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[GamingBolt] Graphics Analysis - God of War: Arguably The Best Looking Game of All Time
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Assuming we're talking about console only games.. sure that might be the case. GoW is stunning.
Even if I'm more drawn to artsy fartsy games in terms of "greatness" in how a game looks there's no arguing this is marvelous.
Even if I'm more drawn to artsy fartsy games in terms of "greatness" in how a game looks there's no arguing this is marvelous.
Sony exclusives have always had the best graphics, so not at all surprised.
The Last of Us: Part II will take the crown next year.
The Last of Us: Part II will take the crown next year.
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I´ll need to see it with my eyes, Horizon looks phenomenal, so far best looking game i´ve ever seen.
Can´t wait for God of War!
AAA games are usually the ones that can put time and money into art and graphics. I'm jealous of Horizon graphics still, and I like to mod Skyrim to the limit. That foliage, ants on trees carrying leaves. My goodness I still drop my jaw at gifs of that game from SunhiLegend.
IGN spent 10 hours of their review time on the base PS4. Said it looks great there, but that there was still a huge improvement going to PS4 Pro.
Honestly it'd be more productive to wait till Digital Foundry has released its analysis first, but I amended the title. I may proceed to lock this if DF's analysis provides the same info but with greater depth. Just be noted.
Soon we will read headlines about how God of War cured humanity of cancer. :)
And I'm with Napalm_Frank about the term "quite easily surpasses". Horizon Zero Dawn looks like a game from a future generation and if it has been surpassed easily I expect God of War to feel like something from another dimension. Hopefully it will surprise me because I honestly doubt it.
And I'm with Napalm_Frank about the term "quite easily surpasses". Horizon Zero Dawn looks like a game from a future generation and if it has been surpassed easily I expect God of War to feel like something from another dimension. Hopefully it will surprise me because I honestly doubt it.
Again a good case of how clouded subjective opinion can lead to. Best looking game of all time is a meaningless statement. To what are you referring then?
All in all, there is never a definitive winner to this kind of labelling. What one person considers GOW as the best looking game of all time, the other might throw in Ori or Zelda. So really, the author chose a sensationalistic title to gain attention.
I think GOW stands among a long line of visually amazing games, but to say its the best? I don't think so. Personally i think AC Unity's interiors still trump that despite being baked, and i think Metro Exodus will take the cake for shooters when it comes out.
- Technical prowess
- Visual look
- Specific detail
All in all, there is never a definitive winner to this kind of labelling. What one person considers GOW as the best looking game of all time, the other might throw in Ori or Zelda. So really, the author chose a sensationalistic title to gain attention.
I think GOW stands among a long line of visually amazing games, but to say its the best? I don't think so. Personally i think AC Unity's interiors still trump that despite being baked, and i think Metro Exodus will take the cake for shooters when it comes out.
Higher resolution and frame rate isn't better looking than straight up amazing graphics. This is about graphics.
It's the best shit ever™ until the honeymoon period is over om era and threads like "Actually, God of War doesn't look that good" start popping up.
I'm reminded of the year of our lord 2010, when Metro 2033 released, and was easily the greatest looking video game ever made, but a lot of people thought that God of War 3 looked better because they couldn't play Metro on their Playstations and thus had no idea what they were missing.
I'm not mad, but I think fanboying over the graphics of a game on a system a full magnitude of graphical power less than a gaming PC could ever be even considered one of the best looking games of all time. At best, you might argue it's the best-looking Playstation game ever. It doesn't even rate when compared to something like a maxed out Quantum Break.
I think you mean art, then, not graphics. Because graphics is the technical stuff. Higher resolution, framerate, polycount, image quality, lighting... that's what graphics are.
Come on, I remember when my main platform was PS3, people kept wishing devs put as much time and money into pc games that console first party could like Sony with Uncharted 2 and later TLoU. Now it's Horizon, Uncharted 4, and apparently GOW Norse. And I totally get what this GOW may do, it floored me with the scale and scope of it's world since GOW2, GOW3 with the titans, and that Posidon fight impressed the heck out of me. I think scale + graphics/art is what is causing people that played it to take notice for this GOW.
For PC we have Hellblade, Star Citizen, modded games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 which are console ports. I don't know how Assassin Creed Origins look for myself (haven't been interested in the series since 2), but that seem to get a lot of praise so there's that.
Let's pretend the best looking game ever (Horizon) it's not a PS4 game.
I don't know if the gamingbolt claim is true, but Horizon is the king to be dethroned.
Yeah certain parts of Quantum Break looked like a TV show it was so real.
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