I came to post about the water tower climb with the crowbars in Boneworks. That game has the most intense sense of depth of any VR game I've ever played. My palms were sweating while climbing.
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What's your favourite "climb up something tall," moment/level in a game?
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I came to post about the water tower climb with the crowbars in Boneworks. That game has the most intense sense of depth of any VR game I've ever played. My palms were sweating while climbing.
It's more subtle, but I would say going all the way from the bottom of Liurnia, through the Ruin-Strewn precipice and Altus, all the way to the top of Mt Gelmir in Elden Ring. It's basically one continuous climb, and really made me appreciate the world design in this game.
This is kind of cheating, because it's the entire game, but if anyone wants a truly white knuckle climbing experience, give "Hatch" a shot! It's a really simple climbing system, but it feels really satisfying and becomes absolutely bare-knuckled at the end of it's hour-ish experience. If you've ever thought "the climbing in all these 3rd person action games is so unengaging because you can't fail" give this one a shot.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rk0X0vV6Q
https://rubeki.itch.io/hatch
The dev is making another climbing game called "Lorn's Lure" that looks awesome as well. There's a demo for on that Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1417930/Lorns_Lure/
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rk0X0vV6Q
https://rubeki.itch.io/hatch
The dev is making another climbing game called "Lorn's Lure" that looks awesome as well. There's a demo for on that Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1417930/Lorns_Lure/
last of us 2. i haven't done a replay yet, but when i do, the biggest reason is to do this again. climbing up this, then descending through the hotel, then to the hospital to fight the rat king is probably my favorite group of sections you go through in a naughty dog game.
Returnal - Biome 3 Tower Ascent
View: https://youtu.be/jV4XwWEBLEA
Not an especially long climb, but is so good and the pay off is brilliant.
View: https://youtu.be/jV4XwWEBLEA
Not an especially long climb, but is so good and the pay off is brilliant.
Bob-omb Battlfield was pretty memorable for me. Despite it's relative small size it had warps built into, shortcuts, multiples ways to reach it (i.e. using the cannon), and even missions built around it (racing to the top). Nintendo really hit it out of the park with the design of that first world and using the "mountain" in that first level to give you a sense of height.
Skies of Arcadia (this game also has a literal Sky Ladder, but I don't think you can climb it? I can't remember)
Entered the thread looking for this, I leave satisfied.
Honorable mention to Metropolis in Downpour DLC:
View: https://youtu.be/IFHaDTT5-b0?t=635
Climbing Mount Lanayru and fighting that big dragon in BOTW is one of my favorite memories of my favorite game of the last 10 years.
Neclord's Castle in Suikoden I.
It was so cool seeing day turn to dusk to evening as you climbed making it feel like a race against time.
Dishonorable mention: Tower of Babel in Xenogears and climbing out of Hades in GoW.
It was so cool seeing day turn to dusk to evening as you climbed making it feel like a race against time.
Dishonorable mention: Tower of Babel in Xenogears and climbing out of Hades in GoW.
