Favorite video game levels (tournament?)

[Bill Cosby]

I propose that the next video game tournament be one about video game levels, but I'm starting to think it's a silly idea. What do you guys think?

Here are mine:

Banjo Kazooie: Click Clock Wood
Half Life 2: Follow Freeman
Resident Evil 4: 5-3 (Krauser knife fight)
Metroid Prime: Phendrana Drifts
Zelda: OoT: Spirit Temple
Metroid Prime 2: Sky Sanctuary

[kupomog]

Neb will kiss you for the first pick.

Well. I wouldn't be opposed to a levels/missions kind of thing. At some point after the Audio Showdown and the Best Game ends, we're going to do a video game music tournament for sure. But after that ends, no idea what we're going to do. We can hold another tournament of some sort so long as the support is there but there may need to be a small break so people don't get burnt out.

If we do another "Best Game of All Time" tournament it'll probably late next year or early the following year. Well, we'll figure it out.

But for the topic at hand...I will think of some of my favorite levels ever..having a brain fart :O

[Paul]

For starters, the Maze of Memories/Moonlight Museum from Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil. A huge visual treat with some excellent puzzles and story progressions to boot.

[kupomog]

Yeah I second that one.

Facility from GoldenEye
School II from THPS2
Hawai`i from THUG for the frightening amount of accuracy ;)
Big Snowman from Snowboard Kids
Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 64
City of Vilcabamba and St. Francis' Folly from Tomb Raider
Tanker from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Casino Night Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
That cool nightclub level from Perfect Dark Zero
Hospital from Silent Hill

I'll think of moar. One is escaping my mind right now and it's driving me crazy, goddamn it.

[moleman31]

Backstabbing Bastard from Max Payne
Presidential Palace from Splinter Cell
Los Angeles from Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Bathhouse from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Barrels O'Fun from Doom 2
Hell from Doom 3

I haven't played the original Half-Life in a while but I'm sure something from there belongs in here. I'm trying to think of Mario or DKC levels but nothing in particular comes to mind.

[Paul]

Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 64.
Oh, you've reminded me of that wonderful Waluigi Pinball track in Mario Kart DS. It's a damn shame they didn't put that one online.

[moneychair2003]

can't think of any off the top of my head.
uhh...
tanker from MGS2
the silent cartographer from HALO

i'll add some more soon.

[Magnum]

1000 A.D. - Chrono Trigger
Expert Mode - Guitar Hero II
Dracula's Castle - Super Castlevania IV
Shadow Moses Island - Metal Gear Solid
Hoth - The Empire Strikes Back
Halo - Halo

[skittlebrau]

One is escaping my mind right now and it's driving me crazy, goddamn it.
Could it be La-Lakoosha in Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil? :silly:

[Sniper Squirrel]

What the Heck - Earthworm jim
Bubbleman - MegaMan 2

[Channel Surfer]

Not exactly sure how this would work as a tournament. Though as an exercise in list making, I'm all for it.

Some of these seem like stretches of the term "level". Then again, if MGS locations are being included as well as whole time periods from Chrono Trigger, it should still work.

Earthbound - Fourside/Moonside
Final Fantasy VI - The Opera
Grim Fandango - Year 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - Country Lords
Metal Gear Solid 3 - The Sorrow
Resident Evil 4 - Stage 2-2 (Specifically when trapped in the house)
Silent Hill - Nowhere
Silent Hill 2 - Prison
Siren - The First School Stage
Super Metroid - Second Part of Norfair
Zelda: Majora's Mask - Stone Tower

[bovine_university]

This is tough, but here goes:

Earthbound - Saturn Valley (Excellent speech font)
A Link to the Past - Turtle Rock (Love those moving platforms)
Super Mario 64 - Tiny-Huge Island (Two levels in one)
Resident Evil 2 - Opening streets and gun shop (Pure adrenaline)
Legend of Zelda - Level 7 (Grumble, Grumble....)
Chrono Trigger - Magus's Castle (Traps, illusions, four bosses, what more could you want?)

And of course, the greatest of them all...

Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest - Dracula's Castle (No no, I'm kidding about this one!)

[Magnum]

as well as whole time periods from Chrono TriggerI meant it as a joke post. :calvin3:

[Tino]

The Arbiter- Halo 2
Lighthouse and Bank- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Phendrana Drifts- Metroid Prime
Act 1- Gears of War
Pretty much all of RE4
LAX- Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

[Magnum]

All these Splinter Cell levels and no mention of The Abattoir? One of my favorite curve balls ever.

Also that train stage was great.

[moleman31]

All these Splinter Cell levels and no mention of The Abattoir? One of my favorite curve balls ever.

Also that train stage was great.

That one is great but Presidential Palace is better. I also like the CIA mission better. The most memorable part of Abattoir was the minefield where you have to use thermal and the part where you kill Grinko (think that's his name) and control the turrets.

[moleman31]

LAX- Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

If I had to pick one level from one game for best ever, this might be the one.

[conor.]

counter strike - dust 2
wolfenstein - keep, norway
halo - hang'em high rat race
halo2 - midship, warlock
ghII - sweet child o mine, yyz

At this point I only play multiplayer games...

[erock]

i remember seeing a video of yyz on expert. the guy did it 100%.

I would have to say casino night zone from sonic 2, and most of the stages from streets of rage 2.

[moleman31]

At this point I only play multiplayer games...

City Street Large from Rainbow Six series is king of multiplayer levels.

[Simpson Purist]

Here are my noms:

World of Warcraft - The Deadmines
Starcraft - That mission where you have to setup a defense perimeter from Zerg swarms for 30 minutes
Resident Evil 4 - The castle section
Halo - The Silent Cartographer
Shadow of the Colossus - The 13th Colossus
Super Mario 64 - Bob-omb Battlefield
Star Wars: KOTOR - Tatooine (meeting HK-47, negotiating with the Sandpeople)
God of War - Fighting the Hydra

[Gunstar]

Brain hurts from trying to remember my favorites, there are just too many.

Max Payne 2 - Funhouse
Yoshi's Island - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Giant Land
Gunstar Heroes - Black's Silly Dice Maze
Duck Tales - The Moon
Sonic The Hedgehog - Starlight Zone
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone
Katamari Damacy - Make the Moon
Manhunt - Deliverance
Half-Life 2 - Ravenholm
Silent Hill - the School
Super Mario Kart - Rainbow Road
TMNT IV: Turtles in Time - Bury My Shell At Wounded Knee

[kupomog]

Could it be La-Lakoosha in Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil? :silly:
Haha, that is a very pretty level, especially in the caves..but it's not the one I'm thinking of :-/

Wish I could remember it :angry:

[brancely]

Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 64ugh.Super Mario Kart - Rainbow Roadyes.

shadow of the colossus - seventh colossus (underwater eel)
god of war - entire pandora's temple
ocarina of time - forest temple, spirit temple
halo - assault on the control room
wii sports - tennis :silly:

[Tino]

All these Splinter Cell levels and no mention of The Abattoir? One of my favorite curve balls ever.

Also that train stage was great.

Oh yeah the train level was awesome, but a little short in Pandora Tomorrow. Double Agent has some good levels also.

[kupomog]

ugh.
Deal with it biaaaatch :sly:

[BigButtSkinner]

Banjo-Kazooie - Rusty Bucket Bay
Banjo-Tooie - Gruntilda Industries
Twilight Princess - Fire Temple
Broken Sword II - paradise island
Punch-Out!! - Bald Bull rematch
F-Zero X - Port Town 2

edit: Shit! I forgot Booster's Tower from SMRPG!

[block02]

This is gonna be tough....

Mega Man 2-Quickman

Sonic the Hedgehog-Labyrinth

Super Mario Bros 3-2nd half of The Sky

Donkey Kong Country 2-Gloomy Gulch

Super Mario RPG-Sunken Ship

Metroid-Kraid's Lair

......that was the best I could do.

[H Thompson]

I'll give this a go, maybe I'll add more later

Silent Hill 2 - Hospital
Psychonauts - Milkman Conspiracy
Metal Gear Solid 3 - The End, come to think of it, both the boss battle and the last couple of hours in the game.
SOTC - First flying Colossous
FFVII - The Crater (first visit)
Tomb Raider 1/anniversary - St Francis Folly

[erock]

[QUOTE=kupomog]
School II from THPS2
QUOTE]

there were a LOT of great levels in the tony hawk series. alcatraz from thps 4was great, actually every level in that game was great. but the airport from thps 3 was awesome

[kupomog]

2 and 3 had a lot of memorable levels to me. Small as they were compared to the newer games, I thought they were all awesome settings. Definitely agree about the airport. Venice Beach is another I would've said for 2. And I agree on Alcatraz as well. Definitely my fave level from 4.

[Channel Surfer]

I'll think of moar. One is escaping my mind right now and it's driving me crazy, goddamn it.

Haha, that is a very pretty level, especially in the caves..but it's not the one I'm thinking of :-/

Wish I could remember it :angry:

Hmm, could it be...

I've had quite a few Siren-related nightmares of desperate not wanting Shibito to see me. Cheers for having a 10-year old kid as one of your protagonists, though. Her level in the house is probably the best one ever.[/jibber jabber blah blah long post] (http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?p=1453509#post1453509)

[SubSane]

Awesome topic.

American McGee's Alice - Pale Realm
Psychonauts - Carnival
Castlevania SOTN - Necromancer's room
Okami - Kusa Village
Bioshock - Medical Wing
Ol' school Mickey games - Any of the giant candy/food levels
Drakengard - Chapter 13
Resident Evil 4 - The intro battle in the village
Conker's Bad Fur Day - Spooky (shout out to Sloprano as well)
Metal Gear Solid 3 - The End
Boogerman - The Pits
Call of Juarez - Eagle Mountain
Shadow of the Colossus - The desert during the fight with #13
Killer 7 - Cloudman

EDIT: There's a ton more from older games, I just can't recall the level names. I'll have to research a bit...