Which video game has the absolute best city ever made? I'm not talking just about design or aesthetics. It has to feel like a living city that exists beyond the player's perception of what we see.
Which video game has the absolute best city ever made? I'm not talking just about design or aesthetics...
Caleb Rodriguez
Noah Baker
For a modern setting, GTA4.
Otherwise, BoTW, the first few Assassin's Creed games, Daggerfall, Morrowind Witcher 3, Kingdom Come.
Angel Jackson
Is that Snatcher?
Evan Nguyen
Akira.
Connor Wood
I used to stare out into this for hours imagining what kind of futuristic environment it had to offer
Brody Rivera
probably LA Noire. the game itself had no reason to be open world but the world they made is incredibly detailed and has a bunch of fully detailed places you never have to visit.
Blake Reyes
Witcher 3
Michael Price
Fantasy - Gothic 2.
Modern - Gta 4
Henry Hughes
And science fiction?
Jeremiah Robinson
>It has to feel like a living city that exists beyond the player's perception of what we see.
can you expand on this?
Anthony Diaz
Basically, the city has a life of its own. NPCs don't suddenly come to life or become only active while interacting the player.
Grayson Cook
I don't know any sci fi games other than Mass Effect and cities in there are hardly can be called good.
Jace Ortiz
as stereotype as it is to say Novigrad from the witcher 3, that really was the most immersive city I've ever seen in a game
Thomas Campbell
LA Noire is awesome, I love just driving around solving street crimes while working in the main case.
Gavin Anderson
from the top of my head:
vtmb, gta, witcher3, satellite reign, syndicate, zelda a link to the past and ocarina of time
Logan Ross
some point n clicks have pretty good cities. Maybe discworld or monkey island
Asher Jenkins
>Gothic 2
good choice
Xavier Harris
detroid becom hoomans
Grayson Scott
Me too. That's maybe my favourite skybox ever. Sanctuary Fortress wasn't a city but it did made the player's mind wander a bit. I hope the next 3D Metroid instills that sense of alien awe.
Landon Garcia
nice to see another person with excellent taste on this board
Aaron Moore
City 17 man. The transition from the city to the outskirts then back into the city and all the way up to the top of the Citadel and getting a glimpse of the entire sweep of it was quite breathtaking at the time, it still is IMO.
Jaxson Hernandez
King's Quest V
Xavier Taylor
GTA IV even though I don't actually like to do anything in it
Leo Taylor
>hurr let me just name popular Yea Forums games that will surely get me upvotes
Half those games have terrible cities
Grayson Long
Literally EDF5
Jaxon Ramirez
Mirror's Edge. The first one, not fucking Catalyst.
Landon King
yakuza [insert number]
Samuel White
Detroit in Dude Sex: HR and Prague in MD. I liked the China segments in Deus Ex 1 as well. I've got a soft spot for dense maps that are more about the detail than the size.
Liam Kelly
I really like the Mirror's Edge city because while it's very impactful in its looks it's a totally realistic and feasible city with standard Asian architecture, no crazy buildings made of LCD panels or drones flying everywhere or stupid "futuristic" cars.
This is one of those games that I curse the linearity of, I want to explore this city to its last nook and cranny.
Anthony Lewis
Jayden Morris
>yeah bruh just copy paste the building jpg, upscale it and put it further in the back
Andrew Ortiz
Why do people think this? There’s literally nothing to do in Novigrad it’s desolate and samey as hell, feels nothing like a city of its scope should. The feel of ass creed unity’s Paris completely ruined Novigrad for me
Connor Johnson
>no proper interaction of the city
its mostly aesthetics, a background for the level . catalyst had a much better city aesthetically, but still shit imo.
Most cities in games are complete shit, not only are they mostly fake but also super small and boring
Daniel Kelly
Deus Ex Human revolution Hengsha.
Jaxon Peterson
I actually kind of love the towns/cities in Dark Souls and Demons' Souls.
Even though you never get to walk around at the bottom, Anor Londo actually has streets and plazas and shit.
Hell, even when you're in Firelink, you can see another undead burg in the distance, and it has streets and alleys and sidewalks and even a well, I think. Despite the fact that it's just background decoration miles away from you ingame.
Carter Jenkins
We’re just not there technologically yet. By 2029 we should have much better cities to choose from
Cooper Gutierrez
Not the best but inFAMOUS 2 New Marais had a ton of side-shit to do in the city be it side quests or random encounters
Juan Hernandez
Looks awesome though so i'm okay with it
Jeremiah Bailey
>Daggerfall
Not even remotely. I like Daggerfall but no, the cities don't feel like they're actually alive.
Juan Morgan
>You will die before Mega Cities cluttered with countless skyscrapers reaching the heavens becomes a reality
It ain't fair bros. I would love to walk around in Neo-Tokyo at night.
Robert Martinez
Same thing
Colton Kelly
But the Judges, user
Carson Sanders
Shenzhen in China is getting there.
Sadly cities are still too spread out. Skyscrapers are mostly a downtown thing not city wide.
Nathan Scott
And get robbed and raped by three augmented niggers? No thanks
Connor Hernandez
not nearly the best city, but i always wanted to explore Illium a bit more
Zachary Kelly
soul
utterly soulless
Jacob Williams
Brigador, mainly because of the lore. There's just an absolutely insane amount of lore and world building (especially for a game where you're basically just going around committing mass murder with mechs and tanks) which helps give each district a sense of life.
Christian Murphy
You're right. That's why we need videogame tech and VR to improve rapidly.
Landon Carter
Just when my coil’s teaching the green line
Hudson Collins
Underrated gem
Parker Garcia
I wouldn't say it's the best, but Halo 3 ODST's New Mombasa really stuck with me. It was captivating for some reason
Bentley Baker
How come there are no 3D Platformers that take place in a bustling Metropolis? Think New Donk City, but expanded upon a massive open world.
John Mitchell
Dylan Howard
>they can make a 1:1 recreation of the entire galaxy
>they can't make a single full sized city
Even if they skimp and leave all the rooms and buildings empty with no cars or people, just one goddamn city the size of London
Ian Campbell
The modern day sections in assasins creed 3. I really like climbing up the big ass crane and seeing the city below, completely unaware of the whole assassin vs templar war that's been going on for centuries. Music is great too.
Joseph Edwards
Due Process
Luke Roberts
I listed Daggerfall just for the massive size and scale of the thing. Every other open world is scaled down to an extent, but Daggerfall is 1:1. Plus the atmosphere is comfy as fuck.
Luis Bennett
Its Witcher 3's Novigrad for sure
Aaron Jackson
It's from Last Resort on Neo Geo. The same background was also used in KOF '94.
Gavin Taylor
>catalyst had a much better city aesthetically
I really beg to differ.
Lincoln Powell
What a great track
Dylan Morgan
I sometimes like to just hang around the Citadel in the ME3 DLC and imagine thats the post game content after Shepard has saved the day
David Bell
It really is. Also from a lore stand point Rat King is my favorite mech from a lore standpoint simply because it perfectly demonstrates the stupidity and ingenuity of the corvids
> Literally just a pair of mech legs with a helicopter cockpit slapped on top and weapon hard points mounted on the side of it
> Fuck knows how many corvids crammed in said cockpit to operate it
> So unstable they couldn't armor the back without it falling over so they just have a guy stand in a crows nest on the back with a pair of binoculars to make sure nobody shoots them from behind
Thomas Gomez
Sigil in Planescape always felt pretty expansive to me just for the sheer amount of NPCs you could talk to, the amount of dialogue they all had, and the various places around the city they were placed in.
Michael Martin
booted up SR3 for the first time in ages and now in singleplayer so I can look at the details in piece.
it's not super by any means but it is nice to see they tried to put the trash vibe in every corner.
Christian Watson
this will be your selection of megacities in 11 years.
Mostly India and China m8 but whatever you can get an overcoat and a plane ticket and sulk there within 48 hours
the map used economist.com
Eli Carter
Not the best, but the attention to detail and design of Sleeping Dog’s Hong Kong is p underrated.
Wyatt Turner
>BoTW
What? Surely you don't mean Breath of the Wild, a post-apocalyptic game with small little towns and nothing resembling a city.
Noah Cox
Gothic 1/2
Juan Hughes
Dying Light 2 looks like it's going to have a city you can parkour in. It's more of the European cities and not the megacity skyscrapers you're expecting.
Elijah Myers
>WHO'S THE FUCK THAT KEEPS FLASHING THE LIGHTS IN MY OFFICE