Best Game Graphics

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

Except Myth didn't have good graphics, it has good gore and interesting physics tho, and is a good game, but it sure wasn't pretty.

[Meshugger]

....and Unreal Tournament came out a year after Unreal 1. My point was in the context of what was out on the market at that time (May 1998).

[Musopticon?]

Man, I wish I could still find Myth 3, I never played it, but heard nothing but praise. There even was an extra official campaign for it, iirc. Unless I'm confusing it with TA:Iron Kingdoms' Chimera.

Edited June 8, 2007 by Musopticon?

[Hurlshort]

Except Myth didn't have good graphics, it has good gore and interesting physics tho, and is a good game, but it sure wasn't pretty.

 

I disagree tremendously. When it was first released, it was way ahead of any other games I remember playing at the time. The cut scenes were also very solid.

[metadigital]

Unreal 1 had the best graphics of its time (1998). When playing with a Voodoo 2 3D-card, nothing came close to it, no Quake 2 and certainly no Half-Life.

Quake II had the best graphics of any game when it came out. Unreal was a multiplayer game, wasn't it? I never played it. (Except as the engine for Deus Ex and a few others.)

[Musopticon?]

Unreal was a singleplayer game, though the multiplayer was very good as well. It even had an expansion, Return to Na'Pali, iirc.

[metadigital]

If it's the one I bought to play, I hated it. And I didn't think that much of the graphics. (Might have been the sequel, though.)

[Meshugger]

Unreal 1 had the best graphics of its time (1998). When playing with a Voodoo 2 3D-card, nothing came close to it, no Quake 2 and certainly no Half-Life.

Quake II had the best graphics of any game when it came out. Unreal was a multiplayer game, wasn't it? I never played it. (Except as the engine for Deus Ex and a few others.)

 

Unreal 1 was a singleplayer game, Unreal Tournament was a multiplayer game that came out the year after, but it had a singleplayer campaign as well.

 

Anyway, Quake II:

 

Unreal 1

 

Big difference back in 1998.

[Morgoth]

Unreal > Quake 2.

[Musopticon?]

No way.

[Diamond]

Quake 2 had good graphics?

[mkreku]

Quake was a revelation when it arrived. Quake 2 was a brown mess that was easily surpassed by Unreal, which was the hottest thing at the time. Graphically.

[theslug]

Mario 64 was pretty much awesome graphic wise.

[Musopticon?]

Quake was a revelation when it arrived. Quake 2 was a brown mess that was easily surpassed by Unreal, which was the hottest thing at the time. Graphically.

Graphically? Agreed. Surpassed in any other way? Nah, never.

[metadigital]

Wait a minute; unless I'm mistaken, Quake II implemented nifty stuff like particle effects for explosions and stuff. THAT was novel.

[Diamond]

Graphically? Agreed. Surpassed in any other way? Nah, never.

Unreal definitely surpasses Quake 2 in graphics, artistic direction, music, AI and single-player mode. The only aspect Quake 2 owns Unreal is multi-player, IMO.

 

Wait a minute; unless I'm mistaken, Quake II implemented nifty stuff

So did Unreal. But it was released later than Quake 2 though.

[metadigital]

Precisely.

[mkreku]

They were released five months apart.

 

Edit: Scratch that. Eight months apart.

Edited June 9, 2007 by mkreku

[Cantousent]

Seriously, Mass Effect is just THE most beautiful game I've seen yet.

 

What? The game isn't out yet. It's pretty hard to judge a game before it's in our hands.

 

This actually made me laugh out loud. haha

[karka]

Unreal 1 had the best graphics of its time (1998). When playing with a Voodoo 2 3D-card, nothing came close to it, no Quake 2 and certainly no Half-Life.

Quake II had the best graphics of any game when it came out. Unreal was a multiplayer game, wasn't it? I never played it. (Except as the engine for Deus Ex and a few others.)

 

Unreal was a great single player game. Unreal and Unreal Tournament are two different series.

[Calax]

Man, I wish I could still find Myth 3, I never played it, but heard nothing but praise. There even was an extra official campaign for it, iirc. Unless I'm confusing it with TA:Iron Kingdoms' Chimera.

Yeah.... Myth three, while a difficult game, was a mess storyline wise and it wasn't all that fantastic. Stick with myth two.

[mr insomniac]

Man, I wish I could still find Myth 3, I never played it, but heard nothing but praise. There even was an extra official campaign for it, iirc. Unless I'm confusing it with TA:Iron Kingdoms' Chimera.

Yeah.... Myth three, while a difficult game, was a mess storyline wise and it wasn't all that fantastic. Stick with myth two.

There was an expansion released for Myth II called Chimera, with 8 new levels. I remember downloading it off Bungie's mainpage (took all night on dialup), but I could never get it to work properly. Never got to play Myth III, which was called The Wolf Age, and took place 1000 years before the first two games.

[Musopticon?]

Ok, thanks.

 

Man, so do memories fail.

[mr insomniac]

Heh, no problem. I had to google it to be sure, myself.

 

You can still buy Myth: The Total Codex on Amazon, which contains Myth, Myth II, and the official strategy guides for both games, but no Myth III. From what I read it was after Myth II that Bungie got sold to Microsoft, and the rights reverted to another developer.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Shadow of the colossus. Its just one of those games where half the fun about it is the graphics. The scenery is breathtaking, the colossus are amazingly detailed...

Edited June 12, 2007 by WILL THE ALMIGHTY