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[GigaBowser]

totK
rDR2
red Faction
gTA
arkham Knight
maaaayyybee doom eternal and Battlefield but you only shoot stuff

no sports vr turn based allowed choose wisely

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Dead or alive

 

[El Muerto]

Max Payne 3
Psy Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy
Battlefield Bad Company 1+2

 

[Big Baller]

Crackdown 3

 

[Magic Carpet]

Half Life Alex is the most recent that comes to mind. The way you lock on to something and just flick your wrist and catch the object in your hand is so satisfying.

 

[Arachnid]

I think the Just Cause series is the objective best here (or at least in the conversation for it). Absolute balls to the wall adrenaline and hilarity.

It's a shame the narrative and characters are so boring.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

 

[Hrk69]

Euphoria and it's not even close

 

[Punished Miku]

Minority Report

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Three]

That PS+ game I forgot the name of.

Edit: Teardown

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

Don't think I ever referred to physics-based animation as "delicious" before, but... Yeah. This is delicious.

 

[Buggy Loop]

1) Teardown



2) Noita



3) Half Life Alyx



4) BeamNG



5) Outer wilds

Won't put a video on that since it's quite an experience to figure it out and discover.

 

[Spukc]

The ragdoll shit in unreal tournament 2003/2004 holy shit

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Astrobot Rescue Mission and very soon Astro Bot.

Little Big Planet

Inside

Death Stranding

RDR 2

Honorable mention: the hair of Eve in Stellar Blade is the best of any character right now, by a long margin.

 

[peek]

All these people saying rdr... 2??

It was a straight up downgrade between 1 and 2. Graphical fidelity, resolution, textures, models, etc. were all vastly improved in rdr2.

But unfortunately, the physics took a backseat compared to the 1st one. Things like the npcs getting shot, rolling around post shot, etc. all done leagues better in the first game.

 

[Radioskugga]

Super Rub-a-Dub

 

[Pimpollo818]

YEAH MR WHITE
YEAH MAGNETS!

 

[Diddy X]

Halo 3's multiplayer was superior to anything else thanks to its physics.

 

[Romulus]

Obviously dated in many ways, but I'd say the physics are superior in this 20 year old game to 95% of modern AAA games

 

[TintoConCasera]

Dragon's Dogma 2, seeing a cyclops slam his head against a wall and react with an almost perfect animation never got old.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

hitman1
gta4
borderlands2 physx
r6 raven shield

 

[Codes 208]

Halo 3’s ragdoll physics

 

[proandrad]

Obviously dated in many ways, but I'd say the physics are superior in this 20 year old game to 95% of modern AAA games

The last true next gen game.

 

[Gambit2483]

Half-Life 2/Alex
Crysis
Red Dead Redemption 2 (relative to its immense scope)
Gran Turismo 7 (relative to automotive physics)
TOTK

Other games are just pale imitations.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Minority Report

My guilty pleasure, lol. Sure, bodies float unrealistically. But almost ALL of the environment is destructible. I wish we had something like that in a modern beat 'em up or something.

For me, definitely anything with the Source 2 (HL: Alyx, HL2, etc.) and Euphoria (RDR 1/2, GTAV, SW: Force Unleashed 1/2) engines.

 

[digital_ghost]

Red Faction: Guerrilla

You can destroy any building realistically.

 

[Mozzarella]

Half-Life 2 is probably the founding father of this.

 

[Valt7786]

Max Payne 3
Psy Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy
Battlefield Bad Company 1+2

I would sell my left nut for a Psi-Ops remake/remaster or something. I loved that game

 

[TxKnight7]

 

[Carmen Winstead]

Obviously dated in many ways, but I'd say the physics are superior in this 20 year old game to 95% of modern AAA games

The last true next gen game.

Half-Life 2/Alex

Half-Life 2 is probably the founding father of this.

 

[metareferential]

This game, man. <3

 

[Fbh]

Lots of good ones mentioned already like Red Faction Guerilla, TOTK, Just Cause, Half Life.
I remember Battlefield having pretty good destruction too, don't know if it's rose tinted glasses but I swear I found the destruction in like Bad Company 2 more impressive than some of the more recent entries.


Also Outer Wilds is great with this. Won't get into why/how because it's spoilerish but they do some really cool stuff in it

 

[BlackTron]

Halo 1

 

[Holammer]

TotK, Noita & Portal 1/2.

 

[StueyDuck]

I think the Just Cause series is the objective best here (or at least in the conversation for it). Absolute balls to the wall adrenaline and hilarity.

It's a shame the narrative and characters are so boring.

I enjoy the franchise alot but I wouldn't say the physics are particularly good.

The janky physics is what makes it fun and funny.

 

[Alex Anderson]

Wave Race 64

 

[adamsapple]

40 replies and not a single gif of jiggle physics.

 

[ReBurn]

40 replies and not a single gif of jiggle physics.

Someone mentioned Dead or Alive

 

[Buggy Loop]

A few more because it's just so rare nowadays...

• Hardspace shipbreaker
  • This is a game where physics will kill you. All ships you can cut into pieces and explode pieces away. Debris with newtonian physics in space, what could go wrong? Cutting a door open and there was oxygen on the other side? That damn door with decompress straight into your helmet

• iRacing / ACC / etc,
  • They switch back and forth patch after patch in features and accuracy. When paired with a nice sim rig it's insane

• DCS
  • simulating computers within the computers... the study sim planes are insane usually. They model the computers of the planes so that things like radar and weapons systems and so on are as accurate as possible. Helicopter rotor/stall and all phenomenas of flight are modeled, same for planes.

 

[Musashipan]

Totk

 

[nemiroff]

Digital Combat Simulator.

 

[daywarf]

TOTK.
Best I've ever seen.
Then BOTW

 

[skit_data]

1. Trespasser
2. Trespasser
3. Trespasser
4. Trespasser
5. Trespasser

 

[SimTourist]

 

[Fess]

Half Life Alex is the most recent that comes to mind. The way you lock on to something and just flick your wrist and catch the object in your hand is so satisfying.

Yeah same thing can be installed in Skyrim as a mod, HIGGS, works incredibly well.

HIGGS - Enhanced VR Interaction

Hand/weapon collision, weapon two-handing, realistic object grabbing, and gravity gloves-style mechanics for Skyrim VR

www.nexusmods.com

 

[SpokkX]

Recently Helldivers 2 - all the more impressive since it has working physics with 4 players

 

[Rockondevil]

Gravity is a pretty big one, but Quantum Mechanics is quite interesting too.