Cantousent Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 NWN2 has beautiful graphics, and is one of my favourites for modern games. I found the graphics of Oblivion to be a little over-hyped - in particular, the way the scenery turns to green mush in the distance seemed to have been given a free pass by reviewers and commentators. I think the graphics for Baldur's Gate 2 still stand up, not in terms of 3D or resolution, but in terms of craft, attention to detail, and attractiveness. Syberia and Syberia 2 had excellent graphics and were creepily atmospheric in places. Fahrenheit won me over to motion capture and body language as a worthwhile addition to graphics quality. But the first prize has to go to Dreamfall. It's breathtakingly beautiful in most locations. Nice commentary. I completely agree as regards Farenheit. I don't know if I'd call the graphics stellar, but it did have a real coolness factor. Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantousent Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Icewind Dale or at least Planescape Torment. I love PS:T. Favorite all time game out of many, many games. On one hand, I disagree with you because there was a lot of ugly in PST's graphics. On the other, I completely agree because the atmosphere was great. Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I measure on how good a graphics is for a game not based on actual beauty but how much it fits within the structure and setting in which the game is in. Substance over style and whatnot. Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musopticon? Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 How do you measure that? kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoM_Solaufein Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 2D Infinity Engine games. Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series. 3D Source Engine games. Vampire Bloodlines and Half Life 2. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is StrengthBaldur's Gate moddingTeamBGBaldur's Gate modder/community leaderBaldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition beta testerBaldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition beta tester Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition beta tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 How do you measure that? Subjectively. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 FEAR for its intesnity of graphics and the brilliant use of shadows. Dead Rising for rotting zombies And I think that Dead or alive gets props for schoolgirls. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 The first time I fired up Far Cry I almost didn't believe what I was seeing. At least not on my rig. It was so beautiful, haunting and technically impressive, all at once. The first time I saw Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube. Man, I had no idea that little cube thingie could produce such wonderful graphics. Still one of the most atmospheric use of graphics I've ever seen. Lately, I've been very impressed by Test Drive Unlimited. Not just because of its serene beauty (it looks absolutely fantastic) but more because it's so smooth and seamless all the way through. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WITHTEETH Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 The first time I fired up Far Cry I almost didn't believe what I was seeing. At least not on my rig. It was so beautiful, haunting and technically impressive, all at once. Great choice! The graphics in this game still look amazing! I really want to get my hands on the new one. Always outnumbered, never out gunned! Unreal Tournament 2004 Handle:Enlight_2.0 Myspace Website! My rig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Raven Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Kotor 1. I liked the graphics enough that I started to buy 3D games. Bloodlines is just awesome. I love the graphics in that game. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musopticon? Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Far Cry does look great. Best nature I've seen and the inside levels aren't half bad either. Especially the old tanker was impressive. I have to mention Wind Waker for it's grandiouse use of lighting and saturated colors. All of the boss fights especially, they were superbly executed(excecuted?) graphically. kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 For its time: Descent, because of the dizzying up/down all around aspect. It never really caught on, tho, probably because it was too disorienting. Myst had me thinking "Wow, this is awesome". But so did Doom at the time. And the first time I played the original Age of Empires I thought "Look at those deer and crocs and stuff, and I can hunt them, those guys walk around with mini-steaks, and ..." Heck, back then, almost anything seemed marvelous and fresh. First time I played Half-Life I was mighty impressed, too. More currently: Oblivion was very pretty, but there was something about it that threw me off - and I'm not talking about the funky faces. I'm not sure exactly what it was - maybe those pastel colors, again. Or the fact I felt like everything was in soft-focus most of the time, even when I turned bloom off. Maybe that was more my video card. WoW wins for in-game detail and imo, world immersion, even tho it's not the best in terms of "pretty" and also uses a lot of funky colors. Although if you have everything on high at 1600x1200 with 8AA etc. the quality goes up a few notches - plus I still get 60+ fps on my aging machine. Blizzard is so good with that. Um...I guess I can't really pick a "best." There's a lot of games with good graphics for their times. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantousent Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Now now, Lady. We all know you're far too young to think of Doom as something "marvelous and fresh" in comparison to anything. :D Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 So far, I've managed to avoid too many wrinkles. Atari's blocky pac-man and breakout from the very early 80's was certainly the precursor to addicting gaming for me. Hours in my kiddie nightgown playing Breakout, hogging the TV for it. Sheesh. But my later teen years were more about boys then gaming. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wistrik Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Life (not the old board game) It's not always fun, and scenes aren't always nice to look at, but the graphics are downright realistic and even surrealistic sometimes. It's also the ultimate in role-playing experiences. I spent some time playing it today and had a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deraldin Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Life (not the old board game) It's not always fun, and scenes aren't always nice to look at, but the graphics are downright realistic and even surrealistic sometimes. It's also the ultimate in role-playing experiences. I spent some time playing it today and had a blast. I've got a review here. It's got a couple screenshots as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wistrik Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Awesome review, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krookie Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 I actually had to look at a screenshot to tell it was a joke. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deraldin Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 I actually had to look at a screenshot to tell it was a joke. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreasyDogMeat Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 I love the Doom 3 engine, especially the recent Prey and upcoming Quake Wars. Doom 3 is what motivated me to update my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Rick Dangerous 2 Ultima Underworld System Shock 1 GLQuake NOLF2 F.E.A.R. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 i personally felt that oblivion, while rendered beautifully, went too far for "realism" in its attempt at capturing a fantasy game world. to me, the somewhat more "cartoonish" view delivered by NWN and NWN2 just "seemed" better. maybe it was the pastel-ish colors of oblivion (and somewhat, morrowind), dunno. from what i've seen of half-life2, however, it has done an amazing job of capturing the look and feel of that environment and game world. taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan@seganerds Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 2D is owned by Guilty Gear X2 reloaded, awesome fluid and very well designed characters.. For its day (and even now) SHENMUE has some of the most awesome video game graphics, 7 year old graphics still hold up today.. the game was breath taking when I first played it. SEGANERDS #1 unofficial Sega News website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@\NightandtheShape/@ Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 SHENMUE is a joke of a game... "I'm a programmer at a games company... REET GOOD!" - Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantousent Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Yeah, but what about the graphics, mr. smartenheimer? Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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