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[nkarafo]

I love detailed, environments. Give me clutter. Give me random machines, pipes and cables. I need random objects and trash thrown over other trash. Show me lived in offices and houses, instead of sterile rooms from an IKEA brochure.

I need this in my games:

Yeah, i know most game don't take place in a car factory but a lot of games have tech bases and futuristic environments that try to look like so, complete with random moving machinery. But the detail is never up there.

Real life is clutter and has detail beyond what most studios have the time/money to hand craft, even if modern systems have the power to render all that. But some games must have come closer than others. So what games have the most environmental detail/clutter nowadays?

 

[01011001]

in Control you can shoot off every leg of every table, desk and chair. you can destroy the outer walls of a cupboard and see the drawers fall out of them, all with real time physics.

if there's a cupboard made of metal, you can shoot the metal drawers and see them move in and out due to the bullet's force (a bit unrealistic to be fair, but that's Hollywood physics so I'll give it a pass)

if you use your force push-esque ability in a fully decked out office, all the furniture will be damaged and flung across the room, complete with chunks of debris from the floor and some lose sheets of paper.

it's not super detailed at first glace, but due to the extrme destructibility and density of small physically calculated objects that can all be disassembled piece by piece by the player... I think Control is a good contenter

 

[flying_sq]

I think Order 1886 was noted for having such detailed environments, that reviewers commented how unnecessary it was

 

[Lupin25]

Uncharted 4 for sure if you’re talking environments similar to the ones above.

 

[Kikorin]

I love how detailed environments are in Life is Strange series

 

[nkarafo]

I love how detailed environments are in Life is Strange series

Nice but holy crap that chromatic aberration...

 

[brian0057]

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

I need random objects and trash thrown over other trash. Show me lived in offices and houses, instead of sterile rooms from an IKEA brochure.

materials in games often look brand new with no wear whatsoever.
clean edges. expertly manufactured. no dirt, nice and uniformly clean.

there should be a middleware that adds layers of dirt, imperfections, grime, fingerprints, etc.
kind of like ambient occlusion knows where to add shadows... have the middleware procedurally add layers of this stuff based on high traffic/high touchpoint estimates and the like.

 

[nkarafo]

This thread needs more examples and pics. So here's Cyberpunk's garbage dump

This is all handcrafted geometry, which is pretty crazy to me.

We came a long way since the boxy, empty landscapes of the N64...

 

[Fart Knight]

This thread needs more examples and pics. So here's Cyberpunk's garbage dump

This is all handcrafted geometry, which is pretty crazy to me.

We came a long way since the boxy, empty landscapes of the N64...

You sure about that N64 comment...

 

[mrmustard]

I liked the ants in Horizon Zero Dawn:

 

[nkarafo]

I liked the ants in Horizon Zero Dawn:

It bothers me that the person recording the video didn't zoom in more.

 

[mrmustard]

It bothers me that the person recording the video didn't zoom in more.

Guess because they look like Craig if you get too close:

 

[GymWolf]

in Control you can shoot off every leg of every table, desk and chair. you can destroy the outer walls of a cupboard and see the drawers fall out of them, all with real time physics.

if there's a cupboard made of metal, you can shoot the metal drawers and see them move in and out due to the bullet's force (a bit unrealistic to be fair, but that's Hollywood physics so I'll give it a pass)

if you use your force push-esque ability in a fully decked out office, all the furniture will be damaged and flung across the room, complete with chunks of debris from the floor and some lose sheets of paper.

it's not super detailed at first glace, but due to the extrme destructibility and density of small physically calculated objects that can all be disassembled piece by piece by the player... I think Control is a good contenter

I don't think destruction is what he was asking, more like locations cluttered with a lot of shit everywhere.

Comtrol look like your typical office with many desk but nothing like the pics in the op.

 

[Warablo]

Rockstar games. The Last Of Us 2 has decent environments also.

 

[GymWolf]

Horizon fw cauldrons are very cluttered with shit and details but they are not exactly realistic...

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Fallout 4 downtown Boston. There are a couple of blocks that are completely wrecked and flooded with twisted metal and piles of garbage everywhere. I like that area.

Don't have any pics so use your imagination.

 

[ScHlAuChi]

The Ascent

 

[geary]

The Division 1 and 2 looks like a NY and Washington without one month of garbage facilities.

 

[fatmarco]

The Ascent

Yeah the Ascent is the game where I was consistently stunned by just how much detail was on screen at once.

 

[VeganElduderino]

Rachet and Clank

 

[nightmare-slain]

You sure about that N64 comment...

That's meant to be Alanah pearce right?

 

[MidGenRefresh]

The Ascent

Shit, forgot about this game. One of the very few games that as soon as I've finished I started another run. Never got to the DLC, maybe it's time to dive in again?

 

[Three]

My jaws were on the floor when I saw this in Uncharted 4 on a 1. 8tf machine

 

[ScHlAuChi]

Shit, forgot about this game. One of the very few games that as soon as I've finished I started another run. Never got to the DLC, maybe it's time to dive in again?

DLC is very short and super hard, barely 3h long - not bad, but not really a must play!
You can check my run of it here:

 

[Fredrik]

My jaws were on the floor when I saw this in Uncharted 4 on a 1. 8tf machine

Came to post this. The ending of Uncharted 4 is still unmatched.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

You know this is the reason why games introduced “detective vision” in all its forms, right? Because when visual clutter reaches a certain point it becomes a nightmare to differentiate between background stuff and things you can actually interact with. And that point has already been reached and surpassed.

 

[angrod14]

 

[Aenima]

Yakuza games world, especially Kamurocho, are always filled with alot of details in small spaces. Cyberpunk 2077 also does a great job with the level of detail in the city.

From Judgment

 

[Valt7786]

Guess because they look like Craig if you get too close:

Yeah, but the ants look alright though.

 

[01011001]

I don't think destruction is what he was asking, more like locations cluttered with a lot of shit everywhere.

Comtrol look like your typical office with many desk but nothing like the pics in the op.

there are parts in the game that are cluttered by default. like the room where you hunt down the Hand Chair.

 

[Danjin44]

From Armoured Core VI

 

[cormack12]

I thought entering the kitchen in RE7 was phenomenal. And the mansion they end up in RDR2 is pretty good too for the gang.

End of uncharted 4 was superb. Not sure whether requiem counts but some of those villages with bodies, butchery and blood were pretty well done too.

 

[Chronicle]

Cyberpunk and the Division had beautiful clutter

 

[hemo memo]

PowerWash Simulator.

 

[Puscifer]

I thought entering the kitchen in RE7 was phenomenal. And the mansion they end up in RDR2 is pretty good too for the gang.

End of uncharted 4 was superb. Not sure whether requiem counts but some of those villages with bodies, butchery and blood were pretty well done too.

I need to see it for myself if people keep recommending it, I gave up on it because it was too much of a walking sim. I think I did finish it but can't remember lol

 

[Denton]

I do like me some detailed garbage dumps

And Atomic Heart has a nice cluttered underground bases

 

[yamaci17]

cyberpunk is insane

arkham city is also a honorable mention



especially steel mill. insane clutter

 

[ConcealedBlaze]

I feel like What Remains of Edith Finch did this really well. I’m kinda mid on it as a whole (much preferring Soma or even Firewatch in the walking sim category), but that house has definitely stayed with me for the sense of being an archaeologist rifling around in the place where people lived, dreamed, and died.

 

[DaGwaphics]

I fear for the house pets and small children that ventured into these work spaces and were never seen again.

 

[Comfortgel]

Stray.

 

[Three]

You know this is the reason why games introduced “detective vision” in all its forms, right? Because when visual clutter reaches a certain point it becomes a nightmare to differentiate between background stuff and things you can actually interact with. And that point has already been reached and surpassed.

That's why depth perception in VR is so good