Artman2004 Posted March 6, 2021 I usually find video game water to be a mixed bag. It either looks good or it resembles jelly (or an opaque polygonal mess with early 3D titles). What video game water do you find the prettiest? 1 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted March 6, 2021 (edited) It’s surely been well and truly surpassed by now, but Mario Sunshine held the “nicest looking video game water” title for damn near 10 years. Just looked so natural and clean compared to everything that had come before. EDIT: Sharing a video just to show how absurdly good it was for 2002 standards: Edited March 6, 2021 by Doomkid 7 Share this post Link to post
ZeMystic Posted March 6, 2021 Sea of thieves easy. JUST LOOK AT IT! Spoiler AND IT MOVES LIKE WATER AND IT SHINES LIKE WATER AND HAS SCARY ASS MONSTERS LIKE WATER AND ITS BLUE LIKE WATER AND SOMETIMES ITS GREEN LIKE WATER AND IT HAS BOATS LIKE WATER AND 9 Share this post Link to post
Mr. Freeze Posted March 6, 2021 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance had awesome water for a PS2 title. 1 Share this post Link to post
seed Posted March 6, 2021 Always liked the way Source water looks, so Lost Coast is a good candidate here: 11 Share this post Link to post
MFG38 Posted March 6, 2021 The water in Skyrim always looked quite nice to me. 1 Share this post Link to post
Eurisko Posted March 6, 2021 GTA V hands down. That water even on PS3/360 looks amazing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Eric Claus Posted March 6, 2021 The first FarCry had some great looking water at the time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Chezza Posted March 6, 2021 The first time I saw Unreal's waterfall, it blew my mind. It hit me that we've truly hit the peak of graphics. lol. 0 Share this post Link to post
snapshot Posted March 6, 2021 (edited) Shadow of the Tomb Raider, or AC:O when sailing too dios opes ovakos 4 Share this post Link to post
Jello Posted March 6, 2021 (edited) 18 hours ago, Doomkid said: It’s surely been well and truly surpassed by now, but Mario Sunshine held the “nicest looking video game water” title for damn near 10 years. Just looked so natural and clean compared to everything that had come before. EDIT: Sharing a video just to show how absurdly good it was for 2002 standards: The first game that really wowed me with the water. Now it's just kind of a given that your water should look like... well... water. And I know there's games that have done water better since then, but what they managed to do with the Gamecube was nothing short of amazing. Super Mario Sunshine ruined water for me forever. But let's not forget about Catacombs Abyss: Seriously, those levels scared the shit out of me as a kid. 4 Share this post Link to post
Gokuma Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) Phantasy Star Online had pretty amazing graphics when I played it on Dreamcast, while there were only little streams and small bodies of water in the Forest and Caves areas. Later versions got nicer, more expansive stuff. PC and GameCube shown here. Nothing you can swim or boat in though. You can just splash around in the shallow stuff. Older versions of Doom Legacy had some nice stuff for a bit, inspired by the Amiga game Alien Breed 3D which I've never seen. Apparently Sonic Robo Blast 2 TC reimplemented and improved it so I'll have to check that out. Edited March 7, 2021 by Gokuma 0 Share this post Link to post
Keyran-Solo Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) This might be a little obscure, but the water FX from Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance are incredible, even to this day. 0 Share this post Link to post
Taw Tu'lki Posted March 8, 2021 Of course the best water is water from the modern FPS. But if you think about creatures from water, I prefer to Fluid Alien from Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold 1 Share this post Link to post
Dwimepon Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) On 3/7/2021 at 10:08 PM, Redneckerz said: God I remember this dude. I wonder what happened to him. Is he still reviewing video game water on his own corner of the Internet? Who knows... Also, gotta mention Noita. The liquid physics in this game are insane. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bauul Posted March 10, 2021 I was going to say Sea of Thieves too. The water is distractingly beautiful in it. Details like the way the sunlight scatters through it at the peak of the waves is a frankly ridiculous level of detail for a multiplayer game, but absolute credit to them for putting the effort in. 3 Share this post Link to post
Keyran-Solo Posted March 10, 2021 5 hours ago, Bauul said: I was going to say Sea of Thieves too. The water is distractingly beautiful in it. Details like the way the sunlight scatters through it at the peak of the waves is a frankly ridiculous level of detail for a multiplayer game, but absolute credit to them for putting the effort in. That is some gorgeous water. 0 Share this post Link to post