Resident Evil REmake on Gamecube still looks fantastic to this day due to it's blending of pre-rendered backgrounds and great character models/lighting.
Came here to rep Half Life 2.
Yeah, it's gotten some minor HDR upgrades from the Orange Box update, but go back and load up that game and be shocked it came out the same month as Halo 2. If you want to be even more amazed, give yourself a replay with Half Life 2: Update. It's a free community update on Steam that fixes bugs that have accrued over the years and ups the quality of the lighting a bit while keeping the same textures and models. Was running it at 1080p downscaled and it still is quite the looker. (Screenshots are from Half Life 2: Update. Click to see full size.)
Ah, well the PC version is glorious :)It looks great but I'd kill for a Pro/X patch.
It so deserves one.
I think this is the most used out-of-context gif used across all of Gaf/Era.
Quake 1 looks amazing without the texture filtering making everything a blurry mess.
And that's not even including mods like Arcane Dimensions with its AMAZING architecture:
Prince of Persia 2008 will look gorgeous till the end of times!
Even VF4 on PS2 (2002) looks amazing with increased resolutionsAbsolutely. Anytime I play Quake or Quake 2, I turn off all filtering. I absolutely love the clean point-filtered look. Arcane Dimensions is incredible.
I'll toss in Virtua Fighter V from 2006!
I'm definitely blind, I didn't read the last part of OP lolDefinitely first Dishonored. Colour pallette in that game is gorgeous. I originally played it on PS3 but after trying on PC later, game look like a live painting. Art style is spot on.
I love the look of POP 2008 but to be honest, it has subtle cel-shading.
I was playing some more destiny 2 today (as you do) and in the middle of a vex offensive in the new expansion realized that this game on PC looks fucking incredible still. And i dont think time is going to make it look any worse. I think games have gotten to a point that they will always look good. This isnt like gta 3 days or anything. Shit just looks good.
What other games do you think visually will stand the test of time?
I mean 3d games of course. sorry.
Honestly Destiny 2 doesn't look that much more impressive than Destiny 1, so I would have said D1 is more impressive in that aspect.
However, Destiny is heavily stylized, bordering on "cartoonish", so it's not really an answer.
I think this is the most used out-of-context gif used across all of Gaf/Era.
Like I've never seen someone post it and actually type anything else to identify what the fuck it's from and I still don't know. It's like the guy in the gif is shaking his head at me saying "You better not ask."