Sort of a spinoff thread from my Great Fairy Fountains post
EDIT: if possible, please link an embedded image so we can easiky see each place and we scroll so everything doesn’t have to be manualky searchced one by one 😅
The Citadel from Mass Effect
With this playing on repeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLbzwWam6g
Almost every single demon door in fable has some beautiful or aesthetic location behind it. My favorite is probably the Willow’s pick door or the Homestead in fable 2
The demon door in TLC by the pond in the Heroes Guild. I think this might have actually kickstarted my fascination with environment modelling…
What about the door where you’ve gotta get really fat?
A twilight forrest with ancient ruins? Absolutely gorgeous! Even the sex dungeon and the cave have a picturesque beauty to them.
Or the one you have to eat a bunch of live chicks in front of the door who wants to be repulsed
I’d drive around the desert in Interstate 76.
Minus the spirits I’d probably enjoy kicking around the island from Oxenfree.
Most of ghost of Tsushima, I love the Omni monestary
Orison in Star Citizen. One of the coolest cloud cities in gaming with some of the most amazing sunsets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YSoaOEr9D0
Edit: It’s hard to pick a picture that captures the experience (so I picked a few). A video is better, but actually being there in-game is a whole other level. Everything from the bars, food court, living spaces, shipyard and space port add to the experience.
Any hub world in the Spyro the dragon games. Summer Forest, Autumn plains, evening lake are some notable ones for me.
I love the Akkala region from Breath Of The Wild/Tears Of The Kingdom!
Academia 4XX AF from Final Fantasy XIII-2! (It’s also my favorite Final Fantasy.)
With this playing:
The entire Planet Zebes. Just without all the monsters lol
Any area in Sky before the Eye of Eden. That whole game is chill ambient spaces pretty much. Even the scary places (besides the Eye).
I always liked the feudal age, straw roof buildings in AoE2. I almost didn’t want to move to castle age because the appereance of the buildings chage.
I would go the the safari in Rimworld savanna. Don’t want my organs harvested though
The reactor level in alien isolation, especially before you return from the lower level. The rain and booming from the cores is oddly comforting, even with murderous androids looking for your head.
The forest of the Great Tree, in Tales of Phantasia. Near the starting city (I think that it’s Toltus?). It looks beautiful.
