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[Xyphie]

Returnal is one of the best high-end peripheral showcases. That game was built for 32:9 Ultrawide monitors, high refresh rates and 8000Hz polling mice.

 

[Skyfox]

Street fighter 6

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I don't have it yet but I guess Cyberpunk 2077 is still the current game to look really impressive on ultra settings 1440p or more on the PC. A long time ago it was Witcher 3 and Crysis before that.

Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart also looks amazing but Cyberpunk 2077 would probably be more impressive because of the huge futuristic city with lots of npcs.

GTA VI would overtake Cyberpunk 2077 as the next one.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Besides the obvious choices like Cyberpunk and RDR2, older games like Arkham Knight still look incredible maxed out and better than lots of modern slop

 

[CrustyBritches]

I like the look of good graphics with high framerate. I would say that visual fluidity, or whatever you would call it, is just as important to the visual appeal as the textures and lighting. However, Cyberpunk fits the bill nicely with RT or PT.

 

[nkarafo]

Bloodborne at 60fps

Driveclub also at 60fps (when the emulator matures a little bit more)

 

[Poppinfresh]

Can't go wrong with the classics...

 

[Lootlord]

only those with path tracing

You should check out Witcher 3 with full raytracing + hd rework mod

 

[kruis]

Can't go wrong with the classics...

Ah, I see you've installed the widescreen hack from nexusmods. That's a game changer. Pong never looked so good. I hope you've also installed the mod that forces shader compilation at the start of the game to remove all stutters.

 

[Sanepar]

Tlou part 2 is another game on PC at least for me.

 

[cHinzo]

Cyberpunk with Path Tracing

 

[Danny22]

AC shadows on max settings hasn't been mentioned

 

[TintoConCasera]

Any old game that's frame capped on consoles and that the devs still haven't unlocked for the latest consoles. Some examples could be Kingdom Come Deliverance or Dragon's Dogma.

 

[A.Romero]

I recently spent some time playing baldurs gate 3 and it looked better than I expected. It's not comparable to cyberpunk (I also recently started the expansion) but it looks way better than expected at 4k/120fps.

Battlefield 6 doesn't have any Ray tracing but I think it looks pretty good as well.

RDR2 is still up there as one of the best looking games IMO.

Returnal looks great too.

 

[xanaum]

mgs delta, u get full fat 60fps and much higher IQ even vs ps5pr0

I came here to talk about this one. This is the most beautiful game I've seen so far on PC with everything maxed out.

Funny enough, the best-looking game on consoles is Death Stranding 2, and on PC it's MGS Delta.

 

[ReBurn]

Can't go wrong with the classics...

Peak gaming. It's all been downhill since.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

question should be the other way around:
if you have a high end pc, what multi-plat game is actually worth playing on console

 

[Ainem Enamas]

These have been PC showcase titles for 5+ years at this point, and still are:

Cyberpunk
Control
Metro Exodus

Watched some Metro PC footage yesterday, and I know what you mean

 

[PicoLordens]

Hands down... PUBG

 

[Guardian Monkey]

Textures is the main reason, imo.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

I second RDR2 - I completed it on Xbox one X and I thought that looked amazing, but the PC version is leagues ahead of the console versions.

Also the usuals, anything Remedy, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Metro Exodus, Wukong, Indiana jones.

Shit, almost everything.

Is Witcher 3 that much different on PC, because I'm playing it on Series X, now, and it already looks good (graphical mode) aside from 30fps framerate - but since I use Ultra Motion, it doesn't matter it too much

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Textures is the main reason, imo.

For me it's shadow quality

 

[Grildon Tundy]

RDR2 does look better than on console, and the way Rockstar designed an entire open world where it's like Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon in that every frame where you're looking out at the landscape could be a painting is impressive. And Rockstar were lighting masters before realtime ray/path tracing were a thing.

Having said that, on a raw technical level, Assassin's Creed Shadows has surpassed it.

 

[Denton]

Returnal is one of the best high-end peripheral showcases. That game was built for 32:9 Ultrawide monitors, high refresh rates and 8000Hz polling mice.

This is fucking glorious and good showcase of a reason why every single game ever made should have a PC version.

 

[Disciple of MSSP]

Cyberpunk with texture mods was really impressive to me

 

[Ainem Enamas]

RDR2 does look better than on console, and the way Rockstar designed an entire open world where it's like Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon in that every frame where you're looking out at the landscape could be a painting is impressive. And Rockstar were lighting masters before realtime ray/path tracing were a thing.

Having said that, on a raw technical level, Assassin's Creed Shadows has surpassed it.

Let's see how good will GTA6 will look on a console

 

[simpatico]

PC is about flexibility and value. Making a console specifically to your needs and means. The days of there being PC games many times more advanced than consoles has long passed since everything is multiplatform now.

The best thing about PC is backwards compatibility and being able to actually build a collection of titles that gets better with age. Now I only buy console games if they come before the patch era. NES-PS2

My PS3 copy of Assassins Creed Brotherhood and my Steam copy of Fallout New Vegas were bought mere months apart for the exact same price, but their values today are very different.

 

[dgrdsv]

I mean... all of them...
Even when there's no resolution or graphical improvements you're still getting 2-4x the framerate.

 

[raketenrolf]

Cyberpunk 2077
STALKER 2
Black Myth: Wukong
Oblivion Remastered
Jedi: Survivor
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Wait, I thought the PC version of Jedi Survivor is fucked and crashes all the time?

 

[mèx]

Literally everything not capped at 60 FPS. While increased graphical fidelity is awesome (full path tracing is truly transformative), the motion clarity you get with higher FPS is extremely noticeable.

120 FPS should be the new standard. Console gamers are missing out. Once you get used to 120+ FPS, it's difficult to go back.

 

[darrylgorn]

Wait, I thought the PC version of Jedi Survivor is fucked and crashes all the time?

I've been playing it at 1080p 60fps, max settings for about 5 hours so far with no stuttering or crashes.

 

[Gamer79]

A mid range pc is like a ps6

 

[Celcius]

Portal RTX

 

[kevboard]

Alan Wake 2 on the highest settings is probably the most advanced game out there.

or Cyberpunk on max settings.

generally anything that offers a path tracing mode I'd say.

 

[Bojji]

Besides the obvious choices like Cyberpunk and RDR2, older games like Arkham Knight still look incredible maxed out and better than lots of modern slop

Yeah Batman was way ahead of its time, still looks great:

 

[raketenrolf]

I've been playing it at 1080p 60fps, max settings for about 5 hours so far with no stuttering or crashes.

Since we're in this thread, I am guessing you are playing with ray-tracing?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Look here, hardware rt lumen vs software rt lumen, quite the difference, but ofc performance hit is not small at all:

Thats why the "coding to the metal" and "optimisation" have its limits, u need dat raw hardware performance for next gen visuals after all...

I don't notice the difference at all but that's just me. I'm more impressed by developers who can code to the metal

But for a game that I would run at max setting if I had an awesome graphics card, it would be Cyberpunk 2077. That game really is kind of the new Crysis in terms of pushing hardwares to it's limits