Best looking game?

[runequester]

I guess it depends.
 
If you break it down a bit:
 
OCS/ECS game: A lot of candidates. Agony is gorgeous, the original Shadow of the Beast was something never seen before on home computers.
The Settlers, if you factor in how many little guy's the game is animating and keeping track of.
 
AGA: Banshee, maybe? Might be more technically impressive games, but it's got loads of detail, lots of colour and it's well drawn and animated
 
"Big" titles (CD rom etc): Onescapee or Genetic Species ? Both are stunning considering the hardware they can run on.

[runequester]

Even if I haven't played them a ton, I'll throw in a vote for the Ishar series too. For the "fake 3D" rpg types, they are propably the epitome of nice graphics.

[runequester]

Some of the adventure games probably qualify too. Both Beneath a Steel Sky and Simon the Sorcerer look great.

[runequester]

Lionheart is a bit stiff in the animations I think, but I think it's a good example of everything having a great atmosphere. I love the sort of "fantasy horror" feel.

Others that spring to mind like that are Darkmere (which I still have to sit down and figure out) and the second Shadow of the Beast.


What about Heimdall 2? It's a bit cartoonish but very well done, visually.

[runequester]

What about flight sim's? Within the limits of polygons I suppose, but I recall Combat Air Patrol looked pretty wild, at times.

[runequester]

Wasn't there some robot fighting game that nobody seemed to like after it came out but it had some super awesome graphics?

That would be rise of the robots