Now we need the exact opposite list of the worst places to live in video games that your characters end up living in that makes your home look like a mansion.
The apartment Trevor forcibly moved into in GTA V- The place itself is really nice, situated right next to the beach. But what Trevor does to that place really brings down the property value… (Originally said Trevor’s trailer, but edited to the apartment bc what ends up happening to that place is far more unfortunate)
I can think of the apartment in the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC. We just get it handed to us, throw a party in it, and then it presumably blows up during one of the games endings.
For the Commenter Edition: Croft Manor, not quite as expansive or customizable but arguably the first videogame dream home. Hitman Freelancer's home, a beautiful retreat with helipad, dock and emergency exit. Toran Castle in Suikoden, which expands as you recruit more of the game's 108 characters. It sits on its own island and becomes yours when you kill the dragon lurking within.
Just Suikoden in general: all of the home bases/castles are great. Also would like to to add, Code Vein’s home base cathedral church, which has its own hot spring in the back, a bar, and a huge crack in the middle. Both a hazard and a plus!
In the same vein as Suikoden, there's also the Marquelian Villa from Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of Time. It starts out as party member Eliza's family summer home, but she gives it to you and it becomes you're base of operations where you can plot your next move and spend time with your party members while on furlough. While there's no customization for the property, you can recruit merchants and other eccentric characters to come to the villa and offer their various services.
All I can think of is the video of Kippers viewing different houses in Skyrim. I watch it every so often, just to enjoy the tours, and Ellen’s longest laughing fit.
@@joeloberholster, Skyrim Homestead Mods: Kipper's House Hunt (this isn't the exact title, but it's close enough...and it's on the thumbnail). If you go to the channel's playlist section, you'll find the entirety of Kippers' Khronicles...and the video in question is just above the Switch livestream (where Kippers found the gear added by LoZ amiibos). Ellen basically takes Kippers on a guided tour of modder-added homes (standing in for the estate agent) and, during one "viewing," Kippers' actions shortly before getting to the home had its consequences made clear as he left...just after Ellen mentioned how it was a great hideaway from the guards. This also leads to Kippers being caged indefinitely (until a previous save is reloaded)...with hilarious commentary.
The apartments in Cyberpunk, Anderson’s place in Mass Effect 3’s Citadel expansion, the houses in Kingdoms of Amalur, and those are just off the top of my head.
My all time favorite place is Skyhold in DAI! The inquisitor will refer to it as theirs multiple times and they often talk about how proud they are of the castle. Plus… no fall damage
Sometimes I play a game where I try to get as much airtime as possible by jumping off one spot or another. No fall damage should be a cheat to unlock in the game proper!
Only bad thing is the lack of customisability or even the opportunity to repair all the damage. Still piles of rubble around and broken walls by the endgame.
Other people already mentioned the Hitman Freelancer safehouse, but I just wanted to say that I spent waaaaaaay too many hours unlocking stuff for it because I find the idea of 47 finally having a place to hang up all those black suits and red ties genuinely heartwarming. After all the years of the creepy test facility he was raised in, dingy ICA safehouses, depressing motel rooms and a garden shed at the back of a church, he's got a home of his own! (Also it's hilarious that Diana makes you achieve Mastery Level 4 before you get the bathroom unlocked.)
That and the fact that you can make 3 of them. Yah you can buy houses in majority of the holds then add furnishings, but with Hearthfire, you're able to build 3 houses, each in different areas. Lakeview Manor in Falkreath with the view of a lake. Hieljarchen (i think that's the spelling) Hall over near Dawnstar by a snowy cliff. And Windstad Manor in the dark swamps of Morthal. Besides being able to build them, I like how there were customization options to each wing. Sure it's only 3 options per wing, but if you get all 3 homes, you can have all of the different combinations of the 3. I chose the armory, greenhouse and alchemy tower
The best part of the villa for Witcher 3 is that it felt like such an unexpected cap to Geralt's story. Witcher don't expect to get to do something like retire.
The village in AC Valhalla starts beautiful and gets even more gorgeous. Even more importantly, the bed is the comfiest looking bed I’ve ever seen in a game. I dream of it.
Need to mention the farm your Grandfather leaves you in Stardew Valley! There's been many miserable day in the office where I too yearn to move out to the countryside and have my own farmhouse and take part in all the festivals that my new community offer.
I live in a flat in the UK, and I have a full size pool table in one of my rooms. Getting it out of my last flat and into this new one is a story in itself, also I had to Hunt down extra short pool cues to be able to actually play on it. I have no regrets.
A friend used to cart his baby grand piano from apartment to apartment (to condo) in Manhattan - each residence selected almost solely on the basis of having enough room to put a grand piano in it - and, like tba says, sacrifices must be made. (Now he lives in Florida and has an all-white upright, which I suppose fits the aesthetic?)
For Commenter's Edition: there's so many options from Bioware games!! Like the apartment you get from Anderson in Mass Effect 3 (it's REALLY nice and I'm so jealous of the kitchen), the Hawke family mansion or the entire CASTLE you get in Inquisition. That Skyhold bedroom is sooooo nice.
Most of the houses in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion are amazing; my personal favorite is the Cheydinhall mansion. And of course, let’s not forget the homes you can build in Skyrim! I can’t wait to see what houses we get in ES 6!
I have great memories of the Obilvion houses, they're all so good but Skingrad is my favorite. It's where I killed the Adoring Fan and stuffed his body inside a display case adorned with jewels and flowers. Scared the shit out of me when I came in one day and he had respawned.
One of my favorites is Lakeview Manor from Skyrim. The home itself is quite nice but the location of the property is stunning. Being nestled amongst a small lake and below the mountains in southern Skyrim makes it such a peaceful place.
The Mass Effect Pinnacle Station player home is an all time favourite of mine: located on a quiet Alliance colony world, it offers beautiful views of a tranquil and largely unspoilt landscape from its panoramic windows, and has an ascetic quality that speaks to a certain rustic romanticism that must be hard to connect with for a 22nd century guy or gal like Shepard. It's the cabin in the wilderness to Anderson's Citadel party pad. And you can't beat it for exclusivity - Not since EA lost the original files for the Pinnacle Station DLC, at least.
Some of the apartments in Cyberpunk are pretty great. Personal favorite is the Glen apartment, which includes a very nice bathroom, a lot of natural light, pool table, wet bar, a capachino machine, something that looks like a vancy food vending machine that could cook food for you (sadly not interactive) and an arcade cabinet. Plus a reading nook, a spot for a computer terminal and a discreet weapon stash. Only weakness is there's not really a closet, so your clothes are just out on a rolling rack.
I'm surprised that there was no mention of the Hitman Safehouse. Sure you have to be level 4 before you can use the bathroom but it has all the major features you would want in a home, a gentle stream you can meditate while listening to nature, a delightful home gym to keep yourself fit, and of course a basement to keep your walls of murder weapons
A couple of great houses from the Hitman series would have to be either the Freelancer house (so customizable, and with amazing surroundings and an underground cave!) or Thornbridge Manor from the Dartmoor mission (such a nice historic theme to it, and some really nice gardens if you visit during the Dartmoor Garden Show)
Not technically a house, more a hotel/clinic/spa/morgue, but Hokkaido’s Gama is based on IceQ in Austria and is just wonderfully relaxing and beautiful.
How about 47's safehouse in Hitman's Freelancer mode? Beautiful house, nicely secluded in the woods, waterfront with its own small dock, and of course a secret bunker with more square footage than most two bedroom apartments! It even has its own gun range.
Mass Effect 2 - Donovan Hock's apartment from Kasumi's loyalty mission. The bedroom alone is impressive, before you see the super secret vault containing the head of the Statue of Liberty - imagine all your RL collectibles in that room (specially if you're into Lego).
What about the various homes you can get in Skyrim? The one down south you get for helping out the people of Falkreath is pretty much the best of these since you can build it yourself and make a friggin mansion out of it with your own garden, your own enchanting table, your own armor rack, beds out the wazoo, and whole lot of other stuff I haven't really looked at yet.
"Falls House" looks like it's based off real-life "Fallingwater" by Frank Lloyd Wright! If you ever somehow make it to that area of Pennsylvania, I highly recommend a visit.
I don't think anybody accidentally ends up near Fallingwater. It's still beautiful nestled in the middle of nowhere PA. The nearest McDonald's and Walmart are a 30 minute drive away. Still, it's worth a visit if you can go. Be aware that hitting bears is a distinct possibility. They are common in the area, unlike gas stations and grocery stores.
An absolute dream house, as long as you overlook the constant headaches which come from building a house over an active waterfall. You think damp is a problem in an old house? Falling Water takes it to an entirely new level!
Skyrim: Lift these logs all by myself a few times and I shall have a grand manor house! Real life: As man, this drill is heavy! How many more screws does this curtain pole need?
I've always said, if I get enough money to build my own dream home, it will be the apartment from Mass Effect. Looks amazing, indoor waterfalls, a giant wraparound fireplace, and two bars lol. THEN I saw 47 home in Freelancer mode... So now I say THAT one...
My favorite home was the Oculus Home. A place you could design in VR, just as a home space, with a range of material and backdrop options. My favorite was a wooden open balcony, looking out onto a massive lush fantasy harbor. The ambience was impeccable. Super relaxing to just sit in there for half an hour. Sadly, Oculus Home has been closed down like a year ago. I miss it, genuinely. One of the best unique selling points. That's why I got myself an Oculus, in fact.
The house in Cordonia in Sherlock Holmes: Chapter 1 is really lovely especially when you fix it up! The location is so much like Malta and comes complete with a beautiful garden, gazebo, and pond
Loving this hard pivot to emulating MTV Cribs, I could listen to Luke and Ellen detail luxurious homes for ages. (I also agree with everyone who said Skyrim: Hearthfire; once you got a homestead fully built, decorated, and populated, it felt so much like a home; I really hope they have something similar in TES6, whenever it materialises.)
In Baldur's Gate 2, each class gets their own stronghold specific to what you play. Most notably is for Fighters and Rogues. Rogues get a Shadow Thief guildhall after a certain part of the story and Fighters get De'Arnies Keep as a reward for a side quest for a companion.
Big shout out to Agent 47’s house in Hitman 3’s Freelancer mode. Beautiful modern architecture in a secluded area complete with lake access and a helipad. Also comes with free murder basement
I saw someone suggest there should be a feature where your safe house can be attacked by mercenaries. It would allow you to set traps, not unlike Home Alone.
I absolutely love all the houses we get in Kingdoms of Amalur; the first being Gossamer End in Canneroc after finishing the side quest with the Widow. My personal favorite is the massive Seawatch castle we get in Klurikon. I haven't gotten around to playing the new DLC, so I don't know if we get a house there. Oh, there's also Gravehal Keep as part of the Legend of Dead Kel DLC and that one is pretty nice too. We get the underground quarters of the head of the Scholia Arcana when you complete that faction quest. It's a bit less welcoming though and the noises coming from the brownies over in part make me uncomfortable, so I rarely visit that one. No, there's no real point to the houses beyond using various side quests to upgrade them all and it's something to spend all your gold on (I'm so loaded with gold by the time I hit Rathir that I never spend it all. I had over 2 million gold at one point.), and your stash is in each house, but I still like them. Oh yeah, we also finally have a house in Hitman thanks to the Freelancer mode. I still need to get out of the basement, but I'm so bad at the missions in Freelancer.
id say I like the Lakeside manor in Falkreath from that Skyrim dlc. Takes a while to build up and purchase stuff for but definitely my favorite. I like that I can customize it to suit my characters skills. Also if you download the mod Live Another Life, you can start out owning the house with a few rooms to boot. 😁
The Villa in Pokemon Platin may not be as fancy as other Videogame Homes, but it still is a whole, really good looking Villa just gifted to a 10 year old. And living there would be awesome. You get to hang out with all the cool Gym Leaders in the Game or explore the beautiful Island. And if you're bored the Battle Frontier is not far away either.
For some reason i really like the evil tower home you get in Overlord games. Both The Dark Tower and The Netherworld Tower are really cool places and would be fun to live in, though maybe a bit unsafe. And also all those minions to do my bidding buhehehahahahe!
Ahhh...the Tevanii mushroom tower in Morrowind...in the middle of nowhere, has vampires for its first neighbours, surrounded by monsters, ash and lava and it's still the place I'd love to be able to retire to. There was something special about watching it grow - like literally grow. Good times...
Starfield gives you a very nice penthouse apartment in New Atlantis for finishing the United Colonies quest line, and you only have to kill about twenty Terrormorphs along the way!
Did anyone else actually find the terrormorphs weirdly easy or was that just me? Mind you might have just been my luck at getting chameleon armour on a stealth sniper build plus the jetpack.
@@KestralKuthule Killing them was relatively straightforward once I got over my intense fear of them... that first mission in the quest line terrified me
Skyrim Anniversary Edition added several new player homes made by some talented designers. Tundra Homestead is my favorite. It's rather small, but it embodies the word "cozy" so well, that walking into it feels like wrapping yourself in a blanket and sitting by a fire with hot cocoa. And the land it's on is beautiful and located by a guard patrolled road outside Whiterun. Other fun homes include a vampire themed home, necromancer crypt, a mages tower, Dwarven ruins, and nord longhouse. Even a farmhouse where you can make over a thousand gold passive income daily.
Glen is a close second to the Westbrook (Japantown) apartment for me. One of the smaller apartments, but super detailed/interactable and cozy. Feels very lived in.
There are several houses in Hitman that are great: Santa Fortuna mansion, Mendoza winery house, Dartmoor mansion, and agent 47's house in the new freelancer mode.
A lesser example would be the Hawke Estate from Dragon Age 2, which is kind of dark and not too welcoming but still a huge step-up from Gamlen’s hovel in Lowtown. All it costs is a huge treasure trove from the Deep Roads and potentially the life of one of your siblings. 😢
Wait, there was a game attached to Assassins Creed 2? Thought it was just a villa simulator. Did think price was a bit steep a the time, but it was Ubisoft.
This one isn't customizable, but the Drakes' beach house at the end of Uncharted 4 is gorgeous, and made me think that if Naughty Dog ever gets tired of making video games, they should go into home design.
The absolute best player housing I've seen in a game still belongs to Everquest 2. Back when I was playing decorating houses was popular enough that there were contests and player homes were frequently featured in the community. There were a bunch of different houses and lots of different methods of acquiring new houses.
A beautiful house in a video game is the Spencer Mansion from the original resident evil and it's remake. Yes it's overrun by zombies and other monsters and has plenty of death traps but it's still a really gorgeous mansion.
I think Ellen‘s dyeing/dying joke absolutely deserves more credit. Also I would add Lakeview Manor from Skyrim‘s Hearthfire dlc to the list, it’s just gorgeous
For a potential commenter edition, may I suggest Great Inagua from Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag? It’s the perfect hideaway for Edward and his crew…not to mention it’s GORGEOUS and makes me want to live there…if it was real
I'm glad New Vegas made the list (you didn't even show the upstairs area), but I'm surprised that Bloodlines didn't. Your starting apartment might not be so great, but there are certainly better ones that unlock.
Now the Lucky 38 presidential suite is great in the base game, but The Sink is absolutely the best living area in New Vegas you get automated facilities, a personal doctor who will work on you for free, a old timely english butler, and your roommates don't take up any space and offer you incentive to actually speak with them even if one is a murderous, maniacal toaster.
Exactly as long as you aren't in a cave or in combat it's always there, not to mention all that stuff you have to spend caps on in the Lucky 38 comes prepackaged with The Sink.
I'd say the player home in Seliana in Monster Hunter World. A big, open concept home with a massive fireplace, a table decked out with some of the tastiest looking food in gaming, plenty of space for all the cute pets you caught, a luxurious bed, and a back patio by a waterfall with an amazing view. Also, most importantly, it comes with a cat butler. Do any of the homes in this video come with a cat? Exactly.
You could basically use any suikoden title. Maybe 4 falls short because of it being a boat but it's a really nice boat with space for 108 people and no overcrowding.
First game I remember randomly getting a house was Might and Magic VII. You get a whole castle the moment you leave the tutorial area that upgrades with extra rooms, turrets, and even a dungeon as you progress the game.
honestly i know its not as fancy as most of the things here but the stardew valley house is pretty amazing, you get it for free and it only costs 160k to fully upgrade it to a 2 bedroom house with a cellar. Also like... considering the housing crisis in my country even just the base form is better than anything I'll ever be able to own lol
I always liked the apartment that Shepard gets in Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC. It's only got 2 bedrooms, but otherwise it's beautiful & quite spacious.
For the Commenter's Edition I'd like to add in another upgradable Manor from another Assassin's Creed game, which is the Manor in Great Inagua Cove in AC IV: Black Flag. Sure, it doesn't have a multimillion-euro art gallery like the Auditore Manor but the views of the cove are more than enough to compensate for it, alongside a beautiful garden and outdoor patio. From a GTA V there's also Michael's Mansion in Rockford Hills which, while not as expertly positioned as Franklin's, it still has an air of beauty to it. GTA IV also has some good safehouses, one being Playboy X's Penthouse and the other is the Middle Park East Condo.
My choice for incredible apartments we'll never be able to own is a toss up between Cyberpunk 2077's Penthouse apartment that you get in one particular ending and the one you get located in The Glen. If I had to pick between the two I'd say the Glen wins simply by being available during regular gameplay. Both offer spectacular views and certainly have their own charms.
12:40 Luke "Toilet Drinker" Westaway It has a ring to it. For me it was The Long Dark, Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines, and Croft Manor. The Long Dark has a lot of cozy, although run down, hunting lodges that need some lighting and have plenty of places to put your stuff. VtMB has some great scenic views of vampire ridden LA. So Croft Manor, well play some up the recent versions and its an endless estate spanning a few football fields.
No mention of the monster hunter world iceborne house with a hotspring right in your back yard, a huge indoor aquarium and outdoor closed off pond for keeping fish, a huge bed and fireplace and an amazing view and very customizable with plenty of space for pets. That place would be amazing and only requires you to kill a few massive monsters and dragons with massive weapons...so a fun way to get it to.
Adam Jensen's apartment in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. High ceilings, huge countertop, exposed beams and, oh yeah, an enormeous TV on which to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
One of the main aspects of the Suikoden games is building up your HQ. It starts of as a small, worn down building barely standing, and as you recruit more and more characters, it expands and improves. By the end, you basically have a fortified palace with an entire village of residents.
If there’s a second part for hotel rooms you can rent or stay in I would recommend The Outer Worlds DLC Murder on Meridanos hotel. Penthouse suite, all companions and those gorgeous gardens surrounding it! Don’t worry about the brain infecting parasites…
I see your Corvo Bianca and raise you a lighthouse from Beyond Good & Evil. To this day the most cosy thing I have ever seen in my life. Special shoutout to the bed that is integrated into the wall.
The only time I've wandered through someone's house and got increasingly jealous while playing a game was in The Council. That house is in-sane. One half is the mirror of the other, but one half is cherry wood or something, and the other is marble. It just melts my brain.
My favorite is the Hunter's house in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. I did a lot of optional sidequest to unlock a lot of decorative options for it. And you can put animals in there.
Not to mention how you have an open air hot spring and can let you floating tentacle god squid fly free. Also the high rank house that comes with felyne playing a harp.
Gotta admit that every visit to Franklin hilltop home, had to take a dive in the pool because who doesn’t want to wake up and have nice swim. Feel like 2 spin-off list you get from this video are, safe houses that made you feel so safe that you never leave and the opposite safe houses that made you feel like running away. Great content as always.🙏🏾
The "Hitmansion" from Hitman Freelancer mode is a great house. Beautiful lake and forest location, modern design, basement full of guns...all you need.
Unlikely to get much name recognition but I’ve gotta recommend the longing The player’s home starts as just a small cave with a chair to sit in but there’s tons of furniture to find, paintings to draw, and it can eventually be expanded to include a garden and a falling water feature. It’s incredibly tranquil and I leave it up on my monitor constantly
Agent 47's "Hitmansion" from Freelancer Mode is incredible. It's in a remote forest on the shore of a lake. I bought my own house back in 2020, but it doesn't even compare to my #1 game dream house. My house doesn't even have an underground shooting range.
ok some good choices and all but how many of these houses have the most important feature, that once you exit them there is not a guard from a far away town waiting to arrest you
Oi Rose. I see your Villa Auditore and raise you Fort Arsenal. Shay Cormac's New York townhouse/Naval dock/Museum of shiny and pretty things in Assassin's Creed Rogue.
I got some super cool apartments in Starfield. The apartment in New Atlantis you get for completing the UC quest One (easily the best faction quest in the game)is really cool, and of course after decorating it I went to the balcony to see if I could survive a leap off the railing (yep.) It’s the quickest way to get to the ground floor, or outside the city walls for a bit of a ramble.
Links original house from BotW is way better than the new one in TotK. His new one might have more space and a better view, but the one in Hateno Village has way better infrastructure. An Established merchant community, widespread farming and ranching, and even a school.
Now we need the exact opposite list of the worst places to live in video games that your characters end up living in that makes your home look like a mansion.
Luigi's mansion
The first apartment you get in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
The apartment Trevor forcibly moved into in GTA V- The place itself is really nice, situated right next to the beach. But what Trevor does to that place really brings down the property value…
(Originally said Trevor’s trailer, but edited to the apartment bc what ends up happening to that place is far more unfortunate)
Outsidexbox did that video years ago
Resident Evil 7.
Hands down.
Edit: Oops, pun not intended... but now that I see it 😂
I can think of the apartment in the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC. We just get it handed to us, throw a party in it, and then it presumably blows up during one of the games endings.
@@SvenLorenz1975 With or without the weaponized hot tub?
@@ferd617 Obviously weaponized. It's Shepard. They NEED a weaponized hot tub
Makes the apartment in the first game look like a tree fort
But always remember, if something starts beeping in a concerning way, the shutdown code is "I
@@orsolyafekete7485 ah yes, from the list of phrases Shepard is least likely to say. Presumably, I've never played the game.
For the Commenter Edition: Croft Manor, not quite as expansive or customizable but arguably the first videogame dream home. Hitman Freelancer's home, a beautiful retreat with helipad, dock and emergency exit. Toran Castle in Suikoden, which expands as you recruit more of the game's 108 characters. It sits on its own island and becomes yours when you kill the dragon lurking within.
Just Suikoden in general: all of the home bases/castles are great. Also would like to to add, Code Vein’s home base cathedral church, which has its own hot spring in the back, a bar, and a huge crack in the middle. Both a hazard and a plus!
That freelancer home is lovely. I just hit level 70 in freelancer and I'd kill to own that home (pun intended).
also wanted to comment on the hitman freelancer mansion
I hear Croft Manor has loads of space in the freezer.
In the same vein as Suikoden, there's also the Marquelian Villa from Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of Time. It starts out as party member Eliza's family summer home, but she gives it to you and it becomes you're base of operations where you can plot your next move and spend time with your party members while on furlough. While there's no customization for the property, you can recruit merchants and other eccentric characters to come to the villa and offer their various services.
All I can think of is the video of Kippers viewing different houses in Skyrim. I watch it every so often, just to enjoy the tours, and Ellen’s longest laughing fit.
Which video? Caan you link it?
Skyrim Homestead Mods: Let's Play Skyrim Remastered on PS4 - KIPPERS' HERO HOUSE HUNT@@joeloberholster
@@joeloberholster, Skyrim Homestead Mods: Kipper's House Hunt (this isn't the exact title, but it's close enough...and it's on the thumbnail). If you go to the channel's playlist section, you'll find the entirety of Kippers' Khronicles...and the video in question is just above the Switch livestream (where Kippers found the gear added by LoZ amiibos).
Ellen basically takes Kippers on a guided tour of modder-added homes (standing in for the estate agent) and, during one "viewing," Kippers' actions shortly before getting to the home had its consequences made clear as he left...just after Ellen mentioned how it was a great hideaway from the guards. This also leads to Kippers being caged indefinitely (until a previous save is reloaded)...with hilarious commentary.
The apartments in Cyberpunk, Anderson’s place in Mass Effect 3’s Citadel expansion, the houses in Kingdoms of Amalur, and those are just off the top of my head.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided had a nice apartment.
My all time favorite place is Skyhold in DAI! The inquisitor will refer to it as theirs multiple times and they often talk about how proud they are of the castle.
Plus… no fall damage
yeah the castle feels good to upgrade. also has a throne room...and i get to pick my throne!
Sometimes I play a game where I try to get as much airtime as possible by jumping off one spot or another. No fall damage should be a cheat to unlock in the game proper!
Only bad thing is the lack of customisability or even the opportunity to repair all the damage. Still piles of rubble around and broken walls by the endgame.
just make sure to stay away from Lord of the Pies and his creepy music beneath the castle floors
Definitely Skyhold! That bedroom at the top tower and the library. And trying to jump from the library level to land on Solas's desk...
Other people already mentioned the Hitman Freelancer safehouse, but I just wanted to say that I spent waaaaaaay too many hours unlocking stuff for it because I find the idea of 47 finally having a place to hang up all those black suits and red ties genuinely heartwarming. After all the years of the creepy test facility he was raised in, dingy ICA safehouses, depressing motel rooms and a garden shed at the back of a church, he's got a home of his own! (Also it's hilarious that Diana makes you achieve Mastery Level 4 before you get the bathroom unlocked.)
Not only do you get your own house in Skyrim after killing a dragon, but you also get to make it bigger thanks to the Hearthfire DLC
Hearthfire was an excellent addition. I've made at least one house every playthrough since.
I liked the murder house better. Just think of the atmosphere!
That and the fact that you can make 3 of them. Yah you can buy houses in majority of the holds then add furnishings, but with Hearthfire, you're able to build 3 houses, each in different areas.
Lakeview Manor in Falkreath with the view of a lake. Hieljarchen (i think that's the spelling) Hall over near Dawnstar by a snowy cliff. And Windstad Manor in the dark swamps of Morthal.
Besides being able to build them, I like how there were customization options to each wing. Sure it's only 3 options per wing, but if you get all 3 homes, you can have all of the different combinations of the 3.
I chose the armory, greenhouse and alchemy tower
Personally I think proudspire is the best Skyrim home, but then again I don't like the idea of wolves in my garden.
Yeah but hardly any reason to actually go there
The best part of the villa for Witcher 3 is that it felt like such an unexpected cap to Geralt's story. Witcher don't expect to get to do something like retire.
The village in AC Valhalla starts beautiful and gets even more gorgeous.
Even more importantly, the bed is the comfiest looking bed I’ve ever seen in a game. I dream of it.
Ellen: makes a pun and mutters "sorry".
Me, in my best Jane impression: "NO, YOU'RE NOT."
Need to mention the farm your Grandfather leaves you in Stardew Valley!
There's been many miserable day in the office where I too yearn to move out to the countryside and have my own farmhouse and take part in all the festivals that my new community offer.
I'd personally be the hermit farmer that didn't really speak to anyone in town, horror movies tropes be damned.
I live in a flat in the UK, and I have a full size pool table in one of my rooms. Getting it out of my last flat and into this new one is a story in itself, also I had to Hunt down extra short pool cues to be able to actually play on it. I have no regrets.
Sacrifices must be made. I don't envy having had to move the thing, but that really does sound pretty sweet.
A friend used to cart his baby grand piano from apartment to apartment (to condo) in Manhattan - each residence selected almost solely on the basis of having enough room to put a grand piano in it - and, like tba says, sacrifices must be made. (Now he lives in Florida and has an all-white upright, which I suppose fits the aesthetic?)
pool table/meal table 🤣
Straight to the pool room!
As long as the cues are long enough to reach across the table, no problem!
For Commenter's Edition: there's so many options from Bioware games!! Like the apartment you get from Anderson in Mass Effect 3 (it's REALLY nice and I'm so jealous of the kitchen), the Hawke family mansion or the entire CASTLE you get in Inquisition. That Skyhold bedroom is sooooo nice.
Most of the houses in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion are amazing; my personal favorite is the Cheydinhall mansion. And of course, let’s not forget the homes you can build in Skyrim! I can’t wait to see what houses we get in ES 6!
I have great memories of the Obilvion houses, they're all so good but Skingrad is my favorite. It's where I killed the Adoring Fan and stuffed his body inside a display case adorned with jewels and flowers. Scared the shit out of me when I came in one day and he had respawned.
Morrowind also had the great house strongholds plus a few other places you get given
One of my favorites is Lakeview Manor from Skyrim. The home itself is quite nice but the location of the property is stunning. Being nestled amongst a small lake and below the mountains in southern Skyrim makes it such a peaceful place.
The Mass Effect Pinnacle Station player home is an all time favourite of mine: located on a quiet Alliance colony world, it offers beautiful views of a tranquil and largely unspoilt landscape from its panoramic windows, and has an ascetic quality that speaks to a certain rustic romanticism that must be hard to connect with for a 22nd century guy or gal like Shepard. It's the cabin in the wilderness to Anderson's Citadel party pad. And you can't beat it for exclusivity - Not since EA lost the original files for the Pinnacle Station DLC, at least.
Oh so that’s what happened! I was wondering why it wasn’t part of legendary edition
Thankfully, modders have made it available once again for the Legendary Edition!
Some of the apartments in Cyberpunk are pretty great. Personal favorite is the Glen apartment, which includes a very nice bathroom, a lot of natural light, pool table, wet bar, a capachino machine, something that looks like a vancy food vending machine that could cook food for you (sadly not interactive) and an arcade cabinet. Plus a reading nook, a spot for a computer terminal and a discreet weapon stash. Only weakness is there's not really a closet, so your clothes are just out on a rolling rack.
Oh yeah. That one was my favorite. It's beautiful. Saved up and bought that one ASAP in my last playthrough.
I'm surprised that there was no mention of the Hitman Safehouse. Sure you have to be level 4 before you can use the bathroom but it has all the major features you would want in a home, a gentle stream you can meditate while listening to nature, a delightful home gym to keep yourself fit, and of course a basement to keep your walls of murder weapons
A couple of great houses from the Hitman series would have to be either the Freelancer house (so customizable, and with amazing surroundings and an underground cave!) or Thornbridge Manor from the Dartmoor mission (such a nice historic theme to it, and some really nice gardens if you visit during the Dartmoor Garden Show)
that house in the first mission from Hitman 2 is pretty great imo. It's supposed to be in Hawke's Bay NZ which is gorgeous irl so.
Perfect for the next video
Not technically a house, more a hotel/clinic/spa/morgue, but Hokkaido’s Gama is based on IceQ in Austria and is just wonderfully relaxing and beautiful.
How about 47's safehouse in Hitman's Freelancer mode? Beautiful house, nicely secluded in the woods, waterfront with its own small dock, and of course a secret bunker with more square footage than most two bedroom apartments! It even has its own gun range.
Mass Effect 2 - Donovan Hock's apartment from Kasumi's loyalty mission. The bedroom alone is impressive, before you see the super secret vault containing the head of the Statue of Liberty - imagine all your RL collectibles in that room (specially if you're into Lego).
What about the various homes you can get in Skyrim? The one down south you get for helping out the people of Falkreath is pretty much the best of these since you can build it yourself and make a friggin mansion out of it with your own garden, your own enchanting table, your own armor rack, beds out the wazoo, and whole lot of other stuff I haven't really looked at yet.
Don't forget about the other 2 buildable homes. The one near Dawnstar, and the other being near Morthal
@@adamtaylor0325 Oh dang, never got around to those myself. Thanks for saying it.
@@lizardguyNA you're welcome
Each comes with its own special feature if you're talking the build able homes. One has an apiary one has a fish hatchery and the third a grain mill.
"Falls House" looks like it's based off real-life "Fallingwater" by Frank Lloyd Wright! If you ever somehow make it to that area of Pennsylvania, I highly recommend a visit.
I live 3 blocks away from another one of his houses up here in Buffalo!
I don't think anybody accidentally ends up near Fallingwater. It's still beautiful nestled in the middle of nowhere PA. The nearest McDonald's and Walmart are a 30 minute drive away. Still, it's worth a visit if you can go. Be aware that hitting bears is a distinct possibility. They are common in the area, unlike gas stations and grocery stores.
An absolute dream house, as long as you overlook the constant headaches which come from building a house over an active waterfall. You think damp is a problem in an old house? Falling Water takes it to an entirely new level!
Skyrim: Lift these logs all by myself a few times and I shall have a grand manor house!
Real life: As man, this drill is heavy! How many more screws does this curtain pole need?
I've always said, if I get enough money to build my own dream home, it will be the apartment from Mass Effect. Looks amazing, indoor waterfalls, a giant wraparound fireplace, and two bars lol.
THEN I saw 47 home in Freelancer mode...
So now I say THAT one...
My favorite home was the Oculus Home. A place you could design in VR, just as a home space, with a range of material and backdrop options. My favorite was a wooden open balcony, looking out onto a massive lush fantasy harbor. The ambience was impeccable. Super relaxing to just sit in there for half an hour.
Sadly, Oculus Home has been closed down like a year ago. I miss it, genuinely. One of the best unique selling points. That's why I got myself an Oculus, in fact.
The house in Cordonia in Sherlock Holmes: Chapter 1 is really lovely especially when you fix it up! The location is so much like Malta and comes complete with a beautiful garden, gazebo, and pond
Loving this hard pivot to emulating MTV Cribs, I could listen to Luke and Ellen detail luxurious homes for ages. (I also agree with everyone who said Skyrim: Hearthfire; once you got a homestead fully built, decorated, and populated, it felt so much like a home; I really hope they have something similar in TES6, whenever it materialises.)
In Baldur's Gate 2, each class gets their own stronghold specific to what you play. Most notably is for Fighters and Rogues. Rogues get a Shadow Thief guildhall after a certain part of the story and Fighters get De'Arnies Keep as a reward for a side quest for a companion.
Big shout out to Agent 47’s house in Hitman 3’s Freelancer mode. Beautiful modern architecture in a secluded area complete with lake access and a helipad. Also comes with free murder basement
I saw someone suggest there should be a feature where your safe house can be attacked by mercenaries. It would allow you to set traps, not unlike Home Alone.
I absolutely love all the houses we get in Kingdoms of Amalur; the first being Gossamer End in Canneroc after finishing the side quest with the Widow. My personal favorite is the massive Seawatch castle we get in Klurikon. I haven't gotten around to playing the new DLC, so I don't know if we get a house there. Oh, there's also Gravehal Keep as part of the Legend of Dead Kel DLC and that one is pretty nice too. We get the underground quarters of the head of the Scholia Arcana when you complete that faction quest. It's a bit less welcoming though and the noises coming from the brownies over in part make me uncomfortable, so I rarely visit that one. No, there's no real point to the houses beyond using various side quests to upgrade them all and it's something to spend all your gold on (I'm so loaded with gold by the time I hit Rathir that I never spend it all. I had over 2 million gold at one point.), and your stash is in each house, but I still like them.
Oh yeah, we also finally have a house in Hitman thanks to the Freelancer mode. I still need to get out of the basement, but I'm so bad at the missions in Freelancer.
Oh boy, you're gonna start Ellen up now
@@alzingafagan7501 I'd honestly love to know her favorite house/stash location in KoA.
@@SolaScientia give it a couple days for them to read the comments and we'll probably get our answer
@@alzingafagan7501 You say that like it's a bad thing. Listening to Ellen wax lyrical about Amalur is always a good thing.
id say I like the Lakeside manor in Falkreath from that Skyrim dlc. Takes a while to build up and purchase stuff for but definitely my favorite. I like that I can customize it to suit my characters skills. Also if you download the mod Live Another Life, you can start out owning the house with a few rooms to boot. 😁
The Villa in Pokemon Platin may not be as fancy as other Videogame Homes, but it still is a whole, really good looking Villa just gifted to a 10 year old. And living there would be awesome. You get to hang out with all the cool Gym Leaders in the Game or explore the beautiful Island. And if you're bored the Battle Frontier is not far away either.
And you can fish for Level 100 Magikarp!
For some reason i really like the evil tower home you get in Overlord games. Both The Dark Tower and The Netherworld Tower are really cool places and would be fun to live in, though maybe a bit unsafe. And also all those minions to do my bidding buhehehahahahe!
I always liked that the companions go to the lucky 38 and you can still get your own place out in the desert somewhere
Felt this video in my bones. Would love to own a home period.
Ahhh...the Tevanii mushroom tower in Morrowind...in the middle of nowhere, has vampires for its first neighbours, surrounded by monsters, ash and lava and it's still the place I'd love to be able to retire to. There was something special about watching it grow - like literally grow. Good times...
And not to forget, basically needing levitate to properly move around.
Ahh, good ol’ Tel Uvirith. Awful place. Love it
@@bertcornelissen6294 Of course! Why walk when you can fly?
The Lighthouse Safehouse in Bully is *ludicrously* nice, and it’s given to you as a reward for winning a few boxing matches.
Starfield gives you a very nice penthouse apartment in New Atlantis for finishing the United Colonies quest line, and you only have to kill about twenty Terrormorphs along the way!
Did anyone else actually find the terrormorphs weirdly easy or was that just me?
Mind you might have just been my luck at getting chameleon armour on a stealth sniper build plus the jetpack.
@@KestralKuthule Killing them was relatively straightforward once I got over my intense fear of them... that first mission in the quest line terrified me
Agent 47’s house in Hitman’s Freelancer mode. Who wouldn’t love a modern mansion in the woods? And as a bonus, a little club downstairs
Skyrim Anniversary Edition added several new player homes made by some talented designers. Tundra Homestead is my favorite. It's rather small, but it embodies the word "cozy" so well, that walking into it feels like wrapping yourself in a blanket and sitting by a fire with hot cocoa. And the land it's on is beautiful and located by a guard patrolled road outside Whiterun.
Other fun homes include a vampire themed home, necromancer crypt, a mages tower, Dwarven ruins, and nord longhouse. Even a farmhouse where you can make over a thousand gold passive income daily.
The whole having to buy the upgrade to the special edition hurts the franchise and modders though.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but the house in Hitman's Freelancer mode is pretty sweet, I spent more time there than actually doing missions
Personally, I love the Glen apartment in Cyberpunk. I'm not an open concept person myself, but I love that apartment.
It's the view. Those two story windows absolutely are a selling point.
I came to say this, but you beat me to it.
I just hate that you can't take your story dependent stuff and pets with you when you decide to finally move out of the megabuilding
Glen is a close second to the Westbrook (Japantown) apartment for me. One of the smaller apartments, but super detailed/interactable and cozy. Feels very lived in.
@K.C-2049 I agree. Part of the reason my actual dream home would be a Victorian one. Or a Hobbit Hole.
Fable houses are classic, bones everywhere!!
There are several houses in Hitman that are great: Santa Fortuna mansion, Mendoza winery house, Dartmoor mansion, and agent 47's house in the new freelancer mode.
A lesser example would be the Hawke Estate from Dragon Age 2, which is kind of dark and not too welcoming but still a huge step-up from Gamlen’s hovel in Lowtown. All it costs is a huge treasure trove from the Deep Roads and potentially the life of one of your siblings. 😢
Homes in a Car Game.
What's next?
A Bed and Brake Fast?
Oldschool Oxtra Fan: Boo!
Puns deserve their punishment.
...oh crap!
I love how AC blackflag you not only get a tropical cliffside villa but basically the whole island
Man we really need to get some of these games realtors. They get all the good stuff
I really want 47's safehouse from Freelancer mode.
Came here to comment the same thing - lakefront retreat with floor to ceiling windows???
I want that property irl 😭
I personally love Lakeview Manor in Skyrim, especially after a bit of modding.
Wait, there was a game attached to Assassins Creed 2? Thought it was just a villa simulator. Did think price was a bit steep a the time, but it was Ubisoft.
I laughed too much at this. Thank you.
Monster Hunter World Iceborn's crib is probably the cosiest player home I've ever seen. Also comes with a palico housekeeper.👍
Not to mention the dozens of pets you can keep.
@@Leith_Crowther i always loved just looking at my fish swimming in the pool
I just got my first house in Oblivion - and it was only slightly haunted!
'A big garden for energy-filled assassins to run around'...Never considered that Ezio gets the zoomies, but...Head-canon accepted! XD
This one isn't customizable, but the Drakes' beach house at the end of Uncharted 4 is gorgeous, and made me think that if Naughty Dog ever gets tired of making video games, they should go into home design.
I am a fan of Benirus Manor in Anvil in Oblivion. It's beautiful and has, apart from ghosts, an indoor balcony, who could ask for more?
The absolute best player housing I've seen in a game still belongs to Everquest 2. Back when I was playing decorating houses was popular enough that there were contests and player homes were frequently featured in the community. There were a bunch of different houses and lots of different methods of acquiring new houses.
A beautiful house in a video game is the Spencer Mansion from the original resident evil and it's remake. Yes it's overrun by zombies and other monsters and has plenty of death traps but it's still a really gorgeous mansion.
I think Ellen‘s dyeing/dying joke absolutely deserves more credit. Also I would add Lakeview Manor from Skyrim‘s Hearthfire dlc to the list, it’s just gorgeous
For a potential commenter edition, may I suggest Great Inagua from Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag? It’s the perfect hideaway for Edward and his crew…not to mention it’s GORGEOUS and makes me want to live there…if it was real
I'm glad New Vegas made the list (you didn't even show the upstairs area), but I'm surprised that Bloodlines didn't. Your starting apartment might not be so great, but there are certainly better ones that unlock.
Now the Lucky 38 presidential suite is great in the base game, but The Sink is absolutely the best living area in New Vegas you get automated facilities, a personal doctor who will work on you for free, a old timely english butler, and your roommates don't take up any space and offer you incentive to actually speak with them even if one is a murderous, maniacal toaster.
And you can fast travel straight there after the DLC, even when over-encumbered. And grow some plants.
Exactly as long as you aren't in a cave or in combat it's always there, not to mention all that stuff you have to spend caps on in the Lucky 38 comes prepackaged with The Sink.
I feel the neighbours let the place down, you need half a brain or less to put up with them.
@@KestralKuthule Yeah and you don't have the spine or heart to tell em off until the end.
I'd say the player home in Seliana in Monster Hunter World. A big, open concept home with a massive fireplace, a table decked out with some of the tastiest looking food in gaming, plenty of space for all the cute pets you caught, a luxurious bed, and a back patio by a waterfall with an amazing view.
Also, most importantly, it comes with a cat butler. Do any of the homes in this video come with a cat? Exactly.
You could basically use any suikoden title. Maybe 4 falls short because of it being a boat but it's a really nice boat with space for 108 people and no overcrowding.
13:57 Is it weird that I thought the exact same thing the second this table was shown?
The Clockwork Mansion and Dukes house from Dishonored 2 are enviable too, at least for me.
First game I remember randomly getting a house was Might and Magic VII. You get a whole castle the moment you leave the tutorial area that upgrades with extra rooms, turrets, and even a dungeon as you progress the game.
The gallery apartment in Cyberpunk is one of my favourites. But the views and overall style makes it a place I would want to live.
The homes you can build in Skyrim's Hearthfire DLC are incredible too, and you can customize and decorate them
Valheim allows for house building. But then so did Fallout 4.
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the villa was soo good ^^
OMG yes customising houses in TDU2 was just as fun as the racing tbh, fingers crossed solar crown hold up to it
spent all my time driving between my houses and the casino ❤ good times
Love my posh apartments in Cyberpunk 2077. And my cat. And my iguana. The future is not that bad I guess XD
honestly i know its not as fancy as most of the things here but the stardew valley house is pretty amazing, you get it for free and it only costs 160k to fully upgrade it to a 2 bedroom house with a cellar. Also like... considering the housing crisis in my country even just the base form is better than anything I'll ever be able to own lol
Celebrating Halloween from September to December?
How can anyone have such a short Spooktober season?
Glad to see Geralt dressed in his "Vacation Geralt" attire.
I always liked the apartment that Shepard gets in Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC. It's only got 2 bedrooms, but otherwise it's beautiful & quite spacious.
For the Commenter's Edition I'd like to add in another upgradable Manor from another Assassin's Creed game, which is the Manor in Great Inagua Cove in AC IV: Black Flag. Sure, it doesn't have a multimillion-euro art gallery like the Auditore Manor but the views of the cove are more than enough to compensate for it, alongside a beautiful garden and outdoor patio.
From a GTA V there's also Michael's Mansion in Rockford Hills which, while not as expertly positioned as Franklin's, it still has an air of beauty to it. GTA IV also has some good safehouses, one being Playboy X's Penthouse and the other is the Middle Park East Condo.
My choice for incredible apartments we'll never be able to own is a toss up between Cyberpunk 2077's Penthouse apartment that you get in one particular ending and the one you get located in The Glen. If I had to pick between the two I'd say the Glen wins simply by being available during regular gameplay. Both offer spectacular views and certainly have their own charms.
12:40 Luke "Toilet Drinker" Westaway
It has a ring to it.
For me it was The Long Dark, Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines, and Croft Manor. The Long Dark has a lot of cozy, although run down, hunting lodges that need some lighting and have plenty of places to put your stuff. VtMB has some great scenic views of vampire ridden LA. So Croft Manor, well play some up the recent versions and its an endless estate spanning a few football fields.
No mention of the monster hunter world iceborne house with a hotspring right in your back yard, a huge indoor aquarium and outdoor closed off pond for keeping fish, a huge bed and fireplace and an amazing view and very customizable with plenty of space for pets. That place would be amazing and only requires you to kill a few massive monsters and dragons with massive weapons...so a fun way to get it to.
Adam Jensen's apartment in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. High ceilings, huge countertop, exposed beams and, oh yeah, an enormeous TV on which to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
One of the main aspects of the Suikoden games is building up your HQ. It starts of as a small, worn down building barely standing, and as you recruit more and more characters, it expands and improves. By the end, you basically have a fortified palace with an entire village of residents.
If there’s a second part for hotel rooms you can rent or stay in I would recommend The Outer Worlds DLC Murder on Meridanos hotel. Penthouse suite, all companions and those gorgeous gardens surrounding it! Don’t worry about the brain infecting parasites…
Honestly, the Unreliable is probably my favorite player home in any game honestly.
I love how each companion has collectable decorative items for their rooms. So Max has church items, Felix has sports memorabilia etc
@@RivendellPanda That's one of the reasons I love the ship so much: there's just so much character to it.
Falls House is based on a real-life place as well. Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" house. It's beautiful.
I see your Corvo Bianca and raise you a lighthouse from Beyond Good & Evil. To this day the most cosy thing I have ever seen in my life. Special shoutout to the bed that is integrated into the wall.
The only time I've wandered through someone's house and got increasingly jealous while playing a game was in The Council. That house is in-sane. One half is the mirror of the other, but one half is cherry wood or something, and the other is marble. It just melts my brain.
My favorite is the Hunter's house in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne.
I did a lot of optional sidequest to unlock a lot of decorative options for it.
And you can put animals in there.
Not to mention how you have an open air hot spring and can let you floating tentacle god squid fly free. Also the high rank house that comes with felyne playing a harp.
Doesn't Conan:Exiles have any?
Gotta admit that every visit to Franklin hilltop home, had to take a dive in the pool because who doesn’t want to wake up and have nice swim. Feel like 2 spin-off list you get from this video are, safe houses that made you feel so safe that you never leave and the opposite safe houses that made you feel like running away. Great content as always.🙏🏾
The "Hitmansion" from Hitman Freelancer mode is a great house. Beautiful lake and forest location, modern design, basement full of guns...all you need.
I'd be happy with the starting cabin in stardew valley.
Unlikely to get much name recognition but I’ve gotta recommend the longing
The player’s home starts as just a small cave with a chair to sit in but there’s tons of furniture to find, paintings to draw, and it can eventually be expanded to include a garden and a falling water feature. It’s incredibly tranquil and I leave it up on my monitor constantly
As the saying goes:
"Home is where the console is."
Agent 47's "Hitmansion" from Freelancer Mode is incredible.
It's in a remote forest on the shore of a lake.
I bought my own house back in 2020, but it doesn't even compare to my #1 game dream house.
My house doesn't even have an underground shooting range.
I feel this hits very close to home for a lot of people. I feel your pain.
ok some good choices and all but how many of these houses have the most important feature, that once you exit them there is not a guard from a far away town waiting to arrest you
Oi Rose. I see your Villa Auditore and raise you Fort Arsenal. Shay Cormac's New York townhouse/Naval dock/Museum of shiny and pretty things in Assassin's Creed Rogue.
The mansion from hitman 3’s freelancer mode! Secluded modern masterpiece with water access lol
I got some super cool apartments in Starfield. The apartment in New Atlantis you get for completing the UC quest
One (easily the best faction quest in the game)is really cool, and of course after decorating it I went to the balcony to see if I could survive a leap off the railing (yep.) It’s the quickest way to get to the ground floor, or outside the city walls for a bit of a ramble.
Links original house from BotW is way better than the new one in TotK.
His new one might have more space and a better view, but the one in Hateno Village has way better infrastructure. An Established merchant community, widespread farming and ranching, and even a school.
True but the school only exists because Zelda pinched Links house.