Games with the best atmosphere

>implying melee doesn't have better atmosphere

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>>262407872
>those partners
>that music
>that artstyle

Nothing could top this game

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>HUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR2QklrgB84

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>>262407872
I'm... not sure whether to agree with you or disagree... I really liked Melee's music.

>>262407424
pic not related

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Banjo.

>Grunty cackles echoing through the dungeon
>Music adjusting to areas (underwater, near the ant level, Grunty fairy-sister, etc)
>The desert temples
>Area where you unlock Click Clock Wood
>Mad Monster Mansion
>The horizon on Rusty Bucket Bay
>that feeling of secrets in the walls
>that hermit's shell you can enter after you fuck him up
>All these wall textures with disfigured faces staring at you

my dick

>>262409578
>Meeting K.K. at the Trainstop on Saturdays
>Playing the game at 4AM and seeing an unlikely townsfolk out for a walk
>chilling with your townmates while competing in the fishing tournament
>Kapp'n singing you sea shanties while rowing you to the island.

Shadow of the Colossus

Not comfy, but extremely cold and unforgiving.

>>262411037
what game?

>>262411290
Final Fantasy VII

>>262411037
OHHHHH SHIIIIT

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>>262411402
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNYoDCZiHg

midgar was goat

>>262411037
>tfw you wouldnt recognize this if it werent for the cat slides

>>262411740
>the punctured slide is foreshadowing the demise of cait sith in the spirit of sacrifice

deepest lore

>>262411290
how can you not know this?

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>>262411682
>a remake might look like this

>>262407424
Playing Smash 64 on a phone emulator and peoples eyes and shit don't show up. Anyone know how to fix it? Doesn't really bother me much but I thought I'd ask.
Also, does anyone know if there is an Android N64 emulator that can play Pokemon Puzzle League?

inb4
>playing on a phone
Its just because I want this shit on the go. If I were gonna play Smash at home I'd play Melee or Brawl.

>>262410113
I actually just listened to 14 minutes of this

>>262413164
sounds like a problem with the video driver

>>262410779
>4am
You crazy man, anything good ever happen early/late in these games?

I just miss the Gamecube and this game and my basement room with my NES arcade games in it. Shit was hella sweet

I'd have to say Chrono Cross.
The setting and music come together to make a really nice atmosphere. Chrono Trigger's is pretty good as well, but not quite as solid as Cross' in my opinion. Wish the same could be said for more RPGs today.

If you want a fighting game boss with atmosphere, check out KoF2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdGfapcmWD8

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without a doubt , one of my favourite games of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj4OusBejzs

>>262413164
Can't say anything for smash 64 but you're better off playing tetris attack on a SNES emulator. It's basically the same game

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>>262409578
2cozy

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1GEgkcCA8

>>262410113
God let they be a remix of this in the 3DS or Wii U Release.

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>>262407872
Melee didnt have as much atmosphere as 64
Melee's music isn't a good counter either, because its all just songs based on the games their stages are from
64 also has this, but its story is that some kid is playing with toys, so it makes more sense that he is hearing Nintendo music throughout the game. And all the music that isn't based on any nintendo game is really simple or eerie
Here are some examples of what I'm talking about
http://youtu.be/yuc5n4C2HTI
http://youtu.be/45e_OdBre6E
http://youtu.be/oUVSxpIh8QY
http://youtu.be/HCEkgrBB7qI
Melee's only songs that aren't based off of nintendo games themselves are its Final Destination theme, Battlefield theme, and its menu musics. But they all sound different and it just feels like everything is separate in the Melee universe
But where Melee is better is Gameplay, characters, and basically everything else other than atmosphere
Melee's music is alot better than 64's as well, but its not as atmospheric if you can get what I'm saying

>>262413164
Sounds like you have an outdated emulator. Try the last version of N64oid or Mupen64. Or just use RetroArch I guess. Might also want to ask emugen >>>/vg/thread/79497939

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Fuck, need to play this before I leave for uni. Can I beat it in 4 days?

>>262415631
>the links are still broken
>>>/vg/79497939

>>262415325
>Final Destination 64 and this song won't ever be remixed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBaWgDJXafE

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>>262415262
Modern 3D Sonic games may not be as good as the originals, but if there's one thing that they do have; is great fucking music.

>>262413540
blue morning hours are prime fishing time. I use set my alarm and play animal crossing really early before I got on the bus to catch my fish and sell them when I got home from school. I made Bells, son.

>>262415672

Why? Video games still work at uni.

Any games with prerendered backgrounds ooze atmosphere. I've been playing Fear Effect recently and that game is sweet.

>beat Master Hand for the first time
>Results Screen
>shit pants.

Why was it so creepy?

>>262416164
I'm not bringing my consoles and a tv to uni, nig. i'll just deal with my pc.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5s9FEa7mCo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoBZqp25Dvs

Why can't Pokeman music be this good all the time

http://youtu.be/uJoF9UAi_Ig

More than a decade later and still nothin' tops this

>>262409578

This was motherfucking comfy incarnate, no other game has come close in terms of music either. If it ain't broke, don't fix it

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>>262407424

I have a theory that music is very important when building a game's atmosphere.

this game had such an eerie athmosphere , this particular theme even gave me nightmares once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAE0yFo-OM
one of my favourite OST´s of all time tho , great atmosphere , eerie but fucking great

>>262415525

Whoa whoa whoa. How could you forget about the best melee track?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOPLNsS9cXg

>>262417310
woah dude u should rite a book

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This game made me feel more secluded and alone in a hostile environment than any other.

Tell me, fucking tell me you didn't freeze up every time you heard the SA-X foot steps. It was quiet, it was tense, and it was on a tiny little handheld.

It sells the world of an abandoned space science lab super well, and when cracks start to form in the purpose of the lab and you realize how fucked up it is? It feels organic and amazing.

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Ocarina of Time

Truly Sublime

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>>262417389
Thats exactly what I'm talking about
Melee's music is fucking amazing, and you just posted my favorite track from melee there
But no other song is like this song in melee, and everything is too different for its own good.
Compare that song to Final Destination
http://youtu.be/UvfDISoyvWk
Ones an amazing rock solo thing, the other is an orchestrated masterpiece, but they are too different from each other
All of 64's non nintendo based music is all the same style, which is simple yet eerie.
Melee's music is amazing compared to 64s, but 64's is still more atmospheric because of its style

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Someone please say Halo 3: ODST.

>>262417727

My nigga, u fine.

>>262417764
*tips fedora*

>>262418181
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk

The moment where you first discover the helmet in the TV. Play the mission and look out the window to the crashed pod and this starts playing?

When you realize you're in the shit and you're alone in this huge covenant infested city. The ambient computer software noises directing you, the amazing as fuck lighting and little touches of ruined humanity.

FUCK I have goosebumps.

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>>262416016
Thats now the water temple

>>262418181
>Someone please say Halo
stopped reading there.

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Am I alone in this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnBYxLAmq5A

>>262418181
Odst had great atmosphere. Best single player halo

>>262418608
This games OST is still by far one of my favorites of all time. It's so good

>>262418846
More

>>262418846
I was always more scared to be outside/ in the attic area for some reason in this game.

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>>262419071

More of what, exactly?

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>>262407424
Games without atmosphere

>>262415838
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ceOHO0h8E

>>262419815
What is that, linux?
Nerd.

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>>262419865

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This and Pikmin (all 3)

>>262419925

stfu, faget. It's just the partition I happened to be booted into when I felt like emulating.

>>262419865
I see what you did there.

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Obligatory.

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Devil Summoner Soul Hackers

>dat 90s anime cyberpunk atmosphere
>dem comfy maps
>dat typically Sega Saturn-sounding soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7WgpxFuDzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfW3Xm45h7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfW3Xm45h7U

>>262419236

There's still hope in humanity. I fucking love rotoscoped pixels.

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>>262409578
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1sa2Af2Z-U

>you will never in the animal crossing world

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>>262420107
Fucking nerd.

>>262420107
Multiple partitions for when you feel like having an obtuse computing experience to feel better than everyone else.

NERD.

>>262416580
I actually put on 3D glasses to look at this and its amazing.

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>>262421071

Good choice.

My pick would be the original Tomb Raider (1997).

>>262407424
>>262407872
It's a fucking fighting game.

It has NO atmosphere.

>>262422428

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

>>262419865
A Link Between Worlds. Good game, but no atmosphere at all.

>>262407424
Smash 64 had the best fucking sound. I haven't played it in so long but the menu music and all of the sound effects are so memorable.

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>>262417310
>gba version

>>262422628
no u

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/v/ can shit on The Last of Us all they want, but the game has amazing atmosphere.

>>262422428
Any game can have atmosphere man
Hell, even Gone Home had some

>>262418846
Fuck no, son. I came here just to say that.

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>>262421071
my fucking nigga, I love that game almost as much as strange journey, which also had some good atmosphere

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>You will never save the world with your friends and get the girl in the end

>>262423231
You beat me to the post.

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Crystal Chronicles, always. The comfy towns and spooky dungeons. Playing with f\it with friends is top-tier video games in my experience.

Side note just started Xenoblade and am digging the atmosphere so far

Say whatever you want about what the game eventually became (or didn't become), but Minecraft had some good things going for it initially.

http://youtu.be/aBkTkxKDduc

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<=

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This game felt good in so many ways. Best fps.

>>262423118
It can, but Smash does not.

The entire point of the game is a merging of all nintendo properties and they fight in settings from all the different games.
This completely destroys any sense of thematic consistency that could build atmosphere.

You can say it's fun or well designed, or has great music, or maybe has good art direction, or you like the feel of the menus or some shit.
But there's no fucking atmosphere in Smash.
Nobody feels immersed or involved in the game.
There's no camera system to really even observe or experience AN atmosphere.

It is a gameplay oriented game.
There is no setting or narrative to be involved in that would create or emphasize atmosphere.
There is no consistent theme or narrative to create feeling or scale or tone.

>>262412710

>FF7
>Remakle

Square is too stupid to open that gold mine.

>>262407424

>you will never receive a master hand job

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i don't care how dudebro or casual this is, gears 1 had a great atmosphere

>>262416016
I like to listen to the Forest Temple music whenever I'm in an actual forest...

>>262419865
Galaxy had WAY more atmosphere than Galaxy 2. Both games had top-notch music, both had generally the same gameplay, barring power-ups. Galaxy 2 even has a significantly better post-game, a higher difficulty, and Yoshi. But it felt tacked on, and lost the feeling of atmosphere that the original game had. It felt more like trudging through the motions instead of discovering a huge magical universe.
>No more Rosalina's storybook
>No more Comet Observatory with just Mario (or Luigi), Rosalina, and the Lumas
>Replaced by that fat fuck Lubba and an overly-populated Starship Mario
>Exploring the hub world is generally meaningless and uninteresting
>No little hubs that contain several galaxies scattered around the hub world, all relegated to a SMB3 map
>No Ice Flower
>No Red Star

Even if the Red Star was hardly ever used, it felt like a neat Easter Egg. A power-up that let you fly added to the magic and atmosphere of the game.

>>262424120
>There's no camera system to really even observe or experience AN atmosphere.

pause the game...

anyway not the guy you were replying, but I think atmosphere doesn't necessarily needs narrative or a continuous context or setting.

Some stages in Smash can be very atmospheric, for example the one OP posted. Other aren't, like Peach's Castle.
The music and the stage design/effects help a lot to create the tension and atmosphere. but actual continuity or narrative aren't needed.

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>>262424863

>>262417310
grats youve discovered what the horror genre knew for decades

>>262425106
I get the joke, but I'm just making a serious post myself about the atmosphere in Galaxy compared to Galaxy 2.

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Morrowind's atmosphere was astonishing, really got immersed easily and quickly

Really digging Jeremy Soule's music

but once the immersion's gone, it hardly comes back

>>262423250
I remember seeing that a couple of times in Nintendo Power, what was it's name?

>>262415525
>Reward music
Shit, I got a tingle down my spine when I heard that again after all these years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVSxpIh8QY is really good too.

>>262426156
Fuck I mean this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhMqN5eGq8

>>262425946
Fragile dreams.

ITT: people not getting the joke on OP

>Atmosphere, mario is in space = hence no atmosphere.

>>262417727
>>262418543
Mah niggas

that fucking SA-X. I used to shit my pants on that jungle escape part that you had to freeze it. Shit was scary.

>>262416457

>Can't play games.
>I'm only taking my PC.

L
O
L

If the metal mario theme from 64 doesnt get a remix in kerfuffle ill be sad.

>>262410565
I liked the menus too they remind me of like a bowling ally arcade from the 90s maybe smash 4 will let you swap them out i hate the menu in new sakurai games

Where the hell is Metroid Prime 2 in this thread.

>>262425614
this, except for the last part. I've been playing on and off since launch and I still get immersed. You just have to try hard to not break the game after you've finished it a few times.

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Surprised I haven't seen this

>>262407872

Melee has the worst atmosphere of all the Smash games released to this point.

>>262432446
I'd wager brawl is slightly worse with its metro white look on everything

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>>262407424
did someone say Sunshine?

>>262410776

i replay BK every couple months. Easily my all time favourite

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>>262416016

>>262419865
For a second I was going to get pissed. Then I got the joke.

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>>262414718
Muh nigga

>>262432146
Fuck yea, there should be more people replying to this post in agreement.

>>262420107
>snort, muh partition emlation boot
>being this white and nerdy
hand over those computer games, geek boy

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> << "Too bad, Buddy. This twisted game needs to be reset... We'll start over from zero with this V2, and trust the future to the next generation." >>

CUM HISTORIA
MUTAT VALDE RAZGRIZ
REVELAT IPSUM, PRIMUM DAEMON SCELESTUS EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80XAJKqRU9k

>>262432638
I blame it's whole realistic detailed style that didn't aged well one bit. Character models and style actually look worst in retrospect compared to Melee

Smash 4 actually fixed that shit and everything looks great in motion and in detail with its art style

>>262433209
jon pls

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>>262434121
Did nothing wrong, etc


AC3 had better atmosphere, nugget. Don't lie to yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjPnoSNprE

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>>262433457
>Wolfos appears
>starting smacking it
>"OWOO! OWOO! OWOO! HWOOOOOO!"
sound fucking gay

>>262432146
I am in agreement with this post.

>>262434486
>implying you played the real AC3 and not just some mediocre localization job.
Unless you are nippon or can speak nipponese. In which case I'm mad jelly.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcrt8bvAmg

IMOQ version so .hack hipsters don't throw a fit. The GU Mac Anu is equally cozy with the same constant afternoon glow.

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>>262434486
> Implying Dynapolis isn't the best song in the world to fly airplanes to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8Mp3t4TZQ

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>>262435541
>implying you played the real AC3

I did, my friend. In fact, I still have the two discs.

>>262434121

Best AC in order is;

>Ace Combat 4
>Ace Combat 5
>Ace Combat Pick your Preference
>Ace Combat 6
>Ace Combat I didn't play that ruined the Canon

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System Shock has amazing atmosphere

>>262435859
>tfw still waiting on that dead translation project
not being able to speak nipponese is such a burden

In terms of atmosphere, Armored Core 4 really nailed it. The menu music, briefings and combat chatter really brought that mech mercenary feel in.

>>262416839
I replayed it and finally beat it less than a year ago.
Goddamn, man. Nothing has topped it yet. Those ghosts 2spooky.

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>>262436335
>dead

I believe they've recently released an update video showing a fully translated UPEO mission.

>>262435853
muh nigga

>tfw both missions where this is played are night sorties for extra comfies

Project Aces knows their shit.

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We might as well say Games from the PS2 era;

Ace Combat
Armored Core
Dark Cloud
Zone of Enders
to name some of my personal favorites

The Souls games have incredible atmosphere, I'm surprised no one has mentioned them yet. The series has some of the moments I've been most immersed in a game. I recently played demon's souls for the first time, and even while playing on a crappy CRT I really felt like I was running for my life from a dragon, then got to a building and hid in it while hearing the dragon flying around and breathing fire everywhere outside.

>>262407872
It doesn't need to be implied if it's just textbook fact.

>>262420836
Still the best NPCs in any game bar none

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3e78w2be9c

I fucking love Hyrule Field in Twilight Princess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqZXoRdQsGY

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Just gonna leave this here too while Im at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BtYy9sKvg8

>>262438292
spyro was eerie.
It's the weird ass colour schemes they use. The green of that grass just looks ever so slightly off.
I love it.

>>262438292

My niggest of niggas right here.

>>262417727
Oh God, the SA-X. That and Zingers were nightmare fuel for me back then.

>>262423231
this nigga gets it

>>262437171
>I believe they've recently released an update video showing a fully translated UPEO mission.
Oh shit nigga, my balls are so moist right now.

>>262418150
sounds the same to me