Personal bases, hubs and hometowns

I always like it when you get a personal base or there is a hub/town you return to a lot. What are some of your favourites? I really like Crescent island from Skies of arcadia.

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The castle in suikoden1/2 is one of the best. Seeing it grow was very satisfying.

The Lost village in Dawn of Sorrow certainly feelt like it. I was constantly going back there to resupply and upgrade my weapons. Also, it was the place where the warp was closest to the savepoint. Besides, it had some sweet music.
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The Bastion is pretty comfy.

What did you name the hero / army / castle?
I was Hiro, leader of the Wyvern army, keeper of castle Avalon.

I always found the Lucky 38 to be too glitzy and also too far north. Novac is cosy and right in the centre of the map.

There's just something really cozy about having an apartment in the post-apocalypse.

The only complaint I have about Novac was that it needed one or two more NPCs, like a scrap trader and a local gun-for-hire, for example. Other than that, it's my personal favourite Fallout town.

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Novac Reborn or Better New Vegas both expand the town pretty well.

I liked what they did in Pillars of Eternity, but I think it also needed some fine tuning, like repairs requiring more than just straight gold and time.

First time playing and suddenly can't use firelink anymore. Holy shit that sticks with me. Something bad happened and it had a real effect on your gameplay.

Man, this really makes me want to replay New Vegas. I shouldn't, but I want to.

I played the fuck out of NV without mods. What mods should I install this time?

Yeah, usually with open worlds my favorite towns are always the one-off settlements. The ones with the least amount of importance, but also the ones where having no importance wasn't its intention either. The not-too small towns but also the not-too-big cities either. Basically the un-noticed towns. My big complaint with Grand Theft Auto Vs overworld for example is that everything is way too centralized to Los Santos and the fact Sandy Shores and Paleto Bay felt almost linearly placed in their intentions. A good example I think is Rustboro City. Its a big city but its also not ine you visit often, and its not a very central city either like Slateport or Mauville

that castle is way too open for an ocean bombardment

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Someguy series (decent story mod)
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The Reborn series (Goodsprings Reborn, Novac Reborn, etc.)

Do you know something like that but customizable?

Minecraft?
Pokemon Secret Bases I guess?

While I haven't played it myself, isn't Dark cloud line that ?

Fallout 4

Having only played Dark Cloud 2, i'm pretty sure the customization doesn't matter since it you have a checklist and it all turns out the same in the end.

Good taste

You get rewards for making people happy in the original, i really need to get around to playing 2 so i can't comment but it was still pretty easy, like putting someone next to a river or far away from some other person's house

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Rogue Encampment and Lut Gholein were great

For all it's faults, the town building in AssCreed 3 was neat. I enjoyed each character's small arc, how after helping them they would be able to craft more stuff and the town would expand with more and more members. I was surprised that they even included a priest in it, and didn't go full fedora and with the marriage, they didn't go with the strong independent woman that needs no man route. The only thing I didn't like was the flag, the colors are shit, I would have preferred if I could have designed my own flag.

You could still do plenty of customization while 100%ing the town.


The requirements in 2 are usually a little more complicated than 1 and take a bit of planning to get everyone situated like they want, but there's still room for aesthetics.

I actually bought that trash on sale a while back, now i'm tempted to actually play it

I laughed too hard at this

Best house in best town.

Don't be. First it's shit and second your priority should be killing yourself over giving ubisoft money.

Crtl+F suikoden and it's the first result. Look at that a day where Holla Forums doesn't suck.

I love 3's twist where is just a town with a manor that isn't even owned by any of the protagonists

Well the story is shit in the present time with a Mass Effect 3 tier ending and it's also kinda shit in the past time as well, especially because you play as a bitchy crybaby, instead of the superior, charismatic, polite, with a good sense of leadership father that you play as for the first chapters. The gameplay is """better""" than that of AC2, with the difference that you now have a new type of enemy that you have to press a different attack button, instead of the normal attack button to kill. The stealth, I guess is improved, but it's not really made as a stealth-game as opposed of a god-mode simulator, that is why some missions were you must not be detected are really, really hard if you want to do 100% synch. The ship battles are fun, but if you want that, you are better off playing IV. The assassin companions are more fleshed out, in that every one of them has a different ability(there is one that let's you disguise your assassins as guards and they are escorting you to the enemy leaders so you can easily sneak through enemy ranks). I only played it, because I wanted to marathon the series and make my own opinions on why they are shit. I will say this, it's not as shit as I heard it was, in a way it pleasantly surprised me, but don't get me wrong it's still a Ubisoft game.

Or muslim pirate rape, castles are built on hills far from the coast.

Really just go to nexus and download the top mods for each category

"ASSCreed 3 hours long tutorial" is the alternative title. Still up for it?

I came here to just to say that this kind of shit ruined a part of the dark souls series. In the first dark souls there wasn't one and it was much better than demopn souls in that regard, then 2 brought the majula cancer and then in 3 they basically returned to the demon souls way. I get that those kinds of hubs are nice to feel at home and stuff but in dark souls it's better to feel desolate, alone and stranded

Dont. If you're going to play an Ass Creed, play IV or Rogue.

I see firelink more of an starting area, it's very far away from other areas and you can only warp back to it after a good portion of the game is completed.

I actually liked seeing it transform from a shithole to a bustling city over the course of the game.

That's not benirus manor


It also served as the present day hub in brotherhood, which was fun to run around in

every guild wars 1 town was comfy

No Monster Hunter before or since has captured the comfyness of returning home to Moga.

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oh howard…

great, now I have to listen to the whole soundtrack of this game again. I wish i still had the game, but I can just emulate it at least

at least hearthfire was comfy

only suikoden game I played was this one for the ds called suikoden tierkreis or something. maybe I should look into playing the others

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yeah 3u is my favorite. too bad I only have the 3ds version so no online

Suikoden 2 had the best base/town. So many things to do and so much to see with all the npcs you gather in your travels. from minigames to sidequest/stories even to a suggestion box you can get little insight to the lives of the residences of your castle.

Don't feel bad. The WiiU version was crap and had worse framerate than the 3DS version and came with input lag.

Plus the servers are gone now anyways.

The castle in Suikoden. What was it, Lake Toran?

goddamn plebs

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Baldur's Gate Fighter's Keep / Mage Orb
Oblivion's DLC for some Keep was OK.
Skyrim housing DLC was OK. for pedos
The BEST part of FO4 is in fact base building.
Minecraft is comfy as fuck.
Terraria is comfy as fuck.
PoE base would have been OK if you didn't have to zone/load 3 times to sleep, in fact that whole fucking game was annoying because of that shitty fact.
Lots of custom bases for Bethakek games.

these aren't hubs in storyline games but still comfy towns/bases
>any house/cave/rooftop I board up in 7 Days to Die, drop a bedroll and place comfy torchlight in excuse the corn

I love moga village to death,but my city is gone.

Any games with your own personal gym to be boss of?

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plebs

Hate the game, wish there was a single player version for PSP or something.

there was an autist on nostalrius that wouldn`t fucking leave Kargath, selling portals and freakishly overpriced mage food every day of the week.

Why were you there, user

Arborwatch had an autistic design.
I liked Anvil and Benirus Manor was indeed more comfy… but even when you exorcised the whole house it was still too spooky for me. I spend the nights in the Countess castle instead.

I generally prefered that house in Skingrad (Rosethorn?) because strategically it was perfect:
+ City is in the middle of the Imperial Province
+ House is very close to a Fast Travel location
+ Right next to the comercial sector of the city. Mage Guild, Fighter Guild, General Goods, Armor/Weapons, etc.
+ Have four own maid who makes a good pie.
Cons:
- House didn't have a distinctive design from the outside because it's all cramped buildings
- You have a weird dark elf alchemist woman as a neighbour, who's also into necrophilia.

I liked both the Delphinus and my pirate island that i get later on in Skies of Arcadia, what was also nice where all the crew members that you could recruit from all over the world and how they would actually do their jobs and stuff.
That game was so good i actually don't feel bad it never got a sequel.

Hunter's Dream.
This place is almost comfier than Firelink

You must be confusing me with someone else

Muh nigga. The beginning of Lut Gholein's theme is so comfy.

muh nigga

i like it when the base is in some kind of unreachable place. up in the sky, or in another world entirely.
illusion of gaia, chrono trigger, zettai hero project and neverwinter nights come to mind for the former. and the airships often featured in final fantasy for the latter.

i like minecraft mods that let you make your own flying ships in whatever shape you want. unfortunately they tend to glitch out when you add certain modded objects to them (or just in general). theres a new flying ship mod called valkyrien warfare that ill try out on my friends server when i finish waking up.
theres a game like this all about starships called starmade as well, i never really got in to that one though.

im hoping at some point the lego game lets you do something like that.

Source on game?

Does this place count?

White Knight Chronicles 1/2 had some of the comfiest player-made cities I've ever seen in vidya. Great music, gorgeous visuals and vistas for its time, and you could populate that shit and build it however you wanted. It was really one of the few times I stood somewhere in vidya and legitimately thought "why can't this be real life?".

Monster hunter's online lobbies can be pretty damn nice.

best place in the game faggot

Can't you do the arcade thing as many times as you want now?

I guess it's still grindy though

In a way this still was too small, and also has a shitty backyard. Of all of them in TES IV, I liked the priory of the nine most, but I can't speak for the cash sucking plugins like battle horn castle, and I didn't have shivering isles.

Runescape is a piece of shit, and it will waste a bucket load of time

If we're talking about how good the shitty dlc houses are, that's probably one of the worst
Even the shitty sex dungeon was better

My favorite was the mage tower, for the shit it came with and because it was pretty fittingly one of the only ways to get to the test cells on console
going through that shit for the first time way back when was like exploring a daedric plane

Project Brazil if you want a prequel.

I usually name the army Highland for extra confusion.

TES Houses always are a hassle because you keep accumulating artifacts and other trophies (including the rotten head of that guy's mom), but there's never quite enough storage and display space.

Suikoden 2 had a really good one that tied in well with the story.

Fallout 4's base building could have been good had they spent more time on it, rather than a last-minute tack-on based on somebody else's work.

Also Thunder Bluff. Even though it was always fucking empty because of its poor location.