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The CUBE of paper right next to the burguer makes it for me. Even the paper below the burger is highly modeled and there is that shit paper with a shit texture that people made in 10 seconds. They didn't even bothered to model the holes in the block of paper

You can be 99% sure the reason the paper looks bad is because of performance reasons. It's clearly a downscaled texture and adding some cylindrical holes is not a lot of effort, but it is a lot of wasted polygons.

 

[Forerunner]

Now that is some good ass water.

The explosions in BF, actually just the whole fucking game.

 

[DukeLongfellow]

The water in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (both games).

 

[XANDER CAGE]

The tarps on railings look incredible in the PC version of Mirror's Edge if you have PhysX enabled.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I really liked how flames looked in Skyward Sword. With the proper resolution it would have passed for an effect on a stylized game on more powerful tech than the Wii.

 

[Conkerkid11]

The Battlefield Hardline burger

Should have been the first post.

Either that or the Uncharted tree.

 

[DodgyGeezerFella]

Where's Dennis and his STALKER bricks.

 

[His Majesty]

Funny thing the witcher 3 dog in hearts of stone looks worse and it's new hardware, but it's witcher so it gets a pass

yeah shit is literally unplayable to me due to that damn dog

 

[guybrushfreeman]

Couldn't find a better picture but for some reason I always thought the grass area in Final Fantasy XIII-2 stood out for the rest of the game.

(Image taken from http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:FFXIII-2_Riding_Chocobos.jpg)

 

[nOoblet16]

Where's Dennis and his STALKER bricks.

And his Human Revolution toilets. As I mentioned once already!

 

[Charlouie Jonesman]

Resident Evil 6

The tastiest looking last-gen steak. In contrast, you have lots of textures like this, straight out of a Quake 3 engine game.

Food is always the highest priority.

 

[Davey Cakes]

Back in the GameCube days, my brother and I would always talk about how good the water looked in Mario Sunshine and Wave Race: Blue Storm. It was super impressive to us.

 

[TheMoon]

It amazes me that in amongst all the fantastic water he comments on, there's no Wave Race, which had great interactive water even on the N64.

there was no wave race game to comment on for him. wave race 64 didn't come out on VC until this year.

 

[TedMilk]

Doom 2016 has the best looking stone steps I have ever seen in a videogame. Can't find a pic right now but an example would be the steps leading up towards the yellow key door in Kadingir Sanctum. Photorealistic Stone Steps Baby!

 

[Sylverstone14]

The lighting effects in Super Mario 3D World.

 

[zackmorris]

Uncharted 3 Tree

Uncharted 3 was a really good looking game.

 

[Auctopus]

I know the rest of the game looks good but even on PS3, GTAV's water looks unbelievable.

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

Hard to go to an Alice Madness Returns topic that doesn't mention the hair.

 

[Trup1aya]

That is, games where one visual element looks a lot nicer than anything else in the game.

I remember the walls in Perfect Dark Zero blowing my mind at the time. Remember 10 years ago, when the way to show your game was "next-gen" was to make everything shiny? And bump-mapping, omg!



The rest of the game looked pretty nasty, though.

This so much!!!

PDZ looked so rough, but those walls were amazing at the time.

 

[Rafus]

Sea of Thieves isn't overly pretty. Doesn't look overly interesting, but good fucking God that water

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/oray3As

I came for this. Although I think the game art looks very pretty, specially the world and the atmosphere.

 

[Armigr]

The Draw Distance in Just Cause 3.

Is that on consoles or on PC? Because if it's the former then that's actually quite impressive!

 

[wapplew]

Gust games character model.

 

[elfinke]

I remember being enamored with the water in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, on PS2. Like, I knew it was a pretty basic kind of thing, but damn if it wasn't a pleasure to tramp around in it at every opportunity.

Crappy, non-animated picture:

 

[Deleted member 74300]

These lovely flags

 

[westman]

I remember a grassy dirt slope in Final Fantasy X that looked oddly photorealistic, more so than anything else in the game.

 

[Mista Koo]

Couldn't find any images, but the shiny ground surfaces in Super Mario Galaxy looked way better than anything else in the game.

 

[MogCakes]

Gust games character model.

For a moment, I mistook this for character art. That is really impressive

 

[BlindJesus]

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and it's lighting effects. For the amount that I talk about this game, you would think that I'm an undercover shill... but over ten years later, this games shadows and lighting effects are phenomenally good. Dynamic shadows, dynamic light sources(,sorry,not familiar with the actual jargon). But god damn does it still look good, I'll have to post my super sampled screenshots when I'm off my phone.

Can't find my SS pictures, but this still gets the point across.

 

[Glass Shark]

The Atlas sphere/orb in No Man's Sky looks pretty cool. The texture and lighting and the way it moves is neat. Most everything else in the game is pretty mediocre.

 

[Dreadmoth]

I remember being enamored with the water in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, on PS2. Like, I knew it was a pretty basic kind of thing, but damn if it wasn't a pleasure to tramp around in it at every opportunity.
Crappy, non-animated picture: http://allplatformgaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1378032_orig.jpg

Spoiler

PCSX2 recording, but the effect looks just as good on the PS2

 

[eshwaaz]

In contrast, you have lots of textures like this, straight out of a Quake 3 engine game.

Those textures honestly make me think of RE7. Really disappointed with how that game looks.

 

[Jobbs]

These rocks near the end of Killzone Shadow Fall always blew me away.

The rest of the game looks good, too. This just made me stare in awe.

God damn.

GG really is great at visuals. Makes me excited that they're finally making something creative (Horizon).

 

[jelly]

Water always blows me away in games. I hope devs use it a lot more physically for game interaction though.

 

[Fou-Lu]

It might not look amazing now, but I always loved the water in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. It is awfully difficult to find a good picture of it though. So here's a video.

You will be humming the song from that area forever.

 

[Elitist1945]

Jodie / Ellen Page's model in Beyond: Two Souls. Specifically the eyes.

 

[Caffeine]

I don't have a picture right now but the wall texture in the undead burg in dark souls by the bonfire as u climb up the ladder always looked really nice for some reason.

 

[elfinke]

[/img]http://i.imgur.com/fc46EhO.gif[/img]

Spoiler

PCSX2 recording, but the effect looks just as good on the PS2

As much as I adore D3 on PS4 (and PC for that matter), I could really go another BGDA-type game on the consoles.

 

[Yiazmat]

I remember being enamored with the water in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, on PS2. Like, I knew it was a pretty basic kind of thing, but damn if it wasn't a pleasure to tramp around in it at every opportunity.

Spoiler

PCSX2 recording, but the effect looks just as good on the PS2

I remember being impressed by this too. It was so good compared to the games I was playing at the time.