What is the most atmospheric game of all time?
What is the most atmospheric game of all time?
Carson Hernandez
Other urls found in this thread:
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtu.be
youtu.be
youtu.be
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
wccftech.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtu.be
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtu.be
youtube.com
youtu.be
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtu.be
youtu.be
twitter.com
Benjamin Wright
They were all dead.
Liam Hill
For max comfy: Yo-Kai Watch
Anthony Gonzalez
>that short chapter in Max Payne 3 in New York
FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK
Robert Barnes
I don't know about the "all time" part but the first Darkness is overloaded with it.
Brody Cruz
Early 2000s games had excellent snow levels. Max Payne, No One Lives Forever, Rune, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and that one planet from Anachronox are a few that come to mind.
Austin Roberts
The final gunshot was an exclamation mark
Michael Bailey
to the rhetorical question that had lead to this point.
Nathan Carter
>present day
>two nights ago
So it's not the present day?
Grayson Butler
>we will never get a Darkness 3 despite the cliff-hanger as fuck ending 2 had.
Kevin Scott
>we will never save Jenny
I know user, it hurts.
Joseph Jones
silent hill 2
Jace Reed
They mean 2001, since the first prologue chapter takes place in 1998, and the rest of the game is a flashback sequence of what led up to "They were all dead."
Daniel Hernandez
Nicholas Cox
woops
Jaxson Bennett
Dead Space 1, it was dripping with hostility. Closest to 'hell' I think a game has gotten to me
Asher Nguyen
close competition, but MDK
youtube.com
Mason Turner
Henry Thomas
The Evil Within. No other game managed to have a dream like atmosphere with use of realistic locations.
Bentley Hernandez
SOCOM US Navy Seals 1 and 2
Matthew Clark
Rockstar are going to drop a Max Payne 1 remake/remaster next gen with the RDR2 snow engine, a-aren't t-they?
Cooper Gomez
This is the first time I've seen someone describe hell as a series of repeating greyblackbrown metalic corridors with barely anything worth a mention.
Lucas Long
Surprisingly based. Sure you've got stuff like Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade Chronicles and modern Assassin's Creed, but Yo-kai Watch manages to consistently pull off a super comfy and extremely convincing atmosphere. It helps that the world is so close to our own, but you really feel like you're immersed in it.
Nathaniel Martinez
Lucas Brown
Literal retard
Jackson Wilson
Aaron Foster
MP1 Remake would be based only if they keep the comic panel cut scenes
Ryder White
Name me a game that's atmospheric but also lighthearted and doesn't try to be dark.
Adrian Hernandez
sm64
Alexander Bell
AC Black Flag. Yeah you're a pirate doing piratey shit all game and having a good time but it really nails the feel of the Caribbean and the freedom that existed in that part of the world.
It's not a coincidence that a lot of people considered it the last good Asscreed game
Adrian Cook
>tfw no PC port
1 > 2 btw
Mason Garcia
Stalker SoC
Samuel Murphy
The Uncharted series
Landon Perez
Yeah it sucks that it STILL hasn't been ported when weird as fuck titles have been. I'd agree 1 is better as well for the most part but the gameplay in 2 is leaps and bounds better.
Aiden Phillips
Shit that takes me back MDK was criminally underrated. Crazy as fuck space action game with surprising humor
Thomas Green
probably or OOT, or MM, or VtM:B
Josiah Flores
Felt like the movies
>that Nostromo DLC was kino as fuck
Nolan Perez
That looks like a christmas map from GunZ The Duel
Asher Perez
idk if I should pirate or buy that game
James Richardson
Super Metroid
Thief
Thief II
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
Any of those.
Julian Lee
downtown hollywood.
youtube.com
Nathan Ramirez
Pathologic and Pathologic 2 are the runners-up.
Lucas Long
I know a lot of people on v pretend to hate games they never played, however Heavy Rain nailed down the plot and feel it was trying to give off. Even when you go out of your way to make shit worse, it never strays far from a specific feel.
Angel Rivera
Listening to shanties while sailing off towards the horizon was one of the most comforting feelings I've got out of a video game in a long time.
Nolan Howard
>No one has said it
Ghost Trick
Brayden Walker
Pretty much every late 90s early 2000 3d game (especially the ones where the story take place during the night), for some reason I find them to have much better atmosphere than modern games, maybe the lack of overused post processing is the reason? In any case nothing beats system shock 2
Samuel Sullivan
MGS3
SOTC
FFX
Asher Reyes
Persona 5.
Some of the themes are dark and it definitely has some edgy moments. But the game oozes style and atmosphere like no other and its mostly just about high school hijinx and soul monsters.
Charles Garcia
It's the only "movie game" I can think of that's actually a good movie.
Sebastian Myers
DEFCON
Jordan Myers
The sound design for the self-destruct sequence in Nostromo amazes me everytime I replay. Best part of the game was reaching this absolute nightmare and being paranoid of your every step. Goosebumps man. I hate the fact I'll never be able to play this for the first time ever again.
Carson Ortiz
the ace combat series
Asher Ramirez
Evan Sanchez
>The sound design
I remember plugging my headphones into my controller just so I could play it without waking anyone up.
I was not expecting that fucking sound quality.
I pity anyone that didn't play that with headphones.
Elijah Campbell
Was streaming this when it came out. Was super into the game. Hit this part, and literally nope'd the fuck out for a week. I was so on edge, by that point.
Ryder Wood
Nathaniel Sullivan
I don't disagree, yet I also find this opinion a bit off from the norm. Normally people praise the photorealism of the old masters and eschew that sort of creativity.
Carson Sanders
How's the PC port for this?
I had it on PS4 but someone stole my copy
Christopher Barnes
Excellent answer.
Christian Lopez
Man that game has one of the best soundtracks in all of vidya in my opinion.
David Hughes
I can hear this webm.
Carter Campbell
Not the most atmospheric but 3rd Birthday was spooky to me even though it's an action game.
Carson Sanders
any of the Metro games
Anthony Hernandez
Jet Set Radio [Future]
Theres no way you didnt groove to at least one of the songs
Hunter Murphy
Adam Foster
never played, is that a canon tummy?
Ryder Bailey
How was Inside? Still haven't played it but Limbo is my favorite game of all time when it comes to atmosphere.
Juan Lewis
imagine the smell haha she must be pretty stinky huh haha
Julian Jones
pretty good actually. if you liked limbo you'll probably like this.
avoid spoilers though, and try and leave the thread immediately.
Christopher Gutierrez
this fucking part
Jace Brooks
For me, it's Metroid Prime. The feeling of isolation on an alien world is with you every step of the game.
Julian Butler
>still no PC port
Josiah Allen
unreal engine?
Juan Phillips
ut99
Logan Murphy
does james carry a collapsed sun instead of a flashlight in this version?
Andrew Brown
Dominic Cooper
It's ok not great but not terrible rather basic graphics options but never had it crash or act oddly.
Chase Phillips
>we will never get a Darkness 2*
Jayden Kelly
>music
>nuclear winter
>snow slowly building up on your buildings
>rising pollution
>global time limit until the end of the world
>watching your resource production collecting money
>comfy as fuck
Adrian Morales
Good answer user. I'd also say Kingdom Come Deliverance.
Levi Diaz
First played it back when it got that Wii trilogy package. What a magical experience that was.
I thought that bit was boring honestly.
Tyler Taylor
Anyone played this? It was pretty fucked up if you're late coming back home and see the mucous trails your mutating gf left behind because she'd rather crawl and hide in the basement so she doesn't see the disgust the man she loves has for her.
Colton Carter
This is the obvious answer
Daniel Gomez
youtu.be
it's his wife and daughter crying
Jace Peterson
>present day
>two days ago
Well which one is it?
Grayson Robinson
2 nights ago, the day when you get presents.
Hudson Perez
This game creeps you the fuck out with the initial premise and Cynthia dying. Too bad it becomes a big joke with monkey men, burping nurses and stock sounds. Still the scene where you find Walter's dead body rotting behind a wall in your apartment the entire time always gets to me. The thought of a rotting corpse being close to your bedroom creeps me the fuck out.
Chase Lee
ITS PAYNE
Angel Anderson
ditto
Xavier Parker
Demon's Souls
Zachary Richardson
Rough, you need to use a frame limiter to keep the game from crashing and bugging out, on some machines it also runs at 15fps in fullscreen mode as well so you need to run the game windowed and force borderless through another app to get it working, the gameplay with M+K is fine though.
TEW2 has a good PC port.
Charles Fisher
>polshit
Isaac White
I had Max Payne 3 in my steam collection and never played it but after my best friend died I decided to remove it from my library.
This song is not helping me change my mind.
Ryan Hernandez
uh ok
Jason Robinson
Max Payne 1 and 2 had some fine ass photo textures
Andrew Johnson
Justin Martin
Unironcially this
Cage's/Quantic Dreams strong point is nailing atmosphere and world design
Nathaniel Rivera
I love MP2's look, the combination of baked lighting and grainy photo-textures just looks so appealing, much better than real-time lighting and PBR in modern games even though it's much less accurate.
I really wish indie games would adopt this aesthetic because it looks and runs great.
John Reed
I released my finger from the Payne residence, but it was all right.
Adrian Jenkins
what's this from? looks kino
Jordan Cox
not sure if bait, but silent hill 2's first area, the bluecreek apartments. play it if you haven't.
Christopher King
It wasn't bait. Thanks. I have SH1 on Mednafen at the moment and have been wanting to play it for a few weeks so I'll start tonight.
Jose Ramirez
RE4 HD uses the same art style (in a restorative way) and the autism is taking them forever, but the result is pretty nice, though not low resolution.
Zachary White
Shadow of Chernobyl
King's Field (1994)
Lament of Innocence
Dead Space 1
Lost Planet 1 in some sections or with music disabled
Christian Green
Still Life has a very Fahrenheit atmosphere
Owen Sanders
Silent Hill 2
Deus Ex
Bonus: David Cage games are fairly atmospheric
Matthew Cox
>plug headphone into controller
>compressed bluetooth audio 32000 KHZ
>quality
Caleb Lopez
at least in germany this game wasnt underrated at all
Austin Garcia
probably a razer headset as well kek
Colton Brooks
Baked lighting is raytraced lighting so it's more accurate than real-time lighting, it's just not dynamic. Real-time raytracing will bring back these aesthetics soon enough.
Charles Foster
Majora's Mask
Hitman Contracts
Shadow of Chernobyl
REmake
both Thiefs
Bloodborne
Silent Hill series
Grayson Thomas
Right, but the photo-textures already have environmental lighting in them that will clash with baked lighting, for example if you photoreferenced a brick wall and used it all over the place you'd have shadows between the bricks in the texture that won't line up with the light sources you add later.
Colton Carter
wish this was on steam
Luis Fisher
silent hill series
stalker series
mgs 3
ico and sotc
dark souls
Andrew Gonzalez
My very personal pick.
Juan Taylor
Unironically the most atmospheric vania after Metroid.
Kevin Walker
ive wanted to play this for a long time but never got around it. looks interesting
Brandon Rodriguez
OY YOU
*9mm and 12 Gauge spam ensues*
Oliver Murphy
ah yes, downloadfile-2 a true classic
Levi Reyes
Fragile Dreams. Incredibly beautiful and melancholic. Shame the combat sucks.
Kayden Campbell
Silent Hill 1-4
Resident Evil Remake
STALKER trilogy
Zelda:OoT-MM + BotW
Okami
Xavier Moore
What game?
Brody Myers
INFRA
Rain World
System Shock 2
John Bell
S.N.E.A.K.E.R.: Ringtone of Limansk
Daniel Martin
This is it
Jayden Hernandez
Really? Don't remember this location.
Ian Barnes
It probably looks off because of the upward angle on a hill providing no identifyable backdrop, but the building is Zulu's tower in the Yanov section of CoP
Wyatt Parker
Hitman Contracts
Good game.
Ethan Myers
Silent Hill 2 without a doubt. Honorable mention to Bioshock but it's absolutely not close.
Easton Thomas
Rockstar's games suck dick. Max Payne is all about precise, snappy movement and shooting. Does that sound like anything R's made in the last fifteen years?
Christian Rivera
Love this game with all my heart. It was scaring the shit out of me until the age of 15 (then SH3 took its place).
Mason Kelly
myst riven
Aaron Thompson
Silent Hill, P.T., Hollow Knight, Abzu, and for some reason I want to say Tomb Raider but I think it was just the lack of music and length of levels that could get you absorbed at the time
Samuel Martinez
Silent Hill on the PS1 with a CTR, Windwaker or Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube with a CTR, or MGS2/MGS3 on a CTR.
Checque, please.
Julian Thompson
*spooky villa noises*
Luke Garcia
this
stalker is so good
also Pathologic (the first game) is amazing for creating this unrelenting oppressive atmosphere that you won't find in any other game
Dominic Cooper
Because people mentioned other SH games, I gonna point out Shattered Memories. Something being trapped at night in snow storm while melancholic music plays in the background is peak comfy.
youtube.com
Austin Adams
Kevin Lewis
some parts of the mass effect games have some atmospheric lighting like the afterlife club in me2.
Carter Williams
myniggger
Owen Barnes
forgot link:
Easton Morris
Despite being an MMO, The Secret World was very atmospheric. Solomon Island and Tokyo were especially good.
Henry Price
You are Empty
G-string
Cryostasis
Darkwood
Condemned:Criminal Origins
>Observer
Penumbra:Overture
35MM
Daniel Cooper
he's not entirely wrong
Justin Kelly
The Division.
Daniel Clark
Jacob Rivera
Splinter cell 3 and 4.
1 and 2 are good games, probably better than 4, but less atmospheric.
Luis Cooper
Bully on the PS2
Jeremiah Foster
>Activate Windows
ffs user, its not that hard to fix
Charles Wilson
good taste user
Liam Scott
Yeah I fixed that shit
Cameron Rodriguez
Mafia
Ian Kelly
This desu. I find the autistic loading screens extremely charming.
Elijah Rodriguez
This screenshot reminds me, how did the alien make a hive and eggs if they had no queen? Were they lowkey retconning Aliens and confirming that one deleted scene from Alien as canon?
Andrew Jackson
from newer games, i thought mankind divided had a very well constructed world.
reminds me of the thing. looks pretty comfy tbqh
Tyler James
what game?
Jose Gonzalez
Thinking on it, I'd actually say Max Payne 2. There's some really great games with great atmosphere, but MP2 absolutely overwhelmed. The characters, soundtrack, and environment were so vivid that it's blown out every other game to cross my mind. Remedy did an insanely good job with that series.
I think my runner up would be a tie between The Darkness and Alan Wake.
Adrian Gutierrez
Marrow
Levi Kelly
Julian Perry
U N R E A L
Dylan Clark
man you could drink your fill of that games atmosphere, same with SH3 of course
Brayden Morales
Looks pretty nice
Jayden Reyes
Mass Effect 2, especially Bekenstein
David Ortiz
For me, it's ALAN WAKE
Ayden Murphy
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Imagine going from making one of the best third-person shooters of all time to making flavor of the week bargain bin junk.
Blake Bennett
Ragnarok was kino.
>I have tasted the flesh of fallen angels!
Adrian Parker
more specifically BBI
Jacob Mitchell
Japanese games from the PS1/PS2 era with horror elements are the best for atmosphere.
>Silent Hill
>Resident Evil
>D
>Dino Crisis
>Parasite Eve
>Clock Tower
>Siren
>Rule of Rose
>Haunting Ground
>Onimusha
>Devil May Cry 1
Hudson Mitchell
I need to take some screenshots in dead space 2. Unitology church was spooky.
Ethan Stewart
Probably because it was bundled with pretty much every graphics card that could run it for some reason.
Thomas Ward
Christopher Wilson
Ill take the bun top next to pajeet and uhhhhh goth-lite on the far right and an in the middle black sweat, togo please
Wyatt Powell
what game is this? looks sick
Gabriel Cox
How is the steam version?
Jack Bailey
>that gun in the bottom left
What the fuck?
Matthew Scott
Metal Gear Solid on PS1.
Samuel Sanders
Landon Morales
it's alright, check the steam discussions for fixes on possible problems you might encounter.
Colton Torres
STALKER.
Ryan Butler
Nathaniel Brooks
>What a magical experience that was
I mean, the menu music itself already set the tone for all 3 games in the exact way you'd expect it to.
youtube.com
God I really hope they don't screw up Metroid Prime 4. That and STALKER 2. Those two series have a pretty much perfect track record for me and I don't want to see them tarnished because someone wanted to make a couple of extra bucks.
Jackson Watson
yes sir
Nathan Ward
have all the people who made mass effect 2 left bioware?
Logan Kelly
Yes. Some even opened their own studio
Brandon Butler
>Some even opened their own studio
whats it called? i wonder what theyre working on.
Brayden Collins
interesting. shame its turn based combat though. ive always preferred more action based combat in rpgs.
Matthew Thompson
For me personally it's KotOR II.
Parker Howard
WHACK EM
Noah Anderson
Pathologic so bleak and oppressive it makes Stalker look like a happy fun time.
Jace Stewart
Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill Shattered Memories
Tyler Sullivan
dark earth
Henry Thomas
whyd u leave out fatal frame?
Brody Gutierrez
Aiden Morales
The original MGS was dripping with atmosphere, it was something the later games could never pull off quite as well
Luke Cox
goddamn I loved baked lighting It made every game 10x more atmospheric
fuck real time lighting
Jordan Gray
Liam Martinez
I don't recall that game having atmosphere at all. Unless you think a puzzle where you drawn a line through a maze on paper has atmosphere.
Mason Ortiz
Peace Walker had atmosphere but it was laid-back comfy atmosphere like a sitcom, not at all the same as MGS1 but of all the games MGS1 and Peace Walker stand out to me as having the most vibrant sense of tone.
Benjamin Price
______________________
____________________
_________________________________
______________fuck niggers
Justin Martin
>look at all those places i can't go!
for a game about an adventurer and explorer, you do too little of both
Jonathan Green
Mason Sanchez
>the shitty remaster that cuts a great song from the credits and replaces it with shit ambiance, gets rid of multiple useful fighter formations and completely fucks up collisions
Nah
Chase Reed
Back then i was excited to see what videogays would become...
Christopher Morales
Cooper Bailey
Might play this today actually
Nolan Roberts
What's this?
Joseph King
Daniel Morgan
That just makes me want a new jak :(
Asher Nguyen
>man I'm really into this pirate game this is actually quite good I wonder what will happ-
>POV office worker game out of nowhere
Haven't played another assassin game because of this.
Jaxson Morales
Never heard of You are Empty before. Looks interesting, thanks.
Charles Clark
Everything valve ever touched
Owen Martin
the Half-Life and Portal universes had a really present creepy undertone/existential atmosphere to them, and I don't know what in particular created that effect. Even weirder was when I got that vibe again from reading Laidlaw's Episode 3 outline.
Charles Nguyen
I Absolutely love Painkiller so I was super hyped when this was announced but alas, never ever
Jackson Brown
you guys are funny, guys. even more funny if anyone believes your shit, hahaha
Evan Kelly
Empty Counter Strike: Source maps
Caleb Ross
>What is the most atmospheric game of all time?
1. vtmb
2. stalker soc
Aaron Adams
they really have something very weird about them that I've seen nobody really replicate.
Maybe there's this constant feeling that there's something a lot bigger going on and you get glimpses and hints of it but never actually get an answer, like how you can see just barely the skyline of the combine overworld or how aperture looks like it's fucking endless and even after 2, you've seen but a fraction of it.
I don't know, It's fucking magic, it ain't explaining itself.
I just wish they did it again because it makes me feel like a kid again.
Michael Richardson
i played the shit out of that game
James Ramirez
Atmospheric in terms of art design? Probably DEHR.
Evan Stewart
I got Inside during epic's free week. So excited to play it, but when it launces, it just sits in the taskbar doing nothing. Can't alt tab to it or open it any other way.
Anyone have a fix?
Jonathan Nelson
Jack Williams
I actually did forget because I hate nu-valve so much. Also HL1 was better.
Alexander Jenkins
Metroid Prime 2
Thomas Bennett
Liam Ramirez
Demon's Souls, I could listen to the Nexus all day long, it's extremely meditative.
Nathaniel Perry
Hard Reset.
Zachary Rodriguez
I loved grenade jumping onto the tops of maps and going out of bounds in CE.
Doing couch co-op with a friend to bypass bits of AOTCR was terrific, too.
Caleb Gray
Exactly this
Justin Diaz
i lose so many hours on this game's world
same with skyrim but the problem was the shitty textures up close
Juan Lopez
SHAAAAAUN
Jaxon Sullivan
That's cool af. Pretty hyped for the PC version now
Grayson Campbell
The music man, it brought it all together.
Blake Brown
Chase Reed
There will be a day when nobody left alive remembers this.
Noah Turner
Exactly, love this OST from ME.
Xavier Ortiz
>Western games
>Atmosphere
pick one.
Robert Parker
>Present day, two nights ago
Blake Scott
>looked like a piece of shit
>but felt more real than 99% of modern games.
Landon Harris
>current year, 13 months ago
Nathaniel Richardson
looks great but very innacessible
Austin Long
This.
The music, bleak colors, darkness, snow and sound design were pure atmosphere.
youtu.be
Jordan Gomez
The good trolls are always not entirely wrong.
Tyler Richardson
numba one
Caleb Gutierrez
Stalker alpha builds
Joshua Watson
euro truck 2.
Jace Diaz
Always thought the original Spyro had a great atmosphere, with that airy, dreamlike feel.
Ryder Green
The trailer for this game traumatised me as a kid and I still havent grown the balls to play it
I finished the first three games but 4 really bothers me
Henry Gutierrez
>drop the sails and get ready to hit the open seas
>"give us a song lads!"
>"I dreamed a dream the other night..."
If they took out the gay assassins and irlshit to focus on the pirate parts I'd still be playing it now.
Daniel Long
good, idiots shouldn't be allowed
Adrian Nguyen
Play Silent Hill 2, you mong. Just don't do the HD releases they did a few years ago.
Easton Garcia
noice
Jaxson Reed
I actually remember being seriously spooked at this trailer and barely being able to watch it as a teenager.
Easton White
fuck yeah. I'm just gonna dump a bunch of screenshots.
Bentley Phillips
I've never played it, what's with the loading screens?
Samuel Johnson
legit in my top 5 of all time but Alien is my fave movie so im bias
Andrew Garcia
Valve games really captured the late 90s-early 2000s atmosphere more than most
Brandon Rivera
Why the FUCK is the gritty underbelly of New York so underused in videogames
Owen James
sploiler
Grayson Myers
Unironically Control
Sebastian Powell
Amnesia. The first one, not the dogshit pile that is the sequel.
Lucas Reyes
Nobody ever mentions The Saboteur in these threads.
Josiah Gray
Maybe because nobody's played The Saboteur.
Aiden Rivera
Shame the game itself is mediocre.
Benjamin Brown
Darkwood
Henry Myers
Dead Space 1 and 2 never made me feel like any point was a chapter but that there were other rooms and shit on the other side of walls I can't access.
Charles Carter
truly a shame
Christian Lee
I can honestly only play that shit for about 30 mins before I have to quit
Charles Perry
Parker Miller
I played the Steam port a few years ago. I had no idea what to expect.
Absolutely incredible. Took me a while to get accustomed to the FUCKED controls but everything else was just pure art.
Liam Morris
what are you talking about? Here's a short list:
>deus ex 1
>GTA 1, 2, 3, LCS and IV
>true crime NYC
>prototype 1 and 2
>THUG1
>Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
>VtMQ:R
Isaac King
probably Arx Fatalis, it barely has music, just an atmospheric ambience
I wish Arkane weren't being wrung dry by bethesda, I want a sequel
Nicholas Hill
don't forget about Mafia 1
Jaxon Wood
Duskers for that "your life depends on old unreliable tech" feel.
Gabriel Hughes
+ Kingpin and Condemned and max payne
Cameron Lewis
what got you into quitting it?
Liam Clark
Not him, but shit's intense. It's '30 minutes at a time' type of game.
Alexander Johnson
Ocarina of Time pic almost related
Jonathan Sanchez
This is maybe OT, but I remember playing HL1 when I was a child for a few days, because I was stuck in the initial section, I didn't even know that I had to get the Suit. More than a decade after I replayed this game and I finished it. It's weird how the Half Life 1 I played when I was little, without monsters, only walking in that small part of Black Mesa- in my mind feels like a completely different game, that somewhat influenced me. Anyway, Portal and Half Life have something magic inside them, for some aspects they're subliminal mastepieces
Landon Bell
I feel you. the ambient sounds and effects can really get to you at times, especially during nightime.
Isaac Baker
the soundtrack is absolute kino
Connor Martin
>gook runes all over the screen
>atmosphere
okay
Brody Young
The first couple of chapters of Fahrenheit were really good at this. Shame the game went full retard later.
youtube.com
Also, Stalker SoC and CoP.
Ethan King
Obviously Quake 1 you plebs
Nathan Mitchell
David Baker
Every room in SH2 is memorable and unique. It's incredible.
Gabriel Watson
Darkseed
Nathan Morales
those are jap runes
gook ones have a lot of circles
Aiden Barnes
got a laugh out of me regardless
Aiden Lee
>G-string
wow, I very rarely fing this thing mentioned anywhere on v
Blake Sanchez
Unironically, it's SH: Shattered Memories
Everything else is pretty much shit-tier
Zachary Watson
Why do people hate Max Payne 2 again?
Eli Watson
I always liked the atmosphere of GTA III.
Justin Perry
Eternal Darkness.
Ethan Garcia
Ecstatica
Brayden Myers
Boku no Natsuyasumi
Elijah Gray
Play Stalker.
Camden Jenkins
Levi Brooks
Fuck off back to /vg/ stalkertards yeah yeah it looks pretty at times when it's not being absolute jank.
Grayson Gonzalez
Aiden Roberts
>Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Only games he'd actually want to play count for such a list.
Carter Reed
>tfw bought it recently after replaying 2 and otr
>its shit
wew lad
having more fun with 3 right now
Josiah Flores
This, somewhat cyberpunk
Adrian Lewis
It's too dark and grey in III, as we all saw on a certain September day, there can be very beautiful weather in New York with a clear blue sky. So why is it so often portrayed as this dark, grey place?
Nathan Baker
because it actually rains almost 1/3 of the year there on average
Levi Thompson
one time I spent 5 hours looking for secrets in ad_swampy
Aaron Phillips
I would love to play this but I can't stand vampires.
Angel Sanchez
I think the game dipped too much into the area of the whimsical when the first game had a proper balance. Also the bullet time sucks and the bullet time reload animation is retarded.
Alexander Martinez
Because it's too obscure, even by nerd standarts.
Jace Martinez
We are willing to suffer
Julian Perry
I gotta replay it this fall.
Brody Kelly
Gabriel Evans
Just don't expect much from other aspects, it's only worth for atmosphere and soviet grim aesthetics. And also launching it, is another chunk of problems.
And don't tell that i don't warned you.
Nicholas Johnson
Abzu.
Jacob Morris
Still better than Serious Sam 3 or Nu-Shadow Warriors.
Brandon Perez
Silent Hill series, but special mention to 3 because it did "the urban enviroments gone wrong" better than the others, at least in my opinion.
Also, Mother 3 and Pic related. The John Carpenter-like OST is perfect.
Joshua Rogers
Brandon Martinez
Dragons Dogma
Ian Wood
STALKER
Luke Cooper
>wind's howling
Jace Young
Logan Cox
2 was a dissapointment and they shouldn't even have tried for 3 before re-doing 2 and getting it right.
James Cook
You didn't shoot those mercs, did you?
Asher Gutierrez
Ayden Anderson
Cameron Gray
Gabriel Sanchez
MP3 was not bad in shootings
Julian Scott
Gabriel Robinson
Logan Campbell
I shoot everything that I deem hostile.
When in doubt, shoot them. If they return fire - I was right. If they don't - they are dead anyway so let bygones be bygones.
Jack Martinez
TLD might be the ultimate winter game.
Charles Moore
Thomas Roberts
>John Carpenter-like OST
nigga you just sold me on this game. is there a pc version? is it a good port?
Cameron Richardson
I haven't played it in years, but even back then it was janky as fuck. I do remember playing on PS2 and the director was egging me on through the headset
Hudson Allen
is that the face you make when you wanna lean to another person in a conversation and say "tell us how you really feel..." sarcastically but that other person doesn't exist.
Xavier Long
it would be if they didn't take years to update the fucking thing
Andrew Smith
Absolute kino
Brandon Lewis
The first Division. Seriously, that world building is great.
Evan Nguyen
I mean that part is irrelevant imo. The game was the tits when I first played in in 2014, it's even better now.
Luke Ortiz
just pirate it nigga
Samuel Perez
worked fine for me. played like 35 hours on pc
Carter King
Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior
An actual descent into hell.
Wyatt Richardson
Metal Gear Solid and MGS2 and 3. And Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3.
Out of those MGS1 is the most atmospheric.
Xavier Lopez
Eli Powell
DayZ Mod was always intense
Chase Harris
Grayson Lopez
>Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Holy shit, throwback.
I remember this game being so controversial for some reason, but nobody played it so it was all for nothing.
Aaron Cruz
Nathan Lewis
You posted it; Max Payne's art design is fantastic.
Robert Johnson
darkwood
Nicholas Garcia
HAHAHAA sure buddy
Isaiah Davis
Why were GTA SA's forests so damn creepy? I've been replaying the game and it's still unnerving to walk around at night.
Andrew Carter
Caleb Powell
TrackMania 2. Racing games have some of the best eye-candy you can find.
Adam Sanders
best game ever.
Benjamin Torres
so you never played it i guess
Easton Clark
Adrian Gonzalez
Poor graphics means everything looks slightly off, and when everything is slightly off and in the middle of nowhere, that's horror.
The myths and legends surrounding the place helped a ton, too. Man, GTA:SA was truly once in a lifetime.
Blake Jenkins
Ian Mitchell
The atmosphere in Siren was impeccable.
youtu.be
Wyatt Cook
Alan Wake did atmosphere and world design incredibly. You could always see where you were going in the distance, just vaguely enough to sell the idea that the world was real.
Luke Wright
Jaxson Jenkins
Honestly, the atmosphere for most of the game wasn't fantastic, but there's special about this place.
youtube.com
Mason Roberts
> present day
> two nights ago
Excuse me?
Anyway Silent Hill 2 gets my vote, honorable mentions include MGS1, Thief 1 & 2, System Shock 2 and Amnesia.
Brayden Cox
The PC version is fine, though I remember some differences in the controls from the ps2 version. Nothing significant anyway.
Be warned, though, that as said, it can get really janky sometimes. There is a part I remember where you need to maneuver a crane that really got on my nerves, but the overall experience is worth it.
youtube.com
Bentley Ramirez
Duskers is such an atmospheric game. Play it with headphones in the dark - just a stellar experience. I wish Objects in Space was better. Some of the nuggets in it are fantastic, but it's such an inconsistent mess.
Jaxon Ramirez
Pay better attention in school
Jonathan Stewart
Design work was really, really good in this game. Screenshots come out quite well when playing at a higher resolution, just ignore the skyboxes lol
Matthew Richardson
Did the update to Anomaly ever get released?
Christopher Kelly
Lincoln Myers
>The only way to use alterante skins was doing the time trials
>There was no way to play the whole game with the remade Max Payne 1 model
Hell of a loss if you ask me
Blake Gutierrez
I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE
JUST HEAR THE BEAT OF MY HART
Cooper Sanchez
*rhythm god-damnit
James Allen
ESL friends: "present day" is often used to demarcate that something is taking place close to the present. It never means "today exactly." So when you say "present day New York," you mean to place your story close to the present, whenever it is the audience is watching it.
Liam Ramirez
maan, i wish we had straight forward gta game that doesn't try to be a fucking HBO series. I played III after beating EFLC and before V. So I'm saying this with no nostalgia glasses on.
Carson Phillips
Not really sure what you mean here. Care to explain?
Angel Wright
That's not using Anomaly.
Asher Bailey
Ive seen mods that swap out Max for Undyne, seems like someone could do the same for 3.
Joseph Mitchell
1.5 was released last month.
Thomas Barnes
Still better than the standalone game imo
Camden Harris
>i'll be back in a second
>5 seconds later
Mason Bailey
Just protagonist trying to make it in criminal world of the city without some relative characters who bugging them down. Like Sweet in SA with his "It's for the hood" or Trevor/Michael, Franklin/Lamar hearing for 20th time their disputes was real tiresome. And by HBO series I meant that Sopranos really smeared all over IV and especially V with Michael dysfunctional family dramedy kino.
Owen Adams
agreed
Brody Cruz
No mention of Dying Light? This game is extremely atmospheric - You even get a sense of comfy, despite the zombie apocalypse setting...
Eli Rivera
The atmosphere is one thing that Uncharted did great, but considering you've probably never played the games I wouldn't expect you to know that
Samuel James
Based ESL.
Luis Evans
>atmospheric
Is this just a stupid way to say soulful?
Aaron Kelly
youtube.com
A personal favorite. Plus the usual ones what were mentioned itt. I'll also add the Gothic games in case they weren't mentioned.
Grayson Jackson
the only correct answer
Christopher Richardson
Can't wait for MCC to come out so I can play this on PC
Kayden Hill
based and agreed
Justin Thompson
Nathaniel Stewart
this is one series that Yea Forums is so wrong about. besides the first game, which is total garbage, every uncharted game is so good
Landon Gonzalez
Pathologic 2
Hunter Brown
can they see your flashlight?
Logan Anderson
the only correct answer
William Hill
What is with this box art? Was it actually used anywhere?
Benjamin Lee
GTA 3 in the rain with head radio playing Craig Gray fade away is the best thing ever
Cameron Harris
Mafia 2
Juan Gonzalez
>Gearbox
>expecting quality
Ryder Powell
RE4 after you pass out in the shack and it turns to a stormy night.
Leo Williams
This and SH2. And Arx Fatalis.
Hudson Murphy
>Silent Hill, P.T., Hollow Knight, Abzu
Welp glad I ctrl+f'd before typing anything because it turns out I've already posted here. Thanks, doppelganger
Thomas Perez
Also a good call.
Jack Taylor
GTA Liberty City Stories.
Gabriel Baker
this right here. i am such a bitch i only got to the first time the alien showed up. i was too scared to keep playing after that point.
Jace Jones
I don't know what it is, bros, but I just love Resident Evil 5 and Far Cry 2, especially Far Cry 2. There's something so satisfying about blasting the enemies in the face, hosing them down with a flamethrower and hearing them scream, or just charging up on them with a machete.
I don't know what it is, they're just two amazingly fun games with great atmosphere.
Easton Green
fuck off marketing team. I dont believe you. I played quantum break and it felt like a soulless movie
Jaxson Butler
>all from toluca prison
Name a better level
Dylan Nelson
>Resident Evil 5
I hate the sterile, uninspired look of this game. Also the whole game is shit holy damn what a downgrade.
Luke Perez
theres a pc port of 1 and 2 for what i remember.
i remember the first game getting really fucking hard near the end too.
Kayden Butler
Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2
Kenshi
Shadow of the Colossus
Jackson Lee
I actually enjoy """movie games""" like Uncharted, Last of Us, MGS, etc (even some telltale games) but Heavy Rain did nothing for me.
There are some merits to it, like that there actually is a fair amount of story branching, but there is a constant permeating sense of cheesiness and inauthenticity to it. In the games I mentioned above, there is a strong emphasis on doing things at your own pace- you can just hang back and enjoy the view, or explore around for secrets and details, but in Heavy Rain you're always moving from one scene to the next. It never manages to build a sense of a real world, everyone just feels like a puppet on a flimsy stage doing a bad melodramatic play. Ironically, the best part of the game is the totally unrealistic FBI guy with his Twin Peaks autism and VR glasses.
Really shows the difference in presentation and production value that studios like Naughty Dog manage to achieve, and I'm not gonna say that the story alone is groundbreaking or anything, but the way it's implemented within the games is truly unique.
Benjamin Anderson
Jackson Lopez
Deadly Premintion
Aiden Green
Never forget The Sunspire.
Andrew Miller
Shenmue
Max Payne
Slient Hill 2
Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy
Heavy Rain
Manhunt
Gabriel Knight
System Shock 2
Bioshock
Deadly Premonition
The Warriors
Shinobi 3
Yoshi's Island
Half Life
Deus Ex
Doom 3
Yakuza 1-2
MGS
Tenchu
RE 1-3
Digital Devil Saga
Rez
Eternal Darkness
Castlevania 1-Rondo-SotN
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Flashback
Onimusha
Breakdown
Metro 1-2
Katamari Damacy
Mister Mosquito
Fallout 1-2
Diablo 1-2
Baldurs Gate 1-2
Planescape Torment
Thief 1-2
Illbleed
Maken X
Blue Stinger
Sorry if these have been mentioned. Didn't want to read whole thread
Nathaniel Barnes
This game really got those Assault on precinct 13/The warriors/Halloween vibes all over it.
Feels like love letter to those movies.
Liam Bennett
it is Stalker or Metro?
Alexander Moore
comfy
Adam Cook
what mods?
Charles Davis
Fahrenheit was literally snow level: the game
Aiden Perez
The only vania game that ever mattered
Kayden Parker
But that isn't unmodded Q1.
Jayden Ramirez
looks like Metro
Zachary Ortiz
It succeeds solely on its atmospheric visual design.
Logan Foster
Darkwood is already one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played, and I'm a horror connoisseur. I seem to play it in short sessions though, not necessarily because the atmosphere gets to me but because the survival aspect stresses me out more than anything.
Bentley Cox
The jank is part of the charm user.
Landon Richardson
not all time but recently? KCD
Aaron Baker
i miss the old max payne
Dylan Carter
kek
Dominic Rivera
>tfw Jak and Daxter reboot for PS5 and PC
Jayden Powell
Straight from the go max payne
Kevin Adams
easily this
Luis Hall
dead space 1 and 2 are trash and frankly you have to be a 10yo child to think they are scary
Connor Flores
what game
Camden Smith
Top down view really kills it for me, I see so much artistry and potential though, I'd kill to see them make a 3D game
Zachary Clark
i liked the PoPWW atmosphere
Isaiah Murphy
based
Juan Fisher
Post apocalyptic world war?
Sebastian Barnes
Go dayum that game was good. Played on my 360.
Carter Martin
neverever
Jordan Ortiz
Far Cry 2 got so much shit when it came out but playing through it again its really fucking kino and probably the best Far Cry game
Caleb Phillips
Should I reinstall it?
William James
It's Stalker. Metro has far more detail when you have face masks on, also no environments or storms like that in Metro. That's also a heavily modded Stalker.
Brandon Johnson
My nigger. Far Cry 2 is one of the best games of all time. I say that wholeheartedly, and sincerely. It's fucking brilliant, the best in the series and is lamentably misunderstood. Inb4 checkpoints.
Mason James
Modded Stalker.
Lucas Bailey
Zachary Lopez
Just force yourself to get used to it user, it's an amazing game and the top down view actually enhances the horror aspect in similar ways to the way fixed camera angles do in other classic horror games. The game is superbly designed and the art and especially sound design is some of the best I've seen in the genre.
Tyler Bell
Walking the snowy streets at night was great.
Second game didn't manage to capture that feel.
Gabriel Richardson
why PS2? PC has more content
i know there's a ps2 texture mod, but isnt there a ps2 lighting mod like there is for all the GTAs?
Ryan Howard
prince of persia warrior within
David Peterson
NOLF2 was so ahead of its time, visually speaking. Still looks good today.
Elijah Lewis
the beta of HL2 looked so damn good, fuck what anyone says. Much moodier and darker atmosphere than the happy go lucky adventure of retail
Adrian Thomas
Deserts of Kharak was very atmospheric.
Christopher Sanders
i fucking love this game
David Hall
Jeremiah Bennett
prison > hotel > hospital > apartments
Levi Cook
Unfortunately this. As much as I love gameplay loop with better shooting in div2, New York is just too good. Just recently went back and just wanted to walk around. Those few first minute had more magic that entire of second game.
Ryan Moore
best walking simulator out there
Grayson Stewart
Torment the good one
youtu.be
Jose Brooks
Tell me user. How to enjoy this game? I find kinda boring just looking at the "loading" screens while jumping to start to star.
Noah Harris
Peak 90's cozy atmosphere.
Jace Price
i actually wish it was a real noir game, but the fucking noir shit goes away when u conquer territory, its awful. plus the game is just fucking goofy
Nolan Ross
you dont
its boring af as you said
but its cool sometimes like these
Carter Garcia
This game is great, no idea why everyone here shits on it + very good OST
AoM is really good too
Samuel Baker
God damnit. After 35 hours I just couldn't take more. Maybe will try again when I get vr in the future. Some moments were quite comfy, can't lie.
James Brooks
Samuel Perez
santa monica... home...
Christian Torres
The Suffering
The Thing
Gundam Side Story 0079
Nightmare Creatures
Medievil
Shadowman
Akuji
Fear Effect
LoK: Soul Reaver
Blood
Splatterhouse 1-3
Soul of the Samurai
Bushisdo Blade
Twisted Metal Black
Loaded/ReLoaded
Driver
Eretzvaju
Rising Zan
Second Sight
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino
Really digging deep here, help me out bois
Evan Young
The Witcher 3.
The world isn't exactly deep, in that there's not really a lot of ways to interact with it, but god damn it just sucks you right in. One of the only games so atmospheric that I just walk everywhere. Not fast travel, not sprinting or running like a spaz, just straight up walking. Even riding the horse between towns or sailing a boat between islands I just go everywhere at a normal pace and enjoy the absolute comfiness of it all.
It really makes me wish there was a game where you just play as some no-name witcher trying to make their way in the world, with no huge world-shaking plot or missing daughter hanging over your head. Traveling around, camping at night, actually tracking down monsters without Batman vision.
Christian Rogers
ED hits so many right notes for me for atmosphere but then it all comes down to "truck simulator: space edition"
Carter Jackson
i like W3 too m8
Leo Jackson
Asher Lee
reminds me of annoying RC missions
Easton Collins
We need a rpg when you’re not the chosen one.
In W3 every witcher you meet in the game is way more interesting than gerald
Josiah Hernandez
And sunny beach levels too
Ryan Clark
>enlarge the picture
>"winds howling"
>check the reply
Zachary Sanders
It's problem in so many games, even shitty ones like FO4.
>I GOTTA FIND MY KIDNAPPED INFANT SON
>What, build a whole town with you? Sure man I'm not busy...
Doing anything other than chasing the main plot makes no sense. Same with W3. Why would I spend any time fucking around playing gwent and doing random odd jobs when I should be tracking down my missing daughter who I know is being chased by a bunch of evil space elf niggers that want to take over the world? It seems kind of fucking urgent.
Cooper Stewart
wait, was that scene in isolation? its some flashback or recording right?
Jason Morales
Resident Evil remake
Landon Nguyen
Silent Hill 1-4 do the whole atmosphere thing a lot better than SM does
Grayson Harris
Brayden Myers
SH always was way better than RE but somehow one of the is dead while the other one is still making games nowadays. why this happened?
Nathaniel Peterson
underrated
Ian Robinson
What's this?
Cameron Cook
I love how Control is bringing back the comfy weird atmosphere of old Remedy. Quantum Break was such a fucking boring game in every single aspect.
Connor King
looks like some hl2 horror mod
Jaxson Anderson
finally someone mentioning gothic. There is no game that is more atmospheric. The colony at night with KaiRo's music...ahh there is nothing better
Ethan Nguyen
What? isn't it FEAR?
Cameron Kelly
>cry of fear
mein negger
Eli Clark
it's Nightmare House 2
Easton Campbell
Carter Gutierrez
fear
Levi Collins
That's what I thought, too. But apparently it's some HL2 mod called Nightmare House 2.
Ian Morgan
probably this one
Chase Thompson
Yeah. Pretty similar down to the scary girl in the end.
Chase Richardson
Portal 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild
Brayden Bailey
Nigga playing confused Fear with Tony Hawk...
Adam Thompson
Brandon Ross
What can I say, bros? That first time you hear the music when you enter the city, it's magic
Evan Torres
According to an interview with one of the devs, there was a queen, you just never ran into it in the game as they were trying to make invoke the feeling of the original movie and not the sequel.