Oddworld is IGN's #36 Best Game World
This is kinda random but I felt like sharing anyway. IGN have made a list of the Top 50 Video Game Worlds (according to them) A number of really awesome games have got recognition for there amazing game worlds and...
Oddworld is number 36! :
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That's nice. And yay, Lordran is #20. Can't really agree with the #1 though. And where the hell is Mirror's Edge?
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It's pretty random list. Beyond Good & Evil better than Grim Fandango, which is better than Metal Gear series? Hah, no way. Mass Effect series on the 2nd place? You've clearly have got to be kidding me. . .
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They also left out Rayman's world... :(
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And Crash Bandicoot games.
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Then again, it's IGN.
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And WH40K. And Forgotten Realms. And Arcanum.
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Maybe Dyna really likes white roofs.
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Isn't the Mirrors Edge world deliberately ambiguous 'cause the game developers were too lazy to add much of backstory or something?
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It's very bland and uninteresting. As to why it's that way I can't really say.
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Good to see Fez got in there. The Oddworld description was so much bullshit though. What a crap reason for #36, it was basically a stream of non-sequiturs.
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They left out the Angry Birds world, how disappointing :(
Nice to see Oddworld on there among some other, more well-known games. |
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As much as I love Valve and Half-Life, it's still weird why they'd chose that as the #1 best computer game world ever over other, more interesting game worlds... Oddworld being one of them. I mean the Half-Life universe is pretty much a copy of the real world, but set in the future in a dystopia. It's brilliantly executed as a game world, but there are so many others that they've mentioned which deserve being #1 a lot better I think. |
For me, #1 is either Azeroth or Nirn. (Warcraft or Elder Scrolls)
Great list, though. For the most part. Needs more...nothing, actually. Maybe Crash. |
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Agreed. I would give Valve one or all of my vital organs if they started accepting them as tender on Steam, but I wouldn't say the Half-Life world was that amazing.
It's bleak, but not particularly well detached from reality, and that's what you need from a truly amazing game world. The perfect game world has to look like its designers poured their twisted brains onto page and signed it in blood. |
I thought Mirror's Edge was great and the world was really colourful which I like. I don't care if you guys thought it was bad or dull, I thought the levels were really well done and the colours were like themes you were going through the game.
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I'd have made Oddworld number ONE because it's the BEST and it's why I'm not on the HALF-LIFE forums.
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When I think of the Oddworld universe I think of vast swarms of ugly yet at the same time beautiful creatures in vast ugly yet at the same time beautiful environments. When I think of Mirror's Edge I think of jumping from monotonous building to monotonous building with bland characters and not really advancing anywhere in the game. |
Yeah I can't really see how the 'Valve' world is the best game world ever. It really isn't.
Maybe they chose it to get Valve's attention to show us something about HL3. |
I think they may have confused the world itself with the excellence of its presentation. It does a great job of making you feel you are there, so it sticks in your mind as a game world. I find that I play them for the immersion before the gameplay.
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Welcome to City 17 is very well executed indeed. You can tell how much effort went into that sequence. It feels just like the opening scenes of a movie, yet they didn't constrain you to rails like most modern games.
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But... Wheres Aperture Science? :( IGN sucks.
Also, there's nothing special about themario world. Nothing whatsoever. It wasn't even unique at the time. |
The Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Centre is in the Half-Life world.
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Yes, but it looks completely different. And I mean the Enrichment Centre itself, I don't mean the entire world. I thought thats what the article meant. Hmm, misleading. Should of been called top 50 game universes, rather than playable worlds.
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