Is MGS 4 still one of the best looking games of all time?

There's no denying MGS 4 is one of the masterpieces of last gen. I decided to replay the game before MGS 5 comes out and am still in awe at its looks. The proof is in the pudding, wouldn't you agree SW?

Definitely a good looking game... I doubt it'll be remembered for the graphics.

Your first video sums up the game perfectly. It's titled Final Boss, and it's almost 20 minutes long lol.

I guess it was impressive when it debuted, but it's aged pretty badly. The Phantom Pain looks glorious, on the other hand.

At launch Crysis obliterated it.

What? I played this game in 2009 and thought the textures were atrocious...

LIQUIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDD

But no.

If MGS4 was the most recent game I played... then sure. It is the best looking game of all-time.

It looked alright back in 2008.

However, I didn't like the art style.

lol, no

Not anymore. It was definitely the best game I'd seen back then though.

Who f**king cares...........

When people are constantly scrutinizing graphics how can something 7 years old be called "best looking"?

Even for 2008 standards the graphics were bad. I can even think of games from 2004-2005 that had better graphics.

Mgs4 was terrible when it came to graphics, the character models were great for the time, but they didn't age well either because of the plastic Japanese art style of they use.

Okami.

And no on the OP.

It wasn't even the best looking game when the announcement trailer was released...

Not really.... I'm pretty sure Mirror's Edge and Gears of War 2 looked better. It did look good though.

It looked pretty bad compared to games like Crysis and Crysis Warhead back then. It didn't age well at all and TBH, now it looks terrible.

**** no. Lay off the booze TC.

Nah, not even the best looking game of 08. It did look (inconsistently) great at the time though. Character models were nice and those two videos you posted happen to be two of the better looking parts of the game. There were some areas that looked like complete ass though. At times it actually didn't even look as good as MGS3. Rough, inconsistent texture work all over the place, some really bland lighting, and outside of the characters a lot of the models really looked like shit. I think at some points you would see wheels that were 8 sided cylinders, below what a lot of PS2 games were doing.

It's a mixed bag, probably the most inconsistent looking MGS game to date.

No biggie though, this has never been a graphics powerhouse series. They're usually somewhat high end on a technical level at launch (relative to consoles), but not on top. The short comings are often made up for through the art style. The only time an MGS game was truly ahead of the pack was when MGS2 released. That shit was tech demo material at the time.

Don't look that good. For the beginning of that boss fight, I thought the battleship in the background was sitting in the desert or something. It's like 'oh shit, that's water?'.

I lol'd at a lot of the boss fight even being a movie.

I dont think it was know for the graphics, the gameplay, story and characters will definitely carry on though

Why did I even bother clicking on this dude's thread. Nothing has changed I see.

Nope

Despite Gamespot praising the game for it's visual fidelity. Anyone who had even seen a video of Crysis, a 2007 game, in action would laugh at the thought of MGS4 being praised for graphics.

Garbage.

All subjective.

No. Game looked kinda rough even at release.

I'd say a few parts still look good today. overall it's one of those games that i don't mind looking at and playing even today. yes it looked rough in places but damn some of the scenes looks great. like conan said it's inconsistent.

@uninspiredcup: At launch Crysis ran like shit on any pc that didn't have top of the line gpus in SLI.

Lol at all the fools only comparing it to Crysis. MGS4 won best graphics get over it.

No, it's aged very poorly. Bad textures everywhere.

Same can be said for all games.

Majority of life is a subjective experience.

What about... forget it , not worth the ban.

I ran the demo on medium settings at a playable framerate on a Pentium 4 and ATI Radeon X1300.

So no.

I had a look at it thinking I might play the PS3 games to get up to speed with the PS4 ones but it looked so bad I decided I was happy not knowing all the shit that happened in the earlier games.

So, yeah, no.

Hell no.

LOL but you post this dramatic weighing of it anyway?

I LOVE this game.

Absolutely not, not even in 2008...

@foxhound_fox: At MEDIUM settings. LOL!

@ConanTheStoner: lol it looked leaps and bounds better then MGS3 and MGS have won best graphic awards almost everytime they are released. MGS2 And MGS4 won them.

Darn other people for having an opinion!

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Talk about some selective reading with a major lack of reading comprehension.

Back in 08 I didn't think it looked all that amazing, and in today's time the game doesn't look good at all. But they did what they could. Not my preference art style, I love me some cell shading. I saw Okami get mentioned up there, fucking rights.

too bad it doesn't play as well as it looks, and that egregious 3:1 cutscene to gameplay ratio

Yeah, and it was a better looking game than MGS4.

no, not at all

AM-Gamer is not particularly bright.

MGS4 is garbage.

Nope, even on a technical standpoint, textures were bad, character models looked like rubber action figures, but the art style was even more atrocious.