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"Sometimes it's nice to take a few seconds away from shooting an alien in the head so that you can look at the newly blood-spattered landscape. Games are genuinely beautiful, either visually or thematically, sucking you into a whole new world of rich forests, craggy walkways or still oceans, far beyond the violence and gore that so often gets the focus in the mainstream media. Today we're going to take a look at ten of the most beautiful titles in gaming history."
GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."
The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.
Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.
A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.
Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.
Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC
God damn I love motorstorm so much
At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version
In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that
Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.
I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.
Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.
Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.
I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.
Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
The Witcher 2
Modded Skyrim
Modded Crysis
Modded Crysis 2
Crysis 3 (PC)
Far Cry 3 (PC)
Tomb Raider (PC)
Uncharted 2
Uncharted 3
The Last of Us Remastered
Modded Grand Theft Auto 4
Grand Theft Auto 5 (Next Gen version)
Gears of War 3
Ryse
Forza Motorsport 5
Modded S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Modded S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
Modded S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
Metro 2033
Metro Last Light
Assassin's Creed III (PC)
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman Arkham City (PC)
BioShock Infinite
Max Payne 3 (PC)
Sleeping Dogs (PC)
Hitman Absolution (PC)
Infamous Second Son
God of War 3
Metal Gear Solid V
Project Cars (PC)
Assetto Corsa
Grid Autosport (PC)
Red Dead Redemption
Watch Dogs (PC)
Splinter Cell Blacklist (PC)
Battlefield 3 (PC)
Battlefield 4
Mass Effect 3 (PC)
ArmA 3
Enslaved
Castlevania Lords of Shadow
Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2
DmC: Devil May Cry
Dirt 3 (PC)
Grid 2 (PC)
Thief
Sniper Elite 3
and 100s more.
Point is their is no shortage of beautiful games that all look breathtaking and listing only 10 should be a crime.
Finally a decent list, though I'd personally replace Far Cry 3 and Crysis with, I don't know, Ico and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves?
Child of eden
Okami
Wind Waker HD Remaster
Mario Kart 8
Mario 3D world
Mario Galaxy
Conker: live and reloaded
Killer is Dead
cant remember more now :)
About Shadow of the Colossus, I hope they're talking about the HD version. If they're talking about the PS2 version, I never saw another game with such bad framerate in my life. Before I played it, people talked about how beautiful the game was. When I played it, all I could see was the jerky framerate.
except Shadow of the Colossus is a lame list ..have you ever played Monster Hunter ??? half of the success this game has is due to its environments ...because some games depict rich flora does nt mean that they are beautiful ...Halo Combat Evolved (only the original ..anniversary was crap) was also a beautiful game for it s time having in mind the the available technology...Sonic 2 and many more from other console eras also