What are your favorite ambient spaces in the video games you've played that you really like and would enjoy in real life?
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 😅
The Citadel from Mass Effect
With this playing on repeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLbzwWam6g
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.
I'd drive around the desert in Interstate 76.
Skellige in Witcher 3 (minus the monsters). I can't not stop to take in the sights. And the music is *chef's kiss*.
https://youtu.be/0LkJBvocY10
Skellige is nice, but I prefer Toussaint:
I would go the the safari in Rimworld savanna. Don't want my organs harvested though
Minus the spirits I'd probably enjoy kicking around the island from Oxenfree.
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
The entire Planet Zebes. Just without all the monsters lol
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.
I love the Akkala region from Breath Of The Wild/Tears Of The Kingdom!
The reactor level in alien isolation, especially before you return from the lower level. The rain and booming from the cores is oddly comforting, even with murderous androids looking for your head.
The forest of the Great Tree, in Tales of Phantasia. Near the starting city (I think that it's Toltus?). It looks beautiful.
Any area in Sky before the Eye of Eden. That whole game is chill ambient spaces pretty much. Even the scary places (besides the Eye).
I always liked the feudal age, straw roof buildings in AoE2. I almost didn't want to move to castle age because the appereance of the buildings chage.
The city of Zeal in Chrono Trigger. Such a beautiful world if they could just ditch the magical racism
Any hub world in the Spyro the dragon games. Summer Forest, Autumn plains, evening lake are some notable ones for me.
You might enjoy the Any Austin YouTube channel, some of his Unremarkable and Odd places videos.
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.