Most Beautiful Video Game Location?

[Voodoomancer]

Crysis....
All of it.
Every single local, with the exeption of the *SPOILER ALERT!!!* Iced over jungle. That is just plain frighting.

Totally Agree with this. That whole game was a masterpiece.

 

[Mutie]

Shadow of the Colossus

Man... I still have dreams about that place.

 

[Hanibal_Rising]

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Crysis....
All of it.
Every single local, with the exeption of the *SPOILER ALERT!!!* Iced over jungle. That is just plain frighting.

My thoughts exactly! What did you think of the first time you see the ruined Time Square in Crysis 2?

 

[Alssadar]

Strangely enough, I liked it when I was stuck in my castle without a bed on Minecraft, and had to look over this valley in the moonlight with the piano soundtrack playing in the background.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Nuevo Paraiso on Red Dead Redemption.

If you let the game sit it juggles scenery shots from the surrounding landscape. That game is really beautiful.

 

[chaosfalling]

The first half of the game in 'Enslaved'. Some of the environments were simply breath-taking.

Special mentions also goes to both Mass Effect games.

 

[icame]

It's a mod for oblivion called Auriel's retreat, and it is absolutely breathtaking. If mods do not count, then I would have to say this one part in Enslaved where you are up on-top of buildings. I looked out over the city that nature had reclaimed while up there and my jaw dropped.

EDIT: Ninja'd 1 post before. FML

 

[Chris Sandford]

Oblivion.
I was chasing after a deer when it ran over a hilltop, as i followed, i was struck by a valley full of flowers. it was so beautiful *breaks down crying.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Personally...I think the entirety of the Myst series had gorgeous locales. That one point in Gahreesen where you are on a stone pillar of sorts with waterfalls and forest all around you was particularly stunning.

I think I know where my fanfiction alter-ego is going to retire to...

 

[Greatjusticeman]

Virmire in Mass Effect is beautiful. Everytime I go there, I always stare out past the coast where those storms are taking place over the ocean. It's soothing to watch, combined with the distant thunder...would totally live in a place like that.

WoW has some good ones as well. Nagrand at night, or the pre-cataclysm Westfall at night as well. Winterspring is also a cool place to hang out at .

 

[ShakyFt Slasher]

The first time I stood on a mountain and saw the entire Shivering Isles made my heart jump and my stomach light.

 

[Siris]

Pretty much ALL of Hell in Shadows of the Damned

 

[Red Rum]

Star Haven from the first Paper Mario.

 

[CynicalB]

Red Dead Redemption. Have anyone actually taken their time just admirering the view from the top of a hill. Beautiful

100%

Also Plunder Island from Curse Of Monkey Island

 

[Gammaj4]

Just picked up Bioshock 2, and that short walk through a field of coral near the beginning was wondrous.

Also, lots of Metroid Prime locales. Phendrana Drifts and Elysia come to mind.

 

[s0p0g]

any of the border systems in Freelancer.

how i loved to just fly through them, look at the giant ball of pixel-gas in the distance, and feel small, insignificant and puny - but in a reeeaaally good way =)
ah, those were the days...

Freelancer 2 pls? or Freelancer: Graphics Reloaded (but EVERYTHING else left untouched)?

oh, and Dantooine in SWG was pretty pretty too ^^

 

[kijebe]

the island of panau from just cause 2 as seen from base jumping off the highest point during sunset

 

[Amberella]

Rapture from bioshock, literally dripping with atmosphere (by which i mean water). And columbia (i think that's what infinite's city is called) looks set to be even more beautiful, without being as gloomy.

Going to have to go with this.

 

[OManoghue]

Ostagar in Dragon Age: Origins. The graphics aren't the best, but damn the locations is pretty.

 

[Wanderer787]

Just about anywhere in Red Dead Redemption.