Extremely polished games

[EpsilonX]

What are some games you can think of that are just extremely polished? No clunky controls, no visual flaws, etc. Games that are so polished that you're in awe.

Metal Gear Solid 4 and (even though it's not that fun) Final Fantasy 13 are 2 of the most polished games i've ever seen

[Samus-Fan]

FFXIII is so smooth is isn't even funny. Nothing is wrong with controls or movement.
Halo: Reach seemed pretty polished. I'm not saying it's perfect, but most likely has the best graphics along with best controls for a fps I've played.

[Flab-Ender]

FFXIII is so smooth is isn't even funny. Nothing is wrong with controls or movement.
Halo: Reach seemed pretty polished. I'm not saying it's perfect, but most likely has the best graphics along with best controls for a fps I've played.

I'd have to say Reach is pretty close to perfect. the one thing that gets to me, the spawning in Matchmaking. horrible just horrible, I have spawned and then died immediantly too many times. you should not be able to see the other team spawn I think. Or at least not be able to shoot them right away.

But for another polished game, Assassins Creed Brotherhood, not too many things wrong with it, at all. An extreme update and fixing from the first.

[Metallica1983]

Forza 3 is one of the most if not the best polished game I've ever seen I saw some screen shots of it earlier today while working on some gfx and if it hadn't been for the Forza logo on the bottom of the pics I would have sworn they were real

[Exentenzed]

Forza 3 is one of the most if not the best polished game I've ever seen I saw some screen shots of it earlier today while working on some gfx and if it hadn't been for the Forza logo on the bottom of the pics I would have sworn they were real

Forza 3 IS a pretty decent game.
I do enjoy playing games where you can both feel and see that the developers realy have been devoted to creating a top notch game.

[HamadaLFC8]

Red Dead Redemption was pretty neat, wasn't it ?

[Diligence109]

I don't even play a lot of the games I'm about to list, but I feel they should be added to this thread because I'm curious if anyone has anything to say AGAINST any of these games:

TF2, Diablo II, Starcraft, or Counter-Strike

[paecmaker]

I think that gears of war was polished when it came and about everything valve has done have been very polished.

[EpsilonX]

I don't even play a lot of the games I'm about to list, but I feel they should be added to this thread because I'm curious if anyone has anything to say AGAINST any of these games:

TF2, Diablo II, Starcraft, or Counter-Strike

The only complaint I have with starcraft is you can't un-select a unit. So you might have some military dude selected, and accidentally right click somewhere, and then he starts headin his way over there. and its like no dont do that



I think that gears of war was polished when it came and about everything valve has done have been very polished.
idk, i think gears controls kinda eh..

[Jayhmmz]

DiRT 2 and as aforementioned, Forza 3!

[Flab-Ender]

Red Dead Redemption was pretty neat, wasn't it ?

But it wasn't really a remake or an update or anything of any other game.

[EpsilonX]

But it wasn't really a remake or an update or anything of any other game.

what does that have to do with anything? Topic is about games with incredible presentation. Great graphics, sound, controls, etc. Games listed here should control very well, have great graphics, ect. Some games, while good, are sometimes clunky, or have some visual flaws. I hear star ocean 4 ps3 is pretty good, but absolutely nowhere near as polished as FF13.

[Flab-Ender]

I just feel like when you polish something, you take something old, and make it look better. Not make something completely new.

[EpsilonX]

I just feel like when you polish something, you take something old, and make it look better. Not make something completely new.

put it this way. you have a piece of wood, you can either sand it until it's absolutely perfect, or just sand it enough so that you won't get a sliver.

[Flab-Ender]

put it this way. you have a piece of wood, you can either sand it until it's absolutely perfect, or just sand it enough so that you won't get a sliver.

Either way, you start with something, you, yourself are not making that wood.

[EpsilonX]

Either way, you start with something, you, yourself are not making that wood.

yea. Games like MGS4 or FF13 could have been released with the graphics not as flawless as they are, or other things, but they took the time to work out all the little things, which most people refer to as polishing it.

[Flab-Ender]

yea. Games like MGS4 or FF13 could have been released with the graphics not as flawless as they are, or other things, but they took the time to work out all the little things, which most people refer to as polishing it.

Thank you haha.

[EpsilonX]

howabout this....you pee into a bucket, then put it out in the snow, and it freezes. then you make a sculpture out of it. That's somethin you created lmao.

[Flab-Ender]

Out of something else haha.

[Muffincat]

But it wasn't really a remake or an update or anything of any other game.

wut

I know you tried to explain yourself, but... wut?

I agree with eps that this has nothing to do with whether a game can be called "polished" or not, and that is the spirit that he created this thread in, so I don't see why RDR couldn't count. I suppose you just have a different view of what that means, but I don't think games should be excluded based on not being remakes/updates.

I agree with FF13, even though it was boring... it was certainly polished, though, and all the elements of it were well-done, technically. Pretty much like playing a movie, for the most part.

[EpsilonX]

I think he was trying to say that, whenever you polish something, like a car, or a stone, or whatever, it's always something else that you didn't make. but theoretically, if you were to build a car yourself, you could polish it.

[Muffincat]

I know what he meant, but...

if we're going that route, then let me say this:

They made a game, and that is the substance. They refine, test, find glitches, fix, re-test, polish the game, until it is ready to see the public eye. Other games aren't as well-polished, and have glitches, unusable interfaces, etc. They weren't polished.

Polish means "to smooth, soften, or refine in manners or condition" - they are doing that to the game they made, and has nothing to do with a remake of another one?

[Jayhmmz]

Polish means "to smooth, soften, or refine in manners or condition" - they are doing that to the game they made, and has nothing to do with a remake of another one?

+1

I thought that was the meaning of this thread. I clearly have a different definition of polished when used in said context :P

When I say something looks polished, I don't personally see it as a remake of something old, I just mean it looks tidy, shiny and well-done.