It's... it's beautiful. (AKA the videogame graphics appreciation society)

Drunkalilly wrote:

I know not everyone is super into pixel stuff, but check out Kingdom. Those water effects alone are making me want to play this game.

That really does look nice & it gives it a good sense of 3d depth as well.

EDIT: Also Cool Ghosts are the best!

@The_Jaster wrote:

EDIT: Also Cool Ghosts are the best!

Yassss! So glad they're back, hope it's a good year for the big men.

If there's any game that deserves to raise this thread...

Are we playing that game, are we? I'll stick to three, like you did.







And that's just stuff I had saved on my laptop already! I have loads of screenshots on my Switch, and there are other areas I could visit. Thefalling plumes of lava in Mount Doom come to mind, or the oceanic weirdness of the Zora domain, or the characterful animations . . .

Mount Doom?

Fine, Death Mountain.

Is it time for another picture of Okami just looking lovely?



Why yes it is.

Yay! I can't hold off purchasing Okami HD much longer, I reckon.

I took a few screenshots of GRIS

















It's amazing what you can do with just Black, White, Red, Blue, Yellow and Green

I think it's one of those games I'd need to see in motion. It looks nice, don't get me wrong, but I've seen better static art. I'm reckoning it'll all come into its own when you play it and control those colours and movements.

Yeah when you add colours to world it's rather lovely and it has I guess cutscenes which are lovely animated, like you could make a anime series like it but I can't show because spoilers.

That picture with the big blue woman is lovely - very dreamlike quality to some of this screenshots.

Was going to post some Gears 5 but looking at screenshots it looks a tad boring but actually, Act and 3 going around on your skiff in the open-world sections is rather beautiful and one that does need to be seen in action.

Also from a technical point of view great as well.

Ghost of Tsushima is just stunning. It's hard to find a picture that sums up just how beautiful its world is, because it's the wind and the colours that mark it out from other pretty open-world games. But I'm a big fan, and the fact that the nature is a gameplay mechanic too, means it's not just a cosmetic thing. I hope there's a sequel on PS5 - I can only imagine how that would look.

I know this isn't a typically beautiful game (at least not now), but it struck me whilst re-playing Shenmue II just how well they made the most of the technology at the time.

The game feels busy and claustrophobic, despite never being crowded. The use of road/shop signs overhead gives the game a foreboding atmosphere that captures the way Hong Kong (presumably) was. Also, the washed-out, dirty look to the textures feel lived in and almost weathered. I never really appreciated it at the time, twenty years ago, but compared to the barren simplicity of Grand Theft Auto 3 which released at the same time, it's technically really accomplished.

The more I revisit the old Shenmue titles, the more I appreciate what they are as technical achievements. But I also like them less and less as actual fun video games.

It was always the the sheer amount of things you could interact with in the Shenmue games that impressed me the most, in other games if you looked too close at certain things you'd essentially see the seams but it never felt like that with Shenmue at all.

Nah, nowhere near crowded enough to be Hong Kong. Probably a really good shot at it for the time though!