GamingLives' Chris talks about how, after losing interest in games for a while, he decided to go back and play through some of his collection on the hardest difficulty and got his arse kicked.
"It sounds strange but, despite the constant quick-saving (and quick-loading), the swearing, and the frustration, the moments of success felt so much sweeter. It was backs-to-the-wall, last-ditch, non-stop action from start to finish. Part of this was the ridiculously accurate AI that never missed a shot, the twenty or so bullets they soaked up each, and the constant reminder of just how much I love being able to aim down the sights in modern gaming."
With graphics tech as advanced as it is now, players are typically more focused on art and design than, gasp, mirrors that actually have reflections in them. Not that the former is a bad focus for criticism at all—there's much more to say about it—but it was fun to gawk at screenshots in magazines, amazed by such miracles as curves and faces that almost look like faces. All that in mind, the PC Gamer staff share the games that made their eyes bulge the most at the time of it's release.
A tie between Uncharted 4, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and God of War.
Next will be between Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us: Part 2, and Death Stranding.
If we are only talking modern stuff then by all means... God of War hands down.
But that was to be expected. In fact anything in the last 10 years has been expected. Personally Id say the one game where the graphics really blew me away was Ranger X on the Genesis.
Reason is that the system paled in comparison to the snes but they managed to make the outdated hardware really shine with some pretty amazing software tricks.
The game still amazes me visually 25 years later. Next up would be Gunstar Heroes with all its slick in game tricks as well.
Uncharted 2
Horizon ZD
Gears 1
Detroit BH
God of War(PS4)
The Last of Us
Killzone 2
Grand Theft Auto 5
Final Fantasy X
Ori
Mario Odyssey
Zelda Wind Waker
Halo: CE, Gears of War, Crysis & Uncharted 2 blew me away the first time I played them. I have played many pretty games this gen, but none have given me that "holy crap these graphics" feeling that earlier games did likely due to the increasingly slower progression of game graphics.
Crysis is basically /end. The first, the last, the final word.
Nothing has come close to pushing fidelity that far into the future. It's a 2007 game that looked comparable to high end games 5/6 years later and still beautiful 10 years later.
Crysis looked like this in 2007 https://ibb.co/dVGbNp
and the best console games the same year looked like this https://ibb.co/bZpVhp
These games were actually released just one week apart. Crazy to think now.
It's actually nuts to think crysis was a 2007 game. Not only did it look insane, but there was so much environmental destruction. Nothing else at the time compared.
I do think that engine PS3/360 games did mange to catch up to (but not reach) Crysis 1 in terms of graphics due to remarkable optimization. I personally think Crysis 3, The Last of Us, Halo 4, Gears of War 3, Uncharted 3 and Killzone 3 were the best looking console games last gen. However, I fully agree with that Crysis has aged remarkably well, the game still hold up well, and Crysis 3 (2013) on PC is still one of the best looking games on the market.
Crysis looked nice but it was boring, I never finished it. And because I never finished it I never bothered to play the other Cyrsis games I got in the Crysis collection
Uncharted 4, Gears, Crysis, Saint's Row (first 360 game and had just played through San Andreas), God of War 2018.
Breath of the Wild also blew me away, but not because of raw graphics. The art style is just really gorgeous, YouTube doesn't do the game justice.
Ocarina of time on Nintendo 64
Final Fantasy X on PS2
Uncharted 2 on PS3
Uncharted 4 on PS4
TLOUP2 on PS4 pro(future)
BacklogCritic: "The First-Person Shooter is one of the most popular genres in the world. It’s what most people think of automatically when they think of “video game” in their heads. The perspective is instantly understandable and translatable to any gamer, for this is how we experience the world in our real lives. The genre is also known to be violent and over the top, nothing is more personal than shooting a gun at close range from this perspective, and has garnered its own set of controversies as a result. Even if a gamer only plays a single game, it is likely that the game in question is an FPS, if it’s not an MMORPG. This list is a look at the top ten best single player campaigns in this genre. These campaigns are far more than just a glorified tutorial for the multiplayer that’s so often the focus of these games, and deliver the most memorable moments of gameplay."
There are many iconic events in mankind history which were recreated in various games. One of them is World War II Allied Normandy Landing. Let’s head back in time and see how the games across gaming generations showed that conflict.
Same thing yo mama said last night.
Giggity.