So this is not a game of course, it's a trailer for a new disney movie, but it's literally the best looking animated trailer I've seen in a long time. Frozen looked terrible, so does everything else in that it's fairly sterile looking and bland. This was the polar opposite. I have never seen water that blue, colors so BEYOND lifelike and rich. It's like someone took trine 2 and made a movie with a more tropical color scheme.
When someone releases a game with those types of visuals and colors, mapped onto a more realistic frame, we will have arrived. Because that will not be trying to model reality, it will move beyond reality to something more inspired.