City 17 - Google Earth

[SgtSpamBoy]

First of all, if you haven't yet checked out Google Earth, do so.

With Google Earth, you can zoom-in on Sofia, Bulgaria - which is the city that is speculated to have most influenced the style of City 17.

If you go to 42° 41' 32.45" N by 23° 18' 37.96" (right above the Sofija marker) you can see a courtyard that looks a lot like the one outside the train station on Arrival.


. . . and if you zoom-in on the buildings across the courtyard, you can see a little Gordan Freeman running on top of the rooftops. . . just kidding.

 

[ríomhaire]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=90304
That's made off of Google Earth right?

 

[Foebane]

SgtSpamBoy, don't you have anything better to do than to post complete and utter BOLLOCKS!? CITY 17 DOES NOT EXIST! THERE IS NO GORDON ****ING FREEMAN! G E T O V E R I T !

My GOD, and I thought only IMDb Forums had the losers and tosspots!

 

[Solver]

City 17 is definitely very much influenced by Sofia - it is likewise influenced by the Baltic state cities that actually were Soviet, such as the coastal Riga or, in places, Tallin.

 

[DannyC.]

This just made me ask this:

Has anyone ever noclipped out of Kleiner's lab in A Red Letter Day, looked around, and seen a tiny town a ways away?

 

[Shodan]

Thats the skybox sonny.

Don't go there.

 

[SgtSpamBoy]

Wow Foebane....just wow...

I'm glad you took the time to read my entire post and not just the title (*cough* *cough*), or maybe you just didn't understand it..."the city that is speculated to have most influenced the style of City 17."

Look it up on Wikipedia if you don't believe me.


Oh, and what were those words I said at the very end about seeing Gordon Freeman? Oh that's right "just kidding."


I'm glad there are always cocky/misinformed people like you out there ready to flame forum posts. . . oh wait no, it's terribly annoying.

 

[DannyC.]

Thats the skybox sonny.

Don't go there.

Why? What's wrong with it?

 

[DoctorWeeTodd]

Wow Foebane....just wow...

I'm glad you took the time to read my entire post and not just the title (*cough* *cough*), or maybe you just didn't understand it..."the city that is speculated to have most influenced the style of City 17."

Look it up on Wikipedia if you don't believe me.


Oh, and what were those words I said at the very end about seeing Gordon Freeman? Oh that's right "just kidding."


I'm glad there are always cocky/misinformed people like you out there ready to flame forum posts. . . oh wait no, it's terribly annoying.

Wikipedia is reader submitted content, as accurate as it may be people with differing viewpoints on a debatable subject may always change things.

 

[ríomhaire]

yes Sofia influecned the design of C17, so did St. Petersburg and so many other places.