Video games are not mere time killers. They are albums of sound, aesthetics, animation and narrative.
This community is in appreciation of that. Screenshots, fanart, animations, gameplay clips. It is all welcome here.
The one common thread should be an eye for the aesthetic. This is not a place to discuss mechanics or stats, but to show off simply the artistic, expressed through the video game medium.
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The intro screen of Secret of Mana will always be hard to one up.
You can see it here (first 1m45s).
The musical piece is one of the best pieces of video game music ever IMO, the art around the heros standing at the base of a world tree - it's just epic fantasy.
The full game itself isn't even in my top 5 SNES games, but the opening is something that still comes to mind from time to time 30 years later.
Final Fantasy XIII. That game released in 2009, yet from the looks of it seems like a next gen game. The amount of work that went into graphics and environment design is astounding.
Every location is unique and a joy to look at. From a futuristic sprawl to a lake that crystalized while still in motion, to a synthetic forest to a wild ravine full of flora and fauna. I spent so many hours just looking at things and enjoying the scenery and the music.