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Which games offer the most beautiful natural environments?
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I loved Skyrim because it allowed me to get “back to nature.” The sprawling mountains and rolling hills were lush.
I was wondering what your favorite “nature” environments were in gaming. Thanks a lot!
Edit: Thank you for the responses, everyone! This is an incredible list, and you all have great taste. Gaming is my favorite hobby, and it's because of the escapism into the natural world in so many games. Cheers!
Top Comment: Kingdom Come Deliverance A Plague Tale Requiem is stunning and has quite a lot of nature
Best games for someone who likes nature?
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I live in FL but I’ve had serious FOMO of more beautiful nature lately. My ultimate goal is to move away probably out west where there’s elevation and seasons and woods and hiking trails. Until then I’d like to live vicariously through a game if possible.
Already played Firewatch and enjoyed it. RDR 2 is decent as well as far as the nature goes.
Top Comment: Abzu - linear water exploration game The Long Dark - survival in the Canadian north. East Shade - painter exploring the island of east shade. The Witness - puzzle but honestly the island is a joy to look at Season: a letter to the future - similar to east shade, but you are a photographer RiME - adventure puzzle with some grand vistas. Proteus - One of the OG "walking simulator" games. not real game play, just walk around a procedurally generated island. Dear Esther - another "walking simulator" game The wild eternal - another walking simulator I've recently been playing a vanilla+ Minecraft custom modpack , that's just distant horizons, shaders, resource packs, and structure mods. and man is it a blast. I use modrinth, fabric 1.20.4 and all of the mods are linked in the description of that video. Second u/TravUK 's vintage story recommendation . aside from the blocky style its completely different to Minecraft.
Wondering about some nature games and their intersections | BGG
Main Post: Wondering about some nature games and their intersections | BGG
Games where you kinda explore nature
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I'm looking for games kind of like firewatch or the forest on peaceful mode where you can just Wander around either in free roam or as a part of the story inside of a forest or jungle. wildlife included
Top Comment: Abzu is a good example of an underwater version of this, although it does proceed through areas in a linear way, you can stay and mess around in each area as long as you prefer.
Nature games for PC? Any recommendations? - Games - Quarter To Three Forums
Main Post: Nature games for PC? Any recommendations? - Games - Quarter To Three Forums
Top Comment: A couple years back, @Skipper posted in a thread that there are some nature games out there where you play as animals. Anyone have any recommendations that fit this bill? The more realistic, the better. No problem with the natural violence of nature, for example hunting as a hawk, although ...
If you have never played Natural Selection 2, there isn't a better time to try than now, and likely wont be in the future.
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Hey guys,
I'm a huge fan of a game called Natural Selection 2, which is an FPS / RTS hybrid game, created by the studio currently working on Subnautica.
The game plays as a competitive team based strategy fps, inspired by things like Starcraft, ALIENS, Star Ship Troopers etc...
This video goes over some of the basic concepts of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfQFykC9-v8
Up until a few months ago, you would be lucky to find a single server with people playing it, but a large resurgence of interest in the game has began to pick things up significantly, yielding about 5-10 full servers to play on at any time.
I'm basically here pleading to the reddit community to try this game out if you think it is in your possible realm of interest, as it is one of the best games I've played in a very long time, and honestly deserves to succeed on it's merit.
I have no idea whether these guys fucked their marketing budget up for launch or what, but the game is absolutely amazing, and just not incredibly well known about.
Anyways, I hope you will give it a shot.
It's a good enough game that it's potential failure seemed unjust enough to compel me to make a post promoting it anyways... whatever that is worth.
Steam link for the lazy
http://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/
Top Comment: I played it 13 hours according to steam and it was pretty hard. I just got completely smashed by better players for 95% of the time. Is there a good tutorial or YT series I can watch, so I don't get frustrated again by it ? I wanted to like the game but it was so hard to get into it. Edit: I bought the game on the first sale after it's release and played for about 2 weeks. So I'm sure a lot has changed, but the bad first experience kept me away from the game. I might try it again this weekend
Games with natural disasters
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I'm looking for a game that represents a natural disaster like a volcano erupting or a tsunami tiding over or an earthquake ravaging a city. Preferably something more grounded and realistic but I am also open to more fantastical elements. I would also prefer it being from the perspective of a single character not from a "god" view. First person or third person doesn't matter.
Top Comment: Spec Ops: The Line features a sandstorm that devastates a city and a storyline that will devastate your psyche. Third-person shooter. Battlefield 3 also features an earthquake. First person shooter. Call of Duty Ghosts has bad guys using giant tungsten rods dropped from orbit to cause earthquakes to devastating effect. First person shooter. Shadow of the Tomb Raider has a level with a massive flood. Third person adventure. Dishonored features a level where a retaining wall broke and the whole area has been flooded. On top of that the city is overrun with a deadly plague spread by rats. First-person immersive sim.
Natural locomotion for oculus store games.
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Hi guys, I need your help. I’m fairly new to VR. Love RPG games and decided to buy Asgard’s Wrath to play it with Natural Locomotion plug-in. However, as I was waiting for my game to finish downloading, I read that Natural Locomotion works only with Steam VR games. Can anybody confirm it? All the info I managed to find was quite old. Does anybody know any other way to play Asgard’s Wrath with feet tracking? I don’t care about arm swinging, I have my switch controllers ready and been so excited to try it out in my first VR RPG game.....
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As far as I know yes, only works for SteamVR, OculusSDK doesn't allow modifications/extensiones as SteamVR does.
The interesting question is, what will happen with OpenXR games in the future.
More games need to implement natural locomotion versus smooth movement.
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While I’m one of the few people that enjoy teleport movement, as it feels like a VR given power, versus smooth movement, smooth obviously makes more sense in some games. My problem is that I feel it’s more immersion breaking than even teleport. At least with teleport I can pretend but sliding on the ground using the thumb stick just feels wrong to me. There’s an app called Natural Locomotion on PC VR, and some games have used a similar movement scheme, and I think this needs to become the default over smooth. Having to swing your arms to move creates a sense of immersion versus anything else. We’re in VR, why not use this.
Thoughts?
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I could never get used to teleport movement. Too disorienting and immersion be damned. Swinging my arms at my side doesn't seem any more "immersive" than moving a controller stick around. I'm still not moving my feet. ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄
How do games like Natural Selection 2 still get updates?
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http://steamcharts.com/app/4920#All
Natural Selection 2 hasn't had over 1000 concurrent players in years, yet the developers are still giving it more content and balance updates than Valve gives to CSGO. What gives? Why do they do this? How does this make money?
Also, why does no one play it? The game is pretty good
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The development studio itself doesn't really support Natural Selection 2 much anymore. They gave the reigns for updates to a team of dedicated community members back in 2014, since then updates came from the community itself and the original developers went on to mainly focus on Subnautica, because they couldn't do both as a small studio.
As i understood it the community team suggests changes that get approved by Unknown Worlds and then implemented by the community team itself.
Natural language processing and text games
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Are there any examples of NLP being used for procedural generation in text games?
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An early tool called a Z-Machine was built and used by Infocom for their text adventure games. An interesting article on it is here.
Is it natural to not have fun playing a game you've made?
Main Post: Is it natural to not have fun playing a game you've made?
Top Comment: It's dead easy to tell if someone else's game is fun, but I've learned it's surprisingly difficult to tell if your own game is fun. I need outside input to have any idea. The intimate familiarity that comes with designing every part of the game definitely ruins its ability to surprise you, for one. I've released one game that I have no enjoyment playing (although I am proud of it), but it has reviews averaging 9/10. Unfortunately, I'm mostly unable of rating my own creations.