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[Liopleurodon]

Metal Gear Solid 2

Metal Gear Ray catches the falling Harrier:



Final Fantasy IX

Atomos destroys Lindblum:



Zone of the Enders 2

Anubis boss.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Not super old, but i'm still impressed how good Alien Isolation looked on the 360:

 

[hououinkyouma00]

The details in MGS2 will always astound me whether it's the ice cubes melting, the rain, or countless other things.

 

[Guwop]

GTA V maxed out on PC.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Bloody Roar: Primal Fury on the GameCube.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

FFIX with the Moguri mod

Ratchet and Clank's PS2 trilogy

Resident Evil Remake

Metroid Prime Trilogy on Primehack

Morrowind

Legend of Zelda Minish Cap

 

[MagiusNecros]

Good Combat





Speaking of Alien

 

[Hashassin]

Almost everything pre rendered. Especially if those pré renders have been updated.

 

[Gonzito]

Metal Gear Solid 3 is still amazing even to this day, visually speaking at least

 

[digimaster7]

basically every single FMV from square enix. KH2 FMV and FF7 advent children still holds up today

 

[Killer8]

 

[diffusionx]

F-Zero GX still looks phenomenal to this day. Waverace Blue Storm also still has really great looking water. Actually it looks better than a lot of large water bodies in games today because it doesn't use shitty SSR.

 

[Bojji]

Assassin's Creed unity, 11 years old and looks better than many new games.

 

[clarky]

 

[delishcaek]

Crysis Warhead
Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2

I find these especially impressive because they are realistic. They really hold up very well.

 

[kremiso]

Soul Calibur on Dreamcast
Shadow of the Beast on Amiga
Lomax on PS1
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on PC
Earthworm Jim and Rayman

 

[Holammer]

Many Neogeo games are still top notch. Hardware was very capable and developers could splurge with basically no size limits compared with the consoles of the time. Same goes for arcade games in general between '84 & '94, a golden era in Arcades IMO. Capcom's CPS stuff looks amazing with the high horizontal resolution.

 

[Danjin44]

Xenoblade X is 2015 game and yet I'm still impressed by sheer scale of this game and how gorgeous it is.

 

[existensmaximum]

The original Day of the Tentacle is still a sight to behold. Aged like a fine wine, amazing animation too. That goes for all the 2D Lucasarts games.

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

Nobody mentioned The Witcher 3? Come on, it's gonna be 10 years old next month.

 

[hemo memo]

Tearaway was a work of art.

 

[IDKFA]

Half-Life 2.

21 years old this year and still visually impressive for its age.

 

[Midway-AGNC-]

Water effects in Wave Race 64 are still amazing even for today

 

[ShirAhava]

For some reason I'm more impressed by this intro than anything in the last 15 years maybe because I remember when it was new
going from Earthworm Jim to something like this was quite the leap.

 

[FireFly]

Comix Zone.

 

[pnutboy]

Uncharted 2 looks great for a 16 year old game

 

[kevboard]

early bumpmapping and parallax mapping.

I could still boot up Perfect Dark Zero or Kameo and stare at their wall and ground textures. the amount of 3D detail they were able to fake with textures only was kinda insane at the time. and many surfaces still hold up today.

the brickwork in the nightclub level in Perfect Dark Zero, right at the start near the dock, still looks amazing and super detailed for a 360 game... a launch game no less.

I was absolutely hypnotized by these textures when I got my 360 at launch on 2005... I literally walked around staring at walls, floors, roads...


edit: like look at these!!

and that's only a still shot. the really impressive part is how three-dimensional they look in motion.

 

[kremit]

Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast)

Also Dirt 3 on Xbox 360, although I haven't looked at it in a while. The physics in the game are still one of the best I've seen in a game.

 

[sono]

Wipeout HD Fury Zone PS3

 

[Codes 208]

Sea of Thieves' water visuals (the overall artstyle and models however, ehhh)

Killzone shadowfall (now if only the replay value was as good as its graphics

The Order 1887 (too bad about the everything else)

 

[The Lunch Legend]

X-MEN and Simpsons arcade games still look great to this day.

 

[IAmAnAgnostic]

How old would be very helpful lol

In any case, The Order 1886 is in some cases still unmatched. Here is pretty random gameplay of it (to prove that this applies during action as well)

 

[diffusionx]

Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast)

Also Dirt 3 on Xbox 360, although I haven't looked at it in a while. The physics in the game are still one of the best I've seen in a game.

those older Dirt games are highly underrated.

Nobody mentioned The Witcher 3? Come on, it's gonna be 10 years old next month.

A lot of 10 year old games still look good. We reached diminishing returns around that time.

 

[MayauMiao]

Gradius V

 

[Great Auk]

How old would be very helpful lol

In any case, The Order 1886 is in some cases still unmatched. Here is pretty random gameplay of it (to prove that this applies during action as well)

Yes! I was about to post this but you beat me to it.

What a stunning game. Great story. Great likeable characters. Fantasic weapons. Great setting.

I wish we could have gotten a sequel. I know this game was short, the world is too amazing to totally abandon.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Riiiiiidgeee Raceee Type 4

 

[TheStam]

Dishonored and Bioshock Infinite

 

[Imtjnotu]

Anything front Battlefront honestly

 

[NeverYouMind]

Earthworm Jim (1994)

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995)

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus (2002)

Ultimate Spider-Man (2005)

The Wolf Among Us (2013)

 

[Phobos Base]

Okami
Resident Evil HD and Zero
Donkey Kong Country trilogy
Final Fantasy X and X-2
Rise of the Tomb Raider

 

[Klosshufvud]

Replaying Tekken 5 DR recently made me realize how exceptionally sharp and smooth it is in motion



Also playing Uncharted 4 on handheld and damn the visuals are insane in that game. Doesn't feel like it was ever topped in the bombastic production department.

 

[Gojiira]

Metal Gear Solid 2

Metal Gear Ray catches the falling Harrier:



Final Fantasy IX

Atomos destroys Lindblum:



Zone of the Enders 2

Anubis boss.

Honestly just MGS2,3 and ZOE2 the whole damn thing, looked beautiful on PS2, looks even better in the PS4 remake,just stunning all the way through. Even the anime cutscenes, old fashioned hand drawn, look excellent.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I love how Valkyrie Profile 2 looks. If you ask me games could have stayed looking like this forever.

Holds up perfectly fine and looks superb.

 

[Klosshufvud]

There's just something about the 6th generation of video games that make them look so timeless. Developers were so good at conveying art direction to 3D.

 

[MagiusNecros]

I love how Valkyrie Profile 2 looks. If you ask me games could have stayed looking like this forever.


Holds up perfectly fine and looks superb.

Art direction and Tri-Ace with a good budget. I still keep my PS2 copy to this day.



Imma post the other one

 

[Seider]

Out Run 2 and Burnout 3 on original Xbox or Ps2.

 

[kremit]

Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast)

Also Dirt 3 on Xbox 360, although I haven't looked at it in a while. The physics in the game are still one of the best I've seen in a game.

 

[Liopleurodon]

Chrono Trigger

Campfire scene:

Final Fantasy X

Sending:

 

[elbourreau]

Killzone 2 is still mindblowing.

 

[N0S]

Ive beaten Crysis 2 remastered last week but I think the original still holds up as well, on PC at least.