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Some great suggestions in here and nice to think back about how new graphics wowed me as a kid!
Uncharted
Mafia
The Division
Skyrim
Abzu
Ori and the Blind Forest
COD Modern Warfare 2019 (don't own but from what I played in beta)
Gran Turismo
Unreal Tournament
Tomb Raider
When it was new-ish, I remember Outcast being amazing. On account of it being a game with huge crowds, dynamic shadows, reflections in water that distorted as the water was disturbed. I know a lot of this is pretty common nowadays, but in 1998 this was breathtaking.
Similar thing can be said of Witcher 2 when it came out.
Sega 32X - Doom
Sega - Sonic The hedgehog games, Jurassic Park, Ecco
PC - All doom games, RDR2, Skyrim, StarPoint Gemini 3, Destiny 2, Arkham Knight, Ass Creed: Origins and Odyssey, Alien Isolation, C&C3: Tiberium Wars, C&C:Tiberian Sun, Dishonored 2, Morrowind, GTA 5, Just Cause 4, Mafia 3, Metro: Last Light, Metro: Exodus, Portal 2, Shadow Warrior 2, Sniper Elite 3&4, Talos Principle, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Torchlight series, X3: Terran Conflict, X3: Albion Prelude, X4: Foundations, Trine series, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux, Eidos games: Thief, Jedi: Fallen Order, Sekiro: SDT, Saint's Row 3, Ryse: Son of Rome, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 6, Rage 2, Bioshock series, DeadSpace 2 and 3
Most of the game I thought were beautiful for it's time.
Oh man... so many games from so many eras.
Chrono Trigger on the SNES blew me away with how amazing the sprites were. And the pseudo 3D they achieved with Mode 7 was something that I thought was out of this world.
As for early PC, I think Ravensoft's Soldier of Fortune was really great (especially in the gore front). No One Lives Forever also comes to mind with how great it looks.
On Xbox, Ninja Gaiden/Ninja Gaiden Black and Chronicles of Riddick : Escape from Butcher Bay were quite simply visual tour de forces if you ask me.
On PS2, there were games like Final Fantasy XII, Jak 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shadow of the Colossus, Okami that blew me away. Okami still looks beautiful to this day and really captures the canvas coming to life feel.
On PS3, we had games like Uncharted 2 and 3, God of War 3 and Ascension, Red Dead Redemption, Valkyria Chronicles.
I'm stopping now because all this reminiscing is making me tear up. So many awesome memories... Ah...
This will likely be an unpopular choice, because haters.
Star Citizen.
But it was probably still a very pretty slideshow!Originally Posted by adidan
But it was probably still a very pretty slideshow!
True, although the screaming of the components took a bit of the shine off.
Grab that. Get that. Check it out. Bring that here. Grab anything useful. Take anything good.
It would be too easy to just name a more recent title due to the way technology has progressed up until this point, so I'll just go with the one that I think had the biggest impact on me as it changed the dynamic compared to its previous iterations (rather than being cool but ultimately not a big deal for gameplay like it could easily be considered for numerous other games).
Grand Theft Auto III.
Gran Turismo: Sport. The photo mode in that is literally photo-realistic, you could easily trick someone into believing that it's a real photo.
I never played a game for the looks, so while i have had GFX up as high as i have been able to in single player, then it have always been the multiplayer i remember, and those was played with GFX turned well down for max FPS.
The newer games i have played ( for free ) to test the 5700 XT have all looked nice, and been able to run with the MAX settings applied as i am just on a 1080p screen.
Skyrim and latterly ESO...
God of War (2018)
Alien Isolation the atmosphere seemed exactly like the movie with the graphics. Played at 1080P so playing at 4K when I have then time will be awesome.
Porject cars and Doom 2016.
Crysis 3 (when it came out),
Metro 2033 Exodus,
Witcher 3,
Destiny 2
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