Comments on: Video Game Maps: An Ode to Overworld Cartography

By: jj

jj — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:18:14 +0000

You should give Final Fantasy XI a try – even if just to look at all the pretty, gorgeous amazing maps. Yes. Mappage. Many maps.

Also it is the best MMO I have ever played, and you can often pick a copy of the complete game (with 30 free days) for 5-10 bucks

By: taylor

taylor — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:47:11 +0000

it’s a little late but can we talk about these swoosh noises

By: kelsey

kelsey — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:16:33 +0000

what happened to the maps she drew? i’m going to need them sent to me ASAP. your mom sounds cool.

By: kelsey

kelsey — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:13:23 +0000

you could still map out mars and shit.

By: Jader

Jader — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:32:09 +0000

also, i would be down to play WoW and be in the guild and whatnot, but my system doesnt have the needed requirements to play. also another reason i dont play EvE.

By: Jader

Jader — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:20:20 +0000

ZOMFGJSOJIFIAYBFOG!!!!! i was gonna be soooo super pissed if EvE wasnt on this list! i played EvE for about a year and a half, i was an uber l33t n00b. yes, n00b still after a year and a half. thats how intense this game is. it stole my life. and the sad thing is, id still be playing if i had that extra 15 bucks a month. but yes, maps, maps are very nice. i make maps of maps, and then i make maps of those maps. and then i make copies, and put the originals in a folder for safekeeping. does that make me crazy? meh, oh well. also, in EvE, i flew one of these…occasionally http://www.ravestats.com/public/fen/0_megathron.jpg

could it be that there are other lady loving ladies that i can go on and on about EvE with?? im such geek at times. also!! TAYLOR!!! your article is uber l33t!!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:17:42 +0000

Yes, Super Mario Bros 3 was the best of the Mario Bros games. Part of it for me is everything that’s hidden – you could go through the game without ever seeing/using the Sledgehammer suit or Kuribo’s Shoe. It felt like more of a big wide world than Super Mario World.

Also, Cartographer is a great career. Even the word itself is great. “I’m a Cartographer”…”I study Cartography”…the word just has an ancient and somewhat noble air to it. Also, sextants are the fiddliest looking things that you can’t not be awesome if you know how to operate one.
http://www.buythesea-bymail.co.uk/sextant-in-case-1551-p.asp

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:58:46 +0000

Oh yeah this is suppossed to relate to gaming maps too. Yeah any game i’ve played with a map, i would sit and stare at the map for the longest time. I’m a pokemon freak. I like the maps on them and like someone had said just exploring to find what’s in the next town is so exciting. And i remember a sega game called primal rage i think that involved dinosaurs fighting and conquering the different continents/regions until the one that you were in particular conquered all the rest and conquered the world then you’d win. Just show me any map, anywhere, and i’ll give you my undevided attention. ok i think i’m done with the comments for the night lol

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:37:00 +0000

And wow.. ok.. this Autostraddle or whatever is LGBT friendly. I’m a gay man. Does this map obsession have anything to do with a certain gay gene or something lol. This is just too unreal. “Maps” and “Gay” I think i’ve found the place where i belong. Ok when is the convention people LOL HAHAHAHA

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:24:08 +0000

OMG I cannot believe I just found a sight about maps. I’m totally obsessed. I’ve been drawing and making up maps and towns and populations and sports teams for them all for years. I’m 20 now… I’d find map outlines of real countries on the internet too and transport them to “paint” and draw outlines for different states and put dots and print for towns and town names and shit.. I have a binder with all my maps that i’ve made from a certain point. many of the ones i made in the very beginning of my obsession are gone tho it’s amazing to remember my first maps and watch how i’ve progressed… I just found a book at books-a-million the other day called “Lost States” by Michael J. Trinklein and it has maps of proposed states in the united states that never came to be. and there’s an article with each map. i’ve read it all in like two days lol. And get this the book cover unfolds into a giant map OMG… If i could make maps my life i would in a heartbeat

By: Delusion

Delusion — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:18:26 +0000

Two pivotal games for me with regard to mapping are from the 8-bit era.

In Ultima IV (I played on the C64), there was an overland that you played a lot of the game on. It was very stylized and felt very, very large at the time. Ironically, when Ultima Online came out in 1997, they got the scale all wrong and it felt like you were playing on a postage stamp. Given how many other things they got wrong, maybe “ironic” is exactly the wrong word.

Then there was Seven Cities of Gold. Fantastic game where you get to experience a large world, and then colonize it with whatever level of brutality you desire.

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