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bomblord1 · Apr 16, 2015

What are some games with great draw distance? Playing through the Master Chief collection I'm reminded of Halo 3's incredibly impressive 14 mile draw distance.

I also remember Just Cause 2 having some impressive draw distance as well.

Of course we can't forget Xenoblade X's insane draw.

What are some other games with impressive draw distance?

kingwingin · Apr 16, 2015

Gtav for me. The fact they pulled that off on the ps3 blew me away. You can see the entire island from anywhere

ODDI · Apr 16, 2015

Red Dead Redemption was the first game to make go wow of its draw distance.

PerezDeCorcho · Apr 16, 2015

GTA V's draw distance was insane on last gen consoles. Especially when you contrast it with GTA IV's.

hwy_61 · Apr 16, 2015

Journey.

KyanMehwulfe · Apr 16, 2015

For it's time.... Anarchy Online was stunning

I think WoW was pretty stunning too because it's low res, lower LOD textures allowed for not only really far draw distance but also far object draw distance. It maybe had the best 'use of elevation' of any game for it's time, or at least up there... I mean, most RPGs at the time looked like they were just table tops with hills plopped here and there. WoW had genuine mountain ranges and a huge elevation change from sea to mountaintop, and within the mountain ranges, vast valleys and great hills... that combined with its draw distance was probably one of the greatest views of scale and scope for its time

GTA V is pretty awesome with how it does light blobs for car lamps at night

hope this shows it ok... especially at the end, look at that nightview... the distant lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoqlaYoLOgE

like a night LA cityscape straight out of a Michael Mann movie,

Firehead · Apr 16, 2015

Xenoblade 3D's draw distance is pretty incredible. It's pretty much unchanged from the Wii version, from what I can tell. Very impressive that they pulled it off, I feel.

Jigolo · Apr 16, 2015

Uncharted 4 has an impressive draw distance

Couldn't find a better quality pic

Zoned · Apr 16, 2015

ARMA 3 shits over everything else.

WoolyNinja · Apr 16, 2015

Current gen:
Dying Light

Older game that impressed in its day:
Jak & Daxster
Ratchet & Clank

kitschbeam · Apr 16, 2015

Infamous: Second Son

ChawlieTheFair · Apr 16, 2015

hwy_61 said:
Journey.

It better, the only thing they had to render was sand.

The Broken Ska Record · Apr 16, 2015

Crackdown was impressive

LaserHawk · Apr 16, 2015

Jigolo said:
Uncharted 4 has an impressive draw distance

It's kind of hard to tell on something like that. The stuff we see way back there could be part of the skydome instead of actual traversable land.

Crimsonclaw111 · Apr 16, 2015

GTAV PC is amazing.

Kinthalis · Apr 16, 2015

Zoned said:
ARMA 3 shits over everything else.

This.

hwy_61 · Apr 16, 2015

ChawlieTheFair said:
It better, the only thing they had to render was sand.

Hahaha

Rex Griswold · Apr 16, 2015

Crimsonclaw111 said:
GTAV PC is amazing.

Yeeesss.

Modded Skyrim is also fantastic.

Corpekata · Apr 16, 2015

Some of these suggestions have really noticeable problems with pop-in or low poly placeholders (Iike Dying Light) so I would not say they are good examples of draw distance.

I mean one of the more famous "wasted" clips of GTA V is someone crashing their plane into a pole that popped into existence right in front of them.

To me an impressive one would be one that doesn't have these issues or at least hides them better.

Anustart · Apr 16, 2015

Space games. You're seeing stars that are light years from you.

ArkkAngel007 · Apr 16, 2015

LaserHawk said:
It's kind of hard to tell on something like that. The stuff we see way back there could be part of the skydome instead of actual traversable land.

Not to mention who knows how the finished product would like, regardless of the confidence in Naughty Dog. Probably should be for already released games.

Bornstellar · Apr 16, 2015

Elite: Dangerous.

SneakyStephan · Apr 16, 2015

Maxed out dying light was impressive, but yeah arma is something else.

Dice · Apr 16, 2015

Zoned said:
ARMA 3 shits over everything else.

Say there was a tank or solider on top of the hill on the horizon. If you used a scope or binoculars, would you see them?

Icyflamez96 · Apr 16, 2015

From what we've seen of No Man's Sky's, it's good and bad.

Good because it's realy cool that you can see all of the planets on the horizon, and the stars which are actually real solar systems that you can go to that may be EXTREMELY far away.

Bad because it's really poor when it comes to the actually environment around you of the planet that you're on. All of the shots we've seen so far has something that seems like fog, but it actually just exists to cover the draw distance.

Sean Murray said himself that it was embarrassing for him to show of the game in the state that it was (in the 33 minute tech demo) so hopefully they're working on bettering that before launch.

Dennis · Apr 16, 2015

ARMA 3

Octavia · Apr 16, 2015

I feel like it's hard to not give Oblivion a nod in here since it was one of the earlier games to have an increadibly detailed far distance view, where you could mostly say "I can go to that."

Nowadays it's not as impressive but it was insane when it came out.

Aceofspades · Apr 16, 2015

Dropship on PS2

I remember seeing a mountain then driving +15 minutes to reach it...wow moment for me in 2002

Dio · Apr 16, 2015

It's actually interesting how Just Cause 2 does this.

IIRC, their tech is constantly drawing a 2D image that is indistinguishable from how it'd look from that distance at a certain point in front of you. They did it so seamlessly that people are always surprised at how they did it.

VARIA · Apr 16, 2015

Icyflamez96 said:
From what we've seen of No Man's Sky's, it's good and bad.

Good because it's realy cool that you can see all of the planets on the horizon, and the stars which are actually real solar systems that you can go to that may be EXTREMELY far away.

Bad because it's really poor when it comes to the actually environment around you of the planet that you're on. All of the shots we've seen so far has something that seems like fog, but it actually just exists to cover the draw distance.

Sean Murray said himself that it was embarrassing for him to show of the game in the state that it was (in the 33 minute tech demo) so hopefully they're working on bettering that before launch.

Yeah it caught me a bit off guard when I saw the game running and things in the immediate distance just kept popping up/filling in details. It was quite jarring, so yeah I too really hope this is fixed before launch.

Blizzard · Apr 16, 2015

The last thread I'm aware of on this topic (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=596056) also started with Just Cause 2, so nice choice. Crackdown is another popular suggestion.

It's been a long time since I played FUEL, which probably does some LOD stuff with trees, but it was still neat being able to see mountain(s) and drive there.

Bluth54 · Apr 16, 2015

Alan Wake

Zoned · Apr 16, 2015

Dice said:
Say there was a tank or solider on top of the hill on the horizon. If you used a scope or binoculars, would you see them?

Yep. It's a full military sim.

ArkkAngel007 · Apr 16, 2015

Bluth54 said:
Alan Wake

Stop it. Stop it right now. I don't need to have another game I've already beaten to compete with my backlog lol

Poimandres · Apr 16, 2015

An often overlooked choice... Transformers on PS2 was very impressive with huge environments and great draw distances.

CHC · Apr 16, 2015

GTA V baby

I know it's a bullshot, but it's.... not a bullshot, the game actually looks like this maxed out.

Shivvy_NTL · Apr 16, 2015

PS2: Jak and daxter games
PS3: GtA 5 ( its actually very impressive for an open world game, hell nothing compares)
PS4: Probably killzone SF

0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55 · Apr 16, 2015

Tie Fighter.

methane47 · Apr 16, 2015

Bluth54 said:
Alan Wake

Yikes... draw distance doesn't mean much if the textures right next to you look like garbage

oakenhild · Apr 16, 2015

Firehead said:
Xenoblade 3D's draw distance is pretty incredible. It's pretty much unchanged from the Wii version, from what I can tell. Very impressive that they pulled it off, I feel.

Yea, considering the hardware they pulled this off on...definitely impressed me.

GTAV has some of the most detailed draw distance I've seen yet.

Lactose_Intolerant · Apr 16, 2015

Delta Force games. They used voxels for terrain

Granted, it is hard to find good pictures. Games of that era didn't have good draw distances

bomblord1 · Apr 16, 2015

Lactose_Intolerant said:
Delta Force games. They used voxels for terrain

Granted, it is hard to find good pictures. Games of that era didn't have good draw distances

Why do these screenshots get progressively worse? The first one looks fine like a typical FPS the last one looks like a DS game.

Yiazmat · Apr 16, 2015

Gran Turismo 6:

Bluth54 · Apr 16, 2015

methane47 said:
Yikes... draw distance doesn't mean much if the textures right next to you look like garbage

Yeah Alan Wake has some bad textures due to the memory limitations of the Xbox 360.

Broank · Apr 16, 2015

I remember being impressed with Sunset Overdrive's.

TheVampire · Apr 16, 2015

Far draw distance is only really good when it's also detailed.

Ozzy Onya A2Z · Apr 16, 2015

Microsoft Flight Simulator, considering you can actually log real hours towards your pilot's license and some of the training hardware used this is a real draw distance show piece. Many real landscapes, landmarks, airports, weather conditions and aircraft etc are in this baby.

Firehead · Apr 16, 2015

Broank said:
I remember being impressed with Sunset Overdrive's.

Wow, yeah, that looks amazing.

hwy_61 · Apr 16, 2015

Broank said:
I remember being impressed with Sunset Overdrive's.

How could I forget sunset Overdrive. Ridiculous draw distance.

DarkArterialGore · Apr 16, 2015

Turok.

Impressively bad.

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