Beautiful Game Appreciation

[erdelf]

Let's appreciate beautiful games.

From the obvious picks like Witcher 3



to less obvious picks like Divinity Original Sin 2

Or perhaps more stylized games like Darkest Dungeon

All is free to post as long as it tickles one of your aesthetic senses.

So go ahead and show us good looking games. ^^

 

[SWard]

EVE

 

[JSimenhoff]

You already covered one of my favorites, Divinity: Original Sin II, great minds! Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.

I'll always have a soft spot for a completely kitted out Fallout New Vegas:

Hard to capture the profound beauty of Abzu with a single image:

And what about my avatar's namesake, Rez:

 

[PCG Jody]

Always a sucker for the way Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning looks.

 

[PCG AndyC]

Far: Lone Sails is one of my favourites for sheer visual beauty. Screens really don't do it justice.



The Bard's Tale 4 had some unexpectedly lush locales too.

 

[PCG James]

Great idea for a thread. Will come back to it often.

Just finished Life is Strange 2. Some gorgeous scenes within. Nails the American west.

 

[denixius]

Hello!

I also have some amazing screenshots from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Bests!

 

[Zloth]

Uhhh, do you want any "images per post" limits or limits on storage size? Otherwise, I'm liable to blow away somebody's download caps. It will take me some time to arrange a kickback deal with the major ISPs so no rush on an answer.

In the meantime... something old (Asheron's Call)


Assassin's Creed: Oddyssey


And here's one from Skyrim I posted on the previous forums in the screenshot contest. Got an honorable mention for it! Here's the cross-eyed 3D version for people with 3D Vision. I expect VR headsets are probably able to view these things properly, too, by now.

 

[Frindis]

I don't have many pictures, but here is one recently that captures a little slice of life that I enjoy in games.

 

[Zloth]

Alice: Madness Returns

 

[Frindis]

From my latest adventure in Outward

 

[MacLeod]

They're dated now of course but there are several older games that had graphics and scenery that I had to just stop and admire. First one I can remember is Halo 2 when you first land on Halo and walk out of the escape pod.... You have a gorgeous landscape all around you with a blue sky and of course you can see the Halo as it in the sky. And to top it all off the music playing in the background (Heavy Price Paid on the soundtrack) is just superb. First time I was there I spent several minutes just looking around.

Other scenes would be in Bio-Shock multiple times just staring out the windows, definitely Crysis 1 when the sun first comes up and you're looking out from on top of a ridge. Crysis 3 when you first walk out of the subway with Psycho into New York and see the city overgrown with vegetation.

Another one is Mass Effect 3 on Palaven's moon.... Seeing the Reapers off in the distance and seeing Palaven literally on fire in the sky.... Every time I play ME3 I always take my time on this mission to admire the scenery and landscapes.

 

[Zloth]

...definitely Crysis 1 when the sun first comes up and you're looking out from on top of a ridge.

First Light. That was the start of a new age for computer graphics, ending the "Doom Age" that started back in `93.

(Then that boat came and shot me up - which kinda spoiled the mood.)

A couple more. Check the resolution out! Ah, the old CRT days...


I think this was from Warhead

 

[Krud]

Okay, this might not look particularly beautiful to you, but for anyone who remembers what 1996's Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall looked like before the Unity update/conversion (and mods), this is an amazing facelift for sure.

 

[Zloth]

X3: Terran Conflict









I might have been using a few mods...

 

[Mazer]

The infinity engine games have aged better than they should have purely on the strength of the backdrops.

 

[Rensje]

My screenshots library goes as far back as 2011, when Skyrim was first released. Can you believe it's been well over 8 years since that game first launched? It feels like yesterday somehow. Anyway, I'll share some of my favourites from over the years down below:

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Dishonored
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Tomb Raider (2013)​

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition​

Dark Souls 2​

Legend of Grimrock 2​

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen​

The Division 2 (with NVIDIA Ansel)​

Out of all of them, I think I might like that Legend of Grimrock 2 shot the best. It seems powerful and threatening in a way, eliciting an emotion from me like other screenshot I ever made has managed to do.

 

[fletch254]

Everyone talks about The Witcher 3 as being a beautiful game (which it is, no doubt) but the Witcher 2 was just as good looking in many aspects. Got a couple of screenshots below I dug out of my library:

 

[Zloth]

Witcher 1 even had some nice ones (though I didn't know how to turn off the GUI for them)


(From the looks of that guard, I was about to get in trouble for taking this shot)







(that old mill is haunted!)

 

[Zloth]

Here's a quick game most folks haven't heard of... Valley

 

[Frindis]

For anyone interested, the game that @Zloth mentioned got a 70% sale on STEAM (5 hours left).

 

[Zoid]

I'm really enjoying Forza Horizon 4 right now. It is one of the best looking games I've ever played!

The infinity engine games have aged better than they should have purely on the strength of the backdrops.

This just goes to show how enduring a good art style can be.

Everyone talks about The Witcher 3 as being a beautiful game (which it is, no doubt) but the Witcher 2 was just as good looking in many aspects.

I agree! The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition holds up really well. It's still a great looking game.

My screenshots library goes as far back as 2011, when Skyrim was first released. Can you believe it's been well over 8 years since that game first launched? It feels like yesterday somehow. Anyway, I'll share some of my favourites from over the years down below:

Some really cool shots here! I especially like the Dishonored an Grimrock ones.

 

[Zloth]

For anyone interested, the game that Zloth mentioned got a 70% sale on STEAM (5 hours left).

The game is fun when it's outdoors and there's some underground running that's pretty good. It's only about 10 hours long, though.

NieR:Automata... for the glory of mankind!

 

[Frindis]

I just started playing Children of Morta [30% on GoG] and I really like the art. Clever usage of wide shots, which makes for both immersion and some decent screenshots:

 

[Zloth]

Anarchy Online (last half of 2001)