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Do you think Crysis 3 was the first true 8th gen graphics?
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Mister Wolf
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Didn't Crysis 3 introduce light probe based realtime global illumination?
Carmen Winstead
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HighPoly
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true
Chuck Berry
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You’re on a roll. Keep going 
fatmarco
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This is a good example of them discussing the use of a combination of Screen Space Reflections and Cube Maps (10 minute mark), which was obviously the standard for real time reflections that was established that generation after Crysis 3 was released (also a great video to learn how to deconstruct graphics technology and learn terminology lol):
So yes I'd agree it was the first legitimate example of 8th Generation tech (there's a few things Crysis 3 that basically no games do as well, like real time water caustics which still looks awesome). Again, important to note, this is all pre-PS4/Xbox One, on a game that was built with the Xbox 360 and PS3 in mind, with a smaller development studio of apparently just around 100 people and a budget of 66 million.
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tbh parts of that still look amazing today
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HighPoly
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Yeah, it seems like games today makes better geometry, animations and the scale is huge!
I mean, all those elements but with larger scenarios!
Like, Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy, they did better geometry and animations since Crysis 3, but with LARGER worlds!
SirKicksalot
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Far Cry 3 on PC had it, the lighting solution was developed by Massive.
S0ULZB0URNE
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On PC it was ahead of it's time and still holds up to anything out today.
cash_longfellow
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Either OP is trying as hard as possible to get a free Collectors Edition of some game, or he has had a stroke.
NomenNescio
Dual Sense Edger and Blower
Is this VFX Veteran's alt account?
Killjoy-NL
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It was also boring af.
SimTourist
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Only the 360 versions as far as I know.
GHG
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It's a bot or a previously banned poster is fucking with us.
I see no other logical alternatives.
ShirAhava
Plays with kids toys, in the adult gaming world
Amazing Graphics and boring af
Crysis really was the prototype for modern video games
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
The gameplay of the entire industry didn’t really move forward since the PS360 era.
SimTourist
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It looks pretty good, but even Killzone Shadow Fall at PS4 launch was already a good step ahead visually. Crysis 3 was still held back by 256 megs of RAM baseline.
jufonuk
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Has FEAR been bested for the way the enemies react to shots and there AI?
Also half-life 2 and redfaction mars have some great physics
SimTourist
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Arguably by Killzone 2, only to never be seen again in the subsequent games.
brenobnfm
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Arkham Knight came out in 2015
HeWhoWalks
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Killzone 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl had advanced AI for their time.
Last of Us Part II is the most recent, I'd say (human). Enemies react in a way that most games do not strive for.
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Gaiff
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Didn’t impress me more than Crysis 3. One thing I never liked about the Arkham games is the weird plastic look. This was a problem with UE3.
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FeralEcho
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Vick
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Yes. It only really missed that distinctive PBR jump but otherwise it was effectively a 8th gen title.
Super impressive game.
Super impressive game.
I feel 2013 was the year of GI in general, Naughty Dog managed to implement fully dynamic bounce light on PS3 that year.
FeralEcho
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And The Order 1886 which despite criticism of the black bars the game looked like CGI.
HeWhoWalks
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Graphically, yeah, I'd say Crysis 3 on PC max was the start. I remember it well, given I had just built a shiny new rig with a GTX 690, i7-3970X, and 32G of RAM. Even that beast would cook a bit during a normal session of the game. Was quite a sight though.
Metro: Last Light was another! Same year too!
Metro: Last Light was another! Same year too!
Vick
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Yeah, that was the game for me. Until RDR2 it also sported the best PBR, more impressive than the also superb Assassin's Creed Unity implementation imo.
I vividly remember discussions around that reveal Trailer in 2013 when nobody, me included, thought it could possibly be a real game just because of how alien that rendering appeared compared to realtime graphics of the time.
Gaiff
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And looks nowhere near as good as Crysis 3 so who cares?
HeWhoWalks
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Clearly you care, since you needed to remind folks that it "looks nowhere near as good" as a game he made no comparisons to.
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Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Huh, yes he did.
I said no game definitively surpassed Crysis 3 until 2016. A poster replied that Arkham Knight came out in 2015 with the implication that it was on par or above Crysis 3. The other poster then threw in The Order 1886 among said games.
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HeWhoWalks
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He said it looked CGI, which you must be admitting then that Crysis 3 did not.
In reality, even in 2013, there were games that were comparable. Battlefield 4, Killzone: Shadow Fall, Metro: Last Light, and Ryse: Son of Rome were also top contenders for visuals of that year. It's fine if you preferred Crysis 3, but it doesn't mean that no other games could compete. And that was 2013. The Order was two years later and was called the best looking game of that year by plenty who witnessed it.
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Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
CG from what year? 1999? Sure lol.He said it looked CGI, which you must be admitting then that Crysis 3 did not.
I’m sure The Order 1886 looked great. I just couldn’t see it behind all those layers of post-processing. Battlefield 4? Killzone Shadow Fall? You best be trolling.