The ocean is a great setting for video games. Since Sid Meier's Pirates!, people have been settings games on the open sea. It's possibly the sense of freedom and adventure, and possibly it's the romanticization that sea-travel gets in media. It's most likely because rendering a bunch of blue is probably a lot less difficult than designing a world to run around in.
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