Games that were graphically well ahead of their time

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KratosLives said:

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You're talking about art direction now which is completely subjective. Like Pemalite says, by that standard I could claim anything looks better than Uncharted. Hell, I grew up with the SNES so I could just say that because I prefer pixel art, A Link to the Past looks better than Uncharted.

Crysis is much more dynamic than Uncharted with much more interactivity and destructibility in the environment, more emergent and open-ended encounters in terms of AI and physics, more effects done in realtime rather than baked.

Uncharted and Crysis released just 6 days apart, and Crysis is much more technologically advanced, therefore it is much more ahead of its time.

Crysis is a boring game to look at for me than 20 mins. Call it art style or whatever, but uncharted looked better to me visually than crysis ever did. It looked more real to me than crysis did. I couldn't get over how good the foilage looked at lighting in some parts, coupled with great artistic design. Even the explosion and smoke effects that turned to a mushroom which may have been hand drawn, looked better than the explosion effects I saw in crysis lol. But since we are comparing pc to a console, pound for pound I have to chose uncharted, considering what it did with the inferior cell and gpu, and what it achieved to do with it and the naughtydog engine.

Uncharted was a great looking game for 2007, the best on consoles at the time without a doubt, but Crysis eclipsed it in basically every technical category from effects work to character models to shaders, and remained unsurpassed by anything on consoles until PS4 and Xbox One released six years later.