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 😅
When it’s not under threat of being crushed by an angry moon, Clock Town is a very nice place.
Lindblum from Final Fantasy 9 (roman numerals are for goobers)
I adore the concept of a Castle Town where the castle is so big it sorta consumes the entire town. And the whole steam-punk techno-fantasy vibe of the city is extremely pretty.
Love Clock Town and castle towns (like Hyrule marketplace or whatever)
Fortree Village in Sapphire is pretty cool too as like a treetop/forestown. Love forest towns
Academia 4XX AF from Final Fantasy XIII-2! (It’s also my favorite Final Fantasy.)
With this playing:
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Top of the dam near ironforge in classic wow before deathwing had his way with it.
Most of ghost of Tsushima, I love the Omni monestary
Pretty much all of the world of Hollow Knight — ie Hallownest. It’s just such a cool and immersive world. It contains such cool architecture, design, and environments.
The Citadel from Mass Effect
With this playing on repeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLbzwWam6g
Skellige in Witcher 3 (minus the monsters). I can’t not stop to take in the sights. And the music is *chef’s kiss*.
Skellige is nice, but I prefer Toussaint:
The Site of Grace right outside the first Magma Wyrm boss, at the top of the cliff-side village in Elden Ring.
Good view, and there are some singing sirens down below you. It’s where I sit in my world while doing invasions, since you can’t queue for those in the Roundtable Hold (not even down in the lower part where Albrecht invades you which is weird).
Any hub world in the Spyro the dragon games. Summer Forest, Autumn plains, evening lake are some notable ones for me.
Minus the spirits I’d probably enjoy kicking around the island from Oxenfree.
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 always loved the Kokiri Forrest in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It’s so cozy, so quaint. I just wanna live there in real life, but with like internet and videogames and stuff.
Could I be a terrible pain in the ass and ask you to embed the link I found here? I want to try and get everyone to embed an image so its easy to browse them without googling each on
I’d drive around the desert in Interstate 76.
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.
