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[rocksteady1983]

Never played it but I've heard good things about Lost Odyssey's dream sequences.

 

[kokujin]

Arkham Asylum Scarecrow sequences with Physx on high.

 

[Radec]

after being tortured if you save in the prison cell and quit the game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5lmx_4rc-Y

it was removed in the hd collection though

Wow. I didn't know that before.

Thanks

 

[ruxtpin]

Psychonauts.

If that counts?

More specifically, the level where you're in Linda's mind and the whole Milkman conspiracy.

 

[Shig]

Never played it but I've heard good things about Lost Odyssey's dream sequences.

They're great, but they're pretty divorced from the actual 'game' part. The game basically pauses and gives you several pages of reading material.

 

[jbueno]

Mother 3 had a very trippy drug induced section. As for dreams Lost Odyssey and Nier had some nice dream parts, text and music only but very well done

EDIT: Link to Mother 3 on drugs. Minor spoilers.

 

[Dr.Hadji]

Metal Gear Solid 3. Fact.

My vote. Batman AA second.

 

[enzo_gt]

Arkham Asylum's were the best parts of the entire game by a landslide.

 

[Anteater]

I kind of liked Eternal Sonata for the graphics and music

 

[sixteen-bit]

Loooost in a dreeeeam, SNAKE EATERRRRR

 

[Phat Michael]

Never played it but I've heard good things about Lost Odyssey's dream sequences.

The "dreams" are very very well written. I actually saved all of them into MS word and made a printed book out of them. they are outstanding.

 

[Acquiescence]

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Link's Awakening...

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[bengraven]

Dreamfall?

Edit: ah, just saw the image name.


People, please put the name of the image you're posting. If it's a massively popular game like Halo or SMB, I can understand not doing it. But posting a pic of a more obscure or less popular game diverts the thread into several "what game is this?" questions.

Frankly, I also find only posting the image is someone trying to be as dramatic as possible and that's irritating.

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Have you played it? You'll find it is then.

 

[ruxtpin]

I see a tush-tush.

 

[Betta Lines]

ALL of Heavy Rain.



Yeah. Think about it.

 

[Mango Positive]

Batman: AA was great, but I just finished Uncharted 3 and I'm a BIG fan of that trip sequence. It did an excellent job of mimicking the LSD experience. You can tell that someone in the visual design department has tripped.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Have you played it? You'll find it is then.

I have, but it says sequence...so just wanted to make sure it was a valid response.

 

[bengraven]

I have, but it says sequence...so just wanted to make sure it was a valid response.

Spoiler

Technically the entire game is a dream sequence

, so I suppose that's fair.

 

[Jarmel]

Best: Alan Wake
Worst: Max Payne 1

 

[Wichu]

I always thought the Lucca sequence towards the end of Chrono Trigger had a very nightmare-like quality to it. Waking up while everyone else in the party can't be awakened... The eerie background sound... Only a single path through the forest she's in, leading to a dead end... The red-tinged time gate... Lucca's own deserted house... And to top it off, she's forced to relive a traumatic event from her childhood, before waking up like nothing happened.
Had it not been for

Spoiler

the possibility of changing her mother's fate

, it could easily be dismissed as simply a dream. I love the atmosphere in that part anyway.

Also, Mother 3's mushroom trip was pretty crazy.

 

[Grecco]

Alan Wake, Batman AA, Eternal Darkness, and Fable 2.

 

[MikeE21286]

We've all played games with trippy dream sequences, but only a few stand out, in my opinion.

Uncharted 3 had an interesting take on the whole trippy drug-induced nightmare feeling. I've always loved Max Payne's nightmare sequences.

But I can't really recall any other memorable ones. Hm...

BTW: hallucinations count

well damn, that's all I had lol

 

[Grisby]

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I don't think it really counts as a sequence considering

Spoiler

the dream mechanic is the entire game.

I recently liked Gears of War 3's one in the beginning. The way everything was sucked into that void or whatever it was. Alan Wake had some decent ones as well.

 

[backflip10019]

Does that one quest in Fallout 3 count? That was pretty good.

 

[bengraven]

Does that one quest in Fallout 3 count? That was pretty good.

It's a great quest and yes.

Though if that counts, then every Assassin's Creed game counts.

 

[Miggytronz]

Heavy Rain

 

[Kevtones]

The final stanza of Silent Hill Shattered Memories is pretty surreal. The strange lapse of lucidity and imagery is surprising and perfect.

 

[Jiguryo]

Too soon?

Spoiler

Abobo's Big Adventure

 

[solarus]

Not exactly a dream but, Magicant in earthbound?

 

[Myriadis]

I liked the one in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.

 

[rocksteady1983]

Tranquility Lane in Fallout 3 was a simulation but very "dreamlike" and it was the most memorable part of the whole game for me. Very atmospheric.

 

[kai3345]

Tranquility Lane in Fallout 3 was a simulation but very "dreamlike" and it was the most memorable part of the whole game for me. Very atmospheric.

Such a great quest.

 

[krYlon]

Alundra should have been mentioned in the OP.

It's amazing game where you get to go into people's dreams to rid them of the demons that infest their mind.

Yes, came here to post this.

 

[kokujin]

I kind of liked Eternal Sonata for the graphics and music

Forgot that game was all a dream.Easily one of the most innovative game ideas I've seen in a while, the fact they used a real man and incorporated his works into game are really impressive.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

Not a nightmare, but the ending of Siren (PS3) is trippy as hell
Spoilers, obviously

 

[JWong]

after being tortured if you save in the prison cell and quit the game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5lmx_4rc-Y

it was removed in the hd collection though

I thought we were mostly talking about The Sorrow boss fight.

 

[Berto]

Both Alice games count? It's not technically a dream, but its close.

 

[Phat Michael]

how about The Fade from Dragon Age?



...im kidding.

 

[Megadragon15]

Nights Into Dreams...

 

[KageMaru]

Came to post Max Payne and MGS3, since those are taken, I'll just post this pic:

Spoiler

The first half of the whole game was a dream anyways =p

 

[TheBrain76]

The Illusion stage in Psi Ops was pretty good, but if I don't get through it quick enough I start to get headaches/motion sick.

 

[iirate]

Not exactly a dream but, Magicant in earthbound?

I'm sad that this is the only Earthbound reply. Forget the fact that the entire game is surreal, but it has some of the most memorable dream sequences ever. Moonside, people. After that, you have Magicant, as well as the coffee/magic cake sequences.

 

[jbueno]

Forgot that game was all a dream.Easily one of the most innovative game ideas I've seen in a while, the fact they used a real man and incorporated his works into game are really impressive.

Indeed. Pretty mediocre as a game, but for me the pretty artstyle, the good Sakuraba OST, and the Chopin intermissions with some history for the tracks made go through with it. Specially loved the final battle music,

Spoiler

Scrap and Build Ourselves -From Revolution-, a revision of Chopin´s Etude in C minor Op. 10 No. 12.

 

[RockmanWhore]

I really like that dreamlike sequence at the end of Uncharted 3.

 

[LamerDeluxe]

Monkey Island 2... the whole game...

Weird dreams... also the whole game...

 

[Gianni Merryman]

Since Max Payne and Eternal darkness have been already cited, does Half life 2 count?

 

[Data West]

The Darkness with the zombie skeletons

 

[HYDE]

Link's Awakening...

Control F

Yep, Link's Awakening. Glad to see it's in this thread.

 

[HK-47]

Link's Awakening...

bravo