What are the most atmospheric games?
dead space
>>320749812
Alien isolation
>>320749812
STALKER -trilogy
Silent Hill 1-4
VtMB
>>320750373
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSqVbywt9kw
My nigga
VtTMB and SoC are probably my favourite games
Shadow Tower: Abyss
Souls series.
SOTC.
Ico.
Stalker.
Deus ex/HR.
Silent Hill.
Amnesia.
Also, the horror genre is probably the one with the most atmospheric games, for obvious reasons.
>>320751225
Metro 3 when?
>>320749812
STALKER
Yume Nikki
Deadly Premonition
Silent Hill 3
Ghost Trick
VtmB
Sengoku Rance
Yakuza
most of these games have gameplay that's lacking at best, but prove that by building a well designed hub and/or cast of characters can make up for what's lacking in challenge. atmosphere is by far the most challenging thing to develop and this is where the designer shines. it is done through map design first and foremost (aforementioned hub), attention to detail (similar or same as TECHNOLOGY), minigames no matter how trite they are and hopefully avoidance of mandatory skinner box elements like item drops or crafting.
Rhythm is of paramount importance, and this goes for audio visual cues (opening doors in Dino Crisis for example), coin sounds, reload animations and the like, putting player in the midst of things. What is of importance also - and tied directly to game design - is knowing when to take control from the player. Shaving cutscene in Deadly Premonition fleshes out the game far more than a scripted shooting setpiece in Call of Duty. That being said, setpieces can greatly enhance the atmosphere IF their choreography isn't immediately apparent, FEAR does this with great success, fooling you into thinking its AI is above average through audio cues (soldiers shout things they are not capable of doing).
Thus atmosphere is created independantly from gameplay and it is indeed subservient to this prime principle of game design.
>>320751225
Metro is linear cinematic rubbish
>>320751353
STALKER's gameplay is good, especially if you use mods
>>320751563
>Metro is linear cinematic rubbish
:(
>>320752415
It's true man. I wish they made a decent stalker game
rain
>>320749812
STALKER
DayZ
Alien Isolation
Metro
You posted it breh
System Shock 2
Nobody ever posts Arx Fatalis in these threads, makes me sad.
>>320750373
VTMB would be more immersive if you could actually interact with the enviroments more outside of quests. The game just feels shallow to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Am9xYC7nk
le deep seeming visuals game meme
>>>/trash/
>>320754586
I bought it on a steam sale and haven't got around to play it, thanks for reminding me.
>>320754653
>varied outcomes depending on your choices
>unique shit depending on your clan
>great writing
What is shallow about it?
>>320754704
Really need to replay this. Dug my Dreamcast out of the closest last week. Still works.
>>320755148
Don't forget to get arx libertatis, a fanpatch which fixes a tons of problems on modern systems.
>>320755148
A lot of items and things are locked to quests, the game obviously feels rushed, and the game suffers from being an early source engine game with you having to load a new map every where you go. Deus Ex felt deeper to me.
posting the original atmospheric experience
>>320755364
Yeah, I already heard about it, thanks.
>>320755450
Deus Ex is deeper than most games, and yeah VtMB was obviously rushed, it's a known fact. It's still a great game with the patch though and definitely has a great atmosphere.
>>320750247
This and this.
Can say whatever you want about Isolation but the atmosphere was spot fucking on.
>>320749812
Gothic 1/2
>>320749812
>>320754051
>>320755851
>cover everything in brown and gray
>atmosphere
Kill yourselves
>>320749812
silento hill des
>>320756025
(You)
>>320756010
you mean 3 right
>>320756254
Never played it. Might give it a try with some fan patches over the summer.
>>320754586
There are a number of games that everyone knows they're awesome so they never get mentioned.
Gothic 2 also, in this case.
>>320756254
you mean 4 right
>>320756592
>any Gothic past 3
Risen is cool tho.
comfiest strategy game there is
>>320756025
are you saying that games with boring color palettes can't be atmospheric
>>320756254
I played 3 and I didn't like it much, it just seemed too clunky. Will I like 1 and 2?
>>320756254
I remember trying to run Gothic 3 on release.
Terrible experience. That's when i understood i should get a job to afford better hardware.
>>320756861
No.
>>320754051
is this with mods or vanilla?
>>320756861
It takes a while to get used to the keyboard controls but it's worth it in my opinion. They feel natural after a while since combos are based on timing your swing and attack direction. Also it's easier in Gothic 2 since backstepping counts as a block too.
>>320755851
Is your "gun" a pipe with optics on it?
>>320756025
So brown.
>>320749812
Limbo
>>320757129
No, it just has a suppressor attached to a CQB barrel.
>>320757096
I'll give it another shot. Good open world RPGs are a rarity these days, I'm glad Dragon's Dogma is coming for PC.
Pathologic
>>320750373
More games need vertical health/mana bars.
Coincidentally, though it's not as THICK, I still quite like the atmosphere in Dishonored.
>>320757583
I'm saying it looks bad in first person.
>>320757596
Make sure to get a fan patch and the dx11 renderer for both games. Makes it much more enjoyable. I think you can find the links on GOG's gothic forums.
>>320749812
diablo 2donkey kong country 1 fuck you
>>320749812
stalker with mods
Can't wait for Stalker 2 :>)
>>320754586
the ambient sounds in this game were phenomenal
>>320749812
>crosshair
You shouldn't even be playing STALKER with a crosshair, let alone post about atmosphere with it enabled.
>>320751149
>Also, the horror genre is probably the one with the most atmospheric games, for obvious reasons.
Quite the contrary; horror is one of the, if not THE most difficult atmosphere to convey, ergo, it is the genre with the most dreck that fails at every step of the way there.
Exhibit A: steam greenlight.
>>320749812
Silent hill 2.
Dark souls.
Shadow of the colossus
The Bioshock/System shock games. (including infinite, atmosphere doesn't always mean depressing and dark and dank)
>>320754051
>>320749812
>>320755851
>>320757427
no atmosphere whatsoever.
>>320751563
>>320753545
So?
Linearity is not detrimental to atmosphere, not like open world is, by mere lack of polish going into most open worlds.
Pathologic and the Void
>>320758176
>says Bioshock series has atmosphere yet says STALKER doesn't
Cancer
>>320758046
Why shouldn't you play with the crosshair? That's just silly.
>>320758323
>>320758392
an atmosphere in a fictional world is about much more than fog and light
>>320758449
because its ugly and you should never be firing from the hip in the first place
>>320758490
BABA BOOEY HOWARD STERNS PENIS BABA BOOEY!
>>320758176
>>320756025
Are you a meme?
>>320758520
Exactly. Good thing STALKER isn't just about that.
>>320758520
And much more than washed out ugly visuals in Bioshock
>>320758490
>>320758323
>>320757649
True patricians.
>>320758643
Only if we're talking about this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxyadCHxUng
>>320758176
System Shock, I'll give you, but fuck no, not Bioshock. What they each had was strong visual design, but that isn't atmosphere.
>>320758585
Ehh you're kind of right, I never fire from the hip anyway
>>320758449
I disable crosshair in every game that lets me. Most recently, Fallout 4, because it was huge and fucking ugly.
You shouldn't be firing from the hip outside of close quarters anyway.
I think E.Y.E also counts as being atmospheric.
>>320757129
>I've never held a gun before
>The cool looking ones are the best
>I love gun skins because it let's me be that special snowflake.
>>320751149
The Souls series has some really brilliantly atmospheric games, but Dark Souls II is utterly devoid of atmosphere. I've never had my immersion broken so often.
>>320758976
Hows your legs, anon?
>>320758838
>stuck in the bottom of the ocean
>everyone but you is fucking mad
>all them scenes of structures caving in
>not atmospheric as fuck
>>320757954
What fake-game is this?
>>320758838
I disagree. I think strong and thematically/tonally consistent visual design is necessary, and in a lot of cases sufficient to create atmosphere.
I do differentiate between atmosphere and immersion, which requires more direct relationships between design and gameplay.
>>320759161
It's so jarring to go from the atmosphere of Dso to the empty void of Dso II
>>320757954
Is that game actually going to be open world or is it more like metro in that its linear as fuck and you can never play it again after the first time because there's nothing else to do?
>>320754586
Finally finished this game a while ago. It's a bit of a slog but I have no complaints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOG3xZjX2j0
Only mess with Am Shaegar if you a stupid ass nigga
>>320759439
Open world
>>320759439
it's supposed to be a mmo so I guess open world, but we'll see in 20 years when It comes out
>>320757773
Yeah, thanks.
Gothic series. 3 is great patched, fuck the haters.
>>320758176
>no atmosphere whatsoever.
uh huh
>>320758976
Wait, where is this.
>>320759786
What mod?
>>320758249
Metro's atmosphere is decent but the games aren't really my cup of tea, they don't really convey that sense of dread and sadness like STALKER does.
>>320759876
it's from pathologic
has "call of chernobyl" implemented the weapon mod yet?
>>320749812
>What are the most atmospheric games?
Flight simulators
>>320759726
Necessary unnofficial or official mods?
I loved 1 and 2 but 3 felt clunky, empty and unfinished to me.
>>320760023
Gunslinger mod? Not yet I think. Checked the other day.
>>320759876
From Pathologic, since I don't actually have any decent E.Y.E screenshots on me.
I'll probably catch shit for this, but I thought Fable 2 had really good atmosphere.
Legacy of Kain series
>>320759903
It's CoC with Arsenal Overhaul 3.1 and my own custom tweaks to the lighting.
>>320760023
Which one?
>>320760102
For 3 I just used the community patch with the rebalance options on. There are some quest mods too but I didn't use them, I hear they're nice. And yeah it was kinda weird coming from 1 and 2 but you get used to it.
I loved the world, it was great and the desert and snow areas were a nice change of pace.
late afternoon sunny stalker is best stalker
>>320760309
is AO3 the best one and is it hard to install oc CoC?
>>320749812
Pretty much all the /v/core games.
Morrowind
STALKER
Dark Souls (1)
New Vegas
I'm noticing a trend here.
>>320749812
that is one ugly screenshot, m9
>>320760309
>CoC
What is this sorcery? Am I to understand it's a mod for CoP but it has all the levels from each of the three games? In one giant map?
Also how do you combine mods like that? Or is it in the CoC mod?
>>320760571
nvm im an idiot, didn't see there's a version made for it
>>320759876
>>320760770
Where in the game is this? I don't ever remember being in a place like that.
>>320759578
tell me they gonna have flesh-eating tree mimics
>>320756140
>>320756850
>>320757427
>>320758636
E
P
I
C
>>320760664
it's already all in there, but there are loading screens between some areas, very fast tho
>>320760856
No ET shit whatsoever. Setting is Russia 2028
>>320761169
well that's a shame.
>let's just get out another man shooting shooter, 'cuz clearly the market is underserved
>>320760656
>>320760996
Stop shitposting and go back to your Fallout 4 threads kids
>>320760571
>is AO3 the best one
It comes down to personal preference, but I like AO for the large variety of new guns it adds.
>>320760664
>What is this sorcery? Am I to understand it's a mod for CoP but it has all the levels from each of the three games? In one giant map?
It does add all of the maps from each STALKER game, as well as a brand new one, the Truck Cemetary. There are loading zones between each of them. If you want AO 3.1, you'll need to download the CoC merge made for it. It's posted in the STALKER general thread.
>>320759417
There are one or two areas in 2 with atmosphere, but it's deffo lacking somehting compared to the first.
There was some weird feel to the firelink area that made it seem like you were looking onto a minature landscape zoomed in close, IMO
>>320761513
But Fallout 4 isimmersive
>>320761576
Thanks man, I am totally gonna do this now.
>>320761649
Sure, just remember that CoC is standalone, not a mod for CoP.
>>320751563
Linearity has nothing to do with atmosphere you dumb nigger
>>320761738
Oh so... Wait, what? You download the whole thing from their MODDB site or what?
>>320761513
funny how fallout being bashed for monochrome pallete not so long ago.
This b/w shit looks like garbage, and does not help in a slightest to immerse the player better
>>320760845
multiplayer map
>>320751225
>>320761807
These games good or not? Challenging? Which game is better?
>>320761809
Yes, as well as the updater
>>320761620
Wrong
You are empty, made by basement slavs in 2006
I don't have good screens, but The Long Dark is suprisingly atmospheric even with it's cartoony artstyle. It's just the very intricate audio design with the footsteps and ambient noises, and the way it feels so coherent with the wind/snowing effects outside.
You're constantly afraid of wolves, if you don't happen to have flares on you, so it makes you listen and look for any clue of them, making you pay attention more.
>>320754543
>looks pretty big
>wait, since when was Morrowind an island?
>oh that whole thing is JUST Vvardenfell
I really need to get around to playing this game.
>>320761620
lol
>>320761842
>hurr durr looks like garbage
nice argument retard
>>320762324
>A freeplay-sandbox mappack, 32 maps from all three STALKER games (one map made from scratch) with alife, over 400 smart terrains/respawns. There is no story but there are about a dozen repeatable tasks available throughout the Zone.
So it's really just freeplay then, doing sidequests and so?
>>320762482
The title is misleading, the game is Vvardenfell.
Space Station 13
>>320762202
Metro series is a Call of Duty MW tier of cinematic action experience. Linear, but well paced and with a high presentation value.
Stalker is closer to Fallout 3 experience, minus the perks/levels or any numbers, besides your equipment and personal aiming skills, to determine the difficulty of the gameplay.
Both are worth checking out for different reasons, but mainly both of them provide great atmosphere of living through a bleak existence of post-apocalyptic world
>>320762482
yeah morrowind only takes place on the island (aside from solstheim in bloodmoon)
the islands volcano is the main motif or whatever
>>320762535
certainly better thought out than your shitposting, cock-gobbling fuckhead
>>320762482
>>320762548
>>320762607
Get Tamriel Rebuilt and be amazed
>atmospheric
>no one posts Fallout 3
But I thought that was one of it's strengths?
>>320762539
Yeah, there's also this: http://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/warfare-0181
>>320762548
>>320762607
I see....
So are we differentiating between atmosphere and world-building in this thread?
>>320749812
If you don't mind the /vr/ vintage, Dreamweb is unbeatable in terms of atmosphere. Nothing in gaming has ever matched its music and sound design.
Nightlong has a great cyberpunk atmosphere but proceeds to commit just about every adventure game sin imaginable.
Cryostasis puts cinematics over shooting, but still manages to work for the most part.
>>320762670
shitposting invites shitposting retard-bro
>>320751353
>Sengoku Rance
I still don't understand how this game with a nearly unintelligibly weird setting, menu based interaction with everything and quite honestly mediocre art managed to pull me in so much. It's legitimately one of my favorite games, it's so well realized.
>>320762879
>bethesda
>atmosphere
Ghost Recon 1
>>320762945
whatever keeps you breathing, kiddo
>>320762879
You're not allowed to like Bethesda games
>>320762879
That's what bethfags believe.
>>320763191
but why ?
>>320762916
As I understand it, it's basically like the warfare thing from Clear Sky?
>>320760845
multiplayer only unfortunately
god fucking dammit I miss STALKER
can anyone name a game that even comes close to the feeling that SHOC gives you upon making your way out of cordon for the first time?
>>320763316
'Cuz God demands it
>>320762879
I unironically like the metro tunnels. New Vegas was pretty empty outside of big places like the strip but the landmarks you can see are nice since it's so open and flat. I also really like the skyscrapers in Fallout 4 for exploration. Very atmospheric once you're inside them.
>>320763005
Great art, great system of choice and consequence that Persona games also did very well, lots of character, fantastic writing, and there's a very interesting narration going on - you as a player are aware of the big picture at every point during the playthrough while the protagonists aren't. That gives whole additional layer of playfulness and actually makes the whole thing a serious endeavor. Best dynastic / conquering simulator I have ever played. Compare it to sterile genealogy spreadsheet Paradox shits out yearly. I have much more respect for developers that craft a story rather than relying on social media memetics to do it for them, or users to flesh out their randomly generated offspring. Dwarf Fortress is an exception because it manages to use crafting to transform the procedural world into a coherent experience with some advanced AI features.
>>320763563
Jokes on you I still havent played it.I bought it the year it came out and never even tried the discI still have it
i've always liked the atmosphere in SMT Nocturne
>>320763790
but why, anon?
It's quite possibly the best open world fps of all time
>>320762823
classic morrowind is fine, thanks
>>320763563
Boiling Point Road to Hell
>>320762564
>Metro series is a Call of Duty MW tier of cinematic action experience.
bull fucking shit...
>>320762482
Morrowind is actually one of the smallest TES games in terms of map size.
>>320763458
Its not multiplayer only though
>>320763879
I pretty much quit playing vidya and coming here around that time. Now my life is in the gutter and here I am. I have a torrent downloading right now btw, what am I in for?
>>320762930
when i said morrowind is atmospheric, i didnt mean the world building.
doesnt hurt it that tes has 10/10 lore
no but seriously morrowind has a great atmosphere, for some reason it feels very similar to stalker to me.
like even down to how it plays
Most of the ones I'd post have already been mentioned, like Pathologic, Morrowind, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, SotC, STALKER, Gothic, Yakuza and so on.
I'd say X3 also belongs to the list, and perhaps Expeditions Conquistador, Uplink, Papers Please, Okami, Way of the Samurai, X-COM, Zeno Clash and Stronghold Crusader might also apply to varying degrees.
I actually expected a lot more people to say The Witcher 1, though I personally didn't care for it that much.
>>320764062
bugs and long loading screens
>>320763916
Doesn't change anything about the vanilla areas. It's a great mod.
>>320764073
All TES games have pretty good atmosphere. Say what you will about Skyrim but there's nothier comfier than sitting down at an inn and listening to the bard play music while there's a storm going on outside.
>>320762539
Wait, I am confused, the site says it's a mod for Call of Pripyat, and when installing it, it says it requires a legal copy of Shadows of Chernobyl, what?
Eternal Darkness is up there
>ctrl + f EYE
>no results
I didn't expect it but The Witcher wound up being one of the most immersive games I've ever played.
I never have ever played STALKER, but this thread convinced me, which one should I buy?
>>320764556
It's in here, try e.y.e
I found Clive Barker's Undying extremely atmospheric. Made me feel like I was really going to solve a huge mistery and the setting was top notch (the mansion, the abbey, etc.).
Are there any other games that have a similar setting going for them (victorian/medieval first person game with weird stuff going on)? I also really liked Hexen and Heretic in a similar manner despite not being quite the same.
>>320764589
all of them
>>320764589
pirate all of them
sergei doesn't need another ferrari
>>320764556
>>320764589
Shadow of Chernobyl first
>>320764589
Shadow of Chernobyl is the first and best.
>>320764589
The first one.
>>320764589
SoC the rest is trash and 15 fps
Euro Truck Sim 2.
>>320764663
this
pirate all the stalker games
>>320764324
Thief 2 counts, as well.
>>320761807
Huh, yes it does. Metro never came close to transmit the same feelings STALKER does.
this game counts too, not joking
>>320761418
stalker 2 isn't kill anymore
>>320765062
sauce
>>320762564
>Stalker is closer to Fallout 3
die
>>320759096
>stalker
>realistic
>>320762476
Worth a buy or should I pirate until it's not EA anymore?
>>320764910
>>320765267
He isn't wrong. I remember back in the day someone described it to me as Oblivion with guns.
desu
>>320765267
Maybe he meant it's closer to what fallout 3 wanted to be.
>>320765129
GSC re-opened and are making Cossacks 3
>>320749812
>This entire game
Last Light had it in some parts but it ended up trading its more spooky elements in favor of ball tripping phenomena, doesn't help that Khan ended up wearing a doohrag and acting like a hippie all of the time.
>>320762823
wait, what
tamriel rebuilt is finished?
>>320765312
it's true tho, tlou is an overrated piece of shit, unoriginal, and zombies are literally the same as every other game, uninspired characters, boring as fuck story , shit framerate
>>320764910
Why would it need to be the same?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWcQbla5w8
>>320758520
Hey look, it's another poster who has never played STALKER talking about STALKER.
>>320765536
WHAT.
So Stalker 2 is a thing now?? For real?
mafia 2
>>320765705
Das it mane.
>>320765312
They're both two different flavors of shit.
>>320765679
It doesn't, but don't pretend the atmosphere is as good.
The Half-Life games have pretty good atmosphere, especially the first one.
>>320765312
>The Last of Us.
>Good.
>Infected hunt through hearing.
>The NPC(s) following you while you sneak around constantly talk, make noise, bump into the infected, knock over the very items designed to be in your way for you to alert the zombies.
>Zombies don't notice, because it's easier to just code them to ignore NPCs instead of coding the NPCs to act intelligently.
MUH IMMERSIVE ATMOSPHERIC VIDEO GAME
10/10 IMMERSIVE STORY BELIEVABLE CHARACTER ACTION SCAVENGE SIMULATOR
TOP LEVEL ATMOSPHEEEEERE!!!!!
You fucking console kids, I swear to god...
>>320765705
those are some shitty guitars
>>320765991
wrong
>>320765937
Half-Life was GOAT
Valve will never make a good game with their current environment and mindset.
>>320762373
i thought this looked neat and wanted to try it, but it didn't work. i forgot what the problem was, i could get in game but something prevented me from being able to play, like the controls didn't work or it kept crashing or something...
anyway, the void and pathologic are the most atmospheric games i've ever played.
>>320765860
Not anon you're quoting, but the first Metro book had amazing atmosphere, had to be read in one go.
Stalker is still one of the only recent singleplayer fps that got night time right. I bought SoC the day it released and even though my 8800GTS could barely handle it I played through the bugginess to completion.
>>320761842
You're right, the colors do not immerse the players. THE OVERALL GAME DESIGN DOES, THOUGH, FUCKSTICK.
No one is saying "this game is green and brown, and that is why it's immersive." Are you an idiot? I don't think any screencap would ever capture a game's atmosphere because it's audio, visual, and how you interact with that environment.
>>320749812
Which mod?
New Vegas
>>320766314
Looking back at my first playthrough, bugs were part of the experience.
>>320766061
I think its actually intended though.
You're not going to find a new 4500$ guitar in the zone.
>>320765958
>I want NPCs to ruin my stealth by constantly getting caught and killed
Yeah remember how fun that was in RE4, oh wait...
>>320765958
so you're saying if it was available on PC and that shit you noticed was modded. It would be good?
>>320757484
>HOTE
>>320766615
If you fix a games flaws I'm pretty sure it qualifies as good, yes.
>>320766398
>brown and yellow generic desert with shit LOD #10143858
Fuck off.
>>320766738
so that one flaw, just made the game from people thinking it's playable to unplayable?
and all it was is just friendly NPC's not being heard from enemies.
>>320760289
KAIN REFUSED THE SACRIFICE
>>320766285
I'm not saying it didn't have good atmosphere, it just isn't as good as STALKER in that regard.
>>320767000
NOTHING, I REFUSED NOTHING
>>320763191
What happened to that monkey?
![NaissanceE_2013-11-04_05[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kTeQCdd.jpg "NaissanceE_2013-11-04_05[1].jpg")
>>320749812
NaissanceE
>>320754153
i had nightmares thx to that part
What's the best graphics mods for Call of Pripyat?
>>320763191
What is happening here?
I think Silent Hill 2 is the top of the mountain in that regard.
>>320759161
>Dark Souls II
>utterly devoid of atmosphere
>le /v/ says it's bad so i must hate it meme
Fuck off, DS2 was a worse game and wasn't so well designed but it still has some fucking good atmosphere
>>320767195
Atmosfear 3.0 is essential
>>320767251
They expose it to a vacuum, it lives.
>>320758057
I think that anon meant it simpley as "atmosphere is an innate part of horror games"
Not that horror games have it easy or have good atmospheres, because you are absolutely right its one of the hardest for atmosphere and honestly the hardest genre in gaming besides Comedy.
By comedy, I mean a full on comedy game, name a game that made you laugh as hard as some movies/comedians, not chuckles or some heavy breathes or sniffs at some cheeky writing, but something thats full comedy.
>>320749812
Remember when "gray and brown" was something games would get crucified for?
>>320767386
That shit will fuck you up
Sure it's not dark and depressing, but goddamn the levels are stunning.
