I've never thought this but for some reason when I played Twilight Princess I thought it stood evenly with anything I had seen on the 360. Yes I know I was objectively wrong but I thought consoles must be close to hitting a ceiling if a GameCube title could hold up like that.
While there were certainly 'WOW' moments as a kid. Seeing games run on the Dreamcast springs to mind - the first time I thought 'Okay, this is the limit' was probably Rogue Leader on Gamecube. I pored over screenshots for months before release.
A notable mention has to go to F-Zero GX. I remember seeing it playing on a demo kiosk and it was the first time I ever felt the 'gut drop' feeling from a video game. It blew my damn mind.
oddly enough, many of the dreamcast games like soul calibur, shenmue and of all things, tokyo xtreme racer. In tokyo xtreme racer, i thought car games can't get much better. Clearly i was wrong.
There were probably other times during my wee gaming years, but the one that sticks with me to this day is, when I got my PS3 and then changed from a CRT TV to a plasma, full HD Sony BRAVIA, and got to Lake Bresha for the first time in FFXIII (it's important to notice I played the game up to that point on the 21" CRT).
I remember just being breathless and sitting in awe looking at it, slowly walking through all the crystals.
Has to be GoldenEye on the n64. I just remember going wow that looks just like Pierce Bronson. Lol
I was actually talking with my mom the other night about this and she said playing intellivision and how you could see all the movements was really something else.
I remember I only had a Wii for 3 years of the 7th gen and finally got a PS3 when the Slim came out. When I downloaded the demo for Sonic Unleashed, my mind was blown. I had been playing Adventure 2 for years and to see Rooftop Run in full HD was breathtaking for me
This happened to me with Diablo 3 of all games. Obviously looking at it now it's actually kind of hideous, but at the time I struggled to think how they could further improve a top-down game.
It was either the secret cutscene in KH2 or the first time we saw FFXIII during Xbox's E3 - when I saw that my kid mind was blown. It looked so good. I distinctly remember sitting in front of our TV in the living room and going "no way this gameplay is real... Is it?"
Ps2 games lol.Devil may cry,silent hill 2 & 3 god of war.Also with ps3 games uncharted 2 & 3,the last of us,gears of war on the 360,resi 4 on the gamecube.I can't wait to see what ps5 games look like,especially the exclusives.
Seeing a screen of NES Castlevania in like a Sears catalogue was my first real "woooow" moment, but my earliest "games can't look better than this" moment might have been Silent Hill 2 or MGS2. In the 8bit/16bit & PS1 eras I had a certain imagination regarding how games would advance tech-wise. PS2 is really when my mind was being blown with "where do we go from here?"
I honestly don't think I've ever said or remotely thought this, in part because whenever I went somewhere with arcade cabinets the games looked several generations better than what I was playing at home.
Metroid Prime blew me away. The rain effect on the visir was amazing. But after i saw Half-Life 2 i was convinced that nothing could look better than that