What makes a video game world map good?
>>341867805
Colour choice, art style, music in that order.
>>341868094
Is this a good map?
>>341868094
You forgot shape.
>>341868189
The one in the OP? No.
I like the one you just posted though.
>>341867805
by being well thought out
>>341868272
What about this?
I like how the river connects the whole map
>>341867805
>land thats too sandy
>mount death
>city of protagonists
>Massive wall
holy fuck its so bad
>>341868523
I think that's the point senpai
>>341867805
any game map that conforms to real world plate tectonics, ocean erosion, and rainfall patterns.
>>341868437
I wish people would shut up about all of Hyrule's water passing through his ass and balls when there's clearly a larger waterfall bypassing Zora Domain.
>>341868191
I did too, you're right. My bad
>>341868189 definitely not as good as OP's pic. That map is murky, totally clouds over the purpose of a map. Should always be able to see the detail
>>341868523
its called clichea, dumbass.
>>341868408
That's a gorgeous map right there
>>341868845
I giggled.
Does someone have that image explaining how to create geographically correct maps and worlds? Cannot find it for anything.
having things to do in it
>>341867805
Mystery, for example drawing little monsters on the oceans, or having the map stretch beyond its playable area, while giving the outreaches their own name like "The Nether" or "The Forgotten Lands".
>>341869230
The one made in paint where it told you about wind direction and rain?
I don't have it anymore, so I'm also interested.
>>341868845
lol
>good maps
>posting generic western maps with imagination or diversity whatsoever
>>341868523
>Clichéa
>>341869643
Yeah that one included, there was a few of them if I'm not mistaken.
>>341867805
Good size to content ratio
Shit map; Dragons Dogma
Good map; STALKER
>>341867805
Useability. If the map doesn't actually help me figure out where to go, it's pointless. Bonus points though if it updates with information gathered from quests or dialogue.
>>341869953
>superior nippon maps folded over 10,000 times
![lW2gBQl[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/kjy48GP.png "lW2gBQl[1].png")
Sense of danger.
>>341867805
>Let's act like Lord of the Rings had a bad map because it was so amazing it defined the cliches for 60 years
Good memes
Less obvious theme-parkification
i.e.
>Now leaving Coastal Marsh Land
>Now entering Hot Lava Mountain Adventure
>>341870053
I'd say that ratio was fine in DD.
The problem was static placement of shit mobs and the constant need to run back and forth.
>>341868437
What is that little strip of land between mountains coming off of Gerudo's Valley?
>>341869987
I got you covered
Variety
>>341871401
That's the one, thanks man
>>341871227
the fortress maybe
![MapOfGallowmere[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/IcDgbiR.jpg "MapOfGallowmere[1].png")
>>341867805
a bad map is designed around the story or the content of the game
like this
>>341868408
a good map seems more as if the story and the game simply happen to take place in an already existing land
>>341871401
This guy's explanation of rain shadow bothers me.
>>341871910
>Huge coastal mountains
>On a fucking island
What the fuck?
>>341868845
what the fuck happened to France/Spain
So I already made pic related. I need another map to make a level out of.
>>341871227
The horse archery minigame
>>341871329
>pre-Cata map
>including pre-Cata Hyjal on it
such a cocktease
Kind of generic but I still have fond memories of this
>>341871951
Explain it better then.
>>341872404
Sacred 1 was the shit
>>341872701
>Mysterious ruins of the wastes
>>341868408
>sand town
>sword city
>universal town
Translate some of these to Latin and some of these to Hungarian and you have 10/10 worldbuilding
clicheed != bad, yo
>>341869929
>everything in the south is tiny as fuck
Shit map, to be honest.
>>341872104
this one is actually really good
>seems like the life developed around the world instead of the world around the life
>mostly similar climate conditions, no fucking desert out of nowhere
>varied coastlines
only downside is the ashlands maybe being a bit too ashy
>>341872576
Decreasing pressure and temperature causes the moisture to precipitate on the windward side of the mountain.
![90GWV6V[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MiZybNT.jpg "90GWV6V[1].jpg")
>>341872931
Cliches are mostly bad because people copying them don't understand them.
>>341867805
that's a pretty well drawn map, a lot of effort went to do this
>>341872870
'k
>Homokfalva
>Kardváros
>Universalisium
Better?
>>341873635
Sounds surprisingly legit tbqh
map threads are so comfy
>>341873635
>Homokfalva
good except some might kek over the homo part
>Kardváros
fucking awesome
>Universalisium
okay i guess, sounds generic
>>341867805
>a dark tower
fucking kek
>>341873812
I hear ya, senpai.
I just realized you can use the modding tools to make 3D render of your own fantasy world map, you're into that kind of thing.
http://www.eu4wiki.com/Map_modding
It should be relatively easy, since everything is done by starting with a line drawing of your world map in Photoshop/Gimp, and then just coloring it in different ways that the game engine of EU4 can then interpret and render.
In the end, you could make a 3D fantasy map that looks like this:
http://www.gamercast.net/media/blogs/gamercast/e/europa_universalis_iv/Europa_Universalis_01.jpg
That you can zoom in on and look at in the different EU4 map modes and take screenshot of provinces and kingdoms if you wanted.
Very cool.
>>341867805
A good map must be something logic, you can't put a zone with artic temperature next to a fucking dessert, and next to that dessert a fucking jungle.
>>341872224
Could be just part of a continent bruv.
>>341874840
did this with ck2 like two years ago
still got the files in an unplugged hdd but i can't be arsed getting them back
>>341867805
Areas need to be distinct enough to be interesting while flowing naturally into each other and making sense in the grand scheme of things. For example, you can't park a desert right next to a tundra, but having some mountains in between would make it work.
>>341867805
>literally nothing on that map is cliche
Cliche is a perspective. Just because you think something is cliche doesn't mean everyone else does or should.
>>341875259
teehee
>>341875434
That's so freaking cool, anon. Post moar.
>>341875810
This is a fucking giant pegasus
Also this doesn't count
>>341868437
>Underwater tunnel is Zora's domain connects to lake Hylia.
>>341875946
thats the only screenshot i have of it
have this concept render though
>>341876230
meant for
>>341875813
>>341876287
>every map has a DARK FOREST
>you never actually get to go there
>no desert theme RPG either
Pretty sad 2bh
>>341873105
Almost as if there's a volcano.
>>341876487
Al-Qadim is desert themed
This is how you do a manly map
>>341868094
these + variety and interesting set pieces
>>341868408
>Perfect World got an online game
Huh. I read a couple of chapters of it and was thoroughly unimpressed.
Interesting locations, realistic topography and geography.
Also sexy borders.
>>341869929
I can already hear the trumpets
>>341876230
looks balling, anon
>>341876896
Now we're talking. I've got the complete works of Robert E. Howard, been meaning to read through it all. Have read some of the classic Conan stories and loved them to death.
>>341873021
You'll always have that problem when trying to project a globe onto a flat surface.
![map-screen-1[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/tV6I1Vs.png "map-screen-1[1].png")
>>341867805
>The land that is just right
>>341872104
This map is god tier!! Bethesda, we NEED Morrowind remaster!
All islands, all the time.
>>341869457
>When you start looking through the map for the first time in years, and realize there is basically no place you haven't explored
Call me fucking Marco Polo
If I had to make a map, I'd just find an area on Earth and use that as the sea/ocean design.
Just look at the English channel, you turn the Southern part of England into an island, change up the terrain a bit, maybe make England Snowy and have decent map design that isn't
Loads of places are even better, Tunisia/Sicily, Croatia, a lot of East Asia.
>>341877927
Why would you want a remake of that old, clumsy game, anon?
Take a look at the Special Edition of Skyrim instead, it just rocks!
>>341867805
We need a good, new Lord of the Rings game.
>>341878238
But seriously, if you based your fantasy universe on this map, how the fuck would the kingdoms work? I'd imagine that world full of pirates and rebellions. They would have to use ships to take food and supplies to taken islands with no agriculture of their own. Simple rock islands would be for watchtowers and fortresses, but the same problem there. Basically a map like this would never be ruled by one single king... Just thinking loud.
>>341878704
Wizards dude. Wizards rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea
>>341869457
Post the new one
>>341878917
Earthsea is also a children's book.I still like it a lot.
>>341877235
underrated
Proper Earthsea video game when?
these kids will never know the feel of having a physical world map come with the game
>>341875810
Ayy lmao mindfuckery doesn't count. That needs no logic.
>>341876852
Isn't that flipped europe?
>>341877408
>cactus man wearing a sombrero playing guitar in the desert
GOAT
What game?
>>341879842
The name is written on the top of the map.
>>341879509
When they were made on that nice fabric too.
>>341869929
?
>>341869457
I always get upset with how the map is in Runescape, It feels so bunched together with everything added around that middle sea. No effort to push the islands out at all.
Look, I can just Jump or lightly swim to that island. I have 99 Agility and have made larger jumps then that. But you have to go with the monks without any weapons or armour to get there...
Entrana is shit
>Varied and distinctive areas
>Make sense, geographically and logically, to the settings
That's it. Whether it's a shitty place or an impossible utopia is the matter of preferences
>>341868845
Gets me errytime
>>341867805
Why cant we have vertical worlds with fucked up space-time, several suns and "worlds" existing side-by-side in a very strange, twirling fashion? Yet every world is big enough that you'd never suspect the presence of other worlds. Separated by bottomless chasms, mountains that indeed reach the blue sky (which is in fact just a ceiling), vortexes in the storms and seas. Pathways on land, sea and air that can't be navigated, tracked down or properly used for anything but adventuring with big risks of getting stranded in-between worlds for a long time.
Imagine each bubble to be their own world, but in a shape that isn't symmetrical at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKvT1lRWhE0
>>341878301
Australia is also good for this
>>341880568
A world that is an inverted sphere, a world that is like a twirling tube, a world where pieces of land shift places in a random fashion, a generic fantasy world, a generic medieval world, a world that is only a single room.
The possibilities are endless, yet we limit ourselves to these 2D shits. Who cares about laws of physics? Gravity can go fuck itself.
>>341878689
>>341880014
How is it that these feel completely natural and original when it is just variations of the world map?
>>341876230
Looks slightly too much like asia minor
>>341880950
Asia minor is a GOAT landmass.
>>341880918
the inverse water one maybe because the coastlines look backwards
>>341868408
This looks a lot like Enroth from Might&Magic VI.
>>341868845
lol
>>341881195
>Paradise Valley
>covered in dragons and demons
Hmm...
>>341881289
Land was lush and super nice until the demons came from the skies and drained the earth of it vitality. Now the name is ironic.
Doesn't explain the hydra and titan spam, though.
>>341870103
My nigga
>>341870093
0/10
![Westeros[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZCw9dhM.jpg "Westeros[1].jpg")
>>341878301
>If I had to make a map, I'd just find an area on Earth and use that as the sea/ocean design.
george pls
![QE7i1Ej[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/EgLiPjI.jpg "QE7i1Ej[1].jpg")
>>341870093
This is an abomination
>>341882290
>GoT world is literally two rectangles against each other
How lazy can one man be.
>>341882290
The north looks nothing like Britain though in this comparison.
>>341882605
>>341882554
Westeros could be just a circular blob, but I think GRRRM managed to make the stories fit the geography of his world, so...
>>341881489
Dats just greece
>>341882605
FUCK. I swear it always felt much bigger. Seeing it now, it's like one small town..
>>341882561
It has the same features though, just like a more wobbly boot that has mountains to the north would still be italy
>>341883009
that's cause in-game it works, plus dungeons and dark world
>>341868845
I'll be honest, it took me a minute to figure out that was Europe
>>341867805
This is such a shitty attempt at satire, it's obvious whoever made it is only aware of Tolkien and Game of Thrones and possibly WoW.
>>341882605
ALTTP/ALBW are great.
>>341882718
>>341882561
Because Britain is also flipped.
>>341883715
>tfw no game that's big enough to realistically portray the feeling of travelling through a highway, through valleys and such for a while between cities
>>341881489
Is that from some Strategy game?
What Era of Greece is it?
>>341870093
This is the best world in the thread but that render really doesn't do it justice.
>>341878689
>minecraft
>>341883715
I like maps
>>341884012
Probably never will be, unless you just want everything copy pasted to populate it.
>>341884156
>>341883984
no it isnt you can clearly see wales, cornwall and the isle of man on it with britian facing the correct way
I love it
>>341884441
>>341884560
>>341884703
God, maps are so fucking comfy. I wish I could actually draw so that I could whip some up.
>>341884462
Is that what the actual disc world looks like if seen from space?
>>341884897
>>341868408
"Anxiety Land" ..... wow.
>>341885059
>>341868189
So, that is what the RO world looks like...
Damn, i loved that game. Here, have some nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiALFduL9FA
>>341885397
>>341885576
>>341885714
>>341876487
Dark Sun, nigga.
>>341885804
>>341883308
Well clichés typically spawn from stuff that is popular, so Tolkien, WoW and GoT are good choices.
>>341879978
Ah shit, didn't notice it. Thanks, anon. Maybe I should give that game a try.
>>341879509
i got a map with skyrim though
>>341885929
and now for all my zelda mapssorry guys but its a lot
>>341876487
>no desert theme RPG either
Ever Oasis (coming for 3ds)
>>341886089
almost forgot this one
>>341882605
I don't even know why I like it so much, I guess its just nostalgia.
>>341886225
>>341872258
It's probably a map from before the Ice Age, when there was land between Britain and France.
test
>>341886341
Oh fuck my mistake, I didn't notice it disappeared.
>>341886320
>>341886462
Is it bad that I've beaten Zelda II but have never bothered to beat the first Zelda?
>>341886462
Good afternoon gentlemen. Any suggestions on a program or site that can wrap my flat map files around a globe? Wanted to do somethin neat for my players.
>>341884897
>>341885059
http://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/GBA/GoldenSun-LostAge-World.png
If the two Golden Sun games were combined into one game like they were originally supposed to be, they would probably have the most complete world map of any game ever made.
Has any other game actually featured an entire world with multiple culturally distinct continents that are all fleshed out and actually feel like different continents in the real world?
Most RPG worlds feel more like a country than a world, even if the map is supposed to cover the whole planet. Usually with a couple of "token ethnicity" towns that come off more like Arabic or Japanese themed family resorts than actual different lands.
>>341868437
>all Hylians bathe in Jabu-Jabu's/King Zora's shit and piss water
>>341886306
It's a genuinely amazing map that got butchered by Cata, no nostalgia there.
>>341886580
>>341886814
>>341886462
This is fucking hideous.
>>341886909
>>341887025
>>341886585
>take sphere UV map
>put texture on
>???
>profit
>tfw used to play this at dad's workplace
It felt like such an insanely huge world
>>341887128
>>341884897
beautiful
>>341887294
>>341868408
>perfect world
MY NIGGA!
that game was amazing before developers shitted in with p2w
>>341887157
Game is Mana Khemia 2 before someone asks again.
>>341887291
Also this
>>341887409
>>341887516
>>341868318
Kreygasm mein negro
>>341887626
>>341887734
>>341881489
That Greece map in HoMM3 was great. Even had a underworld you could explore.
>>341873153
Yes. There is much beauty in this place.
>>341885043
I really liked this map. One of the few that has a believable scale.
That's of course because it's just an island. But I wish devs would more often make a map of a small area instead of a region that's huge in the lore, as ingame it's as small as a neighbourhood.
>>341888050
>>341887501
That is so freaking ugly.
>>341888050
Resembles the LTTP map in a lot of aspects.
>>341888179
And thats all for this thread. ill be lurking just collect more maps
>>341868408
>Perfect World is now utter garbage.
Thanks for reminding me
>>341873021
Found the third world trash
>>341888297
Because the game was designed to be very story-related to ALttP, before Miyamoto forced them to take out most of the story.
>>341868845
>who designed this, an alien?
>>341870093
Theres something about that map...
>>341869929
>literally a giant blob as a country
>stupid looking inland sea
>a country that looks like a boot
>part of a country that looks like a stupid mitten
What a shitty fucking map
>>341888389
Guess it wasn't so Perfect after all, nerd!
Don't make a game open world just to say it's open world, only make it open world if its the type of game to need it and you have enough to fill it with.
>Fantasy style map with a large body of water/ocean somewhere
>It has a maelstrom
Why do devs insist on this garbage?
>>341871401
he didn't explain post glacial terrain, ice cap glaciation and termoclines 3/10
Sometimes developers just lazy it up.
>>341889154
>free palestine
>>341872104
I still can't figure out why writers are allergic to fantasy names. It's always something "X of Y" or "the" between two nonsensical words. Just use fucking fantasy terminology, come up with your own naming convention, etc. Morrowind did. They could've called Balmora "Stone Forest", because that's what it apparently means translated, but they chose not to.
>>341888529
Did Miyamoto kill your dog, too?
>>341885442
fucking X-Mas Island
>>341883009
It is much much smaller than Pokemon Red/Blue.
Probably take around 3 minutes to walk across though, which is decent.
Even with dark world and the dungeons I'd say pokemon is at least twice as large.
>>341878301
I started looking for tiny obscure island chains and many of them make for great fantasy maps.
>>341889154
#PalpatineDidNothingWrong
>>341889495
No, but there is a ton of cut dialogue still on disk that was cut because Miyamoto said the story was getting too complicated for the simple gameplay.
>>341889154
A bland map for a bland game
>>341889154
which is a shame because poe actually has really interesting setting focused more on cultural differences and national prejudices as opposed to classical racial tensions. shame you barely get to find this out because they're trying to suffocate you with their crazy amounts of lore.
>>341868318
True dat. Proper interconnectivity and players having to think about how to traverse are required for me. Having just big ass open sandbox where all you do is walk from point A to B is boring as fuck and generally worse unless the game has interesting means for traversal and you feel like you're learning shortcuts consistently.
>>341887291
Holy fuck, it actually fits together?
I never realized while playing
