What retro games would you consider your favorite for their atmosphere?
Pic related. I loved KF's dark, muddy visuals. The atmosphere created a persistent sense of impending danger. Of course, given the number of lava pits, bottomless drop-offs and pitch-black chasms everywhere, the danger was very much real.
>>3663835
You would prob like Echo Night OP, it's a first person adventure game also by From Soft, even runs in the same engine as KF.
>>3663835
tomb raider 1 & 2. personally I feel the playstation versions add more to the atmosphere due to the hardware limitations.
splatterhouse
Just beat KF op, I agree. The first person perspective felt like a legit adventure. So did not knowing what any of the magic or items did until you experimented with them or found a fortune teller. At first I thought the game was super hard, but honestly the second half of the game really isn't challenging at all.
>>3663884
Yeah once you can stock up on gold potions the game's combat becomes a lot easier. For me a lot of the difficulty was in figuring out where to go/what to do without using a walkthrough.
>play King's Field back in 1996 or so
>think it's a really shitty game but somehow I keep going back to it
>guilty pleasure sort of deal
>time skip to 2009 and beyond
>Souls games are a hit
>people in the west become aware of King's Field
>lots of people actually like it now
>tfw not guilty anymore
>>3663928
>Feeling shame for playing a game unknown to normies.
>Feeling sad about being incongruent with mass culture's idea of a "gamer".
>Feeling relieved when your game series becomes popular and approved by normies.
Pathetic.
>>3664103
>Feeling shame for playing a game unknown to normies
Not really what he said.
>>3664103