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[belgurdo]

sonic 1. Green hill zone. best, evaa

Where did you get this? I'd love to play a hi-res 16-bit Sonic

 

[Bluforce]

ICO

 

[Bojangles]

Some people should differentiate between level design and level aesthetics as some choices are great looking but also pretty senseless as an exercise of actual level design.

QFFT (the extra F is for fucking)

Eye candy does NOT equal good design. There's a saying we used a lot "You can't polish a turd". When a level is nothing but pretty hallways, you can keep it. However, you look at the design of the HalfLife 2 levels, you see the following:

Looping back to see where you came from (not the same as backtracking) which gives you the sense of a bigger picture.
Puzzles that are explained by the environment.
Good use of space.


My choices are:

Half Life 2.
Prince of Persia: SoT

 

[ToyMachine228]

Halo: Combat Evolved

You can appreciate it much more when you play Halo 2...Which is the same gameplay, but with boring level design after the Campaign leaves Earth. It just turns into a dual-wield run and gun fest unlike Halo: CE, where each level had a specific theme/battle.

 

[Zep]

Blue Stinger