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The big ending area on the mission the covenant in halo 3. The area where the arbiter kills the prophet of truth.
All of Rapture from BioShock
The size of halo 2 compared to 1. 1 was already amazingly open. But 2 was just…monstrous.
I didn’t play it but everything from Scorn is pretty creepy. Creepy in a good way.
The Pyramids of Giza in Assassin’s Creed Origins
Interior of Jindosh house from Dishonored 2.
I don’t know if it counts, but that underground area reveal in elden ring after that long ass elevator ride.
Hmm… a lot of stuff in Elden Ring.
The architecture of the Haligtree in Elden Ring is pretty incredible, specifically the first half.
There’s a sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious bowing/curvature to walls and pillars that creates an optical illusion that the screen is distorted. I didn’t notice anything at first, and then I’d occasionally have this somewhat nauseating feeling like I was looking through a fishbowl.
Also, Bloodborne. The Astral Clocktower for sure. Pretty much everything in Cathedral Ward.
Jindosh’s mansion in Dishonored 2, as others have mentioned. The entire space station in Prey is incredible and feels like such a real place.
What is that game in the picture?
Has to be The Oldest House from Control, it’s all 3 in 1!
Destiny 2 Dreaming City, or Crotas Temple
Citadel in Half Life was pretty awesome
Pretty much the entirety of Subnautica
The cave in skyrim. Yes, that one
The Shalebridge Cradle in Thief Deadly Shadows.
The Mausoleum of Evil in Nioh 2, it’s an upside down underwater demon castle that you discover as you drain the lake it’s in. Imo it’s an incredible level.
Magus Castle, Chrono Trigger.
Both the temple of Pandora and the island of the fates in god of war 1 and 2.
Vault of Glass
The final continuous battle sequence in Kingdom Hearts 2 is absolutely epic.
At one point you basically fight a skyscraper.
Anor londo from the first dark souls, Also revisited on the third one
Halo ring.
Jormungandr.
I love a good bit of architecture in a game! Uncharted had some great buildings, horizon too. I often find myself wondering who was the person who designed a vaulted roof or something like that.
SNES/N64 era has a lot of these “much bigger than I expected” scenes.
– Hyrule Field from OOT, then a second transformed world to just double it all.
– Chrono Trigger pulls this shit several times through the game. Mastery of “you thought that was the best we could do? Lol”.
– Basically any Final Fantasy from the time. I remember leaving Midgar and being shocked.
– Mario 64’s castle felt endless.
Lunatic Pandora from Final Fantasy VIII. You get a glimpse of it in the beginning of the game, but later you see it’s a floating pillar thing that’s 3 miles high and everywhere inside is made out of overgrown crystals except for the throne room that’s painted in a sunburst pattern that covers the whole room. music is awesome, as are the boss fights inside
Persona 5, Madarame’s palace
Building specifically, I dunno, the Citadel in Half Life 2 or the Panau Broadcasting sky scraper in Just Cause 2.
Whole areas, Vivec City in Morrowind. The Town of Rive in Skygunner. Columbia and Rapture. Solitude and Blackreach in Skyrim.
Also that the entirety of all the shitty huts and buildings in Crysis were destructible. So much fun wrecking stuff.
Alexander in Final Fantasy IX.
Space station in Prey. (2017)
either the temple of time or Hyrule castle from Legend of Zelda: BOTW
Had to be in Darksiders
G-mans Prison. – Half-life Alyx
Hollow Bastion from Kingdom Hearts 1
Hollow Bastion in the original Kingdom Hearts
What always stuck with me was the moment in Half Life 1 when you first reach the surface. I played it as a kid so I was really immersed and I actually just wanted to be saved. When the military bombed me after just half a minute of blue sky it felt so enormously demotivating. Condemned back into that death trap of a complex.
The Oldest House in Control. Granted, we only see it from the inside but….damn!
Tom nooks shop