Top 10: Game Worlds.
1 Jul
Occasionally I get requests to blog about specific topics…This is one such post and comes from a musical man by the name of Total Fidget, click his name to listen to his songs. So here for your perusal are my top ten game worlds, the virtual places I most want to spend time in.
10. Alex Kidd’s Miracle World – Where else do you get to motorbike through frog ponds and helicopter through jungles?
9. Simon the Sorceror – I actually wish a lot of the locations in this world existed, quaint villages and scenes with lots of character.
8. Animal Crossing’s Wild World – This is somewhere I’d like to go on holiday, a little fishing, bug catching and visiting friends are the order of the day.
7. Final Fantasy 7 – Cosmo Canyon especially, I do have a habit of thinking this game is overated, but the world and variety of locations definitely isn’t. Check out the observatory it’s amazing!
6. Folklore – This game does something very clever in presenting a world which is both whimsical and eerie at the same time. Colourful yet dark.
5. Majin’s Forsaken Kingdom – Like Prince of Persia but better, absolutely beautiful. I think this game gets overlooked “world wise” in favour of Uncharted but it really shouldn’t do.
4. Red Dead Redemption’s America/Mexico – One of the few games in which being a male character didn’t actually bother me, as between missions, I got lost in the exploration of the environment.
3. Monkey Island – A fun and more colourful Simon the Sorceror world if you will, but better for me as I love to be by the sea!
2. Enslaved’s “West” – I’m already tired of people marvelling over the “nature overgrown city” theme of Crysis 3. Enslaved done it years earlier. I love this world for how small it makes me feel whilst exploring it.
1. Fallout 3 - The wasteland in all it’s vast and varied goodness. At first glance it seems a grey and green blur but there is so, so much to explore here. 100 hours in and I still have more places to visit for the first time.
I would love to hear your favourite worlds, so leave a comment below, that’s also the place to request future topics for blog posts.
Tags: action/adventure, fallout, games, retro
Elder Scrolls is one of my favorites because of how fleshed out it is, Their own calendar, religion, ancient races ETC all make one of the biggest if not the biggest Gaming universe ever created. Also I think I probably read more about it than I should
You’re right it’s probably the most “complete” of them all.
No Hyrule from Zelda? I thought that would have been a given. Sounds daft but I was always fond of the Castle of Illusion from the Mickey Mouse game of the same title. The Mushroom Kingdom is also another stonewall classic.
I haven’t played much Zelda but based this on places I want to spend time exploring and questing in. Fallout New Vegas is my favourite game but it doesn’t feature here as I would rather be chatting to folk on Monkey Island for example!
I need to play some Monkey Island, have never played it… ever!