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Excluding Crysis name one game graphically ahead of it's time.
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Captain Toad
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JohnSpartanLee
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In December 1995 I saw Wipeout and immediately had to buy a Playstation on the same day.
supernova8
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Fucking Doom 3 I bought it just to be able to push my Geforce 6800 GT to the limit. I was too chicken shit to actually play the game properly but I was happy to wonder around the station and marvel at the graphics without going to the bit that triggered all the monsters coming in from the hellgate.And for all the incredibly impressive feats that they each brought to the table, nothing blew me away like seeing Doom 3 in action for the first time:
The lighting, textures and shading were just that far ahead. You needed a monster PC to see it - or a friend with one, like I had - but there was simply nothing else on that level.
Oh the memories. Those were the days where you would go on Guru3D.com to download tech demos. Fucking tech demos, huh. Weird that the GPU makers never make and release tech demos anymore. It's so boring these days.
HellforLeather
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Killzone 2
Rickyiez
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Didn't Nvidia released the Marble and a couple of RT tech demo like the Starwars one , and also Epic with the desert UE5 tech demo.
Pretty sure the Matrix tech demo will be available for public soon.
amigastar
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yes, it was a clever use of prerendered sprites. Technically it was not very different from Super Mario World beside that they used Pre rendered material.As far as goes the fairly inexpensive 16-bit home consoles of the early '90s Donkey Kong Country was jaw dropping when it was unveiled in 1994, so much that many couldn't believe it could run on a stock SNES.
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YoshiMadness
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That's not a typo that should say 1993. This game is legit from 1983.
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WitchHunter
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Gamer79
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Still to this day is one of the best ps4 looking titles.Probably not the most popular choice but Infamous Second Son on OG PS4 felt like true next-gen when it was first released.
lachesis
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For me, it was this 1983 game, Xevious. One of the first game that actually struck me as visual masterpiece.
Compared to other games, it used proper rendering for the light sources with actual, attractive mechanical and art design.
Part of it, is that the enemies were drawn with actual proper light sources in mind - including the background objects.
That little flying saucer enemy that comes in and spins away (the first enemy you encounter) - still blows my mind that the game came out in 1983.
As artistic stand point, I really do think this game was quite ahead of other games.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Halo is Back
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Killzone Shadow Fall really impressed me when I first got my PS4.
=GabrielKnight=
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All the model 3 Sega arcade games were way ahead of their time. I remember Scud Race or Virtua Striker 2 in 1996 and they were incredible.
It was the last time when you could play something technically impossible at home.
On consoles, I'd say Shenmue and Soul Calibur, or GT3 on ps2
It was the last time when you could play something technically impossible at home.
On consoles, I'd say Shenmue and Soul Calibur, or GT3 on ps2
MujkicHaris
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Far Cry (PC) really blew me away when I first played it. Especially how good and diverse lighting and vegetation looked. Still a nice looking game in my book. I also have to mention two that pushed the non-realistic/stylized graphics: Beautiful hand-painted Dragon Quest VIII and Rogue Galaxy.
Other games:
TES IV: Oblivion (PC)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC)
God of War II (PS2)
Other games:
TES IV: Oblivion (PC)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC)
God of War II (PS2)
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zaanan
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I would add that id blew their wad on graphics and gameplay suffered.
azertydu91
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I don't know if it has been mentionned yet but Heart of darkness comes to mind.
And also the metal slug games I still think they look amazing, look at that mofo pushing sand ...
And also the metal slug games I still think they look amazing, look at that mofo pushing sand ...
anthony2690
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I quite enjoyed remember me, shame it never got added to backwards compatibility programme.Remember me
It used material based shaders a lot, which is a big reason games looked a lot better on PS4/X1 compared to the 360/PS3.
The combat let the game down though imo.
shubik
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I really hope that this game will come to PS VR 2. I always wanted to try it but nobody I know owns a headset.
Bernd Lauert
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I'm super biased because it's my favorite game but I still mean it.
Gothic 2, a game from 2002. Most impressive is the draw distance and the density of the vegetation I think. Especially compared to Morrowind, that came out in the same year:
To be fair, no PC at the time could run Gothic 2 at maximum details. The game would become a stuttery mess, especially the closer you got to the main city. My poor Geforce 2 MX 400 could only handle like 60% draw distance, while 300% was the maximum.
Gothic 2, a game from 2002. Most impressive is the draw distance and the density of the vegetation I think. Especially compared to Morrowind, that came out in the same year:
To be fair, no PC at the time could run Gothic 2 at maximum details. The game would become a stuttery mess, especially the closer you got to the main city. My poor Geforce 2 MX 400 could only handle like 60% draw distance, while 300% was the maximum.
stranno
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HOD is amazing, but it only shines with the open source reimplementation HODE. The original game on Playstation, Saturn and PC had really downgraded colors (probably because it was gonna be released like 3 or 4 years before), slow framerate and crappy aspect ratio. HODE allows interpolated animations and better aspect ratio + PSX assets on many platforms.I don't know if it has been mentionned yet but Heart of darkness comes to mind.
Vindicator
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Stardust on the Amiga by Bloodhouse (later they merged with Terramarque into Housemarque)
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azertydu91
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Sure it can be better but the fluidity when you had to wiggle out of those shadows was so smooth.It was beyond anything I had seen at that time and for a long time too.
nkarafo
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What's HODE? Was the game remastered? I can't find anything.
Edit: NVM, i found it:
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Altares13th
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Tomorrow's Children (voxel cone tracing).
azertydu91
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Yeah Tomorrow's Children looked awesome, too bad I hated the gameplay because I really loved the artstyle and overall visaul as well as the concept but it was too grindy for me.
mxbison
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I think there's a good chance.
The controllers and tech should work fine for the game and Valve said they wouldn't mind having the game on other platforms iirc.
balls of snow
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God of war 3.
Lumpyoatmeal
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Shifty1897
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I remember seeing Soul Calibur on Dreamcast and having my mind blown.
Rescue on Fractalus (Atari 8 bit computers; completed in 1984 but commercialized in 1985) and the subsequent Lucasart games that used the fractal engine (The Eidolon and Koronis Rift).
Faux 3D landscape at a "good" framerate (compared to games at the time that used polygon graphics on home systems) on puny Atari 8 bit computers.
Faux 3D landscape at a "good" framerate (compared to games at the time that used polygon graphics on home systems) on puny Atari 8 bit computers.
eyesabitdull
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Dude, thank you reminding me of this game.
I've been wanting to play it for ages but didn't have a PC up until the last three years.
Now that I do, and it's literally $2.50 on GOG, I might have to change that.
Laptop1991
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Well not quite like Crysis but FEAR 1 was a jump in graphics, i had to buy a 6800 GT to play the game at the time, my first powered gpu.
