Best fictional Universe?

[Rhys Wilson]

For me, it's a toss up with raising Chao in the Sonic Universe, clubbing Kut-Ku like a baby seal in the Monster Hunter Universe, and raising an army and marching to Earthend in the Patapon Universe.

 

[KaWaiiTSuKI]

Can I count HP Lovecraft's?
Not the best... but definitely the most interesting.

 

[WayOutThere]

For the sake mentioning something different, I'm going to bring up Birdy the Mighty which developed its universe suprisingly well. It deals with galactice politics (in episode 5) and discrimination, terrorism (in season 2). Episode 5 feels like it was created specifically to fit world building into the short 13 episode season which is great but its the second season that fleshes out the world the most.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

The Dresden Files has a rather good setting.

It was unfortunately the show only got one season, it had potential.

 

[T8B95]

Dragon Age universe.

Bioware took the time to make a friggin' religion. That's dedication.

Bethesda made twenty-five if you count each of the different Aedric and Daedric Princes in the Elder Scrolls. If one is dedication, then what do you have to say to that?

OT: I'm surprised that I'm not the first one saying this, but I absolutely love the Harry Potter universe. It's just so compelling.

 

[kyogen]

The Witcher universe (games/books) works as an interesting mix of various fantasy stories and settings.

Other than that, Claymore (manga/anime) has a good time playing "who's the real monster?" and even though it's paper thin in the narrative dept., Demon's Souls has a great adventure setting and atmosphere.

 

[Zebrian]

Warhammer 40K manages to be a part of every medium imaginable.
AND do it well.
Praise the Emperor!

 

[aww yea]

Iain M Banks(Sci Fi Novels)Culture Universe.
Drool.
I want to be in Contact!
AND have drug glands.
lol that looks so amazingly shallow,in reality the depth of his worlds/universes fascinate the living hell out of me and I regularly Lucid Dream about them.

I Didn't think there was person the wolrd over who had read that other than me and my dad

I commend you and agree with you sir. And even so, having read excession, i know i would want out of that universe with whatever that was. He just made it seem so intruiging

That or the universe of FF9. Just cause

 

[KanHanderan]

The 40k universe seems endless and fascinating, but not really a nice place to live. For that I'd go for the Magic universe (no specific plane).

 

[Carbonyl]

Discworld.

 

[synobal]

The Dresden Files has a rather good setting.

It was unfortunately the show only got one season, it had potential.

I was referring to the book and the pen and paper RPG, I thought the tv show was only mediocre really.

 

[James Crook]

The Fallout Universe, I'd say. I just love wandering out in the wastes looking for clues as to why and how the world went to total bullfuckery.

Same here. They could make a game completely devoid of combat, featuring ONLY exploration and salvaging, and I'd play it for hours. I've spent countless hours wandering buildings and inspecting everything, just to take in the story of that particular building.

That's exactly how some of my hours playing New Vegas went. No combat, just scavenging for information, caps, broken weapons to fix or sell.
Well, I had to sneak by a few dozen Fiends and all, and that "scavenger/explorer" atmosphere fell off when I encountered a bunch of Cazadors... You know what happens next.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

For my day to day Dark Urban Horror: World of Darkness (not the Old) by White Wolf Studios
For my day to day Science Fiction Awesomeness: The Culture by Iain M. Banks
For my not so day to day Science Fiction Weirdness: Fine Structure by Sam512
For my utter insanity: Homestuck by Andrew Hussie

 

[Puzzlenaut]

Bioshock is an incredibly rich world with very interesting characters, however as an entire universe there isn't really that much of it that's particularly interesting -- there's only really Rapture, which is just one city.

The Halo universe is pretty fantastic too.

 

[Dr.Susse]

How about American McGee?s Wonderland.

That place would be insane, literally!

 

[cubikill]

Dungeons and Dragons(all of the 3.5 universes). That or A song of Ice and Fire has very cool and resized world.

I just finished reading A Game Of Thrones and I have to say the level of thought and detail was amazing. Is the rest of the series that good too?

For me... well the 40k universe is badass. I'm glad I don't live in it though. Welll... maybe on one of the nicer Tau sept worlds, providing it doesn't get eaten by Tyranids.

Yes the rest of the Books are as good if not better. I highly recommend them.

 

[Mechanix]

I haven't been exposed to many, but most of them are pretty bleak. Azeroth is the one I would want to live in hands down.

 

[Galaxy Roll]

Gurren Lagann or 40K for places to do some awesome.

Hyrule for a nice place to live, settle down, and find absurdly powerful weapons behind some junk in your basement.