Games with the best graphics!

1nf3rn0x · May 14, 2011

Basically, I've played Crysis and Metro 2033, but are there any other games that have beautiful graphics? I'm really looking to BF3, it looks fun and graphics are superb!

So, what other games have nice graphics that literally make you say wow?!!?

Evolved · May 14, 2011

Mass Effect 2
Bad Company 2

I really can't think of anything that is better looking.
Since you've mentioned Crysis and Metro, I don't know what else.

Maybe Shogun 2 in full 1080p and DX11?

mdsx1950 · May 14, 2011

Just Cause 2 had beautiful graphics.

claylomax · May 14, 2011

Deja vu; I swear there was a thread like this weeks ago. EDIT: Sorry, it was this one: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142812

1nf3rn0x · May 14, 2011

Gay, thread must be closed nao D: -_-

wolf · May 14, 2011

Actually Portal 2 really blew me away, I wasn't expecting how epically nice it would look.

RejZoR · May 14, 2011

Usually first person shooter games have the edge here but i have to say that latest NFS Hot Pursuit looks incredibly nice. You just have to enable MLAA to get rid of the jaggies.

Jetster · May 14, 2011

Dead Space 2

Funtoss · May 14, 2011

RejZoR said:
Usually first person shooter games have the edge here but i have to say that latest NFS Hot Pursuit looks incredibly nice. You just have to enable MLAA to get rid of the jaggies.

How do i enable the MLAA?

btarunr · May 14, 2011

Funtoss said:
How do i enable the MLAA?

You can't. You don't have Radeon.

cheesy999 · May 14, 2011

btarunr said:
You can't. You don't have Radeon.

so his 2 6850's in crossfire aren't radeon? (sorry - i thought that guy was the op)

with his nvidia cards he can just set up application specific normal AA from the driver menu anyway, won't slow down nfs HP too much having 2-4-maybe even 8xq AA

LifeOnMars · May 14, 2011

Avatar maxed, Assasins Creed DX10 maxed. Also helps if you can play games at high, high resolution. You would be surprised how many mediocre looking games can end up looking stunning.

I know it gets alot of flack but seriously Crysis 2 on the maximum settings at 2048x1536 looks stunning and easily pees on most DX9 titles.

left4lol · May 14, 2011

Upcoming The Witcher 2
Prety much RPG equivalent of Crysis

1nf3rn0x · May 14, 2011

^ Amazing!

LAN_deRf_HA · May 14, 2011

It just looks like oblivion with texture packs in the first one.

Ra97oR · May 14, 2011

Crysis/ Crysis Warhead with custom config (settings much higher than in-game max), I play MWLL with such config, and its jaw droppingly nice. Lighting effect can be set just right instead of super bloom.

entropy13 · May 14, 2011

left4lol said:
Upcoming The Witcher 2
Prety much RPG equivalent of Crysis
http://image.jeuxvideo.com/images/pc/t/h/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings-pc-1303137232-273.jpg
http://h-7.abload.de/img/the-witcher-2-assassindu5t.jpg

It's not the RPG equivalent of Crysis, it's the RPG equivalent of Crysis 2 since it's DX9.

left4lol · May 14, 2011

LAN_deRf_HA said:
It just looks like oblivion with texture packs in the first one.

Even with texture mod Oblivion doesn't have that level of Parallax mapping :rolleyes:

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entropy13 said:
It's not the RPG equivalent of Crysis, it's the RPG equivalent of Crysis 2 since it's DX9.

The texture is far better though. pretty much the only game other than Crysis that have 4096x4096 texture. So it more equivalent to dx9 Crysis.

stuartb04 · May 14, 2011

those witcher 2 screenies are wow

the detail is amazing

Zyon · May 14, 2011

Diablo 1.

LAN_deRf_HA · May 14, 2011

left4lol said:
Even with texture mod Oblivion doesn't have that level of Parallax mapping .

Yes, they do. Trust me I've spent 10s of hours tweaking my custom set of textures on oblivion. I'm eying this thing top to bottom and it's just not showing me anything impressive. The lighting isn't even that great. The most notable feature is the biped, the rest is "meh".

horik · May 14, 2011

I wonder when they will use the potential of dx11 cards,i remember when i first played Far Cry,that was a big change.

Benetanegia · May 14, 2011

I think OGE (Oblivion Graphics Extender) added Parallax mapping or some other mod added parallax or something that looked close enough. But, certainly vanilla Oblivion did not have parallax mapping and no ammount of texture tweaking could add the same quality bump effect. Either way those screenshots look way better than Oblivion when I install every posible graphic mod, but you'd expect that from a game released 5 years later.

That being said, IMO Witcher 2 does not look all that good anyway, except for the textures, it looks 2008-ish at best, not what you would expect in 2011. (but I could say the same about 99% of games)

entropy13 · May 14, 2011

GTA IV with Improved Graphics Mod v. 1.1 (either with or without ENB) looks great actually.

1Kurgan1 · May 14, 2011

entropy13 said:
GTA IV with Improved Graphics Mod v. 1.1 (either with or without ENB) looks great actually.

It looks ok, but the models in that game lack the detailed textures of games like Metro or even Bad Company 2.

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