FAVORITE VIDEOGAME WORLD.

author=calunio

author=goldengaav
While Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was a pretty sad rpg, I loved the world it was in.

WHAT? What world? Hehehe. Not really memorable.

I have to admit I have trouble qualifying it, but I do love it ^^. The music was pretty epic when you compare it some of the other RPGs of the day (looking at you Breath of Fire 2), I don't know, the towns were just nice, simple, and colorful?

I share your sentiments exactly about the worlds of Chrono Cross and FF8 YDS; the only difference is that I loved both games. =P

I also agree with post-apocalyptic settings, wish there were more of them in RPGs.

author=Eike
Also, Rei's avatar has reminded me of Azure Dreams and while a little light on lore etc. the 'stuck in a thriving town in the middle of the desert for the whole game' was pretty cool, I thought!

Yeah, well, I love the town of Monsbaya as well, but wouldn't it suck that every beautiful young lady in the town would be claimed by another, same guy?

author=cho

author=goldengaav
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter

pretty much this

This. A thousand times this. Nothing beats dystopian underground settings.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who chose pokemon

Oh,there's many I can think of, but let's just pick a few.
- Golden Sun (psynergy and djinn for starters)
- Ar tonelico (like pretty much everything about it, especially hymmnos)
- Final Fantasy IX (especially the mountain world above mist-world setting)
- Touhou (they got that small realm pretty packed with anything possible)

I like the Majora's Mask world a lot. It's sort of a pity the game mechanics discouraged you from exploring it too much what with the three-day-and-reset limit that made it hard to do things like unfreeze the goron place and unpollute the swamp etc. It seemed uh a lot more bizarre and imaginative than Ocarina Of Time or any generic medievalesque kingdoms generally. Huge stone mushrooms and isolated windmills surronded by undead and tropical bays and toxic swamps. Upside-down palaces and an enormous horrifying moon hovering over everything. Also the NPCs were weird and interesting and had neat quests. Even the colour scheme looked exciting where instead of generic muted greens and browns there were sudden purple splotches or whatever. It was basically all like a warped chinese bootleg copy of generic OoT fantasy world where everything is just that bit stranger and more unpleasant and I liked it a lot.

Shoutout as well to Links Awakening which was entirely insane *wanders into random cave, talks to an enormous dancing fish which teaches you a flute song that warps you to a pond where a ghost suddenly starts following you around* also sudden houses filled with bananas and crocodiles for no real reason but it lacked the.... 3D spacecharm...

also ahahah WHILE WERE ON SUBJECT OF N64 there was that amazing Pilotwings birdman level where you just float around ridiculous lowpoly replica of entire american continent which was pretty fantastic.

What else. Mario World mapscreen + mapscreens generally. Wandering around Monkey Island multiverse with goofy ska soundtrack. ahahah gameboy mario game with bizarre use of realworld locations / EASTER ISLAND POPULATED BY ENORMOUS HOPPING HEADS

also this

I really like the world of Fable 2!
Final Fantasy's world is pretty cool as well.

author=Feldschlacht IV
What's so interesting about it is how storied and detailed it is, the universes world is so big that every country is big enough to have entire games centered around them, and every piece of land, every character, every dynasty, kingdom, etc etc has its own background and line of important figures and important dates and all of that.

Ogre Battle universe! It spans decades across different continents, with some characters being seen more than once due to their involvement in the story/international politics, and the continents even have their own personalities (Mermaids and fairies only appear in Lodis, etc).

Hooo damn. (i.e. nice topic)

Probably Final Fantasy 8's world. I loved the way the cities looked. And who didn't love the awesome battle in disc 1 at Dollet...Seed initiates versus dem Galbadia bitches. Great.