Yay! Atmosphere!

Which game made on the PC had to most amazing Atmosphere?

Games like Half-life, Fallout, the works. Which do you think just made the entire game have a feel like no other?

Tribes has a unique atmosphere, just so it'll work with the style of gameplay it has. Planescape Torment.. Vampire Bloodlines had an awwwwwweeeesome atmosphere.. I loved it..

Thief series has good atmosphere, but it's too linear of a game for it to be that great.. Deus Ex series' atmosphere was another awesome one. I love the atmosphere in Oblivion..

In the end, my favorites have got to be Bloodlines, and then Oblivion. 

Tribes has a unique atmosphere, just so it'll work with the style of gameplay it has. Planescape Torment.. Vampire Bloodlines had an awwwwwweeeesome atmosphere.. I loved it..

Thief series has good atmosphere, but it's too linear of a game for it to be that great.. Deus Ex series' atmosphere was another awesome one. I love the atmosphere in Oblivion..

In the end, my favorites have got to be Bloodlines, and then Oblivion. 

Dracunos

Yeah, Oblivion was awesome. Sure it had the interface in your way, and the NPCs sometimes did stupid things, but in the end it was a great game, with a great story, gameplay, music, and sound. Hopefully they will outdo themselves in the next Elder Scrolls game.

And Deus Ex definitely had that atmosphere. So was Thief, which their series had one of the most scariest levels of all time, even though it wasn't made to be a scary level.

I'd say that FEAR has it, too. Makes your eyes twitch and your heart pumping.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R has great game atmosphere too.

Most notable was the scary parts in the labs

S.T.A.L.K.E.R has great game atmosphere too.

Most notable was the scary parts in the labs

ahdotx

I agree with that.  It was the first game to scare me since RE2 years ago.  I just beat Prey and I would say it has some good atmosphere. 

[QUOTE="ahdotx"]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R has great game atmosphere too.

Most notable was the scary parts in the labs

lycrof

I agree with that. It was the first game to scare me since RE2 years ago. I just beat Prey and I would say it has some good atmosphere.

I just started on Prey, and the unique weapons are pretty enjoyable. It's really a great game, and it would be really cool if it was more polished (the maps weren't so 'oppressive' feeling, at least). And the pings are so terrible.. But they brought so many unique ideas to that game. The atmosphere is cool, but it's nothing brilliantly immersive or anything to me.. Just a really fun game with some great ideas. I can't get myself to play past that one scary level! Even knowing I can't die, I can't play those, damnit

Thief 3Zillaschool

Most definitely. Like in the "scariest level of all time": The Shalebridge Cradle. Supposedly "burned" down by demon fire, it still stands in the middle of the city, locked, with rumors and stories of it to be haunted. Apparently, in game it was a asylum/orphanage (what a dumb idea).

Simply put, if you were a FEAR soldier, you would have no problem getting through there. But it was the fact that it was almost impossible to kill the monsters inside that made it scary. You were armed with only arrows, and you're fighting mentally insane and powerful demon/ghost beings inside a completely haunted asylum. It's not a pretty picture.

I never got past that level. That's how scary it was. And I can play Doom 3, FEAR, and RE4 on the highest difficulty, lights out, sound up, just fine. I'd say that Thief was what got me hooked on horror games. It's just that I can't go back to that level EVER again.

So, yeah, Thief has really good atmosphere.

Thief series has always been my favorites. Very atmospheric levels with incredible audie and very nerve-wracking gameplay. You're a thief, not a fighter or warrior, so getting into combat is always a last desperate attempt sort of thing, hell, many creatures throughout the games couldn't even be killed! So if they spotted you and you couldn't run away fast enough, it was game over!

Here's one that's overlooked alot though, SWAT 4. Fairfax Residence is an extremely atmospheric and creepy mission where you're breaking into the suburban house of a reputed psychopath and serial killer with a fetish for torturing young women. It's a very, very intense mission made all the more scare because even as you're playing this mission you can't help but think to yourself that damn people like this really exsist. How the hell do the real police and SWAT do it?

[QUOTE="Zillaschool"]Thief 3TheC0m1ssar

Most definitely. Like in the "scariest level of all time": The Shalebridge Cradle. Supposedly "burned" down by demon fire, it still stands in the middle of the city, locked, with rumors and stories of it to be haunted. Apparently, in game it was a asylum/orphanage (what a dumb idea).

Simply put, if you were a FEAR soldier, you would have no problem getting through there. But it was the fact that it was almost impossible to kill the monsters inside that made it scary. You were armed with only arrows, and you're fighting mentally insane and powerful demon/ghost beings inside a completely haunted asylum. It's not a pretty picture.

I never got past that level. That's how scary it was. And I can play Doom 3, FEAR, and RE4 on the highest difficulty, lights out, sound up, just fine. I'd say that Thief was what got me hooked on horror games. It's just that I can't go back to that level EVER again.

So, yeah, Thief has really good atmosphere.

I hate you :( Im at work and now i want to play theif :( ....are you on about deadly shadows right?

Also - i highly recommend PENUMBRA to you guys for atmosphere if you want it. ATMOSPHERE IS PENUMBRA. No doubt - try it...is amazing.

[QUOTE="Zillaschool"]Thief 3TheC0m1ssar

Most definitely. Like in the "scariest level of all time": The Shalebridge Cradle. Supposedly "burned" down by demon fire, it still stands in the middle of the city, locked, with rumors and stories of it to be haunted. Apparently, in game it was a asylum/orphanage (what a dumb idea).

Simply put, if you were a FEAR soldier, you would have no problem getting through there. But it was the fact that it was almost impossible to kill the monsters inside that made it scary. You were armed with only arrows, and you're fighting mentally insane and powerful demon/ghost beings inside a completely haunted asylum. It's not a pretty picture.

Then when you're climbing that flight of stairs up to the attic and the sounds coming from behind the door at the top of the steps is getting louder and louder... Thief 3's "Cradle" level was the only part of any game that creeped me out and got my heart beating fast.

You guys are gonna laugh at me but I thought Prey had an awesome atmosphere.  You really thought you were on board this massive alien mothership.  Not only that, but there were different environments to it: you had the filthy processing area in the beginning, the clean decks where you could see the space outside, the abandoned area where the rebels stayed, etc.

In addition, I loved how you were always reminded of Earth and just how futile trying to get back there is.  Whether it was seeing your bar inside the spaceship (it was tractor-beam'd inside), hearing the conspiracy theory radio talkshow and all the callers, or seeing fellow humans getting possessed or transformed.

It was a vanilla shooter, but it nailed the atmosphere far better than Doom 3 or Quake 4 did imo.

By a mile, Arx Fatalis.

STALKER also ranks way up there.  They did an amazing job with the environment.

System shock 2artur79

 yeah, when it comes to atmosphere all other games are crap

Tribes has a unique atmosphere, just so it'll work with the style of gameplay it has. Planescape Torment.. Vampire Bloodlines had an awwwwwweeeesome atmosphere.. I loved it..

Thief series has good atmosphere, but it's too linear of a game for it to be that great.. Deus Ex series' atmosphere was another awesome one. I love the atmosphere in Oblivion..

In the end, my favorites have got to be Bloodlines, and then Oblivion.

Dracunos

Agree with everything, but I'm exchanging Oblivion for Call of Juarez. 

Without a single doubt, Doom 3 and Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, those games are unbeatable when the subject is best atmosphere.mimic-Denmark

Doom3 and Vampire are the only games u ever played, right ? 

Mafia. The music, cars, layout of the city. I swear after you play that game you miss the feeling of being in Lost Heaven!basersx

Agreed. 

I agree Call of Juarez had a good feel to it..... Other than that I remember the icewind dale games as having a good atmosphere... But for me the winner has to be Ultima 8: Pagan... Not the greatest game by a long way but a great atmosphere.

HL2

Oblivion had almost no atmosphere whatsoever. A TES game with amazing atmosphere would be morrowind.