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[The Infectious Paradox]

This is obviously subjective based on art style, photo realism, graphic fidelity, etc. What for you has been the peak of what a game should/has looked like up to this point in gaming? Even if it's skyrim with 100+ mods. Hit us with some beautiful-ass gifs/images

 

[Guilty_AI]

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

How do I close a thread?

 

[Evolved1]

Think it will be pretty hard to beat Horizon Forbidden West until Naughty Dog releases their first current gen game.

 

[MarkMe2525]

I still love the look of RDR2. Those landscapes are gorgeous, and the rain soaked mud in the small town areas can't be topped IMO.

 

[Gamerguy84]

Gran Turismo PSVR2.

 

[M1987]

Horizon Forbidden West by far

 

[analog_future]

It's still Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart for me. Looks better than many of the Netflix shows my kid watches, which is ridiculous.

I do think that there's an avalanche of "next-gen" looking games right around the corner though. The next 2-3 years are going to be amazing.



Also, I'm going to take this opportunity to state that while Horizon Forbidden West is a technical marvel, it's ugly as shit.

 

[diffusionx]

Horizon Forbidden West or Ghost of Tsushima for art and how every scene in that game looks amazing

 

[Elder Legend]

Art Direction wise? Either Bloodborne or Elden Ring.

From pure graphics probably The Last of Us Part II. I am still puzzled to this day how that game looks that good on a very old ancient hardware with a measly 1.84 tflops.

 

[Captain Toad]

Cuphead

 

[BossLackey]

Guilty Gear Strive is high up there. Bloodborne. The recent RE engine Resident Evils. Monster Hunter World in some ways. Cuphead.

 

[poodaddy]

I can't choose between these.

Cyberpunk maxed with ray tracing.
Blasphemous.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike.
Witcher 3 maxed with ray tracing.
Garou Mark of the Wolves.
Demon's Souls remake, not in terms of the art style changes, but the game looks flawless to me.
MegaMan X4.
Scorn.

All of these games look essentially ideal to me, just perfect, and if a gun is to my head on any given day, my answer could be completely different based on my mood, but it will always be one of these.

 

[John Marston]

Think it will be pretty hard to beat Horizon Forbidden West until Naughty Dog releases their first current gen game.

It's been a while but I remember losing track of what NPCs were talking about I was so mesmerized by the facial animations.

Leaps & bounds over the competition.

 

[Balducci30]

Half life Alyx or ratchet and clank rift apart - last of us 2 and horizon forbidden west after - Elden ring art direction - honorable mention to demon souls remake

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

It's weird for me. I played TLOU and Horizon Zero dawn, but I get burned out and never finished them. But from what people say I feel like I should try the sequels for the spectacle alone.

 

[T4keD0wN]

Cyberpunk with RT
Plague tale requiem for non-RT

 

[Kuranghi]

It's weird for me. I played TLOU and Horizon Zero dawn, but I get burned out and never finished them. But from what people say I feel like I should try the sequels for the spectacle alone.

I played 60 hours replaying Horizon 1 and the DLC for it on PS5 just before Horizon 2 released like a moron so I got burnt out on 2 around 70 hours, I'll go back and finish it really soon though. After I finish RE4 Remake.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

Art Direction wise? Either Bloodborne or Elden Ring.

From pure graphics probably The Last of Us Part II. I am still puzzled to this day how that game looks that good on a very old ancient hardware with a measly 1.84 tflops.

I really do think a Bloodbore remake would crush all other games.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I played 60 hours replaying Horizon 1 and the DLC for it on PS5 just before Horizon 2 released like a moron so I got burnt out on 2 around 70 hours, I'll go back and finish it really soon though. After I finish RE4 Remake.

Did the gameplay feel like much of the same? I loved HZD for most of the game, but then it started to feel repetitive. Does this comment mean it's the same for HFW? That's why I've been skeptical of getting it

 

[Guilty_AI]

On a more serious note, everything considered, i'd have to say Teardown.




I know many people will shirk because 'TAH CUBES', but in my opinion, the combination of full ray tracing effects, simulated physics and particles and all the added atmospheric effects makes for a game with one of the most cozy and pleasant level enviroments i've played.

 

[poppabk]

Flight Sim. Especially in VR. It's not perfect especially as you get closer to the ground, but its just amazing what they have managed to achieve.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

On a more serious note, everything considered, i'd have to say Teardown.




I know many people will shirk because 'TAH CUBES', but in my opinion, the combination of full ray tracing effects, simulated physics and particles and all the added atmospheric effects makes for a game with one of the most cozy and pleasant level enviroments i've played.

Bro can you not try to win this thread twice?

 

[Crayon]

The best looking game my eyes have ever seen is Horizon FW.

The best looking game my loins have ever seen is GG Strive.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

The best looking game my eyes have ever seen is Horizon FW.

The best looking game my loins have ever seen is GG Strive.

Ooo lala isn't that on gamepass recently? Or am I mistaken?

 

[Crayon]

Ooo lala isn't that on gamepass recently? Or am I mistaken?

I think they did just do an xbox version and put it on gamepass. Play that shit.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I think they did just do an xbox version and put it on gamepass. Play that shit.

Watching gameplay vids on YouTube as we speak. Gonna try it. Thanks fam.

 

[KXVXII9X]

I think they did just do an xbox version and put it on gamepass. Play that shit.

It's on PC GamePass too! It is gorgeous!

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

It's on PC GamePass too! It is gorgeous!

I rarely get into fighting games, but this looks next level. So cool!

 

[Topher]

Probably Cyberpunk 2077 maxxed out with ray tracing

 

[Crayon]

Watching gameplay vids on YouTube as we speak. Gonna try it. Thanks fam.

HEVEN OR HELL EVERYONE GO PLAY IT

 

[SSfox]

Too many over the years, but RDR2 was just insane and looked like a PS5 game in PS4. Game was way too ahead in every areas.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

HEVEN OR HELL EVERYONE GO PLAY IT

God damn.. I was not expecting fighting games, but these are blowing my mind. You know, I'm a dark souls vet.. but I'm feeling like I need to delve more into these games to test my skills

 

[STARSBarry]

As stated subjective and all that.



visually I often think about Journey, other games include Okami, 13 sentinels and surprisingly Megaman Legends.

But I have to say from a purely visual perspective I think Journey managed to nail a consistantly unique and beautiful style throughout.

I think on the quest for photorealism people forget about the depth something with strong visual design brings to the table, in 20 years time many of the games touted in this very thread at the apex of visual fidelity will look dated.

Journey never will.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

Too many over the years, but RDR2 was just insane and looked like a PS5 game in PS4. Game was way too ahead in every areas.

Too bad about those shit controls Also if they take what they learned from rdr at put it in GTA6 I'll never stop playing it

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

As stated subjective and all that.



visually I often think about Journey, other games include Okami, 13 sentinels and surprisingly Megaman Legends.

But I have to say from a purely visual perspective I think Journey managed to nail a consistantly unique and beautiful style throughout.

I think on the quest for photorealism people forget about the depth something with strong visual design brings to the table, in 20 years time many of the games touted in this very thread at the apex of visual fidelity will look dated.

Journey never will.

My dude, thank you. I'm glad you reminded me of this game. I really want to try this

 

[ZehDon]

Cyberpunk 2077 maxed out. The scope and detail sell that world in a way no other game really does. Walking around and soaking in the detail is a pretty special time.

 

[Crayon]

God damn.. I was not expecting fighting Hames, but these are blowing my mind. You know, I'm a dark souls vet.. but I'm feeling like I need to delve more into these games to test my skills

Not gonna lie, it's an aquired taste and it's not the easiest game but at least soak in the visuals and the soundtrack. Oh and a word of warning... the story mode is non interactive. A lot of people try it and wonder when they are ever going to get to play lol. It is also going to jump into the middle of a bunch of unexplained shit.

Maybe start with the training mode which is rather good. Actually maybe just start in arcade mode turn up the volume and hammer the shit out of your controller.

 

[Warablo]

AC Unity (Interiors and size scale), RDR 2 (world), Division 1 NYC (world), TLOU II (textures), Cyberpunk 2077 (world)

 

[Mr Reasonable]

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Oo-wee! Looks like a real person

 

[Florin4k4]

TLOU2

 

[Danjin44]

Sekiro....

 

[hemo memo]

In terms of art R&C Rift Apart is like playing a Pixar movie. 2nd place is the first Ni no Kuni. Absolutely beautiful. This has nothing to do with anime by the way. I don’t watch anime. I just really appreciate beautiful art.

 

[Schmendrick]

CP2077 with maxed RT surprisingly closely followed by HFW. Then there's nothing for quite a while and then come games like LoU2, Plague Tale:R, GoT etc.
The newly released RT version of the Witcher 3 fully modded is also easily still among the best looking games to date and ofc RDR2.

 

[SSfox]

Too bad about those shit controls Also if they take what they learned from rdr at put it in GTA6 I'll never stop playing it

Yeah the controls could've been better, but you can actually make the game much better with some changes in settings, idk how Rockstar put those default setting, it's like some of the worst possible default setting they could've put in the game

 

[Pimpollo818]

I was probably a sophmore in H.S. but when MGS3 first came out :O

 

[octiny]

Maxed out RDR2.

 

[lmimmfn]

While I can't say it's the best ever ever in terms of gfx, but for me it's Battlefield 2 and the Special Forces expansion pack. Never before had I experienced such amazing graphics and gameplay

Unfortunately there's better gfx now but nowhere near the gameplay.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

Yeah the controls could've been better, but you can actually make the game much better with some changes in settings, idk how Rockstar put those default setting, it's like some of the worst possible default setting they could've put in the game

Even on console? That's how I played it. I get why people love it. Those in world events make one of the most dynamic worlds I've ever seen. That's why I really have hope for gta6. My optimal experience for gta 6 would be if they kept and advanced on the physics of max payne 3 and added the depth of rdr2

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I was probably a sophmore in H.S. but when MGS3 first came out :O

You're right.. shout out MGS3