• @[email protected]
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    178 months ago

    I’m going to give you an evil answer and say Final Fantasy X. Are you ready to dodge 200 lightning bolts?

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      I’d forgotten that awful bit until you mentioned it. :( iirc my brother got that on my file and I got the chocobo balloons on his.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      This was my first thought on reading the thread 🙈 I’m so glad I knocked that out when I was like 11, no way my mid-30s ass is staying focused enough for a challenge like that now.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        I hate to admit doing it multiple times, including in my 30s, haha. But it’s a long and tedious achievement. The trick to doing it at our age is a good podcast to keep the mind busy!

  • ivanafterall ☑️
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    338 months ago

    I feel like I’m biased and it’s my answer for everything, but RDR2. No other game environment has come close, for me. Screenshot from one moody moment I captured:

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months ago

      Rockstar is no nonsense with their thunderstorms. The ones in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City are particularly wild.

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    Sailing games like black flag, valheim, and sea of thieves had pretty fun weather iirc

  • Konraddo
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    98 months ago

    Witcher 3 and Skyrim are pretty good. RDR2 is great, particularly because you can see it coming.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      I have a tower built off a pine tree. When it thunderstorms, I race up the stairs to go Thor-spotting

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    78 months ago

    As much as the rest of the game is an exercise in tedium and complete disrespect of the player’s time and intelligence, the thunderstorm event in Spiritfarer is pretty rad, and definitely one of its high points.

    At least the first time. The charm wears off after the 9th or 10th time you do it just because you need to grind for the one material you can get from it, and only from it.

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        I think the best way to approach Spiritfarer is as a somewhat cryptic expression if its core conceit: Thanklessly doing a bunch of repetitive chores for dying relatives who mostly act still like dicks towards you for your trouble, and bending over backwards to structure your time and living space around catering to them. The only reward for hard work is more work, and ever more specific and petulant demands. This inevitably evolves to all of your obligations piling up to the point that there literally aren’t enough hours in the day and your progress in your own life (or your boat) grinds to a halt. And when they finally die you’re stuck dealing with all their stuff, forever.

        It’s an interactive metaphor. And while hilarious when taken as a whole, perhaps from the perspective of it all being an elaborate troll, it actually makes for a kind of lousy video game.

  • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)
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    28 months ago

    I swear I’ve come across an indie game that had great thunderstorms, but I can’t remember what it was for the life of me.

    That said, imo The Sims as a series has had good thunderstorms. Being outside can result in your Sim being hit by lightning, and iirc there are things that’ll increase the chance of getting hit, like being wet, being in a pool, holding an umbrella, etc. I’m not sure which game has the best thunderstorms though.

    VRchat has some worlds with really good ambience, and typically they include rain and/or thunderstorms to some extent. You don’t actually need VR, you can play VRC on a normal monitor.

    I’ve just realized that one of the things that Risk of Rain 2 is missing, is a persistent thunderstorm that gets stronger as the difficulty gets higher, lowering your visibility over time.

  • Kernal64
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    78 months ago

    You’re all wrong. It’s DriveClub. They put so much detail in the simulation of air pressure, angle of light coming from the sun, dynamic volumetric clouds, and so much more. On top of that, they simulate their weather on the conditions 100 miles out from the actual racetrack to make things as realistic as possible. It’s absolutely gorgeous.

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    8 months ago

    Umineko no Naku Koro ni

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    78 months ago

    From what i have played, sea of thieves has the best storm, great visuals and sound, and having to make sure the ship doesnt sink is the cherry on top

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      28 months ago

      I had such a great, if brief, time in sea of thieves. It fell out because the main reason I enjoyed it was the team aspect and our friends stopped playing it, but damn if it didn’t give that immersive vibe for a little while, kind of like when I first played WoW.

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      38 months ago

      happened once while carrying gunpowder barrels

      “watch the lightning strike the gunpowder barrels and we explode” famous last words about 10 seconds before lightning struck our gunpowder barrels and we exploded