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I really liked the aethetics of FFX. Just liked the technofantasy thing it had going.
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Crowsbeak posted:I really liked the aethetics of FFX. Just liked the technofantasy thing it had going. FF14 leaned really hard into this for the new expansion 
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Aug 29, 2019 19:43
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Very much enjoying Control and the awesome audio and visual effects in that game. The setting in a massive, changeable FBI-type building is really cool too Also Wolfenstein Youngblood in an alternate-history 1980s nazi-controlled Paris. That one's more about the setting than the aesthetics but it's good enough to mention at least. I always forget about games I've played so I'll have to think of some other ones that aren't new games later. DeadFatDuckFat posted:I started playing this on an emulator also but apparently theres some shrines that are really hard to do without the motion controls? That's right. There's not all that many of them, only removes a tiny part of the game. I haven't beaten it yet but hopefully I don't need motion controls to do that. Play fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Aug 29, 2019 20:38
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bitterandtwisted posted:I thought the puzzles were pretty decent. Except for the ones with two locked doors and one would break your key, but it was always the harder to reach door that was the right one, so idk why they bothered putting that there. That's because you were moving left and so the door rewound instantly and the time-immune key stays broken.
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Aug 29, 2019 20:54
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Wandersong Donut County Zelda: Majora's Mask
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I legit prefer the visual aesthetics of the original System Shock over its sequel, largely because of reason's best explained in Hbomberguy's Power Of VHS | SCANLINE video. SS2 isn't murky enough.
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Aug 29, 2019 22:25
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Breetai posted:I legit prefer the visual aesthetics of the original System Shock over its sequel, largely because of reason's best explained in Hbomberguy's Power Of VHS | SCANLINE video. What's the best way to play the original nowadays? The last time that I tried was with some weird hacked EXE like 15 years ago
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olives black posted:What's the best way to play the original nowadays? The last time that I tried was with some weird hacked EXE like 15 years ago Nightdive re-released it for modern systems, so probably that one. https://store.steampowered.com/app/410710/System_Shock_Enhanced_Edition/
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Aug 30, 2019 19:53
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olives black posted:What's the best way to play the original nowadays? The last time that I tried was with some weird hacked EXE like 15 years ago As far as stability and ease of play, the GOG version is your best bet: https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_enhanced_edition
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Mordja posted:Nightdive re-released it for modern systems, so probably that one. Windows only  wonder how well it works with Proton on Ubuntu, though
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Aug 30, 2019 21:40
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Ristar Love those bright, vibrant colors and round, shiny detailed pixel art.   Final Fantasy Tactics Advance The game itself wasn't that great, but I really like how much detail and color they fit into really tiny sprites.   Harvest Moon 64 This might just be pure nostalgia but I like the little superdeformed characters, the dialogue portraits, and the prerendered 3D objects and environments. It makes for a cute and charming doll house-like world. 
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Aug 31, 2019 07:15
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Subnautica is cool, gives me the creeps though. Especially going inside the giant starship while being seriously under prepared.
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Aug 31, 2019 07:46
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Shadowgate 64. Atmosphere is bleak. People scavenging through the ruins knowing that the worst hasn't quite come yet. Most of the in game communication is with ghosts. Music is good, mostly understated and sells the mood more than any other aspect of the game. Most of the text snippets recount a crumbling kingdom and a decent into madness and evil. The game really deserves a remake. Downside would be that the N64 murkyness is both the main frustration of the game and a major accentuator of the vibe. It wouldn't be so much of a bummer if the textures and draw distances were clean.
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Nightmare Creatures for the N64 has this early 3D haunted murky vibe I really liked, with bleak rusty levels that seem to go on forever.
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Subnautica is cool, gives me the creeps though. Especially going inside the giant starship while being seriously under prepared. No really I expect you to go to every page to make sure it wasn’t said already. Glad Subnautica gets another post bc great game, fellow Subnautica liking buddy.
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Not any particular game, but something I always really liked in games was side-areas or places that felt like they didn't belong in that game. The wrecked ship in Super Metroid, the Derelict ship in Prime 3, the Outpost in Environmental Station Alpha, Dark Souls 1 DLC area, places like that. Actually a lot of DLCs for games are like that. I dunno it's just something that I like. Anyone else feel the same way?
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Odd posted:Not any particular game, but something I always really liked in games was side-areas or places that felt like they didn't belong in that game. The wrecked ship in Super Metroid, the Derelict ship in Prime 3, the Outpost in Environmental Station Alpha, Dark Souls 1 DLC area, places like that. Actually a lot of DLCs for games are like that. I dunno it's just something that I like. Anyone else feel the same way? both of the crashed ships in Unreal are kinda neat
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Sep 2, 2019 15:18
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Bastion, Metroid Prime, Shadow of the Colossus, and probably Breath of the Wild.
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It's not a video game (so report me!) but I really got immersed in Graham Nelson's Curses back in the day. It just kept me going "I wonder what the heck is going to happen next!" which I find a good experience in any work of art* There is little point in a screenshot. It's 100% atmosphere and 0% æsthetics, I'm afraid. *)  e: An atmosphere of wonder!
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Sep 2, 2019 16:11
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Linux Pirate posted:I don't know if anyone remembers it but Phantom Crash for the original xbox was a fun time. It was set in the ruins of old Tokyo where people would have arena mech fights as a televised sport, so it set it apart from other super serious military mecha games like Armored Core (still a good game series though). It's a little bit like a racing game in regards to up keeping and customizing your mech. I loved this game. It only had like three maps I think but being able to make crazy robots from all the different parts was awesome. And the fact that you could pick from a big list of weird Japanese rock music to listen to during gameplay.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Apotheon I finished it, but the cool aesthetic doesn't make up for the combat. It never stopped being frustrating.
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It's a permanently in development indie project, but I like the demo for Norco so far, a sci-fi adventure game set in the rural deep south.    https://yutsi.itch.io/norcodemo
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Wow that's real cool
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yogizh posted:There used to be a French company called Cryo and they used to make these games/interactive movies. My favorites were their edutainment games in the same engine. There was one where you could explore the whole Seti tomb in the Valley of the Kings, or one in Versailles.
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Blockade posted:It's a permanently in development indie project, but I like the demo for Norco so far, a sci-fi adventure game set in the rural deep south. That kinda reminds me of World of Horror, which also is extremely my poo poo.
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There was this little arcade at my high school in the 90's, and I usually didn't feel like wasting my precious quarters, but anytime someone was playing Magic Sword, I'd watch it. That game is gorgeous.
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I haven't played it yet but it looks like the new Blair Witch game really brings the spooks and frights in terms of atmosphere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbUK8bKcoOk Look at the gameplay footage of walking through the woods at night; it really captures the chills I experienced from the original 1999 movie back when I was in middle school.
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Odd posted:Not any particular game, but something I always really liked in games was side-areas or places that felt like they didn't belong in that game. The wrecked ship in Super Metroid, the Derelict ship in Prime 3, the Outpost in Environmental Station Alpha, Dark Souls 1 DLC area, places like that. Actually a lot of DLCs for games are like that. I dunno it's just something that I like. Anyone else feel the same way? Oh man, so much this. There's a part of Half Life 2 where you're driving to some place, and you can basically see where you're going up ahead, but there's a house just out on a cliff by the coast on the corner leading up to it. There's nothing in the house, and some mines littered around it that if you're on foot are totally harmless. Pitching them into the ocean with the grav gun relents an echoing melancholy ripple in the otherwise utterly still silence of this abandoned house that I just found totally haunting.
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I've been watching the reviews and gameplay footage of Ghost of Tsushima and, WOW! This game looks amazing! As a big Kurosawa fan, this seems like the type of world I could just immerse myself in and never leave
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I like death stranding because it reminds me of the movie stalker. Everything looks really beautiful and empty but recognizably set on earth.
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i must compose posted:I like death stranding because it reminds me of the movie stalker. Everything looks really beautiful and empty but recognizably set on earth. I feel like death stranding lives and dies on its atmosphere and its ability to constantly make you feel like you're in a real place, yeah. I think it's clever (and almost certainly intentional) that the safe 'hub' bits look and feel and operate on a very video-gamey basis, and then the outdoorsy dangerous bits are much more like a real natural environment. I know Kojima just throws in a billion systems, but I think it's testament to the quality of his vision that there's a button that just makes you call out into the abyss, your voice echoing in its isolation.
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Wizard Master posted:I've been watching the reviews and gameplay footage of Ghost of Tsushima and, WOW! This game looks amazing! As a big Kurosawa fan, this seems like the type of world I could just immerse myself in and never leave Yeah I had not heard of it until the day it released and I really want to get it now
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Wizard Master posted:I've been watching the reviews and gameplay footage of Ghost of Tsushima and, WOW! This game looks amazing! As a big Kurosawa fan, this seems like the type of world I could just immerse myself in and never leave I've been playing it all night tonight and it seriously is vibe city. You swipe the touchpad and wind leads you to where you want to go, its so much more fun than following an icon. The way the light hits the grass is incredible.
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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father captured a spooky, voodoo-tinged New Orleans like few other games. Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra glowed with an Art Deco style that sucked you right into the mysterious halls of the Leyendecker Museum.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I've been playing it all night tonight and it seriously is vibe city. You swipe the touchpad and wind leads you to where you want to go, its so much more fun than following an icon. The way the light hits the grass is incredible. argh I just got star war dark soul I don't wanna buy a full price game rn lol
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Sid Vicious posted:argh I just got star war dark soul I don't wanna buy a full price game rn lol Well at least that game has great atmosphere and aesthetics too, if you like yourself a good star war
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well at least that game has great atmosphere and aesthetics too, if you like yourself a good star war im honestly having such a good time with it
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Statutory Ape posted:which game is this? Ghosts of Tsushima
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