. I'm finally happy with my design, but I'll be the first to admit that I when I was making it, an extra river or two would've made it that much easier.bliebblob said:
Pretty much everything in Red Dead Redemption, but there was one area in partuclar that struck me. Just heading past (or on the way to) Thieves Landing, there was a small bridge crossing over the water. I got there just as the sun was starting to rise. I had to stop, as it eas easily one of the most amazing scenes I had ever seen in a game.
In the first Unreal game, the first outdoor area you came across, NyLeves falls. Granted it doesn't look like much these days but back then, especially in contrast to the dark prison ship you'd just climbed out off it looked spectacular.
It's something I've always remembered the Unreal Tournament games for as well, having some of the shiniest multiplayer arenas ever. Especially that one stage set amongst a forest of giant trees crossed with walkways, where the gravity got lower the higher you climbed. All that, without a chest high wall in site. Maybe one day, Epic will make another UT game in the old school style, and maybe people will actually play for a decent amount of time.
But I digress.
To back up a point from earlier in this topic, that vista from ME2's Overlord DLC was quite the view indeed.
In the first Unreal game, the first outdoor area you came across, NyLeves falls. Granted it doesn't look like much these days but back then, especially in contrast to the dark prison ship you'd just climbed out off it looked spectacular.
It's something I've always remembered the Unreal Tournament games for as well, having some of the shiniest multiplayer arenas ever. Especially that one stage set amongst a forest of giant trees crossed with walkways, where the gravity got lower the higher you climbed. All that, without a chest high wall in site. Maybe one day, Epic will make another UT game in the old school style, and maybe people will actually play for a decent amount of time.
But I digress.
To back up a point from earlier in this topic, that vista from ME2's Overlord DLC was quite the view indeed.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade's Japan.
Oh my goodness. That game. There's some repetition in the environments but they're breathtaking every single last time.
Oh my goodness. That game. There's some repetition in the environments but they're breathtaking every single last time.
