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Videogame artwork is beautiful. Year after 12 months, we accumulate particular editions, design works books like these from Lost In Cult, or videogame vinyl soundtracks, all flush with a number of pretty idea artwork. Hell, the rationale I made a decision to carry this dialogue is as a result of I used to be leafing by my information and lingered a very long time admiring my Dishonored Soundtrack Collection, which incorporates a load of artwork from all of the video games.
Character Select
Welcome to Character Select, a weekly column the place PC Gamer takes a have a look at the artwork and cosplay created by you. This week, we’re taking a break from the common format to carry you a dialogue of one thing close to and expensive to our hearts: videogame artwork.
So, I made a decision to co-opt a few of PC Gamer’s different writers to speak about their favorite videogame artwork and share a couple of of probably the most memorable items. Obviously, we can’t cowl all the nice artwork on the market—apologies if we miss your fav—and declaring a winner from amongst them can be the peak of silliness when style is so particular person. Instead, we’ll every simply speak a bit about stunning artwork we love. Please tell us within the feedback under what your favourite sport is artwork clever, particularly if none of us coated it right here.
Maybe you may discover some you have not seen earlier than, or maybe it will make you see a sport you already knew in a unique mild. Next week, Character Select will return to its typical format—that is only a sneaky one-off highjacking.
Dishonored
Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer: Few videogame cities have ever gripped me in quite the same way as Dishonored’s Dunwall and Dishonored 2’s Karnaca, but it’s unsurprising when you consider they were conceptualised by Viktor Antonov, who was also responsible in a big way for Half Life 2’s City 17, and sadly passed away last year.
His legacy persists, though, through that striking combination of old and new, of crumbling gothic town houses and towering futuristic metal that you can see in the art of both games. That almost haunting aesthetic, I’m convinced, is one of the many reasons both Half Life 2 and Dishonored remain so stuck to the brain this many years after their release.
Dishonored also has some of my favorite character art, whether it’s Cedric Peyraverney’s, frankly, iconic chiaroscuro portraits from the primary sport, together with probably the most memorable likenesses of Delilah and the Outsider, or Sergey Kolesov‘s immediately recognisable royal family-style portrait of Corvo and Emily Kaldwin, plus the duke and Kirin Jindosh.
There’s even artwork displaying off Dishonored’s darkish and eerie aspect, like Piotr Jabłoński’s depictions of the bloodfly plague and the disenfranchised workers of Karnaca, or Veronique Meignaud paintings, which seem within the first sport’s DLC and the second sport as portraits painted by Delilah.
Honestly, such a wealth and variety of talent and style went into creating Dishonored that its art can’t help but eternally occupy a space in the brain. Here’s hoping we eventually get another sequel.
Destiny
Rory Norris, Guides Writer: I can’t think of any other game that’s captured my imagination and consumed me in quite the way Destiny has—both the original and its sequel. When I think about where that started (obviously, it was a new game from Bungie so that helped), it was the concept art that had me most engrossed by far from the very beginning.
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Perhaps the most formative art for me was depicting Old Chicago, which had become a post-apocalyptic swamp in the time since the Collapse. There’s the iconic scene of signs and skyscrapers being swallowed by the marsh, early Hive marching through a facility, and the most bonkers, what looks like goblins riding a massive frog. That last one was definitely very early in production.
What about the armada of pyramid ships passing Mars, whipped up by Dorje Bellbrook, which effortlessly overrated this overwhelming evil? Little did we all know it will be a villain (technically) over a decade within the making and considerably underwhelming.
I additionally bear in mind seeing all of the idea artwork for the enigmatic Vex, particularly their incomprehensible structure (comparable to Venus’ Citadel by Jesse van Dijk) that, we assumed on the time, was by some means twisting and consuming planets.
The vivid world Destiny’s idea artwork conjured in my thoughts pre-release, by some means completely mixing parts of fantasy with sci-fi, all dripped on this richly macabre veil, is inconceivable to neglect even 12 odd years later. I nonetheless recurrently return to outdated idea artwork and pre-release footage for a success of the ol’ nostalgia.
It’s unlucky that almost all of this idea artwork both remained idea or did not fairly translate into the reside sport in the best way I’d constructed it up in my thoughts. I imply, I pictured Destiny 1 to be far more open and explorative than it turned out to be. But hey, that is simply the character of the beast, is not it? I reckon it is virtually inconceivable to match the deliberately obscure artwork pulling on story threads that by no means actually existed. Hell, we’re nonetheless ready to see Old Chicago seem in-game.
Elden Ring
Tyler Colp, Contributing Writer: What fascinates me the most about FromSoftware’s games is how much their concept art just looks like the actual games. I’ve been collecting Souls art books for quite some time and whenever I look through them I’m amazed at how accurate everything is to the real thing. This is why Elden Ring is easily one of the most beautiful games I’ve played, and it’s based on the most beautiful concept art I’ve ever laid eyes on.
Every page of the official art book has gorgeous depictions of the many regions of The Lands Between and several of its strange characters. I get lost looking at the full spread of Raya Lucaria, a castle of magic and illusions that rests in the middle of a lake. The art invites you in to explore just as the game does when you take your first steps into Liurnia. And you can tell the artists—who are all unnamed in the book, sadly—conceptualized it from a player’s perspective, to create something a little mysterious and utterly awesome in the most literal sense of the word.
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The High Gothic architecture of Raya Lucaria suggests so much about the kind of lives the people who built it led and the kind of prestige it was meant to give off. And this is even more apparent when you compare it to Volcano Manor, a much older looking castle that is being pulled under crashing waves of rock. Its towers reach into a burning sky and the stone looks ashen and charred. Despite their differences, however, both places fit into the world of Elden Ring, with the way it blends medieval and Renaissance-era aesthetics.
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In the second art book it’s all characters and weapons, which are just as fascinating to look at. I’m partial to the depictions of characters like Malenia and Ranni. Both of them represent very different people who you might even think are opposed if you haven’t played the game. One is a small girl wrapped in a fur robe and wearing an oversized witch hat and the other is a valkyrie woman with metal prosthetics and flowing red hair. There are details like the tree insignia on Malenia’s cape that give a character who only really exists to be a boss fight more texture than most other games would bother to include. Both of them are so rich with tiny touches—like Ranni’s illusory second face—that tell a story all on their own.
The artists of FromSoft have such a vast imagination and vision for how to fit the millions of pieces that go into an open world game together that I’m constantly stunned that it all works so well. Elden Ring is obviously an excellent game to play, but it would be nothing without the love that the artists put into every inch of it.
Avowed
Ted Litchfield, Associate Editor: Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is coming up on 10 years old, yet is still one of the most gorgeous videogames I’ve ever played. Part of that is due to superb art direction, but Obsidian also had the advantage of pre-rendered environment art. The locales of the Deadfire could be presented at extremely high levels of fidelity without stressing a GPU to the same extent as a realtime-rendered game.
Which is why Avowed felt like a minor miracle to me from our first real look at it: Avowed perfectly translates the style and feel of Pillars into full 3D, zooming in from classic CRPG isometric to a first person perspective. It’s an utterly gorgeous game, and that began with its art direction and concept work.
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My favorite art to come out of Avowed has to be the comic book-style illustrations of major areas used in the game’s loading screens: They really build on the dreamlike, nostalgic feeling of the game as a whole. That first illustration under the heading above shows off the city of Thirdborn you explore late in the game. I dug it so much, I kept it as my desktop background for much of last year.
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I also enjoy how Avowed does ruins and water–a lot of it has that Sonic 2 Aquatic Ruins vibe I’m at all times looking for in video games. And, whereas my complete love sesh right here was centered on Avowed’s environments, that is additionally a sport with implausible, creative armor and weapon designs. Much like its youthful sibling, The Outer Worlds 2, I feel Avowed is a sport that, in 5 years, everybody will say they at all times liked.
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