• ivanafterall ☑️
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    339 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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      69 months ago

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

  • Björn Tantau
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    49 months ago

    Thunderstorms in Baldur’s Gate (the old ones) could outright kill you. Scary stuff.

  • abovearthOP
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    139 months ago

    @games Battlefield Bad Company 2 has a sniping mission in a thunderstorm. You use the thunder to hide your shots and that one was memorable to me.

    And I think Far Cry 3 or Blood Dragon had thunderstorms somewhere? But of that i’m not sure anymore

  • BOTW/TOTK is pretty memorable because it has a mechanical effect. Climbing becomes harder due to wet surfaces being slippery, and lightning can strike things killing them, damaging things and setting fires.

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      9 months ago

      This is one of the two that jump to mind. Red Dead Redemption 2 had beautiful, atmospheric storms that were a sight to behold at a distance. Breath of the Wild brought the lightning up close and personal.

      There’s nothing quite like deciding to take a fight in a thunderstorm while the only gear you have left is metal, or carefully sneaking up on an enemy only to have a bolt of nature’s electric fury crash down two meters behind you and shake the ground you’re standing on. Especially in surround sound.

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      169 months ago

      I loved the storms in BOTW. The rainy atmosphere and the mechanical effects were really well done.

      In a similar vein, Majora’s Mask has a fantastic thunderstorm on day 2 of the cycle.

  • @[email protected]
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    129 months ago

    Super Metroid.

    Surface of Crateria has a thunderstorm for the entire length of the game.

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      Incorrect… The storm actually ends after you get the Varia suit and the music turns from dark and brooding to more heroic.

      It still wins for one of the moodiest openings to a game, in my opinion. It really makes me wish that Metroid leaned even harder into the horror stuff

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

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

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    9 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    49 months ago

    I think that “best” is open to various interpretations.

    The most-emotionally-impactful in the context of the game?

    The most-graphically-impressive?

    The best-integrated with the game?

    I often don’t try and play the latest-and-greatest games, and while I’m sure that I’ve played games with thunderstorms in them, I can’t immediately recall any recent first-person 3D games…and I’ve kind of shifted way from FPSes in recent years. Probably the newest 3D game that I can immediately recall playing that I distinctly recall having thunderstorms – though I think that they were rain is modded Fallout 4; I was using one of the weather mods.

    I think it was one of:

    There are radstorms that impact gameplay by dosing the player with radiation, and I suppose could be considered to a different form of thunderstorm. These are separate from normal storms. Fallout 76 also has radstorms, but they are less-frequent and far-less-damaging than in (modded, don’t recall base game) Fallout 4.

    I guess that that’d probably be the most-graphically-impressive that I personally can recall off-the-cuff. I’m sure that there must be some newer, fancier thunderstorms out there.

    For impact…I can’t recall for certain whether-or-not there was actual thunder and lighting other than in cutscenes, though there’s certainly rain… But The Saboteur is an Assassin’s Creed-style game (I understand; I’ve never played more than a very small amount of those games) set in World War II Paris. The areas that are occupied by Nazi forces are mostly black and white, with a small amount of color, mostly red, and at least some of the time, it’s raining. The areas where forces have been pushed back look kind of like spring. I think that it added to the game’s atmosphere a lot.

  • Swordgeek
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    559 months ago

    I’d say Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2). Everything about the atmosphere in that game was immersive - graphics were good enough that I didn’t notice they were graphics. I genuinely felt cold, wet, hot, windblown, or joyful at the various weather/environment situations in the game.

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    79 months ago

    A Link to the Past was the first thing to come to mind. Of course many games since have done storms much better, but that one had the biggest impact on me personally. The jump from 8 to 16 bits was a hell of a thing!

    • Rob T Firefly
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      19 months ago

      Reminds me of when the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros 3 added thunder and lightning to the background of the Koopa airships. It may have been the coolest upgrade to the whole vibe of that game.

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      19 months ago

      Alone at a fire or surrounded by allies, those storms still make me anxious. Like I’m in the child’s nightmare version of a storm

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      59 months ago

      Came here to mention just that. Base Stalker has some nice storms, but the mods built into Gamma make those absolutely terrifying. I think I genuinely fear the weather more than any mutated monster in the Zone.

  • Konraddo
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    99 months ago

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