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 😅
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
When it's not under threat of being crushed by an angry moon, Clock Town is a very nice place.
Lindblum from Final Fantasy 9 (roman numerals are for goobers)
I adore the concept of a Castle Town where the castle is so big it sorta consumes the entire town. And the whole steam-punk techno-fantasy vibe of the city is extremely pretty.
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
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.
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.
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 Site of Grace right outside the first Magma Wyrm boss, at the top of the cliff-side village in Elden Ring.
Good view, and there are some singing sirens down below you. It's where I sit in my world while doing invasions, since you can't queue for those in the Roundtable Hold (not even down in the lower part where Albrecht invades you which is weird).