Half life 2.

Isn't that the point? ;)

My first playthrough was also with a pirated copy. I was so fascinated by it that I immediately went out and bought it after the playthrough and yes, the music makes a real difference. :)

I'm not surprised. If I remember correct at the time there was a great deal of rivalry between the games fans. Some liked Quake, others liked Unreal and there was much bitching between them. Fan wars isn't something new. :)

Unreal Gold for me, but I can think of several others as well.

Yah, Sanitarium.

I also thought F.E.A.R. was good with the spooky, despite being a shooter.

The original "Resident Evil" and "Silent Hill" back when they came out. Haven't played them in a long time so I don't know what I'd think now.

Phantasmagoria back when it came out.

PS1 or Gamecube?

Try Gothic 1 or 2. Take a trip to the forest at night or a cave/tomb...now that is some nice experience right there...I have the game OST and sometime listen to it, when I hear the music fromt he mines, man i get chills down my spine.

Deus Ex has nice futuristic feel about it.

Thief 1 and 2 will give you put you in a nice mood.

No game that I have played has better atmosphere than Thief: The Dark Project.
Honourable mention to the Bloodmoon expansion of Morrowind.

The best, maybe not but it's damn good. You questioning super metroid let's me wonder what you find atmospheric....

If you are into steampunk the Thief games are as good as it gets for atmosphere. Especially 2, although I never understood why they modeled the bad guy after Truman Capote. I love Capote; I love all of his books; I just never heard him talk and thought 'Arch Villian'!

Hands down Metro 2033

It filled me with a sense of amazment, it was massivly atmopseric and right now free copies!

After metro its The Chronicles of Riddick games

Playing that game was a breath fo fresh air. It pulled me into the world of Riddick and held me there. Never really allowing me to pull out of the lore it spun around the world.

next would be Fallout: new Vegas

everystep every area it all meshed together and just made sense... it was beutifully done and a wonderful game

but the best, and i mean the absolute best game that's ever existed for pure mind blowing amazingness is

Shadows of Colossus...

I really cant say much more than that... In your life, if you call yourself a gamer in any regard and you must find a way to experience this game...

As it was mentioned prior i'll Second Unreal 1, breathtaking when i first stepped off the ship and saw the world....

For pure intense terror, Dead Space... This is mah GAME! The only thing to inject fear so deep that i cant sleep was the original marine campaign for Alien vs Predator

lastly Tron 2.0... it was beautifully done and it really felt like you were in the world of Tron, great memories their....

PS1. I was home on leave and drove twenty miles to the mall in a blizzard for the system and the game.


I've only played Deadly Shadows, but I thought the atmosphere in that was engrossing.
Too true. Have you seen this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_by_Death

I'd say Call of Pripyat with the atmosfear mod. Seeing the sky turn when you're sodding miles from adequate shelter is a real drop everything and run moment.

Murder by Death is on all of the time but I'm always busy hanging out here or watching football.

True, but you can get blowouts in SoC with mods like AMK, and I think there's a version of atmosfear for SoC too.

Either way though, both games are great, particularly in the atmosphere department. Not sure about Clear Sky though, I didn't play that one much.