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>>189901318 (OP)
I disagree
I found everything looked the same up until the prothean stasis chambers. Hell, I even got lost for a while because everything looked so copy-pasted! My opinion of course.

>>189902494
How do you get lost in ME
It is almost one path

>>189901318 (OP)
>>189901879
You must be trolling, that map is horrendous.

>>189902581
>Implying I don't backtrack for more shit
I am sure it branches and backtracks regardless in the level anyways. Fuck man, even your screenshots looks like the same shit over and over

>>189902816
How so? Did you prefer ME2's box corridors?

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Any level in Darksiders 2 was fucking beautifal.
I thought it was going to be mostly grimdark shit but their levels kicked major ass.

>>189903121
Fuck. Why haven't I got that game?

>>189903026
It's just a shit map man, stop diverging. If you want to prove it's a good map let's hear some positives. As for me, I just remember it being a not very interesting. Brown everywhere? The same prothean statues everywhere? Even the architecture wasn't very interesting.

>>189903121
I extremely underestimated it.

The atmosphere of the game was amazing.

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The Xen levels in Half-Life 1.

Many people get lost and call them confusing, but that's the point. You are in an alien dimension, stuff isn't going to be designed like it is in your world.

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>>189903121
>the farther you got from scenery the more it looked like a biblical painting

>>189903494
that picture is oddly appropriate

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>>189903494
I agree! going up that weird ass elevator tubule fuck to jumping on flying stingray spaceships while dodging big brained aliens shooting psionic blasts felt pretty alien fo sho!

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>>189903121
>muh nigga

>>189903494

I always grimace when they talk shit about Xen

Tower of Latria:
-many levels
-many environments
-many enemies
-challenging

>>189904085
I was about to post that. Fuck

>>189903121
>>189903412
That impressed by draw distances? All those environments could have doubled as raid zones in any generic fantasy MMORPG. They were about as empty and featureless as raid zones, too. The most impressive thing in DS2 was the enemy designs, but the tradeoff was there were like four of them.

Darksiders 1 had much cooler environments.

>>189904085

Tower of Latria was real nice, especially with the absolute boring shitest that was 2-2.

>>189904184
Not by a long shot.
The level design for DS2 was completely about atmosphere, and it does it very well than all but a handful of games.

>>189904184
>four enemy designs
Let me guess, you rented the game from family video and played a half an hour of it in the forge lands.

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Milkman Conspiracy

>>189904559
Got to it before me.

>>189903401
Well I guess I'm the only one. But I thought the art direction was really well thought out. I at least thought the architecture was interesting and it pulled off the "ancient overgrown city" vibe perfectly, that + the music just really stuck out to me.

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Rubacava was so swanky, every place was great.

>>189904559

best level ever

Pirate ship and haunted castle from Medievil.

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Couldn't find an in-game picture but damn this game was visually gorgeous.

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bumping your thread OP

Shalebridge cradle.

Anor Londo from dork souls, I just really wanted to walk into the city that was down there.

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All the levels in Thief.

>>189906868

I didn't like Anor Londo for precisely that reason. Blighttown was my favourite zone.

>>189907097
is this really a level?

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>>189907334
Yes.

>>189907454
Now I want to play it.

>>189907598
The Metal Age was way better.

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>>189907598

Why only now.

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Alleys and Gulleys from Toy Story 2. No room for fucking error in that shit, but it was godly

>>189907454
>>189907652
>>189907672
This is going to sound silly to you guys but what are you supposed to do in the first level of Thief 2? I got to the door where someone is supposed to be or something and then I had no idea what to do.

>playing Skyrim, hating it
>Daedra sends me to dungeon
>it's actually an entire Dwemer city
>tear up at how perfect it looks
>realize it's one long corridor

They pissed away the best location in vidya.

>>189907936
Damn this game was the Super Mario 64 for Playstation

>>189908162
It was the Super Mario 64 for the N64 too. As far as I'm concerned it was a better platformer in every way

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>>189907942

After getting rid of all the guards down there, go to the beginning of the level and blow the whistle in your inventory.


Thief sound design is still top notch, just pump that gamma down so shadows are always dark as hell. masterpiece in gaming.

>>189907936
This fucking game holy shit.

>>189908025
>playing Skyrim and having no fun
>am I /v/ yet?

If you didn't take some time off from questing just to explore, it's boring, yes, but it was good when you took your time with it.

Skyrim really did have some beautiful locations though, as well as Morrowind and Oblivion. Arena and Daggerfall were good, but didn't have as much as a visual impact.

>>189908265
>>189908162
Are you scared yet anon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ZRWUCAxQY

>>189908245
Oh so I was supposed to kill everyone? It wasn't just sneak past to get to the room? That makes sense, I'll have to try it again sometime.

>>189908310
>am I /v/ yet?
>people definitely can't genuinely dislike the games that I like!

>>189908463
No, its a tutorial level, you have to knock then down unconscious.

You can ghost all the other levels however.

>>189908227
The only thing that I didn't like was the airport level (the last one I think), it felt so empty.

>>189908452
This game was full of technology, them ripples and helmet reflections.

Probably all of Super Mario Sunshine fits in this thread.

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I love the way this level looks in particular.
The colorscheme, goddamn

>>189908730
I loved that feeling and that fucking song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfhy-QpSUw

>>189908609
Alright. I feel like an idiot now but I guess that means the game assumed I was a complete noob.

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5-3

>>189907652
it has more consistent level design but thief 1 had better every thing else.

>>189907936
This one along with Riddick is one of the best (if not the best) movie licensed games.

>>189908452
Loving the music.

>>189909012
>everything else
Like what? The mechanics were practically the same, and half of Thief 1's levels sucked.

>>189907936
Almost every level on this game had surprisingly detailed levels. Andy's house, the neighborhood, the construction site.etc.

>>189908951
"Leave us, Slayer of Demons. This is a sanctuary for the lost and wretched. There is nothing here for you to pillage or plunder. Please, leave quietly."

>dem chills

>>189909213
>Andy's House
>Almost all the rooms were open
>Visiting them

I spent a lot of hours in that level just watching everything in first person view.

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hue

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>>189908951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-rNVnrFQDg

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Only the dead know peace from this evil. Donkey Kong Country 2's levels were so beautifully designed, yet incredibly punishing.

>>189909126
Opinions.


I love all levels from Thief and Thief 2. Except maybe the Thieves Guild.

Thief 1has more variety.

>>189909126
atmosphere and story were better.But yeah there were like 5 levels in Thief 1 that I didn't like but I really liked how there were lots of different kinds of missions in in it where as Thief 2 didn't have much variety. I've listened to interviews with thief 2 devs and some of them even agree with my last point.

>>189909428
I got lost in Vivec

>>189909050
no way, just today i was talking to a friend of mine about this level and how great it was! that whole game was glorious...

Nice skybox you have got there.

>>189908452
>dat boss
>button mashing to kill that motherfucker.
>suddenly green lazor in field
>time to die bitch

>>189909510
well of course, donkey kong came from those ancient times where lots of dev time = harder game

>>189909473
I actually rather liked the architecture and overall look of that whole area.
Could have a bit more to it, of course.

>>189909519
>more variety
Not necessarily a good thing in Thief 1's case. Practically all of the undead levels as well as the later Constantine levels were annoying. Also, quite a few of those missions either barely required stealth or practically forced you to fight (otherwise it was a pain in the ass). And yes, the Thieves' Guild was terrible.

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>>189901318 (OP)
Gears of War had really detailed maps.
There was this one level which was in a city, and if you look off into the distance of the map, there are towers pointing every which way. It looked really cool.

The Gears series in general had pretty nice design in its levels.

>>189909519
>Thieves Guild.
I'm inclined to agree, but that song that played when you snuck into the club was fucking stylish.

>>189909737
I never felt forced in Thief 1, ghosted every level.

>>189909784
This, even if the game was all brown, black and red it really had some pretty detailed levels.

>>189909737
all of those levels can be done stealthy. Thief 2 also had some annoying levels later on like casing the joint and masks and I hated the last level.I kinda agree that thief 1 had too much variety but thief 2 also had not enough variety.

>>189910045
Look all the levels were amazing. Thief is just one of those games.

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>>189910028
3 was better about the brownness

It still had a lot of brown, but there were areas where they clearly went out of their way to add color. Like the island at the end after the storm ends.
It wasn't Uncharted levels of color, but it was still nice.

Speaking of Uncharted...
I really liked the design of Shambala. It was pretty amazing when you enter it for the first time.

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I really liked Blazblue's level design.

>>189910210

Thief 2 had overall better levels. Thief's had too many that were combat oriented, and the last level was just a linear path. Admittedly, Thief 2's last level was also pretty bad, but I can't really think of any others that stood out as bad, although repeated that one level twice was pretty lazy.

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>>189910439
I mean really, this looks cozy as hell. They're even better looking with all of the background sprites of people standing and moving around.

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>>189910547

>>189910383
I haven't played 3, is the single player campaign good?

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>>189910383
Yeah, Shambala was cool

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>>189910639
Also the Monorail was pretty cool looking. Especially when in motion.

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I feel like any level from Sonic Unleashed HD or Sonic Generations are worth a mention. The day stages surely took a lot of time to design considering how fast Sonic goes.

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While Skyrim does deserve the shit people throw at it, Solstheim was done incredibly well

>>189910730
It wasn't quite as strong as 2, but if you liked 2, you would probably like 3 honestly.

>>189908310
There's nothing to fucking explore in Skyrim. Everything's the fucking same

>inb4 "Confirmed for not playing Skyrim"

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I remember that I liked the Painkiller Battle Out Of Hell circus level.

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>>189910798
I just started playing Sonic Generations.
>mfw Sky Sanctuary
>and Speed Highway

>>189910816
>Rocks
>Rocks
>Rocks
>Snow
>Snow
>Rocks
>A few mushrooms in the corner of the map

It could have been leagues better. They barely even made any new assets.

>>189910827
I really liked 2 except for that last mission

>final boss fuck yes
>on rails
>press x to win
>the end

That pissed me off.

>>189911083
wait, you felt the final boss was on rails? what?
Do you mean running away from the boss?

>>189911063
You still have Seaside Hill, City Escape, Crisis City, and Rooftop Run to experience my friend. Both Acts for all are great.

>>189911204
Wasn't the last boss that huge thing that you killed with the lazer (forgot name) while flying on the helicopter?

>>189911079
Not that anon, but...
>quanity =/= quality
Just because they didn't stack tons of shit in there, doesn't mean that the level is worse because of that. It's the overall idea and the design that counts.

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The sprite-based backgrounds in a lot of fighting games were just drop dead gorgeous.

>>189911432
Yeah, but it still looks drab as shit. That's the problem.

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>>189911526

>>189911371
Oh, Gears of War.
Were you the one who asked if 3 was good?
I thought that person was refering to Uncharted 3.

Well, the final boss of Gears of War 3 is not on rails. Though I feel Gears 3 is much better if you have people to play with, though it is a good game on its own.

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>>189911526
Don't forget Metal Slug. A lot of people wank over the sprites while completely ignoring the backgrounds.

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>>189911651

El Shaddai, anyone?

>>189911638
Haha now I get it, we were talking about a different game. I might check GoW 3 then.

>>189911651
>>189911717
Holy fuck this.

>tfw no more Metal Slug

>>189911819

Art design is awesome but the levels themselves were clearly shit out on a Friday afternoon, most of them are literally "completely linear winding path over death pit". The driving level was amazing though.

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>>189911971
Oh there's more. It's just mostly Mobile Releases. And for the non-mobile releases, the backgrounds have all been drawn and rendered with 3D Modelling software.

It makes me sad.

>>189911873
Yeah, if you liked Gears 2, you will almost definitely like 3. But like I said, if you have anyone to play with, splitscreen or otherwise, I recommend it.

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>>189912120
I think it still looks good but I really like the old ones better.

>>189912337
This is cozy as FUUUck

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>>189912367
The old ones had that hand-drawn charm, and were a lot more cartoony. They matched the sprites better.

>>189912505
This.

>>189911063
>muhfuggin Rooftop Run
>dat classic remix
>all dat fast
I need to install the Unleashed mod very soon.

>>189904559
>dat fucking level

Hell,
>dat fucking game

y no sequel

>>189912889
Because money
Double Fine cant afford to make it on their own.
And they have had a history of getting screwed by publishers.

Just look at Brutal Legend. Nearly put them out of business

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Without a doubt the best overworld in the game. The theme was fucking great too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1lUJUIXEpQ

>>189905738
What game?

>>189912967
This.
Good devs always get fucked by some second hand parties. It's sad...

>>189912990
Alice Madness Returns.

>>189910383
We have to list the Ship Graveyard and Cruise Ship segments from Uncharted 3. They were both wonderful game elements but they made very litle sense where they were in the game. Probably would have worked better had they been set at the start of the story. And, in order to make it work better in the story, have Nathan going after that decoder ring thing from the start of the story instead of Sully.

>>189913217
God, I hated those parts. To be specific, I hated the start of the ship graveyard, that one wide open area at the start?
I HATED that part.
Also, I hated the theater on the ship. That part fucking sucked. And the storage room where the water is constantly rising.
Fuck those parts.
Otherwise, i enjoyed the shipyard and the rest of the cruise ship was okay

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Every fucking area in all three Prime games. There isn't one specific standout area in any game, they're all so damn well done.