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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. FactsAreUseless posted:You like large, lonely worlds, so try some of the Zeldas. I think you'd enjoy Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Breath of the Wild a lot. I liked wind waker a great deal, twilight less so due to some real nasty padding, haven't gotten a chance to get into breath yet, guess they're doing a straight up sequel.
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Skypie posted: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. DS3 is kind of mediocre overall, but it has a fairly interesting weapon customization system that makes it worth playing if you like the core gameplay of the dead space games
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Aug 4, 2019 07:14
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Unfinish3d posted:DS3 is kind of mediocre overall, but it has a fairly interesting weapon customization system that makes it worth playing if you like the core gameplay of the dead space games DS3 is a bit better experience if you go co-op. Especially if it's with someone else patient enough to enjoy the story with you. There's a difference for whoever plays Isaac and who plays the buddy (forgot his name). But as a strictly singleplayer experience, yeah it's like OK in overall quality but it feels nothing like the other two. More arcade-y if that makes sense.
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Aug 4, 2019 07:37
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The STALKER series. The perfect combination of Eastern European weird, grit, and sheer terror. Each title oozes atmosphere and descends from a really interesting cultural lineage (1972 Soviet novella —> 1979 Tarkovsky film —> actual Chernobyl 1986 —>). Secret labs, an ongoing military cover-up, a frontier/pioneer culture, and a desolate, irradiated setting. There’s a new entry currently in the works but for various reasons it’s unlikely to capture the unique mystique of the series, although an active modding community have done wonders for keeping the original three titles living and breathing.
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Aug 4, 2019 07:40
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I always liked the look of the flooded city in the third episode of Duke 3d
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Aug 4, 2019 07:49
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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, *snip* That first piece of concept art looks almost exactly like a Giorgio de Chirico painting. He founded this entire current called metaphysical painting back in the 1920s, and they specialised in depicting lonely worlds populated by faceless mannequins with huge architectural features that only add to the lifelessness.
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Aug 4, 2019 07:57
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OregonDonor posted:The STALKER series. The perfect combination of Eastern European weird, grit, and sheer terror. Each title oozes atmosphere and descends from a really interesting cultural lineage (1972 Soviet novella —> 1979 Tarkovsky film —> actual Chernobyl 1986 —>). Secret labs, an ongoing military cover-up, a frontier/pioneer culture, and a desolate, irradiated setting. The Long Dark has a similar thing going on but from the opposite direction. The world is empty in a beautiful and serene way that tricks you into forgetting it's trying to kill you. If you're too casual about cresting a ridge and a wolf gets the drop on you, you will die. If you go fishing without enough food to last the night and your line breaks before you catch anything, you will die. If a blizzard rolls in while you're too far from shelter, you will die. If a fog rolls in your shelter could be ten feet away but you will walk right past it and die. All of this in a beautiful watercolour world where the temptation is always there to go out and watch the sunrise and not notice that perhaps the morning sky is a little too clear.
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Aug 4, 2019 08:15
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The first map of Secret World is pretty awesome in what it is. There are a few really well done places. The abandonded theme park must have been a labour of love. The following the crows mission was also pretty good, but not in the same vein.
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Aug 4, 2019 10:21
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RaceBannon posted:Alice: Madness Returns and Samorost Both of these own, I just reinstalled Alice: Madness Returns and can't wait to revisit everything with the graphics maxed out at 144fps, it's going to be great. I really wish there was a way to purchase the first game on Steam. I don't even think it's on Origin.
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Aug 4, 2019 11:28
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Who What Now posted:It's not amazing, but it's cheap and worth a playthrough for sure. I'm installing 2 right now. I thought 1 was good but Trinity was kinda blah.
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Aug 4, 2019 11:45
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i like nuketown v3 so much more than v2 or even the much vaunted v7
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Descent has it all..low poly but smoothly moving killing robots, sound effects that will blast your ears off, and dark mines filled with disorienting 360 degree levels. Also the female voice that starts the countdown when you blast a reactor to hell and have to frantically search for the exit
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Aug 4, 2019 12:53
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I really liked how the post-apocalypse in Horizon Zero Dawn and Enslaved isn't brown but full of colors because nature has reclaimed the big cities.
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I like how the trine games nailed the lurid New Age/Weed store style of fantasy art.
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Aug 4, 2019 14:54
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Caesar Saladin posted:Dungeon Keeper has always struck me as an exceptionally cool funny and dark game, it pulled off something quite unique. Micro-piglets stalk your dungeon - beware
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Aug 4, 2019 14:58
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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! ElectricSheep posted:That is a bittersweet endeavor, to say the least.
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Aug 4, 2019 15:41
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I miss the fmv craze of the late 90s. tim curry, mark hamill, that chick who did porn, biff, etc.
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Aug 4, 2019 15:43
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METRO 2033 did an awesome job translating the ambience of the book into something you can see and hear. Also STALKER did a great job. The daily life cycle of survivors, mutants and the environment itself made the world feel alive and with mods like MISERY felt like you were playing in the Zone from Roadside Picnic.
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Necros posted:I'm installing 2 right now. I thought 1 was good but Trinity was kinda blah. Once you get the drill dash it's all you'll ever want to use. 
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Aug 4, 2019 15:55
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Deus ex (the original)
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when will someone make a cyberpunk pvp mmo where you have a freakin sweet apartment like in deus ex with a secret room and poo poo. and you can lockpick/hack into other peoples apartments. which are guarded by cameras and turrets you have to hack. and thats just the apartments guys
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hollow knight had a great a e s t h e t i c and i am a great fan of the ship design of starsector  it's extremely consistent and comprehensible, and aids you with working out capabilities of ships you may not be familiar with. "it's blue, sleek and shaped weirdly, so it'll probably have high shields and energy weapons", or "it's clunky and covered in armour, it's probably got machineguns and torpedoes"
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Aug 4, 2019 18:01
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Someone earlier mentioned Little Nightmares, and I wanna jump on that too. That game is really fuckin cool, and it nails the tension/suspense elements
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Aug 4, 2019 18:11
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TWEWY is the best Square's ever done.
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Linux Pirate posted:Dark Forces/Jedi Knight and it's sequels: From Star Wars doom clone to one of the best Star Wars games. The Sith engine games have the best feel to me, but all the games are fun. JK2 (Jedi Outcast) is still active online, and I've heard the other ones are as well. The Champion of Norrath games for PS2 were really well done and had some awesome atmosphere. I'd kill for a remaster.
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade is pretty fuckin great
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man i remember when you get captured by jabba in the first dark forces. i was like drat this place really is filled w scum and villains, this clown took my fuckin guns and poo poo
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Did anyone mention The Void itt yet? I need more surrealist nightmare dreamscapes populated by hideous cenobites and buxom lasses
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I really like Dead Space and how the future can be just as industrial. The sound design was spectacular.
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Pathologic 2. Everything is falling apart and terrible and there is so little time and so many problems.
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Prey (the new one) was very good
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sigher posted:It's funny because I apparently bought the game... in loving 2014 and now vaguely remember telling myself "Don't play it until it's finished." Jesus christ how long are they going to take? it's a very surreal, ethereal sort of game, capricious and ruminative and transient, less evocative of an adventure than a recurring dream it's an ~experience~ I'll actually probably be pretty bummed out when it's finished, because that'll mean it's over the developers also release a lot of free supplementary material ("interludes") that don't tie into the main story, but capture the same tone and generally touch on some things you encounter in the next act for instance, "Limits and Demonstrations" is basically just a short, free standalone game where you wander around a museum of impossible art my favorite is Here and There Along the Echo, an actual phone number you can call that connects you to an automated information service for a fictional nature preserve maintained by "the bureau of secret tourism" (voiced by will oldham, if that means anything to you) Jesustheastronaut! posted:METRO 2033 did an awesome job translating the ambience of the book into something you can see and hear. well, I haven't read the book, so I can't confirm that explicitly, but yes in general to Metro just wandering around the living spaces in the tunnels is so friggin cool, seeing all the little ways the people down there are living, where they sleep, how they entertain each other, the raw humanity on display
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Alhazred posted:I really liked how the post-apocalypse in Horizon Zero Dawn and Enslaved isn't brown but full of colors because nature has reclaimed the big cities. The game has its flaws but I love HZD's setting so much I keep replaying it. It's just this perfect toybox version of the US intermountain west that's so much fun to run around in. I love running all over finding recognizable landmarks and even buildings. Making everything a half-remembered post-apocalyptic version of itself with rundown tech and the occasional mountain size robot carcass contrasting with the otherwise semi-realistic setting hits me just right somehow.
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fridge corn posted:Prey (the new one) was very good when I found myself holding a wrench early on I was like "waaaaaaait a minute" and started punching 0451 into every number pad I came across. sure enough why the hell they didn't call it something like "psychshock" instead of naming it after an unrelated B+ rated survival horror game from 11 years earlier whose sequel had famously been in development hell for years is completely beyond me Cubone fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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fridge corn posted:Prey (the new one) was very good I hated that game. There is a reason that the mimic is a good creature in D&D, but there is also a reason it isn't the most common enemy.
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FactsAreUseless posted:You like large, lonely worlds, so try some of the Zeldas. I think you'd enjoy Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Breath of the Wild a lot. also that mad max game. which while it has issues captures the empty hostile feelings of hosed earth.
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Prav posted:TWEWY is the best Square's ever done. I wish the Switch version's controls weren't horrendous.
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RUINER. It is a top-down shooterish game with a super grimey cyberpunk setting, and a great soundtrack I listen to daily, kinda trance/industrial feeling. Like Hotline Miami levels of good.
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Cubone posted:I didn't know that Prey was a -shock game and I was pretty pissed that nobody told me. I'd just been told it was "good" I haven't played it so barring an in-joke I'm missing here, I imagine some smarty man marketer researched for days and weeks and determined (probably incorrectly) that on the whole, despite the cult status, Prey was the more known and relevant name for search results, or generally appears more in discussions. Plus, think of the golden opportunity! The prey fans (lol) will think it's prey and the true ss fans will still find out about it anyway. It's a win-win!
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:I haven't played it so barring an in-joke I'm missing here, I imagine some smarty man marketer researched for days and weeks and determined (probably incorrectly) that on the whole, despite the cult status, Prey was the more known and relevant name for search results, or generally appears more in discussions. Plus, think of the golden opportunity! The prey fans (lol) will think it's prey and the true ss fans will still find out about it anyway. It's a win-win! It was funny when the game launched on Steam using the exact same directory as Prey 2006 and thus completely hosed your install. They fixed it eventually but still, it's amazing how Bethesda seem to create bizarre problems that should never exist
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