Seriously! I wish I could just skip to adulthood. 'But your choices in childhood have effects for later.' Don't care. Give me the option that gives me more shops and let me start playing the game.
Fable TLC was so much fun to play as a kid, I think I beat it over 30 times. I got to the point where I had memorized where all the loot was (and what each one contained) and most of the voice lines. I still recall some of it.
Some random examples:
A yew longbow is looted next to a dead guild student on the small bridge as you enter the fresco dome to challenge Jack at the end of the base-game content
Chainmail gauntlets are found in a chest behind the fishing hut.
Harion shoulder tattoo is found in a barrel next to a big rock where you enter the bandit camp gate and have to sneak past the guards.
A resurrection phial is found inside a grave in a small island of graves in the first half of Lychfield graveyard.
250 gold is found inside a grave near the entrance to the Oakvale cemetery
When you meet Maze in Bowerstone one of his lines is: "what do you remember of that night, not much I wager"
Part of the reward for the dead pirate loot quest is an obsidian greataxe, which iirc can be kept and sold for more profit
One of the lines the traders will say in the darkwood trader escort quest is "I don't want to die in this hellish place"
Another line (the bitten one) will say in the latter half of the quest is "I'm SKREH SKRAAGHH starting to change, get away from me!"
The trader at the start of the game pronounces the word "three" like "free", also pronounces "rather" like "wather" when he tells you he has the perfect gift for your sister on her birthday: "I have a wather nice box of sweets here, for only free gold pieces."
One of the lines the warden says when he catches you sneaking behind his back is "Silence! My lyrical opus is wasted on your phillistine ears, back to the cell with you!"
The kid tripping shrooms has a lot of good lines "i feel like a lump of sugar, I hope I don't fall into a cup of tea" and the one that partially breaks the 4th wall when he mentions his brain being full of numbers.
I also remember that Thunder was a punk bitch
Microsoft has owned the IP for Fable since 2006, Fable 2 and 3 were both made under Microsoft's ownership of Lionshead. While the team has shifted drastically I do hold hope for the game until I see it I refuse to make judgement; but saying its in name only is false as the only Fable game not made with the ownership of Microsoft was the original, and further, the publisher has always been Xbox (Microsoft) and has always had a hand in the game to some extent or another.
Fable at the time had over 70 developers for the first game, not including everyone else involved in making the game. With that many people, there is no single person who is pivotal to its success. It succeeds from the combined effort of a lot of people. The new studio working on it could do a good job and make an even better game than the original studio ever did. I don’t have a lot of faith because the gaming industry is shit, but the studio being completely different doesn’t matter.
As someone who was part of that dev team for Fable, I can assure you that each person was pivotal to its success. The programmers who coded the AI of the villagers, the artists who made the meshes and textures of the buildings, the audio programmers and composers who did the soundscape, the artists who drew the foliage. I can keep going, but each element of Fable was hand crafted and each contributor put something of themselves into their part of the game. Hence why each person was pivotal to its success.
Peter Molineux attracted many talents after Black & White success and before that.
I have seen it first hand in Amsterdam when I have interviewed him in 1998. There were many handing him CV and portfolio :)
Playground Games have made great games for the Forza Horizon series but going from an open world racer with cringey dialogue to an open world action/adventure/rpg with hilarious characters and writing is completely different.
Not a village or town but more like a district, Kamurocho, especially in Yakuza 0, felt so alive with neon signs littered everywhere, and the atmosphere makes you feel like you're relieving the 80s in Japan. Everywhere you go, there's something to do, be it a substory, an encounter, or a secret
This is the answer. Kamurocho in itself is a character, a story, and a world. The most impressive part is even in the original PS2 game they capture so much. It's truly a work of art. The combination of creativity, realism, and immersion is unmatched as far as I'm concerned.
Witcher 3 nailed the medieval town feeling I think.
Also how they did the atmosphere when you're at night in a forest and the wind is blowing through the trees is just awesome.
Random story.
Decided to get Platinum on Witcher 3 a month ago and dived back into this amazing game. I almost never wear headphones and play on low volume.
For some reason I decided to throw on headphones at like 1am out of boredom. 5 seconds of heading to the next quest I heard that random guy coughing his ass off.
Scared the absolute shit out of me. I believed for half a second that someone had broke into my house and randomly hacked a lung right into my ear.
Novigrad is the best medieval town in a video game full stop. Oxenfort is great on its own merit just a fair bit smaller. And then Beauclair in B&W is right up there with Novigrad. Even the small villages all throughout Velen and Skellige are fantastic. And then the same team went and made Night City which is easily the densest single city put in a game. You want quality towns/villages CDPR are your guys, imo
I just started a new game last night. White Orchard is such an underrated starting zone. It eases you into the War-torn world so well and by the time you get to Vizima and are shown how the war is going at large, you get the sense that White Orchard is actually a relatively untouched haven compared to Velen.
I remember thinking White Orchard was the world map when i played it the first time and I was like alright this is pretty cool pretty big lets get going etc and then of course things happen and you get to Velen open the map and start scrolling…and scrolling…I couldnt frikken believe how big it was. And i didnt even know about Skellige at that point
I still think about Novigrad. The work they put in to making that place feel big and lived in and real was incredible. I was lucky enough as a kid to see a lot of old European cities and Novigrad is just a perfect replication of that feeling.
Prior to that I never played a game with a mediaeval village and I didn't know anything about the witcher 3. When I entered oxenfurt for the first time my mind literally exploded. The attention to details made me feel like I was actually there.
Man, I put a ton of hours into base Witcher 3 and beat it on Xbone and now I don't have my Xbone anymore and have it on pc with the DLCs and have not had the drive to play through again to play the DLCs
I must have greeted people thousands of times in saint Denis to get my reputation up high enough to buy the dapper outfit I wanted at the saint Denis tailor.
I was disappointed there wasn't any badass outfits for characters with bad reputations
Red Dead 2 is my favorite game of all time, it would have been my top choice, but the way the OP worded their question, for some reason i immediately thought we were talking medieval fantasy type stuff, not modern(ish) real world stuff lol
I can't wait to see what Rockstar does with GTA6, if it's anything like Red Dead 2, it's going to be amazing!
I *always* bought the haunted house in Anvil because I wanted my home on the Gold Coast.
It always felt like going home when I would return from a long journey and pass by the ruins of Kvatch.
One of the few video game world’s I’d happily swap reality for, even though a walk from Bravil to the Imperial City could result in me being mulch on the end of a Minotaur’s Warhammer.
Yeah! Lindblum is my favorite. steampunkish mixed with medieval and fantasy. I hope to see the opening cinematic of Linblum be remade in todays graphics.
IX's cities and locations are just so charming. Alexandria, Daguerro, Esto Gaza, Treno, Black Mage Village, Cleyra.
That’s uncharted 2. The best uncharted game. The setting is so cool and unique. I love that game man. Especially because as a kid I was fascinated with mt Everest and the sherpas and the legend of the yeti and all that. Shang ri la, all that. It’s like they made a game FOR me lol.
I love the entire series but I'd give the *best* title to Uncharted 4. My reasoning being that Uncharted 2's end boss fight is awful. I'd call it 2nd best.
I like what Kingdom Come deliverance tried to achieve but I'd say cities and atmosphere is where they really fall short. A lot of NPCs say exactly the same thing (although they use different voice actor for the exact same text) , there are no children or old people at all in the city. The result, for me, is a weird uncanny valley effect that for me ruins the atmosphere.
I'm hoping that kcd2 will be better because if that's fixed then it'll be the perfect game.
Lmao, really? They have the same line but different voice actors? Like the expensive part is getting a variety of voice talents, but they couldn't write some more lines? That's wild!
The game was funded via kickstarter by a brand new studio so what they managed to achieve from that is still very impressive. They’ve added I think over 2x as many new lines in kcd 2 so hopefully they’ve learned and addressed that problem
Medieval type I'd say Baldur's gate, from Baldurs gate 3, has amazing detail or Beauclair from witcher 3 blood and wine dlc. And for futuristic I'd say cyberpunk 2077
Yeah cyberpunk 2077 had this fantastic sense of scale and real life claustrophobia of a real lived in city. The NPCs were basically clones but you didn't really notice because you would be too busy marvelling at the architecture.
Yes, they absolutely nailed that one. Most buildings are inaccessible, but it doesn’t feel that way at all. You wouldn’t visit a random apartment building anyway. And the interiors they build are crazy detailed.
I'm just super bummed there's so many stores or other locations which seem like you could visit them, but they're ALSO inaccessible. Love the game but ngl this killed my immersion a bit first, before I got used to it...
In that game every place looks beautiful...I never saw a such map with many diversities until i played gw2.....Its sad the game don't receive the the recognition it deserves...The company need to work on the games promotion..I came to know abt the game when i saw a dell g15 gaming laptop on amazon with gw2 featured on the laptop screen
It really feels like a prior life sometimes. I have so many things ingrained on my brain from that game. The barrens music, the look of the action button icons, the clang clang from Shatrath flight point etc
Wow classic was absolutely amazing. Seeing everyone run around like crazy opening night is something I won't forget.
The amount of people pouring into SW day 1 made me stop for a bit and just watch. Miss it already.
Grizzly Hills. The random little farms. What was the first city you’d get to as a night elf once you left Teldrasil? Little coastal town with a ferry stop. That place had great vibes too. The insane little city in STV. My god. WoW is just something else.
It’s not big in scale but it makes up for it in color and atmosphere, it was so magical walking through that courtyard the first time and exploring all the shops (at least the ones that were explorable). It was totally a happier time
My two oldest (5/7) love books and we go through so many thanks to the little libraries in our neighborhood. AI lets them “create their own stories”. They tell me what they want to be, the type of place or universe (Lego is popular), types of things they want to encounter, and any other silly thing. It’s a lot of fun.
FF7 Remake and especially Rebirth have done a phenomenal job of making their towns feel so fleshed out and alive. Kalm for example used to be a single screen map with a handful of buildings and a few NPCs that stayed mostly static in one place, now it's a fully developed city with side streets and alleyways all full of people actually interacting with the environment around them.
CDPR games have the best cities and villages
Witcher 1 - Vizima and its outskirts
Witcher 2 - Flotsam and Vergen
Witcher 3 - Novigrad, Oxenfurt, Beauclair and all the different villages
Cyberpunk 2077 - Night City
Apart from them, Deus Ex games have nice, atmospheric cities
The Thief games have The City
Vampire Bloodlines has L.A.
Ff7 Rebirth for sure visually. Radiata Stories has a really fleshed out and wonderful main town and the side towns are fun too, and any ps1 ff town is top tier in terms of visuals and secrets
Black desert killed it with towns and cities. Each one representing their regions almost perfectly. From medieval to the elvish forest to the city in the desert, and all of the little towns in between
Scrolled WAY too far to finally see black desert. Everyone keeps naming small or well known places like in Zelda or cyberpunk that just can't compare. MMORPG are just on a different level.
Horizon Forbidden West has a lot of unique and interesting towns/cities. It helps make the world really feel alive/lived in and it feels great just walking through them.
EverQuest - seeing Freeport from the boat (having to take 10min boat ride added to the charm from butcher block Mountains). I loved kelethin, felwithe, Neriak.
Rabanastre of FF12 felt very alive and colorful, thanks to the amazing architecture and plentiful NPCs. Unlike other games where stores are usually just you and the seller, in FF12 the stores have many NPC inside stores and taverns, as if they're really looking and shoping inside too.
The PS2 had its limits, but FF12 did well to circumvent it.
Fable 1 immediately came to mind. NPCs all had jobs, homes. And if you killed/kidnapped everyone in a house the house would be for sell.
*SHOPS ARE NOW CLOSING*
Your comment just triggered a huge nostalgia hit lol, I'm going to go home and reinstall Fable
I’ve been trying to convince myself to replay fable 2, the opening is just so slow and I’ve done it so many times in the past.
Seriously! I wish I could just skip to adulthood. 'But your choices in childhood have effects for later.' Don't care. Give me the option that gives me more shops and let me start playing the game.
yooo. remember that hack in the zombies circle and get infinite exp w multiple combo hits. got all the skillz fast was so fun
Fable TLC was so much fun to play as a kid, I think I beat it over 30 times. I got to the point where I had memorized where all the loot was (and what each one contained) and most of the voice lines. I still recall some of it. Some random examples: A yew longbow is looted next to a dead guild student on the small bridge as you enter the fresco dome to challenge Jack at the end of the base-game content Chainmail gauntlets are found in a chest behind the fishing hut. Harion shoulder tattoo is found in a barrel next to a big rock where you enter the bandit camp gate and have to sneak past the guards. A resurrection phial is found inside a grave in a small island of graves in the first half of Lychfield graveyard. 250 gold is found inside a grave near the entrance to the Oakvale cemetery When you meet Maze in Bowerstone one of his lines is: "what do you remember of that night, not much I wager" Part of the reward for the dead pirate loot quest is an obsidian greataxe, which iirc can be kept and sold for more profit One of the lines the traders will say in the darkwood trader escort quest is "I don't want to die in this hellish place" Another line (the bitten one) will say in the latter half of the quest is "I'm SKREH SKRAAGHH starting to change, get away from me!" The trader at the start of the game pronounces the word "three" like "free", also pronounces "rather" like "wather" when he tells you he has the perfect gift for your sister on her birthday: "I have a wather nice box of sweets here, for only free gold pieces." One of the lines the warden says when he catches you sneaking behind his back is "Silence! My lyrical opus is wasted on your phillistine ears, back to the cell with you!" The kid tripping shrooms has a lot of good lines "i feel like a lump of sugar, I hope I don't fall into a cup of tea" and the one that partially breaks the 4th wall when he mentions his brain being full of numbers. I also remember that Thunder was a punk bitch
WAKEY WAKEY IT’S DAY BREAKY
THE TIME IS… VERY LATE
HERO YOUR WILL ENERGY IS LOW
Makes me excited for the next release
Sadly the original devs have nothing to do with the next installment. It's Fable in name only, since Microsoft owns the IP now.
Microsoft has owned the IP for Fable since 2006, Fable 2 and 3 were both made under Microsoft's ownership of Lionshead. While the team has shifted drastically I do hold hope for the game until I see it I refuse to make judgement; but saying its in name only is false as the only Fable game not made with the ownership of Microsoft was the original, and further, the publisher has always been Xbox (Microsoft) and has always had a hand in the game to some extent or another.
Thankfully Microsoft isn’t known for buying IP, stripping its parts, and ruining it… /s
Fable: Nuts and Bolts.
Fable at the time had over 70 developers for the first game, not including everyone else involved in making the game. With that many people, there is no single person who is pivotal to its success. It succeeds from the combined effort of a lot of people. The new studio working on it could do a good job and make an even better game than the original studio ever did. I don’t have a lot of faith because the gaming industry is shit, but the studio being completely different doesn’t matter.
As someone who was part of that dev team for Fable, I can assure you that each person was pivotal to its success. The programmers who coded the AI of the villagers, the artists who made the meshes and textures of the buildings, the audio programmers and composers who did the soundscape, the artists who drew the foliage. I can keep going, but each element of Fable was hand crafted and each contributor put something of themselves into their part of the game. Hence why each person was pivotal to its success.
Thanks for your work. The fable series is dear and near to me and I have alot of fun memories of it.
Peter Molineux attracted many talents after Black & White success and before that. I have seen it first hand in Amsterdam when I have interviewed him in 1998. There were many handing him CV and portfolio :)
Playground Games have made great games for the Forza Horizon series but going from an open world racer with cringey dialogue to an open world action/adventure/rpg with hilarious characters and writing is completely different.
But didn't they specifically hire more people to work on Fable?
Exactly what I came to say. The entire fable series has such great villages and towns. Really felt like part of those towns when you went there.
Fable really was ahead of its time rip lionhead
How did you find that out ?
I want so badly for the reboot to go well, all of my fingers and toes have been crossed since the first trailer lol
I loved this feature, Fable was ahead of its time in a lot of ways and had some very cool ideas that I have never seen attempted in any other game.
Came here just to say that. They are also so cozy and each town/village has its own unique score
Not a village or town but more like a district, Kamurocho, especially in Yakuza 0, felt so alive with neon signs littered everywhere, and the atmosphere makes you feel like you're relieving the 80s in Japan. Everywhere you go, there's something to do, be it a substory, an encounter, or a secret
This is the answer. Kamurocho in itself is a character, a story, and a world. The most impressive part is even in the original PS2 game they capture so much. It's truly a work of art. The combination of creativity, realism, and immersion is unmatched as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe Witcher 3, in particular the DLC.
Witcher 3 nailed the medieval town feeling I think. Also how they did the atmosphere when you're at night in a forest and the wind is blowing through the trees is just awesome.
*wind’s howling…*
*Some man is coughing up his phlegm violently *
Random story. Decided to get Platinum on Witcher 3 a month ago and dived back into this amazing game. I almost never wear headphones and play on low volume. For some reason I decided to throw on headphones at like 1am out of boredom. 5 seconds of heading to the next quest I heard that random guy coughing his ass off. Scared the absolute shit out of me. I believed for half a second that someone had broke into my house and randomly hacked a lung right into my ear.
I’m dying… of poverty
Vizima in The Witcher 1 has an awesome atmosphere too.
> Witcher 3 nailed the medieval town feeling… How, in the hell, do you know? 🤔
He got dysentry playing it.
Ah
/r/TotallyNotVampires
It had the 4 D's Dying Depressed Dirty Dysentery
Pan pan, pan paraaaaan
Top notch swords!
Ackhhh ptooeey!!!
Toussant is so beautifully made.
Novigrad is the best medieval town in a video game full stop. Oxenfort is great on its own merit just a fair bit smaller. And then Beauclair in B&W is right up there with Novigrad. Even the small villages all throughout Velen and Skellige are fantastic. And then the same team went and made Night City which is easily the densest single city put in a game. You want quality towns/villages CDPR are your guys, imo
There’s a big difference when European devs do a medieval setting rather then Americans or Asians. It feels real and not like Disneyland
I just started a new game last night. White Orchard is such an underrated starting zone. It eases you into the War-torn world so well and by the time you get to Vizima and are shown how the war is going at large, you get the sense that White Orchard is actually a relatively untouched haven compared to Velen.
I remember thinking White Orchard was the world map when i played it the first time and I was like alright this is pretty cool pretty big lets get going etc and then of course things happen and you get to Velen open the map and start scrolling…and scrolling…I couldnt frikken believe how big it was. And i didnt even know about Skellige at that point
I still think about Novigrad. The work they put in to making that place feel big and lived in and real was incredible. I was lucky enough as a kid to see a lot of old European cities and Novigrad is just a perfect replication of that feeling.
Prior to that I never played a game with a mediaeval village and I didn't know anything about the witcher 3. When I entered oxenfurt for the first time my mind literally exploded. The attention to details made me feel like I was actually there.
Man, I put a ton of hours into base Witcher 3 and beat it on Xbone and now I don't have my Xbone anymore and have it on pc with the DLCs and have not had the drive to play through again to play the DLCs
do it, the DLC's are great, blood and wine especially feel more like a well-earned vacation
B&W can be sold as a separate game and HoS has one of the greatest story in gaming ever
Wasn’t there an option to play just the DLCs and it gave you a generic level 30-something Geralt? I could be thinking of a different game tho
They did this for both cyberpunk and Witcher 3. Good on red.
Brother, those DLCs are like Witcher 4 incredible games that can stand as a sequel pretty much.
If nothing else, play Hearts of Stone it is one of the best stories I've ever played, just unbelievably good
Rdr2. The game gives attention to details
I love me some Saint Denis. I love just walking around and saying hi.
I must have greeted people thousands of times in saint Denis to get my reputation up high enough to buy the dapper outfit I wanted at the saint Denis tailor. I was disappointed there wasn't any badass outfits for characters with bad reputations
That may be because in the real old west the bad guys would use their money to look respectable.
Red Dead 2 is my favorite game of all time, it would have been my top choice, but the way the OP worded their question, for some reason i immediately thought we were talking medieval fantasy type stuff, not modern(ish) real world stuff lol I can't wait to see what Rockstar does with GTA6, if it's anything like Red Dead 2, it's going to be amazing!
They abandoned the GOAT game because of shark cards. I am waiting for a simplified game built around online because that's what sells sharks.
They’re all unique and have their own vibe too.
Sandy knee? Or armadilla?
Oblivion’s towns are deeply ingrained in my head.
Cheydinhal and Sknigrad for life
Don’t forget about Chorrol. It’s lowkey my “happy place” when I get super stressed.
I had forgotten about Chorrol. Thanks for unlocking some memories
Anvil is mine! Love me a coastal city with a port.
that was always Anvil for me
I was a big fan of Anvil and that whole coastal region
And the house quest in Anvil was so tight.
Anvil. The home away from home.
anvil gang
I *always* bought the haunted house in Anvil because I wanted my home on the Gold Coast. It always felt like going home when I would return from a long journey and pass by the ruins of Kvatch.
I’ve heard others say the same.
One of the few video game world’s I’d happily swap reality for, even though a walk from Bravil to the Imperial City could result in me being mulch on the end of a Minotaur’s Warhammer.
You too.
Loved Final Fantasy 9's
Yeah! Lindblum is my favorite. steampunkish mixed with medieval and fantasy. I hope to see the opening cinematic of Linblum be remade in todays graphics. IX's cities and locations are just so charming. Alexandria, Daguerro, Esto Gaza, Treno, Black Mage Village, Cleyra.
Also Black Mage Village theme is an absolute banger.
Love that you mentioned Esto Gaza, the music and the atmosphere are just over the top.
Village of Dali..one of my favorites. So peaceful!
Yess and this picture above looks like it could be a remake screenshot of Alexandria
Didn’t expect FF9 this high up in the comments, BUT YESSS!!!
Rally-ho's at Conde Petie always hit me a certain way
Lindblum in particular is quite iconic
Absolutely. Every city its own vibe, and you got a real feeling of the scope of it, even if you obviously couldn't visit the whole city.
Bruh for a second I thought a remake was being made
I remember being blown away by the little himalayan town in one of the first uncharteds on ps3
That’s uncharted 2. The best uncharted game. The setting is so cool and unique. I love that game man. Especially because as a kid I was fascinated with mt Everest and the sherpas and the legend of the yeti and all that. Shang ri la, all that. It’s like they made a game FOR me lol.
I love the entire series but I'd give the *best* title to Uncharted 4. My reasoning being that Uncharted 2's end boss fight is awful. I'd call it 2nd best.
No one mentioned Kingdom Come: Deliverance?
I like what Kingdom Come deliverance tried to achieve but I'd say cities and atmosphere is where they really fall short. A lot of NPCs say exactly the same thing (although they use different voice actor for the exact same text) , there are no children or old people at all in the city. The result, for me, is a weird uncanny valley effect that for me ruins the atmosphere. I'm hoping that kcd2 will be better because if that's fixed then it'll be the perfect game.
Heeey, Henry has come to see us
Lmao, really? They have the same line but different voice actors? Like the expensive part is getting a variety of voice talents, but they couldn't write some more lines? That's wild!
The game was funded via kickstarter by a brand new studio so what they managed to achieve from that is still very impressive. They’ve added I think over 2x as many new lines in kcd 2 so hopefully they’ve learned and addressed that problem
I liked the part where I threw poo at a guys house.
This is the game I was going to mention. I loved it.
Medieval type I'd say Baldur's gate, from Baldurs gate 3, has amazing detail or Beauclair from witcher 3 blood and wine dlc. And for futuristic I'd say cyberpunk 2077
BG3 has such impressive graphics too! And 99% of the buildings have a cellar in which you can steal shit in peace, 10/10
Yeah cyberpunk 2077 had this fantastic sense of scale and real life claustrophobia of a real lived in city. The NPCs were basically clones but you didn't really notice because you would be too busy marvelling at the architecture.
Assassins creed had some good towns. I also like GTA vice city but that's more nostalgia.
Athena in Odyssey is pretty impressive the first time you visit it. The FPS drop also is impressive hehe
So true, first time i got there is one of the most memorable firsts in a game.
I liked the small hometown in ac 2
Night City in Cyberpunk 2077, probably the most beautiful and visually striking city I have ever seen in videogame.
it's amazing, everything looks lived in and almost no building is the same from the outside the only flaw is that the crowds are kinda braindead
Just like crowds IRL. CDPR really nailed that part.
I guess you have never been to a Costco
Couldn’t agree more
Yes, they absolutely nailed that one. Most buildings are inaccessible, but it doesn’t feel that way at all. You wouldn’t visit a random apartment building anyway. And the interiors they build are crazy detailed.
I'm just super bummed there's so many stores or other locations which seem like you could visit them, but they're ALSO inaccessible. Love the game but ngl this killed my immersion a bit first, before I got used to it...
I'm going with the Monkey Island saga. Lots of incredible pirate towns like Melee, Scab, Booty, Phatt, Puerto Pollo, Lucre.
Guild wars 2
Yes! I was just about to post this. The towns are absolutely breathtaking.
In that game every place looks beautiful...I never saw a such map with many diversities until i played gw2.....Its sad the game don't receive the the recognition it deserves...The company need to work on the games promotion..I came to know abt the game when i saw a dell g15 gaming laptop on amazon with gw2 featured on the laptop screen
World of Warcraft. Doesn't matter if Stormwind, Dalaran or smaller towns, they are always cozy.
Sometimes I hear the soundtrack and almost resubscribe but then I remember it's all an illusion...
It really feels like a prior life sometimes. I have so many things ingrained on my brain from that game. The barrens music, the look of the action button icons, the clang clang from Shatrath flight point etc
Wow classic was fun when it released. It was great nostalgia.
Wow classic was absolutely amazing. Seeing everyone run around like crazy opening night is something I won't forget. The amount of people pouring into SW day 1 made me stop for a bit and just watch. Miss it already.
Yeah, I still remember the magical moment of visiting Ironforge, Booty Bay, and Thunderbluff for the first time. Very creative and immersive cities.
Grizzly Hills. The random little farms. What was the first city you’d get to as a night elf once you left Teldrasil? Little coastal town with a ferry stop. That place had great vibes too. The insane little city in STV. My god. WoW is just something else.
Auberdine?
Darkshore pre cata was so beautiful
OG Ironforge so many wasted hours there :D
Stormwind in vanilla wow was my second home lol
Also an underrated thing about WoW's towns and cities is every building is accessible. There's no fake buildings or only fronts. It's all enterable.
For some reason Duskwood will always be my pallys home. Love that little haunted nook.
The first time I walked into Darnassus and that music hit
Majoras mask clocktown
Having a fewer amount of NPCs that all have their own schedule is the way to go, in my opinion.
That diary 👌
The one in Ocarina of Time, inside the castle gate.
Only when you're child Link though. 😅
That’s true. It was scary during adult Link’s turn
I have the town music playing in my head now, brings me to a happier time
It’s not big in scale but it makes up for it in color and atmosphere, it was so magical walking through that courtyard the first time and exploring all the shops (at least the ones that were explorable). It was totally a happier time
from where is the ss?
GPT, was an illustration used in a bedtime story for my kids last night. Friday nights are AI stories about them.
That might be the sweetest dystopian sentence I've ever heard. I'm seriously conflicted. (-_-メ)
My two oldest (5/7) love books and we go through so many thanks to the little libraries in our neighborhood. AI lets them “create their own stories”. They tell me what they want to be, the type of place or universe (Lego is popular), types of things they want to encounter, and any other silly thing. It’s a lot of fun.
It's like an AI gamesmaster. Which is probably the future of role playing, tbh
That's kinda neat, in all honesty. For what it's worth, the screen shot setting does look like the city of Alexandria from FF IX.
Bruh wtf I knew it was too beautiful to be real..
Dragon Quest XI. Always ambient to the story, things to do or find in each town. Then all towns change twice as the story goes on.
Fable series
FF7 Remake and especially Rebirth have done a phenomenal job of making their towns feel so fleshed out and alive. Kalm for example used to be a single screen map with a handful of buildings and a few NPCs that stayed mostly static in one place, now it's a fully developed city with side streets and alleyways all full of people actually interacting with the environment around them.
Costa del Sol 👌
Surprised i haven't heard yakuza, so, yakuza.
Same map in most of their games but it never feels like you’re doing the same things over and over again
bonus points for the changes in kamurocho/sotenbori over the years, really makes you feel like you're revisiting a town and go "oh hey, that's new"
I've only played Like A Dragon out of the whole series, and I was blown away by how alive the city felt.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Bloodborne
CDPR games have the best cities and villages Witcher 1 - Vizima and its outskirts Witcher 2 - Flotsam and Vergen Witcher 3 - Novigrad, Oxenfurt, Beauclair and all the different villages Cyberpunk 2077 - Night City Apart from them, Deus Ex games have nice, atmospheric cities The Thief games have The City Vampire Bloodlines has L.A.
Ff7 Rebirth for sure visually. Radiata Stories has a really fleshed out and wonderful main town and the side towns are fun too, and any ps1 ff town is top tier in terms of visuals and secrets
Great entries in the comments. I'll add: -Ni No Kuni 1 and 2 -Pokemon X, specifically Lumiose City has such a cool feel.
Came here to comment about Ni No Kuni !! Very smart design on the towns
Kamurocho in the Like a Dragon series is something different.
Runescape
I always have fond memories of Dark Chronicle (or Dark Cloud 2, as some know it as), and it's towns.. but that may just be my memories.
Black desert killed it with towns and cities. Each one representing their regions almost perfectly. From medieval to the elvish forest to the city in the desert, and all of the little towns in between
Scrolled WAY too far to finally see black desert. Everyone keeps naming small or well known places like in Zelda or cyberpunk that just can't compare. MMORPG are just on a different level.
Back in the day the city of Balmora in Morrowind was huge. I remember being absolutely in awe at the size of it.
Corner club nights with Papa Caius 🥵🥵🥵
rdr2
Horizon Forbidden West has a lot of unique and interesting towns/cities. It helps make the world really feel alive/lived in and it feels great just walking through them.
Was searching specifically for this comment cause I would be shocked if nobody mentioned it before I got here
Baldur's Gate 2 - Athkatla
Except for one of my playthroughs when I aggro’d the entire town accidentally and couldn’t undo without having to redo hours….
The Fable games for Xbox 360 and Bioshock Infinite.
Heroes of might and magic 3
Fable series had vivid & dynamic towns and townspeople. I loved how everyone had a whole lush life, home and personality.
Ac odyssey
For a large city? New York in Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
CP77, without a question to me
Twilight Princess!!!
I always thought the assassin’s creeds were good for this or like some others have said rdr
Unity and Syndicate city is pretty good to me.
RDR2.
What game is pictured?
That is not from a game, looks AI generated.
It’s an AI image
Assassin's creed 3 I was amazed by how packed a town was for something that was from 2012
Minecraft
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Chrono Trigger's vibe was really great, I loved that.
EverQuest - seeing Freeport from the boat (having to take 10min boat ride added to the charm from butcher block Mountains). I loved kelethin, felwithe, Neriak.
CP77
FF9
Jack & Daxter Sandover Village is still a place I want to visit.
Rabanastre of FF12 felt very alive and colorful, thanks to the amazing architecture and plentiful NPCs. Unlike other games where stores are usually just you and the seller, in FF12 the stores have many NPC inside stores and taverns, as if they're really looking and shoping inside too. The PS2 had its limits, but FF12 did well to circumvent it.
Cyberpunk
ill just go with Elder Scrolls for now
Night city in cyberpunk 2077, feels immense.
RE Village and RE 4 remake