Games so purdy they were still the bests years later

GigaBowser

The bear of bad news
I votes Crysis and Batman Arkham Knight

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Hot damn, Arkham Knight has aged gloriously. There are a lot of good examples but for me personally, Arkham Knight and The Witcher 3 define what fidelity and art direction should look like. Most modern games fail on that front despite having all the fancy technology
 
Trine 2 still looks amazing
Yeah the Trine serie in general looks amazing, I used to play the second one on WiiU and for the longest time I thought it was among the best looking games that generation.

The Ori games look incredible as well.

Drive Club still holds up.
Nice rain but the creative choice of going with 30fps always ruined it for me, wrong genre for that, looked flickery when driving fast.
 
Journey

Yoshi's Island

Both Ori games

Zelda Wind waker

Battlefield 3

Crysis series

Jetset Radio

Gravity Rush 2

Bloodborne

Assassin's Creed Unity

Most other PS4 exclusives

GTA V
 
I'm replaying Okami and it is still pretty, all due to the art style.

Purdie means only one thing by the way if you're not a degenerate like OP
 
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Shenmue on DC was so far ahead of its time it was just unreal. Held up well when released on Xbox years later and again in 2018 when Shenmue I & II dropped.
 
On PC, any frostbite engine game from battlefield 3 forward.

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battlefield 3 was the game that pushed me to finally build a PC. i miss it so much. i tried playing it again a few months ago but couldn't get it to work :(
 
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I was playing it the other day, and I thought the first Soul Calibur looked shockingly good for a nearly 25-year-old game, especially in motion.

Other than that (and the usual suspects, like Arkham Knight), I'd say:

Crimson Skies
Dead or Alive 2
Doom 3 (the Xbox version was especially impressive)
Burnout 3
Metal Gear Solid 2
Rayman Origins
Mario Galaxy
Unreal Tournament 3
Gears of War (the whole trilogy)
Time Crisis 3
 
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I've been playing through Mad Max recently on Series X. Absolute stone cold stunner of a game that released in 2015. I just went through a sand storm at night with an incredible amount of lightning. This game has the best atmospheric and volumetric effects I have ever experienced in a game. It's nuts!

It's hard to find screenshots and gifs that do justice to the visuals but here is one. It looks incredible in motion (120fps, HDR, and I think 1440p on Series X).

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