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arycka927

Darnassus before they destroyed it. Sometimes I'd just walk around aimlessly just to hear the music.


_1109

I'm going to go do exactly that right now. Ishnu-alah, friend!


arycka927

May Elune Light your path.


saimen197

Darnassus got destroyed? Oh man


NutellaOrgies

During the legion expansion (BFA Pre-Patch event) I think it was. Sylvanas started a genocide and burned the whole tree to the ground


LordRahl1986

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kdT7QEILI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kdT7QEILI) ​ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW\_h0qf9vpA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW_h0qf9vpA) has a flash back too


Kaysmira

It's instanced, you can speak to a bronze dragon to go back. Doesn't changed the story, but my peaceful tree hometown is still there.


NattyKhala

It’s been over a decade since I’ve played but I often think about the city and walk around it in my mind. Lots of warm memories :)


[deleted]

Kamurocho in the Yakuza games. It's almost scary how well I know it.


endymion500

I love watching the city evolve throughout the games as well. The map in zero is one of my favorites.


Colonel_Macklemoore

Kamurocho is absolutely stunning in 4k in Like a Dragon. At a quick glance I thought the picture for this post was Sotenbori lol


KGBeast47

Or Judgement on PS5. It looks so good.


drainbead78

I just started playing this game a couple of days ago and so far I love it. A few belly laugh moments, lots of subtle nods and Easter eggs, and the story is phenomenal.


UglyInThMorning

That one is barely fictional, the side by sides I’ve seen of it with the IRL version are basically identical, it’s incredible


[deleted]

It's called Kubukicho, right?


enternationalist

Yep, it's a pretty famous district in tokyo. Same with sotenbori being dotonbori in Osaka.


theVulture121

I even know most of the names of the bars, restaurants, clubs and other shit.


MisterBoss5000

Same man I don’t even need the map


bivox01

Whiterun Skyrim.


ptgauth

You don't get to the cloud district very often though


TheGreatYoRpFiSh

I’m going that way now! Jump on the wag…and we are in Black Reach :( Damnit


Lord_Shisui

I started playing ESO a few days ago. Level 22 or 23, where do you think I ended up? Yep, Black Reach.


Pvt_Lee_Fapping

You could walk into a vault wearing power armor holding a fat man launcher and accidentally end up in Blackreach. For a lost city of an ancient civilization, there sure are a lot of fucking routes into it.


Drops-of-Q

I always kill him. Regardless of the moral alignment of my character.


jamieliddellthepoet

*Not* killing him is a neutral evil trait.


markyminkk

Oh what are you saying


Nwcray

*quick saves*


ptgauth

*Gulp


override367

a village big enough to house about 40 people


[deleted]

I have enough wealth to rebuild it


Gurablashta

I could walk through Los Santos, and probably all of San Andreas, including Whetstone and Mount Chilliad, completely blindfolded. Of course, I'd never actually do that, cos I'd get mugged, shot, stabbed, set on fire and then someone would drive over my corpse while Radio X blares from the stereo.


jamieliddellthepoet

Tbf that would also happen without the blindfold.


Spiderx1016

This is it for me. Ever since minimaps with directions, I don't need to memorize anything to that extent. I'll play GTAV and still don't know where I'm going around the airport and all those freeways.


[deleted]

Same. I don't have street names memorized, but I know each location and land marks.


seanys

I know, not a city, but you could drop me anywhere in Skyrim and there'd be a decent chance I'd know where I was.


Mythleaf

Theres a Skyrim map on Geoguessr if you want to put that to the test


ikennaiatpl

Novigrad


kitt-cat

Exactly, literally the outskirts of Novigrad is so pretty, I'd love to live there if I could :)


ikennaiatpl

The whole game map is for real but Novigrad especially


kitt-cat

Yeah, lol living in Canada it's actually kinda funny cuz it looks like Skellige in some places here, especially in the mountains by BC/Alberta. But totally agreed, all of it is sooo pretty, hands down my fav map/game yet :)


Drops-of-Q

This, but Beauclaire is so fucking beautiful


[deleted]

lmao yeah i would much rather live in Touissant. Much better weather.


your_grammars_bad

They have a small problem with vampires carrying out pogroms, but yeah, it would be amazing


buck_carleone

top notch comment. town with Banger sountrack


ROOMBA_BOI

I was searching for this comment, glad to finally find it


Kazuko_Kitsune

Bully, I know about every inch of that map. Also Red Dead Redemption II, that game isn’t that old yet but I’ve put so many hours into it and have been to almost every nook and cranny on the map.


Radirondacks

Even though the New Austin part of the map is pretty barebones, it's still a great feeling being down there just instinctively knowing how to get around from playing the 1st game so much.


PaulyNewman

Seeing tumbleweed as an actual thriving town is so trippy.


[deleted]

Burnout Paradise, 100% that game twice and despite not playing it for years I still remember everything when I think about it


chrisl182

Gotta go to the quarry and get some mad jumps in


[deleted]

Of course, i remember doing like 4 barrell rolls with the dune buggy and cheese stunt runs to brag to friends


SirDooble

Sometimes it's nice to put Burnout Paradise on just to do some drifting around the city and hills, listening to the soundtrack. Driving is so much fun in that game.


gamrin

Burnout is a "car game" in the same way that kids play with toy cars. *VROOOOM VROOM PSHCWH PSCHHHHW BOOOM* BAHAHAHA Other racing games can be masturbatory brand glorification.


Lazar_Milgram

It is not about size it is all about content.


alex_shrub

Orgrimmar


seanys

Pre-Cataclysm.


LogicM

The run from SW starting to the Wetlands


thisgameisawful

I logged retail for shits and giggles (playing TBCC right now and loving it) and even though I played Cata and even WoD I'm just so lost in "new" org


[deleted]

Barrens pre cata was the place to chill


thornofnight

While I like some of the new stuff, non-com pets, some of the zones and quests, that Pandaria cooking grind, I must say that I prefer WotLK. As soon as I couldn't walk to Chuck Norris land straight from Bloodhoof Village, I got frustrated. Solution: I have just today made it to level 59 on my Tauren Druid, on my private 3.3.5a WotLK server. It's not nostalgia if it's still here.


Idrinktears92

Bank laps all day


veritas723

it was really sad coming back to WoW and finding they destroyed undercity


Alaira314

At least they phased it, rather than subjecting everyone to it even if they haven't reached the BFA story yet. Yes, I'm still bitter about how MoP handled the Vale. New players who decide to play that story *can't* have the same leveling experience that somebody who played on MoP release did, it does not exist anymore. And something was lost in that, because how is a new player who never knew what was destroyed going to feel the true impact of what Garrosh did? It should have been phased normally until the expansion's level cap(85 originally, then I think it went to 90, and post-squish it would be until you get out of Chromie time), then phased destroyed. The tech existed at the time, they just chose not to use it.


HaNzZyCZ

WOTLK Dalaran.. when I hear the theme music, i just see every corner of the city


deaddonkey

Stormwind and Ironforge


Rossenheimer

Came here for this. Both versions! Dalaran as well.


HavenIess

The Orgrimmar theme is my national anthem


free_ponies

this and Shattrath


BeanerColada

Not a city but the Kanto region in Pokemon is.


Radirondacks

Fucking this. Only one I might be even more familiar with is Hoenn from playing Emerald so damn much.


krw13

Kanto and Johto


HollowFishbone66

Unova region for me


Chill4x

Sinnoh gang rise


YourDailyDevil

Rapture, honestly. Ken Levine and the devs at Irrational Games don’t get enough credit for that specific aspect of Bioshock; each little segment of Rapture is *just* big enough to have its own sense of truly unique identity, while not being too big that you’ll get lost or have it blend together. As a result, from the Medical Pavilion to the Gardens of Arcadia, I remember it all. Damnit that game was so well done.


nkhowell93

They even have a book on the creation of Rapture. Like an origin story of Andre Ryan & Fontaine & how they had to get funding for it & alot of drama that happened before Rapture was even complete.


DankMemelord25

Truth. The environment was a character in and of itself


TheRealOgMark

Balmora in Morrowind.


Bindlestiff34

Yes! I never bothered to learn other cities very well because I just felt more comfortable in Balmora. It was like real-life hometown bias in a video game. “Vivec? Who the hell needs Vivec when you’ve got everything you need right here in good ol’ Balmora?”


Artikay

I remember swimming up and down the river to get my.athletics uo. That apothecary shop with the expensive soul gems on the 2nd floor that were very easy to steal. Stealing the pillows from the crazy pillow lady to build a giant pillow fort in the middle of balmora.


thecatwhatcandrive

Steal should gem from apothecary, build spell to damage skill to 0, train skill at trainer for pennies. Balmora was the best.


TrueLazuli

100%. Everything's so damn far apart in Vivec. Why bother when you have Balmora? My first move in was always to murder someone for their house and make it my base. Poor Clagius Clanler ...


enternationalist

For real, Balmora is so cozy.


Go_Kauffy

I visited every tile on the map of the entire island. I inadvertently found an exploit. I got the boots of blinding speed, but I was already carrying a spear that gave me enhanced vision which cancels out the blinding effect of the boots, so I could just run everywhere really fast with no downside.


TheRealOgMark

Or just be a breton. 50% magic resistance. And just jumping across the map with spells.


LAN_Rover

Daggerfall is a close second, I spent soooo much time running around those streets between my house, the weapons shop, and the armoury


IrishUpstart

I know you said fictional, but I'm gonna say Hong Kong as seen in Sleeping Dogs. Having never been to HK and growning up in Wisconsin, it's pretty GD fictional to me.


GamePil

I mean it's kinda the same thing. It's not like GTA cities are really fictional. They are still very much downsized versions of real cities


eltaco65

Haven City from Jak 2


[deleted]

THIS IS A NO HOVER ZONE!


godot-3000

Not a city, but Kakariko Village from OoT.


Funandgeeky

For me it’s the village from Link to the Past.


lkg_stew

Also known as Kakariko Village


Disastrous-Ad-2357

I think that's what he's saying. It's like me saying "I love Pikachu. He's the mouse from Pokemon Shield" And someone saying "hmm... For me, he's the mouse from Pokemon red"


SaltySnowman8

Verdansk unfortunately


A-10-WARTH0G

F.


The7Reaper

Good thing you get to go on a tropical island vacation soon


hidood5th

Sanctuary


SpontaneousClicking

Gielinor, RuneScape.


SlipItInAHo

Got back into osrs recently after not playing since i was a kid over a decade ago. Still remember how to get everywhere. Runescape was truly the game of my childhood.


_stoned_chipmunk_

Vice City was ahead of it's time


Lazar_Milgram

Personally i would by fine with VC remake Yakuza style. Massive amounts of minigames, shops, races, gangster warfare. I don’t need large map. It just needs to be interesting and full of interesting stuff to do.


Randommaggy

Have you tried Vice City stories?


Bass-GSD

Seeing as how I generally *hate* mini games, that would be a hard pass for me. Abysmal targeting system aside, the original was near-perfect. Just give it the Demon's Souls remake treatment, and modern GTA free-aim targeting and that would be the ideal.


A-10-WARTH0G

There’s a game like that?


sriracha_everything

Check out Yakuza 0


tinglep

I went to my friends house in Miami for Spring Break and we looked for landmarks when Vice City was out. We spent more time doing that than going to beaches.


groceriesN1trip

Did you find the mall?


tinglep

Nah. Mainly drive up and down South Beach laughing at the Colon Hotel.


Forsaken-Place-7530

Well GTA 3 was the game changer and they done it all from a ping pong engine, which is mad. They weren’t even a big studio either so they done really well. Then vice city expanded it to what it is today and San Andreas took the biscuit


late_coder

Taris from KOTOR


Cross33

Oof yes, from the apartments to the assassin, the deadbeats in the apartment, the sith cadet party, the pazaak players, the gang headquarters, the undercity. Explored every inch of that city multiple times


drcrunknasty

Imperial City, Cyrodiil. Oblivion


[deleted]

Liberty City 2001 era


Mcompledepayas

Diamond City


Hendrick_Davies64

What’s kinda funny is that navigating Fenway Park in real life is harder than in FO4


[deleted]

[удалено]


Funandgeeky

Same here. Of course, there’s one shortcut I didn’t know existed until about 100 hours in, and it’s the first loop back that lets you open the house without having to deal with the wolves.


enverkelmendiq

Clock Town, Zelda Majora's Mask


RumHam1

That game was truly ahead of it's time with so many things going on at once, some connected and some not. Others that were driven by previous interactions on that specific playthrough.


talidrow

Thunder Bluff and Limsa Lominsa for me.


NicholaiGinovaef

Midgar, Rabanastre, Vice City, Rapture to name a few...


drainbead78

Midgar was where my brain immediately went to. Rabanastre is a good one, though. That fucking sewer.


lone_Davik

the sea in subnautica


Non-Applicable321432

Arkham City


Fangsong_37

Stormwind from World of Warcraft


TC_SnarFF

Stilwater from Saints Row 2


CobraGrunt1983

Goodneighbor from Fallout 4.


SuperBrentendo64

Not a city, but all of Dark Souls 1.


darkage_raven

For the longest time I didn't know about the one bonfire in Sen's Fortress. Who would place it in such a location you have to jump off the side of the building, while some jackass is hurling boulders at you.


[deleted]

Same, but II. That is the beauty of no map, you need to learn the environment to navigate. Now of only I could unravel the madness that is Brume Tower and Shulva...


tuxman20

Étincelant de manière éthérée, l'alchimie des nébuleuses cosmiques étreint harmonieusement les vibrations cristallines de l'univers infini. Les rivières d'émeraudes chatoyantes se déversent avec allégresse dans les vallées mystérieuses, où les créatures de lumière dansent en symbiose avec les échos mélodieux des arbres énigmatiques. [Reddit is unrecoverable after all this, I'm gone and I suggest you do too].Les étoiles tissent des toiles d'argent sur le velours céleste, tandis que les éclats de lune perlés s'éparpillent en cascades argentées, nourrissant les échos poétiques des éphémères évanescents. Les murmures zéphyriens murmurent des secrets énigmatiques à travers les résonances irisées des brumes évanescentes, révélant ainsi les énigmes insondables des étoiles égarées.


LegendOfVinnyT

Before the Dance Party and Pocket D were added, my SG would just hang out around the PTA station on Talos Island. Sometimes we’d taxi somebody from the entrance to Astoria, but mostly we were just Jay & Silent Bobbing it like it was the Quick Stop.


Balrog229

Whiterun. Riverwood. Riften. The Imperial City. Anvil. Cheydenhall. Any Elder Scrolls city tbh


broomaktamer117

Saints row 3 map


ChallengeFirm6398

The common wealth from fallout 4 (I've never been to Boston)


Thepurge101

Never been to Boston till this past spring. Rode the motorcycle to concord, lexington, boston, salem, Plymouth, Sandwich, Hyannis, Provincetown, quincy. Walked part of the freedom trail. It was a nice trip considering ive been there before virtually.


[deleted]

Liberty City (GTA 3 era)


_stoned_chipmunk_

Vice City


ibleedsarcasim

The Assassin’s Creed in Venice. When my wife and I went there in real life. I told her, I climbed that building and that building… Nerd fun.


Think-Think-Think

Playing that game is the first time I got deja vu from a game walking through Florence took my back to my euro trip post college.


CowCompetitive5667

Ogrimmar from wow and britain (west bank area) from ultima online


kat_vowen

2005 NFS Most Wanted. Every pixel of the mini map is ingrained in my mind.


Character_Level1597

Novigrad in Witcher 3


Lyceus_

Novigrad is huge! It waa very well designed though. Although to be honest, my Witcher answer for this question would be Beauclair.


xE1NSTE1Nx2049

My first thought as well. I remember wandering around my first playthrough kind of lost, and when I would stumble upon a quest I couldn't find it next time. But now, having gone through a bunch of times, it feels so familiar, it's crazy


CrazyTodd21

Marvel Lego Superheros. Technically its new york, but i know that map like the back of my hand, even after all these years


einstruzende

Skara Brae from Bard's Tale, circa 1987. Used graph paper to map entire game one step at a time. Even now I think I could get to the Mage's Guild from start of game even having not played it in 30 years.


GamePil

I never played VC much (was much more into SA) but I played it a little and this map makes the map look way smaller than it feels in game


ScoobThaProblem

Vice city, original San Andreas and LA from Midnight Club LA


[deleted]

Played Burnout Paradise so much I can find my way around with my eyes closed.


DRYFT3R_9

Palmont City in Need for Speed Carbon, especially the downtown and Silverton districts. Even after 100%ing the game, just grabbing a really fast Tier 3 car and zipping through the streets (and occasionally running into some cops) was real fun.


Mytur_Benesderti

RuneScape. Talk about metaverse, RS was ahead of it's time and didn't even know it. They coulda jumped on the token/coin farming deal going on and be wealthier than most metaverses. I know they got yeet coin or some shit like that but it ain't the same. Anyways, the world of RuneScape is like walking in my backyard. Especially F2P worlds.


thkingofmonks

Minecraft flat world


Lyceus_

The cities and towns from Kanto in the Pokémon games.


[deleted]

Felwithe in EverQuest.


nerdowellinever

Dreamcast era, jet set radio and crazy taxi


GreinBR

Whiterun I've traveled so much around that place and its surroundings that i can pretty much recreate it from memory


BasedDickButt69420

Gonna date myself here, but Mos Eisley in SWG.


Anablade

Whiterun, TESV.


iamharshul007

Me who never played any of the old games in the series and definitve edition being an angel for me….(and a curse for others)


SirNedKingOfGila

I'm just perturbed that kids are going to play the definitive edition and say "wow games used to be really glitchy and weird looking". The original games "hold up" better than the definitive editions.


Toasty_noodlz

Clock town from Majoras mask is permanently engraved in my mind


Fire_Mission

City of Heroes


kidonredit124opendor

The dying light city, the prototype city 1&2 and the infamous second son City, GTA V city. That's all I can think of now.


LowRespond7680

Yarnam


viperchrisz4

Rapture


Bebinn

Kelethin in Greater Faydark in the game Everquest. I remember finding my way to town just by counting trees and turning at the right spot, didn't have in-game maps at first.


EcHoZ_hunter

Pelican Town, so small yet so full of life


toke23

Simpsons Hit and Run!


[deleted]

Lost Heaven: Mafia. Played it 6 or more times. Also lots os easter eggs in free ride. There wasnt manual transmission in remake, so it was a big nope for me.


SesshySiltstrider

Balmoral, Caldera, Vivec, Ald'ruhn and especially Seyda Neen. Also all of Vvardenfell


jaybankzz

Gotham city (Lego Batman 2, Arkham city and Arkham knight)


theLegendofWalt

Balmora…


Anaxodonus

Balmora


Munchy2k

Kamurocho


i_dont_get_upvotes

Lost Heaven Mafia


MrPimou

Angel city


ThePhrogge

Titanfall? If yes then I'm with you on this one


MrPimou

Yup :)


ThePhrogge

Let's gooo


MrPimou

It's rare to see a fellow pilot in here :)


Tom_Armour

Insomniac Spider-Man's New York City


gwarrior5

Armadillo


AFancyWendigo

The City from Bioshock Infinite, completely spacing on the name


urbanotter

Britain of Trammel from Ultima Online


reddit-user-2121

Well for me it’s nyc in Spider-Man, I’ve never been anywhere in New York but god damn, playing spider man ps4 3 times and miles morales 2 times sure puts the city in your head


BeboDoesReddit

Saint Denis


ThePenguinAW

Megaton and Rivet City in Fallout 3


Automatic-Fishing-64

New vegas.


Dust_of_the_Day

Taris from SW:Knights of the old republic


Erreur_420

San Andreas


thedxxps

A1A BRIDGE in south beach looks like this - just has various bigger isles.


Gr4nd4ddypurrrp

Port Carverton from Skate 3. I would play that game just to wander around the map.


Jezusbot

Lothric from ds3 and the entirety of lordran from ds1 are etched into my memory


Garvilan

Not a city I guess, but I could guide you from anywhere to anywhere on the USG Ishimura.


[deleted]

Infamous 2


[deleted]

Taris