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[Fake]

Crysis 2 water is amazing. Another water that impress me is Uncharted 4 in the boat fight scene.

 

[SlimySnake]

Horizon FW currently has the best water.

 

[NT80]

The music that plays during the 23 minute mark, I’m pretty sure it’s from Tekken 4 or 5, but I can’t remember.

Can someone help me find it?

There’s no mention of Tekken at the end of the video.

Tekken 6 Electric Fountain

 

[MujkicHaris]

SlimySnake Those look more like flowmaps which give good results and are super cheap. Fluid simulation is a lot more chaotic and still quite expensive for large environments. I could be wrong though.

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[Corporal.Hicks]

Unreal 1 was the first game that impressed me with water rendering. DX8 (shaders) soon changed the way water was rendered (Splinter Cell 1, Morrowind, Half Life 2).

 

[Pedro Motta]

Outcast in 1999 had the best water rendering I'd ever seen. It was unreal that game.

 

[RoadHazard]

Haven't watched yet, but I always think of Super Mario Sunshine. You just wanted to drink that water.

Edit: I guess I have watched this last time they posted it, lol. But I'll watch it again. Water is cool. And refreshing.

 

[Hunnybun]

Haven't watched yet, but I always think of Super Mario Sunshine. You just wanted to drink that water.

Yep. Ironically it was really kind of an ugly game overall, though. Has to be the ugliest of the 3d Mario games imo.

 

[RoadHazard]

Yep. Ironically it was really kind of an ugly game overall, though. Has to be the ugliest of the 3d Mario games imo.

I like how the environments look (even though they're a bit samey), but there are some god-awful character designs in that game.

 

[buenoblue]

Watchdogs had some nice water on PC at the time

 

[poppabk]

For me it was Crysis that truly nailed it

Yep. I remember spending a long time just walking on the beach looking at the water.

 

[The Stig]

The video was a great watch. I think it said there will be a part 2. Great.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Always gotta mention Mario Sunshine. Best videogame water ever, for the time. Just amazing to look at.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

k, but what about rocks, man

we went from this

to this

 

[Geometric-Crusher]

Few games to this day have had more convincing underwater effects than Metal Gear Solid 2:

impressive technology , refraction and distortion of polygons

 

[wizaga]

Biggest wow moment for me was with the first Uncharted game on ps3, the water Physics and how your cloths got wet after being in water was truly amazing at the time and still holds up today

 

[stickkidsam]

Playing Halo 3 and seeing the water have actual physics was so mind blowing back in the day. Watching the legendary edition making of videos was so cool.

 

[Kupfer]

Crosspost

I started replaying F.E.A.R. yesterday on my Deck and just had to record a video :



I'm stunned.
In the game, water has no important role at all, and yet F.E.A.R. manages to present water in a more interactive and interesting way than most of today's games.

And let's face it, the game is from 2005, so it's almost 17 years old.

By the way, it runs on just under 8watts on the Deck, absolutely amazing when I consider that my 600watt PC was really struggling back then.

The game and this sequence in particular just blew me away.
How good it looks, how well it plays and what technical finesse it offers, all with minimal power consumption.

 

[thismeinteil]

First water to blow me away was the Ico demo. Jumping into the pool under the windmill was something else. I even called my dad in to look at it and even he was impressed.

 

[Danknugz]

for how it looks, waverace 64

for implementing water into gameplay, mario64, trans world surf, and kelly skaters pro surfer

 

[Alexios]

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