Most Beautiful Video Game Location?

[Thespian]

Pretty much all of Enslaved is just gorgeous...

Journey Archive from Child of Eden.
SOOO PRETTY...

 

[JustJuust]

I would have to say shivering isles in Oblivion. The mania side was better suited to my taste

 

[ADeskofRichMahogany]

The underwater world in Alice: Madness Returns. Absolutely breath-taking.

 

[adderseal]

The tallest point in Oblivion, a cliff top that pretty much overlooks everything, right nightmare to get there. The view is stunning though

Also known as 'Adoring Fan Murder Mountain Spot'

 

[XMark]

Shadow of the Colossus is quite pretty, especially considering the hardware they were working with.

 

[DarthFennec]

I really liked the landscape from Shadow of the Colossus.
EDIT: ninja'd

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Two Fort. I just love it.

 

[Phoenix14]

Phendrana Drifts in Metroid Prime 1.

 

[Jack Cheal]

out of all the games I've played I would probably say the setting of Red Dead Redemption, just everywhere you go looks awesome, hanging rock during a thunderstorm remains one of the best looking things I've seen in gaming

 

[Rblade]

Putting up a vote for the likes of Nagrand and Feralas. WoW has some breathtaking scenery especially taking the graphics into account

 

[newwiseman]

As much as I hated it, the field in Final Fantasy 13, "what field?" you may ask and I shall reply "the only field". It showed just how beautiful and fun the game could have been if it had been as open as that one map for the whole game...

Otherwise anywhere in Oblivion, I liked Morrowind more but Oblivion is the more beautiful and scenic.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

PAINKILLER!

That and Far Cry, the first level. Actually, who am I kidding? All of Far Cry.

 

[The Breadcrab]

The entire game-world of Prince of Persia 2008. If I could live there, I probably would.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Seeing the enormity, scale, and scope of Aperture Labs in Portal 2 had me absolutely amazed. The environments created in that old, flooded salt mine, to the modern caverns composed of fully-customizable rooms, and even the persistently degrading third act, seeing how it all intertwined, how the modern and aged portions all interacted--it was just mindblowing. I stood for minutes at a time slowly panning around the nothing-short-of-monolithic 'scapes, taking in as many details as were put into the design as I could.

Honorable mentions go to Metroid Prime's various eye-widening environmental glories, and Just Cause 2's enormous but entirely rendered glory. Hells to the yes.

 

[Korak the Mad]

Metroid Prime Phendrana Drifts or Tallon Overworld. ... Actually thinking about anything from that game reminds me of how beautiful it all was.

Finally. I've never seen a game as beautiful as Metroid Prime.

Agreed. I love the scenery of the entire Metroid Prime series.

 

[Zanderinfal]

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Crysis....
All of it.
Every single local, with the exeption of the *SPOILER ALERT!!!* Iced over jungle. That is just plain frighting.

My thoughts exactly! What did you think of the first time you see the ruined Time Square in Crysis 2?

I fudged my pants, that's what happened (that was probably after the fight too, that was REALLY challenging).

Also, I thought that Crysis was more beautiful than Crysis 2, only because of the whole tropical island thing. I'm surprised by how little people think the same way.

 

[Zanderinfal]

Two Fort. I just love it.

True man, True. Looks AMASSING.

 

[Baradiel]

Mass Effect's vistas, for one.

Another thing that comes to mind are Halo: Reach's Condemned or Highlands maps. Condemned is set on a space station thats orbiting Reach as its being glassed, and the view is truly spectacular. Highlands has Covenant Cruisers routinely glassing in the distance. The contrast between the beauty and the destruction is fabulous.

 

[ronald1840]

The Brocken Paradise chapter in Uncharted 2

 

[Biosophilogical]

I have a soft spot for Nolun/Norune village in Dark Cloud (anyone who recognises me will notice that I've been posting about Dark Cloud a lot recently, and that's because as a 10 year old game, it is still magnificent). For one, there are plenty of ways to design it, secondly, it has such attractive houses and stuff, and that doesn't even count that you get to place a river through it at your discretion. It just has that home-y feel to it, and building it yourself just makes it that much better.

Very true, shame you don't get that much space or stuff to work with. There's only so much you can do with 20 tiles of river and 10 trees. (Don't shoot me if I got the numbers wrong)

I know that pain. You get this perfect idea that satisfies all requests yet also manages to be in tune with your desired village, but then you find that you need one extra space, or two more pieces of river, or just that one extra road piece. I'm finally happy with my design, but I'll be the first to admit that I when I was making it, an extra river or two would've made it that much easier.