Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart still sticks out in my mind as a great looking game because of their weird Pixar/realism style + how cool their portals in gameplay were
That and RDR2 are the only examples of interesting graphics I can think of in recent memory (and RDR2 only because it was heavily detailed in so many other ways as well so the gfx were part of a package)
"signing the contract" doesn't happen at most places, an offer is more than enough to constitute reasonable cause to start preparing to move for a job
If you wait to start moving your gonna not have a place to live with that new job, shit takes time