My dad painted me the A bomb site in Dust2 and it looked pretty good so I’m fishing for new ideas 😆
I liked that bit in Oblivion where you jump into a painting and it’s a painting pastel world and there’s a painting troll and you fuck his shit up
Green Hill Zone
The first Halo
Literally anything from Elden Ring SOTE
Nearly anything from BioShock Infinite
So much promise in that game! I wish it didn’t have such a troubled development cycle. At the time I really enjoyed the experience but you notice its flaws on repeated playthroughs.
One big thing that gets me is how it equivocates on the plot between the two factions. We needed more motivation to kill the leader of the resistance.
If it must work as a work of art absent of all cultural context, I’d say… Clock Town from Majora’s Mask. Scenic little medieval town, but the oncoming angry moon tells a story
If art-that-only-works-with-cultural-context is valid… E1M1, that first moment with the blue carpet and such. I can think of very few more iconic starts to a game. Look at it and you know exactly what you need to do with the game.
There are certain points in Metaphor: ReFantazio where the characters stop on their journey and admire fantasy scenery which are essentially static backgrounds. I’d take a large print of any of those for my walls at home.
City 17 from Half-Life Alyx, specifically the part where you see the tower
PlayStation Final Fantasy is cheating, so let’s say Horizon. The ruined landscapes already tell a story (with many buildings from the real world), so it’s a pretty good fit.
2D games count too, where I’d give Ori as an answer. The game creates a great fantasy world.
Where is “posting a screenshot of the games I’m playing” guy when you need them?
That guy needs to finish a fucking game lol
perhaps he finally forgot
The painted world in that one side quest in Oblivion.
You could take a photograph there, frame it, and then say you painted it.
Any random location in Elden Ring. The aesthetics of the game are done in such a way, it’s meant to invoke images of renaissance period paintings.
Most of Sheogorath’s domain in Oblivion would be probably fantastic as paintings.
Anything from Journey, but especially at dusk before you jump down into the dark area or the very end
The area with the giant metal tendrils in Horizon Zero Dawn
The Clockwork Mansion in Dishonored 2
Made a comment about journey before I saw yours but yeah, that whole game is a painting
Gonna add Ori to it tho, game is beautiful
Blood Gulch from any of the original Halo Trilogy games.
Of course someone did it
Subnautica has some nice scenery, though for a painting I’d probably go with something like the safe shallows where there’s plenty of sunlight, or maybe the underwater islands or the kelp forest.
MInecraft would have a lot of possibilities, particularly with some of the new terrain generation for mountains as well as the cherry tree biome that was recently added. However, with each world being generated randomly, there’s no definitive scenes that would be instantly identifiable as Minecraft. So you’d have to rely on making the painting sufficiently blocky and/or replicating some of the terrain generation quirks like the occasional floating tree or lava flowing out the side of a hill and things like that.
I feel like the best way to do a Subnautica painting would be an absolutely gigantic black canvas with only the just enough hints of blue light in the centre to silhouette the diver and a big monster. Which isn’t really practical for most purposes.
For minecraft I personally would go for !hermitcraft@lemmy.world The server has some trully stunning builds that are quite distinct in design that they become recognizible.
The players share their world download on server resets so it can be explored and seen from different angles than the usual youtube videos.
Also they would be delighted to see their builds as a paiting.
Anything from Ghost of Tsushima.
