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[Solifuge]

Toenoe, from Phantasy Star IV.

Filled with scrap-metal heaps, haggling stalls, and the furry blue jerry-rigging Motavians. Also, the theme-song was bizarre and wonderful, and it had the Grandfather Dorin/Alys scene, which is always fun.

[Roundabout Lout]

Balmora, no doubt.  Vivec city had more to do, but Balmora always felt like home.

^^This

[Aptus]

Newport from The Longest Journey series.
There isn't that much of the city to see, actually, just maybe a dozen locations total(TLJ are adventure games), and there isn't anything that remarkable about the city itself.
What I liked about it, was how it was shown to have changed between the two games of the series, reflecting the change in the characters. What was once a bright, carefree students' town, where young people enjoyed their youth in TLJ, turned into a darker, almost seedy place with rare inhabitants hiding behind heavy doors and surveliance cameras in TLJ2.

Oh man I wish they would get around to finishing that story, I have waited too long to see what happens to April and Zoë.

On topic though, I agree with newport, I'd also like to say:
Vivec (Morrowind): The first time I stepped into that city was just epic, it was so big and full of stuff to find.
Tarant (Arcanum): Now this was a a place that knew what it was going for, the aesthetic and feel of that city was just amazing.

[TSTwizby]

I'm not really sure why, but I always really liked Twilight Town. I can think of loads of places objectively better, but I always thought it had the perfect atmosphere for its role in the game.

[Virtz]

Mega-Primus in X-Com Apocalypse. A retro-futuristic city with slums, gang warfare, segregation (androids and alien hybrids in slums), a crazy alien-worshiping cult and two questionable security companies as the leading manufacturers of arms and vehicles. For all I didn't like about X-Com Apocalypse, I loved the setting and atmosphere.

Also, Tarant in Arcanum. A large fantasy industrial revolution city, where magic is dying out in favour of technology (due to how they interfere with one another).

[Vattic]

Newport from The Longest Journey series.
There isn't that much of the city to see, actually, just maybe a dozen locations total(TLJ are adventure games), and there isn't anything that remarkable about the city itself.
What I liked about it, was how it was shown to have changed between the two games of the series, reflecting the change in the characters. What was once a bright, carefree students' town, where young people enjoyed their youth in TLJ, turned into a darker, almost seedy place with rare inhabitants hiding behind heavy doors and surveliance cameras in TLJ2.

I really should go back and finish the first game. I got a few disks in and it refused to read one of them so I had to stop. This was years ago. It took me ages to get anywhere too as I always struggle with adventure games.

[Johuotar]

Zozo and the imperial capital from ffvi. Balmora from Morrowind. Underworld from kotor.

[Neyvn]

Zozo. Hands down, to me, the best Town-that-is-not-a-town in any RPG.

wow never heard of it. what game???

[Rex_Nex]

I saw BurningPet made this thread and immediately my mind put a colon in the title. Your Favorite Video Game: Towns!

Maybe its some sort of subliminal marketing campaign!

[Dutchling]

I was thinking the same RexNex.
And my favorite town would be Balmora.

[Alg]

I saw BurningPet made this thread and immediately my mind put a colon in the title. Your Favorite Video Game: Towns!

Maybe its some sort of subliminal marketing campaign!

Same here.

OT : Athkatla (BGII) of course!

[burningpet]

Hehe, Although i work as a Marketing manager in my real life, that was not the intention.

I must say that it really is a sign of great design that those towns, those virtual, often lackluster places, made us feel like home. and they did not "ask" for that feeling, they gave it.

[TSTwizby]

Zozo. Hands down, to me, the best Town-that-is-not-a-town in any RPG.

wow never heard of it. what game???

It's from Final Fantasy VI.

[Lord Dullard]

Hm, the towns that have been mentioned from FF6 are definitely in my favorites list. New Reno, too...

I have to say that some of the towns from Star Ocean: The Second Story were great, too. My favorite was in the game's token winter area: Giveaway. Snowy university town with a very sleepy feel. And MAN, the music: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD5agM8lh8s). Such a haunting, chilly, and beautiful song. I loved that town just for the music and general atmosphere.

[Il Palazzo]

Hey, let's not forget Sigil from Planescape: Torment. That was one creatively done city. It felt alien-yet-familiar. Vast, despite ever seeing only some of it. Alive(also in the literal sense!) and mysterious. Which made learning about it from bits and pieces of lore scatterd or hidden about as much fun as the actual exploration itself.

Oh man I wish they would get around to finishing that story, I have waited too long to see what happens to April and Zoë.

While there is, understandably, some nagging desire in me to get to know every detail of everything ever about the universe and the characters in it, I can appreciate the two games as a sort-of complete story.
We can, for example, infer what happened to April despite never learining about the how of it. And Zoe's story has some definiteness to it as well - even if the conclusion we might draw is not an overly happy one.

Spoiler: actual spoilers (click to show/hide)

There's the scene with Lady Alvane in TLJ, where April shifts to some extradimensional place as she's running away from her pursuers. In the light of the second episode, it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that April lived and married Kian.
As for Dreamfall, it seems enough of a conclusion to know that Zoe dies and her spirit is trapped in/visits for a while the Dreaming before moving on to whatever/dissapearing. Let's remember that the whole game is woven around the concept of the Dreaming, and I think we should view the story like the Vagrant tells us to: take in the story we're told, and not ask for explanations, as that is another story. It's a dream that we've glimpsed, and like so many times when waking up, we're bound to desire its continuation, despite knowing well that it'll never happen.
That said, I might be just trying to rationalise and tame my longing for what might never come. Seriously, Ragnar dropped enough small bits of random, never elaborated upon information in Dreamfall to make people hunger for half a dozen more games. That was just mean.