[Franklinator]

The water that immediately jumps to my mind has already been covered here.

So I'll throw GTA IV's rain into the mix. It set a really cool mood when I was driving through it.

[WoodenLung]

[LeleSocho]

Weird. Its one of the best things in Uncharted. Looks completely natural. it has depth and flow.

dunno it looks... blocky for me...
let's say if someone tried to convince me with a video that uncharted 3's water is real there is no way they can fool me, but that might happen with JC2's.

Water is an huge factor for me in graphics, it sure influence me to judge how good the graphics in the game is... i freakin' love water in gaming.

[iamvin22]

Correct. The part a little later when the ship is on its side and the water is against the cracking class skylight was some true awesomeness.

umm yea /thread. nothing comes close to uncharted 3 water.

[RoboPlato]

Man, I did not remember that Halo 3's water was that great. It's been a long time since I played it.

[Grisby]

The second part:

Booooo, hhhhhhiiiiiiissssss.

[Ichor]

For some reason I've always thought the water in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles for GCN looks really nice.

[XANDER CAGE]

no james what are you doing that's mercury

[RoboPlato]

For some reason I've always thought the water in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles for GCN looks really nice.

That did look awesome at the time. Pikmin's did too.

[Piggus]

dunno it looks... blocky for me... let's say if someone tried to convince me with a video that uncharted 3's water is real there is no way they can fool me, but that might happen with JC2's. Water is an huge factor for me in graphics, it sure influence me to judge how good the graphics in the game is... i freakin' love water in gaming.

Seriously? It's heavily physics based. I don't see how it looks blocky. Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE4c6-CgSJE

The entire ship is animated by the physics.

[Gav47]

Water has really come a long way this gen, I remember one of the Ratchet & Clank games on the ps2 had a museum level that had a test piece of super realistic water (at the time),it was so awesome.

Heres a video

[IceDoesntHelp]

I can't find any gifs or good videos, but Super Mario Galaxy's (1 & especially 2) water looks fantastic.

[Bombadil]

Crysis 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRj8We3JpIk

[StalkerUKCG]

Water in halo 3 was fantastic

[mysticwhip]

Crysis 2 [img]http://i.minus.com/iHsEV27KLEK96.gif[/ig]

a lot of compression going on there.

[jokkir]

Seriously? It's heavily physics based. I don't see how it looks blocky. Check this out: The entire ship is animated by the physics.

The water falling into the gap in the first 20 seconds looks kinda... meh. Reminds me a lot of Bioshock's water which I wasn't a big fan of.

[Ichor]

That did look awesome at the time. Pikmin's did too.

Hell, both of those game have better water than a lot of games this gen. (Not the games in this thread of course, but still)

Also, there was a river in Onimusha 2 that looked 100% real, I think it might have been a video capture of a real river.

[gdt]

dat Uncharted 3 water. The boat levels are INSANE with it.

Just Cause 2 and Trine 2 also get mentions.

[Franchuzas87]

Almost 10 years, and still looks great:

[Bombadil]

Uncharted 2

Edit: Deleted for quality

[Fezan]

Uncharted 2 Jesus, I'm making some ugly gifs. What I am doing wrong?

Thank you for the gif but make it smaller by just showing explosion part but of higher quality.

[ShinUltramanJ]

Correct. The part a little later when the ship is on its side and the water is against the cracking class skylight was some true awesomeness.

That scene was incredible looking.

[Refreshment.01]

Not technically impressive for realism, but has so much whimsy and character.

Probably the most dissapointing aspect of the game given how present water is in the Wind Waker World. Coming from MArio Sunshine to watch what's more or less a blue flat shaded texture sucked.

[Boney]

[Roto13]

Probably the most dissapointing aspect of the game given how present water is in the Wind Waker World. Coming from MArio Sunshine to watch what's more or less a blue flat shaded texture sucked.

How about a little appreciate for art instead of just horsepower? The game looks fantastic.

[PrinceOfApathy]

Trine 2 was indeed ridiculous. The stage when you were outside in the rain, with the raging ocean, and there was an octopus I believe.....God I wish I had a capture card.

[Refreshment.01]

Now this blew some heads in 96 and it influenced play elements of the game something that most mentions here don't acomplish. Hydrophobia used water with game mechanics in mind but i dont remember if the water lokked good.

How about a little appreciate for art instead of just horsepower? The game looks fantastic.

Game has a nice art style, water was right there with sewer material in atractiveness.

[chickdigger802]

i recall loving the water on those water planets in mario galaxy. They also had tropical penguins.

[Adam Prime]

what the fuc.... this is the HD remake version, right? DAYUMN

[Piano]

Probably the most dissapointing aspect of the game given how present water is in the Wind Waker World. Coming from MArio Sunshine to watch what's more or less a blue flat shaded texture sucked.

Man I disagree wildly. Water in Wind Waker was beautiful and fit the game world perfectly.

[The_Hitcher89]

How about a little appreciate for art instead of just horsepower? The game looks fantastic.

When you go artistic, you open yourself up to subjective criticism

[Bombadil]

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[Refreshment.01]

When you go artistic, you open yourself up to subjective criticism

The funny thing is that not only is the water in Wind Waker too simplistic, it's just a lazy shortcut to avoid creating land mass geometry. Lets just patch empty space in a blue hue so we can have this game released quicker.

On the GC Remake and RE4 had some really nice water in places.

[yencid]

Bombadil if you're using photoshop you need to set some kind of dither for the gifs.

[I H8 Memes]

I appreciate the effort Bombadil, but how about we just describe the effects to each other and then we can just use our imagination until the gif making pros get in here. :D

Better yet, just send me the links and I will try it with irfran. That's all I have installed right now but I will give it a shot.

[Black_Stride]

Here you go, crysis with water color change

[AcridMeat]

Holy shit. I bought Just Cause 2 in a Steam sale but still haven't played it. THIS LOOKS DELICIOUS.

Play it soon! I've got 15 or 20 hours in it, a lot of that time spent just flying through the environments. One of the prettiest games of this gen IMO. Love the vibrant color palette.

[Bombadil]

Bombadil if you're using photoshop you need to set some kind of dither for the gifs.

I appreciate the effort Bombadil, but how about we just describe the effects to each other and then we can just use our imagination until the gif making pros get in here. :D Better yet, just send me the links and I will try it with irfran. That's all I have installed right now but I will give it a shot.

I'm using virtualdub. I guess that's the problem, right?

I'm not actively selecting any compression settings. I think Vdub just captures it in a very shitty way. I'm using the HD youtube videos (which I know are somewhat compressed anyway, but they're of higher quality than what shows up on vdub in the AVI formart.

[chickdigger802]

Here you go, crysis with water color change http://i.picpar.com/5a9e474ff8d6d1eb...d7e3d1f2eb.jpg http://i.picpar.com/7764b9d90aa590e5...7b86485a39.jpg

looks amazing in stills. how does it look in motion?

[I H8 Memes]

You need to have an Nvidia card to get the Cuda water effects. Game still looks awesome without them though.

I'm using virtualdub. I guess that's the problem, right? I'm not actively selecting any compression settings. I think Vdub just captures it in a very shitty way. I'm using the HD youtube videos (which I know are somewhat compressed anyway, but they're of higher quality than what shows up on vdub in the AVI formart.

I've never used vdub for gifs, but I use it for all the videos I make. Considering how complicated it is to use on videos I'm guessing that there is some setting for quality that is near impossible to find that would fix these gifs.

Try irfan. It is a little bit more user friendly than vdub.

[Refreshment.01]

Here you go, crysis with water color change

Ok, is people playing Crysis in that quailty? Tag that image as NSFW cause that's some hardcore water pron there.

[EuropeOG]

The water that immediately jumps to my mind has already been covered here. So I'll throw GTA IV's rain into the mix. It set a really cool mood when I was driving through it.

Driving in a rainy night looked really good, the way the light reflected.

[GraveRobberX]

Holy shit. I bought Just Cause 2 in a Steam sale but still haven't played it. THIS LOOKS DELICIOUS.

Install that mod where your grappling hook = endless

GOOD LORD!

Fucking Amazing

[beast786]

Water:

Crysis
Just Cause 2
Uncharted 3

Absolutely amazing.

[Derrick01]

How about a little appreciate for art instead of just horsepower? The game looks fantastic.

Art sucks. Some people think actual shit is art, so I say fuck that and let's stick with the horsepower.

Just cause 2 and modded Crysis right behind it. Uncharted 3 and 2 is probably next, but still very impressive.

[Y2Kev]

Somebody post the Resistance 2 jelly.

[Bombadil]

Last gif I make with vdub. Yes, yes, still shitty. Just appreciate what it would look like.

Edit: Never mind, that was too shitty, and slow. I'm using both vdub and gimp to do this shit. All that work for nothing.

[Callibretto]

someone post Uncharted Golden Abyss water, it didn't look as good as crysis or other console games, but thinking that it ran on a handheld is pretty incredible.

[GraveRobberX]

Somebody post what somebody wants POSTED!

[RadioActiveLobster]

Hydrophobia has some good looking water, even if it can go a bit wonky some times. It's completely dynamic though, not scripted like some of the water events in other games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jrl9drryJQ