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Coolest particle effects you've seen in a video game
- Thread starter XrossExam
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Look dude, don't get me wrong, God of War looks incredible. It's flooring. But literally everything the player can touch emits particles. It's madness. I just can't see how it all improves the game's look. It doesn't make the game look more realistic unless you live somewhere with perpetual blizzards and the fastest accumulating dust on earth.
I think it will hold up graphically overall, but those particles are going to date it to 2018 pretty hard.
I think it will hold up graphically overall, but those particles are going to date it to 2018 pretty hard.
best gaming experience in my life.
Rez Infinite VR is pure, unfiltered, joy.
neon + hdr = hnnghInfamous Second Son's neon powers look amazing at nighttime.
Planetside 2
Yeah, whilst they weren't particularly deeply integrated into the game's presentation, I did quite enjoy them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdQM7CY7wXs
This is an example I actually like because the particle effects here never occupy every significant space on screen. Your character is never obscured or just utterly surrounded by sparks. It's crazy, and there are a lot of fucking particles, but they seem purposeful.
While this Destiny 2 example is cool until 6:00, when the screen is just a mess of blue and orange magic blings dominating everything.
Probably Infamous Second Son or Killer Instinct. That neon stuff in Infamous is amazing and was one of the first really proper next gen things that I saw this gen. KI didn't wow me overall in the same way but the particle effects specifically are crazy good.
Sony 1st party really nailed particle effects this gen. All the talk about GPU accelerated particles actually amounted to something in the end. Also nice to see things improving continually with each new first party release.
Horizon isn't a game that pops into mind when thinking about particle effects, but the game actually uses them a ton to give the combat some weight and indicate impacts (I guess animating impact on these huge robots isn't all that simple, so signaling it with the help of particle effects is a smart idea):
Yeah, like I said, that's all pretty cool stuff until this moment right here. This is just nonsense to me.
The fuck am I looking at?
InFamous: Second Son has some amazing particle effects. The Neon stuff in particular. Also, the final boss battle when all of the rocks are flying around on-screen without the frame rate dying was probably my first "next-gen moment" on the PS4.
God of War and FFXV are up there too.
God of War and FFXV are up there too.
I love particle effects, they look amazing. Since some of the ones I was going to list have already been mentioned I'll add FFXV and Nier Automata, both have some awesome particle fx.
Vagrant Story on PS1 did a lot of really impressive stuff with particle effects way back in the day.
Alienation has a lot of really subtle particle effects (as well as in your face ones) that I love:
The dynamic physx smoke effects from firing weapons in Metro 2033 are leagues above anything I've seen since and it's been 8 years. No where near as exaggerated as other uses of Nvidia tech. The redux version eliminated them entirely which is a bummer.
Nex machina, infamous second , and god of war immediately jump to mind. I actually just realized i never played Nex machina on my new tv if that game suportss HDR that'll be mind melting
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Rez Infinite Area X on VR
Playing this in VR is legitimately one of the greatest experiences I've ever had in gaming. I'd kill for a full game like Area X.
well that would be because, in the classical sense, anything that spawns a particle is literally an emitter. Sooooo....
Uhhh kinda spoilers there my friend....my roommate hasn't played yet and he just saw this gif on my screen lol
Infamous second son was noticable great on this front :)
FYI OP, That first pic from killer instinct isnt a particle effect. No particles involved. Its a sprite effect (you can see the pixels of the image along the edge of the effect)
FYI OP, That first pic from killer instinct isnt a particle effect. No particles involved. Its a sprite effect (you can see the pixels of the image along the edge of the effect)
Came to post this. Kills through aiming at the weakspot and the level select qualify too.
