Possibly the laziest skybox in a video game

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The most laziest skybox award goes to Xen in Half-Life: Opposing Force.
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This is not a mod nor a photoshopped image, nor is the skybox animated, this is literally Xen's skybox; a inanimate dragon diving into something.
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Another part of the skybox, it's just something that is suppose to be animated but isn't

Now if you know what is TRUELY the laziest skybox in a game, be sure to post it below.
 

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Looks like wildlife to me (plants). Doesn't seem that lazy if I'm being perfectly honest. Better than a pure blue skybox.
 

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it's just something that is suppose to be animated but isn't
That's a bit of an unfair comparison: animated skyboxes are one of those things that slowly made their way into becoming standard. Most if not all of the games of that era just used a single image bitmap that was set not to rotate with the player

Now if you know what is TRUELY the laziest skybox in a game, be sure to post it below.

Easy: duke nukem 3D. They used plain blue or orange in quite some levels.

(random example)
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this is one of my favorite skyboxes from any game...its a collection of electron micrographs made to look like distant, colossal structures or creatures. its a super simple yet extremely creative idea that makes xen really feel like an alien place. i know this post is four years old but it pissed me off so badly that i had to make an account and reply to it
 

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