Thread 725071285

What's the most beautiful game? I'm not just talking good graphics ,but good art direction that makes it look good. Alot of these games with 4k textures still look worse than left 4 dead 2

>>725071285 (OP)
Rain World.

gta iv

>>725071285 (OP)
Spyro 2.

Bonk's Adventure on TurboGrafx16

It's gotta be one of the stylized games like Okami, Wind Waker, Genshin Impact, or something Cyberconnect2 made.

Bloodborne

>>725072654
>Genshin Impact

Halo 4

>>725072891
One of the most colorful games ever made with pretty great lighting.

>>725071285 (OP)
Xenoblade X

>>725073087
This game is a touch overrated graphically but it does have amazing looking ground textures, especially the sand. It's a game carried by godly texture work and bloom.

>>725073087
only game that made me enjoy exploration again as a grown man

>>725073614
BOTW or Genshin didn't?

KCD

>>725073931
Nah, not even close.

Anything made in UE5.

>>725074601
I don't get that. XCX is a cool game but the exploration sucks since there isn't much to find. It just looks cool, style over substance. Whereas those games are sort of the opposite

It's Batman Arkham Knight and it's not close

>>725071285 (OP)
only 2d games may apply

>>725071285 (OP)
Driveclub, without a question

>>725071285 (OP)
mirrors edge
we need another game with Frutiger Aero futurism

>>725074771
NTA but what is there to find in BoTW? Another Shrine that looks the same or a weapon that breaks in a few hits? The monsters are all the same too. I don't think XCX is perfect but comparing it to CTLR+V: The Game is crazy.

>>725074981
bro this game looks mid af if you actually play it. the only thing it has going for it is the color scheme. and the cutscenes are so ugly.

Demon's Souls

>>725074862
only good looking thing about it is the rain

>>725071285 (OP)
alice: madness returns

>>725075143
get a load of this fag here

>>725075084
Things to do. Both games have mini-games, dungeons, puzzles, challenges, and lots of unique areas to explore and characters to meet. Especially Genshin which is mostly an improvement over BOTW.

XCX is more like a fetch quest simulator. They designed these big areas and then just dropped stuff randomly on them with quests directing you to them. If you don't have the quest there's nothing really there though, so exploring is sort of useless besides resource allocation which feels even more soulless than weapons that break in a few hits, like when you have to mash the button to pick up the archaeology stuff. Or run to the 459234 arbitrarily placed orbs for some random item.

>>725075149
Based. Best looking From game for me too.

>>725073000
wasted trips on an absolute turd of a game

I'll post a few that I think are some of the best starting with my most recent played, Ghost of Yotei

Mirror's Edge Catalyst (I'd post the original but someone else already did, and Catalyst is underrated).

>>725075581
You know what they say, trips of truth.
You can't argue with trips of truth.

Horizon Forbidden West

Horizon zero dawn too. Unironically they might be the most beautiful games I've ever played. So much hatred for a game that is truly a piece of art to look at.

>>725075920
everything is beautiful except for the character you control

Both Ori games are beautiful too, especially Will of the Wisps

>>725071285 (OP)
>modding real cars into a game with fake cars
This upsets my autism greatly

>>725075920
i think this is one of the best looking games of all time

>>725075974
same as mirrors edge

>>725075974
that goes for every game with realistic characters

>>725071285 (OP)
Deus ex human revolution. I liked the thought they put into the world with the strange neo-baroque aesthetic. Taking the lift to upper Hengsha after slogging through the cramped corridors and seeing the airy upper class city open up through the windows while the lift kept ascending was such a cool sight

>>725074981
>>725075731
Going to agree. Best interior work I've seen. It feels cool being pretty much anywhere

>>725075974
I found it to fall apart in motion, the game feels like one of those soulless UE demos.

>>725071285 (OP)
>Alot of these games with 4k textures still look worse
I'll take PS1 era tier textures over cell shading any day of the week.

>>725075920
>an ugly woman
>the most beautiful game i've ever played
there is nothing more sacred than a woman's beauty, the hate is warranted

>>725071285 (OP)
>>725072747
Came here to post this.

>>725075920
>>725075847
>>725075621
Good bait. But shut the fuck up you yakubian ape.

>>725076625
Mankind Divided as well. Whoever did all the concept artwork for HR / MD did such a fantastic job

>>725071285 (OP)
> Killzone 2
I recommend giving Digital Foundry’s retro in it a watch, was like playing something from the future when it came out and is a rare case of strong technical work AND good art direction together.
> Arkham Knight
Still one of the best looking games ever made. Shame it has the classic Unreal Engine stutter struggle.
> Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
If you played this on a CRT in its day, you know. The shitty de-make don’t hold a candle to Team Ico’s original art direction. Don’t even get me started on the ugly neon green blobs the PS3 version added in for … some reason (?)
> Crysis (Original)
Yeah, they really ruined a lot of the art style in the “remaster”. Tale as old as time. They blew the color saturation out to a laughable degree.
> Golden Sun (GBA)
Best looking GBA game for my money. Beautiful pixel art and stylization. Good game too.
> Jak & Daxter 1 (PS2)
60 fps. Amazing looking characters and art style choice.

I dunno guys the more time goes by it’s like the uglier game get. Realism =/= good looking art. It can help for some kinds of games but it’s not better for the same reason stylized art pieces can look great.

Maplestory!

>>725077351
I'm sorry you have bad taste

>>725072747
Patrician choice.

BB as well as the original Demon’s Souls (09 Japanese version, not Remake) have some of the best looking art direction and atmosphere ive seen in a video game.

>>725077429
I still can't believe Rocksteady went from making a masterpiece in Arkham Knight to making the turd of the century in suicide squad

>>725075149
Nailed it mate, cheers.

>>725077510
One of these games looks like a movie. The other one is a movie game.

>>725077794
is bloodborne better than elden ring? I can't run elden ring, so I'm gonna try emulating bloodborne

>>725077351
You're no better than that snoy, BB is ugly.

>>725077794
I just don't consider Bloodborne to be a beautiful game. It's not a bad game, it's just not something that even comes to mind when I think of beauty or art direction.

I kind of judge a game based on how many screenshots I take when playing. Bloodborne I took probably a couple dozen at best. Ghost of Yotei which I just played I took almost 1300 screenshots because every single part of the game I could find beauty or a good place to take a screenshot that made me think wow this game is beautiful.

>>725077930
No and it runs worse than ER does.

I prefer old graphics.

>>725078184
>it's just not something that even comes to mind when I think of beauty or art direction.
>art direction.
I can accept the first part. But saying that Bloodborne lacks art direction and posting ghost of yotei is, well its something else. Yeah im sure yotei has pretty fields and sunsets. But does it have Ludwigs phase shift cutscene, no. Yotei is pretty but it isnt beautiful.

>>725078062
Your ugly.

>>725075731
It's a fantastic example of a City Of The Future, because it actually feels genuinely achievable while still having that touch of the fantastical.

>>725077794
Oh OK so you're making up your opinion on a game without ever having played it based entirely off of memes you've seen on 4channel. Hence why you don't know that it's a hunting game consisting of like 80% combat with some puzzles and exploration making up the rest and minimal cut scenes.

>>725074981
Came to say this
Mirror's Edge is a proof that art direction can keep a game's graphics timeless

imagine defending horizon

>>725077365
The art director was literally /ourguy/

>>725071285 (OP)
Castlevania SOTN