Thread 717253508

I love games that feature levels set in skyscrapers, I don't mean generic apartment towers but stuff like the high-end luxury hotels, ultra-modern office buildings/upscale corporate floors, or like private R&D labs. There's something about that that clean minimalistic, high-spec look and the tension of being somewhere high above the city: the smooth surfaces, the sleek architecture and refined interiors with ambient lighting, the massive panoramic windows stretching wall to wall, overlooking the city from impossible heights. They have that eerie feel of calm places that are normally out of reach, but now they’re all yours to explore.

mirror's edge was made for you

>>717253508 (OP)
hitman 2 has a really good contender for this aesthetic

yaeh

>>717253508 (OP)
Nice thoughts, but PE2 is great because of its story as a whole. I generally dislike seuels for being a derivative work of the first installment, but PE2 is just so well made and the story is so cool in its own right.

Sex with Aya.

>>717254959
factual

>>717253508 (OP)
Sovl.

I miss pre-rendered backgrounds.

>>717253508 (OP)
fear's office level was great

>>717253508 (OP)
That's also my weakness and why I can't help but prefer games like bioshock over system shock, thief metal age over thief gold or human revolution and mankind divided over deus ex. drab industrial or same-looking shitholes are always some of my most hated levels because i hate the aesthetic.

>>717257092
too spoopy

>>717253508 (OP)
>raytracing in ps1 game
how

>>717257879
power of SOVL

>gorillion floors of legal
Accurate

>>717253508 (OP)
You have to play Max Payne if you haven't already

hmm

>>717253508 (OP)
I'm something of a sky scrapist myself.
Have you ever tried building one in Minecraft?

>>717259967
Doesn't minecraft limit the height you can build?

>>717257092
isn't the whole game practically an office level

>>717260454
no

Timesplitters Future Perfect had a level set in one of these. Also there's a Doom wad that has a really neat futuristic looking skyscraper.

>>717253508 (OP)
Most Yakuza games involve a level/area like that. Sometimes it's the endgame area.

das rite

>>717260818
That's a big tower.

>>717253508 (OP)
>/upscale corporate floors
Did someone say upscale?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8KIa6tWoAE

>>717253943
Hitman's an excellent shout. Perfect Dark is another but with a more futuristic tilt. Tomorrow Never Dies 007 on PS1 had a hotel level like this which I really liked as a kid.

In terms of newer games, Cyberpunk of course deserves a mention. It has the Konpeki Plaza raid at the beginning and the Arasaka Tower raid at the end.

Come to think about it Deus Ex (all of them) have a bunch of environments like this as well, in fact it seems the majority of the environments through the games fit this bill. It seems quite typical of a specific genre of games, the exploratory (often imsim) shooter.

>>717263412
>the best part of the game is the heist
We've been played, chooms. It is always the section for the journos that is the only polished one.

>>717253656
Battlefield 3 came out in the same era from the same devs and has some office towers in the campaign that are in Mirror's Edge style.
The mutliplayer map Ziba Tower also wouldn't be out of place as a residence in Catalyst.

wew

>>717259967
Mine... craft?

>>717253508 (OP)
this level from nightfire is so god damn comfy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iylcuPmlhPY

>>717253508 (OP)
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is great for that.

>>717266567
>hot babes with cleavages everywhere
gaming used to be so good bros

True.

when square used to be good

>>717270538
Sakagooch made it good.

oooooohhhhh I love skyscraper dungeons I have to skyscraaaape I have to get to the toooooooooop

It's comf althoughbeit

AYo hol up...

>>717274460
so yo be sayun

>>717253508 (OP)
Paradise eve 2 is so kino. Beat it on my Playstation last year, been trying to get a copy of one but that's the only one chuds like so it's hard to find

>>717253508 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXKs-Jxj7PI

>>717276012
audio kino

Verily.

>>717263412
I should torrent that game and see if my new pc can run it any better. I remember trying to do stealth in it and quiting because of how bad the gameplay was. Might just do pure carnage playthrough since stealth being good in games is rare.

>>717253508 (OP)
r6 siege has gone to shit but there was a skyscraper level that was awesome

>>717253508 (OP)
>that animated walk up to the tower

>>717253508 (OP)
I've always had a soft spot for that diamond heist in Payday 1, they even have in-game filters to enhance the kino as much as you want.

>>717260454
unfortunately no

>>717253508 (OP)
First thing that comes to mind is the Crystal Palace in Kingpin: Life of Crime.

indeed

really makes the noggin joggin

Tomb Raiders.

>>717253508 (OP)

Parasaito Ibu

>>717253508 (OP)
Ion Fury's whole chapter 3 has you go up this large building: lobby, offices, labs, penthouse, roof, then you go down an elevator as the whole thing blows up.

The new Robocop is set in this huge ass mega skyscraper. Looks tasty.

>>717263334
UUUU

>>717256931
This with the fixed camera angles + tank controls. This defined survival horror at one point. Would be nice to see at least some game out there get made like this with a AAA budget.

>>717285720
And it filters normalfags.

>>717285239
>The new Robocop
?

>>717286889
Unfinished Business. It's like a standalone expansion for Rogue City.

>>717253508 (OP)
Does this count?

>>717287680
Yes.

i wish i could live in one

mhh-hmm

Ayo...

>>717290296
hol up

Gas.

The.

Jews.

Fuuu..