Board 8 > what is the best first level in a game?

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Leonhart4
01/01/20 1:09:21 AM
#51:


Yeah, Great Plateau isn't that "great."

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LOLIAmAnAlt
01/01/20 1:20:34 AM
#52:


Richter/Dracula in SotN

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JVillJags
01/01/20 1:39:00 AM
#53:


Pokemon Snap

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Murphiroth
01/01/20 1:40:39 AM
#54:


SaveEstelle posted...
Great Plateau in BOTW

This is a good one.

And yeah Twilight Town is better than Destiny Islands, but I like both.

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Parasite_Eve
01/01/20 2:41:41 AM
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Left 4 Dead Mercy hospital, loved that shit.

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Xiahou Shake
01/01/20 4:29:55 AM
#56:


Great Plateau is legit the best designed area in BotW. After that the sheer openness of the game means they have to start making compromises in purposeful design.

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MariaTaylor
01/01/20 4:38:11 AM
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godofwar596 posted...
Boletaria from Demon's Souls.

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a solid answer but I take Central Yharnam over this.

  1. Journey to Boletaria is arguably the first level of Demon's Souls, though you can skip it
  2. Central Yharnam is good for all of the same reasons as 1-1, but has some added benefits. It doesn't prevent you from gaining levels, it has access to multiple bosses, and it's a larger area you can explore more freely while still guiding the player to learn more about the way this game is going to be played.
  3. Father G and the Cleric Beast are both leagues ahead of the Phalanx in terms of a first boss you can run into
If anything what's so impressive about Central Yharnam is that, with regards to point #2... it seems about as focused and tight as 1-1, but once you go back and explore the area more later you realize just how much extra stuff there is to find and how many different ways you can actually navigate the terrain if you know where to look and how everything connects to each other.


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RyoCaliente
01/01/20 7:17:47 AM
#58:


Destiny Islands > Twilight Town all the way.

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StartTheMachine
01/01/20 7:51:59 AM
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Great Plateau is like a perfect, albeit less exciting microcosm of that game as a whole and is a great answer.

Umm, I'll say Port of Adia from Turok 2, mostly because dat music.

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WickIebee
01/01/20 1:57:35 PM
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Great Plateau comes with one problem for me, the trek to Mount Hylia. For every else there's no wrong answer to how you might try to get to an area, but Mount Hylia only has one way to fight the cold. Cooking. And you have to wander around the mountain to even find a pot after you see spicy peppers in the log cabin. Plus it doesn't even have all the tutorials. You still have to find the battle tutorial after you leave the mountain.

A better Zelda first level will likely, in my eyes, be the Forsaken Fortress. It gives such a different feel for a Zelda game, being Link in an environment he's not ready for and even topping it off with showing that even with a sword, he's powerless in the grand scheme of things. Then it becomes a place you return to to show how much you have grown on this journey.

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Snake5555555555
01/01/20 1:59:26 PM
#61:


Since someone mentioned Chapter 1-1 in RE4 already I'll say Lighthouse in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

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Epyo
01/01/20 3:17:44 PM
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WickIebee posted...
Great Plateau comes with one problem for me, the trek to Mount Hylia. For every else there's no wrong answer to how you might try to get to an area, but Mount Hylia only has one way to fight the cold. Cooking. And you have to wander around the mountain to even find a pot after you see spicy peppers in the log cabin. Plus it doesn't even have all the tutorials. You still have to find the battle tutorial after you leave the mountain.

Can you light a torch and use that for warmth? I can't remember.

You can get the coat from the old man though, although I know, I know, technically that requires cooking also.

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xp1337
01/01/20 3:20:16 PM
#63:


Epyo posted...
Can you light a torch and use that for warmth? I can't remember.

You can get the coat from the old man though, although I know, I know, technically that requires cooking also.
I don't think so, but I don't remember.

Off the top of my head you either get the coat early by cooking or you use cooking directly for cold resistance (and get the coat at the top). Being BOTW I wouldn't be surprised if you could brute force it somehow or find some other crazy solution but those are the two semi-intended options I believe.

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hombad46
01/01/20 3:31:07 PM
#64:


Yeah I'm pretty sure lit torches provide warmth

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tazzyboyishere
01/01/20 11:00:16 PM
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Torch does provide warmth yes

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Lolo_Guru
01/01/20 11:04:10 PM
#66:


I remember using a torch for warmth, then accidentally putting away 3/4ths of the way there and having to sprint for the shrine.

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metroid composite
01/01/20 11:08:50 PM
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Super Metroid comes to mind.

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WickIebee
01/04/20 3:30:21 PM
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I forgot about Torch because yeah, you run once by accident and the torch is gone. Plus you won't have the torch by the time you're out of the shrine regardless and there's two shrines in the cold. Unsure which Old Man appearance gives the coat as I ran into him a few times and he didn't give me one.

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hombad46
01/04/20 3:49:30 PM
#69:


You can get it by either talking to him near the shrine at the peak, or cooking his favorite dish for him

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ffmasterjose
01/04/20 4:06:17 PM
#70:


I always liked going through the first Mako Reactor in FF7
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ertyu0078
01/04/20 4:19:54 PM
#71:


Downtown Springfield Simpsons arcade
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Kenri
01/04/20 4:24:17 PM
#72:


City Escape was my first thought. For ones that haven't been said yet, Corneria in Star Fox 64.

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MZero11
01/04/20 6:15:35 PM
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