/vr/ - Retro Games

das one bigass tree

>>817715
>>817727
The final fantasy world maps look like shit in high res since you're not meant to see the textures that clearly. Makes everything look like legos.

The tales games always have great maps, Symphonia especially.

>>817715

Chrono Cross is probably my favorite map

Britannia is pretty awesome too

FF9 because it had some verticality with areas connecting below and above the mist
FF8 because you could interact with a few things, like drawing from hidden spots and some quests that had you speaking to NPCs

FF3's world map on famicom impressed me at the time because I really thought that the first map you're in was the entire world

FF5's 2 worlds concept was brilliant as well, although the mixing of the two was made predictable

My personal favorite.

>Imagine if FFX had a world map with Sin constantly swimming/flying around.

that would have been fucking terrifying

>>817859
>>817859
Whoopsie

Xenogears.

>>817715
I hate flying across them, my god, why can't I travel on foot, by train and stuff? I wish there was a modern-type game with as much exploration as a proper Dragon Quest, where it actually takes time to walk from one place to another and there's some actual discovery weaved into gameplay.

>>817892
GAAAAAY

>>817892
>FFVIII
>not being able to travel on foot, by train, car.

Did you even play it?

>>817938
Of course I have. There's 0 (zero) sense of discovery in FFVIII. Trains and cars were awesome, but there was nothing to do with them.

>>817903
What does this have to do with anything, pretty boy?

>>817941
>Of course I have. There's 0 (zero) sense of discovery in FFVIII. Trains and cars were awesome, but there was nothing to do with them.

That's not true at all. If you fuck around with Chocobos you can access some cool places earlier on such as being to fight Cactuars. There is plenty to discover once you get the flying garden too.

Granted it's true that the trainstations open up only after you have the Garden which makes them a moot point.

>>817958

>>817956

>>817949
>There is plenty to discover once you get the flying garden too.
Oh quit telling me about FFVIII, I've been everywhere and found everything back in 1999. There's no discovery, no map puzzles, the world is tiny.

>>817960
I find a certain amount of charm to these worlds

>>817961
>I find a certain amount of charm to these worlds
Looking at DQ maps is boring. Travelling them is amazing.

>>817959

it looks cool tho

Final Fantasy 2's map is rather interesting with landmasses crossing over the edge of the map.

Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

Best map ever.

Best game ever.

The endless adventures that came to your mind when you first saw that map.

Play it.

i agree
love worldmaps

moar mapz

>>817892
There was an FF with an enormous world that had no personally piloted airships. Foot, chocobo, teleportation via waypoints, passenger airships to ports, and boats across the sea.

Boat travel was the best, they were 10 minute rides where one can go fishing or fend off attacking pirates and sea creatures during the ride.

jk lol its an mmo

>>818027
I always wanted to play that game. Should I go fucking play it right now?

>>817989
I know, right. FFVIII probably is the pretties FF, and has the best soundtrack, too. Outside of character design, it probably has the best, most imaginative and aesthetically pleasing art direction in the whole series. AND the best soundtrack int he whole series, too.

Holy crap, Square, how did you fuck that game so badly? How? Just how?

>>818249
Too bad it's $15 a month AND makes me work when I'm playing.

>>817864
>cheeserunes
Where is your baguette?

>>817956
>>817958
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>>817960
>>817961
These maps feel...HUGE!

>>818438
they are

>>818438
dragon quest maps always be big as the dickens

>>818438
>>818438
>>818673
>>818676
DQ maps are just built to be fun to explore.

>>817956
i remember when i played DW3 the first time. i got up to the spot where you have to find the shoals and went on a massive search across the whole globe for two weeks to find that 2x3 patch of mountains.

>>817780
Definitely the best map music, if nothing else.

>>817956
I still think it's cool as hell that the DQ3 world is middle ages Earth and it's not blatant about it. Just playing through you'd notice some stuff that reminds you of Japan or Egypt, but it doesn't beat you over the head with the fact. I was amazed when I realized what the map really was.

>>819043

lol, you know what, that may in fact be the reason I like it so much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=019DAhMGlO0&list=PLE9BC9AD85F99F8CB&index=7

Ya'll niggas are small time.

>>819118
Britannia had a great map, if only because it was consistent. You went back there the next game, and it was familiar. It felt like returning home.

FFIX for me.

Felt magical. They limited your exploration perfectly, giving you just enough options at one time to keep you excited but not overwhelmed.

Anyone ever play Sentinel Worlds?
It's this sci fi rpg from the 80's, basically you're leading a squad of space cops in a colonized star system.
The few planets you can visit have procedurally generated terrain which is maybe sort of repetitive but it's kinda cool how real-life sized the planets actually feel.
Not the coolest world maps maybe but it felt kinda cool anyways. If you actually found a secret there (without reading the hints) you really felt like you found a secret.

>>819958
Nope, but it's in my backlog.
Along with half the other games ITT.

>>818681
What's that Island again to the south-east linked to the mainland by a bridge?