Topic: Best looking game on the Wii U?

@SCAR392 Yeah, I dunno. Mario Kart 8 and Second Son are the two best looking games across all platforms this year, in my opinion, with maybe Bayonetta 2 taking the bronze. What immediately arrests me in Second Son is the fantastic balance of stylized and realistic art, with phenomenal use of colour and particle and lighting effects. The game is undeniably gorgeous. Can't fault the game for you having a buggered TV.

@unrandomsam As for Mario Kart not having AA, you need to stop looking at still screens and start playing it. The jaggies disappear instantly when the game is in motion. Unpause the game if you already have it, or stop reading out-of-context snippets of the Digital Foundry review if you don't. It's a non-issue.

I never said the game was ugly. I said I can't see the other 30 frames, because they are nonexist, and that is because of the software; not my HDTV.

I didn't even play it on my HDTV, and HDTV I did play it on costs like $550 more than mine.

Ok man, half the game gone.. got it

Glad everyone else was able to piece one half with the other so that they could see everything

So you experienced this same problem with Wind Waker HD, Sunset Overdrive, Destiny, every Assassin's Creed, GTA5, Shadows of Mordor, Forza Horizon 2, Ryse, Watch Dogs, etc? Or just Second Son?

The only game I experienced it with, was WWHD, and it's because I actually own that one. Also, I specifically mentioned that HDTVs with 120+Hz are the easiest displays to notice it on, which is the type of HDTV I was playing it on. WWHD looks better on a 60Hz HDTV, than a 120Hz HDTV, but that's just my opinion. The same would apply to Second Son.

EDIT: I played the Destiny beta, if that counts.

Also note that 240Hz is a scam and everything looks like junk on them.

My TV is 120Hz and WWHD looks just fine on it. Isolated problem, I suppose.

That was part of my point in a previous post, about how I won't pay extra for a 120+Hz HDTV until content actually utilizes more than 60FPS. Once a console game that has 120Hz happens, then I'll think about getting one, but that day hasn't come, so I'm fine with a 60Hz HDTV. It's cheaper, anyway.

Tropical Freeze, Wind Waker, Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario 3D World have my favorite visuals out of Wii U games. Bayonetta 2 looks pretty slick too, especially given how fluidly it runs.

I haven't played Second Son, but from what I've seen its visuals seem pretty fantastic.

EDIT: Yep, the Ubiart platform has also given us some pretty incredible graphics too. Rayman Legends is gorgeous, but Child of Light is my favorite.

I did a quick scan and I don't think anybody has said this yet, so I'll give some credit to Mass Effect 3. The Wii U was my first HD console and I played this shortly after launch and was pretty much blown away by it visually (and in most other aspects, too, but that's not what we're focusing on here.) The details on the faces of the non-human squad members are particularly amazing. Wrex... just wow.

I replayed the game earlier in the year and I find the visuals still as impressive as when I first experienced the game.

If we're talking about just Nintendo games on the Wii U, then my vote goes to Tropical Freeze. The environments are just so lush, the amount of detail is incredible, and everything runs so smoothly.

Finally, Rayman Legends is simply one of the most beautiful games that I've ever played, period. Though I have to admit that I own that for PS3.

By the way, if you don't have any of those games I mentioned, then what do you have for XBO? I'm pretty sure I named most of the big ones... except MCC and Forza 5?

I have MC Collection, Dead Rising 3, Tomb Raider, Titanfall, and a handful of indie games I got from Games with Gold, which are Crimson Dragon, Worms Battlegrounds, etc. I don't really have as much money to buy video games, for the time being. Even so, I wouldn't buy alot of the games out right now, unless I was rich.

EDIT: If I bought every game on both consoles, I'd be going into like $300+ worth of games every month. Alot of people don't have money to do that, even people that make a good amount of money.

There is a minor difference between games at 30 FPS and 60 FPS... it really isn't much though. It is when framerates start dropping in games that it gets bad. I'd much rather have a locked 30 fps than a 60 fps game that drops to 30 frequently.

If you are having issues with 30fps on your TV... then you just have a bad TV, or a TV that isn't setup properly.

You should read the other posts, because I explained everything already. The difference isn't minor, either. The HDTV is literally displaying twice as many different pictures in 60FPS, compared to 30FPS.

I've read the posts, and the difference is minor. I understand there is twice as much information being put on the screen, but the human eye is not good at picking out those differences. Can it, yeah, but it isn't an enormous difference. On certain games it makes a bigger difference than others (IE racing sims), but framerate drops are a bigger deal than the difference between 30fps and 60fps. Those are noticeable because drastic changes are more easily picked up by the human eye.

If the difference between framerates is that bad for you, then your TV is bad or is not setup properly. A number of TVs (especially LCD and LED-LCD) don't process images well enough for gaming period. Then you throw in an 'unnatural' frame rate and certain TVs don't handle it well.

Well, I notice the difference to the point that I think 30FPS looks pretty horrible on ANY HDTV 120Hz or higher. This goes for any display.

It's kind of impossible to improperly setup an HDTV, so that doesn't make sense, dude. Besides, I've actually calibrated my HDTV with the calibration software on Xbox One, so my HDTV is probably calibrated better than most people that even have an HDTV. I'm not a tech noob, bro. The amount of frames being displayed is lacking, and that isn't an HDTV issue.

I agree that a lag is worse than a lower frame rate. But I'd caution you about generalising your own experience. Different people's brains do tend to work in slightly different ways and some people are just better predisposed to a faster input. I'm not someone who's particularly graphically obsessed but I do find 60fps to be a huge improvement over 30. If I play a 30fps game straight after a 60, I find it almost unplayable.

I'm saying you are a noob or anything of the sort.

If you see a difference on different Hz of TVs, what you are seeing is the processing and TV differences... not the game itself. And HDTVs all have different settings to compensate for different things. Some are more advanced in that area than some, some are less. Even the less advanced ones will have difference modes that change the refresh rate and the amount of processing. That is where 'game mode' on TVs comes from.

Watch this video in the standard format, then go to the settings icon and change it to 720p60.

You can definitely tell the difference, even though both are consistent in their frames. It doesn't look minor to me at all.

I already know, and my HDTV is fine. There just aren't what I would consider enough frames.

Might want to get your TV checked, because I've never heard of that happening before.