when was the last time that a game's graphics boggled your mind?

>>712799635 (OP)
I don't really remember. Graphics aren't that important and not as memorable as art direction.

>>712799635 (OP)
The Ascent, it's a top down game but still looks impressive and full of details even in first person. I don't know what type of wizardy this is but I'd kill for a RPG in that setting with this visual fidelity.

Lies of P, oddly enough

I guess also this pre-rendered ending cutscene from FF7 Rebirth

This is what video games will look like in 2050

EA's Battlefront 1 when it released

Clash: Artifacts of Chaos' hatching shader

>>712799635 (OP)
Undertale

>>712799635 (OP)
Valkyria Chronicles on PS3

Xenoblade Chronicles because that shit wasn’t meant to run on an overclocked Gamecube.

Dragon Age Inquisition

>>712799635 (OP)
2008.

>>712799635 (OP)
unironically Half-Life 2 in 2024.
the performances Valve squeezed out of their characters genuinely puts all these new games with their facial capture of actors to fucking shame.

>>712799635 (OP)
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Frontline on PC
>used to play this and thought kid me saw the environment look insanely realistic
>decided to find a long play of this and it looks exactly like the games released in that era

>>712799635 (OP)
Elden Ring and Claire Obscure I guess

>>712799898
The graphics in LoP aren't impressive at all

>>712799635 (OP)

>>712799635 (OP)
Vagrant Story, for being on PS1

I remember the prerendered cutscenes in the original ff7 looked like real life to me

>>712800924
unironically how the fuck did they draw/animate these fucking sprites

>>712800907
It's what you do with them that matters

They call it art style

Matters more than them gay tracings and polygon count

>>712799635 (OP)
TLoU2. I still can't believe that was a PS4 game. Good art direction and attention to detail > gay tracing

don't be spooked but there's a skellington inside you right now

>>712801203
Is this the game with trans kids? This is gonna age so well

>>712801137

they made drawings on graph paper and digitized them

>>712801226
It's okay I keep him in check by regularly drinking milk and eating yogurt.

>>712799635 (OP)
Unreal Tournament 3. Before that, MGS on the PS when it first came out.

>>712801332
aw heck naw ain't no fucking waaaaaaaaaaaay

>>712801179
looks like any generic ueslop released in the past 5 years

>>712801264
Kek literally yeah, a major plotline is about Abby protecting a FTM teen. There is also jewish lesbian sex and interracial cuckoldry involving an Asian man. It's the most subversive talmudic game I ever played. Such a shame because the tech behind and attention to detail is surreal reminds me of what MGS2 did at time

>>712799635 (OP)
Around two months ago. I had never seen anything like Metal Bringer before.

>>712799635 (OP)
graphics have not significantly shifted in the past decade. RTX is a dev cheat code for not wanting to spend time actually optimizing their games while also having them still "look nice" and not take years to actually release and the advent of hyperrealism for the sake of itself has been singularly detrimental to the industry as a whole because with the means available, the level of creativity has stagnated due to not needing to find ways to make certain things work or using unique artstyles/presentation to help compensate for technical limitation. Okami has mogged every 'realistic' game released since 2006.

>>712801848
Damn that looks sick let me che- >roguelike. Nevermind.

>>712799635 (OP)
Final Fantasy 13

>>712802170
Alright, here's what you do. You ignore the fact that it's a roguelite. It adds nothing to the game.
Think that it's a hack and slash action RPG and it'll work.

>>712799635 (OP)
That's not the kiwi with the airglider. Where is it? THAT was mindblowing.

>>712799635 (OP)
Crysis, if we are talking about tech level. Maybe Kingdom Hearts 2.8 demo about Aqua, if we are talking about art.

Modded skyrim when I went from 1080 to 2k. I believe 4k would feel like thay again

>>712799635 (OP)
Nu-battlefront 1.
Game was shit but the photorealistic graphics blew me away. Optimization was incredible as well.

>>712799635 (OP)
Expedition 33. The character faces don't weird me out for once and the customization is maintained in every cutscene.

>>712799635 (OP)
cruelty squad
before that i remember playing dark cloud demo in 2001 after getting a ps2 (a jump up from nes and 95s pc) and being amazed of the graphics when compared to ps1. similarly when i played halo on xbox and saw the grass textures

gimmick! and little samson felt really impressive nes games. many little things on the technical side of the graphics

>>712799635 (OP)
not just graphics but the physics as well
this was the last time i thought to myself
>wow this could have never been possible on old hardware, we truly are in next gen

>>712801179
looks generic and if not for the twink protagonist it would be forgotten

>>712804578
>game is popular because le twink
No, anon. It actually has good gameplay. Better than fromsoft actually.

>>712804530
>wow this could have never been possible on old hardware, we truly are in next gen
now times have changed and people argue about things no longer being possible on new hardware that old games running on generations old hardware and with different developer mentalities did. that, and crts

>>712799635 (OP)
COE33

>>712804653
honestly every game that released in the last 5 years could have run on a 1080ti max without all the bloat

RTX aside it feels like games look and play the same since 2016

.kkrieger

Probably Ghost of Tsushima.

Technically maybe not the most advanced at the time, but the very stylized version of Japan looked extremely appealing to me and it was mesmerizing how the vegetation swayed back and forth in the wind.

We are on the verge of possibilities in gaming that were mere pipe dreams half a decade ago. people dont know it yet but SOON we are going to have AAA games with individual armpit hair strands being fully modeled and ray traced with real time physics based movement. 8k armpit textures. REAL TIME SWEAT PHYSICS where your character sweats more the more she moves around. DLC packs of 20 different pubic hair styles with higher geometry counts than entire xbox 360 character models.

>>712799635 (OP)
tlou2 release date
maybe rdr 2

Motorstorm on PS3 when I was like 11

>>712808725
oh also ff16 boss fights

>>712799635 (OP)
crysis
nothing ever came close

>>712799635 (OP)
Metroid: Dread, but then again that was probably more due to art direction like >>712799715 said, since the Switch wasn't ever exactly top of the line hardware

>>712804636
As someone who hasn't played Lies of P, how is it better gameplay than, say, DaS1 or Bloodborne?

Super Smash Bros. Melee

My brother and I started playing the game on Christmas morning of 2000 and I distinctly remember thinking to myself, "That's it, these graphics are so photo realistic, this cannot be improved."

>>712809272
>As someone who hasn't played Lies of P, how is it better gameplay than, say, DaS1 or Bloodborne?
more action-focused (the progression is completely linear so no actual exploration) but they did a pretty good job in fusing Sekiro's deflection mechanics with the soulslike combat style

>>712808848
Yeah it's gotta be crysis because it's the last time a game had significantly better graphics than what came before it. Before that though there was almost a new one every year

>>712804378
>newfags calling Stinger "goatse"
I hate you all.

>>712799785
It's a little nutty how good The Ascent looks.
Shame the game sucks. Euro-ass fetch quest rpg pretend to be a twinstick, shame on them.

>>712810004
I've had this game on my wishlist for a while and it often goes on big sales but all the bad reviews I've seen constantly turn me off from getting it

>>712810134
It's really fucking boring and every negative review is deserved. Just delete it off your wishlist. Looks sick though.

If you don't delete it, rush healing field and spiderbots fucking asap.

Fancy graphics meant fancy new game. That pattern broke more than 20 years ago.

>>712810004
Their next game is apparently a Cyberpunk imsim, although that info is from 2 years ago.

>>712810549
Imsims are just FPSes where they couldn't make the shooting part work, so they decided to give you busywork to kill enemies, acting like it was intended.

MonHunP3rd and Peace Walker on PSP.

>>712810464
yeah idk why I've kept it this long, I guess I thought "I might check it out when I'll have nothing else to play" but that's never ever gonna happen

>>712799635 (OP)
Battlefront EA DICE

>>712810549
>imsim
That's the exact same ideology that lead to The Ascent being so boring. It's gonna be Technomancer or Dex-level boring where you're just going back and forth talking to dudes for 90% of the game to do fetch quests and the action is going to be a drag again, but now in first person.
Make a fun action game first then add some yapping.

>>712811214
The Ascent feels like they were trying to make a twin stick shooter from the start though, they just couldn't make interesting enemies to fight or allow for fun builds.

>>712812162
It's a twinstick based around hiding behind cover unless you get very specific augments, they did a really bad job.

last game that really wowed me was probably something like metroid prime 1, luigis mansion, or super smash brothers melee. i grew up with a n64 so seeing the graphics of the gamecube was insane and i needed to get one asap. later i got an xbox which i enjoyed, but when the 360 gen came out, it wasnt as big of a leap and i remember waiting like 2 years to upgrade from the xbox to the 360. the games looked better but not really to the point that i had to have it "now". also i think a lot of games art styles ended up suffering because franchises on the xbox which already had a good art style ended up looking overdetailed and cluttered on the 360 having to make the next gen of games look "better".

the wii was a major dissapointment when it came out and i think i used it for like 5 games in the years i owned it. graphically it was the same as the gamecube but the quality of the library was substantially worse during the time i paid attention to it.

>>712812331
Yes and towards the end of the game with my friend we gravitated towards the same weapons/augments because it was almost unplayable otherwise. We did play on hard though.

>>712799635 (OP)
Red Dead Redemption 2 boggled me pretty hard

I understand Rockstar won by just having infinite money, devs and time, but still.

>>712799635 (OP)
Stellar Blade with eve. Ac shadows with their amazing weather and foliage. Re4r for its environment and cutscenes. Idk, most new games push graphics and there have many easily visible improvements over the last 5 years. I definitely enjoy the graphics in new games, but sure graphics aren’t everything. They really are something today compared to yesteryear, however.

>>712799635 (OP)
Honestly probably Doom 3

>>712809272
What art direction? Dread looks and sounds bland as fuck.

>>712815239
Dread looks, dare I say it, dreadful.

Talos Principle 2
The only game that prompted me to spend a few hours in the photo mode

>>712816253
That's le heckin' UE5 and has stutters. Would you like screencaps of DF videos to illustrate it?

When they revealed Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for the 360

>>712801627
I always referred to her as Lily. Lol, who has time in an apocalyptic world and a cult to go FTM? Just because she wanted to be bald got her family killed. How can one be so selfish?

>>712816940
This was pretty cool. Also Oblivion and Gears of War. I think Arkham Knight was truly the last game I actually cared about the visual flair.