Most Beautiful Video Game Location?

[Soushi]

Pandora
The Avatar Game may have been crispy fried puke, but at least it took place on motherfraking Pandora

That, or some of the environments in the ACE combat games, particularly shattered skies. Breathtaking skies, really well done.

And Just Cause 2 was very nice. And to a lesser extent dragon age.

 

[dwgatewood]

I personally still like Zangarmarsh in WoW. It was just a very immersive zone with great ambiance.

 

[Cabisco]

Reading through these I agree with a great many of the suggestions, i'm trying to think of one which is either hasn't been mentioned yet or is a little less well known.

The halo series was a good shout by someone above, lots of very pretty parts in those games.

GTA 4, Liberty City was one of the most impressive gameworlds I have ever seen and it actually felt like the city had a life of it's own and would continue on after you turned off.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

Man, so many choices. The countryside around Anvil, Bruma and Cheydinhal in Oblivion; Dias Coronez and Aurora Basin in Red Dead Redemption; Algonquin in GTA IV; the view from Mount Chillidad in GTA San Andreas; Myrtana in Gothic 3; the Great Wall in Titan Quest; Loch Modan, The Barrens, Silverpine Forest, Mulgore and Redridge from Classic WoW; Virmir in Mass Effect 1; Ostagar in Dragon Age Origins. Heck, even some locations in older games still strike me as beautiful, like Wolong in Summoner; the Umar Hills in Balder's Gate II; and pretty much the entirety of Balder's Gate I. I just wanted to move into that damn world the first time I played it.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Tall Trees and the Mexican border regions in Red Dead Redemption.

A lot of places in the original Spyro games.

A lot of planets and other space locations from the Ratchet and Clank series.

Zion Valley in Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts DLC

Shadow of the Colossus, all of it pretty much.

 

[baddude1337]

The first thing that came to my mind was Red Dead Redemption, standing on top of that big mountain looking out over Armadillo and the wild west around it.. Just awesome.

 

[Kris015]

Well, Shadow of the Colossus, most of Guild Wars, that crystal place in FFXIII, The last place in Mass Effect 2, Eden in Mass Effect 1.. I could go on forever!

 

[default]

Shadow of the Colossus.

Just... All of it

I have a little pond near the southern cliffedge I go back to visit occasionally...

It has turtles there :3

 

[Pig Mazurka]

The area of Hell where you get to use the Big Boner in Shadows of the Damned.

Just a bunch of neon signs, with every single one having something to do with demon strip clubs.

 

[SweetNess_666]

I personally still like Zangarmarsh in WoW. It was just a very immersive zone with great ambiance.

Agreed there are some beautiful places in wow

 

[Gregg Lonsdale]

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.

 

[repeating integers]

Space, Homeworld.

The above is one tiny smidgen of the sheer beauty in Homeworld's galaxy.

 

[ShaqLevick]

Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Although it's not a favourite game I always thought Besaid Island from FFX was really pretty.

 

[Bluffy]

Shambhala in Uncharted 2 O.O

 

[thenumberthirteen]

While as a whole the game world had a tendency to copy/paste playing Oblivion for the first time was a breathtaking experience. Even my parents (who don't game) said it looked fantastic.

I also love Minecraft. Sure it's blocky, but the fact that it's all randomly generated makes some amazing vistas of rolling hills, sharp dunes, and sheer cliff walls.

 

[Renegade-pizza]

Mass Effect 3's locations look absolutely epic. Especially future Earth.(before the Reapers decided to go all eco-terrorist on it all)

 

[perabalaofmystery]

Pripyat from mw? i actualy dont reemember what game but it was beautiful

 

[Astiahl]

Just Cause 2 (one day I will have a PC that can run it on max...ONE DAY!), so very awesome...and if you can see it you can go there. Shadow of the Colossus deserves mention, everything was beautiful...too bad my dog chewed up the game disk when I was halfway through...

Black Velvetopia from Psychonauts deserves an honorable mention.

 

[Penguin_Factory]

I would like to second the world of Shadow of The Colossus. The entire overworld is amazing, but one part always stood out to me: the vast open plain you travel over to fight the ninth colossus. It always felt very real to me.

Some of the locations in Alan Wake were really amazing.

Also I'd probably have to say one of the big cathedrals in Assassin's Creed 2. Can't remember the name of it, but it's the one covered in gold murals. The first time I walked in I literally just stood there for like five minutes gaping at the screen.