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I know it's kinda a vague topic but I was watching a Paper Mario LP and thought "Man I really love how they made this world". In fact I got to thinking it was one of my favorite RPG worlds.

So the thing I wonder, YCM, what video game worlds do you think are particular good, and why? What makes the world so good.

For instance for me I love when NPCs actually have dialogue that's...dialogue and not a barely concealed tutorial/controls thing. Makes me love a world much more.

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I know it isn't exactly special, but any The Sims 3 town just has a special place in my heart. Each one of them holds memories and it just makes me happy. Let's also talk about the stunning work the developers did with some towns such as Roaring Heights, Monte Vista, Dragon Valley or Aurora Skies. Each town has its uniqueness and i love it.

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Grand Theft Auto V/Online. Now granted the world doesn't offer much outside the city, it is really good to just get away from all the action and hike up Chiliad or go ATVing. The world in there is huge an its enjoyable using a submersible to explore the underwater world of it too.

Oh yeah, GTA in general I often enjoyed just wandering around the world, always can find cool things.

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Ori and the Blind Forest.

 

That s*** is beautiful. It also finds an incredibly good balance between a freeroaming and a linear environment.

You always manage to come up with things I've never heard about XD But looked up some screenshots and yeah, beautiful for sure.

 

 

I'm glad I made this topic, already so many different style of things and reasons given, wonderful.

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OP explained it already, but Paper Mario's world always captured me in particular. I genuinely enjoy talking to all of the NPCs and exploring the different towns or levels. Even Sticker Star, which put me off at first, eventually drew me in with its charm. I will always have fun traversing through a Paper Mario game.

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The Dark Souls world. The kingdoms of Lordran and Drangleic are dark but with sort of a withered beauty, and I always enjoy traversing their heights and depths and the dangers within. And from what I've seen of Dark Souls III it's looking even better.

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Bionis and Mechonis in Xenoblade.

 

You're traversing along the corpses of dead gods where the game's world is as big as Japan.  Plus, so many cool collectables and enemies to fight and discovering locations even nets you EXP, AP and SP.

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You always manage to come up with things I've never heard about XD But looked up some screenshots and yeah, beautiful for sure.

 

 

I'm glad I made this topic, already so many different style of things and reasons given, wonderful.

It's not got as much attention than I had thought. It's absolutely up there with my favourite games of recent memory, along with Journey and The Last of Us. I'll be astounded if Ori doesn't get any game award nominations this year.

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Offhand, the two Banjo worlds (and the multitude of worlds within them), a couple of the FF worlds, and the Assassin's Creed worlds are ones I really like. I'll probably think of more later though. I like the Mario worlds too, such as in Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi.

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I dunno if this counts, but Asura's Wrath.

Yes, you don't explore the world much, but the mythos... The blending of science and Buddhism.

 

THE OVER THE TOP EXPLOSIONS and surprising good characters.

 

Asura is father of the year.

Yasha is awesome.

The villains... They're good.

 

Just... Yeah.

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