Prettiest Videogame
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From a purely artistic standpoint, I think Fate/Stay Night is probably the prettiest game to date:
When it comes to sheer graphic potential, I feel that Metal Gear Solid 4 and Rising:Revengeance are probably the best looking games to be released thus far. The attention to detail is just absolutely ludicrous.
When it comes to sheer graphic potential, I feel that Metal Gear Solid 4 and Rising:Revengeance are probably the best looking games to be released thus far. The attention to detail is just absolutely ludicrous.
HNNNNNNNGGH! So gorgeous! Definitely second Valkyria Chronicles.neonsword13-ops said:
I haven't seen aesthetics that great since the high-rendered cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts.
I also enjoyed the dynamic style of Resonance of Fate whenever you execute a graceful gun-pirouette bullet ballet. Love over-the-top shiny scenes like that.
The first games that came to my mind were Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus. If they were to redraw (or just re-render) those games in hi-def, I would be a very happy person! But since they haven't done that, I'mma go with Dear Esther. The game itself (and we're stretching the definition of "game" to breaking point) is for me an almost entirely empty experience, but holy hell is it pretty. In some locations, I just had to stop and look.
Odin Sphere is an amazing Action RPG that is also pretty to look at.
The same can be said for Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
More recently, Rayman Origins is just well stylized, bright, and vibrant.
The same can be said for Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
More recently, Rayman Origins is just well stylized, bright, and vibrant.
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Biggest shame in that game was the fixed camera perspective. If there was one change I'd have loved to see in the HD collection it'd have been that
Fortunately I still have one left, I didn't think that all of mine would have been taken by the first posthazabaza1 said:Journey looks real nice. Very pretty.
There's also Okami. Doesn't look the best, and it really starts looking better in motion, but it has its charms.
Also the texture quality kind of sucks but I can't deny my love for the aesthetic in Dark Souls.
Biggest shame in that game was the fixed camera perspective. If there was one change I'd have loved to see in the HD collection it'd have been that
I am writing a series of papers on video games and one of my key arguments is that they are a legitimate art form. Just earlier today I was trying to think of a standout example of video game art, and now I stumble on this. You all are wonderful.
Two I like that haven't been mentioned yet are Paper Mario Thousand Year Door (Boggly Woods guys, just mind-blowingly beautiful design) and for an architecture nut, Assassin's Creed II has some gorgeous depictions of Renaissance landmarks and buildings
Two I like that haven't been mentioned yet are Paper Mario Thousand Year Door (Boggly Woods guys, just mind-blowingly beautiful design) and for an architecture nut, Assassin's Creed II has some gorgeous depictions of Renaissance landmarks and buildings
Mass Effect had a very strong aesthetic and very good effects, and while I'd agree for the most part ME3 looked terrific with quite a few stunning scenes and set pieces, I've taken a look at some of the models and they're actually of lesser quality than their counterparts from the games previous. It's actually most apparent on the multiplayer models: from the waist-down, the textures are of half the resolution that they are from the waist-up, and almost every character model is like this in some fashion. You learn a lot about that stuff when you stick around the Garry's Mod porting community.norashepard said:
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, everything looks gorgeous and not in a trying to be realistic kind of way. So it will age well, the color, the lighting, everything about it appeals to my eyes.
Oh, El Shaddai, your aesthetics made me really want to love you. I just couldn't.Fiz_The_Toaster said:So is El Shaddai...
I'm....okay with the game.Zachary Amaranth said:Oh, El Shaddai, your aesthetics made me really want to love you. I just couldn't.Fiz_The_Toaster said:So is El Shaddai...
Trying to save Enoch from dying was a bunch of bullshit and chips and I swear I've damn near broken my controller because of it. No one is meant to button mash four buttons at the same time and expect anything good to happen.
The music and the look of the game is fantastic, but the story was 'meh' and the controls were... interesting... to say the least.
I am well aware of this. I do a lot of personal texture modding for lots of games, and Mass Effect is no exception. I hated the jaggedness on Legion because it's supposed to be this sleek robot but then no! Same thing with EDI who has some extremely visible texture glitches. So I made a whole bunch of replacement textures and it fixed it up quite nicely. It's too bad the game isn't easily moddable or else I'd release them to other people and the game would be even more pretty for everyone.an annoyed writer said:
Although I think there was a TEXMOD pack for it somewhere that probably does it better than I ever could anyway.
I'll just throw in Bioshock Infinite. The game looks amazing, it's visual design and aesthetic are outstanding. Another good argument that solid aesthetic design will trump pure raw power any time (I'm looking at you, Crysis 3. Impressive graphics engine, still not as beautiful as Bioshock Infinite's much lower fidelity engine)
Wow, a lotta great games mentioned here. I'd like to add Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. The Gamecube Hardware isn't what one might call by today's standards very powerful. But Baten Kaitos still really holds up in the "pretty" category, which says a lot for how good the art design truly was. The game dropped the ball in more than one other category (voice acting was especially terrible) but this was a pretty game. Fun too.
