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What are your three favorite cities in the mmorpgs you have played?
Amathe
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Mine are:
1. Kelethin, Original Everquest
2 Divinity's Reach/Lion's Arch, Guild Wars 2
3. Ironforge, World of Warcraft
1. Kelethin, Original Everquest
2 Divinity's Reach/Lion's Arch, Guild Wars 2
3. Ironforge, World of Warcraft
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
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2. Iron Forge - World of Warcraft
3. Qeynos - Everquest 2 (Vanilla Qeynos)
2. Valencia (BDO)
3. Grana, Calpheon (tied for 3rd, BDO)
Special mention to Black Citadel, Charr capital (GW2).
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
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Aden - Lineage 2
Valencia - Black Desert
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Rivendell, Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings Online. Walking in to that majestic city for the first time is breathtaking. I had beautiful screenshots saved in that game for a decade and then my backup HDD broke. *sob*
Kingsmouth, Maine. The Secret World. Opinions on TSW varied but it is universally regarded as creating one of the creepiest and most iconic settings.
Runners up. Midgar, Final Fantasy VII. Asmodae, Aion. Cyrodiil, Tamriel. The Elder Scrolls Online.
Isenhorst - Black Gold Online - a SteamPunk city built on a giant gear in a volcano like setting. if you like steampunk, this place delivers in a visual manner.
Holbrak - GW2 - city of the Norn, it is one of the only paces that I have been in that felt small and cozy, yet at they same time, being in awe of it's sheer majestic size.. not to mention the tooth..
Camelot - DAOC, showed me what MMOs could do with a city.
Bree - Tolkein brought to life.
Gorowyn - EQ2 I actually felt this was a city of Evil.
2) Kaladim, Everquest. Also fairly sentimental, but pretty amazing for 1999. Much like my first pick, I could have traded for any number of other cities from EQ.
The only reason I chose from separate MMO's was to avoid a list of cities only from Ultima Online. I could have included a third pick from World of Warcraft, and while its' capitols are interesting and easy on the eyes, they're mostly just set pieces. So many of the buildings aren't used or accessible to players, and for some reason that's an important factor for me. Couldn't tell you why, exactly. It just is.
I thought this was a fun exercise, though. It's telling that of the twenty or so MMO's I've played, there were really only two or three games that stuck out for me in regards to cities that I could remember by name and felt I had a connection with, the majority of which were released prior to 2000. Kinda strange.
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1) Talking Island, Lineage 1, never a more sociable place, my first online dungeon and endless camp raid boss (9 hrs, only to have another high level guild show up and take the boss from us) Runner up, Giran.
2) Camelot, DAOC really captured the magic for me. Runner up, TNN.
3) Name "Unknown" - Shadowbane - My first player built clan city, its loss to a ravaging 3:00 am horde drove me from the game almost immediately.
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2. New/Old Gridania -FFARR
3.Stormwind-Wow
Aloha Mr Hand !
Freeport Everquest 2
Ironforge WoW
Divinity’s Reach - Guild Wars 2 I know it’s been said before but it’s incredibly breathtaking.
Mournhold - ESO
Mos Eisley - SWG: Galaxies cities weren't great, they always felt a bit lifeless. But, Mos Eisley had the Star Wars feel done right. It was large and dirty and also my first experience of a city in an MMO.
Lothlorien - LotRO: too small for my liking, but what was there was fantastic and felt magical and elfish. Really loved all the tree-running quests too, despite having no monsters in the city there was a ton of stuff to do there.
Inevitable City - WAR: the place was just huge! A bit cheesy in places but I really enjoyed it. It wasn't just banks/auction house and some nice scenery like most cities, there was tons of stuff in there, including entrances to a load of dungeons. The city also became a PvP zone during city sieges which just added to the fun. I felt this city was better than Altdorf due to the amount of rubbish/dirt that was about, Altdorf just had too many clean lines and flat surfaces for my liking.
Rome - Anarchy Online
Omni Entertainment - Anarchy Online
Reets Retreat - Anarchy Online
These places were always full of players getting together for meet ups and just partying all weekend and i really miss that in mmo's today. No one does this anymore. I remember meeting new people and just hanging out in the city nightclubs for hours on weekend nights. MMO's don't have real social hubs like this anymore.
Khal: Vanguard.
Bordinar's Cleft: Vanguard.
Just because it was small and the developers did not go out of their way to make sure that getting from one end to the other did not involve 30 switch backs, 10 loops, and 5 levels.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
MXO: The entire Megacity. :P
City of Villains: Grandville.
~Meridian, I believe the Defiant city was in Rift.
~A couple from RuneScape.
~All cities i visited in Final Fantasy XIV.
I so want to play that game again. My account is probably lost though..
and Divinity's Reach?(GW2) that one really feels like a city because of the size
honorable mention: Ul'dah(FFXIV) shame it's cut off by loading screens.
I had fun once, it was terrible.
Giran = Lineage 2 - i spent hour perusing people selling stuff and looking for buck, i had made ton of coin in L2 without buying or botting any currency. Just buying low and selling high.
Main city name in Mortal Online = It was quite vast as I remember
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Arwick - AC before explosion
Qol'Bar (sp) AC before hoousing
Stormwind - Old World OF Warcraft
Tech Haven - Neocron
These are just 3, could add the EverQuest 2 Towns if I remembered the name, and the VS Sanctuary in PlanetSide 1.
WoW - Lordaeron city? I hope they can rebuild it:
A few honorary mentions on the side, the largest is maybe MC in CO, then there's Kingsmouth in TSW (not the rocks-gated and funneled Legends version), OT in AoC, and as was mentioned above, DR.
As much as I loathe GW2, Divinity's Reach is quite something... Same goes for the cube town of the Asura.
Heck, if it's large human city with a hole in the middle, I'd drop here PE in Neverwinter too