What’s a game that made a visual or musical impression on you? Or maybe it had a story that has stayed with you for years.
Share your favourites, maybe post a screenshot to the community? Generate some engagement :D
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The most visually beautiful game I’ve played recently is Satisfactory. It’s a first-person logistics/manufacturing game. The landscapes are almost too beautiful to fill with machinery and black smoke.
In addition to the visuals the sound design is great. Alien creatures hiss or screech or click and the sound makes the hair on your neck stand up. The fuel generators sound just like huge diesels running at full speed against a load. The trucks run by, engines clattering and turbocharger screaming. Each machine you build has it’s own noise. Amd every thing done in the game by your charachter feels like it has weight. Switches click and slam shut loudly. Levers sound like they’re attached to something. By the time you’ve got a decent production line set up, it sounds like a mechanical symphony.
Coffee Stain knows their stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed both Sanctum games, too.
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Nier Automata: the music, the way the world permanently changes as you progress through the story, as well as the art style all are all just chiefs kiss
I am currently playing it and oh boy, it is truly a nice game, sadly I mixed it with BOTW (playing those two at the same time) and that was a mistake on my part, I thought Nier was more hack n slash than open world RPG… Now I’m struggling to finish both 😅
Regardless both are top notch games.
Nier:Automata was a game I dismissed at first because of the main charachter. The last game I’d played that everyone made such a big deal over the atttactive female charachter was Tomb Raider (the first one on PS1) which I found to be a boring game.
But Nier:Automata showed me I was wrong, it’s a stunning game from many different standpoints, and it was all done without playing up 2B as a sex object. She’s a normal “person” with goals who has been put in a situation that she needs to figure out, instead of being a pair of boobs or legs that someone handed a couple of guns to.
Like all the Supergiant Games. They all have amazing art and music. Pyre made me cry so many times but Hades has the best gameplay, they are all amazing though.
I was just going to comment Transistor here! I do love all of their games though :D
Horizon Zero Dawn
The Last of Us (not 2)
Citizen sleeper
Everything from Supergiant Games, Transistor being my favorite. Their combination of narration, art style and soundtrack all working in tandem to tell a story is simply amazing. Darren Korb was my most listened to artist on spotify for the longest time.
Some other games worth mentioning (that I have played) are Portal 2, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and Banner Saga trilogy. All of them featuring beautiful stories, visuals and soundtracks.
Also, what a great thread, I wish I had the time to play even a fraction of the games mentioned here, so thanks everyone :D
The two games in the Ori series. Visual and musical masterpieces.
Even with modest hardware I think Hotel Dusk, and its sequel, The Last Window are both pretty beautiful.
Exo One. I think I could post a screenshot from that game here everyday and never run out.
Visually it’s obviously very dated, but I can still whistle Monkey Island’s theme any time I want after all these years…
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Skye, a small demo made by a team of Dutch students as part of their studies. You fly a small plane around an uncommonly sunny version of the Western Isles of Scotland. They managed to make the whole game look like a living painting. It’s delightful. It’s very short and there’s not a tonne of depth to the gameplay, but the flight mechanics do feel good and there are some fun challenges to take on. Also it’s free!
Another World really shaped my game preferences.
ICO is still an absolute masterpiece.
I think ico.
In the same vein, the final boss music for shadow of the colossus is amazing. That oboe or whatever it is that has that harmony, fuckin chills playing through that.
Disco Elysium is the better game probably, but since it is talked about a lot (rightfully so), I’ll go with the similar game I played previous to it:
It is the same genre with Disco Elysium (C-RPG or Isometric RPG, whatever you want to call) with also combat on top of it. Set in a bronze-age kind of time. A lot of choices that matter so as much to block whole maps and events completely if one is chosen over the other. A lot of “main paths” that can be gone on. Both positive and negative (favor and wrath) development with factions, faction leaders, companions, etc. that can affect the game and the outcomes. Great main and side cations with quite good stories behind. Combat can take place a lot of time and the game offers deep combat builds, but overall combat is pretty dull imo.
Going beyond the introduction of the game, in my opinion Tyranny has a very rare story in gaming: The evil has already won, and a tyrant-god rules the world now. You are just a lackey with middle-management status (Fatebinder, some kind of an on-field representer of the prophet/primary judge of the tyrant ruler) that judges whether act happen in accord with the will of the tyrant or not.
Real hard decisions to be made in the game. Some Obsidian humor in it. Overall not a feel-good game, like Disco Elysium. Way better soundtrack in my opinion.
Final Fantasy XIII. That game released in 2009, yet from the looks of it seems like a next gen game. The amount of work that went into graphics and environment design is astounding.
Every location is unique and a joy to look at. From a futuristic sprawl to a lake that crystalized while still in motion, to a synthetic forest to a wild ravine full of flora and fauna. I spent so many hours just looking at things and enjoying the scenery and the music.
