What game has impressed you the most visually?
Are there any games with specific visual features that you really liked (water, skyboxes ect.)?
>>283871169
Where dem shadows at
>>283871169
Looks pretty good though I have a feeling if that DoF wasn't there, the entire scene would look even emptier.
>>283871003
The most visually impressive game out right now is probably the PC version of AC:U or Ryse. The Order might give those games a run for their money though.
As far as specific visual effects, I think the water in Watch Dogs is very impressive.
Evolve actually looks pretty damn good to me.
>>283871169
Textures in SS look bleh, especially the LOD textures. Everything after a few city blocks looks really fucking bad.
The particles are fucking sexy though.
>>283871003
Crysis 1 modded or Crysis 3 for vegetation/foliage. Tons of grass and bushes and trees in games is my fetish.
>>283871169
wow its like sleeping dogs with a fraction of the people in a soulless city
AC Unity was the best looking game I've seen in real time. As of right now though, Dying Light is pretty damn impressive.
>>283871003
Metroid prime definitely surprised me with how beautiful the scenery is. Especially phendrana drifts, one of the most comfiest areas ever
Uncharted 3
some of the environment art is amazing.. hope we get some cool looking tombs in U4
The new need for speed looks great.
Anything crytek will look good
Mgs GZ/5 looks great
any game that doesnt rely on cinematic trash filters
ACU and AI
despite what retards and trolls in here say they're the best looking games right now
I think playing AI on a giant screen with 3D glasses would actually make you feel like you're inside the ship. The lightning is so fucking good, and dem textures.
Campaign maps in total war rome 2 and attila look pretty good too, especially the newly released Attila. Dem clouds.
Recently BF4, the first game I bought after upgrading my old gpu (a humble GT 220), but when I was younger PS2 games used to impress me a lot
>>283875046
ACU but only indoors. Honestly the second you reach the top of a building the quality drops heavily. Even street level outside you see alot of poor elements that take away from the scene
>>283871169
>DOF looks ugly as fuck
>shitty AA
>reflections doesnt look that good
atleast the colors are vibrant
>>283872914
Too bad I can't appreciate it as the zombie is colorblind.
I love the water in Just Cause 2. The color is great and the underwater scenery is also really well done.
The particle effects are really nice too. One of the best " blow up buildings " simulators.
>>283876689
been meaning to play this, bought it a year ago and still haven't touched it. Don't even have a backlog just haven't bothered.
>>283876849
It's a really good sandbox to play in. The story is shit, but it doesn't matter, you'll spend more time just wandering around sky diving or blowing up military bases.
Also, the multiplayer mod.
>>283876954
one of the reasons i've put it off. It's not that I can't "make my own fun" but I get easily distracted/bored without a set goal in mind so games where the fun is in goofing around tend to lose my attention quickly.
>>283871003
Serious Sam 3. It looks great despite being toaster compatible.
![mp08_5_1384193428[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/1wET5xe.jpg "mp08_5_1384193428[1].png")
Killzone: Shadow Fall.
It isn't on a technically impressive console, but the art team did some astonishingly beautiful things. The use of color in particular is fantastic for a console game.
I can't really find any good images of it on Google Images, though. Most of them are just from the bland war sequences and not the beautiful helicopter flights or urban areas.
Dragon Age Inquisition, fun to play and nice to look at while well optimized
Ubisoft 2014 games = shit, those wasted time to complete them are retards.
I still think TLOU on PS4 has the best looking character models of any game on PS4.
>Skyrim PC
The master race prevails
>>283879446
>that awful DOF
Yeah fuck off.
>>283880117
The DOF is customizable if you have SKSE
>>283879446
>Liking DOF
Jesus fuck, you need some fucking glasses.
>>283872914
>All those copy pasted paintings
Really?
>>283879446
Where the lolis at?
>>283871303
Why don't they have shadows?
>>283880835
Then post an image with less DOF then.
>>283879446
let all the nature come out from under all that blur and enjoy the scenery, there's no need to view the world through a macro lens.
>>283883807
Looks awful
>>283879446
/r/ing that pic of
>DOF!
>MORE BLOOM
>BLUR THAT TEXTURE!
>CONSOLE PEASANT AHAHAH
I remember being completely fucking blown away by gears of war. My ps2 broke and I'd mostly been playing RPGs on ps1 a year before hand so maybe that factors in, but the water and the characters looked great at the time
>>283881969
Decided to try out my 970 on metro and boy oh boy does this game look fucking great.
>What game has impressed you the most visually?
Although it has obviously aged, I still feel like the REmake looks insanely pretty to me.
Although alot of people hate it, ff13 and 13-2 both look pretty good as well.
Pikmin 2 looked great on the GC, and I really like Luigi's Mansions artstyle.
Witcher 2 is pretty damn nice as well. Even without the ubersampling it looks fucking nice.
>>283871003
War Thunder, because it's so fucking well optimized.
This is on Intel HD 4600 graphics.
At the time definitely Crysis, but most recently its advanced warfare, pity only one of them was a good game
>>283884382
reflections
>>283886426
>implying shadows aren't just a reflection
>>283884496
>970
>>283886486
more like a lack of one.
>>283884382
That's reflection.
>>283886486
Retake your high school physics classes kiddo.
The first game I played once my rig was built was Crysis, and going to playing that at high settings from playing PS2 games at 480p was an experience like no other. My jaw literally dropped during that skydive. Other ones that really impressed me were Witcher 2, both Metros, modded Bethesda games, Antichamber, Just Cause 2, the other Crysis games, Far Cry 2, F.E.A.R, Mirror's Edge and the Tomb Raider reboot. One I played recently that wasn't on PC was Journey, and that was strikingly beautiful.
This shot in particular blew my mind. The ending was beautiful as well.
I thought Okami looked great when it came out, and the HD remake looks awesome too. Everything just looks so good.
>>283871003
Crysis 3 is impressive in motion. That fucking grass sway is gorgeous.
>>283872907
And no shadows
I'm a PC poorfag that plays at 720p, all low settings.
If and when I get the money, what should I come to expect from the jump to 1080p?
>>283886672
>thinking a shadow is a reflection
>calling anyone stupid
It's like I'm really on Reddit!
>>283888903
>what should I come to expect from the jump to 1080p?
just wait another like year and go 4k
720p low to 4k high is gonna blow your little mind
>>283878687
Uncharted 4 is gonna top TLOU with character models
>>283888903
It's gonna look amazing.
>>283888603
>Journey
You're alright anon
AC Unity on PC
Arma 3
Ryse
>>283889221
Aesthetics >>>>>>>>>>>>> graphical fidelity.
Journey does, and will always look fantastic.
MGSV
>>283889598
>Aesthetics >>>>>>>>>>>>> graphical fidelity.
But of course.
>>283889009
>>283889156
I fucking hope so. I only get 60+fps in older games, on lower settings, and it isn't even consistent.
I've watched those 60fps videos, shit looks cash.
>>283889861
>60fps
wait until you see 144fps on a 144hz monitor
fucking glorious.We're getting 4k/144hz monitors in just a few months.
I cannot fucking wait
AssCreed Unity. That game is gorgeous on pc! Hate all you want but damn that shit is pretty.
>>283889735
I'll agree MGSV looks good, but you literally posted a screenshot with jagged polygons, light bloom, lens flare, and too strong DOF.
I can't tell if you're retarded and posting this screenshot seriously or just baiting the fuck out of me. Either way, here's your reply
>>283890221
anyone got the webms of the cutscenes that are rendered in game?
those are gorgeous. When my new card comes friday I'll prob pirate unity
>>283889759
>>283889598
Don't mind me. Just reminding people that a realistic looking game with good art direction holds up way better than just a realistic looking game with high tech graphics.
>>283890417
But of course!
>>283889735
Check out that blur
Modded gta iv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o-ojTM6tCE
I'm still impressed by Medal of Honor: Warfighters graphics.
Morrowind's water. At the time, I couldn't believe my PC could do something like that.
>>283890380
>>283871003
I don't get the fascination with Crysis 3. It really doesn't look as amazing as people make it out to be, even in motion. It looks good but it doesn't look breathtaking and it requires too much performance for what it is.
This is coming from a guy who played it maxed out with SLI 780's on a 144Hz display.
>>283881969
Because of the cloudy sky. It makes it so that light is coming about equally as intensely from every direction, nullifying shadows.
>>283888994
It's clearly a reflection and he didn't call anyone stupid. You are stupid, though.
>>283891361
Dayum
Crysis 3 really impressed me visually, the chromatic aberration is annoying as FUCK but aside from that the lighting, shadows, models, animations and especially the water reflections are all fucking perfect, especially when you shoot the water in those darker bits, holy fuck, beautiful, a little too bright but still beautiful.
Evolve has really nice animations, especially when you plow through a tree and leap and shit, also the snow storms that pick up and drop are very natural and look stellar.
Metro has some of the best dark scenes in any game I've ever seen, and really good effects like the fogging gas mask.
It'd put those as my top 3.
who is the best girl and why is it Elise?
>>283879446
>>283883807
>playing skyrim
>at anything other than 4k
Disgusting
>>283892828
>Playing any game
>On a 60Hz display
Gee whiz is it still 2004? What a fucking plebeian.
>>283892828
>Level up
It never goes away at 4k
>>283892957
>he doesn't have a 120hz 4k display
>>283893059
>He uses a fucking television as a display for his PC
Wow and I thought you were already stupid.
>>283871169
That looks like shit.
>>283871003
Looking up at the rain when you first get to the planet in Metroid Prime remains one of my favorite experiences in gaming to this day. I was blown away by the art direction and music. Another one would probably be the first time I played Half-Life 2 on release and did the water hazard stage. All that water was so cool for its time.
>>283886426
Those are shadows.
Wrong surface and not enough water to cast a reflection.
>>283871003
Crysis 3's water caustics, while obviously not super-accurate, impressed me. It's one of those effects you don't really think about until you see it and realize yeah, I guess light in water does do that.
>>283871003
Original Crysis.
I've didn't even ran it maxed on release but holy shit, that was impressive.
Kind of dated with everything else but Star Fox Adventures had some REALLY nice water.
>>283888603
>literally brown and bloom
If this was an Uncharted shot everyone would be slamming it for having a shitty overblown effect and no colors. I liked Journey but sucking it's dick in a graphics thread is just silly.
>>283889735
Why are all console games simulating short-sighted person's life?
On PC I can turn the simulation off.
>>283881969
>One image has streetlamps, neon lights, and car lights in the image
>The other image has none.
hurrdurr i maek comparison
I still feel impressed by Half Life 2
>>283871003
In Dying Light the water. They have a fucking meniscus. I love that
>>283871003
crash and spyro blew me away back in the day and still look good imo
half life 2 and doom 3 aswell as oblivion which were all state of the art at the time and of course crysis and nothing has topped it since
>>283894248
Under what circumstances would you see a meniscus in Dying Light? Are you looking at water in test tubes?
>>283871169
>PS4 fags think this looks good
Learn 2 graphics you retards
>>283894718
when you're swimming on the surface and your not completely submerged.
>>283879446
This is NOT GOOD LOOKING
IT IS BLURRED
THIS SCREENSHOT MAKES ME FEEL I NEED GLASSES
BLUR DOES NOT EQUAL GOOD GRAPHICS GOD DAMNIT
UT2k3 and Far Cry 1 are the last games that I was blown away by. If I had a decent comp when crysis came out I'd probably have had the same reaction. Graphics really seem to have to stagnated since crysis.
>>283894925
A meniscus is a curve. You're not going to see a curve in water that you can swim in.
>ctrl+f
>no the vanishing of ethan carter
It's like you don't like best woods in the vydia
>>283895480
>>283895327
then what's that layer at the surface of water called?
>>283895723
Oh, okay, I see what you're saying now. I don't actually know what the term for that is, but I know what you mean.
>max settings
>60fps
which one you'd pick
>>283896260
60fps unless I have to lower everything to shit settings to get it. If I have to go below "high" for most things, I say fuck it and max it all out and let it be locked at 30. I played Crysis this way on an 8800 GTS 512.
>>283896260
Depends on the game. For instance I planned to play MGS GZ at 4k 30fps but the game feels like shit at 30fps since it's a TPS so I didn't do that. Other games feel fine at below 60 though and in those games I opt for graphics.
Last game to truly impress me was Stalker: Clear Sky.
With everything maxed out it looks pretty damn amazing.
Metro LL is bretty good.
>>283896260
always 60fps. I can't even tolerate 50.
>>283871169
Modded GTA 4 even looks better than this, at least this game isn't retarded like Drive Club is. You'd think a game about driving cars would get wet roads right, instead of puddles and other things in the street you just have a fine 3 inch layer of water over the entire road.
Disgusting, and embarrassing.
>>283892598
This game looks so impressive. It's too bad the game itself is such a shit franchise that anybody with an IQ over 60 will be bored out of their minds within 10 minutes.
Guess it makes a nice sightseeing simulator.
Killzone's campaign is fucking gorgeous.
>>283871003
Probably Just Cause 2 back when I played it for the first time.
>>283888603
This scene is gorgeous.
That level has one of the better tracks too.
