Best looking games of this gen according to DigitalFoundry: 2013 - Ryse 2014 - Infamous SS 2015 - The Order 1886 2016 - Uncharted 4 2017 - Horizon Zero Dawn 2018 - God of War And this year it'll be The Last of Us.
>h-haha all these console games with no pc port look better on console! your point exactly? are you trying to say every game who exists in both console and pc looks better in pc all the time? thats correct imagine how these games would look and run in pc
Hudson Myers
>shitty artstyle >low detail
Oh god you're blind! See a doctor, fast!
Leo Brooks
and it was a fucking garbage game in every regard, curious.
I never understood people who claim GoW looks good, finished the entire game and not once was I wow'd by the graphics. I had more "wow" moments playing TLoU remastered.
Gavin Gutierrez
Because it's a scripted corridor game, same reason why Detroit looks great, speaking of it's coming to PC
Liam Wilson
Time travel? Fucked if I know.
Gabriel Peterson
Uncharted 4 still has the best looking character models by far
This was a weird insight into the daily lives of Chad and Stacy.
Adam Brown
>ryse looks like shit and worse than pretty much any pc 2013 multiplat >infamous always looked like shit >order 1866 fair enough >uncharted 4 rise or tomb raider pc looked better >Horizon are you kidding me? it doesn't even look as good as other ps4 games. infinite fog and shitty character models. looks worse than AC: unity. >God of War fair enough
Hunter Ortiz
A bunch of fucking sand and trees. Where is the design? This is why no one takes you seriously. You obsess over technicalities while possessing no fundamental concept of what actually makes a game look good.
>Notice how there isn't a single PC game? Because game 'journalists' don't play actual games. They play movies. Agreed they look great for their platform, but that's also their main selling point. PC games generally focus on performance and gameplay. Games like CS;GO favours 144Hz, doesn't care about graphics. RTS also care more about gameplay than eyecandy.
And again, the best looking 'games' are still on PC. But they're not AAA games. They're like graphical projects where you can move around a bit, so they don't count.
Xavier Butler
>according to literally who
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On a side note, not a single one of those looks anywhere near as good as Crysis still. Better luck next time?
Isaac Lee
Hate to break it to ya kiddo, but that's in-game.
Camden Parker
The PS4 really needs more VRAM, the textures on most games are terrible.
Jordan Bennett
>cutscene That QB screenshot was in-game lmao UC4 looks shit
Look at all that beautiful auto-generated foliage. Truly a master work of visual design.
Blake Ramirez
Oh really? What's it like living in fantasy PS2 land you gigantic faggitron?
Isaiah Jones
This is actually from the E3 build, the final game isn't quite that good
Carter Hernandez
>The Order 1886
That game didn't look good though? I remember there being controversy about the final product having fucked up lightning and stuff, there were pictures comparing it to pre-release footage.
Also it looked like a blurry mess in general, having ultra-HD textures on characters doesn't mean shit if anything past 5 meters looks like it's covered in vaseline.
Jack Price
Nice PS2 textures
Hunter Reyes
You are stupid as fuck, no point replying to you anymore
Nice deflection, didn't expect you to make an argument anyway. Have fun with your PS2 tier shitty looking games.
Jace Allen
The best looking games are always driving games, there's nothing easier than creating a car, some tarmac, weather and sky effects and some foliage and buildings for surroundings.
If it looks good when you're playing then that's the entire point. Complaining otherwise is like pausing a film during special effects and criticising things that your eye was never going to notice otherwise
Why does no one makes good optimized graphics for PC games? Seems like even though games like Uncharted 4 only run at 30 fps they're still on a $300 console, whereas to get a game that looks as good as that running well on PC you'll have to spend a lot more.
Charles Cooper
Nice PS2 titties faggot Nice PS2 comeback, get real you tool
thanks for agreeing bro, metro truly looks like ass
Parker Jackson
Actually ryse is on pc.
Anyway, what's the point when it's below 60 fps? Console is for children.
Zachary Carter
Way to PS2oot your horn, fag-lord.
Jacob Davis
I've also noticed how half of those are interactive movies and how they decided which games looked best based on how realistic their graphics looked.
Mason Rogers
Well PS2 ur mum
Hudson Gutierrez
Long and short of it, consoles are WAY simpler to optimize for since you know the exact hardware of each one and can cut certain corners, whereas pc requires more meticulous edge case testing to account for different hardware architecture
Jacob Harris
>how they decided which games looked best based on how realistic their graphics looked. I know right, people just don't get the artsyle of BotW bro. It's like they just don't get us man.
Done. Now you prove that every console screenshot posted thus far is in-game.
Bentley Nguyen
This was fun (ps2)
Liam Carter
I too enjoy putting words into other people's mouths. BotW looks like shit, yeah and RdR2 is a beautiful game but that has nothing to do with how realistic their graphics are.
James Peterson
Done? the only thing you've done is prove that you're an idiot
Jack Robinson
When will consoles get sweetfx?
Carson Scott
>BotW looks like shit, yeah and RdR2 is a beautiful game but that has nothing to do with how realistic their graphics are. How so?
Cooper Thomas
It's illegal to post a download of a full game for you to try.
David Reed
And all you've done is prove you're an idiot who hasn't played Crysis. Out-of-engine shots don't exist for the game. It has no out-of-engine cutscenes aside from the opening which I mentioned, and you'd know that if you weren't a zoomer.
You can tell it's not prerendered, there's aliasing on the leaves ffs. Do you even play videogames? Why are you here?
Samuel Hill
I can't find a link to the article or twitter post with this list? Is it BS?
Benjamin Mitchell
I already own it bitch, and have beaten it twice. It runs and looks like ass
Brody Thomas
Wait hold on. Have you never played Crysis? Do people actually believe it's a cutscene and not rendered in real time?
Fuck, if I remember right Crysis even has a demo. Just download it, it can't look too bad if you have a modern PC anyways.
Ryan Cook
because pc doesnt have anyone who owns the platform and will pay studios 100 million for an exclusive
Kayden Parker
>a list made by a literal who is some kind of authority because it validates my shitty opinions You could've written this list and it would still be as fucking irrelevant as it is now.
Aaron Perry
they picked rdr2 as the best looking game of 2018, though.
Jose Barnes
Lol, exactly. It's an old game, I'm sure his mom's laptop can run it
Luke Perry
All you've done is post bullshots instead of actual gameplay screenshots, sure it's in-game but you take the camera so far above the level that of course it's gonna look good dumbass. Post an actual gameplay screenshot Eat my ass buddy
fucking idiot. It's always the same two screenshots that are both prebaked filtered shit. I've seen you BTFO before by actual screenshots from ingame, yet here you are posting the same old stuff.
Why
James Smith
>half of those are launch tech demos with little other than graphics
Adrian Reyes
My mom doesn't own a laptop but I'll try it out on your mom's here in a second
Eli Gray
BotW's shading and lowres textures paired with that shitty filter makes a would-be magical world look dull, meanwhile RdR2's incredible lighting and attention to detail compliment the setting and make the whole thing feel like an actual western.
Grayson Collins
If you have the game and you obviously played it, why don't you take a screenshot with it maxed out to prove us wrong? Not difficult.
Levi Long
Why don't you guys post actual screenshots to prove him wrong instead of whining like little bitches?
David Smith
Because I'm not the one defending it dumbass. Why would I go take screenshots when you're the one arguing that it looks good? Are you retarded?
Jason Lopez
All parts of the game after hitting "New game" is in engine. I had a shit PC when I first played Crysis, and I can tell you for sure based on the frame rate I had that the intro with Rosenthal on the radio is in-engine.
Christopher Morris
That is gameplay, retard
Aiden Lewis
30fps vs 60fps
Hudson Kelly
short of it, you don't need a PC beyond a PC to get similar graphics a 7850 from 2012 can run the same quality as PS4 at 1080p/30fps
Isaiah Collins
*beyond a PS4
Easton Rivera
Modded Skyrim is better
Jackson Perry
>only run at 30 fps
There is your answer
Brody Harris
>those giant black bars taking up 1/3 of the screen >those jaggies
Leo Green
What's your idea of Chad and Stacy?
Luke Sanchez
A couple who's only redeeming qualities are their looks
WOW fucking bigot. He has a glandular problem, it's not his fault he just so happened to photo-bomb these asshole's engagement picture. It's not like they're not gonna be divorced in 6 months anyway
Nolan Jackson
every time i see this picture all i can focus on is the fucking hair, what the fuck is that hair supposed to be? tiny thin dreads? it pisses me off
Hudson Wilson
It's not considering it's by looks. Plus, all sony games are perfect and look mind blowing
William Gomez
Do you guys factor in animation when deciding whether or not a game looks good?
It makes a lot of sense actually. When your target is 24/30fps is easier to dump resources into games looking good.
Sebastian Perry
It does run like ass. But that was not the argument. All of its cutscenes are realtime rendered in-engine. You asked for proof regarding something that you should know to be true because you allegedly own the game.
Ayden Sanchez
there are people here who will tell you crysis looks better than the webm you just posted, and they will only use cherrypicked screenshots to show you. I really hope you aren't genuinely asking anyone here about their graphical opinions
Jace Scott
ND games have terrible animations from a gameplay perspective. MGSV has superior animations.
Samuel Phillips
No only eye candy still frames, and pre release screenshots.
Their animations are terrible when actually playing the game. There is such a huge disconnect. The characters have to slide in place so ND's movie wannabe animation reel can play out.
Compare this to a real game where the animations and gameplay sync up perfectly. This is far more satisfying than the shit ND does where they basically take charge of the gameplay.
>stealth Anyone remember how Eidos Montréal hot btfo by fans when they mentioned that they wanted to design the melee combat in Thiaf around Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies? Yeah I know it's Tactical Espionage Action. ie. Schrödinger's Stealth that only becomes Tactical Espionage Action when someone calls it out on its bullshit
I still don't get why Ready at dawn chose to destroy all the quality of the great graphics they pulled off by pulling tons of filters on it after already butchering it with that hideous letterboxing
I've never played a ND game, but can anyone here actually confirm that they shit all over the medium with their animations or are we just blindly hating because Yea Forums told us to?
Ian Hill
Because for one, your hack-n-slash animations look like fucking shit. And secondly, the topic of the conversation is based entirely on looks. Doesn't matter the quality of the gameplay.
>or are we just blindly hating because Yea Forums told us to? this one The faggot whining probably hasn't played them either, because the animations work perfect around the gameplay designed for the game. Melee and gunplay is really simple in Uncharted, good animations only enhance it.
Some of the animations are overdone and when you're doing melee combat you're often teleported to the nearest enemy so they aren't that good.
Landon Edwards
Judging VIDEO GAME ANIMATION in a complete vacuum is fucking retarded. A game with good animations is a game that has animations that complement gameplay. Not one that shits all over gameplay so they can show off their fancy animation reels. If you're making animations a separate thing from gameplay, you have shit animations in your game.
Just use melee in any Uncharted game. Drake and the enemy just slide into positions so the animation reels can play out. It's extremely awkward when you're actually playing the game because it doesn't line up with what you're doing.
Hudson Thomas
being teleported to the nearest enemy would be a gameplay issue, not an animation issue >overdone this isn't necessarily a bad thing, lot's of movies and video games use overdone animations because realistic ones usually don't look as good as you might think
Samuel Harris
Rockstar has really outdone themselves in this game Hard to believe it runs on 7 years old hardware
Resi7 looks better than HZD but I guess given the scope that doesn't really count.
Landon Gray
>you're often teleported to the nearest enemy >Drake and the enemy just slide into positions so the animation reels can play out Any proof of this, because I've beaten U4 multiple times using melee a lot of the time and this has not happened to me.
I can confirm. You want to do a basic punch with Nathan? Congratulations he's throwing a haymaker for some reason.
Jeremiah Adams
Wow you're fucking dense if you still don't get the point, gameplay is not a factor in this discussion no matter how much you sperg out. Sounds like you're just extremely upset that a game you don't like has good looking animations.
Blake Clark
>being teleported to the nearest enemy would be a gameplay issue, not an animation issue Ok so the animations you are bragging about are only a thing because the devs chose to shit all over the gameplay to show it off. A good game has animations that make gameplay feel more rewarding and satisfying. ND does the opposite. When their animations play out, it's like control is stripped from you and you look at a glorified cutscene play out.
Ethan Perry
I'll never understand people who think Horizon Zero Yawn has amazing graphics. The animations are ridiculously bad, terrain textures are WoW tier and generally the textures are shit. Lighting can be good at times. That's pretty much it.
Grayson Reed
I refuse to complement animations in any game if it came at the expense of gameplay. It sends the wrong message. ND still hasn't grasped why animations are important in an interactive medium. They probably never will.
Not that guy but like someone else has reiterated multiple times to you, this topic isn't really based on the quality of gameplay. Uncharted has good animations, even if they do shit all over the gameplay.
Noah Ortiz
Well I doubt anyone here really gives a shit what convictions you hold towards the gaming industry
Cameron Robinson
Depends on the location, in some places it looks very good, in some it's meh
Grayson Allen
Those animations are only "good" because ND overrides gameplay to make it happen. My point is that this is enough to classify it as bad because good animations complement gameplay, not obstruct it. Judging animations in a vacuum is useless to me.
Connor Cooper
I don't think you're supposed to play any PS4 games. Just look at them on shill conventions and then buy them.
Ayden Thompson
If shitty movie games count, then why isn't Detroit in the list?
James Scott
Okay, thanks for sharing They still look good, and that's the entire point
James Richardson
Because the vast majority of players on PC are using toaaters. There are a zillion more people with a PS4 than with an NVidia 980 or higher.
Charles Lee
Video game animations is more than just looking good.
Tyler Moore
>Notice how there isn't a single PC game? I think you might be confusing the PC platform with something that adheres to the concept of "generations"
Ryder Davis
But the 2018 pick was rdr2
Ryan Flores
All those games run at 30 FPS meaning they aren't the best visual looking games this gen. Games run in motion which is a huge aspect of their visuals, meaning the lowering the framerate will allow you to throw more shit on screen, but the game LOOKS worse at the end of the day.
Ocarina of Time was held as a game with huge vistas right? Well the game ran at 17 FPS in europe and that takes away the massive environmental awe the game was going for. Framerate isn't just about performance, lower framerates will make it harder to see what's going on in the game and make it less comfortable to play.
Andrew Richardson
>b-but I don't like the gameplay so that means the animations are bad! What are you, 10 years old?
Jaxson Reyes
Hmmm why though? Division 2 is a seamless open world game running at 4x the resolution than Uncharted 4 on PS4 and yet it still looks better than the screenshot you just posted of a small house.
No shit, but this topic is strictly focused on looks as multiple others have told you
Cooper Baker
>2019 game looks better than 2016 game Truly shocking
Josiah Garcia
user gets it. 30 fps games are ugly as fuck to me because they look so choppy in motion. TLOU:R looked better to me on PS4 than UC4 since the former was so smooth in motion.
Kayden Morgan
The list in op includes nugow, there's nothing fucking special about the design in that, it just has a lot of triangles.
Ryse looks better than God of War and that's from 2013. Not an argument.
Hudson Perez
>whereas to get a game that looks as good as that running well on PC you'll have to spend a lot more. 1080p and 30fps is RX 470 tier. Literally kill yourself.
Jackson Long
Nope. If you want to discuss animations in a video game, then you should be doing more than just looking at them in a vacuum. You should be judging them in context and how well they are implemented in the actual game. Because that's what makes good animations in a game. Not how realistic it looks but how it is implemented in context.
Adam Cox
Ya know besides the female faces (which I hear they fixed) what I saw of Agony looked pretty good.
Charles Anderson
But user, if they did that, how would the console be able to run them, don't you want them to run on all relevant platforms, like a gamer bro, who doesn't want his other gamer bros to go without vidya?
>Ryse looks better than God of War and that's from 2013 I don't really think that's true But feel free to cherrypick worst God of war screenshot with best Ryse 4k screenshot because it always ends up like this anyway
>then you should be doing more than just looking at them in a vacuum that's the 3rd time you've said that, explain specifically what you mean by that. Because in a thread based on graphics alone, you seem to be the only one sperging out about the "muh quality of gameplay!" Think of it this way, if this was a thread about good looking food, people would be basing their responses based purely on the look of the food, hence the topic. You'd be the retard screeching about how it tastes like shit even if it looks good. You might be right, but it still doesn't fucking matter.
David Ross
Personally I like the witcher 3, every time I look in the distance I feel like I'm looking at a moving paining, on ultra.
Carson Watson
Because the PC has to babysit for shit pcs, while the ps4 and xbox are free to make the best possible shit they can.
Make no mistake, if someone wanted to make THE BEST looking game, the option of where to make it would be the PC, sure, only 1% of all PC users would be able to play it, but goddamn it would be amazing.
Bentley Brooks
ITT: >if i post deliberatly bad SS game bad >if i post deliberatly good SS game good
Alexander Martinez
There is game X and there is game Y.
Game X has animations that are very nice to look at, elaborate effort has gone into making them so. However game Y while having simpler animations are so much better in gameplay. Said animations respond perfectly to what your character is doing and you feel like every part of the animation is in some way a response to your own input.
Now tell me, which one of these games have superior animations? The one that looks fancy at the expense of interaction or the one that feels great to play at the expense of visuals?
You joined in at your own will, it's not anybody elses' fault that you're too stupid to grasp what's even being discussed
Adrian Jenkins
what kind of retard made this list? the fucking ORDER 1886 for 2015? im laughin so hard im dying here lad nvidia had to drop the 980ti just so people could play the witcher 3 at 60 fps on ultra at 1080p.
Austin Nguyen
I always felt like the EA battlefront games had the best looking graphics in terms of environments and vegentation. It really does a good job at capturing the feel of Star wars that I think no other games have done. Too bad the games are shit tho
Juan Barnes
Except if you're looking at animations irrespective of how they affect gameplay then you might as well just be comparing the animations of two cartoons shows, not the guy you replied to by the way but I do think he has some what of a point.
Colton Cook
>Except if you're looking at animations irrespective of how they affect gameplay No fucking shit, it's almost like that isn't actually the topic of discussion
It isn't really fair to compare PC with PS4 games when PS4 games are all 30fps locked with dips (every game on that list)
Cameron Gutierrez
How are discussing graphics threads about such platforms even a thing? PC wins by default since it has the better hardware.
Sure you guys have nice looking exclusives but if those ran on PC, the PC version would look and run 10 times better. Theres no way 300$ hardware competes with 2000$+ hardware. Like what the fuck do you think Sony does magic or something? Theres no magic involved here. PC has better hardware hence it wins. Simple
>tfw can't relate to console/pc wars because you buy whatever you want because you budget your life out intelligently >a console is literally like 300 bucks lmao what literally just get a job
That looks uncanny as fuck, like Pixar-style animation but placed on realistic models. Capcom does way, way better animation work. RE5, DMC4, DMC5 all are way more convincing.
Are you kidding? KCD looked like shit. NPCs walked around without heads and the weather effects when it was raining were literally jpgs of lightning. I don't care all that much about graphics and even I felt embarrassed to be playing a game that was so visually awful.
See: Slippy, slidey, jerky, and spastic are all words that can be used to describe Uncharted's animation.
Sorry you fell for the meme, maybe try using your own eyes and brain next time instead of trusting industry mouthpieces
Jayden Jones
me too
Julian Parker
The filters hide it's flaws, the textures on those planks look pretty bad for example, hard to spot when it's so blurry though
David Cook
All so-nigger arguments are: exclusives pathetic
Josiah Smith
Imagine paying to use your own internet Imagine paying 60 bucks for the only proprietary controller that works Imagine paying 2k for a TV that has built in post processing you cant disable
Imagine being unable to even just play music in the background LMAO Imagine being unable to actually chat Imagine buying 50% remade games and now even a remade console
that's just a static house in one level where you do nothing, Division 2 is open world
Levi Reyes
And in gameplay, this feels terrible because animations have little to do with input. Capcom are superior.
Luis Roberts
I'm sure it looks good in movement but goddamn that incredibly obvious supersampling of literally everything is grinding my eyes into a paste. What is it rendered in, 320x240??
I’d say most of the game’s look comes from the strong post processing. The actual texture and model fidelity isn’t too special for a game from its time, and ever since the first gameplays came out it seemed like something that could be replicated with an ENB
Austin Lee
>Being this mad
Enjoy upgrading your mousemat for $10000 in six months so you can play those N64 games bro
Justin Hernandez
Imagine typing all that and thinking you made a point
Imagine thinking PC's are worth it
Imagine not getting the highest rated games every year and the ones you do get are shit buggy ports
They're literally just overglorified console port machines. PC will always be an afterthought. AAA developers will always have their full support and attention aimed at consoles
(x) Imagine paying to use your own internet (x) Imagine paying 60 bucks for the only proprietary controller that works (x) Imagine paying 2k for a TV that has built in post processing you cant disable
(xD) Imagine being unable to even just play music in the background LMAO (xD) Imagine being unable to actually chat (xDD) Imagine buying 50% remade games and now even a remade console
:^)
James Richardson
Thats not true though
Leo Myers
see Prove literally one of those wrong :^)
Jaxon Brooks
Enjoy paying $150000 to buy a new keyboard to reply to this comment
Charles Miller
>cucksouls actually buy what journos tell them to buy
PS4"Pro" lmaooo
Robert Martin
>ad absurdum
Just say you cant Just say "I still cannot play music in 2019"
L M A O M A O
John Evans
I just realized that the keyboard I'm currently using is 17 years old. How many console generations is that?
Chase Turner
This guy should really wear glasses he's nearsighted as fuck
Christopher Nelson
>this gen >Ryse and Infamous SS in the same list OP is a dumbass.
Jonathan Jenkins
what the fuck did you use to type that just now? your ds4?
Jordan Brown
Unabashedly based
Caleb Taylor
Where's the first Star Wars Battlefield?
Anthony Jackson
OHNONONONNONO
Ryder Anderson
dumbass here. how come no one has made the next Crysis? would it really be that expensive?
Alexander Thompson
My phone which does everything that pc does but without making me spend $45000000 on an operating system
you do realize phones are more expensive than keyboards right
Austin Flores
Yes. PC as a platform is not worth the investment for AAA graphics tech. Everyone would just pirate the game. Crytek tried to keep making money at least off their engine for a while but by 2014-2016 they were restructuring, shutting down studios and downsizing majorly
Matthew Myers
Show me a popular phone that costs as much as a basic low-level pc ($8000)
Jordan Miller
Iphones 1k$+ cost more than entry level pcs which are 600-700 and 100 times better than any console
Alexander Hernandez
Actually Infamous can run at like variable 45 fps, you can uncap the frame rate in the options
Cooper Brooks
No you fucking nancy faggot, I enjoy games the most knowing people can't play them on other platforms. Eat shit, PCfag
Juan Carter
$1000 wouldn't even buy a PSU. Please stop posting these lies.
Landon Phillips
>DigitalFoundry
I don't buy that's a real list. Titanfall 2, The Division, and Ghost Recon Wildlands look better than half of those games and they aren't the best looking games either.
Dominic Powell
All those games look like shit, they just fool your eyes and brain into thinking they look good.
Levi Martinez
ah bloo bloo
Christopher Wright
You can buy a 25 watt PSU for about $1000
Lincoln Baker
no i htink its 20k
Hudson Howard
hold up is it true cuntsours cant play music or videos on the side? Not even the pro/X remasters?
Liam Richardson
>cuntsours What?
Noah Moore
The plug for my pc alone cost $16000
Juan White
Why would you need them to do that? Do you not have a phone?
Joseph Long
that's because PC isn't for MUH GRAPHICS
Brody Mitchell
Why tlou2 when dmc5 looks like actual real life
Nathaniel Russell
Yes it is. It's literally THE graphics platform.
Jayden Carter
Nice lie bro, there's no article or video of them stating this shit
Robert Bailey
>Dwigitwal Fouwndrwy
Logan Rodriguez
Does this game run like ass while driving like the first watch dogs?
Angel Turner
>no ass creed if there's one thing they do right it's making good looking scenery