We were so excited just because we could recognized that they used a real person's photo for the characters faces, even if they were a blurry 16x16 texture, hahaha.
I only ever played it for the first time on an emulator years after release. Beat the campaign. It was funny watching two polygon figures make out for the entire credits sequence.
I mean coming from Supetnintendo these were about as real as I thought it could ever get, like yeah they're blocky but you can actually recognize who it's supposed to be.
I was 14 and just a couple years into PC gaming but this was the one where I ACTUALLY thought it looked realistic. I can remember saying it about the first madden game I got on GameCube which was a very large upgrade from ps1 or n64, but I knew it wasn’t quite there yet, I was just excited.
Haha, I played it on my neighbor's PC. After playing it, other golf games paled in comparison, even to this day. It had all the elements of a great golf game: simple to pick up and play, difficult to master, and lots of mulligans.
Hate hate ff8. Ff9 is where it’s at. I’ll take that jumping rope mini game over the card game. We don’t need to base the entire game and or battle system out of the mini game looking at you x.
Donkey Kong Country. Up to that point, I never really gave graphics a thought. I knew they were improving, and the jump from the NES to SNES was huge. But DKC changed everything for me
Me too! And a very 80’s VHS tape storage box with pull out drawers 😆 I have a Star Fox 64 tape and a collection of best final boss battles I think I bought from Nintendo Power
I remember when DKC came out and was so
in awe of the graphics. This around the first time Best Buy opened around my area and they had it playing in the middle of store in a big screen.
Killer instinct was another one where I was floored by the graphics.
Red Dead Redemption 1 blew my mind when it first came out in 2010. I played it so much in high school and though I love the second game, the first has a special place and is very nostalgic for me.
I actually got it way later, like 2014ish maybe 2015, my uncle had it and I loved it but I didn't buy it until then and it held up so so well even then
First game i picked up at around 6 was halo 3, i remember how mind blown i was — when red dead redemption came out it was a whole different ball park, miss that game, remember red dead undead (?) i think that was the name? I miss all the cool horses it had in that dlc
Skyrim. Upon closer inspection, it definitely has it's polygons.
Now Silent Hill 3? I don't know why but it still looks as realistic as I remembered it. Thanks to clever use of film graining, lighting, and detailed character models.
Gave my sister my old ps3 and she popped in skyrim. At that point, I had been playing it on the ps4. The difference was way more polygons on ps3 vs ps4, as the ps3 version was tailored for CRT while the ps4 version was tailored for LCD/LED. Not to say it still doesn't have it's polygons, but was more noticeable
I remember losing my shit cause the characters were shaped like actual people not polygons or pixles, also remember standing up and mouth dropping the first time I saw a game with voice acting. I was like "Thry talk!?"
It was a staple in my daycare we thought it looked amazing now I'm thinking lol I can't even. But in my defense each look mind-blowing amazing then 3 came out which was the height of its local popularity and blew my mind. 4 -6 were just upgrades not really mega jump from 2-3
GTA IV was the one for me. I'd grown up on Mario 64, OOT, DOOM and Diablo 1, Doom 2 and 3 later, Crazy Taxi, probably at least half the GBA library. GTA IV was the one I was completely enamored with how life like it looked and I've been chasing the high of that physics engine ever since. So much so that I played 30 minutes of GTA V in 2017ish and hated the physics so much I never played it again. Nostalgia can be nuts sometimes because I still occasionally go back to IV and I always get a feeling of "This is what GTA is, how its meant to feel." I'm waiting on VI's PC release, but I'll skip it too if they don't fix that.
When i subscribed to Nintendo Power around 1990, they sent out a special edition filled with previews of what kind of games would be possible on the SNES, which hasn't launched in the US yet. Many of them absolutely blew my mind.
Freshman year of college I had a roommate that only had Nintendo systems his entire life. Him and I were playing GTA 4 on my PlayStation one evening and he’s running around. Eventually he runs down a staircase which causes him to shout out, “his feet are hitting each step! This game is amazing!” So, for him, I’d say GTA 4 lol
I remember the first time I saw Mario 64 and noticed that Mario blinks. I thought- this is it, game graphics will never get better than this. We will never reach Toy Story graphics, that would be too expensive. Mario 64 is the end of the line.
Little did I know that game budgets would just get bigger and bigger to the point where Toy Story looks like old school animation now.
That's not actually the Rock though. That's the trademark friendly "The Stone", whose original textures were based on Jake Gyllenhaal in latino make-up.
Gran Turismo 1, maybe. That was... 1997. There was a late PSX wrestling game, maybe WWE Smakdown 2, which had really good character models compared to other games, even on the N64. That was pretty impressive. But ultimately it was NFL 2K on Dreamcast that was really mind-blowing.
I'm a gamer since the early 90s and Max Payne 2 / Silent Hill 3 was the first time I remember thinking "this is enough for graphics, now lets focus on the rest". I still think I was 100% correct. Unfurtunatly graphics kept evolving, but "the rest" didn't.
You know after replaying the entire series recently it was made abundantly clear to me that this entry was peak Kojima and MGS. It went from one I really liked to the absolute best entry in the series in retrospect.
I can still remember when the original Max Payne came out.
I was blown away by its graphics back then.
Thought that was peak graphics, turned out not to be true 😜
i started gaming later in life (college) so any technological leaps were considerably more subtle, but i remember being blown away by the difference between mass effect 1 and 2.
I think you also gotta factor 2 things, one there was nothing else to compare it to, so this was peak graphics. Two is that these games weren't being played in 1080p like in modern emulators, they were in 480 or 240p so the imperfections of the models were blurred out.
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u/Caipirinha-Aguada 6d ago
GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64