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[stranno]

Watching the awful rain on Resident Evil 4 Remake I wonder what would be the best and worst rain ever seen in videogames.

Worst (recently):

Resident Evil 4 Remake (WIP, maybe). Not terrible, water even has color and lightning properties, but still pretty bad for a 2023 AAA game.

Grand Theft Auto 3: The Definitive Edition

Best:

Crysis 3

Cold Fear

 

[KungFucius]

Zelda BotW needs to be up there for most annoying which is a kind of worst.

 

[mrmustard]

Check out this Raniac. He even has a rating system:

I evaluated and graded the rain in 8 different games

I took a look at eight different PC games that have great rain and thunder effects, and graded them all to see how well their rain stands up to the real thing.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

 

[mansoor1980]

drive club (the best)

 

[Alexios]

Arkham Knight had great rain.

 

[stranno]

Check out this Raniac. He even has a rating system:

I evaluated and graded the rain in 8 different games

I took a look at eight different PC games that have great rain and thunder effects, and graded them all to see how well their rain stands up to the real thing.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

Oh yeah, Arkham Knight definitely nailed it.

The rest of those examples are in the meh side of my list.

 

[TintoConCasera]

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

The real question is how are the ganados able to keep the torch on fire in the storm? Magic?

 

[MidGenRefresh]

This is absolutely fucking terrible.

 

[Tomi]

This needs to be fixed asap, if game releases like this it will be disaster

 

[Killer8]

Resident Evil 4 remake and GTA3: DE look so bad because the rain basically looks stuck to the screen. No matter how you move the camera or run through the environment, it's like a curtain of the same effect repeated over and over.

As a rule for videogame rain, I think you shouldn't really be able to identify individual rain drops. There needs to be a certain amount of motion blur on each drop. Either a motion blur effect applied or at least make the raindrops stylized to look like it's in motion (eg. a long trail), since after all a rain drop is fast moving. The rain also needs to fall in varying intensities so it doesn't just look like repeated sheets of drops.

Another issue with RE4 remake is that there is barely any interaction between the raindrops and the ground. All they've done is make the ground shiny instead of simulating this:

 

[TheGodfather07]

This is absolutely fucking terrible.

Looks more like drops of spunk than water.

 

[GametimeUK]

I still love MGS2's rain.

 

[Alexios]

Oh yeah, it's pretty awesome in Breath of the Wild, forgot about it. The way it makes puddles (or even ponds) everywhere and what not and then dries over time. And it looks pretty sweet with the haze/fog/whatever effects it usually comes with rather than just the actual drops. Pretty impressive.

Hard to find videos (without emulation that may look wrong) showing all the little effects it has, from the above mentioned to surfaces getting wet to the rain bouncing off characters/objects and what not, it all completes an awesome look.

 

[VN1X]

Mafia: Definitive Edition

 

[jufonuk]

Zelda BotW needs to be up there for most annoying which is a kind of worst.

You mean cos you can climb shit and it usually turns into hide your metal shit.

 

[SEGA_2012]

Best: Yakuza 4 remaster
worst: RE4 remake

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Rain in Res 4 remake?
I thought it was snow?

 

[TGO]

People are so upset by this rain which can be toned down in a patch or before release yet no mention of how bad Ashley's Skort looks.
Just put some shorts on underneath like a real skort if it bothers people that much.

The RE skort looks dumb.

 

[daveonezero]

Zelda BotW needs to be up there for most annoying which is a kind of worst.

The one game where rain actually changes anything

 

[Fake]

drive club (the best)

DRIVECLUB THREAD LETS GO

 

[Mindman]

Cyberpunk has the worst rain easily.

 

[drotahorror]

Assetto Corsa modded

 

[The Fartist]

 

[Agent X]

drive club (the best)

This is the first game that came to mind for me. Although the game was released in 2014, it still looks great even after all these years.

 

[anthony2690]

I can sense all the incoming rainy driveclub GIFs already.

 

[Aaron Olive]

drive club (the best)

 

[OCASM]

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

they need to tone down, way down, how white it is.....

 

[Aaron Olive]

DRIVECLUB THREAD LETS GO

I see your Driveclub raise you ride 4

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Mafia: Definitive Edition

Off topic but can anyone confirm if its Mafia definitive edition included in the trilogy? (ps4)

 

[Naru]

drive club (the best)

The water physics on the windshield are unmatched I think.

 

[makaveli60]

drive club (the best)

We are done here

 

[22:22:22]

 

[Viz108]

I nominate Pikmin 3 for best rain, and just best environments in general. Really looking forward to how good Pikmin 4 will (hopefully) look.

 

[Turk1993]

Where is batman?

 

[makaveli60]

Resident Evil 4 remake and GTA3: DE look so bad because the rain basically looks stuck to the screen. No matter how you move the camera or run through the environment, it's like a curtain of the same effect repeated over and over.

As a rule for videogame rain, I think you shouldn't really be able to identify individual rain drops. There needs to be a certain amount of motion blur on each drop. Either a motion blur effect applied or at least make the raindrops stylized to look like it's in motion (eg. a long trail), since after all a rain drop is fast moving. The rain also needs to fall in varying intensities so it doesn't just look like repeated sheets of drops.

Another issue with RE4 remake is that there is barely any interaction between the raindrops and the ground. All they've done is make the ground shiny instead of simulating this:

Yeah, I remember I hated this kind of solution in 2006 in the otherwise amazing Oblivion already

 

[Three]

Naughty Dog after reading this thread:

 

[Astral Dog]

My dad once said this rain effect looked cool

 

[Mr.ODST]

Alot of people dont realise that most of these games just stick a PNG of rain in the player view

 

[Beechos]

 

[Signal Rockets]

Besides the rain, why do they have to make the games so dark? Old RE games were fine just how they were created, and the lighting wasn't that big of a deal. Even movies are guilty of doing this.

Let there be light!

 

[Tommi84]

I hated, HATED, that they've decided to have ONE time of day and ONE weather only. What where they thinking?! Change the plot if needed, I can't care for a game if it rains constantly!!


As for the BAD rain, I've heard Killzone: Shadow Fall had pretty bad one:

 

[The Stig]

MGSVs rain is great. I would spend so many credits making it rain

 

[OCASM]

Where is batman?

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

PLEASE FIX this CAPCOM! At least tone it down. It's way too bright.

Cyberpunk 2077's rain sucks. I started noticing it after FSR was added to the game. Sonic frontiers has bad rain.

 

[HotSauceEnema]

Just fucking love this game so much.

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

Cyberpunk has the worst rain easily.

It's so bad ...was it always bad or was this something introduced with a patch?

 

[22:22:22]

GOAT

 

[Turk1993]

NFS 2015