What up? DK here with today’s EpicBattleAxe.com Member BattleCry pertaining to this week’s topic: The most immersive or atmospheric games or franchises. After yesterday’s look at Half-Life 2, today we’re going to examine one of the most established franchises in gaming…and a particular outing that helped solidify its standing as one of the most atmospheric franchises in the industry.
Of course, I’m talking about Metroid Prime and the MBC comes from Axe Head Booger who helps describe what made the game so great. Also, I gotta give a special shout out to Praxx and Ron Jeno‘s MBCs about Metroid…You should
most def check them out on the topic starter page. Anyway, hit the jump to read today’s Member BattleCry and be sure to sound off in the comments section below.
Booger says:
My Battle Cry goes out to Metroid Prime. The Metroid series is known for giving the player a sense of immersion and desolation but Prime really drove it home. With a massive world to explore and playing from a very personal first-person view the game revolutionized immersion by the way your visor interacted with the invironment. It would steam in hot climents, frost in cold ones, and be distorted when hit by electrical attacks. All of this carried into Metroid Prime 2&3 by creating an even bigger world in MP2 or using actually good motion controls in MP3. Metroid Prime set the bar for other games focusing on immersive environments and hopefully Other M will take notes.
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DK
Defiantly Agree.
My 3 choices for this week where Monster Hunter, Portal and Metroid Prime 1
Metriod prime 1 was by far my favorite of the Primes, Echoes just did not live up to its predecessor at all, 3 was a very close runner up. I have high hopes for Other M, but we really dont have much to go on at this point.
I believe when we speak about the most established franchises in gaming I think we really must bring up the name Final Fantasy. I’m not fanboying over it (did I just create a fucking verb?!) or anything but for a franchise to have it’s 13th installment, although they are always different in story plots (disregard FF-X2) and always sell huge amounts worldwide is something to be proud of.
Of course if you go only go back to a few years it wouldn’t be the same but I still believe that a franchise such as Metal Gear and later on the Metal Gear Solid series were “reasonably” well established, even though I’m pumped about Peace Walker but scared shitless about MGS Lightning, for as much as I love Raiden I don’t want him turned into Hayabusa Ryu.
I believe that when Daniel speaks of atmosphere is apparently being confused with the setting, are 2 different things I think atmospheres are consolidated when the game has a first person perspective because, however much I like a game like Mass Effect I can not say it’s an environment where you can believe it exists in many years maybe will appear closer, but something does not seem as possible while in metroid prime or fallout 3 even when it is completely false everything fits perfect, you feel the location where you are the sounds you hear are there, are little details that make the place alive and create an atmosphere hopefully Team Ninja can do at least something close to that, I do not think they can do what the Prime Series Did, Danm! Now I would like to have a wii to play Prime 3 and Other M
Agreed. Metroid Prime 1 had an AMAZING atmosphere and is actually one of my favorite games of all time. For some reason, I just couldn’t get into MP2 and I have never played MP3 but MP1 was a work of art.
As for Other M, I don’t think, I KNOW that it will be crap in that regard. It might be a very fun game but just looking at the art style and those ridiculous cut-scenes (“remember them?”) makes me wish it would get canceled in favor of the real deal.
Same here. Metroid Prime 1 is one of my all-time favorite games! With what it lacks in plot, it makes up for it in great boss battles, distinct and vivid locations, interesting back story told via scans and lore, fun puzzles, and lots of cool powerups to explore around for – which is what Metroid is all about.
I think Team Ninja is trying to either change drastically, or omit completely these characteristics from Other M. Metroid Prime, on the other hand, took the things we love so much about Metroid and brought them to a 1st person perspective. And this is why I will most likely favor Metroid Prime in the long run — because it’s still Metroid at its core.
Every game has its own atmosphere,but for me,Silent Hill series worked the best,although i played only de 2,3,5 parts of the Silent Hill universe.I still remember some parts of the 3-rd when my back was just sweeting and i had some fever moments from all that crazy stuff happening on the screen,the sound design of that game was just to deep.I think Silent Hill 2 is the best,but it’s to cryptic,you need to search forums and all that stuff,but once you get it,oh man…
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My battle cry goes to dead space in terms of atmosphere in a game. The reason simple, IT SCARED ME F**KING SHITLESS. Every creek of the ship suddenly makes you think death is round the corner. The shadows moving across the walls of the ship make the player stop and think for those precious seconds. You hear the screams of someone then there corpse is lying there, with what killed them, free to hunt you down. You feel like a rat in a maze. On top of that every damned vent is like a doorway to hell, with the chance of being disembowelled by the abominations that lurk within the USG Ishimura.
The game has the atmosphere to scare the toughest son of a bitch on the planet.
thanks for reading
Amen
My battle cry would go out to the same game. Prime is the prime example how ambiance should be build up. Its a masterpiece of engineering.
A world where you are all alone and doesnt get boring for only a second. And the eye for detail is amazing. The bend helmet view, the flash reflecting you face in that helmet when firing that charged weapon, the sound of lava on the background, the choice for atmospheric sounds above music and than that misty high tech area at points turning totally dark, makes you more terrifyed than resident evil or FEAR.
This is quite simply one of the best games ever, mainly because of the amosphere
My battle cry geos out to the Blade Runner game released by Westwood Studios in 1997 on PC. It was a point and click and relied mostly on atmosphere and storytelling. There were berly no puzzles to solve. It was all about the choises you made and the the clues you discovered along your investigation. Each location you went to was crawling with life and even if you could not really interact with a lot of things. It made you believe you an existing beleivable world. What is lacking fro me in a lot of new Sand Box games these days. The maps and citys are huge but they feal empty and monotonous.
Blade Runner allso had amazing cgi cut scènes that still look pretty good now it had 4 deferent endings it bowored stuff from the movie and the book and immersed you in a unique adventur.
This is the wrong place to do battlecries. This is where you discuss THIS particular battlecry. The rest should go to the latest topic under SUMBIT a Battle Cry button.
I thought everyone would know this by now.