Your earliest memory saying, "games can't look better than this!"

[Deleted member 17402]

Resident Evil Remake for Gamecube is my earliest memory of claiming games can't look any better. I continued headstrong with that thought for a long time, too. While REmake is certainly a beautiful game, I think I championed it as having the best visuals for far too long. I recall even arguing as much well into the PS3 life-cycle.

 

[GobHoblin]

Oddly enough, GoldenEye on N64

 

[Lakeside]

Looking at the waterfall in Unreal.

 

[Secretofmateria]

Re4 most likely, than i recall saying the same thing for gears of war 1

 

[Deleted member 17402]

Oddly enough, GoldenEye on N64

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I remember Perfect Dark really flooring me as well, and while I may have proclaimed it as the epitome of gaming visuals, I can't recall it.

 

[Kolya]

Oddly enough, GoldenEye on N64

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Not sure if it's my first time thinking it, but yeah. Particularly in relation to the way people reacted to getting shot, it felt so realistic. That was the pinnacle of games in my view.

 

[Astra Planeta]

GT3 Aspec on PS2. I couldn't believe it was real.

 

[goddamnimglam]

Weirdly Paper Mario: TTYD in terms of cartoonish/2d aesthetics. I think I was half right, it never got better than that for the Paper Mario series.

 

[Layell]

I didn't think it was perfect, but I was quite impressed with the Arkham games.

 

[Spinluck]

I don't think I have ever thought this.

I've always been impressed by graphics and continue to be but I always knew we would go beyond the GOAT CRYSIS PC WITH EVERYTHING MAXXXXXXXD OUT!

 

[udivision]

Melee and Mario Sunshine.

 

[azeke]

Yoshi's Island, played for the first time in 2012.

 

[Deleted member 51539]

I remember saying something like that about one of the PS2 DBZ games lol.

Yoshi's Island, played for the first time in 2012.

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It's still up there tbh.

 

[Deleted member 17402]

Weirdly Paper Mario: TTYD in terms of cartoonish/2d aesthetics. I think I was half right, it never got better than that for the Paper Mario series.

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Don't remind me, god damn it.

 

[Rirse]

Says something about my age, but seeing the games in the arcade looking a gen ahead of the consoles games at the time.

 

[Tamath]

Luigi's Mansion on the GameCube.

Nothing particular about LM - it was just the first game I started on the GC (and it was my first console of that gen) and I just thought that these fancy 128-bit (ahhh, remember talking about graphics in terms of bits?) graphics wouldn't be topped.

 

[Fliesen]

Dead or Alive 2 for PS2 i think?

I was like "This looks like from an Arcade machines"...

Says something about my age, but seeing the games in the arcade looking a gen ahead of the consoles games at the time.

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Yup. PS2 / Dreamcast receiving Arcade quality games blew my mind.

 

[sanstesy]

That never happend.

 

[seroun]

FFX cinematics.

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This one, in particular.

 

[Aurc]

Fallout 3 on the PS3.

...God, the cringe of me actually having to type that one out. Granted, I was in my early teens at the time.

 

[drog]

NFL2K1 for Dreamcast, I remember my Mom walking into the room while my Dad and I played it and she thought we were watching an actual NFL game

 

[Tyaren]

Dead or Alive 3 on Xbox:

 

[Deleted member 10908]

Gran Turismo 3 on the PS2

 

[JoDa]

Ff8 fmvs

 

[Deleted member 17402]

Fallout 3 on the PS3.

...God, the cringe of me actually having to type that one out. Granted, I was in my early teens at the time.

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Okay that's pretty funny given how bad it looked at release to begin with. lol

 

[Beamerball]

i vividly remember thinking "wow this looks like real life" when I saw the first Madden on the PS2. Might have been 2001?

also for sure when I saw first Metal Gear Solid 2 videos.

these are the two I remember the most thinking it couldn't get better.

 

[MegaSackman]

Well, Jurassic Park on the Genesis blowed my mind lol.

 

[Deleted member 2254]

Quake 2's first gameplay moments. Complex 3D environment with irregular surfaces, dynamic lightning, explosions that change the landscape... I was in awe, and I could not believe what I was seeing. I didn't expect graphics to get meaningfully better than that anytime soon. How little I knew.

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

I thought some games like Perfect Dark or NFL 2K were close, but I saw room for improvement.

Never thought anything would top GT3 - it looked as real as real gets at the time:

 

[ClickyCal']

Metroid Prime for sure.

 

[Aurc]

Okay that's pretty funny given how bad it looked at release to begin with. lol

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Less embarrassing answer: Resident Evil 5. Game definitely still holds up today. Some killer visuals in that one.

 

[Deleted member 49319]

MGS2 and FFX.

 

[djplaeskool]

The first time I saw beta footage of Final Fantasy 7 through the window of a Babbages and watched a clip of the Leviathan summon/Tidal Wave.

I the next time was seeing NFL2K on Dreamcast.

 

[HanSoloCup]

GT3 Aspec on PS2. I couldn't believe it was real.

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This right here.

 

[Deleted member 17402]

i vividly remember thinking "wow this looks like real life" when I saw the first Madden on the PS2. Might have been 2001?

also for sure when I saw first Metal Gear Solid 2 videos.

these are the two I remember the most thinking it couldn't get better.

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MGS2 is a good contender because I played it at the same time as REmake and said the same thing, but chalked it up to being in a different category of visuals and therefore also the epitome of graphics. lol

 

[Beamerball]

Says something about my age, but seeing the games in the arcade looking a gen ahead of the consoles games at the time.

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Yeah I remember these days. Man, as a kid walking into an arcade seeing Killer Instinct was nuts.

 

[Benes]

Freakin' 1995.

 

[Lant_War]

Gran Turismo 4. On a CRT it looked insane.

 

[Guru_Godzilla]

Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion

 

[Deleted member 7462]

Man, it might be Sonic the Hedgehog, actually. To go from a 2600 to a NES to that was staggering to me as a kid.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

Honestly? I don't think I've ever had that feeling...? I suppose part of that comes from the fact that as a kid I had an SNES, a Game Boy and a computer all with games on them and all of which had completely different graphical levels so it was always pretty clear that graphics could be better than what I was playing at the time.

 

[IvanSlavkov]

Back on the Mega Drive with Comix Zone! My teen brain was blown away!



Also Sonic and Kunuckles + Sonic 3.

 

[JooJ]

Sonic Adventure on DC. Look at the grass.

 

[Chivalry]

Half Life 2. It looked like real life.

 

[Perry Simm]

Hasn't happened yet. But I feel like we are close. Red Dead Redemption 2 or Kingdom Come: Deliverance had their moments for example.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

i think max payne 1

 

[Blade Wolf]

Doom 3

 

[Strafer]

Doom 3

Blew my fucking mind.

 

[jacket]

Dreamcast

 

[dtamago]

The fire in Resident Evil 4 made me think this.

 

[nightstalker962]

Banjo Kazooie and then again with KOTOR.