Can we get a general thread about atmospheric games and atmospheric moments within those games going? Moments when environments, visuals, music, story etc come together really well. I tried this on Sup Forums the other night but the results were fairly shitty.
My examples would be:
- Morrowind, specifically when you disembark at Seyda Neen.
- FF7, when you leave Midgar for the first time, and Midgar in general.
- Myst and Riven.
- System Shock 2.
- Bioshock: Pretty much all of Rapture was atmospheric.
- Deus Ex in the Hong Kong canals district. Eerie as fuck.
- The town of Silent Hill, naturally.
- Arcadia and various other areas in Dreamfall and The Longest Journey.
- Halo: ODST, the noir feel of the city and the music.
- Grim Fandango at various points, mostly the year skips.
- Baldur's Gate 2, when you get out of Irenicus' dungeon at the start and find yourself in Waukeen's Promenade in busy Athkatla.
- Thief II, in the 'life of the party' level. Skipping across the rooftops of a medieval steampunk city.
- Deux Ex: Human Revolution - Entering Adam Jensen's apartment for the first time.
Dark Souls: Ash Lake Resident Evil 4: The lab Deus Ex MD: Utulek Complex (I think?) when you're scaling the wall of cargo Bloodborne: Fishing Hamlet CoD4: Chernobyl
Wyatt Phillips
>Deus Ex MD: Utulek Complex (I think?) when you're scaling the wall of cargo
Why?
Levi Allen
I know you're trolling but the MW1 actually had some really good atmospheric moments.
Hudson Baker
I'm not trolling
Brayden Hill
>Baldur's Gate 2, when you get out of Irenicus' dungeon at the start and find yourself in Waukeen's Promenade in busy Athkatla.
I'm playing through BG2 once a year and still looking forward to this part every time
Not really sure. Wasn't a story related moment but something about that section blew my mind.
Zachary Cook
I can understand that. Reminded me a little of the bit in FF7 where you ascend up to the upper plate.
Oliver Anderson
Pathologic and The Void. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s Fallout 1 and 2
Sebastian Bennett
Discovering Phendrana in Metroid Prime in and of itself is one of the best level/zone introductions I can think of, but my favorite moment comes just after getting the boost ball and returning to the main entry point and seeing the looming shadow of Ridley gently sail over the frozen shoreline. That was where the game really started gripping me.
Hunter Bennett
What's the saddest moment in any game you've played Sup Forums?
Justin Evans
Ending of FF15. Not even joking. Ardyn had the hardest life of all.
>get yourself ready pilgrim >the bindings are there as a safeguard >ascension >ascension in the count of 5... >ascension in the count of 4...3...2...1 >Ascension! Ascension! >5,000 feet >10,000 feet >15,000 feet >hallelujah!
Elijah Cruz
Great atmosphere. Good (but critically overrated) game. I liked the story though - a lot of Sup Forums considered it full of plot holes but I disagree. It makes sense.
Charles Ward
It hasn't released yet but Sea of Thieves ran a technical Alpha yesterday and I was thoroughly impressed by the whole 'sailing' atmosphere >ship bounced roughly on heavy waves >manually adjusting the rigging to catch the wind >ship jerked heavily when we dropped anchor >ships weren't constantly on the horizon like in Black Flag, creating a much-needed 'high seas' feel that Wind Waker had >storms were properly intimidating >got nothing to do while riding a good wind? Whip out your accordion or hurdy gurdy and provide BGM
Isaiah Parker
> Whip out your accordion or hurdy gurdy and provide BGM I need this, right now!
Gavin Lee
definitely. of course Sup Forums considered it full of plotholes but I loved everything about it. I've only seen playthroughs of it and I still need to play Bioshock (1) first. I might play bioshock two even though it seems like it's not necessary. I'm the type of person to skip games so i'll probably play it as soon i'm done with the first Bioshock.
Dark Souls 3: Surfacing from the Catacombs into a breathtaking view of Irythill VTM:B: The whole of Grouts mansion while listening to his recordings. Hollywood hub as well. STALKER Call of Pripyat: Leaving the underground to Pripyat itself surrounded by wilderness.
Bioshock and Gears of War genuinely blew me away in terms of graphics and artstyle, they defined the beginning of the 7th gen in some respects.
Nothing in the 8th gen has wow'ed me to the same degree, sadly. That opening segment in Bioshock 1 is just mindblowing. Especially when the water breaks through into one of the corridors.
Brody Jenkins
Do you recommend Icewind Dale from a worldbuilding and story perspective?
Eli Walker
MGS4 shadow Moses
Shit gave me the feels
Ryan Moore
Are there any other games that do this? Bring you back to a place earlier in the series with a later installment to show how much it has changed.
I remember Deus Ex: IW did it with the UNATCO HQ.
Jaxon Nguyen
This moment blew me away in it's atmosphere. Shame the rest of the game was meh.
Noah Reed
What game is that?
Ayden Hall
Lost woods (Oot, TP, BotW) Breath of the Wild Mazes, dark ruins, Hyrule Castle. DarkSiders 2, Honestly most of the game. It's a beautifully designed game.
Just off the top of my head. I'm glad you mentioned ODST, great game.
Dominic Thompson
ME3 ending, It genuinely hit me with sadness. To this point I refuse to touch anything Bioware, even retroactively. I played the shit out of KOTOR and BG anyway, so no point in revisiting.
Chase Perez
>I'm glad you mentioned ODST, great game.
Lots of people seem to have forgotten it.
Sebastian Fisher
Undertale
Kevin Cooper
Gta5 is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. But I wouldn't really call it atmospheric
Parker Gutierrez
GTA games are meme-satire games. Nothing about them is warm or atmospheric.
satorl marsh, ideally if you arrive in the afternoon/evening and watch it transform before your eyes.
Joseph Sullivan
Quake is probably the most atmospheric game I've played.
Nicholas Butler
Loved that game, such a shame it was made on a shit console.
Nathan Diaz
Berlin by Night in NOLF, also the lumberyard forest level and the space level. Pretty much every level in both games ooze atmosphere in fact, Monolith were/are great. >all those games OP confirmed for having excellent taste.
Jace Brooks
tomb raider 1 later levels
Oliver Morgan
What Tomb Raider game is the abandoned Aldwych station level from? That was god-tier atmosphere.
Jason Hernandez
When you go back to Insomnia and Somnus is playing the whole time.
Jackson Gonzalez
I actually liked FF15 but this would have been more powerful if they let you experience pre-invasion Insomnia.
Jose Hernandez
this prolog stuff should have been part of the intro cutscene before the roadtrip. youtu.be/urjfeGvO6x8
Kayden Clark
Yeah, they spent so much money on supporting material for the game. I only was partly filled in because I watched the prologue movie.
Easton White
tomb raider chronicles i think
Bentley Gomez
sorry tomb raider 3 which was pretty much atmosphere the game
Carter Bailey
Shame that I missed the dialogue about his wife that he can tell the stranger when asked about the people he hurt on my first playthrough. The deliver was perfect.
Charles Brown
Is the Silent Hill series too predicable?
Dominic Garcia
i think that's 3
Brandon Perry
this looks co- >user generated content >co-op >massively multiplayer well fuck how long until all the under-20s start exclusively using phones so we can get some fucking singleplayer games
Joseph Carter
Gravity rush 2 where you fly in to the main city for the first time and the fog lifts and you see it all with that music coming in
Carson Lee
Dark Souls 3
Luis Lopez
Hekseville and the World Pillar still take the cake for me.
John Morgan
Tower of Latria in Demon's Souls is still unmatched for me.
Nathaniel Watson
Sea of Thieves looks genuinely phenomenal. I've never seen water look so good.
user, I understand where you're coming from, but SoT works really well as a team/co-op game. Working as a crew is a necessity in SoT and seeing everyone work the sails as the ship rides the waves is a truly wonderful feeling I've not experienced in any game I've ever played.
Hudson Wood
The main lighthouse hub area in Beyond Good and Evil.
I wish more games had lighthouse environments.
Ian Sullivan
-Almost every town of FF9 -Vanderberg airport in deus ex -Arcology in Deus ex IW -Almost every zone of first mgs and tanker of mgs 2
Luis Nelson
FF9 when you are fighting a losing battle to save cleyra, for it to all be pointless as Odin Zantetsuken's a city all whilst a land whale laughs.
Jacob Morales
Forgotten Vale in Skyrim and Ash Lake in Dark Souls.
Wyatt Gutierrez
Pic related in Halo CE. On the topic of Halo almost all of CE and ODST are very atmospheric.
Juan Robinson
>Almost every town of FF9
>tfw you'll never visit Lindblum for the first time again
fucking nostalgia ;_;
Justin Rivera
I love Automata but I cannot fucking stand that track
Dylan Walker
Mafia 1
Samuel Young
God those skyboxes were something else.
Maybe it's because of O'Donnell's score but I always felt Halo CE had this weird, ethereal atmosphere to it all. A lot of background about forerunner artifacts and the ring itself were never fully explained, so it just felt fundamentally weird.
Samuel Wright
>anyone saying anything good about Morrowind posts concepts art Why don't you show me the ugly fucking game that you found so atmospheric, user.
Justin Walker
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Cooper Hughes
What games are these two?
Andrew Roberts
Dark Souls II and I think Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, but I'm not positive.
Nolan Wilson
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Jacob Perez
Ass Creed games typically have great atmosphere, but something about Rogue really stuck out to me the most.
Lincoln Kelly
Two that have always stuck with me from the way back are the Forbidden Woods in A Link to the Past, specifically the cell in which you pick up the Master Sword; and the overworld of FFVII once the meteor has been summoned.
More contemporary, the entirety of Demon's Souls is just oozing with atmosphere. Sometimes mysterious, sometimes sinister, and most frequently just empty and hopeless.
Julian Gray
I don't usually care much for mods that fundamentally change towns like this, but this looks great.
Ryan Cook
MW2 when you walk out of the bunker and see the Washington monument evac site was fucking perfect even to this day
Isaiah Campbell
Hell yeah!
Nicholas Lewis
Say what you will about DS3 as a whole, but the atmosphere was on point.
Christian Wright
I legit consider both Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 to be some of the prettiest games I've ever played. I just love their aesthetic.
Nicholas Walker
Gothic 2, Jharkendar.
Josiah Diaz
>2012 >cold saturday afternoon >snow outside >last year of school, im 17 >radiator in my room broke so have fan heater on >drinking scrumpy cider >roaming the tundra in skyrim, still quite low level >first elder scrolls game >stop off at comfy tavern in part of map havnt explored >continue exploring at random with wooden bow and cobbled together gear
wish i could turn back time
Charles Barnes
Skyrim was super comfy if nothing else. All that cheese and bread and salmon by open hearths still makes me hungry.
Alexander Roberts
Pathologic
Anthony Cooper
>tfw pathologic stresses me out so much that I can't even get past the first few days
Christopher Turner
dem sweetrolls and mead though
Tyler Ward
The Great Hollow/ Ash Lake in Dark Souls
Parker Cook
Is pathologic actually scary?
Evan Miller
there's way better
Brayden Martin
Not often "scary" scary, but mostly tense as fuck.
