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10 Great Game Environments

Bitmob community writer Bruno Dion: One of the elements that interest me the most in video games is their environment; the space they create and in which the action and narrative will take place. Here is a short list of 10 game environments (in no particular order) that hooked me in one way or another.

Seijoru5437d ago

Too many wasteland kinda environments in this list. What about U1's lush jungles or Just Cause 2's Island?

admanb5437d ago

Red Dead and Fallout 3 are too many? :P There aren't many on that list that I'd count as wastelands.

bbretterson5437d ago

I'd definitely add Uncharted 2 the list.

Etseix5437d ago

agree*

on the train stage, i was getting killed a lot by being looking at the dam enviroment (since the jungle until the ice caverns)... dam u enviroment!

bearsfaan5437d ago

Ohh, Panau is a good one. I'd have put it on the list, even though the game itself wasn't that great. Loved Wind Waker's world for sure.

Darkstorn5437d ago

I'd have Rapture higher, and I'd also go so far as to include Deathspank's environment. Very creative.

Ratchet_Co5437d ago

Uncharted would be a clear addition. Love the fact that they included Prince of Persia in there.

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rod_furlong5437d ago

Dunno about that Spider game, but the rest certainly make sense...

Gungnir5437d ago

I was looking for Morrowind or Oblivion. World or Warcraft is also pretty vast in terms of real estate, and has a good amount of variety.

MeatAbstract5437d ago

The first time playing WoW is just great. Such a great, colourful world to explore. A great enviroment.

alphakennybody5437d ago (Edited 5437d ago )

SOTC is my favorite environment in any game its so vast, mysterious and peaceful.

Baltis5437d ago

SOTC and Zelda WW are much deserved. The rest, meh. None of the rest of the games are that good.

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Fallout 3 designer expects remaster to revise gunplay to make it closer to Fallout 4

Fallout 3 game designer Bruce Nesmith explains that the upcoming remaster should revise the game's gunplay to be more modern.

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neutralgamer199251d ago

Give us FO3 with all the dlc remastered like ESO. Load times faster, quality of life improvements, gun play improvements

I believe it shouldn't just be graphical they should make improvements where they can to make the game better. A simple face lift isn't what's needed

ZeekQuattro51d ago

Still my favorite one. I remember getting a digital copy of FO3 when I got FO4(XBO). It was nice to finally play a stable version of the game. Then when I got a Series S it was an even better expierence. Quick resume and FPS boost made it feel like a whole new game. Updated gunplay would be very welcome though. One of the few things FO4 did better.

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Fallout 3 Remaster is coming after Oblivion Remastered, but "it'll be a while" until we see it

The rumoured Fallout 3 Remaster is still in development, but it will be years until fans get to play it on new platforms.

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jznrpg59d ago

New Vegas and Morrowind should have been first!

Christopher59d ago

Fairly certain we all know that New Vegas isn't getting anything because it's not a Bethesda developed game.

OMGitzThatGuy59d ago

MS owns both devs, if they want it, a 3rd party will make it.

Christopher59d ago

***MS owns both devs, if they want it, a 3rd party will make it. ***

I think the issue is that it's not a Bethesda developed game, not that MS owns both. This is more about Todd.

RaidenBlack58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

Yep ... Todd doesn't like getting bettered within his own IP scope.
I still think of the Elder Scrolls spin-off Obsidian pitched similar to New Vegas, but Todd rejected.

RaidenBlack58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

Replayed NV more than FO3 ... so I appreciate the FO3 remaster more.
For NV, I'd much prefer a sequel or a spinoff from Obsidian.

FTLmaster59d ago

Got a soft spot for Fallout 3, so I'd be down to play this.

-Foxtrot59d ago

It's crazy New Vegas wasn't worked on first to launch alongside Fallout Season 2.

They could have added all the cut content they had planned but didn't have enough development time to add, possibly even expand on it a little more. For example, have the Vegas strip as one big hub over being chopped into smaller sections we have to keep loading into.

neutralgamer199259d ago

Would love a complete remake or sequel with enough resources

Abnor_Mal59d ago

The only Fallout game I’ve played, PS3 had to keep stopping every few minutes to save. Next thing I knew the credits were rolling and I never did any side quest. I never replayed the game because of all the bugs the game had.

Yui_Suzumiya58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

I've played Fallout 3 more than any game. I lost count many years ago of how many times I finished it. It was my first Platinum trophy. But yeah, it was buggy on PS3 at launch before it got properly patched.

anast59d ago

They are only remaking their games that have been streamlined.

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50 Best PS3 Games of All Time

The PlayStation 3 is Sony’s most interesting home console ever, but what’s most interesting of all is trying to nail down the very best games on a console with hundreds of incredible games. Let’s give it a shot.

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darthv72104d ago

Personally, I'd rank Pacific Rift in my top 10. It's the best of the series.

badz149103d ago

We desperately need Motorstorm back. Evolution is no more though and this makes me sad

Cacabunga103d ago

Sly Thieves in Time
Stay the Party
Portal 2
Dj Hero
Demon’s Souls
God of war Ascension

rudero103d ago

2 of those games got railed through the “gaming media” during release.
Sly and god of war.
Both of which were fantastic games.

Cacabunga102d ago

Ascension is VERY underrated. Remake please!

Venoxn4g103d ago

Decent list.. I would put the Castle Crashers as well..

1Victor103d ago

Yes it’s a decent list of popular games with a heavy hand on FPS and no Warhawk or Starhawk 2 of the best games (not sale wise) on ps3.
I would buy a Starhawk again even if it didn’t have a graphics upgrade hell I would even take a new one with micro transactions 😱🤯

Profchaos103d ago

I've noticed a recent nostalgia for the PS3 and I don't get it for me it's been my least favourite generation to date and I've been gaming since the NES I just feel like the ambition of the developers outweighed the capabilities of the consoles so I remember lots of games running in the lower end of 20fps range and I remember for the first time ever actually disliking the duelshock 3 and it's curved triggers

Sure there were some standouts and great games but that's the only gen I switched entirely to PC gaming

darthv72103d ago

Maybe the recent nostalgia is because pretty much all of its games are trapped on that console. People want to play them on more modern hardware. hell... if XB can do it then so can Sony. there are competent emulators out there that can run on PS4/5 hardware but Sony just wont let them become official... why is that?

If we are talking least favorite generations (personally) then this one is certainly mine. i had more fun playing 8th, 7th and 6th gen stuff than 9th. And it isnt like i dont have access to do so... the heavy hitters just havent shown up anywhere close to those previous gens. The few here and there just doesnt cut it compared to the likes of constant good games that showed up in 6th, 7th and 8th gen. hell.... I'll even throw in 5th gen has been better than this one.

Profchaos103d ago

I tend to agree there's lots of amazing games locked to the PS3 like GTA IV or mgs 4 but then again my issue was never with the content the PS3 had but rather it's performance many other people have said the PS3 felt like it couldn't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time using PSN and downloading a game could take a few minutes to just start a download.

I typically don't worry all that much about performance I've never had a problem with games that run at 30 but games like crysis 2, Skyrim are good examples where the performance was so unstable you would never even touch the top of the frame cap and the hitching was worse than say Goldeneye on the n64

I think emulation is more than possible on the ps5 though it's just that Sony has no incentive to rush it's development it will likely be a ps6 feature if it ever happens at all.

But yeah the 9th gen has been so bad from a content perspective thats a given I see constant articles where people are frequently expressing their disappointment around the industry as a whole right now to much live service competition that sinks longstanding studios and consumes Devs time less ambition and games cost so much to make they have to play it safe.

The 5th gen was easily better than the 9th we had some all time greats crash, Spyro, Tony hawk, mgs, Mario,64, Goldeneye, Mario kart 64 the list goes on. The 5th gave us a new dimension and I remember being blown away by how much more open gaming had become the 4th gen with the mega drive and SNES was great and very easy to still revisit some of the greatest games of all time came out like earthbound, secret of mana, sonic , Mario world etc but saving our games was still not a standard function or a given so gaming was still evolving but it was very impressive to see some of the tricks Devs used like dithering to give us new experiences those earlier gens limitations bred innovation.

Michiel1989103d ago

if XB can do it so can sony? I didn't know xbox had a cell processor in their older consoles, that's the reason why ps3 was so cool, but also the reason why games are hostage there and no, xbox did nothing similar even though their backward compatbility is good, they always had a similar architecture to their consoles.

darthv72102d ago

Sorry Michael... I guess you missed the obvious part where i said there are already emulators out that do this. and that is what XB is doing... emulators for OG and 360 games. Its why the full slate is not BC on XBO/Series.

coolbeans103d ago (Edited 103d ago )

The list is missing Folklore.

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