Tomba has some good forests. Nice crunchy leaves.
The Witness and MGS 3 come to mind.
The recent Blair Witch game (free on epic next week) has like the first time I've seen a game accurately recreate walking through the woods. You walk paths of convinence, not a well made trail. You can very very easily get turned around. There are in fact eerie openings in the woods.
Like if that game had no scary and was just walking the woods it would be perfect. It's reasons like this the firewatch woods didn't feel like real woods.
dang. Good ole woods in that blair witch.
@Bknbear Also Act 2 of MGS4, where the game started giving off serious ‘Next-gen MGS3’ vibes and ever so briefly I thought the game was going to be something very different from what it turned out to be. Man I wish more of that game was like the first two acts.
On a similar line of thinking, I really liked the condensed rehash of MGS5’s Africa map in the second half of Metal Gear Survive (which was actually okay, contrary to what its unfair online backlash would have you believe). That game may actually have made better use of the MGS5 maps than MGS5 itself. The fog made it feel much more dense and easy to get lost in, and the terrain was well suited for exploration and scavenging.
I really like the magic knight rayearth illuminated forest, in no small part because of the music.
I am gonna play through this game again, it rules too hard.
Also, check out the superscaler forest in Congo:
These always look kind of bad, but as @brentporter would say re: the cycles of what bad stuff looks cool now, this is one of those “bad that comes round to good” kinds of things for me.
@billy outstanding
@exodus “magic knight rayearth” is one of the coolest titles
I want to hear about more magical forest places. I never really got that deep into xenoblade chronicles, but there are some hot magical forests in there.
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most modern 3D forests seem to miss the magic of a real forest somehow, I'll take a willfully fake forest over that any day.
@exodus What the heck! I had no idea that game had environments that look like this. These are amazing!
that's just a couple hours in, if I remember correctly! I want to see more stuff like this, less reality!!!
@exodus ‘s Xenoblade images just reminded me of one of my own favourites - the forests in Tera! I haven’t really played it since the US beta, but I've always treasured the screenshots I took at the time:
Oh man, Proteus is a fantastic forest game! Its proc-gen, and goes between all four seasons from spring to winter! And the best part, if you’re unfamiliar with this game is the entire thing is a dynamic soundtrack generated by how you explore.
The environment around you actually comes alive through sound and guides you around… you pass by a rock and it makes a big bass note… pass by another one and its a bass note a step higher… you look around and notice a trail of these rocks and set out running - gleefully- out into the horizon passing by each one generating a gigantic earth filling bass beat.
Sometimes you see animals, and you follow them and they make music as well… leading you to groups of more animals each with their own unique note.
This game is a fuckin jam baby!
Grandia - Sega Saturn has some great forests, especially with the transitions from the field to the battle scenes.
@sosadillatron PSO : V2 had a great jungle/beach transition too.
@Kimimi Ah yeah, I reckon there are a bunch of real good forests in MMOs and things that I just have no idea about!
The monster forest in Crusader Of Centy (Sega Genesis)
Deep dark and purple. It has some of the weakest music in the game from a just listening stand point.
Instead of spoiling what happens here I’ll just say that I cannot recommend this game enough if you want a rowdy 16 bit adventure bursting with ideas.
How I remember it:
Kinda how it appears emulated (eww / what the heck)
I don’t think the grid on the grass is apparent on real hardware.
Breath of Fire 4 (PSX) is all about hanging out in some forests
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shadow forest from chrono cross is real cool:
. . . and boy is the music good!
secret of mana is like 90% forests and they range from springtime to winter to fall, and so on. (the winter region even has big honkin pink crystals sticking out of the ground.) though yeah, all the little animations in mana’s forests, like water flowing in streams and flowers swaying in the breeze, always made it feel like a real place to me.
pikmin is another one . . . but i don’t want to take up too much space here!
I keep meaning to actually play through this - I still haven't despite owning twoooooooo copies