7 Sequels That Take You Back to Iconic Locations

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Some videogame locations prove to be so iconic that developers have no choice but to let players revisit them in sequels, either shedding new light on these places and adding to their lore, or just letting players take a rose-tinted nostalgia tour. Join us now for just such a tour of these seven videogame sequels that let you revisit unforgettable locations from earlier games, and subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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@caffeinatedrockets 25 дней назад

Going back to Kanto in Pokémon Gold/Silver was mind blowing for me as a kid

@TheThreeHeadedDragon 25 дней назад

Exactly what I was going to bring up!

@causewhynot6485 25 дней назад

I feel like everyone forgets this one , it did rock my world when it happened

@RedLeif1 25 дней назад

I was going to say that too! They didn't just bring back one or two towns, the ENTIRE REGION! Add all of the characters from the first game making a return, and you've got one of the best callbacks, if not the best callback, in all of gaming!

@sageemerson5074 25 дней назад

Absolutely. It felt like two games in one game 😭

@jacobspies6380 25 дней назад

This was my first thought!

@roosterh8975 25 дней назад

Borderlands 2 bringing you back to the Arid Nexus/Badlands was amazing

@bigjesusyeoooo 25 дней назад

Came here to say exactly this. Especially when you factor in the additional context those locations give you about the original Vault Hunters and the events of BL1, building the wider story and realising just how much Jack had been manipulating things from the very beginning.

@kerrinoir 25 дней назад

Fyrestone, my beloved. 🖤

@leonard222 25 дней назад

So happy to see this comment! Wanted to say the same!

@azzrinickthegamingangel9121 25 дней назад

When I saw what jack did to Firestone that was probably the maddest he made me

@benn454 25 дней назад

@@azzrinickthegamingangel9121It was a dump, but it was OUR dump, dammit! 😡

@SenecaRaine 25 дней назад

Dark souls 3! I figured it out almost exactly when Anor Londo crept across the screen, so it was just made for an exhilarating epiphany.

@mercuryshadow5445 25 дней назад

Beat me to it bud

@danielschmaderer 25 дней назад

Going back to Anor Londo was absolutely amazing.

@MichaelJohnson-nj2cc 25 дней назад

I don't see how this wasn't their first entry....

@Daktangle 25 дней назад

Such a beautiful way it was presented, at night with gentle snowfall.

@azuredragoon2054 25 дней назад

Could also mark the DLC for Dark Souls 3 with Ashes of Ariandel which references another optional area in Dark Souls 1.

@Kisrah 25 дней назад

Skyrim, with the Dragonborn DLC. Returning to Solstheim - the setting of Morrowind’s Bloodmoon expansion - was an incredible experience for me as a fan of the third Elder Scrolls title. The ashen landscape. The buildings. The flora and fauna. Even the music. It felt like getting a taste of what a TES III remake could have been.

@RekkaZaal 25 дней назад

Seconded.

@RekkaZaal 25 дней назад

Seconded.

@nicholasfarrell5981 25 дней назад

@@RekkaZaalthirded.

@ProfArmitage218 24 дня назад

Spending time in a town that you helped build from the ground up 200 years earlier, although it was an Imperial settlement then.

@daviddaugherty2816 24 дня назад

I love how Solsthiem was Skyrim in Morrowind and Morrowind in Skyrim. Nice touch.

@Michael_Lindell 25 дней назад

My favourite is Civilization VI where you go back to the iconic location 'Earth'!

@Darkprosper 25 дней назад

Eh, Earth isn't that great of a setting anyway, incredibly unoriginal. Definitely one of my least favorite fictional places.

@Vitek568 25 дней назад

And once again you have to face the most feared nemesis of them all - our nuclear Indian overlord!

@mikoto7693 13 дней назад

I remember finding Earth while playing Spore. Good times.

@christophernugent8492 25 дней назад

Sonic Adventure 2: “Green Hill” is an unlockable level that takes you back to Green Hill Zone, but in 3D.

@edaraujo2169 25 дней назад

And till that point in the series there wasn't other sonic game that brought that stage back. Nowadays the franchise feeds itself on Green Hills lookalikes.

@christophernugent8492 25 дней назад

@@edaraujo2169 Wow. I actually did not know that.

@splattygaming1615 25 дней назад

The game gear games would like to have a word with "Mecha Green Hill" zone and "Green Hills" zone@@edaraujo2169

@skeleman5883 25 дней назад

Honestly you could make entire list on times you returned to Green Hill zone

@edaraujo2169 25 дней назад

@@skeleman5883 yes. You can. Nowadays. SA2 Is the very first time!

@primeapeisangry923 25 дней назад

Going back to Kanto in Pokémon GSC, revisiting Solstheim in Skyrim's Dragonborn expansion, seeing the Dantooine Jedi Enclave in KotOR II, seeing the Endar Spire in SWTOR, and going to Tatsumi Port Island in Persona 4 all come to mind.

@dethtroy2185 25 дней назад

Korriban in Kotor 2 as well, if you thought it was creepy in the first game, second game cranks it up to 11 somehow despite there not being as much to do there.

@KeytarArgonian 25 дней назад

In Fallout 2 going back to Vault 13 through the Guardian of Forever and Sabotaging the water chip to make Fallout 1 happen. There’s a fun easter egg too as there’s a water chip sitting in one of the lockers in vault 13. Meaning all the dwellers had to do was look for one.

@Vitek568 25 дней назад

Kaer Morhen from Witcher 1 returning in Witcher 3 with tons of references to the events of the original game was always a nice lovely touch from CD Project

@yourboyrussell6738 25 дней назад

So iconic it made it into SoulCalibur VI, mind you.

@reapergrimm8 25 дней назад

Pokemon Gold and Silver. You beat that game's Elite Four, only to unlock the entire Kanto map from the original Red and Blue games. All on Gameboy hardware.

@KeytarArgonian 25 дней назад

And with changes too, like cinnabar island is largely Destroyed and iirc Blaine is now basically a bit of a crazed hermit living in the burned out place where you find Moltres.

@YonGriffy 25 дней назад

Super Metroid. They literally have you go back to the planet the first game took place on, with a very close recreation of the first few rooms from the original game

@jardex2275 25 дней назад

Then they subvert it by having a Chozo statue attack you, when you were expecting a free powerup.

@MaRaMa-ARTZ 21 день назад

@@jardex2275 And the Torizo PTSD of never trusting a single statue ever again even in recent games. 😆

@VincentWinkler 25 дней назад

It was pretty haunting to see the original Oakvale in Fable 2, now a haunted nightmarescape after the events of the first game.

@StrangerForever85 25 дней назад

If you guys do a commenter edition, I nominate Pokémon Gold and Silver, back on the GameBoy Color. And not just because Silver is to me what Kingdom of Amalur is to Ellen (not an excuse for her to go on a KoA rant, mind). When you get instructions to get to the Pokémon League, you’re immediately told you took your first steps in Kanto. At the time (I was only 7), I had no idea what Kanto was. After beating Lance and getting on the ferry, imagine my excitement when I found myself in Vermillion City and realized Kanto was the location of Red and Blue.

@michaelt482 25 дней назад

Dragon age inquisition has both Haven and Redcliff! Haven chantry becomes a sort of hub area, even tho we previously slaughtered a deranged cult in the very location in the first game. Also the first game’s protagonist discovers a secret path to a dungeon through the chantry, that is used in inquisition to bring your party to safety during an invasion

@armelior4610 25 дней назад

A shame the locations are really nothing like in the 1st game, even though it would have been easy to keep the layout for Redcliff if not for Haven

@mikoto7693 13 дней назад

@@armelior4610I’m glad I’m not the only one to notice this. I didn’t recognise either.

@carlosvillavicencio6710 25 дней назад

Another funny little nod to past gaming hardware appears in Metal Gear Solid 4 during the return to Shadow Moses. When you start to go to a lower level, Otacon stops you and reminds you to switch disc's just like in the original which prompts a hilarious dialog about blu ray discs.

@deltaomega2136 25 дней назад

The final DLC for Skyrim takes you back to the same island as the final Morrowind expansion 200 years later.

@kay_faraday 25 дней назад

Shoutout to Ratchet and Clank 3 where you go back to Kerwan from the first game, and Ratchet Gladiator, where you go to Orxon, also from the first game. Both look a bit unlike their original game areas, possibly due to being different parts of the same planets. Veldin, however, is the same area in both the first and third games. You even see your old home destroyed by the war.

@beezlebubisfly3211 25 дней назад

In Zelda Breath of the wild you got to see the ruins of Lon Lon ranch and castle town from ocarina of time

@Darkprosper 25 дней назад

They could add a cheeky joke about Tears of the Kingdom in there too.

@jardex2275 25 дней назад

@@Darkprosper Wouldn't even need to be a joke. As soon as I got the hang glider I made a break for Tarrey Town to see what was new there, followed by going to see if Link still had a house. The Rito and newspaper office could wait.

@KaitouKaiju 25 дней назад

There's a lot more than that from all across the series. Then again it is still Hyrule

@AdamAddictL 18 дней назад

@OP Beezlebubisfly3211: You’re forgetting the abandoned town from Twilight Princess where you clear out moblins…..it’s suppose to be the ruins of Kakariko Town from OoT

@fatalwaffle1715 25 дней назад

Awesome Video. There is also Portal 2 where you see the test Chambers from the first Portal again.

@aarondavis5386 24 дня назад

Specificly after you wake up glados and retrieve the dual portal gun to get back out of the incinerator you play though the last test chamber of portal 1 (the one where you just escaped burning to death) backwards

@fatalwaffle1715 24 дня назад

That's right.

@fatalwaffle1715 24 дня назад

And you will notice that the Fire Pit is out and the Fatal Toxic Liquid is gone.

@kilyaded7332 25 дней назад

Ugh I feel like going back and playing the entire Bioshock series again. Why do you keep doing this to me OxBox!?!?!

@frodobaggins7710 25 дней назад

Going back to Sotenbori as Majima in Yakuza Kiwami 2 is very bittersweet for him. He's constantly reminded of all the trouble he went through in Yakuza 0, but it also allows him to meet Makoto again, even though she doesn't realise who he is

@bryannicholls200 24 дня назад

Was that the game where Majima still loved her and asked her now partner if he loved her,then told him to treat her right?

@aerthreepwood8021 24 дня назад

@@bryannicholls200Nah, that was 0. K2 is where you accidentally go into her massage parlor and then buy her a watch band.

@TheConvivialCopywriter 25 дней назад

I love the feeling of going back to old locations from previous games in my favorite franchises. I especially love it when it's a little bittersweet. Like you're happy to be back, but there are still signs of how things changed both for the better, and in some ways for the worst.

@VeRG1L_47 25 дней назад

Assassin's Creed revelations takes you back to Masiaf, that trailer was fire. Also RDR2 has like half of RDR1 map and I'm still baffled that R* didn't produce a remake with what they have.

@AngelBeatYunara 25 дней назад

Going back to Dantooine and Korriban in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 and the Old Republic MMO. Good(?) times.

@jorvach9874 25 дней назад

Good times!

@user-pq5ux6ip4i 25 дней назад

Yep. Not to mention Ebon Hawk.

@gustaforce 25 дней назад

The Temple of Time from Twilight Princess. Hearing its theme and then realizing it was a full dungeon, and then getting severe arachnophobia from the boss.

@minomininni 25 дней назад

"Super Mario Odyssey" taking you back to Peach's Castle from "Super Mario 64", and even to the skyscraper from the first "Donkey Kong", was really a nice touch.

@austinspencer5490 25 дней назад

One of the biggest redeeming qualities to mass effect 3 was it’s DLC. Getting to play through the Omega DLC, revisit Afterlife in a completely different context with Aria as a teammate was INCREDIBLE ❤️

@fatalwaffle1715 18 дней назад

Yeah.

@daviddaugherty2816 15 дней назад

It's like the Afterlife was made for that big, climactic boss battle.

@goldendears 25 дней назад

I can still remember the moment I realised, while playing Fable 2 for the first time, that the creepy swamp area Wraithmarsh was actually Oakvale from the first game, completely abandoned, haunted and overgrown by the surrounding Marsh. There's fantastic character lore in the game as to how and why this happened that I won't spoil, but that moment of 'huh why does this feel familiar.... wait' is fantastic game design and really cements the passage of time between the two games.

@Sir_Him 25 дней назад

Anor Londo in Dark Souls 3 and Kanto in Pokemon Gold/Silver immediately came to mind.

@Elmo9001 25 дней назад

It only happens briefly, but Outlast: Whistleblower is absolutely phenomenal at this. You start the game in the final area of Outlast, and about halfway through you make your way through some corridors that appear in Chapter 2 of the original, and at the very end, your way out of the asylum is the very first area that Miles explores in the original, only it's daybreak, the danger has passed, the birds are singing, and there's this beautiful cautiously optimistic music playing, as if to say "Yes! This is it! You did it! You got a happy ending, in an OUTLAST game!"

@edaraujo2169 25 дней назад

Visiting Eden Prime in Mass Effect 3 was mindblowing!

@phantommangagirl 25 дней назад

Also the Normandy SR-1 in the Mass Effect 2 crash site DLC, despite how heartbreaking it was.

@edaraujo2169 25 дней назад

@@phantommangagirl If legion appeared in that mission that game would be perfect!

@Alexander-wx2ie 25 дней назад

Yea..... For a price, because EA.....

@Ercarret 25 дней назад

I actually really enjoyed returning to Baldur's Gate in BG3 more than I thought I would. Baldur's Gate 2 never touched down in the titular city and instead just continued the story from the first game without returning to it's locations, so coming back to the city in BG3 was amazing. Especially since it was so well-realized. As for your list, I totally agree with Dead Space 2. Going back to the USG Ishimura was such an "Oh shit!" moment.

@TheFirstDarkKnight 25 дней назад

How about Breath of the Wild? Theres a lot of places that are straight out of Ocarina of time such as the Temple of Time and the Ranch ruins being Lon Lon Ranch. Theres even the Arbiters ground from Twilight Princess.

@jessicastrike5640 25 дней назад

I did like revisiting Monteriggioni in AC Brotherhood at the start as Ezio before we move to Rome, and getting to explore the town in the modern day as Desmond and recover some artefacts was a nice touch too. The town was really important in AC2 so it was great to see the inclusion in the sequel

@dejaphoenix 25 дней назад

I think the earliest example of this that I remember was when Super Metroid returned to the burnt out Tourian and Brinstar of the OG.

@YonGriffy 25 дней назад

Since someone else mentioned it, I’ll second Dragon Quest 3. When you find yourself in a new area and slowly realize you’re entered Alefgard (the setting of Dragon Quest 1) complete with remixed world music, the nostalgia hits HARD!

@generaldane 25 дней назад

Just commented the same thing, it's even better when you beat it and realize you were actually the legendary hero Lotto that was mentioned in the beginning of Dq1, all these years and DQ3 is still my favorite

@KatzuBlood 25 дней назад

In persona 4 you go on a school trip to the town/school from persona 3. That was cool for me

@katiejohnson6006 25 дней назад

Especially the king's game in the club. Also love the reverse visit on the female route of p3p to Inaba.

@yarnpenguin 25 дней назад

I know it's DLC and all, but going back to Solstheim in Skyrim was a delight.

@Stratelier 25 дней назад

Does DLC count too? - In _The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind's_ "Bloodmoon" DLC, you traveled to an island called Solstheim, whose snowy alpine climate was a stark contrast from Morrowind's ashen landscape. Then in _The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim,_ the "Dragonborn" DLC takes you to ... an island called Solstheim, but 200 years later where half of the island is now covered in Morrowind-like volcanic ash from the (ongoing) eruption of Morrowind's Red Mountain. (Aside: Both games later received re-releases with the DLC baked in from the start)

@AmeenaWordweaver 25 дней назад

Not only the location but the music - in the southern half of the Dragonborn Solstheim, the music is the same as you would hear in Morrowind. Also there's a silt strider (making the whalesong-like silt strider noise), and a surviving Telvanni mage in one of their giant mushroom towers.

@deltaomega2136 25 дней назад

"Does DLC count?" The thumbnail for this video is DLC.

@mxmr5048 25 дней назад

FFXIII-2, backtracking through The Vile Peaks and getting Twilight Odin was a blast. My favorite monster in the game was Don Tonberry, I gave him a lil halo and named him Grog. I love Flandit too :-)

@ChrisParr 25 дней назад

So glad that Driver tutorial really was so difficult. I feel much better about how many attempts it took me back in the day.

@zombiesmasher30 25 дней назад

The fun joke of “ yes...that kinda thing” is hilarious

@ladyicondraco 25 дней назад

I've seen two American police stations that were all marble and oak. Both took over buildings that couldn't be altered due to historical preservation, but no one else wanted.

@derGameplayDJ 25 дней назад

The RPD used to be some kind of museum before it was converted into a police station. Hence the fancy look.

@rmcgowa1987 18 дней назад

It is also designed by the same architect as the mansions hence the weird puzzle locks ect.

@eddmario 15 дней назад

That's pretty cool. Reminds me of the fact that my hometown's city hall used to be a bank. It even still has the bank vault with the giant door.

@michaelsouslin891 25 дней назад

I know it's technically not returning for Borderlands 2, since the whole game takes places there, but Pandora is still one of my favorite game settings ever made.

@sebastienlecoq3956 25 дней назад

Two exemples from more niche games : In System Shock 2, the final act brings you "back" to a virtual reality recreaction of the starting area of System shock 1 And in Descent 3, one level on the moon bring you back to the 1st level of Descent one.

@jamiechristensen6433 25 дней назад

No love for Dark Souls 3??? You get to return to *the* iconic location of the series: Anor Londo

@Stratelier 25 дней назад

Not to mention THE Firelink Shrine, though you'd hardly recognize it.

@centercros 25 дней назад

don't forget the Dreg Heap also actually Earthen Peak

@blvd6969 25 дней назад

List is a joke without DS3

@sadie9728 25 дней назад

Pokémon Gold/Silver bringing us back to Kanto

@tmatthewnielsen 25 дней назад

I remember when "Escape From Monkey Island" came out, I was hyped for returning to Melee Island from the first game.

@gingipride 25 дней назад

Oh! I remember that Sonic Green/Emerald Hills Zone from that like Sonic trivia video on either OXBOX or OXTRA. I love to see the subtle references/returning jokes.

@efnfen 25 дней назад

My favorite sequel that brought us back to an iconic location is Outside Xtra, returning us to the illustrious OXbox studios, where magic happens.

@jorvach9874 25 дней назад

Returning to Dantooine in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2/KotOR 2 was a very bittersweet experience. Especially towards the end when you visit the upper level of the Jedi Enclave ruins. The sorrowful music and atmosphere and the whole scene with the Jedi Masters and Kreia... it's all sublime!

@daviddaugherty2816 15 дней назад

I love that moment more in the Dark Side route, I think. You've hunted down all the Jedi masters, and you're going to finish off the rest of the order and... there's no one. It's a very... hollow feeling.

@jakev48 25 дней назад

Going back to Shadow Moses gave me all of the feels.

@stevenchoza6391 25 дней назад

Surprised Skyrim’s Dragonborn DLC isn’t mentioned, even though it takes us back to Solstheim from Morrowind’s Bloodmoon DLC.

@yohnnyjames 25 дней назад

"ga-rage quit", "estate of decay" DAMN I LOVE your puns! 😆

@SimuLord 25 дней назад

One thing I liked about Mario Kart DS was its roster of classic tracks from older Mario Kart games. In a similar vein, this would've been a great opportunity for Mike to wear the Trial Mountain hoodie.

@ChristyTina22 25 дней назад

When I realised Lurelin Villiage in BoTW, and later, ToTK was layed out identically to Outset Island from Wind Waker, it instantly became one of my favorite places in the games. Saving it from pirates and rebuilding it in ToTK was really fun. That Korok on the roof can stay gone, though.

@jbmarks00 25 дней назад

Yakuza/Like A Dragon/Judgement! You get to see the same cities (mainly Kamarocho and a few other places) throughout the years, from the 80's to present!

@johanwilhelmsson1199 25 дней назад

It might not count as iconic, but I remember getting a thrill when returning to certain locations in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, that I had seen in the first game.

@GhengisJohn 25 дней назад

I loved seeing what my efforts in Fallout 1 had led to when we saw Shady Sands again in Fallout 2. Certainly a much better feeling than when I saw it again in the Fallout series.

@KeytarArgonian 25 дней назад

Or going back to Vault 13 in Fallout 2 and sabotaging the water chip.

@rmcgowa1987 18 дней назад

Yeah it really sucks that Shady Sands got blown up in the Fallout series kind of wish they would retcon that hopefully the NCR are still alive the rangers are awesome.

@FuriousMaximum 20 дней назад

I cried at Shadow Moses Island, and I thought of 10 years prior when I was with friends I hung out with daily, that I can't see that much anymore. The past that Snake revisits isn't his ...it's yours.

@zerotubeification2014 25 дней назад

I thought it was a pretty neat moment late in Borderlands 2 to go back to the Arid Badlands and see how Hyperion's mining destroyed the place.

@eddmario 15 дней назад

You can even come across a robot copy of one of the earlier sidequest bosses, and he even drops a recreation of that boss' unique weapon.

@polkarrty 25 дней назад

man i love when every yakuza game returns to kamurocho

@Jonathon_Hennessey 25 дней назад

The original Resident Evil 3 Nemesis has Jill Valentine briefly visit the police station from the second game to retrieve her lock pick in order to progress. She also gets attacked by the titular monster. In the remake, Jill doesn't visit the police station but Carlos and Tyrell do to find the location of Doctor Bard a scientist working for Umbrella.

@dethtroy2185 25 дней назад

honestly that would've been a better pick to represent resident evil than code veronica, cause while having the rooms from the first game is a neat if not creepy callback, I wouldn't count it as actually going there.

@Jonathon_Hennessey 25 дней назад

@@dethtroy2185 maybe the police station will be included in the commenters edition of this video.

@Alsebra 25 дней назад

Honestly, though, the timeline dictates that Jill visits the police station first, so Leon is the one that "revisits" it (Marvin is bitten during the early events of 3 and Leon shows up after).

@dethtroy2185 24 дня назад

@@Alsebra i mean that is true but it's still a better case of revisiting a past area than Code Veronica.

@rmcgowa1987 18 дней назад

@@Alsebra I wish they had done a better job with both a and b scenarios in the re2 remake. Both Leon and Claire should have fought different bosses it never made sense that Claire would beat G in her scenario the first time only for Leon to have to fight him again in his scenario for the first time.

@zfrankhauser4292 25 дней назад

There was a moment like this in a game i loved as a kid that blew my mind. It was in the sequel to Jak And Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak 2. Spoiler warning, at the beginning of the second game, you're teleported to a new, edgier, cyberpunk-ier location than the first game, called Haven City. A bit in to the game you go to a place called Dead Town where its revealed that youve been in the first game's setting the whole time... BUT IN THE FUTURE. The Sandover Village you spent time collecting precuror eggs and absorbing Eco like a sponge is now a decrepit deadzone filled with Metalheads (such an early 2000's enemy name). The time travel twist came out of nowhere, and the narrative looping and twists of those first 3 games cemented Naughty Dog as one of my favorite studios.

@Starcrash6984 25 дней назад

Perhaps a silly example, but Super Mario Bros. 3 filled many of us with nostalgia when 2-player competitions took place in a single-screen sewer reminiscent of the Atari game Mario Bros.

@JoeBob23 25 дней назад

There's a touch of this in the newest zelda games (BotW and TotK). I know the exact same locations are used often among the roughly 9 million zelda games, but in these two specifically it was nice to be able to go and see things like the dilapidated version of Lon Lon ranch from Ocarina of Time.

@glitchkrieg768 25 дней назад

Borderlands 2 takes you back to Fyrestone, the starting area in Borderlands 1, where you meet Zed, CL4P-TP, and T.K. Baha

@Hop3. 24 дня назад

Anor Londo in Dark Souls 3? I still remember my first reaction. At first I thought wow they really added another one of those weird turning elevator/stair thingys. At the top I was like "wait a second..." and then the big fat letters ANOR LONDO appeared. Had such a big smile on my face back then. It's only a small area, but such a cool throwback. Also, RIP giant bro...

@timothyoswald8618 25 дней назад

REX vs. RAY is probably the most fan-servicey thing ever, and it was *glorious.* Konami better get Pt. 2 of that collection released...

@michaelandreipalon359 25 дней назад

And they better polish that for the PC too... I still think the Vol. 1 games are better, however. MGS2 was supposed to be the chronological endgame, after all, even if it was implied to be all a super effective VR simulation. Plus, MGS3 is peak Metal Gear.

@r-rod8116 24 дня назад

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Peace Walker & other forgotten metal gear games should be (and better be) on the Master Collection Vol.2.

@codydevine552 19 дней назад

I won’t lie, when I played resident evil 1 HD I didn’t even know the mansion was in he same layout as the one in 5’s flashback DLC but now I feel I need to go back and play both.

@joeraymond217 25 дней назад

I forget the exact details because it was so long ago, but one of the original Space Quest games had Roger Wilco revisit a location from the previous game. They left the background location in classic 256 color resolution while Roger was walking around in new 1024 colors or whatever it was.

@boingthegoat7764 25 дней назад

Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco vs the Time Rippers. Now if only somebody would make more of those games so another game you time travel to (Space Quest IX: Latex Babes of Estros) comes to be

@joeraymond217 25 дней назад

I want that! And I want a new, modern Police Quest. It's because of Pursuit of the Death Angel that I know to grow a beard before I commit a crime and then immediately shave.

@Windmelodie 25 дней назад

Spoiler for Dragon's Dogma 2: In the Unmoored World, aka Endgame area a player gets upon rejecting the "good ending", the sea is all gone and the Seafloor Shrine is revealed to be the ruins of an ancient city.... and the layout is EXACTLY the same as Gran Soren, the capital city of Gransys in the first game. The marketplace and shop windows, the Pawn Guild, the memorable stairs leading up to the noble quarter, the castle and it's throne room, dungeon, Aelinore's Tower.... and together with the hauntingly sad music, it really sends shivers down your spine and you finally begin to realise the game truly is a sequel.

@AlienDenzil85 25 дней назад

I completed the original Driver tutorial on my very first go and carried on playing through the game. Some time later, I lost my Driver save - PS1 memory card died or something - and I was never able to complete the tutorial again. Those were the days!

@armelior4610 25 дней назад

In the Total war series, the sequels take place on the same landmass (Europe, or Japan for Shogun) with (more or less) the same map ! Crazy, I know

@SolaScientia 25 дней назад

Yes! I was hoping BioShock Infinite would be on this list. It's still one of my favorite games and probably my favorite in the fps genre. That whole ending sequence from the time Songbird destroys the tower is one of my favorite parts and it's probably my favorite ending to any video game. "Walk-through aquarium full of murders" is an apt description of Rapture. Dark Souls 3 does this with going back to Anor Londo in the main game and then again, a bit more subtly, in the DLC. The arena where we fight the Demon Prince is meant to be the original Firelink Shrine and it's a bit more obvious once we can explore after the fight is over. The Dreg Heap is also heavily DS2 focused given we find an NPC (the desert pyromancer) from DS2 there and all the windmills about the place.

@dmolmalowski 25 дней назад

>ending to any video game. Prob my fave as well.

@michaelandreipalon359 25 дней назад

I still think it woefully jumped the shark, BioShock: Infinite. Plus, other fiction like the Spider-Verse films and Fionna and Cake nailed the Multiversal themes better. In short, 1 and 2 just can't be beat.

@rmcgowa1987 18 дней назад

@@michaelandreipalon359 Yeah Bioshock 1 and 2 were both great Infinite was decent till it hit us with the whole multiple universes thing then it lost me.

@michaelandreipalon359 18 дней назад

@@rmcgowa1987 It actually lost me with the lack of choices, for one. Still, it has its moments, like the good old Lutece twins. Multiversal planeswalking troublemakers and manipulators are to die for.

@musicman8371 25 дней назад

No Arid Nexus Badlands/Boneyard from Borderlands 2? Your journey on Pandora starts off in the Badlands in the beginning of BL1 and plays a major role in BL2

@tdgransit9091 25 дней назад

I don't know if it qualifies, but exploring old locations in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks was awesome too.

@xtifr 25 дней назад

"Ship just got real." If I didn't know better, I'd suspect the hand of pun-obsessed Ellen in the writing here! 🤣🤣🤣

@thedespairsquid399 25 дней назад

Going back to Shandow Moses and Rapture were fantastic, probably my favourite two.

@jones81381 25 дней назад

Oh man. That Driver tutorial brings back memories, mostly of frustrated confusion but still, somehow, through rose tinted glasses, also nostalgic. Probably because 1999 was a much simpler time. I had no idea what slalom meant and tried blindly for hours to figure it out on my own just doing random tricks in the garage. This was in the days before the internet had became a resource for limitless information and also before everyone had the internet in their pocket, you had to use an actual computer to use the internet and I didn't have one so it took me several days before I was able to figure out what I needed to do in the tutorial to finish it. I remember asking people I knew if they knew what slalom meant. I don't remember who, at this point, 25 years later, but someone eventually was able to tell me what I needed to do.

@ramon6783 25 дней назад

I am rather curious how you guys select the games for these lists. A good amount of folks resonating with Pokemon Gold and Silver/HGSS and Dark Souls 3 not being part of the list, but perhaps due to their already incredible popularity is the reason why they aren't here?

@RainWelsh 24 дня назад

Sneaking back into Dunwall Tower in Dishonored 2 is another one! You can even go and visit the Assassination Gazebo, see a nice little plaque set up for Jessamine.

@halomaxus 25 дней назад

No borderlands 2 where you return to the starting area of the first game, the town of Fyrestone during the near climax of the main story where you find that the town has been completely taken over by the main villian to spite the main characters of the first campaign

@dbs6678 25 дней назад

The old city in dragon's dogma turns out has been "under" our noses the whole time in the sequel

@BrandonWillWin 23 дня назад

Arkham Knight taking you back to Arkham Asylum for the very end is too good to leave out of a video like this

@MizzNox 25 дней назад

Going back to Anor Londo in Dark Souls 3 was a big moment for me. Also, seeing Earthen Peak in shambles during the Ringed City DLC was very cathartic.

@S.E.Walker 19 дней назад

Going back to the Ishimura in Dead Space 2 is still to this day the most scared I’ve ever been in a game. I had to play through DS1 so many times to get the Platinum that I swore I’d never go back to that cursed ship. Then I get to that scene in DS2 and suddenly I’m Ozzy Osborne: “Oh No, No, Please God Help Meeeeeeee!”

@ThatSoddingGamer 25 дней назад

Borderlands 2 probably counts? It let you go back to some of the same locations as the first, but they were sometimes altered, like the Arid Nexus Badlands, which essentially turned the original desert wasteland (Arid Badlands in the first game) into a toxic wasteland.

@tcchip 25 дней назад

I loved the mechanical improvements to Dead Space 2. But it was also far less scary than its predecessor, relying mostly on jump scares. Returning to the Ishimura however, was perhaps the scariest part of the game. It was eerie and unsettling, and dials back the combat encounters so that you're feeling the tension of just moving around the Ishimura's cramped, familiar interiors.

@lurick 25 дней назад

If you could have that franchise ready by Saturday that would be great! And I'm going to need you to come in Sunday too!

@bruno939 18 дней назад

Finding Wraithmarsh in Fable 2 was such a memorable moment. When you realise the spooky place is actually the remains of Oakvale, the quaint home village from the first game

@javadkhusro 25 дней назад

Going back to the old world in Monster Hunter World Iceborne. Not only did we get to see Castle Schrade in modern graphics, we also got a terrifying new flight against Fatalis.

@saitothelonewolf28 25 дней назад

utawarerumono mask of deception/truth returning to Tuskur was very emotional both happy to see the nation from the 1st game doing well and sad seeing the new nation Yamato the game follows creating conflict with it as well as monochrome mobius exploring Yamato before the events of mask of deception/truth in a new way

@TopSuperKicker 25 дней назад

In Call of Duty Zombies you find yourself revisiting the very first map "Nacht Der Untoten" from World at War oh so very often. From it being in a cornfield in Black Ops 2's "Tranzit", acting as a hub area of sorts in Black Ops 3's "Revelations" or as graffiti'd mess in Black Ops Cold War's "Die Maschine"

@mikegiron3071 25 дней назад

Excellent reference to carcinization! One point to Outsidexbox house

@Yumiyuri 25 дней назад

Anor Londo and Lost Izalith in Dark Souls 3! The hit of nostalgia I felt when I went back to Anor Londo was great, and finding the Fair Lady and Quelana was a heartbreaking easter egg as well.

@danmanx4804 23 дня назад

Gotta tell ya, Playing Super Mario Odyssey and entering the Mushroom Kingdom for the first time was a hit of nostalgia I hadn't expected. It wasn't EXACTLY the 64 layout, but darn it, I looked up at the skylight in the lobby and got rewarded, and that's pretty amazing. (someone already beat me to Pokémon Gold and Silver, but that's the biggest and best example I've ever played)

@chadjones1266 25 дней назад

Driver tutorial was nuts

@lanfear963 21 день назад

It's a bit more obscure, but in Ace Combat 7 you revisit both Stonehenge and Farbanti from Ace Combat 04. The music in the Stonehenge mission is a version of the music from AC04, and as a longtime fan of the series it gave me chills.