The most beautiful or good looking game you've played? - Games

[QUOTE=MutantBadger;22383714]They have some of the best musical scores too, fricken amazing.[/QUOTE] Easily, EVERYONE knows the theme to Mario and will never forget it.

STALKER for the lighting

[QUOTE=SomeFaggot;22383868]STALKER for the lighting[/QUOTE]Too bad the lighting eats your CPU/RAM.

[QUOTE=MutantBadger;22383911]Too bad the lighting eats your CPU/RAM.[/QUOTE] Doesn't matter if you have a good computer. That said, even though I can run it all on high, it stutters a lot. :/

[QUOTE=xDrTran;22383922]Doesn't matter if you have a good computer. That said, even though I can run it all on high, it stutters a lot. :/[/QUOTE]Not all of us have good computers. :frog:

Crysis is technically the best. I like Mirror's Edge the most though. And I have to say, Modern Warfare 2 puts out really good graphics without taking up many resources. Also GTAIV is pretty damn sexy.

Fable 2 has a really cool style and some fantastic views. It's not the prettiest game but it can look great.

[img]http://www.supercheats.com/guides/files/guid/Fable-2/fable2s57.jpg[/img] Doesn't really do it justice, when you really get to look at the big castle vista in the winter it's breathtaking.

[QUOTE=BmB;22384217] Doesn't really do it justice, when you really get to look at the big castle vista in the winter it's breathtaking.[/QUOTE] Standing on Heroes' Hill in Bower Lake, looking out onto the lake and then realising I was standing on the Boasting Platform looking at where the Hero's Guild used to be.

[QUOTE=Inacio;22384268]Fucking thumb those images, raped the layout here on my sis' brand new iPod.[/QUOTE] It's raping the layout on my 22", don't complain. [editline]05:55AM[/editline] Never played the old Fable so can't say that had any meaning to me. :/

[img_thumb]http://www.nextgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Mass-Effect-2-2.jpg[/img_thumb] Although it could seriously benefit from some better anti-aliasing at times.

[QUOTE=BmB;22384361]It's raping the layout on my 22", don't complain. [editline]05:55AM[/editline] Never played the old Fable so can't say that had any meaning to me. :/[/QUOTE] The first time I saw Oakvale in 2 I almost cried. Oakvale was my place, I owned all the buildings, I had a wife, I did my trading there. And Reaver sold it out for immortality.

GTA IV for when it was released, but I'd say BadCompany 2 or Crysis.

Uncharted 2

[QUOTE=Sie-Sveinhund;22384402][img_thumb]http://www.nextgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Mass-Effect-2-2.jpg[/img_thumb] Although it could seriously benefit from some better anti-aliasing at times.[/QUOTE] And less of that fucking UE3 bloom made from shit. I actually ran both of them at lower resolutions because the film grain would look unnatural if I didn't.

Probably gonna get dumbs for this, but Wind Waker. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG9rN1zMNd0[/media] I just love how vivid the colors are. Such pure blues and greens and reds. It's an amazing style.

Wow that looks amazing.

Mirror's Edge reminds me of the White Stripes

I really liked STALKER's appearance, it made the game incredibly atmospheric.

Dwarf Fortress, your imagination is the best graphics processor.

Burnout Paradise City [img]http://www.threespeech.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/BurnoutParadise.jpg[/img] Or,Crysis/Bad company 2

Super Mario Galaxy 2 [URL=http://img32.imageshack.us/i/supermariogalaxy2z.jpg/][IMG]http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9580/supermariogalaxy2z.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

arma 2 is pretty nice looking despite bloom/hdr rape if you look at the ground too much [img_thumb]http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7038/arma22010060500541213.png[/img_thumb] [editline]08:26AM[/editline] shadows are on normal in this pic, oops

Red Dead Redemption has the most beautiful scenery tbh.

Morrowind TBH may not be the best but hell I fucking love it but if slap some graphic enhancers that game looks better that Oblivion

Am I the only one who likes colourful scenery and 2D art? [img]http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/2005/04/08/h-104_38165_ps2_vanpirecol.jpg.jpg[/img][IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/9i4axf.png[/IMG][img]http://www.oldgames.sk/images/oldgames/adventure/Loom/loom_006.png[/img] [img]http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sfalpha02.jpg[/img][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/MD_Sonic_the_Hedgehog.png[/img][img]http://www.dos4free.dk/gm_imgs/cosmo.gif[/img] [img]http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/feature/4035/sweeney_jazz.png[/img][img]http://www.defunctgames.com/pic/reviewpics/reviewmsh-2.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/leisure/homm2/images/ascreen.gif[/img][img]http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/101/1014403/mushihime-sama-futari-screenshots-20090817092002222_640w.jpg[/img] :3:

I'd say Just Cause 2, especially around the snowy areas; Far Cry 2 (I have a lovely screenshot of a waterfall I found :3:); And, of course, Mirror's Edge

[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/flower-playstation-3-ps3-056.jpg[/img] [B]Flower[/B]

EvE [img]http://static.arstechnica.com/assets/2009/07/eveonline-thumb-640xauto-6846.jpg[/img] Arma 2 [img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/SaborWolf/arma22010-05-0518-06-54-41.jpg[/img]

Of the games i've played, Crysis had the best looking outdoor jungle/beach areas. It had the most beautiful water i've ever seen, nicely filtered shadows and nice sunrays. There were loads of vegetation and other objects scattered around, everything felt really detailed. The only downside is that indoor areas looked mediocre because they completely dropped all precalculated lighting, but the engine couldn't handle a large number of lights without huge slowdowns. The indoor areas of the first Far Cry looked better IMO (except for the alien mountain, that was simply amazing). Looks like they're going to completely change that with the Cryengine 3. It has a deferred renderer that can easily chew through huge numbers of lights and they've also implemented some rather good looking realtime global illumination. Just Cause 2 is another beautiful game. The thing with it though, is that it doesn't try to specialise in one type of environment like most other games, but it has many different environments. There's cities, small villages, military bases, airports, jungle, deserts, snowy mountains, ocean. All of them look great, but they certainly aren't the best looking. One of the reasons for that is that they lack the kind of detail Crysis has, but on the other hand it isn't really needed with Just Cause's gameplay. There's lots of copypasted objects, which makes the jungle look bland, also villages and bases look repetitive. I guess that's just the cost of creating such a big game environment. Just Cause 2's engine is technically amazing though. The terrain looks great with seamless LOD transitions and great texture blending. You almost never notice any tiling in the terrain textures. The shadow filtering is great with realistic looking penumbras. There's also good looking atmospheric effects and clouds that almost fool you into thinking they're volumetric. There's also soft particles. I love how well they pulled off the antialiasing, it antialiases the transparent textures by default, and 4X AA costs only like 10% of the performance. The best thing about all of this is that it all runs at highly playable framerates on a midrange graphics card.