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
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Another World really shaped my game preferences.
ICO is still an absolute masterpiece.
- Sibelius Ginsterberg ( @5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.de ) English4•1 year ago
“The Long Dark” I never would have thought, simplified graphics could look that realistic. The colours are beautifully on point and the lighting is stunning.
It’s one of those games where “every frame is a painting”. Journey and Gris come to mind. Games so full of style literally any frame could be frozen, framed, and be worth looking at.
- Corroded ( @CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ) English2•1 year ago
The survival mode is neat because you can tailor it to your liking whether you want colder winter and just bears or lots of supplies and gear that lasts longer.
I really found it was fun to turn everything down and just enjoy exploring and the visuals.
I’ll go with a game series, Horizon.
The opening of Forbidden West where Aloy rides past some locations of the first game, leaving the places where the story had taken place so far, had me in tears.
Replaying Zero Dawn and despite the janky animations of the base game before Frozen Wilds, I’m falling in love with the game all over again.
- leftzero ( @leftzero@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
Visually it’s obviously very dated, but I can still whistle Monkey Island’s theme any time I want after all these years…
- kratoz29 ( @kratoz29@lemm.ee ) English2•7 months ago
Even with modest hardware I think Hotel Dusk, and its sequel, The Last Window are both pretty beautiful.
- slxlucida ( @slxlucida@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I’d have to go with Baten Kaitos, especially back on the GameCube. I know they just ported it to switch. Just visually stunning backgrounds, the story was pretty good once, but I don’t think the twist would hold up on future plays.
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
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!
- essell ( @essellburns@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Homeworld.
The music, the voice acting, the graceful gameplay, the elegant story and the fantastic backdrops.
Beautiful.
I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR HOMEWORLD 3, I CAN BARELY BELIEVE IT’S HAPPENING.
Also Deserts of Kharak. The music, the cut-scenes… It might not be set in space, but it screams out the Homeworld aesthetic at the top of its lungs!
- triprotic ( @triprotic@lemmy.ca ) English1•1 year ago
I agree, it was amazing, but I feel Homeworld Cataclysm was highly underrated.
- essell ( @essellburns@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
It didn’t have the same charms as homeworld.
What it had were quite different ones despite the similarities. Really love both of them
- brewbellyblueberry ( @brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz ) English2•1 year ago
Osmos, also available for mobile.
- FluffyPotato ( @FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
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.
- WintLizard ( @WintLizard@sopuli.xyz ) English2•1 year ago
Exo One. I think I could post a screenshot from that game here everyday and never run out.
- giacomo ( @giacomo@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
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.