Top five PC graphics

My opinion is :

1.) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

2.) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadows of Chernobyl

3.) Battlefield 2142

4.) Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars

5.) Half-Life 2

NOTE:These games are already released.

that's a really crazy absurd list that doesn't especially make sense, since there's multiple genres in there that have fundamentally different standards!

of all of those, i'd probably go with the grand theft auto games - while they aren't the best looking from a numbercrunching perspective, they always have a really great, worldly feel to them - and san andreas especially was one of the most beautiful looking games at sunset i've ever seen

oblivion is also super beautiful, just walking around through the forests and glades - or stumbling upon a river at dusk... the game has come the closest to capturing the beauty of the natural world so far, i'd say

stalker has really stellar lighting effects too, especially the environmental stuff like lightning - but by and large, the game has a pretty mediocre appearance

c&c3 has really crisp and polished visuals, but they are clearly faux retro, trying to imitate the feel of the old c&c games but with a modern coat of paint - they aren't very good looking at all, though, from a technical perspective - it's just that they don't try

i'd put bf2142 bottom

but yeah, kind of an absurd list 

oblivion, then stalker, then tiberium wars, then bf2142, and lastly GTA

1) Oblivion

2) Stalker

3) Battlefield 2142

4) GTA

5) C&C  

that's a really crazy absurd list that doesn't especially make sense, since there's multiple genres in there that have fundamentally different standards!

of all of those, i'd probably go with the grand theft auto games - while they aren't the best looking from a numbercrunching perspective, they always have a really great, worldly feel to them - and san andreas especially was one of the most beautiful looking games at sunset i've ever seen

oblivion is also super beautiful, just walking around through the forests and glades - or stumbling upon a river at dusk... the game has come the closest to capturing the beauty of the natural world so far, i'd say

stalker has really stellar lighting effects too, especially the environmental stuff like lightning - but by and large, the game has a pretty mediocre appearance

c&c3 has really crisp and polished visuals, but they are clearly faux retro, trying to imitate the feel of the old c&c games but with a modern coat of paint - they aren't very good looking at all, though, from a technical perspective - it's just that they don't try

i'd put bf2142 bottom

but yeah, kind of an absurd list 

 

A-S_FM

Wow that list really upset you. It was his list of games he wanted to know, if you have a better list make a new poll.

Anyway on that List Oblivion by a long shot.

I vote none. Many more games could be added to that list...

What you should have said was "Which of these has the best graphics"

Wow that list really upset you. It was his list of games he wanted to know, if you have a better list make a new poll.

Anyway on that List Oblivion by a long shot.

Sleepyz

i don't have a better list, that's my point - making cross-genre graphical comparisons is like debating the aesthetics of apples and oranges

at least within the same genre it makes sense - but asking which looks better, command and conquer 3 or oblivion? how do you even make that comparison? they are fundamentally different in structure, and use different visual effects in different ways for different things, with completely different standards - it just strikes me as pretty pointless

but i still answered quite thoroughly, so... chillax...

1. Oblivion

2. Rainbow Six: Vegas

3. Company of Heroes

4. C&C3

5. HL2

1. Far Cry

2. Half Life 2

3. FEAR

4. Company of Heroes

5. UT 2004 

All genres have different standards so I will list best looking games from each genre:

FPS:  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

RTS:Supreme Commander

RPG:Oblivion

MMO:LOTRO

 Those are probably the most important genres.

Stalker

Oblivion

HLII

LOTRO

Just Cause

[QUOTE="Sleepyz"]

Wow that list really upset you. It was his list of games he wanted to know, if you have a better list make a new poll.

Anyway on that List Oblivion by a long shot.

A-S_FM

i don't have a better list, that's my point - making cross-genre graphical comparisons is like debating the aesthetics of apples and oranges

at least within the same genre it makes sense - but asking which looks better, command and conquer 3 or oblivion? how do you even make that comparison? they are fundamentally different in structure, and use different visual effects in different ways for different things, with completely different standards - it just strikes me as pretty pointless

but i still answered quite thoroughly, so... chillax...

I think it's easy to compare, forget genre, just have a look and see which looks better. If it makes it easier, pretend the camera angle is the same on both. IMO oblivion looks better, not being an rts they were able to work with smaller details, and well, it just has better textures and effects all round.

If Crysis was out, I'd say it looks better then every game ever made. If your talking about gameplay, genre has a place, however we're discussing graphics, and even though FPS have an obvious advantage in the graphical department, the question wasn't "which looks better taking into account diadvantages due to genre" the question was "which looks better" and that answere, is simple.

1.Call of Juarez

2.X3 Reunion

3.The Elder Scrolls IV-Oblivion

4.STALKER-Shadow of Chernobyl

5.Half Life 2 Episode One

 Non-released:

1.Crysis

2.Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway

3.Alan Wake

4.Unreal Tournament 3

5.World in Conflict

[QUOTE="A-S_FM"][QUOTE="Sleepyz"]

Wow that list really upset you. It was his list of games he wanted to know, if you have a better list make a new poll.

Anyway on that List Oblivion by a long shot.

DriftRS

i don't have a better list, that's my point - making cross-genre graphical comparisons is like debating the aesthetics of apples and oranges

at least within the same genre it makes sense - but asking which looks better, command and conquer 3 or oblivion? how do you even make that comparison? they are fundamentally different in structure, and use different visual effects in different ways for different things, with completely different standards - it just strikes me as pretty pointless

but i still answered quite thoroughly, so... chillax...

I think it's easy to compare, forget genre, just have a look and see which looks better. If it makes it easier, pretend the camera angle is the same on both. IMO oblivion looks better, not being an rts they were able to work with smaller details, and well, it just has better textures and effects all round.

If Crysis was out, I'd say it looks better then every game ever made. If your talking about gameplay, genre has a place, however we're discussing graphics, and even though FPS have an obvious advantage in the graphical department, the question wasn't "which looks better taking into account diadvantages due to genre" the question was "which looks better" and that answere, is simple.

if you hold to the stilted belief that fps games take precendence in the visual quality category simply because the genre affords it greater numbercrunching, then you believe the same as i - just for different reasons

you believe that genre x will pretty much always look better than genre y because of genre specifications and technology styles, and the question itself is therefore relatively moot

which is precisely what i think, but where i say it's stupid to ask because different genres are judged differently, you say genre x just looks better and that's how it is, but hell, ask anyway!

to disregard fundamental technology differences and genre limitations because one genre is "better looking" than another is no different than simply saying it's a stupid question

i mean, sure, crysis looks utterly awesome - but the game isn't displaying a few thousand units at once like medieval 2 - just what is the process you go through to make a direct comparison between the two games, the two genres? if you simply go by which "looks better", well, that's exactly what i was saying to begin with - you cannot compare them on even ground because of how different they are, so why bother to compare them at all?