Best setting and geography of an RPG

[Iucounu]

A couple of settings I don't like would be modern Western cities and Cyberpunk. I could make an exception for the latter's virtual reality worlds, but its dystopian sides feel just depressing.

 

[Skinwalker]

Skyrim from Skyrim V: The Skyrim. They made a frozen hellhole look magical, geographically diverse, and a place I'd want to visit in my lucid dreams.

Gotta give Skyrim Studios, Inc. props for that, if nothing else. *squints contemptuously at Elden Ring*

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Sewers.
With rats, slimes, half-eaten beggar corpses and blinking eyes in the darkness around the corner belonging to god knows what.
It's sad that although many great rpgs have beautifully done sewer levels, there aren't any rpg I can think of that's entirely set in a sewer. There are ones set in underground tunnels and ruins but that's not quite the same.

So, Eugene Oregon near my parents house? Fantastic. Grab a spear and a blade… we hunt VERMIN tonight!

 

[oasis789]

quality > quantity
instead of open world focus on one place and go deep

 

[Spike]

Gothic 1 and 2, absolutely. Also not to blow anyone's balls off but Dragon's Dogma. Feels like a classic '80s fantasy environment. As if I have seen a number of those sights in various old OVAs or something.