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Which game is the best looking of all times?

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
Not that it disqualifies you having a console but those of us on PC where is enough to play modern games cranked up to the max, I think the answer is clearly Cyberpunk 2077.

This is just about visuals and disregard your opinion on what you think about the game (TLDR: It's good now).

I recently picked it back up and started another playthrough with obviously all the bug fixes and Pat racing updates on pc, it's absolutely stunning. It's one of the only games in the recent years that I almost go everywhere and have to pause and take it all in.

This is one of those that the some of the parts are so good because so many elements of the game are really good technically that you appreciate everything that is going on here. Is there other games that are animated even better? Maybe. There may be some other elements that aren't the best of the best in every regard. But you can't look at that game running on a proper PC and not be super impressed.

If you compare that to recent releases like Starfield and Immortals, this run circles around those. And I know some of those games are prioritizing stacking up 10, 000 douchebags on top of buildings but if we're talking about visuals, there are games specifically to test those types of things and these high budget AAA games should focus on the most important things. I'm not saying the physics aren't a thing but I don't need to see a room full of garbage just because it might tumble with realistic physics. I would be more impressed with good animations and a small amount of things rolling around versus you being able to just stack a bunch of garbage just to see it roll around. We have totally accurate battle simulator and games like that to do weird things with high numbers of physics or AI based scenarios.

I'm probably renting but I'm really going to bed for cyberpunk because it isn't one of those that I need to see videos and super sampled overly embellished things that may not even be realistic, this game looks as good as it does and it look like it as of a few months ago with the latest patches. This isn't the future like the matrix demos and things that practically might look more realistic but in real world use do nothing for me. When you have the art and the visuals like a cyberpunk, it's just not beatable anytime soon.

I look forward to the day they are, that means we're progressing and that means we on the PC side will be able to be on the forefront of trying the top end out.
 

Virex

Banned
Callisto Protocol is a stunnah

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Recently finished it the the game looks stunning
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
No chance. RDR2 by quite a long way, and the fact it's an open world game just enhances that as well.
I don't care if it's open world.
The final effect is such that almost no game got anything on tlou2.
I don't care how big the landscapes are in rdr2. it's just nice landscapes. Characters look much worse
 

Hugare

Member
I hate the game, but its RDR 2

My girlfriend have been playing it for the first time recently, and even running on PS4 code on the PS5, it still looks amazing

If you consider the scope, it gets even more ridiculous. It's so consistent. Pretty much everyqhere you look, it looks stunning.

There are places in TLOU 2, Horizon, Cyberpunk that you can see the flaws. But RDR 2 is pretty much ridiculous good looking everywhere.
 

GymWolf

Member
I'll wait till I see this in a real game. No one is beating GTA 4 and Motorstorm 1 and 2 as far as car crashes.
You are like 10 years behind, wreckfest and especially beam ng absolutely dismantle gta4 or motorstorm.

But you are right about matrix, the damage system is super random, you can crash at max speed and barely make a scratch or crash 20 km\h and do more damage.

It only looks good in cherry picked gifs.
 

Holammer

Member
Arkham Knight is amazing, I remember looking at the water in awe, it still looks good and the art direction throughout elevates the experience.



Just a shame Unreal Engine 3 craps itself whenever asset streaming becomes too intense.

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zeldaring

Banned
Listen to this man this an indurstry professional you have won the thread my friends


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batman is a beautiful game that suffers from on consoles cause of the shit grain filter and no variety. it's a city that takes place in the dark so how can it compete with something like RDR 2 which has it beat in everything. I loved that batman game BTW.
 
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STARSBarry

Gold Member
Really this thread should be "what game has the best photorealistic graphics" which is fucking boring.

As a fighting game fan to this day I am consistantly impressed with just how good Granblue Fantasy Versus is

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I can't believe we get an even better looking version in a couple of months. Everything is just spot on for an anime fighter, it's as near perfection graphically as you can get.
 
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Go_Ly_Dow

Member
The ambient lighting in FF7 Remake is the best I've ever scene and I'm surprised it rarely gets talk about. They consulted an actual real interior lighting specialist to help out with setting it up. There were times in the game in a building where I would just stare at lights astonished at how realistic they seemed.
Bring on FF7 Rebirth!
 

Drizzlehell

Banned
The most photo-realistic that I ever saw was that Matrix demo on PS5. But as far as the aesthetics go, I dunno. Hard to pick anything specific considering that almost every game these days looks pretty great. The ones that impressed me the most in recent memory in both fidelity and design was Horizon: Forbidden West, Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart, and Half-Life Alyx.

A special mention needs to be given to Forbidden West, I think. It puts so much attention to the little details like, for example, how you can actually see little blood vessels on character's eyeballs. It's especially impressive when you consider that the game manages to be both insanely detailed, as well as huge and sprawling at the same time - the vistas are simply jaw-dropping and there's a lot of variety to the open world map too. It never feels empty or half-assed either. And then of course there are the cool looking robots and unique designs for various other elements like character costumes, settlements, underground bases, etc. In terms of art direction and tech that game sets the bar pretty high.
 

Fbh

Member
As a whole package I still think it's either Forbidden West or RDR2.
Other games do specific stuff better but Forbidden West and RDR2 do environment, characters and animations extremely well.

Cyberpunk also looks amazing, specially maxed out on PC. And to be fair I do think making a dense city look amazing is harder than big natural environments like Horizon/RDR2. But the character models don't look that good IMO
 

Pejo

Member
Art style trumps technical presentation almost every time. I think some of the best looking games are still pixel games, like Chrono Trigger and SotN. Ori is a more recent timeless classic that will continue to age well due to amazing art style.

From a "close to reality" technical standpoint, I suppose Read Dead Redemption 2 is my #1. The vistas and skyboxes are just amazing. Also the animations are a lot more grounded, robust, and believable which is why I would never vote something like Cyberpunk. In screenshots, Cyberpunk looks great but as soon as any humanoid moves in its janky ass Elder Scrolls-like animations, it throws the sense of reality right out the window.
 

skneogaf

Member
Completely subjective!

I think every single game mentioned look absolutely gorgeous, but I started at the beginning of gaming so I was blown away every time one of those games was released.
 
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