And the best looking game of 2011 goes to : The Witcher 2. (56k)

[QUOTE="Peredith"]

Yes sometimes Battlefield 3 looks jawdropping, but at times it looks meh. I think Rage is far more consistant. Rage is very underraged visually. One time I took 20 minutes trying to find repeated textures but couldn't :o. The textures might be low res up close, but stand back (quite a bit :P), and the amount of detail Rage includes in a single screen beats any game imo. I think BF3 graphics are waaay overrated, :)

-edit- Try find a repeating texture in that Rage Subway pic. I can't. :P

ferret-gamer

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

GS will likely give the award to BF3 due to the hype, but I better see nominations for The Witcher 2 and Shogun 2 when it comes time for graphics awards.

HaloinventedFPS

Metro 2033 and Stalker COP didnt even get nominated last year for graphics...

joke thread right? or you must never played crysis2 DX11 patch and BF3, it can't touch either game in technical department.

even skyrim does alot things better than TW2, you thought TW2 looked decent only because you are in third person the whole time, and the over abused DOF does help to sharpener the supposedly average visual quite a bit.

Anyway, I think most critics gonna give the graphic of the year to U3.

joke thread right? or you must never played crysis2 DX11 patch and BF3, it can't touch either game in technical department.

even skyrim does alot things better than TW2, you thought TW2 looked decent only because you are in third person the whole time, and the over abused DOF does help to sharpener the supposedly average visual quite a bit.

Anyway, I think most critics gonna give the graphic of the year to U3.

GameFan1983

UC3 looks worse than Half life 2

it hides behind tons of cutscenes, so does God of War 3

Gears 3 is the best graphics on consoles and it doesnt come close to anything on PC

joke thread right? or you must never played crysis2 DX11 patch and BF3, it can't touch either game in technical department.

even skyrim does alot things better than TW2, you thought TW2 looked decent only because you are in third person the whole time, and the over abused DOF does help to sharpener the supposedly average visual quite a bit.

Anyway, I think most critics gonna give the graphic of the year to U3.

GameFan1983

[QUOTE="GameFan1983"]

joke thread right? or you must never played crysis2 DX11 patch and BF3, it can't touch either game in technical department.

even skyrim does alot things better than TW2, you thought TW2 looked decent only because you are in third person the whole time, and the over abused DOF does help to sharpener the supposedly average visual quite a bit.

Anyway, I think most critics gonna give the graphic of the year to U3.

-Unreal-

Linear vs open world? Really?

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

100% agree, Witcher 2 on xbox 360 will be graphics king by miles

Also some of the best art on consoles too indeed

ChubbyGuy40

Too bad it'll look like ass in comparison to the PC version.

Technically Crysis 2 has better graphics than BF3.-Unreal-

Yep. Those tessellated covers that look exactly the same non-tessellated are so superior. At least it uses POM even though it isn't a DX11 feature :P

Actually looks about same as PC version, it runs high/medium mixed setting and nearly all effects are there

In the new video looks stunning for sure

Cant wait to play it on xbox 360 next year

The Witcher 2 is a pretty game, but lacks in animations compared to some other games. All in all, it's a tough call to call best graphics this year, because all the graphically great games look have very different styles and do at least one thing better than anyone else.

BF3 is the best graphical game I've ever played IMO. I showed a portion of the single player game (which I think is crap, it was the part when you jump into the jet) to some friends and they thought it was a movie or something. I would also say Metro 2033 looks better also.

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

Too bad it'll look like ass in comparison to the PC version.

[QUOTE="-Unreal-"]Technically Crysis 2 has better graphics than BF3.loosingENDS

Yep. Those tessellated covers that look exactly the same non-tessellated are so superior. At least it uses POM even though it isn't a DX11 feature :P

Actually looks about same as PC version, it runs high/medium mixed setting and nearly all effects are there

In the new video looks stunning for sure

Cant wait to play it on xbox 360 next year

It will be more like 1280x720, low settings, and struggling to keep 30fps.

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

Yep. Those tessellated covers that look exactly the same non-tessellated are so superior. At least it uses POM even though it isn't a DX11 feature :P

MK-Professor

Actually looks about same as PC version, it runs high/medium mixed setting and nearly all effects are there

In the new video looks stunning for sure

Cant wait to play it on xbox 360 next year

It will be more like 1280x720, low settings, and struggling to keep 30fps.

[QUOTE="MK-Professor"]

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

Actually looks about same as PC version, it runs high/medium mixed setting and nearly all effects are there

In the new video looks stunning for sure

Cant wait to play it on xbox 360 next year

ferret-gamer

It will be more like 1280x720, low settings, and struggling to keep 30fps.

that is why it look like 1280x720, low settings with 30fps.

The Witcher 2 is a pretty game, but lacks in animations compared to some other games. All in all, it's a tough call to call best graphics this year, because all the graphically great games look have very different styles and do at least one thing better than anyone else.

Pug-Nasty

[QUOTE="-Unreal-"][QUOTE="GameFan1983"]

joke thread right? or you must never played crysis2 DX11 patch and BF3, it can't touch either game in technical department.

even skyrim does alot things better than TW2, you thought TW2 looked decent only because you are in third person the whole time, and the over abused DOF does help to sharpener the supposedly average visual quite a bit.

Anyway, I think most critics gonna give the graphic of the year to U3.

xsatyr86

Linear vs open world? Really?

Here you guys are. The Witcher 2 definitely wins. :P

[QUOTE="xsatyr86"]

[QUOTE="-Unreal-"] Post screens of Skyrim in third person view then. Let's compare them.DragonfireXZ95

Linear vs open world? Really?

Here you guys are. The Witcher 2 definitely wins. :P

Skyrim definatly looks much better without FXAA enabled.

100% agree, Witcher 2 on xbox 360 will be graphics king by miles

Also some of the best art on consoles too indeed

loosingENDS

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]

[QUOTE="xsatyr86"]

Linear vs open world? Really?

ferret-gamer

Here you guys are. The Witcher 2 definitely wins. :P

Skyrim definatly looks much better without FXAA enabled.

FXAA enabled

FXAA disabled

I am getting the feeling that a lot of people here assume screenshots do the witcher 2 justice. It's a game you have to play on max to fully understand just how goodlooking the game is.

Artistically, The Witcher 2 looks to draw a lot of inspiration from Uncharted 2--at least from a shape/color theory perspective.

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

Too bad it'll look like ass in comparison to the PC version.

[QUOTE="-Unreal-"]Technically Crysis 2 has better graphics than BF3.loosingENDS

Yep. Those tessellated covers that look exactly the same non-tessellated are so superior. At least it uses POM even though it isn't a DX11 feature :P

Actually looks about same as PC version, it runs high/medium mixed setting and nearly all effects are there

In the new video looks stunning for sure

Cant wait to play it on xbox 360 next year

I'm sorrym but what? Based solely on those pictures I can safely say that Crysis 2 looks waaaaayyy better, even Uncharted 3 and Gear 3 can compete with that.

I'm sorrym but what? Based solely on those pictures I can safely say that Crysis 2 looks waaaaayyy better, even Uncharted 3 and Gear 3 can compete with that.

parkurtommo

Yes, I'd give the 2011 crown to TW2 too. That game is beautiful.

A few from Skyrim.

The Witcher 2 is a fantastic game in every aspect, its definately my GOTY without a shadow of a doubt. I stopped playing Skyrim while i wait for mods to sort out the crap UI and clunky menu system and started my 4th playthrough of The Witcher 2, every time i have played through the game i find something new.

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="theuncharted34"]

Yeah i'm definitely going to get the game this year. From what i've seen it looks better (in every area) than any game this year. I have a soft spot for Rayman :P Rayman 2 was amazing.

And well the title just says best looking game, if he had said most technical I would've posted another game.

jettpack

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"][QUOTE="Peredith"]

Yes sometimes Battlefield 3 looks jawdropping, but at times it looks meh. I think Rage is far more consistant. Rage is very underraged visually. One time I took 20 minutes trying to find repeated textures but couldn't :o. The textures might be low res up close, but stand back (quite a bit :P), and the amount of detail Rage includes in a single screen beats any game imo. I think BF3 graphics are waaay overrated, :)

-edit- Try find a repeating texture in that Rage Subway pic. I can't. :P

DragonfireXZ95

Rage:

Battlefield 3 (which Mitu posted)

[QUOTE="Pug-Nasty"]

The Witcher 2 is a pretty game, but lacks in animations compared to some other games. All in all, it's a tough call to call best graphics this year, because all the graphically great games look have very different styles and do at least one thing better than anyone else.

DragonfireXZ95

I little, but I dislike the combat so I haven't played it past pretty early in the game.

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

100% agree, Witcher 2 on xbox 360 will be graphics king by miles

Also some of the best art on consoles too indeed

ducati101

It is running in high/medium mixed setting and looks beyond stunning in the 360 new video, it is defiantly not far from PC at all

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"] Rage is nowhere near consistent, much less consistent than BF3. There are times where Rage looks absolutely abysmal, and in general the only time Rage does look good is if you are looking at something far away, once you get close to anything it looks like crap.Peredith

Rage:

Battlefield 3 (which Mitu posted)

[QUOTE="Peredith"]

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"] I agree. Rage looks like garbage most of the time, even on PC at max settings.

mitu123

Rage:

Battlefield 3 (which Mitu posted)

:roll:

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="Peredith"]

Rage:

Battlefield 3 (which Mitu posted)

Peredith

:roll:

[QUOTE="Peredith"]

^^^ Looks like any other game. Nothing special. Unless I'm missing something? :?

nameless12345

Looks like Call of Duty with more/better post-processing tbh.

EDIT: or upgraded Bad Company 2 if you will.

It's really hard to take anything you say seriously....

Battlefield 3 also has some prebaked lighting (but not as bad as Rage). I shoot a lightbulb and it destroys, but the light source was still there :lol:

Battlefield 3 also has some prebaked lighting (but not as bad as Rage). I shoot a lightbulb and it destroys, but the light source was still there :lol:

Peredith

That doesnt happen to me. You sure the light source wasnt from another source as well?

Battlefield 3 also has some prebaked lighting (but not as bad as Rage). I shoot a lightbulb and it destroys, but the light source was still there :lol:

Peredith

Battlefield 3 also has some prebaked lighting (but not as bad as Rage). I shoot a lightbulb and it destroys, but the light source was still there :lol:

Peredith

They're called bugs.

[QUOTE="Peredith"]

Battlefield 3 also has some prebaked lighting (but not as bad as Rage). I shoot a lightbulb and it destroys, but the light source was still there :lol:

Jebus213

They're called bugs.

Same bug happened 4 times in a row? I think... on Kaffarov, there's like a row of lights, I shot them (I was bored) and all the lightsources remained. :?

[QUOTE="Peredith"]

Battlefield 3 also has some prebaked lighting (but not as bad as Rage). I shoot a lightbulb and it destroys, but the light source was still there :lol:

argetlam00

That doesnt happen to me. You sure the light source wasnt from another source as well?

It was the right lightsource. It's projecting upwards in a cone. Only the light I could shoot was giving the lightsource.

[QUOTE="Jebus213"]

[QUOTE="Peredith"]

Battlefield 3 also has some prebaked lighting (but not as bad as Rage). I shoot a lightbulb and it destroys, but the light source was still there :lol:

Peredith

They're called bugs.

Same bug happened 4 times in a row? I think... on Kaffarov, there's like a row of lights, I shot them (I was bored) and all the lightsources remained. :?

My game can crash 4 times in a row...