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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blood Gulch from any of the original Halo Trilogy games.
Of course someone did it
Anything from Ghost of Tsushima.
Green Hill Zone
The first Halo
The bridge in Shadow of the Colossus, crumbling and ancient yet still striding as a titan across the vast landscape
The opulent neo-classical Indian cityscape of Sonashahar in Pacer
The Hanging City in Outer Wilds, clinging to the underside of a hollow world’s fragile shell
Also, like, all of A Highland Song. It’s intentionally designed to look like landscape paintings anyway. The castle in the loch is probably my favourite, or maybe the giant dam
Oblivion. It kind of already has that paint aesthetic, especially if you choose the setting with the quest where you enter a painting to rescue the painter.
Red Dead Redemption 2. Pretty much anywhere.
Literally anything from Elden Ring SOTE
