He was right, they will never capture that feel

elden ring
dragon's dogma

>>715040646
Dragon's dogma for sure eldenring is just one man's adventure on a shitty dead world filled with braindead zombies you skip so you can fight a big boss

>>715040603 (OP)
Good old choose-your-own-adventure games. Nothing better than getting immersed in your own imagination

Dungeon Siege 1
Severance - The Blade of Darkness

>>715040603 (OP)
Because it's literally muh feel, and not based on anything objective.

>>715040603 (OP)
Genshin

>>715040796
ops pic shows one man at times so who asked you retard

>>715040603 (OP)
BG3 lowkey

>>715040603 (OP)
The world has tainted our psyche. How we treat others and how we speak to each other and how we view honor, acts of chivalry, the role of women in society, and an outlook of hope for a bright future are so far gone from the psyche you would need to be in to experience this fantasy adventure. Until the spirit of our age is replaced, the artwork of our time will continue to be grim and dark.

>>715040603 (OP)
the closest is ToTK. the game lets you explore and solve mysteries that are out in the wild. the sandbox aspect of the game also works pretty well since you're just one guy who has to constantly think on his feet to survive all kinds of situations. im gonna get shit on because its a nintendo game, but this is the closest i could think of besides the already mentioned Dragon's Dogma.

>>715042019
you aint wrong

>>715040603 (OP)
>>715042019
if anything, the next Zelda will be even bigger since it'll launch on the Switch 2. im expecting this feeling to be enforced with even more detail.

>>715040603 (OP)
fuck off nigga theres
>Elden ring
>dragon's dogma
>KCD 1 and 2
>witcher 3
>northern journey
>morrowind

>>715040603 (OP)
Skyrim is the only actual answer

>>715042019
TOTK feels like a sandbox, not an actual adventure

>>715047505
its okay to be wrong.

>>715047660
Good, you know you're wrong

>>715040603 (OP)
If you played a game like that you would get bored by the stretched empty open world

>>715040603 (OP)
The answer to most of those pics is unironically modded skyrim.
Standing on top of a really tall mountain and looked at a distant city in glorious 4k 60fps and fucking marveled.
Riding a horse in the middle of thunder/snow storm at night.
Setting up camp with companions and just chilling there.

Games have already captured that feeling and if you didn't feel it then you might be the problem.

>>715040603 (OP)
Elden Ring

Xenoblade Chronicles, unironically

>>715042019
>>715042798
>>715042379
lmao good one

Unironically modded Skyrim

>>715040603 (OP)
Looks boring as fuck

>oh look far lands that I have to walk across for 10 minutes to get to the next dopamine hit
>cryptic puzzle that the game doesn't tell me if it's important, lore-relevant, or just some reused asset
>wow weather affects just like GTA3
>obligatory sneaking, wait 10 seconds, attack, hide for 10 seonds, attack
>wow more walking
>wow a cave
>wow escort missions
>wow "resting" more like wait 10 minutes to recover health
>wow more walking

Just play breaht of the wild

>>715040603 (OP)
>Literally two of the images are Dragon's Dogma concept art
>One of Trine concept art
>Two more are Zelda concept art

Yeah damn I guess no games ever will

>>715040603 (OP)
Literally wuthering waves

>>715041583
Bethesda theme park shit tier.

>>715049927

>>715050278
for what it's worth, that's unusually high for a nintendo cattlehead

>>715040603 (OP)
It's impossible for a game to capture this feeling because these are still pictures. They are intriguing because they are shrouded in mystery, with just enough of a story within them to stir your imagination but with endless possibilities behind them. Video games are first person experiences where you explore and engage with the world in full detail. It would take some extremely clever game design to pull it off.

My first few times playing CDDA and Dorf Fort adv mode were like this.

>>715040646
fpbp
elden ring

>>715040646
/thread

Games for this feel?

>>715040603 (OP)
L I T E R A L L Y Avowed.
Spellcaster+wand build of course.

>>715050094
Tasteless zoomer starter pack

>>715053661
none. games with boats in them have to be "le epic funny pirates"

>>715050028
almost sure that's kind of the "joke" and it's always the same pic to ask for recommendations on more games like that

>>715050028
Those games all fail at creating the feels from their art

>>715050028
Trine is a mediocre platformer that got worse with each sequel. And it's nothing like that concept art.
And neither is sandbox Zelda.

>>715050278
kek

>>715053661
anno 1800

>>715053661
>>715054350
there's even a dock-based dlc
all combat is done via ships

>>715053832
>Tasteless zoomer starter pack

>>715053661
I hate how this level of scale is always restricted in every form of media not just video games. Though the FOV seems pretty low which would make things bigger than what they are. So if you ever wanted Skyrim to feel bigger, just lower the FOV.

>>715053661
watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie

>>715040646
>dragon's dogma
hell yeah brother

>>715053661
The first hour of Greedfall.

>>715040796
>eldenring is just one man's adventure
Unironically the seamless co-op mod turns Elden Ring into the best multiplayer adventure game ever made. It's so good that I genuinely think the game should've been fully co-op by default.

>>715059609
That windmill is fucking huge, but yeah somehow as the years go by. Scale barely scales.
If you looked at that image in 2000 and thought surely in 2025 there will be games with that scale, but no there isn't.

>>715040603 (OP)
lotro did at launch

>>715053661
Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
Caribbean Legend
Sid Meier's Pirates!

>>715040603 (OP)
Oblivion when I was 13.

>>715063430
All of those are still pirate games.
I want a game where you're a merchant marine.
>I guess Sid Meiers allows you to play it straight and just trade

What would be the point of playing a game that mimics the feel of western slop AI images?

>>715040603 (OP)
Outer Wilds gave me these vibes

>>715053661
there is no good sailing/pirate game

Elden Ring
Elder Scrolls 3-5
Dragon Quest 11 for the comfy camping
BOTW/TOTK
And those are just the ones I've played, there are probably many more

>>715040796
>you skip so you can fight a big boss
Why do people do this

>>715064196
Black Flag is amazing what are you on about?

>>715065605
It feels like an AC game that happens to have pirates and not a pirate game

>>715065652
That's unfortunately true, it's such a weird game because it really feels like the devs chaffed against the actual AC parts and the modern day sections were depicted with unmistakable contempt.

>>715053661
>blades of the 400 feet high windmill in your town make one spin
>your roof flies off

It's called deep down™.

>>715066516
lmao at that fake HUD
but yeah we were robbed

>>715045647

>>715045647
>KCD 1 and 2
love those games, but the lack of fantasy elements deduces from the adventure feel, since you more or less know what to expect from the game.
Would kill for a Warhorse game with fantasy elements, like some Arthurian Legends shit.

>>715040603 (OP)
Feel like a lot of sci-fi games capture this spirit, if not the subject matter.

>>715066921
i hope warhorse can work on a LOTR rpg

>>715067474
so they can add gay Haradrim and tell us how much more advanced they are to Gondorians?

>>715067587
it's amazing how so many anons were broken by 3 lines of dialogue in a 100+ hours game.

>>715067701
Because those three little lines and one little nigger completely crushed the narrative of historical accuracy. Funny since the historical accuracy was the ironclad excuse for why the games were both boring as shit and literally nothing happens in them.

>>715067474
I dont think we will ever get a faithful depiction of LotR ever again sadly. I only hope I live long enough to see Kenshi 2 get complete overhaul mods to make it Middle Earth, only modders would even try to actually be autistically faithful.

>>715067068
true but there's a lot more to an adventure
bulk of it being characters and silly things you can run into and make a difference

but i get your point and yeah they should make a fantasy game after this one

>>715067892
>and literally nothing happens in them
play the damn game anon, they have real good writting and storytelling, specially for vidya standards.

Which game will make feel like I'm part of something, have friends I care about and go on an epic adventure?

Contemplation VS experience

Personally the only games that come to mind with OP pic are pathfinder kingmaker (but lame companions) and dragon quest 11 (too childish )but that's only because there isn't much else

Elden ring is too dead
Dragon dogma world is too shit and no real companions
Anyway as I said at the beginning of my post, the pictures in OP are powerful emotions invoker because you are contemplating them and your mind goes overdrive.
It's like that scene in blade runner 1 with the rainy neon night making you feel "omg I need to be in Tokyo right now" but then you actually goes there one day and it's like "yea it's cool I guess but why am I not feeling how I thought I would feel back then during my contemplation?"

>>715068143
No they don't. I put several hours into the first game when it came out and without exaggeration nothing happens after the initial attack on your village.

>>715067587
no, it's so they can make the best fantasy WRPG of the last 20 years

>>715068042
i mean peter Jackson did a good job
they just need to copy his work in terms of art style and tone, also KCD2 was very competent so it can happen

>mods
well i am still waiting to play oblivion in skyrim

>>715067892
>games were both boring as shit and literally nothing happens in them.
you just outed yourself

I say. What's the verdict? Does Tainted Grail give adventure feels?

>>715068350
Stop pretending you give a shit about what Tolkien wrote.

>>715068170
very true
people say then want the adventure but they cry non stop about having to traverse through vast landscapes
which is a major part of any adventure
ideally it would be a mix of something like ER, KCD and dragon's dogma
or i could say skyrim but good and Big

>>715068951
I think it's funny that people making walking sims make the walking the most boring part of their game.

>>715068792
why would i do that?
I think LOTR is great. I got a copy of fellowship with illustrations at a book fair, and it's one of the best things ever.

>>715068951
ER plays like a single player MMO, it's absolutely devoid of adventure

>>715069210
Unlike dragon's dogma?

>>715069374
DD has some elements that make it not as bad as ER when it comes to adventure or feeling like an MMO, but yeah it's not good about it either

>>715069374
yes you stupid fromsloper

>>715068169
FF7

>>715069207
Then surely you would know Warhorse would not respect his work. Vavra is a jew and showed it to all the world with KCD2.

>>715069164
How do you even make long walks in games interesting?
>R* does it by giving you interesting conversations with NPCs and stupid races every 5 minutes.
>Death Stranding does it by making it a balancing act, which is cool but doesn't really gel with the whole fantasy aspect.
>AC does it by giving you parkour options, which is nice, but you can't be doing that across vast landscapes.
In a lot of games, the point of progression is to avoid walking altogether, so who knows what can be done
other than having just one or two linear sequences with great music, like the Mexico intro in RDR1.

>>715053661
Naval combat in Total War: Empire
still the best boat kino ever made

>>715069210
yeah, but the landscapes, along with a lot of enemies and bosses (in the first half), make it feel grand and mesmerizing
(i wish there was an option to pull back camera during gameplay)

Witcher 3 has some parts that have that adventure feel where you travel to an atmospheric city to discuss with friends about stopping the world ending threat. It's not always consistent with it but it is there

>>715040603 (OP)
all of these images feature a character who is not the viewer with unknown feelings for the situation they're in. That is fundamentally incompatible with the gaming experience.

>>715070071
just make the character say stuff like "where the fuck am I?" and "what the fuck is that?" every 5 seconds
yes, I am a gamedev, how could you tell?

>>715069646
I don't think KCD2 is the "anti-white" game you guys think it is
My only problem is the black merchant that was added to avoid the "anti-black studio makes another game" narrative, because of vavra’s past comments. The Embracer CEO talked about it briefly and said it was a bad PR move, so I kinda get it.
And I don't think I'd dismiss an entire studio because of that
not to mention, they're much better than anybody around them when it comes to making WRPGS

Or, you can wait 20 years for someone to make a decent mod for a proper LOTR experience

>>715069697
It's not too hard, you need to sprinkle events here and there, things to discover, especially interesting (and hidden) NPCs you can interact with. The problem is most devs make an open-world game where there is no cardinal direction and where every event is generically copy-pasted because they need to fill the map, this however is the anti-thesis to adventure. Open-world is anything but adventure, an adventure has a goal and a path in mind, even if it can deviate for a long time it will eventually find it's way back to the main road. So to make an adventure you need linear games with branching paths, make directed games where you control what the player experiences but give it some amount of freedom within that experience.

gothic 2
still waiting for a modern spiritual sequel

>>715053661
One day, maybe...

>>715067701
ignoring all the girl boss shit too? a woman saves your life and is a master assassin lmao

>>715068143
Nah, even setting aside the gay romance, arab turned black superdoctor, and fictional pogrom/Henry's half-brother so Vavra could cry about being a victim, the second game had far worse writing and storytelling. I know this because I actually played both. Just the forst few hours of each game tells you all you need to know about the writing styles and intended audiences.

>>715070851
I think witcher 3 has a lot of even sprinkled through out, a lot of it being unmarked
But people on v still hate it for being empty

>>715071987
Oh NOOOO not the heckin womanrino saving the day

>>715072230
>Dude both games are bad
Yk that's a loosing argument

>>715071987
The woman that was laundering clothes in a river and you saved her from rape?

>>715063730
holy mother of new faggotry
kill yourself

>>715069646
You're grasping at straws, anon. Vávra's politics aside, KCD2 isn’t some ideological battleground; it's painfully obvious that Embracer forced PR-mandated inclusions to dodge another “historical accuracy” media tantrum, but the base game’s soul is still grounded in the same historical sim autism that made the first one good. If you're letting one NPC skin color override your entire perception of the game, maybe it's not Vávra who's compromised-maybe it’s you molding your outrage into the dev timeline. Just play the damn game and judge it on systems, writing, worldbuilding-not whatever fantasy you've cooked up in your head about “his people.”

>>715072816
You first you subhuman troon

>>715072878
Troons hate LOTR thoughbeit

>>715073041
Take your meds, tranny

>>715070247
>>715072849

>>715073093
coal

>>715070247
>>715072849
Oh and you still can't enter churches.

>>715072878
>troon
>says the retarded newfag tranny who posted the tranime image
OP's pic is older than you faggot, go kill yourself

>>715073110
>I take pajeet who is paid to post random images for $0.001

>>715070247
>>715072849
A lot of coincidences.

>>715040603 (OP)
the amount of people saying elden ring is depressing. people think fantasy is just
>when theres wizards and dragons and shit

>>715040603 (OP)
Spellforce 3

>>715065025
Because its pointless to kill enemies since they just respawn at save points

>>715073235
>it's anti Christian because you can't enter the churches
>that's why they say name of jesus Christ every 5 minutes, religion is a core pillar of the story, you get a buff for praying and they are literally working on DLC set in sacred grounds
>and it's pro jewsish because they are portraited as lying POS who try to ambush you

sure thing buddy

>>715073453
why would you lie on the internet??

>>715040603 (OP)
Dragon's Dogma and Outward came pretty close

>>715061374
I dont want co-op slop
I want a 4 man party with AI teammates

>>715041583
>Lotr but Legolas and Gimli are gay and Aragorn is trans
Fuck BG3

>>715040603 (OP)
We will never get another empty generic fantasy open slop? Yeah, nigger, i believe u

>>715073453
its gonna be really fucking funny when kc3 comes out and all these cuckservative faggots try to defend henrys top scars as actually historically accurate and not that big of a deal.

>>715073482
Elden Ring is depressing as all fuck, and it's depressing by design.
>barely any sane people around, they barely interact with you, and most of them will be insane, dead, or both before the end
>world is dilapidated, rotten, and populated by insane monsters and the walking dead
>world is so fucked that it's well beyond repair or recovery
>every supposedly divine or goodly being to encounter is just a screaming animal charging at you
>every bit of beauty you see is immediately tarnished by the ugly, shambling monsters inhabiting it
There's a reason these games always give you a "burn it all down" ending to choose, because given the state of the worlds and how well beyond any sort of cure they generally are, it's perfectly viable to opt for the killing blow.

So if you're after a grand adventure full of wonder and mystery, with the sort of undercurrent of hope, camaraderie, and positivity that OP's images are evoking, ER and Fromsoft in general is absolutely the wrong place to look. Their worlds and stories are bleak, miserable, dying and rotting on purpose.

>>715072610
How illiterate are you? I said the second is bad, not the first.

>>715074168
its gonna be really fucking funny when kc3 comes out and it's an even bigger success
no more
>they hoodwinked us
excuse

>>715073957
that would be Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
In BG3, everyone is a degenerate horny freak if "pushed", otherwise they're just a rag tag group of over-confident sideshows

>>715073957
there are no trans party members in bg3
that said bg3 isn't anything like lotr either so you're double retarded.

>>715040603 (OP)
Plenty of games give that feel, but only for short moments before the actual gameplay starts again.

>>715049915
Skyrim has the best music ever devised. You can make other games 1,000x better just by muting their shit sound tracks and playing skyrim music over it. It carries what would otherwise be a boring thing to explore into something magical. It's actually insane.

>>715074329
ER isn't depressing, it's just boring.
It doesn't depress me to be in a dead empty world full of zombies since there is literally no comparison to make in any fromsoft game to a living world, all of their games have been empty maps full of zombies.
your character burning down the tree and becoming the elden lord made me feel exactly nothing because nothing changed, there are still just monsters all over the place and there is literally no one left to be lord over.
Elden ring is not art, it's just an empty map scattered with some bosses

>>715068703
Too grimdark and not heroic enough

I think it's important that we figure out how to put it into words what we mean by this feel. Then we could potentially help future game devs make something like this.
I feel like player agency is pretty important to this. I don't feel like I'm on a grand adventure through a massive unexplored world when I keep getting told what to do and where to go. Maybe a game with a kind of passive goal. Enough to create some structure, but not get in the way.

>>715072849
>>715070247
as someone who actually played the game (120+ hours of it), the only issue I had with KCD2 was the obvious forced jew worship.
Henry gives way too much of a shit about saving the jooos. To the point that it's weird.

someone should make medieval death stranding

>>715040603 (OP)
Outward had a pretty good basis, at least when played with a friend. Too many games don't bother with companions, which is a real shame, because I find having them adds a lot to an adventure game. I'm actually pretty damn excited for Outward 2.

How about, for once, instead of just speaking in air, you actually explain how you want certain aspects to be
such as camera perspective, map design and size, game length, level of story focus, number of NPCs and choices, type of combat, progression system, backtracking and art style etc

>>715075623
It's an obvious feeling but yeah kind of hard to put into words.
What we need is a TES style game with TES level fantasy or higher, but without a map / quest marker and with a much larger space to navigate between points of interest.
The main reason Skyrim doesn't adequately satisfy the feeling is that everything is much too close together. The grand scale doesn't exist.
The journey towards a massive set piece needs to be considered a core part of the gameplay.

>>715075682
yeah he clearly cares too much about the people funding his side and brother
also protag caring about the smaller group/minority , what a subversive thing to do, that never happens

>>715045647
>>northern journey
It does absolutely nail the asthetic BUT you dont feel like a night or a wizard you feel like a lowley peasent trying to survive

>>715075069
I too was in middle school in 2011

>>715040646
>dark souls 4 the sloppening
>jankass nippon rpg but its shit therefore its good
first post worst post

>>715040646
I love Dragon's Dogma so much

open world = cancer
not taking yourself and your world seriously (millennial writing) = cancer
being too video gamey = cancer
being too movie-like = cancer
not having good music = cancer

>fantasyfags have had fucking 40 years of video games appealing to their tastes
>most of them cant even be fucking bothered to boot up modded skyrim, any souls game, any of the 16 final fantasy games, the numerous MMOs, 3 baldur's gates, literal thousands of indie games, etc
Origin Systems could come back from the dead with all its best employees from any year meshed into one revival of Ultima, make the greastest RPG of all time, EA would price it at $30 and you fuckers would STILL ignore it or say "there's just nothing that recreates this fanart/concept image"

>>715040603 (OP)
enderal and nehrim gave me this feeling, stop being such a nigger, also gothic

>>715049915
just started a new character? i played skyrim so much i know exactly where this is

>>715040603 (OP)
As stated earlier, Dragon's Dogma, Skyrim and Dark Souls give you something pretty close

>>715040646
>elden ring
LMFAO you fucking zoomer

>>715040603 (OP)
Unironically Death Stranding 2 scratched that feel

>>715040603 (OP)
shadow of the cossus
outer wilds
totk (at least until you grow tired of it)
elden ring

sorta
but no games will ever truly "get it" because whatever is on your mind is an idea and no game can be fine tuned to what you desire like that. your mind will create sensations that simply can't exist in a game because a game isn't gonna create an entire world out one specific anon's brief sense of wonder

>>715040603 (OP)
crimson desert is going to shock the gaming world its basically zelda totk with the best combat in open world gaming you can combo fuckers in ways tekken and street fighter games dreamed of fagg0t tendiecucksandwhich faggogargoloid

>>715070851
Peak pseud post that tries to liken a book or movie to a video game.

>>715081067
yeah but it'll be a generic looking action game where you flx and kill uninteresting enemies
if it was in style of northern journey and had fun characters the... maybe

>>715081067
unfortunately based on the trailers it'll run at 25 FPS

I got that feeling from this back in the 90s
>be kid
>have kid imagination
>get thrown into a massive mmo world
>no maps
>no online guides
>this allowed thousands of hours of exploration
>if you die you gotta find your corpse or you lose all your items
It was a magical time, to this day the game is still ongoing and up to like 40 expansions literally all the size of a current day wow expansion. This is the mmo they need to make VR, it has first person and they could advertise it as the biggest VR mmo for the next decade

>>715082649
this is the size of a single zone to give you an idea

>>715040646
fpbp millenizoomers seething

>>715069210
>mmo bad
some of the best adventure feels I've had were in OSRS.

>>715069697
fast travel, instead of blackong out and returning to the game at your destination, should display a montage of scenery as you go, highlighting points of interest and passersby/encounters that you can choose to interrupt travel to investigate or interact with. Some encounters should knock you out of travel, such as wolves ir bandits or something.

>>715078120
Thats cool, but Skyrim and Fromshit are all trash compared to Ultima VII and Underworld.

I played through the remastered original Final Fantasy recently and have been playing through FF4. They obviously don't hit the level of fidelity people would expect today but they do a pretty good job of evoking that "we're going on an adventure far into the wilderness to some place of grand mystique and power" feeling. Impressive for how simple they are.

>>715087757
I could never get into older FFs that way and I'm not sure why. The only old JRPG that got me really hard with the adventure feel was 7th saga. Not really sure what was so different.

>>715049915
>Install a gorillion Skyrim mods
>Oh no, it's still Skyrim

that's literally how it felt playing FF11 in 2004 before wikis and metagaming ruined online games forever
zoomies get to lie in the bed they made for themselves

>>715086773
KCD already does most of that, but the guys on V still dislike it. You even have to plan out your routes so you can sleep and save at an inn, and from the innkeeper, you can also learn about some side quests
So you are asking for kcd system but fantasy and I am all for it

>>715088780
I don't understand the people that whip out guides from the start you're just robbing yourself of the joy of exploring and experimenting.

>>715089159
The game is so fucking gray
I am surprised it wasn't made in ue
Re engine was good for re and nothing else
Ig DMC5 looked good but the that's it

>>715086773
The best fast travel I've played is WoW
>mounts are faster walking, but you want to stick to roads to avoid mobs instead of beelining through the map
>flightmasters let you quickly travel between towns, but you still need to physically sit there and watch your character travel through the different areas, which preserves the sense of scale
>hearthstones can instantly teleport you, but only to return to a location. You can't grab a quest and then decide to teleport to a new location
>mage portals are rare and only to the major cities

>>715089159
Remember when Itsuno said the game was full of cool shit to find like the sphinx?

>>715089410
yeah variety of travel options seems to be MMO-only. RuneScape has a ton of teleports but they're just to major cities until you unlock higher level stuff like Ancient spells or enchanted items with one or a few destinations and limited charges.

>>715089305
Or they're robbing themselves of the "joy" of repetition, prop hunts and backtracking because of dogshit game design. When you eventually grow up and start a family you won't have infinite free time.

>>715089410
don't forget the CHAD UNDERGROUND TRAM

>>715092437
That would make sense if these people experienced that or had families before loading up a guide instead, but they didn't and they don't so they look up youtube videos for the best gear locations before they finished installing the game

>>715092808
I'm not getting stuck with the level 1 version of Chillrend ever again

>>715092674
True, though I wouldn't count the boats/zeppelins because there wasn't really a way to slow-travel between the docks (other than Tirisfal-STV)

>>715040603 (OP)
Elden Ring did for me

>>715092808
Not sure what that indian word salad was meant to be but guides are a great help if you don't like wasting time or if you're a completionist.

>>715093345
calling someone an indian is the new way to deflect anything because you don't actually care about the subject but you feel the need to post about it regardless

>>715089159
That doesn't look like appealing fantasy to me. No soul to be found.

>>715093514
Feels rather wasteful to spend time writing replies on a subject you don't care about, doesn't it Ranjesh? I called you one because you can't speak English and write nonsense. Maybe you could use a guide on posting here :)

>>715073957
I feel like 90% of this board didn’t play BG3

>>715040603 (OP)
LOTRO
So easy.

>>715049736
>city

>>715054350
>>715054517
My brothers. Anyone hyped for Pax Romana

>>715094074
Cocksucker OP just wants to feel cool by shitting on popular games.

>>715040646
i want to agree but the overworld in those are super boring to me. i agree more with the people saying skyrim, there's a severe lack of... grandness i think? the main dungeons in elden ring and the underground cities get it down super well. those are incredible to look at and explore, and are amazing at conveying that sense of massive scale. but the main overworld is pretty flat and lacking in pretty much category. same with dragon's dogma. skryim has the opposite problem where the world is grand and amazing but most of the dungeons themselves are fucking drab, or in a cave.

Suikoden 2 and Fable series. You don't have to look that far with older games.

>>715067068
yes I too want a black gay King Arthur game

>>715040603 (OP)
it did, 20 years ago

>>715096227
A shame that they immediately lost the plot on TBC, with the decision that every new expansion should make everything that came before obsolete.

>>715040603 (OP)
It's a really tough feeling to capture because there are many variations of the "medieval magical adventure fantasy".

There is the "going on an adventure with a band of friends" fantasy that requires extremely well written companion NPCs to work, and therefore has to be turn based because no one has yet to figure out how to make a good action game with a big party... (Dungeon Siege tried sort of, Dragon's Dogma companions are golem husks). BG3 and Dragon Age Origins are close, but they are CRPGs, like interactive books more than immersive games.

Then there is the "explore a world of interactivity and freedom that reacts to you, no rules!" types of fantasy that has long been dominated by Elder Scrolls and Gothic. Borne from the immersive sim roots of Ultima Underworld. Sadly, Gothic in 2001 and Morrowind in early 2000s are still the peak of this genre and the space has stagnated for 25 years. The weakness here is always the storytelling and characterization and combat. No one has figured out how to do fun combat in this genre yet and the quality of writing and worldbuilding has decreased for decades while graphics get fancier.

Interestingly, GTA and Red Dead Redemption are much more enjoyable sandbox games with more interactivity than the Skyrims of the world, it's a shame Rockstar has never applied their skills to a fantasy game.

Then there is the "story driven heroes journey action" fantasy that has dominated with Witcher 3, the modern Assassins Creed games and the like. They limit the choice of the Elderscrolls type games, but make up for it with more linear storytelling. These games are relaxing and fun to play, but always feel shallow because they lack the interactivity that is the core of the D&D fantasy adventures that inspire the genre.

We're all still waiting for someone to come and make a game that actually captures the fantasy of going on a medieval magical adventure... hopefully someday a dev will do it.

>>715053661
we need more renaissance inspired clockpunk without the steampunk slop in games

Playing Fountains right now and it's giving me some A Link to the Past flashbacks.

>>715045647
Haven't played KCD2 but the first game suffered severely from any map variety. It's a great game but once you've seen a fraction of the world, you've pretty much seen all of it.

>>715093725
The classic fantasy art style is a dilemma for modern devs. The images we think of as "classic fantasy" are mostly oil paintings done for book covers or D&D in the 80s and 90s. There is a grounded realism to it, but it's also exaggerated and larger than life.

The 90s and early 2000s approached 3D fantasy art with a painterly style as a limitation of the medium. The look of Dungeon Siege, Morrowind, Gothic I, Ultima Underworld, Everquest and WoW all feel like an attempt to bring that "classic fantasy painting" look into the 3D space. And they were quite successful. This style of game art meant literally painting textures right onto models. Even games like Diablo had pre-rendered models that embraced that sword & sorcery classic fantasy book cover feel.

But now we're in the PBR modern age. Nobody paints textures anymore. If your game assets can't function under global illumination real time lighting, with complex normal maps, AO, roughness maps and physically rendered detail--you're dead in the water for consumers...

But nobody has seemed to figure out how to transfer that nostalgic feeling of classic fantasy art into the modern 3D art pipeline. Characters look too realistic--too detailed. Additionally, realistic art styles are immensely expensive and difficult to achieve... so only the top tier AAA studios can afford to pursue a modern dark fantasy art style.

The most intriguing recent game that I feel closely touches this art style is No Rest for the Wicked--but of course it's blending hand painted style with modern PBR workflows.

>>715040603 (OP)
Morrowind
Elden ring
Battle bros?

>>715040603 (OP)
Megaman Legends

>>715098092
Also this.

>>715066921
just chllin with the boys

Damn, I just want a new 2D Zelda game

>>715050151
>>715073957
Knowing that the mere mention of Baldurs Gate 3 sends a portion of this board into a tailspin of seethe might just be the best part of this board. 3 keystrokes can ruin their day lol

>>715040603 (OP)
dd:da

>>715053661
dishonoured but not really

So what fantasy books are you guys reading?

>>715094074
I played it and It's full of gay men hitting on you. And all the women are ice cold.

>>715099285
anon thats bullshit. at the very least the reddit demon woman is hitting on you in every single dialogue

>>715042019
Yeah. TOTK is the greatest adventure game ever made

>>715098815
Original Conan books
Fahferd & the Grey Mauser books
Really impressed with the Gotrek & Felix Warhammer books. I'm on the first omnibus.
Tales of Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Elric of Melnibone
I'm on like book 13 of the Drizz't series. Endearing 7/10s across the board.
Riryia is pretty good

I'm running out of good stuff. The new fantasy is all geared towards women now or quirky, sarcastic nonsense (like the Blacktongue Thief).

Malazan is okay, but so "sweeping" it's always about giant armies and world shattering events, I like smaller scoped tales of adventure. Joe Abercrombie books are okay, great fight scenes, but a general cynicism and hatred of humanity that I find dull.

It's crazy what not publishing new male authors for 20 years can do to a culture.

>>715067701
anon, they are racist
See? >>715067892
>historical accuracy
cries historical accuracy
got C's in history class

>>715049860
>op shows zelda art and asks for similar game
>"yea, this zelda game might be the closest"
>"lmao good one"
are you retarded?

>>715099658
>Original Conan books

>>715099658
I'm reading some Lovecraft now then planned on moving to Conan after.

Modern AAA games simply have no mystique at all because they're too high fidelity and the directors all want to be hollywood jews.

>>715099972
Yea I think hes a bit retarded. TOTK is the ultimate adventure game

>>715099972
NTA but BotW and TotK may both be in the same franchise as that one piece of art in the image, but neither of them have any moments that are anything like it. It's not just Link finding some random cool art and writing on a wall, it's a key point in the narrative of LA, which is something those later games barely have and which makes it impossible for them to capture the same feeling.

>>715101258
Finding the king's hidden study and reading his journal is just as good, if not better. Fake old-Zeldafags who cry about the new games are the worst.

>>715100656
Reading Conan is an experience. You've got a guy in Texas in his 20s churning out worlds of such fascinating beauty and raw energy it's impossible to comprehend how he did it. You'd think he'd travelled the world but he never left Texas. He just read tons of history books.

It will pretty much ruin all modern writing for you. Even the best of the best of today can't write as beautifully as RE Howard. He takes you to exotic lands in such an artful way I can't describe it. It feels like you're reading the history of a real place.

It's also fantasy before fantasy tropes poisoned the genre into a cycle of regurgitation. Conan monsters are just vivid human fears... like what if a giant ape tried to tear you apart. What if a giant snake was chasing you in a pitch black sewer maze and all you have is a dagger and a torch. It all feels fresh and creative and WAY more well researched on history and ancient cultures than anything you'll find today.

Read every Conan story by Howard, they are all amazing. Lovecraft and Howard were pen pals and Lovecraft gave Howard a bunch of tips on his worldbuilding, so you'll feel Lovecraft's touch in his works.

>>715040603 (OP)
That """"feel"""" is outside you fucking retarded monkey.

>>715101895
Outside is filled with jeets and other ugly people.
If I leave my property I feel like I'm transported to Mogadishu all of a sudden.

>>715101771
Even beyond the allusions to ancient history, he clearly touched upon some esoteric elements (the fall of Atlantis, a nation named Hyperborea, various pantheons). He clearly did his research and was still able to turn it into his own.
But yeah, he was the underrepresented greatest. Arguably as influential as Tolkien. My favorite is Black Colossus. It hits every mark: some supernatural horror, the machinations of a god, a huge battle sequence, and an evil wizard. Just the best.

>>715101771
>It will pretty much ruin all modern writing for you. Even the best of the best of today can't write as beautifully as RE Howard
I didn't plan to binge them all at once. I plan to mix them in with Lovecraft and some Sherlock Holmes books, then one offs I plan to read like Roadside Picnic.

>>715102476
Yes, overcoming hardship is part of the experience you blackest gorilla

>>715099658
>Original Conan books
What does that even mean? There is no Conan book written by Howard. Only short stories.

I always found Valheim to be a game like that (I just dislike the norse viking feel, too much of it around).

But there was loads of adventure. I also believe that some dose of procedural stuff is a welcome sight as it adds to the sense of finding unique stuff.

Having the internet is also taking away of the sense of exploration as u get bombarded by midwits on yt, x or here with “whats worth doing and whats not” which is a total subjective thing

>>715106634
Playing Valheim with friends was a great experience. Even solo, just finding some abandoned shack in the wild or some ruined castle in the forest and making it your base was so much fun. Sucks that the biome progression was such a lengthy process.

>>715073957
There is not a single tranny party member in the entire game unless you make yourself into a tranny.