The skyboxes are truly beautiful.
The view from the tower looking at a cloud covered traveler, amidst a brilliant city. With ships making trails of smoke behind them as they wisp through the sky.
The view on the moon. Looking up at the stars, and actually being able to see Mars. Beautifully strewn pieces of broken satellites and ships floating in orbit. And best of all, the ripped up, glowing plates of the moon infected by the hive in the distance.
The toxic air throughout the skies of Venus. With batdactyles flying in the sky. Volcanos erupting blue magma and tormenting the sky. As well as the giant vex structure spanning the skyline.
The Dust ridden air of Mars. With sandscrapers in your view and rolling hills of bright orange sand. With Phobos slowly rotating at the edge of Mars' orbit, like a giant oblong mammoth in the sky.
Or even the reef. Out beyond the outpost there is fleets of the queens guard scavenging the majestic purple ruins of deep reef space. An abundance of ship debris and interesting hunks of metal.
Even look at the crucible maps.
Looking from the top of a skyscraper to the buried city below on blind watch.
The monstrous cavern of Cauldron with rocks tumbling down to the unknown.
The expansive view of Mars, with mini explosions appearing here and there from the red planet via black shield.
The scorching sun and it's rays beaming on you in the burning shrine, along with the spires when you visit the lighthouse.
And once again, the mysterious traveler and last city from twilight gap.
The team in charge of the skyboxes as well as the environmental design team did a wonderful job with Destiny. It really brings you into the Destiny universe.
If only other parts of the game could live up to this aspect... Oh the potential.
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1 ReplyYea, just wish all that was open and explorable.. Like they said
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It was cool that last year, some of the spotlight was on the geological accuracy of Venus and Mars.
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6 RepliesEdited by LordofArbiters: 7/25/2015 11:24:11 PMBest skybox ever (Halo 2A Zenith) You should see halo 2A maps [url=http://youtu.be/C_wP8FKudTw]Skybox[/url]
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The game itself is a wonderful work of art. The crucible itself to me is like a wad of gum that is smeared on it. If only it were better.
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Yeah it's up there for me too, but some of the set pieces along with the skyboxes in Halo 2 Anniversary take the cake IMO.
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Agreed. I always look for Mars when I'm on the Moon.
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1 ReplyThe satellite by the moon is the international space station and the batdactlytes are ahamkara
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1 ReplyEdited by John6Max4: 7/25/2015 11:37:14 PM[quote]If only other parts of the game could live up to this aspect... Oh the potential.[/quote] *nods respectfully* If you wanna see a nice view sit down behind the Black Garden gate on Mars. That Vex tower standing there always gets me. Imagine if I could WAVE to someone from here. Legendary.
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Absolutely agree. Whenever you feel kinda bored, just sit and look at the sky, it's so beautiful
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GTA V has a really great skybox. I have taken so many pictures while flying in a heli/plane because the sunsets/rises are gorgeous. But alas, skyboxes are still boxes and until developers think outside the box we will be stuck with mediocre games that more often than not are worse than their predecessors. Maybe one day I can cross an entire alien world on a speeder-bike without the themepark feel of open-world games these days.
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Destiny the Taken Pike
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Edited by WolfWillowgrove: 7/25/2015 11:22:58 PMI agree, they are really awesome to look at. The detail and smoothness 24/7 is amazing. The art is one of the best parts of destiny.
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I love the view in the lighthouse when you're right next to the chest and you look at the sky.
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4 RepliesEdited by Kami: 7/25/2015 9:52:35 PMTrue, beautiful yes, too bad in Crucible there is always those people who just run in and try to kill you as you admire your surroundings. My personal favorite is Burning Shrine. Staring off into the sun.
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Best there is in my op
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16 RepliesThey are decieving. If you zoom in and look at the extra detail, you'll see how poor the skybox looks
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You shoulda seen the halo one! There was always ships fighting up there. Sometimes pieces would literally come flying down and kill you!'
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While Batadactyles fly through the sky*
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4 RepliesI feel like I have to point this out; Those things in the skies of Venus are not Ahamkara, the Ahamkara were brought to extinction long ago. Those things are just "Bat-birds", is I think what a Bungie dev called it in a video.
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1 ReplyYeah man it's gorgeous no doubt. I always feel like a Jedi while in patrol, especially on mars.
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1 ReplyPoE fallen arena also has the Reef and the light shining through the banners of the fallen.
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3 RepliesI always liked the cosmodrome forgotten shore view over the water at "night" time
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