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Your earliest memory saying, "games can't look better than this!"
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Don't really think I had one. JRPGs had a shit ton of FMVs with 3D graphics, in-game in anything never matched those, so I was eagerly awaiting when gameplay looked just as good as those cutscenes.
Original Tomb Raider.....I remember seeing it on a kids TV show and being amazed.....got a PS1 with a copy not long after.
Sonic 1 was the first time. Cart goes in, console turns on and then the best looking game I'd ever seen appeared on the screen within seconds.
Big jump from the Commodore C64 loading tapes.
After that, I spent time in arcades so home consoles never impressed me again. Until arcades died.
Big jump from the Commodore C64 loading tapes.
After that, I spent time in arcades so home consoles never impressed me again. Until arcades died.
Dragons lair in 1984. Then PGR3 for Xbox 360. Saw the videos and my first experience of 1080p gaming. Mind blown.
When you get teleported to the dark world in A Link to the Past. The parallax when you're on top of the pyramid blew me away and I remember thinking that I was seeing the peak of video game graphics.
I think it was for Tomb Raider III on the PC.
Especially the quality of the animations really impressed me. It even impressed my grandmother and because my grandfather was happy about my granny being impressed he even granted me 1 more hour in which I could play the game on his PC :D
Especially the quality of the animations really impressed me. It even impressed my grandmother and because my grandfather was happy about my granny being impressed he even granted me 1 more hour in which I could play the game on his PC :D
A very particular wall in the Runway level of Goldeneye 007. It had what appeared to be depth - think super early bump mapping - and I was just blown away. I remember showing the wall to people and saying "IT LOOKS LIKE A REAL WALL!".
As somebody who skipped the entire N64/PS1/Saturn generation because I was legit disgusted by early 3D graphics and the abandonment of 2D: I've never said this.
Not sure I've ever had that exact thought. I do remember seeing Battle Arena Toshinden running at the store, around the time the original PlayStation launched, and being blown away.
For 3D: FFX
For 2D: Guilty Gear XX
After that I figured there was always a way to improve and that definitely seems to be the case.
For 2D: Guilty Gear XX
After that I figured there was always a way to improve and that definitely seems to be the case.
Golden Sun, I think. The first time I saw Judgment's animation I was blown away.
Sadly, it was this very moment:
I remember calling my mom into the room to show her how cool that looked and stately emphatically—something to the effect of—this was the pinnacle of gaming graphics.
I remember calling my mom into the room to show her how cool that looked and stately emphatically—something to the effect of—this was the pinnacle of gaming graphics.
Crysis.
This was in 2007. It STILL looks pretty damn good.
Honorable mention: Final Fantasy X (2001). Playing on an older TV, the transitions from gameplay to CG cinematic looked utterly flawless at the time.
This was in 2007. It STILL looks pretty damn good.
Honorable mention: Final Fantasy X (2001). Playing on an older TV, the transitions from gameplay to CG cinematic looked utterly flawless at the time.
For me it was Bioshock. I remember seeing screenshots of some neon sign in a Game Informer magazine and thought it was mind blowing and 100% lifelike.
