Best atmosphere in a game ever?

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#101  Edited By regnaston
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Leisure Suit Larry has the best atmosphere of all time :D

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#102  Edited By Seabas989
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Honorable mentions:

  • Metroid Prime
  • Metroid Prime 2
  • Super Metroid
  • System Shock 2
  • Half-Life 2
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask
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#103 Pffrbt
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-Silent Hill 2
-El Shaddai
-Siren: Blood Curse
-JSRF
-NiGHTS into Dreams

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#104  Edited By maoman
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these 2 for me

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#105  Edited By KungfuKitten
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I'm not a Journey lover but it did have good atmosphere.
Modded Skyrim had great atmosphere too, too bad it kept crashing.
I also love the atmosphere in Wind Waker and Skyward Sword.
Bioshock, Amnesia, Metroid Prime.

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#106 aroxx_ab
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The first Bioshock game, it shits all over System Shock 2

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#107  Edited By Revan_911
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Probably the first Witcher game.Best atmosphere and soundtrack I've encountered. Second one doesn't come close.

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#108 Walmart_Jesus
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Thief 1-3

Souls games

System Shock 2

Silent Hill 1-2

Soul Reaver

Morrowind

Witcher

Majora's Mask

Super Metroid & Metroid Prime

SOTC

STALKER

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#109 voljin1987
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@nini200 said:

No joke. This game had some great atmosphere.

Metroid Prime tops it though but Kya was great

holee shit.. i thought i was the only one who played this.. excellent game

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#110 nutcrackr
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Metro Last Light, Stalker series, Dead Space series

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#111 illmatic87
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First thread of this page nailed it.

Except for that guy that posted Kya: Dark Lineage

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#112 Marduke1913
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@yokofox33: I agree, when your roaming the waste the weather/sky gave you that isolated but beautiful atmosphere that made the series so popular, but the rocks and ground..ya not so much, just standard looking

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#113 thereal25
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Games that have good atmosphere include:

Deus Ex the original

fallout 3

dead space 2

doom 3

fallout new vegas

F.E.A.R

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#114 AmazonAngry
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@FreedomFreeLife: I guess you haven´t played many games at all. This explains why you say Last of Us or PT demo."

I'm glad you see things my way.

As someone who's gamed longer, and had more gaming experience than anyone else on this board, I'm pretty much the only one with valid opinions.

Let me know if I can help you with anything else.

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#115  Edited By nini200
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@voljin1987 said:

@nini200 said:

No joke. This game had some great atmosphere.

Metroid Prime tops it though but Kya was great

holee shit.. i thought i was the only one who played this.. excellent game

I loved every bit of this game. The atmosphere was excellent, the gameplay was fun, The music was great, I still listen to it now, the story was ok but the way you could make enemies fight each other was hilarious and the stealth and puzzles were excellent, and Oh My God the way the wind element was used in this game was phenomenal.

I wrote Eden games about the sequel and got a response. It's in my email somewhere lol That was years ago.

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#116 uninspiredcup
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@maoman said:

This game had magnificent idea's behind it's story.

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#117 blue_hazy_basic  Moderator
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@farrell2k said:

For it's time, Oblivion was king. I got lost in in for months.

Morrowind's feel was just so so much better than Oblivion IMO. Oblivion felt ... souless.

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#118  Edited By AmazonAngry
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Well I'll have to update my previous comment, what v with the new Bloodborne foootage.

The Last of Us, PT demo, Bloodborne all fighting for atmosphere crown.

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#119 wiifan001
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I'm going with Metroid Prime.
Dead Space is also very atmospheric

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#120 jsmoke03
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@lostrib said:

Sniper? Is that you?

lol...beat me to it

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#121 RoboCopISJesus
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System Shock 2.

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#122  Edited By CleanPlayer
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For what it's worth, Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64 truly nailed the "paper" atmosphere it was going for

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#124 uninspiredcup
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@farrell2k said:

@blue_hazy_basic said:

@farrell2k said:

For it's time, Oblivion was king. I got lost in in for months.

Morrowind's feel was just so so much better than Oblivion IMO. Oblivion felt ... souless.

Oblivion was my first elder scrolls game and it looked beautiful at the time. I tried playing Morrowind just recently and the visuals made me ill.

Mod it.

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#125  Edited By krisroe_213
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Yep, the whole Stalker series for me, too

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#126 Phazevariance
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Metroid Prime series, or Dead Space 1.

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#127 anderswhk
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Of all time for me, Ico.

In recent years, games like Fallout 3, STALKER and Metro are king. Theres just something about the post apocalyptic setting that really gets me going.

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#128  Edited By Cloud_imperium
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Alan Wake , by far . Then Amnesia : The Dark Decent .

World feels alive in Alan Wake , thanks to great art direction , sound quality , great visuals and chilling soundtrack . Those blur effects when wind blows , makes you feel like every object is breathing and have come to life .

EDIT :

Looks like STALKER took the crown in this thread . Can't say I disagree, all of STALKER games have really good atmosphere .

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#129  Edited By Cloud_imperium
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@happyduds77 said:

Red Dead Redemption

It's one of the few games I would consider as an art.

Also TC, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a highly overrated game and less immersing than Fallout 3.

STALKER is not overrated . It is underrated actually . If it was some first party game from big 3 , people would've hyped it to death and MC would've been over 9.5 . Fallout games are great as well but STALKER isn't overrated .

@Revan_911 :

First Witcher was indeed , a very unique game . Loved it .

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#130 uninspiredcup
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It appears everyone is saying stalker, due to the answer being stalker.

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#131 shadiezz2012
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TLOU,God Of war 3,RDR,Uncharted 2,SOC/ICO

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#132 ninjaxams
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not sure about ever but from this gen i'd say both resistance 3 and the last of us.

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#133 pelvist
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Agree with both Stalker and System Shock 2. Both are very immersive games.

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#134 NoirLamia777
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The Soul series, Alan Wake, and The Last of Us.

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#135 deactivated-5ac102a4472fe
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I would say:

STALKER SoC

Silent Hill 2

Cyrostasis

Metro 2033 (not last light sadly)

The Witcher 1 (not two since it had no sense of scale, just warzone after warzone)

REsident Evil

System Shock 2

Vampire the masquerade: Bloodlines

Metroid Prime trilogy

Fatal Frame 2

Half Life (not 2)

The Legend of Zelda

Fallout series (in general)

Arx Fatalis.

And finally Persona 3+4

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#136 FreedomFreeLife
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@Phazevariance said:

Metroid Prime series, or Dead Space 1.

@shadiezz2012 said:

TLOU,God Of war 3,RDR,Uncharted 2,SOC/ICO

@NoirLamia777 said:

The Soul series, Alan Wake, and The Last of Us.

Stop playing console games. Play more games like STALKER and you would say its stalker. None of those games has atmopsphare

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#137 Renegade_Fury
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NiGHTS, Panzer Dragoon, and Metroid.

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#138 NoirLamia777
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@FreedomFreeLife said:

@Phazevariance said:

Metroid Prime series, or Dead Space 1.

@shadiezz2012 said:

TLOU,God Of war 3,RDR,Uncharted 2,SOC/ICO

@NoirLamia777 said:

The Soul series, Alan Wake, and The Last of Us.

Stop playing console games. Play more games like STALKER and you would say its stalker. None of those games has atmopsphare

Lol.

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#139  Edited By funsohng
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Bioshock.

And Vault 11 in New Vegas. Freaking amazing, that place.

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#140 sukraj
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Both Metro games, Tomb Raider 2014, and the new Wolfenstein game.

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#141 WiiMan21
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Bioshock for me was extremely atmospheric.

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#142 Snugenz
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Recently, Metro Last LIght, incredibly atmospheric throughout.

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#143 Heil68
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@lostrib said:

TLOU

ditto

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#144  Edited By The_Deepblue
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If I had to pick just one, I'd go with Metroid Prime. Shout out to Zelda: The Windwaker, Resident Evil (mainly 1-4), Super Mario Galaxy (both games), Halo, Last of Us, and Half-Life 2. Oh...and Cave Story.

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#145 longtonguecat
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Came here to say Stalker and was pleasantly surprised by the OP. :D

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#146 dakan45
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new vegas atmposphere is fine.

Anyway not the best but condemned comes pretty close.

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#147 FreedomFreeLife
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@sukraj said:

Both Metro games, Tomb Raider 2014, and the new Wolfenstein game.

lol?? We havent even seen Tomb Raider gameplay... new Wolfenstein? This cartoon fake looking game? jesus...

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#148  Edited By sukraj
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@FreedomFreeLife said:

@sukraj said:

Both Metro games, Tomb Raider 2014, and the new Wolfenstein game.

lol?? We havent even seen Tomb Raider gameplay... new Wolfenstein? This cartoon fake looking game? jesus...

I'm talking about the tomb raider reboot and wolfenstein the new order bro.

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#149 Litchie
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STALKER
Zelda: Wind Waker
Metroid Prime
Super Metroid
BioShock

These games are all amazing in this department. The crown probably goes to STALKER, though.