What games have your favorite art design?

[Angst]

I want suggestions of games to play that have BEAUTIFUL art. Here are a couple that I've played I enjoyed so far.



Persona 5 oozes style from the character designs to the menus

Maybe a weird choice but I also love Xenoblade 2's art, too bad the resolution is abysmal

Bloodborne is another fav.I think its the best looking soulsborne

 

[Dest]

Bloodborne.

 

[Iori Fuyusaka]

First thing I thought of after reading that title was Valkyria Chronicles.

 

[Deleted member 5593]

The Gothic Horror atmosphere of Devil May Cry 1

The Yoji Shinkawa art design of Metal Gear Solid 1

The peak 90's arcadey presentation of Tekken 3

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

Easy.

Jet Set Radio

Killer7

 

[Randomly Generated]

Half-Life

 

[Angst]

Lemme see some pics guys! Sell me on these gorgeous games!

 

[Gilver]

I love Nier Automata's art direction, has a very minimalistic scifi anime vibe.

 

[Deleted member 8196]

Dishonored / Prey
Bastion
DOS 2
Bloodborne
Okami
Alien Isolation
Ori
Hollow Knight

 

[DidactBRHU3]

Ori and The Blind Forest and soon Ori and The Will of the Wisps.

 

[NediarPT88]

Okami and Bloodborne.

 

[Rotobit]

Sonic Mania, both the official art and in-game sprites

Same extends to most of Japanese classic Sonic (never liked how he looked in the western box arts)

And Breath of the Wild's muted, delapidated beauty is something to behold

 

[Luap]

Okami was one of the most visually striking games I've played.

Xenoblade Chronicles also had incredible art direction.

 

[RowdyReverb]

Cuphead is an easy answer. The art design is just so thorough and consistent. There are no breaks in the illusion to remind you "Oh right, I'm playing a video game on a modern platform".

 

[Big G]

Ueda's games (Ico, SotC, TLG)

 

[Eros]

Bloodborne
Persona 5
SF 3rd Strike
Every 2D Samurai Shodown
Cuphead

 

[Akumatica]

Okami-

Gravity Rush 2-

Splatoon 1&2-

Muramasa-

 

[Angst]

I really like the alien world aesthetics of FFXIII

 

[DaciaJC]

I love the realistic style and vibrant colors of TW3.

 

[doof_warrior]

literally everything about the presentation of fft is perfect to me. music, concept art, in game sprites, menus etc
but since this is an art thread

 

[Angst]

literally everything about the presentation of fft is perfect to me. music, concept art, in game sprites, menus etc
but since this is an art thread

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Underrated

 

[Deleted member 7883]

This is Zineth. I love the style of this game. It's Jet Set Radio meets Moebius.





the film noir/art deco look of Grim Fandango will always have a soft spot in my heart, too.

 

[Akumatica]

Monster Boy and the Curse Kingdom-

Odin Sphere Leifthrasir-

 

[Lyre]

Halo
Xenoblade
Mass Effect

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

Any thing bright and cartoony, but not too animeish

 

[Deleted member 2834]

Disco Elysium looks fantastic

 

[Tyaren]

Genshin Impact. It's so pretty, cute and charming my tooth aches:



(The English voice actors make my ears ache though, lol.)

Apart from that I do also like Sony's hyperrealism that's really vibrant and clean like in Horizon Zero Dawn, God of war or Spider-Man:

A more muted but very atmospheric kind of that hyperrealism appeals to me also in games like Shadow of the Colossus:

 

[hydruxo]

Anything from Supergiant, but Pyre in particular just really does it for me.

 

[CyrilFiggis]

Some I love:
- XIII: Really neat usage of cel-shading in a first person shooter
- Gravity Rush 2: cartoon visuals with a good amount of detail (such as individual items at storefronts)
- Cuphead: I love the Fleischer animation style

 

[LabRat]

Hotline Miami
Ruiner
most Remedy games especially Alan Wake and Max Payne
Deus Ex: HR
Bioshock
Batman Arkham Series
The Darkness
Killing Floor 2
Killer 7
Rez Infinite

 

[Femto0]

Vagrant story

 

[Angst]

The original ni no kuni is just... beautiful

 

[-Tetsuo-]

Destiny 2 has incredible art direction

 

[Sakashima]

Puppeteer deserves to be on the first page.

 

[Kamaros]

aw gawd, my favorite i think it's Dark Souls 3.

followed by Zelda (pick BOTW, Wind Waker or LA Remake), God of War and The Witcher.

 

[Crayon]

This gen its been zelda and guilty gear's anime abomination extravaganza.

 

[Edgar]

Witcher 1&3
Metro Series
Stalker Series
The eastern european games just know how to make lived in , dirty grounded worlds like no one else
HL 2
RDR 2
Are the closest that I got to that lived in feel from big western AAA studios .
Mass Effect 1 . The low budget 70s sci fi aesthetic is just god damn rare in games

 

[Tyaren]

Witcher 1&3

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What about Witcher 2? XD

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Bloodborne and Souls games. I love that shit.

 

[Pyro]

Metal Gear Solid 2. Sleek, near future but still sci-fi.

It's even in the music.

 

[George Romero]

Bloodborne, Gof of War 2, Dark Souls 3, Horizon, RDR 2

 

[YolkFolk]

Okami (PS2)
Breath of the Wild
Shadow of the Colossus
Wind Waker

 

[Edgar]

What about Witcher 2? XD

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lol. i dont think it looks bad , i just dont think it has that medieval aesthetic that 1 and 3 captured . W2 art direction is a lot more high fantasy inspired and the slavic overtones where nowhere to be found

 

[Chivalry]

Danganronpa, Persona 5, Witchers, FF 6,7,8, XIII and XV.

 

[Kamaros]

now for some indie love, one launched and one upcoming.

Ghost of a Tale

just ACE modelling in Maya/Zbrush by SeithCG and a cohesive design with incredible lightning, running in Unity.

TUNIC (upcoming)

it's being made in Blender/PS and Unity engine by one person, Andrew Shouldice, seriously, just look at it.

 

[Avantgarde]

Morrowind, Broken Sword, Thief (Deadly Shadows in particular), Anno 1800.

 

[Grapezard]

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2 has some really colorful spritework that I'm a fan of. The new Guilty Gear looks incredible, too.

 

[Elementje]

GRIS
Darksiders series
Sekiro
Bioshock series
Katana Zero
Hyper Light Drifter
ICO
Journey
Limbo

 

[NightShift]

Bloodborne
Jet Set Radio
Transistor
Okami
Silent Hill 2/3
MGS2/ZOE2
Ico/SotC/TLG

All peak visuals.

 

[Pascal]

Hyper Light Drifter

Okami, Hollow Knight, Bloodborne, all three Dark Souls and Shadow of the Colossus are all up there for me as well.