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Games that feel like they were made with actual magic.
- Thread starter Musubi
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I second The Witcher 2 and Resident Evil Remake for Gamecube!
I couldn't believe my freakin' eyes when playing either of them at the time they released. They both still hold up so well even today.
I couldn't believe my freakin' eyes when playing either of them at the time they released. They both still hold up so well even today.
This. Yall have no idea how insane these things are, always amazes me that these things come together. It's why I laugh when people state, "Why didnt they see this before!?" it's amazing we see anything, it all comes together so fast at the end.
But still, Rockstar blows my brain every time they release a game. I still have no idea GTAV is what it is on LAST-LAST-GEN consoles...
Probably VR games?
Like the first time experience stepping into The Lab and playing Xortex was messing my mind up and I thought it wouldn't be topped until I play Echo Arena and they just went over that too.
Like the first time experience stepping into The Lab and playing Xortex was messing my mind up and I thought it wouldn't be topped until I play Echo Arena and they just went over that too.
Shenmue 2 on the Dreamcast - the scope and size of the game is that much larger than the original game - the opening Hong Kong area alone is probably a good 4x the size of the original game (if not more), streets are far more bustling with unique NPCs, you can go into almost every place, each with their own details, and more NPCs. Shit tons of music, unique dialogue, optional hidden stuff (fights, duck racing) and not to mention two more further large cities/areas to explore after that. All on the Dreamcast. It still blows my mind to this day.
GTAV on PS3/360 is nuts. I was playing it recently and the world is so far ahead of open world games today that it's crazy to think it is from two generations ago.
The transition from 2D Metroid to Metroid Prime has to be magic
Isn't FF9 considered to be one of the worst performing games on the PS1's library? I specifically remember the director having to address this issue by saying that the game ran slowly due how ambitious it was
Isn't FF9 considered to be one of the worst performing games on the PS1's library? I specifically remember the director having to address this issue by saying that the game ran slowly due how ambitious it was
Metroid Prime, it's crazy how much better it looks than most other games of that time, while also running at 60FPS, absolutely insane.
my 14 year old self didn't care, it was pretty, had fun music, and the cutscenes made me go GOD DAMN.
Back then as kids in that era the framerate stuff wasnt typically as nagged on if it was oot would have tanked
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Clicked this thread to essentially say this, including playing it on a Pro. It's still the most impressed I've been by a video game, including the bonkers visuals and animations found in The Last of Us 2. Devs got a ton out of last gen consoles in the end.
Your thread title is not well thought out because people can understand it in two majorly different ways.
On a technical level I'd add Xenoblade Chronicles (Nintendo Wii).
On a technical level I'd add Xenoblade Chronicles (Nintendo Wii).
GTAV had so many mindblowing moments that got me thinking "how the hell it's implemented??"
Witcher 3 is similar one, just unbelievable how CDPR went from making mostly linear Witcher 2 to one of the best looking, huge open world no-loading game with seamless cities and even house interiors.
Witcher 3 is similar one, just unbelievable how CDPR went from making mostly linear Witcher 2 to one of the best looking, huge open world no-loading game with seamless cities and even house interiors.
Pokemon Gold/Silver's whole Kanto section still blows my mind. I think as a kid I always assumed they used all the space in the cart for each game so the idea they could add the whole first game in there too was baffling.
I still have a hard time accepting it was real and looked like that and I played the crap out of it.
I still have a hard time accepting it was real and looked like that and I played the crap out of it.
A year later, I still can't believe that not only did one of my favorite series as a child finally get a new entry, it came out firing on all cylinders and laying waste to every pretender to its throne.
The bread tech in Yakuza 7. Like this is literal witchcraft:
Almost as good as the fries tech in Cyberpunk 2077 :p
These are both examples of how pouring enormous effort into crafting meticulous details into the game world can allow games to look better than they have any right to given the hardware. Both games have tons and tons of bespoke assets and the payoff is huge. The downside of course is that it takes an extraordinary amount of work and money to make a game like that
I think we have definitely reached a point where the limiting factor in how realistic games can look isn't a hardware factor, but rather a time and budget factor
100% this. How they got that running on a Dreamcast is beyond me.
Seems like they are smoking the fries more than eating them even with the glitch.
This. As a kid I never saw limitations or pixels. As a kid I didn't know the recipes for how games were made. This and many other N64 games truly felt magical to me. Exploring the world of Ocarina of Time for the first time felt like a real adventure to me. I really miss that feel today though BOTW brought a little bit of that magic back for me. Looking forward to the sequel.
Agreed on all these.
A year later, I still can't believe that not only did one of my favorite series as a child finally get a new entry, it came out firing on all cylinders and laying waste to every pretender to its throne.
Just felt like whoever was working on them just LOVED the world they were creating.
My entry would be Banjo Kazooie
I remember the first time playing Ocarina of time and I was completely blown away by the night/day cycle. I thought that was the coolest thing ever, lol.
Almost everything AM2 made in the 90s and shortly after was so far beyond what the vast majority of the medium was even trying to tap into.
Virtua Fighter 3 having dynamic muscle flexing in 1996 makes just about everything else seem so basic.
Virtua Fighter 3 having dynamic muscle flexing in 1996 makes just about everything else seem so basic.
RDR2 on base consoles being as close as possible to perfect, also Tsushima having 5 second loadings on PS4
Halo 4, it's like GTA5 where if you didn't know, it easily looks like a PS4/Xbone game. It's a shame the head of xbox at the time insisted on releasing it at the end of the xX360 gen.
Also I would put most of the Dice games from the last 20 years into this category. I get that they have a lot of budget and resources but their games age incredibly well while running on almost every console/PC at the time. I wonder if it's because they pay a lot of attention to the lighting and effects systems?
That looks like an early xbox 360 game and yet I've never heard of it. What other open world game had real time shadows and pedestrian density like that?
Also that players driving is painful to watch.
Also I would put most of the Dice games from the last 20 years into this category. I get that they have a lot of budget and resources but their games age incredibly well while running on almost every console/PC at the time. I wonder if it's because they pay a lot of attention to the lighting and effects systems?
That looks like an early xbox 360 game and yet I've never heard of it. What other open world game had real time shadows and pedestrian density like that?
Also that players driving is painful to watch.
Soul Reaver's huge, continuous world on PSX felt like black magic at the time, especially open spaces like the Lake of the Dead / Abyss with its waterfalls.
The fact that it was made by all of three people is perhaps even more mindblowing!
The fact that it was made by all of three people is perhaps even more mindblowing!
Frontier: Elite 2. An entire galaxy with literally millions of stars, complete with stations and quests and random encounters, on a single floppy. The game takes up like 500kB. Of course everything outside a select few stars is procedurally generated, but even doing that on an 7,14 MHz Amiga is pretty insane.
Of course, Elite is even more crazy considering the hardware.
Of course, Elite is even more crazy considering the hardware.