Genuinely cool and stylish games

[Peter]

Are there any games that are genuinely cool and elegant, with maybe a James Bond or Ocean's Eleven vibe? The only one I can think of is Lithuanian Hitman, what with the countless parties, the stylish main character (with that fuckawesome sniper rifle case) and so on.

Apologies if this thread is

 

[Oesophagus]

Grim Fandango

 

[Peter]

Grim Fandango

Ah, yeah. How could I forget?

 

[pipka]

Ι'd јuѕt lіkе tο іntеrјесt fοr а mοmеnt. Wһаt уοu'rе rеfеrrіng tο аѕ Lithuanian Hitman, іѕ іn fасt, Lithuanian Individual For Hire.

 

[deuxhero]

Okami (PS2, with a lackluster Wii port) is quite good looking. Everything has a neat "traditional Japanese art" effect.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

maybe a James Bond or Ocean's Eleven vibe?

Alpha Protocol.

 

[TsongaKralj]

Don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for but I've always thought Shadow Watch has a very stylish graphics.

 

[Regis]

NOLF 1/2.

 

[Destroid]

The Ship? Never played it but I think that was a vibe they were going for, what with it being set on a cruise ship.

 

[Satori (original)]

Dreamweb
Blade Runner
Tron 2.0
X3 Terran Conflict

 

[Ovg]

American Mcgee's alice was quite nice if my memory serves me right.

 

[Zed]

NOLF 1/2.

This, very much.

 

[gromit]

I came in to post Jet Grind Radio, but I guess this is not what you're asking. Hitman and Grim Fandango are both excellent picks, which makes it hard because there are very few.

The New Vegas parts of New Vegas use the vibe to good effect in satire by dressing a bunch of savages up like the rat pack and teaching them the talk. It had the right blend of the slick, the clichéd, and the preposterous. I think it wouldn't have worked with anything other than that familiar, super-glitzy, yet shadowy, "golden era" style.

Saboteur might also have some of what you're after. Smoky Parisian nightlife punctuated with the sound of the Nazis' shit all exploding. Pandemic made some neat, stylish stuff - equally well across many flavors and tones - and maybe you own hardware it doesn't instantly crash on now.

 

[Cosmo]

NOLF 1/2.

This, very much.

Definitely...

 

[Redshirt #42]

Killer7

 

[DriacKin]

Max Payne.

 

[Satori (original)]

Bad Mojo.

 

[Hegel]

Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, CB's:Undying, Westwood's Blade Runner, The nomad soul, Anachronox, The longest Journey, Gabriel Knight, Gray Matter, Silent Hill 2, Mafia 1, Broken Sword 2, The Void, Siberia, Amerzone, Pathologic, Dark Fall: The Journal, Dark Fall: Lost Souls.

 

[Dyskolos]

seconding Omicron: The Nomad Soul since its a quite stylish and overall decent adventure game thats almost entirely forgotten

I'm interested to see how LA Noire pulls out the atmosphere. Shame its console onlyfor the moment.

 

[Gragt]

seconding Omicron: The Nomad Soul since its a quite stylish and overall decent adventure game thats almost entirely forgotten.

I remember that the option to invert mouse aiming was broken

 

[UndetectedButthurt]

Dragon Turds 2

 

[laclongquan]

Shadow Watch seem very intriguing.

Shadow Watch is a turn-based tactical strategy game set in a near future world of international intrigue. The player has access to six characters, each of which has special skills. The game is played in a series of missions with each mission having a different goal, such as the stealthy retrieval of secret documents or the extermination of an enemy force.

Although it is often compared to Jagged Alliance and X-COM, Shadow Watch is only vaguely similar to those games. It has a unique action point system where all actions take the same number of action points but action point may be gained by events such as being shot or seeing an enemy. The game also features a morale system where if a character's action points go above their morale score they go berserk and become controlled by the computer until they can calm down. Also unlike the other games mentioned, Shadow Watch does not allow you to pick up weapons from fallen enemies. Instead, each character has predefined weapons and skills which make you use each character differently.

and

The campaigns were a hair too short overall, both in the resulting playtime (roughly 20 hours per campaign playthrough) and in the number of scenarios before the final battle - if you wanted to have all your characters fully developed for it, you needed to choose missions based on their character development potential rather than the story.

Quite intriguing. Anyone here ever remember how did it feel playing that?

 

[laclongquan]

Shadow of Memories is great. It strongly impress on me the scenery of both medieval Germany and modern small town Germany. On matter of style: 10/10.

 

[Oesophagus]

Viewtiful Joe

 

[Hoodoo]

The Ship? Never played it but I think that was a vibe they were going for, what with it being set on a cruise ship.

played this once at a net cafe killing time, probly one of the most delightfully retarded games Ive played
fall in the water? eaten by piranhas
go into wrong room? axe murdered
talk to wrong person? captains coming after you with a revolver
tbh me and my friend had no idea what we were doing and were pretty much just treating it like a deathmatch but now that youve reminded me I might try to have another play. From what I remember it was kinda like a Multiplayer Cluedo type murder mystery on a boat and you had to search for the killer among the other players while avoiding pitfalls and stuff.