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LOL. I didn’t think there’d be so many game locales. (This has gotta be a younger audience than what we get in PRSI.)

Huntn, I’ll tell you two places I’d definitely stay away from: Twin Peaks...and Silent Hill. Nothing good ever happens in those places. 😁
Twin Peaks was kind of pretty. :cool:
For World of Warcraft, that’s just a fraction of the zones the game has, but as pretty as it is, I’m done, done, done with it.

Spending a majority of my gaming time in Fallout 4’s post apocalyptic Commonwealth (Boston), but not sure I’d recommend that unless it was to meet all the NPCs I know, lol. ;)

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Sanctuary, the Sole Survivor’s Pre-War home neighborhood and Home Base 200 years after...
Via mod, I have a nice little hide away around the corner on the radioactive lake which is popular with the ladies, including a hot springs waterfall and pool, and an underground bunker with a water feature in it too. :)

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The orange awnings are over the bunker entrance.​
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Lots, but probably only ever in passing? Being a fly on the wall (or cup bearer?) at Casterly Rock, Harrenhal, King's Landing etc and watching Tyrion/ Tywin interact with other powerful figures would certainly be an experience :D Valyria before the Doom would certainly also be quite something - hoping might yet get a glimpse of that, even if it is CGI! In the LotR universe, I think Pre third age Middle Earth appeals - when the whole continent was more like Rivendell/ Lorien on Tolkien's sliding (declining) scale of magicalness. A day wandering around Springfield would also undoubtedly be unforgettable! Some of the vistas in Skyrim are fantastic, though maybe no more so than Norway🇳🇴 or Canada might offer IRL?
Westeros would be a worthwhile visit. :D
 
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Regarding a good place to visit in Middle Earth, I forgot to mention Beorn’s farm in the Hobbit, located between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood, where Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and the Dwarves visit after being saved from the goblins by the Eagles. I don’t have a good image, I don’t care for the imagery in The Hobbit movie, but was buoyed just by the description in the book. It felt magical.
 
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Basin City has always seemed like a swell place to visit. I probably wouldn't last too long, but hey, it would be a fun ride while it lasts I'm sure.
 
Pretty much anywhere or anywhen, from anything I've ever read.

Here's a list of some that came to mind, in alphabetical order. Some of them I recalled by their actual names. Others I remembered only as the title of the work they appeared in. See which ones you can recognize before having to look them up.
  • Barsoom
  • Brobdingnag
  • Erewhon
  • Green Town, Illinois
  • Lankhmar
  • Luna City
  • Malacandra
  • Miskatonic University
  • Perelandra
  • R'lyeh
  • Svalbard
  • Tannhäuser Gate
  • Trantor
  • Watership Down
NOTE: Some I'd only want to visit briefly, just to see what it's like. Others would be worth a longer visit.
 
First thing that popped into my mind Xanadu from the Rush song of the same name. Though 2112 is my favourite song by them or any band really. But I would not like to visit that post apocalyptic world, rather, For I have dined on honeydew and drank the milk of paradise, paradise....

 
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Pretty much anywhere or anywhen, from anything I've ever read.

Here's a list of some that came to mind, in alphabetical order. Some of them I recalled by their actual names. Others I remembered only as the title of the work they appeared in. See which ones you can recognize before having to look them up.
  • Barsoom
  • Brobdingnag
  • Erewhon
  • Green Town, Illinois
  • Lankhmar
  • Luna City
  • Malacandra
  • Miskatonic University
  • Perelandra
  • R'lyeh
  • Svalbard
  • Tannhäuser Gate
  • Trantor
  • Watership Down
NOTE: Some I'd only want to visit briefly, just to see what it's like. Others would be worth a longer visit.
Tannhauser Gate is seated in my imagination and memory from the first time I heard it mentioned.
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For me;

Coruscant
Krakoa
Eorzea/The First
I have mixed feelings about Coruscant. :)
 
Hogwarts (and the world of Harry Potter) - from the Harry Potter series of books by J K Rowling.

The London of the Bartimaeus series of novels, or the London of the Lockwood & Co series of novels - both by Jonathan Stroud.

The Old Kingdom (preferably Abhorsen's Horse) - by Garth Nix.

The London of the Sally Lockhart series of mysteries - by Philip Pullman.

The world of His Dark Materials - by Philip Pullman.

Vulcan - TOS, and STNG - the Star Trek series.

Sarantium - (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) by Guy Gavriel Kay.

The world of Heris Serrano and Esmay Suiza - by Elizabeth Moon.
 
I dunno why, the whole concept really appeals to me, the multilayered city-planet is so cool.
It’s kind of what I see on the East Coast of the US turning into one huge never ending megatropolis. And for something like Coruscant, I’d imagine the lower levels become rough and dangerous. I can’t remember the name of the game I played, a long while ago, maybe it was a Star Wars game, (solo RPG) and that was how it was, the lower levels were infested in the gangs and the under world of crime. Then there was The Star Wars MMO and as I recall the Corescant like planet was a ruin in that one.
 
Just like Trantor in the Foundation series by Issac Asimov actually.

Suspiciously like Trantor in the Foundation series, actually :)

Seriously, Foundation is an undisputed SF world-building classic, and works as novels, but if Apple make a literal film-of-the-book it would consist of someone reading out the opening text crawl of The Phantom Menace and being interrupted by a phone call saying that some kid has attacked the Death Star (oh and, spoiler warning, Jar Jar Binks turns out to be the real Palpatine...) - So, its either going to be outraged wails of "OMG, they changed the story!" from Asimov fans or snores from everybody else...

As for tourist destinations:

Any GSV or Orbital in the Culture, and when you're fed up with post-scarcity hedonism, join Contact for "interesting times".

Or, Discworld (provided you have fully paid-up Theives' Guild insurance and a pair of noseplugs and understand the Ankh-Morpork concept of avoiding "self-inflicted injury") - its like Middle Earth or Narnia, except it has a functioning economy* so you could eat hot meals and rent a room for the night, explore by public transport and even get WiFi (well, an almost pocket-sized pair of ping-pong bats to wave at the nearest semaphore tower...) and good healthcare (provided you avoid doctors like the plague and take the witch or Igor option...)

(* Seriously, did nobody else watch the LOTR movies and not think "hang on - that's a flood plain between two major cities, so why aren't those giant battle elephants struggling knee-deep in cabbages?" - The place consists entirely of fortresses and wilderness. I mean, the Shire could probably get by on self-sufficiency and smokeleaf exports, but nowhere appears to have any infrastructure or agriculture... and the Riders of Rohan are going to be mighty constipated without some veggies to go with all that horsemeat...)
 
Hogwarts (and the world of Harry Potter) - from the Harry Potter series of books by J K Rowling.

The London of the Bartimaeus series of novels, or the London of the Lockwood & Co series of novels - both by Jonathan Stroud.

The Old Kingdom (preferably Abhorsen's Horse) - by Garth Nix.

The London of the Sally Lockhart series of mysteries - by Philip Pullman.

The world of His Dark Materials - by Philip Pullman.

Vulcan - TOS, and STNG - the Star Trek series.

Sarantium - (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) by Guy Gavriel Kay.

The world of Heris Serrano and Esmay Suiza - by Elizabeth Moon.

Maybe a trip to Orlando, Florida is warranted. ;)

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Honestly, this rendition of Hogwarts does not impress me.​
 
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