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Your Favorite RPG City

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Kyrios

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If there's one thing I really love about playing RPGs, it has to be exploring the cities in the games. Some offer a great amount of quests to take while some are just really nice to walk around and take in the sights.


Mine has to be Lindblum in Final Fantasy IX, the city in a castle

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The scope of the city floored me back in 2000 and I still love to just pop the game in and walk around the town.

The laid back atmosphere and three major districts with airship cabs made me fall in love with this city.

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So what's your favorite city in a RPG? It can be from a JRPG or WRPG.
 
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Ryman

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If we are talking any town or city in a game. I'd go with Costa del Sol from FFVII.

If you mean large, poplulated urban area, Fourside from EarthBound
 
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Static Veins

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This thread is like pornography for me; love an immersive JRPG city!

My top pick is Lindblum too. Great design, great atmosphere.
 
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Sir_Crocodile

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Synbios's fathers town (Flagard) in SF3S1, just because the way you get Frank is so hilarious.

The base in Skies of Arcadia is pretty cool, and I like "bases" (suikoden 2, breath of fire 2 etc) in general. As a place with stuff to do, Millennial fair in Guardia in Chrono Trigger is the best. The festival/castle town in Wild Arms gives me fond memories too.
 
Bl@de

Bl@de

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Mr.Fletcher said:
Novigrad. A sight for sore eyes after hours in the swamps and packed full of political and racial intrigue.
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I don't know why but I prefer Vizima from W1. The town was quite big and packed with lots of details. Also the areas where more distinct and easier to find. Novigrad was so big that I felt lost all the time and navigated by minimap. Even after 120 hours.

Fun fact: When it rains the NPCs hide under the roofs and comment about the weather.
 
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Taruranto

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Lindblum for jRPG yeah, it's impossible to top the entrance CS.

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Otherwise, Athkatla is just great.


Khorinis from Gothic 2 is also a fantastic micro-cosmo.
 
Mediking

Mediking

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Skellige from Witcher 3!!!! I love you!!!!!! It's when I really fell in love with the game.

JRPG... hmmmmm.... too many to choose....
 
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Iksenpets

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Bl@de said:
I don't know why but I prefer Vizima from W1. The town was quite big and packed with lots of details. Also the areas where more distinct and easier to find. Novigrad was so big that I felt lost all the time and navigated by minimap. Even after 120 hours.

Fun fact: When it rains the NPCs hide under the roofs and comment about the weather.
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I really like Beauclair from the expansion for that reason. It has a ton of character, but is compact enough you feel like you can really get to know it over the course of the game. It's less realistic a city than Novigrad, but that makes it work better for the game.
 
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Mr.Fletcher

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Bl@de said:
I don't know why but I prefer Vizima from W1. The town was quite big and packed with lots of details. Also the areas where more distinct and easier to find. Novigrad was so big that I felt lost all the time and navigated by minimap. Even after 120 hours.

Fun fact: When it rains the NPCs hide under the roofs and comment about the weather.
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I adored Novigrad. It's a great palette cleanser after hours of riding between small war-ravaged villages.

From what I've seen online, many feel you spend a little too much time there in the middle of the game but I just couldn't help but fall in love with the atmosphere of the place.

It felt real to me. It also has a great mixture of quests too.

It's certainly big though and easy to lose your way in.
 
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Syril

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Mine is Rata Sum from Guild Wars 2.
Guild Wars 2 Wiki said:
Rata Sum is the capital city of the asura and is in the form of a giant, floating cube. When the Great Destroyer drove them from their homes in the Depths of Tyria 250 years ago, they arrived at the ruins of some previous civilization, setting up geomystical generators for power within these already fortified confines and establishing the area as their new capital. The aesthetic sensibilities of these ruins are reflected in modern asuran architecture.

Originally a hastily erected outpost protected by ruins, Rata Sum is now a geometrical masterpiece and testament to the asura's unstoppable ability to progress.
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Rata Sum has multiple levels which make it harder to show everything in vista shots, so here's a link to a bunch more pictures: https://nerdybookahs.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/the-glorious-rata-sum-in-pictures/
 
Bl@de

Bl@de

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Mr.Fletcher said:
I adored Novigrad. It's a great palette cleanser after hours of riding between small war-ravaged villages.

From what I've seen online, many feel you spend a little too much time there in the middle of the game but I just couldn't help but fall in love with the atmosphere of the place.

It felt real to me. It also has a great mixture of quests too.

It's certainly big though and easy to lose your way in.
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It's big, it has atmosphere and great design.

But I prefer smaller (as the poster before you said: unrealistic) towns that I can navigate by heart. I think it's better for gameplay reasons. But that's just my opinion. Novigrad is still a great town.
 
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T-Rex.

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It's technically a bunch of islands rather than a city, but Skellige in Witcher 3 gets my vote. It's the first time I've ever played an RPG and took time just walking around enjoying the scenery, it's incredible.
 
Krappadizzle

Krappadizzle

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Anor Lando is a good choice someone earlier said. Balmora too.


Still my favorite and most believable is Witcher 3's Novigrad.

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ActWan

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Although I loved Novigrad from TW3, I'll go with Vizima from TW1. Pretty lively with alot of different areas and districts which I really liked.
 
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Mr.Fletcher

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Bl@de said:
It's big, it has atmosphere and great design.

But I prefer smaller (as the poster before you said: unrealistic) towns that I can navigate by heart. I think it's better for gameplay reasons. But that's just my opinion. Novigrad is still a great town.
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Oh no, I get it.

I actually love a lot of villages in the Fable games. They are tiny and relatively linear but they have a real character.
 
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