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Your earliest memory saying, "games can't look better than this!"
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Growing up playing the NES and SNES game, when I finally got to play the PS1 basically any game felt so real in my eyes.
It's something I commented on another thread the other day, as technology improves, our brains get used to the new graphics, but at the current time we don't know any better.
These past few years, with the remakes of Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc, I play those games and I'm like "but this is just exactly how I remember them..." then I look the comparison to the original and the difference is huge. But that's what I'm saying, back then, we didn't know better and it's like, we knew that was the limit of the current technology, so our brains compensated it by imagining the rest. Because this feeling I have now while playing Crash or Spyro on the PS4 of "omg, this looks so good" is exactly the same feeling I had back when I played them on the PS1, so yeah I think we're very fortunate.
Younger kids that were born when there was already the GameCube, the Wii, the PS3 or I don't know, newer and newer consoles, if they look back at older games, I don't think they can fully appreciate those classic games or how could anyone be impressed by that, because they'll never know what it was like to not have what we have nowadays. In a few years I'm gonna look back at the PS4 games and be like "how could I think this was good?" lol
It's something I commented on another thread the other day, as technology improves, our brains get used to the new graphics, but at the current time we don't know any better.
These past few years, with the remakes of Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc, I play those games and I'm like "but this is just exactly how I remember them..." then I look the comparison to the original and the difference is huge. But that's what I'm saying, back then, we didn't know better and it's like, we knew that was the limit of the current technology, so our brains compensated it by imagining the rest. Because this feeling I have now while playing Crash or Spyro on the PS4 of "omg, this looks so good" is exactly the same feeling I had back when I played them on the PS1, so yeah I think we're very fortunate.
Younger kids that were born when there was already the GameCube, the Wii, the PS3 or I don't know, newer and newer consoles, if they look back at older games, I don't think they can fully appreciate those classic games or how could anyone be impressed by that, because they'll never know what it was like to not have what we have nowadays. In a few years I'm gonna look back at the PS4 games and be like "how could I think this was good?" lol
The first Far Cry game on the PC. I remember thinking "If this is as good as games will ever look, I am pretty ok with that."
For realistic games I always assume they can always look better, but for cartoonish games I was very impressed by mario cart 8 and I was like no way they gonna top the game graphics with mario cart 9 same thing I said about mario cart wii and I was wrong , like what is even more to do to make the game look better anymore?
My first friend to get a PS2 invited me over. I saw this. I said "games can't look better than this." Madden '01
Uncharted demo on PS3. I also remember getting Drake to run in the water and having my mind blown when his jeans were only wet up to the point where the water was.
There is definitely something of a diminishing returns effect happening now.
The jump from SNES to N64 was huge. 3D Polygons were the future going from The PS1 to PS2 to PS3 was just textures, resolution, and polycount for the most part. But PS1 to PS2 was a bigger jump than PS2 to PS3 I would argue. PS3 to PS4 was smaller than that.
PS4 to PS5 will definitely be smaller. A lot of it is art restrictions. It takes time to realistically animate things that is not necessarily a power limit. It takes time to paint and create good textures and art and models. A 3D artist could recreate a PS1 character in an afteroon. It takes a whole team months to get a current gen player model now. it finally feels like we are more limited by manpower, time, (and to an extent memory and game sizes) than processing power.
Next gen won't be about higher resolutions and poly counts. It will be about small details that help tie the world together in a more realistic way. Better lighting, physics, environment interaction, etc.
It's less wow Nathan Drake PS5 looks so much more real than Nathan Drake PS4. And more "
Wow this environment has so many cool little details and interactivity."
Will be happy to be proven wrong though.
The quality of the animation in Konami's TMNT and "The Simpsons" arcade titles could never be beat, or so I thought.
FF VIII and it wasn't that they couldn't but didn't need too even though I was also playing Soul Calibur on DC so what the fuck did I know
The first Bioshock, when the plane crashes and you are in the ocean i jus sat there thinking "wow cool cgi can't wait to play" and my friend told "dude, move, is not a cutscene" it was my first experience with next-gen at the time.
Yes, exactly. I guess it was the verticality. This was the first game that gave me the feeling of "do you see this place out there? You can probably go there"
I thought the very first Gran Turismo looked like real life. It came out in 1997 so I would have been around 14 or so lol.
I first played Donkey Kong Country at a cousin's. I remembered being frozen in awe. The visuals, the music. Holy shit.
I think the first time I was blown away by graphics was seeing Golden Axe for the first time. I had only seen NES graphics. So it was really mindblowing.
Much later I'd say seeing SSB Melee graphics (especially compared to 64) was a real "Okay, graphics can't possibly look better than this."
Much later I'd say seeing SSB Melee graphics (especially compared to 64) was a real "Okay, graphics can't possibly look better than this."
