Visually Breathtaking Games

[Noctua Fan Fan]

Howdy guys!

 

My dad has had a rough time in the past few years, and used to be like me when he was my age: building, tweaking and loving his PC. But finances and some major health issues means he's had a... not great PC from a store (Curry's/PC World if you're a UK person you'll know how garbo).

 

I have just finished my first ever ground up PC build (posted in build logs if you're interested) and want to take it all over to his place this weekend for him to try out some games, but I want to show him some visually breathtaking games. Things that will really show off the PC and give him a good time.

 

What are some really visually stunning games I can pick up for him to have a play with?

 

Thanks!

[SenKa]

Best one I know is Metro Exodus. Stunning even without Raytracing.

[Noctua Fan Fan]

Just now, SenpaiKaplan said:

Best one I know is Metro Exodus. Stunning even without Raytracing.

Off I go to the Epic store!  

[Noctua Fan Fan]

Ouch. £27.49 after discount on the Epic store

[Noctua Fan Fan]

5 minutes ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

Best one I know is Metro Exodus. Stunning even without Raytracing.

Metro Last Light is like £3, instead of Exodus' £25. Is it similarly graphically gorgeous?

[SenKa]

14 minutes ago, EmpC said:

Metro Last Light is like £3, instead of Exodus' £25. Is it similarly graphically gorgeous?

Exodus is newer, and takes advantage of ray tracing (which you can enable on your 1080)

 

Worth it. Beautiful game, amazingly made.

[Noctua Fan Fan]

2 minutes ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

Exodus is newer, and takes advantage of ray tracing (which you can enable on your 1080)

 

Worth it. Beautiful game, amazingly made.

I can? Off to google to find out how I guess! LOL

[Radium_Angel]

Valley on the Steam store is very pretty as well.

Doom is great too and it has a demo

[Inelastic]

11 minutes ago, EmpC said:

Metro Last Light is like £3, instead of Exodus' £25. Is it similarly graphically gorgeous?

It's older so the graphics aren't as nice, but it still looks fantastic. It's also mostly underground so you don't get the vistas that you do in Exodus. What you get is more of a spooky, atmospheric, experience being in confined spaces with monsters. Just look up some gameplay footage on YouTube to get an idea.

 

Some other games that are visually great are the Tomb Raider reboots as well as The Witcher 3.

[SenKa]

3 minutes ago, EmpC said:

I can? Off to google to find out how I guess! LOL

Latest nVidia driver allows DXR (real name for RTX/ray tracing), allows Pascal cars GTX 1060 6Gb and newer to enable it. It takes a chunk out of performance tho

[Connor Price]

Minecraft with shaders. jk.

The new Assassins Creed games look fantastic, Far Cry 5 and New Dawn, Doom and Shadow Warrior 2 look quite nice.

[Guest]

your Dad?

uhm try aven colony from team 17

or maybe something like rage 2 ?

rhyse maybe to give him something old and maybe relatable 

I just found out that games such as total war warhammer or total war three kingdoms work mighty fine on cheap builds ... 1080p medium settings and your good to go with a 1050 Ti

Maybe he likes to build .. cities can look amazing too or a game i'm currently playing is Oriental Empires ... a 1,5 gb game that simulates the start of the chinese empire from 1500 bc to 1500 ad ...

Ooh and anno 2205 ultimate edition is on sale over at ubisoft for 12,- euro's not to mention a whole lot of their older strategy titles such as heroes that look pretty amazing and are good fun on older systems for 2,5 to 5 euro's a piece

[Guest]

if he's true brittish trow him something from slitherine bastards of warfare

[Noctua Fan Fan]

10 minutes ago, Christiaan21-03 said:

your Dad?

uhm try aven colony from team 17

or maybe something like rage 2 ?

rhyse maybe to give him something old and maybe relatable 

I just found out that games such as total war warhammer or total war three kingdoms work mighty fine on cheap builds ... 1080p medium settings and your good to go with a 1050 Ti

Maybe he likes to build .. cities can look amazing too or a game i'm currently playing is Oriental Empires ... a 1,5 gb game that simulates the start of the chinese empire from 1500 bc to 1500 ad ...

Ooh and anno 2205 ultimate edition is on sale over at ubisoft for 12,- euro's not to mention a whole lot of their older strategy titles such as heroes that look pretty amazing and are good fun on older systems for 2,5 to 5 euro's a piece

My dad is more into his FPS games or stuff like the Uncharted series.

 

He was a big fan of Doom and Wolfenstein. This comment really helped me think about that so thank you!  My setup is a GTX 1080 and 2700X so graphics settings aren't a huge concern to me in terms of rendering ability.

[Noctua Fan Fan]

26 minutes ago, Connor Price said:

Minecraft with shaders. jk.

The new Assassins Creed games look fantastic, Far Cry 5 and New Dawn, Doom and Shadow Warrior 2 look quite nice.

DOOM! YES! THANK YOU!

[Noctua Fan Fan]

29 minutes ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

Latest nVidia driver allows DXR (real name for RTX/ray tracing), allows Pascal cars GTX 1060 6Gb and newer to enable it. It takes a chunk out of performance tho

I will dabble with it. Don't really want to drop frames in my main game(s).

[xAcid9]

What game he used to play? Maybe some Fifa or PES so you both can play together? 

[Noctua Fan Fan]

4 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

What game he used to play? Maybe some Fifa or PES so you both can play together? 

I got high up in world rankings in FIFA when I was in my teens. He doesn't like losing to me. lol.

 

I want him to play something modern, visually beautiful and a bit of story.

[Mira Yurizaki]

The original Crysis still holds up pretty well. Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are pretty nice games to look at. And I'd argue that Ubisoft's recent titles are pretty as well.

 

Those are just whatever's off the top of my head at the moment.

[Paul Rudd]

1 hour ago, EmpC said:

What are some really visually stunning games I can pick up for him to have a play with?

Here's 60 or so visually pleasing games to get you started...

 

Arma III

Assassins Creed Origin/Odyssey

Batman Arkham Knight

Battlefield 4/1/V

Call of Duty MW RM/WWII/Black Ops 3/Black Ops 4

Crysis 1/2/3

Destiny 1/2

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Dishonored 1/2

The Division 1/2

Doom 2016

Fallout 4

Far Cry 1/2/3/4/5/Primal/New Dawn

Final Fantasy XV

Forza Horizon 1/2/3/4

Grand Theft Auto 5

Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice

Hitman 2

Just Cause 3/4

Kingdom Come Deliverance

Mad Max

Metro 2033 Redux/Last Light Redux/Exodus

Prey

Project Cars 1/2

Rise/Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Skyrim RM/Mods

Star Wars Battlefront 1/2

Subnautica

Titanfall 1/2

The Witcher 3

Wolfenstein The New Order/The Old Blood/Colossus

 

Best to pick ANY game up when at a discounted price.

[Noctua Fan Fan]

1 minute ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

The original Crysis still holds up pretty well. Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are pretty nice games to look at. And I'd argue that Ubisoft's recent titles are pretty as well.

 

Those are just whatever's off the top of my head at the moment.

Appreciate the whatevers.

[Noctua Fan Fan]

Just now, Dr. Historic Low said:

Here's 60 or so games to get you started...

 

Arma III

Assassins Creed Origin/Odyssey

Batman Arkham Knight

Battlefield 4/1/V

Call of Duty MW RM/WWII/Black Ops 3/Black Ops 4

Crysis 1/2/3

Destiny 1/2

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Dishonored 1/2

The Division 1/2

Doom 2016

Fallout 4

Far Cry 1/2/3/4/5/Primal/New Dawn

Final Fantasy XV

Forza Horizon 1/2/3/4

Grand Theft Auto 5

Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice

Hitman 2

Just Cause 3/4

Kingdom Come Deliverance

Mad Max

Metro 2033 Redux/Last Light Redux/Exodus

Prey

Project Cars 1/2

Rise/Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Skyrim RM/Mods

Star Wars Battlefront 1/2

Subnautica

Titanfall 1/2

The Witcher 3

Wolfenstein The New Order/The Old Blood/Colossus

 

Best to pick ANY game up when at a discounted price.

This is a great list and have picked one or two from it already

[xAcid9]

Try a modded Witcher 3 or Kingdom Come or recent Tomb Raider. 

If he play some old Doom/Wolfenstein then you can grab the reboot/latest release from those series.