best visually game i must buy ?

[Warbie]

Ori and the Blind Forest

Yes Stunning to look at. One of the most beautiful games I've seen is Wind Waker running on the Dolphin emulator. The WiU version has nothing on it - it looks truly amazing.

I'm running Ryse maxed and it doesn't look that good to me. Perhaps in detail and no.s of polygons, but all pretty soulless stuff.

 

[Psypher5]

skyrim. modded, with 4k parallax mushrooms. You wont get anything as graphically nice as that.

 

[cheesyboy]

Curve balls...

Trine 2
Ori and the Blind Forest

I'd always recommend Trine 2 for visuals.

But I suspect people asking for best visuals or eye candy aren't usually asking for beauty, such as in Trine or Ori or others like Limbo, Monument Valley, Unfinished Swan, Bastion, Gravity Ghost, Banner Saga, The Bridge.... but, rather, some technically significant re-imagining of the real world. Like Crysis

 

[Nate75]

What about the new Hitman game?

Not got it myself but I thought that was billed as cutting edge graphics etc...

 

[d_brennen]

The most visually appealing game to me is still Crysis 1. 3 may be technically superior (vastly) but it suffers the same drawbacks as Crysis 2 - play areas are very funneled. Crysis 1 does this too with mountains etc but you have far greater (imo) latitude to attack/sneak objectives and it's in these moments where you can catch breath taking vistas

Add in mods, it's still beautiful

 

[Seanspeed]

not really.

Yes, absolutely. Sorry you've been missing out!

Crysis 3 was still built with last-gen consoles as a baseline and it shows. Still a fine looking game on PC, but there's plenty of areas where you can see where it had to be held back.

What about the new Hitman game?

Not got it myself but I thought that was billed as cutting edge graphics etc...

It's definitely nice looking. Nothing next level, though.

 

[Dogoid]

Can't believe no one has said Dying Light.

Fantastic graphics.

 

[Vern1961]

Recent games, it's got to be GTA V for me. Pretty much a virtual scaled down Los Angeles. Not just the overall appearance but all the little details and "weathering" of textures etc.

 

[phil-k]

GTA V or Watchdogs

 

[Newbfail]

GTA V modded with sweetfx looks amazing

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Dying light.

 

[Mark A]

Might not be the absolute best, but Witcher 3 has wow'd me the most in a long time. The colour palette might be a tad too colourful in places, but the level of detail and beauty of the world is amazing. Especially when you get to Skellige.

 

[McShave]

What about the new Hitman game?

Not got it myself but I thought that was billed as cutting edge graphics etc...

It's an amazing looking game so far. Not so much the last level released in Morocco, but the Italian level is something to behold. I've spent 20+ hours in that level and I still stop to look at the scenery.

 

[Paul_cz]

It's an amazing looking game so far. Not so much the last level released in Morocco, but the Italian level is something to behold. I've spent 20+ hours in that level and I still stop to look at the scenery.

Damn...I bought it on release but decided to wait with playing until full game is out...can't friggin wait.

 

[cadmunkey]

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.

Didn't *get* why this was so highly regarded since recently, I am now addicted. It looks amazing with maxed settings in 4k

FYP

 

[Omaeka]

It's been matched and exceeded by quite a few games already.

Still very nice looking of course.

Eh it really hasn't tbh, not even close. All of the games that are even fit to ride it's coattails abuse the crap out of post processing effects which only looks nice in screenshots. Crysis 3 is absolutely crisp and clean with no b/s effects, screenshot quality graphics from start to finish.

I challenge you to name 3 games that come close! Ryse doesn't count.

 

[Boycey0211]

did yoda choose the thread title?

 

[Seanspeed]

Eh it really hasn't tbh, not even close. All of the games that are even fit to ride it's coattails abuse the crap out of post processing effects which only looks nice in screenshots. Crysis 3 is absolutely crisp and clean with no b/s effects, screenshot quality graphics from start to finish.

I challenge you to name 3 games that come close! Ryse doesn't count.

Not even close? I really dont know what you're seeing here.

And I have no idea what you mean by saying that post processing only looks nice in screenshots? Post processing is a big umbrella term for a whole lot of things, many of which are in action in Crysis 3, too(and Ryse). :/

In terms of games that are more impressive:

Star Wars Battlefront
Ryse(why wouldn't that count?)
Far Cry 4(given its scope)
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Quantum Break
Batman Arkham Knight

 

[teenwolf]

Star Wars Battlefront is my first game to buy looks good.