Favourite Kind of Environment?

[BoredPixel]

I hate desert maps, probably because it reminds me of hot weather. Anything above +20C(that's 68F for you American people and your strange temperature scales) makes me wan't to spend the day in a freezer.

Tell me that's a typo. I used to set my aircon to 26C and bask in its coolness, before it broke. Now I just put up with the 30-32C it is right now.

OT: I loved Rapture from Bioshock. It was so rich and detailed and colourful, and although I don't think they used the whole 'underwater' thing as much as they could or should have, it was still an incredible place to be in.

Its fairly cool here (-23C right now, outside that is, although the radiator doesn't seem to be working very well), unless its summer anyway. Temperatures generally go down to -25C here in winter. So I'm more used to temperatures below +20C. +32C sounds horrible to me. In summers temperatures go up to +30C though.

Rapture was great. And I agree that they really didn't do that much with the water. It was more of a pretty environment than a gameplay element. But it looked amazing.

 

[Bobbity]

I hate Steampunk settings, but that's about it. I love forests, medieval villages and modern cities, and so on and so forth.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Moving parts. You know, machinery and so on. Cogs turning, hydraulic hisses and the like. I was blown away by that segment of footage from Portal 2 that showed various components flying around in vacuum-tubes. It was probably the most beautiful thing I have seen in a game.

 

[Ranylyn]

I have a lot of different favorite environment types.

- Beautiful and colorful (Eternal Sonata)
- Steampunk (Bioshock)
- Dark and Deadly (Demon's Souls)
- Medieval Fantasy (Sadly too few good series these days.)


My most hated environment ever? School. School was always bad. It wasn't fun. Gaming is supposed to be fun. Ergo, bad combination. I'll admit that if done right the teenage years allows for beautiful character development, but so few games actually do this! It's like they just game games with school in it to cash in on the popularity of the theme in Japan for some idiotic reason!

 

[sylekage]

Huge fan of mountains. even if they're painted into the background, they still look awesome

 

[Wintermoot]

urban ruins and ancient cities fun too explore easy to get lost (like Rapture from Bioshock or City 17 from HL2) also space stations and underground laboratoria (like Black Mesa from HL1 and its expansions)