Favourite locale in a video game

[Gemini-Phoenix]

What's your favourite town / village or setting in a video game?

One of my favourites is the small desert village you visit in the second part of Parasite Eve II... I like how the town is so small, but is all linked together.

There's also an Einhander machine!


Another one of my favourites is the town in FFVII where you have Don Corneo's mansion at the top, and the "House of ill repute" down the bottom... Lol!

[MarHel78]

Dobuita and Ryo's house in Shenmue, as well as the the village you visit at the end of Shenmue II. I liked the fountain a lot, and the sound the bamboo made, after it poured the water into the well... so relaxing.....

[McBacon]

Hmmm, Windfall island on the Wind Waker, I love the music, the people, the windmill, it was great!

[Jumpman Jr.]

Hmmm, Windfall island on the Wind Waker, I love the music, the people, the windmill, it was great!

I was thinking that too!
Other than that, I guess Kariko Village or Goron City from Ocarina of time. I like the music in both of those places too.
You can never go wrong with a city of Gorons.

[slip81]

Not really a specific location, but I really liked the whole ice planet from Phantasy Star IV. Also hell from DOOM 3, Flanor from Tales of Symphonia, and anyplace in FFVI.

[NESVIDIOT]

Can anyone guess my favorite location?

Amazingly, my favorite locale in videogaming is............(drum roll)....
The Mushroom Kingdom.
Where else can you Kart race, play tennis, golf, get into great adventures to save the Princess from multiple enemies, plus a whole ton more?
And on the wind plays a beautiful music that you can hear everywhere you go.

Now if only real life was this good.... LOL

[MrRoboto19XX]

Both of mine come from Yu Suzuki's masterpiece; Shenmue.

Dobuita when its raining, it just seems like such a fascinating place to visit if it were real, all those odd shops. Dont forget the "You Game" arcade!

Either that or the docks in Shenmue, especially when it gets dark, you just have to look out for large groups of 70...

[CrimsonNugget]

City 17 from Half-Life 2 and Pioneer 2 in PSO.

[sirhansirhan]

Saturn Valley in Earthbound.

[atari_wizard]

The Lost Woods - Ocarina of Time. i thought it was clever to use the music to lead you to saria. plus its a pain to navigate thru with the tv on mute. :) LOL

if i was to pick classic:
the lost caverns in Pitfall II : The Lost Caverns.

[suppafly]

Dobuita and Ryo's house in Shenmue, as well as the the village you visit at the end of Shenmue II. I liked the fountain a lot, and the sound the bamboo made, after it poured the water into the well... so relaxing.....

Ryo´s hometown on Shenmue 1. I had a blast visiting every place in that town...and watching the fish in the yard´s pond...

[Haoie]

If it was a world, it'd be the Sonic world. What great variety it has.

And Oil Ocean for Sonic 2 is 1 of the most original settings I've ever seen.

[Cryomancer]

Great thread. A lot of places I liked have already been mentioned.

I really liked the space/scifi areas in Sonic adventure 2 for some reason...also probably the same reason i like Pioneer 2 and the lobbies in PSO. I'm just a guy who likes "futuristic" settings I guess.

Earthbound is full of great towns, Fourside and Winters probably being my favs. Robotrek has a great hidden planet that's a giant library, very cool.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Knothole Glade from Fable.
In the game, I made my house there.
If it existed in real life, I might have to as well.
something about theearly morning light filtering through the pine trees and ferns...

[TheRedEye]

Rubacava in Grim Fandango. This may or may not have anything to do with Casablanca being my favorite movie.

[Streetball 21]

I think one of my favorites has to be Dire Dire Docks from Super Mario 64. The music is relaxing, as is the stage itself.

Also Hyrule Field from Ocarina of Time. It is still awesome to this day riding through it.

[Jasoco]

I also love Hell in Doom 3. In fact, I love any level where it's supposed to be a regular location twisted. i.e...

Hell in Doom 3. Damn did I love that. Walls opening, levels rearranging, never knowing what would happen next.

The weird dream levels in Max Payne 1/2 as well as the funhouse revisited in Max Payne 2. I loved how the hallway would get longer and longer as you ran slower and slower in that one part. Or when you had to go back through the Funhouse and it was all warped. I can't wait for Max Payne 3.

The later levels in Serious Sam when you end up walking up the wall then on the ceiling or bouncing on the brick floor. Oh, and I can't forget to mention the final level when hoards of enemies, hundreds at once, all come at you at the same time. (Let all those Kamakaze's gang up and gather together then fire to fully push the Xbox's processor to its limits. Daaaaamn...) The boss battle wasn't as fun, but the battle before it kicked ass.

Games where the whole game is supposed to be weird like that don't count as much as the locations in games where they don't seem to fit.

I love it.

Oh, and one of my earliest favorites. When I played Hexen on the PC for the first time a decade ago and the wall unzipped, I was hooked. That was far beyond Doom. Soon after an earthquake took over and I learned the hard way that you never know what you can expect in that game.

And those are just the weird ones.

I agree about Fable. That game had some beautiful locations.

I'd still love to live on Hillys though. Something about the architecture and technology design.

[AlexKidd]

I can't think of a specific name of a town or anything but I liked just about all of the places and scebery in Ys for ps2.

A lot of the towns in Fable were cool too. My favorite would probably be hook cost.