What do you think the best looking PC game released to date is?

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CrazyJew

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Aesthetics VS. Graphics, people!


Anyways, I will always kindly remember the world of Hyllis from Beyond Good and Evil. Lots of work was put into the design.
 

efAston

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DooM³ is still the only thing that's made me stop and gawp at a wall for minutes, because it such amazing carvings in it. It's animation, rather than modelling, which makes you believe a character is real, and Fred Nillson's movement in that was absolutely brilliant. Seeing an imp climb, crawl, and stand up, was genuinely creepy and pleasing to watch. The entire environment foreshadowed that you were getting deeper into what was wrong with it, with the fleshy sections breaking through the walls, which pulsated and got worse as the game continued. You really felt as though you'd been into the depths of an exhausting horror by the time you'd finished, and all the visuals fed into that.
 

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Battlefield 3 , crysis 1 and 2 mass effect 3 metro 2033 , arkham city and asylum to name but a few.

Most of these are used for benchmarking to.
 

loc978

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If you're looking to stress test the unholy shit out of a system... gotta go with HD texture pack mods for gamebryo-based games. Toss the user-created HD retex onto Skyrim, crank it up to 11 and watch it crawl.

Aesthetics, though, are in the mind of the beholder. I rather enjoyed Alice: Madness Returns for that, but I'm strange.
 

Darknacht

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I always use Arcanum to test out my new systems, it looks great and if the system can't run it on full settings then I don't want it.
 

Thoric485

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Witcher 2 with Ubersampling blew me away last year, also Trine 2 definitely deserves a mention.

Before that Metro 2033 was quite the looker, and Mafia 2 did fabulous things with PhysX.

Crysis is holding up amazingly all these years too.
 

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LookingGlass said:
I started playing Metro 2033 last night (for the second time). I remembered it running like crap on my old computer, but I foolishly expected this 2 year old game to be able to run it on its highest settings in DirectX11 mode on my ~1 year old PC. It was fine for the first 5-10 seconds... then not so much. Still, even on settings my PC can handle, it does look pretty awesome.
Metro 2033 is a fantastic game, and is amazing looking. Its not pretty, but it does look great.

With out doubt though the best looking game on the pc is Crysis 2 with the DX11 and high res patches.
 

Bostur

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I'd say Dead Space 2. TW2 is also a good candidate.

And yes Eve Online really do have some very shiny parts graphically. You might want to check out the trial. The gameplay in general is mostly dots in space, but character models and ship models are getting amazing.
 

devotedsniper

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Like most have already said, witcher 2 and crysis 1 will give any system a run for it's money, crank witcher 2 to the max then you will more than likely need SLi.

Oh Final Fantasy 14 is also a power hungry beast even if it is horrible.
 

Woodsey

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The Witcher 2 is an absolute king, it's gorgeous. Metro 2033 and Crysis are the obvious candidates also, although TW2 has far better art direction.
 

Sexy Devil

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I honestly didn't find the Witcher 2 on ultra that demanding. Using an i7 2600K with 8GB RAM and a GTX 570 and the only time my framerate ever got noticeably low was the dragon fight at the end.

Of course, if I turn on ubersampling everything promptly crashes and burns. It's a damn beautiful slideshow though.
 

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Woodsey said:
The Witcher 2 is an absolute king, it's gorgeous.
I was rather underwhelmed by it really. Amazing environments, yes, but they really failed in the character department. Those animations, especially the facial ones (pretty important in an RPG) really failed to deliver. Same counts for Metro 2033. It's one of the most atmospheric game I've ever played, but it all falls apart the moment I meet a character.

To be fair, I have yet to see a game that beats HL2 in terms of infusing it's characters with humanity. It's not without reason that I can still clearly remember Alyx' warm smile when she saved Gordon's ass from those Combine in Red Letter Day.

Hence why I'm a big fan of BF3 when it comes to graphical advancement. They really payed a lot of attention to the animations. Not only from the characters, but from everything; how the trees sway when an RPG flies by or when a chopper hovers overhead, how the jeeps tumble about when they drive over a road that's shot to pieces. And don't forget the lighting and particle effects.

So yeah, hence why BF3 gets my vote, and not The Witcher 2 or Metro 2033.

In terms of art style I can't pick one though. I've played so many beautiful games in a humongous range of styles that it's just impossible to pick one that tops them all. And why would I want to anyway?
Blood Brain Barrier said:
I would say Trine 2. Impossibly beautiful, even if you don't like the gameplay.

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Sweet mother of mercy. Can I play that without having played the first game? Because that's one stellar looking game.
Darknacht said:
I always use Arcanum to test out my new systems, it looks great and if the system can't run it on full settings then I don't want it.
Wait, what? Not sure if talking about a different game than I'm thinking about, or just trolling. Because Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura succeeded in many things, but it's graphics isn't one of them.
 

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nikki191 said:
OSHarlequin said:
Well apart from the obvious ones like crysis and the witcher, i'd have to say games like company of heroes or the recent entries into the total war series.

Shogun 2 anyone?
shogun 2.. interesting choice there
Why? Its a good looking game, i guess calling it the best looking game on pc is a bit much, but still.
 

Norrdicus

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Cowabungaa said:
Those animations, especially the facial ones (pretty important in an RPG) really failed to deliver.
I can definitely see what you mean. In Witcher 2, unless the scene is more cinematic than usually, the eyes, eyebrows and nose are barely animated. It's noticeable when you look at someone like Triss. The mouth moves, sometimes forming a smirk or somesuch, but everything above the lips stays very neutral