Borderlands and World of Goo. Machinarium I didn't like. Why do you ask?
You mentioned you liked artistic games and I listed some that I thought were artistic and may interest you. Rayman Origins is awesome.
I'm only guessing but a developer has to balance gameplay experience with graphics. I'm not talking about making the game fun, I mean making it actually playable. I wonder how playable a game like Batman would be if it looked as good as the UE3 tech demos with all the physx. As it is, Physx really puts a performance hit on the framerate sometimes and I wonder if it would even be very playable.
This. Technically the tech is there to have a fully tessellated Gotham City in Batman AC as NV showcased in their
Endless City Tessellation Demo. The thing is the game would be totally unplayable if such a high level of geometry was implemented on current hardware. It's not that Crytek cannot make Crysis 3 look even better but then it would not play on any PC system in existence. They should push the envelope enough but not to the point that the game runs at 13 fps on a GTX680. They could add PhysX and tessellate the entire vegetation, concrete/dam, trees, ground/rocks, etc. add facial animations and more realistic human skin on characters, add 50,000 individual hair strands that would react to wind on character models like NV did with the new
Dawn demo. An entire game in that form would be totally unplayable for 4-5 years+. Adding that level of detail would cost millions of dollars in programming and artistic fees I bet.
And then you get 25 fps performance on a $1000 GPU setup, that's without PhysX or any
other characters on screen.
I still stand by the statement, no game in 2007 came close to crysis, it was a gamechanger. Thats beside the point though, bf3 is a 2011 game and crysis 1 had no rival in 2007 - it was a game changer, period. Crysis also still looks good to this day, something I can definitely NOT say for any other PC game released in 2007.
BF3 is nothing compared to what Crysis did for PC gaming. BF3 could be erased entirely from the history of PC gaming, because its greatest impact was in character animations, lighting model and overall gameplay, not graphics. The physics model in BF3 is not dynamic like it is in Red Faction Guerilla. BF3 wouldn't matter at all once BF4 launches. Crysis 1 will forever be in the pantheon of monumental graphical achievements in PC gaming along with Unreal, Far Cry and other such games that revolutionized the PC gaming visuals. What Crysis did when it launched is set the bar sooooooo high that it took until Metro 2033 to even come close and then 5,
5 years later, only a
handful of games even come close to the graphical quality of Crysis:
- BF3, Metro 2033, Witcher 2, maybe STALKER with some cinematic mods. I am running out of more games. All these new games like Sleeping Dogs, Dirt Showdown, Sniper Elite all look like garbage in comparison to the 2007 Crysis and all run worse.
I don't put Crysis 2 anywhere near Crysis 1. It's almost a 4-year newer game and looks worse in many regards, especially the lens flares, textures and physics model is nowhere near the level of Crysis 1.
Right now Crysis 1 with mods is
still the best looking FPS game.
Crysis 1 without mods
Crysis 1 with mods
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 is not impressive to me graphically in any way at all. It looks like a typical console game. In fact changing the quality from High to Ultra/Extreme hardly changes the look of the game, if anything it makes it blurry because of FXAA post-processing.
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