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Your personal pick for best looking game of the generation?
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the resolution doesnt matter, the aggresive game rendering techniques cause really bad blur, even at higher resolutions.
Horizon Zero Dawn wowed me the most. When it released it felt like such a significant jump to open world graphics. It also has stellar art direction
It's Red Dead 2, especially on an X. It's beyond beautiful. And just going through the open world moving the camera can lead to some amazing images.
Resident Evil 2.
On pc maybe, but the lightint is sadly washed out on pro consoles
My man. I think From Soft architecture has ruined real life architecture for me a little bit. I just want to constantly be in the shadow of a majestic decaying cathedral or castle goddammit.
There are some good upcoming contenders though.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Death Stranding
The Last of Us 2
Gears 5
Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Death Stranding
The Last of Us 2
Gears 5
This looks impressive as fuck! Its the PC version for sure, right?
Consistency wise, I'd go with Uncharted 4. By consistency, I mean the game really looks amazing in almost every aspect like lighting, animation, character models, etc, and this stays consistent throughout the entire game. Seriously, this game has pretty varied environments such as jungles, beaches, indoor homes, snowy mountains and THEY all look consistently good. I was constantly amazed at each area of the game and there was never anything that stood out as graphically dull to me.
Other games, while beautiful always has something which stood out to me that doesnt look as beautiful as the rest of the game. Eg. water in God of War & Horizon, character models in RDR2 but for Uncharted 4 I could not find any fault at all.
Other games, while beautiful always has something which stood out to me that doesnt look as beautiful as the rest of the game. Eg. water in God of War & Horizon, character models in RDR2 but for Uncharted 4 I could not find any fault at all.
There are some good upcoming contenders though.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Death Stranding
The Last of Us 2
Gears 5
Don't forget Ghost of Tsushima!
Still Horizon Zero Dawn for me (RDR2 a close second). As a whole package, it stuns in almost every single aspect. Beautiful hyper realistic and exaggerated art direction, massive scale, excellent lighting and shaders, high quality character models and subsurface scattering, lots of excellent post-processing and effects, super clean but still sharp IQ, volumetric clouds, super intricate and detailed models, super dense foliage, amazing textures and so on and so on.
Horizon | PS4 Pro gameplay
Horizon | PS4 Pro gameplay
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This is a great shout actually. I remember playing Ori and thinking 'graphics, in terms of this Ghibli like art style, can't get better than this'. For the style it's going for it's just peak graphics. It looks like a movie.
You're a good person. :)
I'd say anyone of these:
Ori and the Blind Forest
Unravel (haven't played the sequel yet)
GRIS
I'm so tired of the third person behind the character design, RDR2 looks and animates fantastically but it's still just yet another realistic looking third person action adventure, more realism doesn't really makes me go wow anymore.
I thought that too until I saw Will of the Wisps. The jump to a "real" 3D model for Ori makes a huge difference and those new environments we've caught glimpses of are amazing looking.
Hard to pick one, but among the very best to me there are Horizon Zero Dawn, Detroit: Become Human, Forza Horizon 4, Red Dead Redemption 2.
Artistically speaking Bloodborne devours everyone in my book tho.
Artistically speaking Bloodborne devours everyone in my book tho.
There's quite a few games honestly.
RDRII, Uncharted 4, Horizon, Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Kingdom Hearts 3, Resident Evil 2, Inside, Super Mario Odyssey, SSB Ultimate and others I can't think of are all utterly fantastic looking for one reason or another.
RDRII, Uncharted 4, Horizon, Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Kingdom Hearts 3, Resident Evil 2, Inside, Super Mario Odyssey, SSB Ultimate and others I can't think of are all utterly fantastic looking for one reason or another.
Fucking love the color palette Kojima is using with Death Stranding. Game is so beautifulThere are some good upcoming contenders though.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Death Stranding
The Last of Us 2
Gears 5
Can't decide between Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War and Shadow of the Colossus:
They all are absolutely beautiful in their own way.
i agree, i like the looks of these games far more than red dead as i just feel they are doing a lot more in terms of technical complexity. i wont ever see a model as complex as a thunderjaw, jormungandr, or the colossi in that game, and in general these games have a quality of a painting. i absolutely love how they look.Still Horizon Zero Dawn for me (RDR2 a close second). As a whole package, it stuns in almost every single aspect. Beautiful hyper realistic and exaggerated art direction, massive scale, excellent lighting and shaders, high quality character models and subsurface scattering, lots of excellent post-processing and effects, super clean IQ, volumetric clouds, super intricate and detailed models, super dense foliage, amazing textures and so on and so on.
Horizon | PS4 Pro gameplay
You know why, buddy. XD
Spider-Man is also quite stunning, even Digital Foundry chose it as part of their graphically top games of 2018, right next to RDR2.
No it doesn't? You must be talking about the Pro version. Make sure to label as such.
Have not played RDR2 yet,of those I have played...Uncharted 4...God of War and Horizon ZD very close.
I love these threads because of the gifs and screens!
Rdr2 does look good, but the setting bores me.
I vote for God of war and the uncharted games.
Gears 4 and 5 also look amazing.
Have yet to play Detroit.
I'd also like to add that gt sports, driveclub, ratchet and Spider-Man look amazing
Rdr2 does look good, but the setting bores me.
I vote for God of war and the uncharted games.
Gears 4 and 5 also look amazing.
Have yet to play Detroit.
I'd also like to add that gt sports, driveclub, ratchet and Spider-Man look amazing
Your opinion is yours...i just don't understand why you keep pretending what red dead is doing is so simple at the same time.
To me it will be Zelda BotW. I do not own any other current gen consoles beside Switch but in terms of art direction there is nothing like it. I have not seen a game that does atmospheric lighting better. There is a reason why half of my screenshots are taken in Zelda, half in all of my games combined (and I have a full 200 gb card).
Cuphead, Super Mario Odyssey and ARMS are other games with incredible art direction. ARMS will be one of those 3D games that will still look delicious in 10 years time, like Wind Waker would.
Cuphead, Super Mario Odyssey and ARMS are other games with incredible art direction. ARMS will be one of those 3D games that will still look delicious in 10 years time, like Wind Waker would.