For me it as around the Dreamcast era when 640x480 became standard for home games. Things like Manx TT and NFL2k just blew my mind. I thought they were photo-realistic at the time.
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Your earliest memory saying, "games can't look better than this!"
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Never been much of a graphics guy, as realistic graphics are something that is obviously always improving.
Style-wise I remember saying something like this for stuff like Cuphead and Hollow Knight. Which is still true, nothing in gaming right now looks better than Cuphead and Hollow Knight.
Style-wise I remember saying something like this for stuff like Cuphead and Hollow Knight. Which is still true, nothing in gaming right now looks better than Cuphead and Hollow Knight.
Banjo-Kazooie
It was like a playable cartoon and everything looked so solid and smooth. While i didn't love it gameplay wise graphically it made me though the N64 would be the peak videogames ever reached.
Didn't get that feeling again until Soul Calibur.
It was like a playable cartoon and everything looked so solid and smooth. While i didn't love it gameplay wise graphically it made me though the N64 would be the peak videogames ever reached.
Didn't get that feeling again until Soul Calibur.
Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube, played on a crappy 20 inch mono crtv. Yeah....But my biggest wtf moment graphics wise was seeing Gears of War on the Xbox 360 for the first time.
Absolutely! Born in the same year and that game was insane at the time!
Before that, Sonic Adventure looks incredible clean and amazing when I saw it in Demo mode in stores (never owned a Dreamcast) - and before that, I remember the rare Metal Slug Arcade in Germany that looked incredible for 2D.
The very first time... I can't quite remember but I think it was Wing Commander or Legend of Kyrandia on PC.
I'm quite sure that the second time I got that thought was when I was tricked by bullshots of Killer Instinct characters for the N64. I really thought, ok, that's the peak. I was very gullible back in the day and really believed the "project reality" bs. I remember a german magazine mentioning that the N64 is going to feature graphic fidelity on par with the cgi in the Jurassic Park movie, but in real time lol!
Imagine my underwhelming when I saw the first real ingame footage of the early games for that console, haha!
I'm quite sure that the second time I got that thought was when I was tricked by bullshots of Killer Instinct characters for the N64. I really thought, ok, that's the peak. I was very gullible back in the day and really believed the "project reality" bs. I remember a german magazine mentioning that the N64 is going to feature graphic fidelity on par with the cgi in the Jurassic Park movie, but in real time lol!
Imagine my underwhelming when I saw the first real ingame footage of the early games for that console, haha!
I don't think in all my years of gaming I've ever thought "games can't look better than this".
I mean, if you've seen Toy Story graphics (heheh...), a much higher standard of computer graphics had always existed in animation/movies, so I'm always aware of what video game graphics could perhaps one day achieve, and are trying to catch up to.
I've thought "this is the best I've ever seen a game look" many times though.
I mean, if you've seen Toy Story graphics (heheh...), a much higher standard of computer graphics had always existed in animation/movies, so I'm always aware of what video game graphics could perhaps one day achieve, and are trying to catch up to.
I've thought "this is the best I've ever seen a game look" many times though.
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I miss this game so much :(When I was a kid Pokemon stadium blew my fucking mind.
I remember the first time I saw Altered Beast in the arcade, I thought I was looking at the pinnacle of video game graphics. I wish I could remember why.
Probably this?
There were probably several moments before it where I was like DAMN this is impressive, but I think this GTA IV reveal trailer threw my expectations of what I thought was possible with realism in games out of the window.
Bayonetta 2 on WiiU. At that point I thought "graphics don't matter to me going forward as long as they look close to this". And tbqh, I still think it holds true for the most part. There are many games that do technical stuff better than Bayonetta 2 and there are a lot of games looking better, but to me they don't look that much better, where I'd say "this is completely ahead of what Bayo 2 achieved visually" and where I never would want to play Bayo 2 again.
Am I really the first to say this one?
Fight Night Round 3
Xbox 360
Was arguably one of the greatest looking games ever when it came out.
*High fives*
Definitely this.
I remember watching the Resident Evil 2 FMVs and thinking "wow, imagine if games ever looked like THIS"
Fast forward to RE2 remake, which blows those shitty FMVs out of the water. It's pretty amazing how games like now compared to 20 years ago. Even 10 years ago.
Fast forward to RE2 remake, which blows those shitty FMVs out of the water. It's pretty amazing how games like now compared to 20 years ago. Even 10 years ago.
Never ever said that, but remember a friend saying "how can you make better graphics than the Dreamcast?" to which I replied "I dunno, it can still be better" As amazed as I was about that killer whale scene, I could still see the low poly, low res textures and general jank associated with that generation of consoles. And that was the single biggest jump in next gen quality of all time imo
My little dumb ass brain saw my cousin playing one of those Mega CD movie games and I thought "How can it get any better than this, its real?"
https://youtu.be/b-4HNmuEAKg
this was it for my friends and I in high school. Nothing was getting better than that trailer.
this was it for my friends and I in high school. Nothing was getting better than that trailer.
I don't understand what a good looking game is during the PS1 era and before.
When I saw FFX being played by my friends older brother, that is where I thought graphics is perfected. The massive leap from a PS1 final fantasy game to FFX made me aware that graphics can be good or bad.
When I saw FFX being played by my friends older brother, that is where I thought graphics is perfected. The massive leap from a PS1 final fantasy game to FFX made me aware that graphics can be good or bad.
I dunno if it's definitely the first but it's the first I can remember.
Honestly, i have never thought that. I always figured things would improve over time.
I have been impressed with the artwork and graphics, don't get me wrong. And right now graphics have become so good and clean that creativity becomes more important again. That's a good thing. But for the longest time i just hated the limitations.
I have been impressed with the artwork and graphics, don't get me wrong. And right now graphics have become so good and clean that creativity becomes more important again. That's a good thing. But for the longest time i just hated the limitations.
3D Space Wars, 1983, in my minds eye it looked at lot better than this
kinda looks like david bowie huhSame, this blew me away at the time lol:
No me neither. I have sure been impressed by games. Some details especially. Textures in Uncharted 2 when it came out was amazing. I remember looking really close at those.
In a artistic way I might have thought it. Cuphead for example. But as in looking real. Nope.