Most visually stunning games avilable

[irishbeast]

I recently bought an RTX 4080. Worked out cheap as I only had to sell one kidney and the other one is coping just fine!

 

Apart from my partners kids nobody I know is into gaming but a few people I mentioned it to were shocked at the price (which is shocking) but were curious to have a look and see how £1300 ($1600 USD) could be justified. So was going to show a few games that have amazing graphics whether the game itself is crap or not. In my current library I could show the follow

 

CP2077

Forza 5

Far Cry 6

Witcher III

Undisputed (Beta boxing game) which do look pretty sharp, especially for a beta

 

Have lots of other games like Fifa 23 but they don't have the wow factor. Far cry with texture pack and everything set to ultra looks incredible

 

Any other suggestions? Just a bit of fun really.

[SorryBella]

4 minutes ago, irishbeast said:

as I only had to sell one kidney

Please tell me this is a joke...

 

Also, check out:

1. Hell Let Loose
2. SEUS PTGI Shaders for Minecraft
3. Resident Evil 4
4. The Last of Us Part 2
5. Detroit Become Human (but remember that David Cage is an unbearable asshole with bad allegories)
6. Battlefield 2042

[Bismut]

Crysis 3 and Watch_Dogs 2 looked really good, but your suggestions are great already.

[PriitM]

27 minutes ago, irishbeast said:

I recently bought an RTX 4080. Worked out cheap as I only had to sell one kidney and the other one is coping just fine!

 

Apart from my partners kids nobody I know is into gaming but a few people I mentioned it to were shocked at the price (which is shocking) but were curious to have a look and see how £1300 ($1600 USD) could be justified. So was going to show a few games that have amazing graphics whether the game itself is crap or not. In my current library I could show the follow

 

CP2077

Forza 5

Far Cry 6

Witcher III

Undisputed (Beta boxing game) which do look pretty sharp, especially for a beta

 

Have lots of other games like Fifa 23 but they don't have the wow factor. Far cry with texture pack and everything set to ultra looks incredible

 

Any other suggestions? Just a bit of fun really.

If you want really visually stunning games, look up Ride 4, Driveclub and Forza Motorsport 7 in wet weather. You will see what was done years before the current hot topic Unrecord.

Regular stunning one I can suggest:

 

Metro: Exodus

[FrowningHippo]

For real. Just download some of the insane texture packs for Minecraft. Or Mod Skyrim which is double the way to show them. Mods + Beautiful graphics.

[xAcid9]

Kingdom Come Deliverance 

Battlefront 2 

Ride 4 

[Stahlmann]

Cyberpunk 2077 with the new RT overdrive update is probably as good as it gets.

You'll need to use DLSS 3 though, as it'll run at 15 or 20 fps otherwise which wouldn't be very impressive to look at.

 

Othan than that:

A Plague Tale: Requiem

The Dark Pictures games (Man of Medan, Little Hope, Quarry)

Doom Eternal

Metro Exodus Enhanced

Portal RTX

 

Final Fantasy 15 is a great example of stunning world design.

[jaslion]

Instead of going wow realism I'd actually go for wow that looks artistic af:

 

Dishonored 2

Abzu

Elden ring

...

 

and throw in some wow real lookin games like last of us and such

[Vishera]

Ryse: Son of Rome - i can't believe this game is 10 years old (Used my ATi Radeon HD 6970 for the screenshot):

[eLLe7]

RE remake for 2, 3 and 4. 

There's also this one called Sword and Fairy 7. 
Photos of it looks really great. 

[maartendc]

2 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

Cyberpunk 2077 with the new RT overdrive update is probably as good as it gets.

 

It is so funny to me that Cyberpunk looks impressive visually and still gets the latest Nvidia features patched in etc. ....

 

... but the game is still just not fun to play :D.

[maartendc]

I will say Red Dead Redemption 2 on Ultra settings still looks very good, even though it is a few years old. It may not have the latest Ray tracing etc., but the atmosphere and just general quality of the game make it look soooo good.

 

Also the newest Call of Duty (Modern Warfare 2?) the Amsterdam level looks insane.

[maartendc]

double post

[Stahlmann]

1 minute ago, maartendc said:

It is so funny to me that Cyberpunk looks impressive visually and still gets the latest Nvidia features patched in etc. ....

 

... but the game is still just not fun to play :D.

I absolutely loved the game. Since i had a new PC it also ran pretty well on launch for me. But now 99% of the bugs were patched and it's genuinely a good game. Still nowhere near the full potential, but it's good. The gameplay is standard looter-shooter style but with stealth, crafting and hacking on top. And the story is great with really good writing.

[maartendc]

Just now, Stahlmann said:

I absolutely loved the game. Since i had a new PC it also ran pretty well on launch for me. But now 99% of the bugs were patched and it's genuinely a good game. Still nowhere near the full potential, but it's good. The gameplay is standard looter-shooter style but with stealth, crafting and hacking on top. And the story is great with really good writing.

I actually played it for hours and hours, right up to the last few missions. I never had a problem with any bugs, game ran fine for me. I just thought it was a very mediocre open world game. The main story was pretty enjoyable, but apart from that, the world just felt empty and lifeless to me. A far cry from The Witcher 3, which had so many interesting side quests around every corner.

[Stahlmann]

14 minutes ago, maartendc said:

I actually played it for hours and hours, right up to the last few missions. I never had a problem with any bugs, game ran fine for me. I just thought it was a very mediocre open world game. The main story was pretty enjoyable, but apart from that, the world just felt empty and lifeless to me. A far cry from The Witcher 3, which had so many interesting side quests around every corner.

I agree that most of the gig-type side jobs from fixers were boring and repetitive. But the actual side quest lines that involved special characters were great. For example the missions of Judy, River, Panam, Johnny, Kerry, Peralez, Takemura etc.

[emothxughts]

2 hours ago, FrowningHippo said:

For real. Just download some of the insane texture packs for Minecraft. Or Mod Skyrim which is double the way to show them. Mods + Beautiful graphics.

This for sure, download them fancy 4k texture mods, tree, vegetation and terrain overhauls, and then install ENB on top of it all, it'll make even the RTX 4080 sweat, all without raytracing.

[QuantumSingularity]

Yeah, after experiencing Cyberpunk 2077 with the new Path Tracing feature all of a sudden ALL OF THE REST of the games look like 10+ years old console titles from 2 generations ago. If you can crank that thing and make it work it's just on a whole another level. But knowing that even a 4090 struggles to put out 30 FPS i'd say we are good 2-3 generations before it becomes a want to have feature. 

As for other titles - there aren't many games the stun visually out of the box. But mods though change all of that. Original Assetto Corsa with the UHD textures pack looks almost photorealistic, despite being a 9 year old game. Black Mesa - the original Half Life remake looks astonishing with HDR and UHD texture mods. Microsoft Flight Simulator can also be difficult to distinguish from reality with the right mods. And that's the narrative. Most games the will impress you are already close to 10 year old games, which the community decided to get to the level they were supposed to be. 

[irishbeast]

10 hours ago, PriitM said:

If you want really visually stunning games, look up Ride 4, Driveclub and Forza Motorsport 7 in wet weather. You will see what was done years before the current hot topic Unrecord.

Regular stunning one I can suggest:

 

Metro: Exodus

Thanks -  Only ever played the forza horizon series so good shout.

 

Some of the people wiil have seen a ps5 xbox and and been stunned by it (the consoles are great considering how 'cheap' they are in comparison.##When my gf saw the sweat pours on an up front face pic on Cp2077 she was pretty stunned. I showed the same on the ps5 and whilst still impressive there was a definite difference

[irishbeast]

Should have mentioedn myt display device

 

Using a Samsung 50 inch OLED, 120hz HDR ready display. So a very sharp screen

[irishbeast]

10 hours ago, SorryClaire said:

Please tell me this is a joke...

 

Also, check out:

1. Hell Let Loose
2. SEUS PTGI Shaders for Minecraft
3. Resident Evil 4
4. The Last of Us Part 2
5. Detroit Become Human (but remember that David Cage is an unbearable asshole with bad allegories)
6. Battlefield 2042

 

How else would I raise that money  A joke of course! No card is worth that money but I treated myself as I have a credit card thats interest free for next 9 months!

 

Great suggestions. Saw Resident evil clips and looks unreal. Shame Im not a fan of horror style games!

[irishbeast]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have read them all but didn't expect so many helpful responses

Skyrim was one I have been thinking about as its a decent game apparently as well

 

When did the Cp2077 patch get released? i've not played it properly yet as when I played it on launch it annoyed the hell out of me but I was told recently about the imminent patch that was mentioned. 

[irishbeast]

7 hours ago, maartendc said:

It is so funny to me that Cyberpunk looks impressive visually and still gets the latest Nvidia features patched in etc. ....

 

... but the game is still just not fun to play :D.

 

Very true! I'm not going to pay for a rubbish game just to showcase my over priced card. Would be nice if if I enjoyed the game. 

Shame there's no demos for most of them. 

 

In fairness to CP2077 I have not played it properly since launch when the amount of bugs just drove me insane