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Probably unpopular but Rust has a really awesome atmosphere in certain conditions. The ambient sounds, wild life sounds, and dusk/night effects make for an awesome experience. Especially if you have a good set of headphones on and are getting blazed. 
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Aug 4, 2019 00:19
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r-type any of the 16-bit shooting games by compile
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Aug 4, 2019 00:20
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Space Marine captured the quintessential look and feel of the Warhammer 40k universe perfectly. I still replay it at least once a year, using mods to make Captain Titus into different chapters. So far Death Watch is the best.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:27
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I like games with the "grimacing faces on walls made of slime" aesthetic, aka most dos and genesis platformers and shooters.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:41
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Whybird posted:Loom is still one of the most gorgeous games I've ever played. I played the poo poo out of Loom when I was a kid, because I absolutely loved the world and atmosphere. I got the Steam version awhile back but have barely played it because the audio all sounds wrong and I have such vivid memories of how the DOS version sounded that it bothered me I also love the music and the pre-rendered backgrounds of FF7. The backgrounds have a post-apocalyptic vibe even though nothing in the game's writing points to any reason why things should appear to be post-apocalyptic. Example: the random fighter jet lying in the pile of debris in bone village 
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Aug 4, 2019 00:48
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Play Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice with some real good headphone if you want atmosphere.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:51
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Little Big Adventure 1 aka Relentless aka Twinsens Adventure is the greatest action adventure game DOS has ever had. It also had this really nice visual aesthetic that focused more on animation than textures that still stands up today plus the atmosphere was both twee and sinister, like Wind in the Willows if the Nazis had won the war and gassed all the badgers. It's on GOG too.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:56
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Whybird posted:Loom is still one of the most gorgeous games I've ever played. I know, its so sad the planned trilogy set in that world wasnt made (Forge would have been 2nd; cant remember what the 3rd was going to be called).
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Aug 4, 2019 01:05
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Stocky Manhood posted:I know, its so sad the planned trilogy set in that world wasnt made (Forge would have been 2nd; cant remember what the 3rd was going to be called). What. I never knew there were sequels planned, that's such a bummer!! Also PT was brilliant and that's another drat shame right there
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Aug 4, 2019 01:13
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Looking glass/ion storm and specifically Warren spector games when I was a kid. System Shock 2 made you feel like you were really trapped in a space station with a rogue AI. Deus Ex OG was like the perfect Cyberpunk game, it came out right after the Matrix and was basically the unofficial Matrix game, made you feel like an agent fighting hacker badass. And of course Thief being the first real 3d stealth game with realistic medieval cities and clockwork/steam punk and undead stuff. And Hammerites. Hammerites were a great satire
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Aug 4, 2019 01:16
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Grow Home and it's sequel Grow Up have a wonderful atmosphere and I love the sort of low poly graphics and the fact that BUD can't walk very good I just love them so much
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Aug 4, 2019 01:18
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Colonel Cancer posted:I played Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and the Chronicles campaign for it, like, a lot as a kid and later. Heroes 3 is one of those eternal games that has never been surpassed. it has a very excellent aesthetic! especially the towns 
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Aug 4, 2019 01:19
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marijuanamancer posted:Looking glass/ion storm and specifically Warren spector games when I was a kid. And a huge part of that was excellent sound production and lighting design. Their games had pretty hideous NPC models for the most part, but I think people didnt care because they had such great atmosphere, and Looking Glass did a lot of that through lighting and sound. Im still nostalgic for the super angular NPC guards in Thief 1 though.
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Aug 4, 2019 01:36
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Unfinish3d posted:What. I never knew there were sequels planned, that's such a bummer!! https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-26-the-twin-tales-of-forge-looms-forgotten-and-fan-made-sequel
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Aug 4, 2019 01:37
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It's easy to say, but as someone who isn't a real big 'gamer guy' or whatever, that last Red Dead Redemption was loving phenomenal. I know there's a lot of good games out there these days, but frankly I'm just not into them. But when I do play one, and it's that good? That was a lot of fun to go through and one of those "I didn't realize they could make games like this" kind of scenarios that made me feel old being that impressed by it.
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Stocky Manhood posted:And a huge part of that was excellent sound production and lighting design. Their games had pretty hideous NPC models for the most part, but I think people didnt care because they had such great atmosphere, and Looking Glass did a lot of that through lighting and sound. Im still nostalgic for the super angular NPC guards in Thief 1 though. Yeah I think the games were all regarded as ugly even as current Gen but no one cared lol
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Aug 4, 2019 01:43
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Ski free had a terrifying atmosphere. Minesweeper not so much.
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Aug 4, 2019 02:21
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marijuanamancer posted:Yeah I think the games were all regarded as ugly even as current Gen but no one cared lol Anachronox ran on the Quake2 engine which was ancient by the time it came out and yet they managed to make a universe that felt truly lived in. It's not exactly a great game or Ion Storms best but I have a lot of fond memories of that and Deus Ex which no modern RPG has ever come close to replicating. Wrageowrapper fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Aug 4, 2019 02:35
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Oh yeah. Dead Space had a really great atmosphere, imo. Just wandering this derelict ship with weird music and creepy whispers in the background. I really loved that game. The second one traded some of that isolated survivor feel for the explosions and more action-oriented sequences so it didn't feel quite so atmospheric. I never played DS3
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Aug 4, 2019 02:37
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Alien: Isolation knocked it out of the loving park with the look and feel of the original movie.
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Wrageowrapper posted:Anachronox ran on the Quake2 engine which was ancient by the time it came out and yet they managed to make t universe that felt truly lived in. It's not exactly a great game or Ion Storms best but I have a lot of fond memories of that and Deus Ex which no modern RPG has ever come close to replicating. Haha, that was a magical time that I've always been trying to replicate with other games but nothing really compares. Deus Ex Mankind got the gameplay puzzle/stealth aspect pretty close but the story and atmosphere didn't stick with me as much. Thanks for reminding me I need to finally finish Anachronox!
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Aug 4, 2019 02:40
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marijuanamancer posted:Haha, that was a magical time that I've always been trying to replicate with other games but nothing really compares. Deus Ex Mankind got the gameplay puzzle/stealth aspect pretty close but the story and atmosphere didn't stick with me as much. Thanks for reminding me I need to finally finish Anachronox! That is a bittersweet endeavor, to say the least.
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Aug 4, 2019 03:06
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Yeah I'm guessing there are reasons I lost interest the several times I played it over the years but it will be fun to see again
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marijuanamancer posted:Yeah I think the games were all regarded as ugly even as current Gen but no one cared lol
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Aug 4, 2019 03:08
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marijuanamancer posted:Haha, that was a magical time that I've always been trying to replicate with other games but nothing really compares. Deus Ex Mankind got the gameplay puzzle/stealth aspect pretty close but the story and atmosphere didn't stick with me as much. Thanks for reminding me I need to finally finish Anachronox! i like what it tried to do. but you can tell the its maybe a 1/3 or 1/2 of a bigger game. as for atomspheres. I always liked new vegas, dead space 1 and bioshock 1.
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Aug 4, 2019 03:11
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Dapper_Swindler posted:as for atomspheres. I always liked new vegas, dead space 1 and bioshock 1.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Bioshock 1 has good enough sound and art design that a lot of people managed to not even notice that the game sucked. I'm a little amazed the art deco look wasn't ripped off more. That's why I prefer Bioshock 2. Same atmosphere, but having both a gun and a plasmid is so much better.
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Aug 4, 2019 03:16
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Who What Now posted:That's why I prefer Bioshock 2. Same atmosphere, but having both a gun and a plasmid is so much better.
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i am still holding angsty nerd grudges against bioshock because it wasn't system shock 3 and thats all i ever wanted  i did enjoy 1 tho
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Aug 4, 2019 03:24
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FactsAreUseless posted:I've only played 1 and 3 and didn't enjoy either, but I've heard 2 is better. I don't know how I ended up missing it. It's not amazing, but it's cheap and worth a playthrough for sure.
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speaking of old angry nerd grudges. anyone remember when halo was supposed to be like team fortress combined with tribes and on PC. there was an article in a game magazine and everything. and then microsoft bought bungie and made the xbox and ruined my hopes and dreams also team fortress 2 was supposed to be a realistic battlefield type game with like ammo support classes that actually chain fed a gunner and stuff
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Aug 4, 2019 03:57
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Alice: Madness Returns and Samorost
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marijuanamancer posted:speaking of old angry nerd grudges. anyone remember when halo was supposed to be like team fortress combined with tribes and on PC. there was an article in a game magazine and everything. and then microsoft bought bungie and made the xbox and ruined my hopes and dreams It might not be the same, but the original Halo trilogy along with Reach are all getting a fully supported PC port with multiplayer on steam at some point this year. I remember before Half life 1 and related games switched to the steam format, HL1 had a menu link advertising TF2 with screen shots showing the early design that still used TFC models but with more generic army looking uniforms and HL1 game assets. For the longest time I would keep clicking that ad link hoping for updates. Seeing how TF2 actually was on release always bothered me, but it was still enjoyable.
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marijuanamancer posted:i am still holding angsty nerd grudges against bioshock because it wasn't system shock 3 and thats all i ever wanted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdiaIRkjpI0 It's a remake, which kind of sucks. But hey it's System Shock exposed to a new gen of people. Might garner enough new interest in the series for a third installment.  marijuanamancer posted:speaking of old angry nerd grudges. anyone remember when halo was supposed to be like team fortress combined with tribes and on PC. there was an article in a game magazine and everything. and then microsoft bought bungie and made the xbox and ruined my hopes and dreams Yes I do and it sucks, but the first halo was still p cool despite that. I might be against team fortress purists on this but I'm glad team fortress 2 didn't go with the gritty realism, though the parachutes and belt feeders etc were interesting. Firearms mod picked up the slack with that kinda. Anyone remember when TF2 was going to be humans vs aliens, kinda in the art style of timesplitters? Linux Pirate fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Aug 4, 2019 05:31
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I really liked the Oddworld game series.
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The Real Amethyst posted:Probably unpopular but Rust has a really awesome atmosphere in certain conditions. The ambient sounds, wild life sounds, and dusk/night effects make for an awesome experience. Rust is an awesome game, cruel, but awesome. I like building a base with windows facing a horizon not just for defense but when the night is over the sunrise marks a cool new day. For me though, Doom is the best. Its aesthetics still work. They're complex enough to convey an atmosphere but so simple that your imagination fills in the gaps because the interface is, for the most part, smooth and transparent.
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Aug 4, 2019 06:40
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Cerebral Mayhem posted:I really liked the Oddworld game series. That and Rainworld have good atmosphere, backgrounds.
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I have a real fascination with gameworlds that have this certain aesthetic that I think is best encapsulated by Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and by extention the last guardian game though I haven't played that one. Hob looks perfect, but then the gameplay didn't grab me so I haven't picked it up yet either. On the other hand I just found RIME which nails that type of world just perfectly, and I'd like to get more recommendations along those lines.   Conversely, Little Nightmares is a brilliant platforming romp that captures dream logic and worlds in the design perfectly, with a heaping load of inspiration from Spirited Away on the side.
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The Protagonist posted:I have a real fascination with gameworlds that have this certain aesthetic that I think is best encapsulated by Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and by extention the last guardian game though I haven't played that one. Hob looks perfect, but then the gameplay didn't grab me so I haven't picked it up yet either. On the other hand I just found RIME which nails that type of world just perfectly, and I'd like to get more recommendations along those lines.
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