Most impressive to me will always be Rogue Leader, it was a launch game that looked like it was made at the end of the generation.
Games that feel like they were made with actual magic.
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And they managed the whole aiming so well too. It was actually really fun to play even without a second stick to aim. This kinda makes me feel like playing it again lol
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Best answerGolden Sun. Couldnt believe what I was playing when it came out on GBA, everything looked unreal
Also demons souls when it was new
I'm replaying Binary Domain and it's incredible how RGG (Yakuza studio) made a competent cover-based third person shooter to presumably get in on the trend of them being the biggest games that generation (X360 & PS3). It plays better than its contemporaries which I recently replayed, has some actual charm with its characters, and somehow didn't turn into a dumpster fire like Quantum Theory (Koei Tecmo's similar cash-grab that's on PS Now if you're brave enough).
What about changing planes that actually modifies world geometry. That is still not matched to this day
For some reason I was blown away by the install screen of Binary Domain.
Yeah I have no idea.
Similarly, poking around the Don Quijote store in Yakuza 3 on PS3.
I think eventually I was so used to giant set-pieces that having something that emulated real-life was impressive.
Yeah I have no idea.
Similarly, poking around the Don Quijote store in Yakuza 3 on PS3.
I think eventually I was so used to giant set-pieces that having something that emulated real-life was impressive.
I believe it was lightning in a bottle. The combination of tech, voice acting, story made it a truly unique experience. Even the rest of the series did not even come close. And to think that the final product was actually a watered down version of what they were aiming for
Getting GTA5 to a totally playable state on the PS3 was absolutely mind blowing for me. All this detail and the huge, consistent open world on a toaster with far less then 256MiB of usable RAM. Astonishing.
-All God of War games including PSP versions.
-TES V: Skyrim on PS3
-GTA V on PS3.
-RDR2 on PS4
-TES V: Skyrim on PS3
-GTA V on PS3.
-RDR2 on PS4
TLOU2 on base PS4 was very impressive to me.
DC never looked this good to me in person. Gifs do it many favors. Not saying it looks bad, but something about shrinking it down, etc. really enhances it.
DRIVECLUB
Released in 2014 and still outmatches every other racer (for me).
Breath of the Wild is so effortless in its world building. It doesn't feel like something that was designed; just an organic, living, breathing world that was magicked into existence. The combination of all the systems blows my mind.
For me it's Xenoblade X on the WiiU, the sheer scale of it is unlike ANY other game i've ever played. I came back to it after beating The Witcher 3 and it's expansions, and despite having played 200+ hours of Xenoblade X previously and returning to it after playing another big open world, i was still impacted by the scope of Mira.
I was gonna say Skyrim on PS3 but I would hardly call that a fully playable experience.
SotC on PS2 was nuts, I have no idea how they got that to work.
GTA SA on PS2 didn't look amazing but it's impressive that an open world game with that much mobility and shit going on worked at all on the platform.
SotC on PS2 was nuts, I have no idea how they got that to work.
GTA SA on PS2 didn't look amazing but it's impressive that an open world game with that much mobility and shit going on worked at all on the platform.
This from recent memory.
Black magic fuckery. The whole thing. We had beautiful games like TLoU2 but the scope of RDR2 makes it so much more amazing.
Also comparing GTAV to GTAIV on 7th gen. What a step up (except for animation/physics).
PSP as a whole too. It was like a PS2 in your hands. What the hell. Crazy shit back then.
MS Flight Simulator is the most recent one. Unbelievable.
Even crazier, it came out in 2004!
but yeah both were stunning
Dead or Alive 3 and Dead and Alive 2 Ultime on the original Xbox. The super fast and fluid action, very high polygon character models, effects like bloom lighting, reflective water or water and snow displacement, swirled up leaves or petals, destructive stage parts and its huge, multilayered stages were unrivalled in the genre and even 20 years after they hold up well.
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I played RDR2 in a base xbox one, not only did the xbox not blow up like a expected, it also runs at a steady framerate (way better than OG GTA V).
Some black magic had to be involved.
Some black magic had to be involved.
Ridge Racer on the PSX made me feel like I had an arcade cabinet in my bedroom, absolutely blew me away that I could play a near arcade perfect game at home.
Half Life 2 felt like that when I was playing it back in 2004.
Yet to experience that feeling again.
Yet to experience that feeling again.
Even beyond the world itself, the first time I fast traveled blew me away. How the fuck is it loading so fast?!
I'm often blown away by games. Most recently I tried Powrslave on the Saturn and how quick and smooth the movement was shocked me.
A lot of good mentions here already like Uncharted 2 and Silent Hill 3...
But there's one I want to bring up that I don't think anyone mentioned yet.
Rage on X360 and PS3
Say what you will about the game and the repeated levels...
I never understood how they got those levels of graphics on 360 and PS3 at 60FPS when we had ever stutter in other games of the era like Dark Souls or Far Cry 3...
The smoothness of the experience combined with Amazon graphics for the time was magical even if the rest of the game wasn't.
But there's one I want to bring up that I don't think anyone mentioned yet.
Rage on X360 and PS3
Say what you will about the game and the repeated levels...
I never understood how they got those levels of graphics on 360 and PS3 at 60FPS when we had ever stutter in other games of the era like Dark Souls or Far Cry 3...
The smoothness of the experience combined with Amazon graphics for the time was magical even if the rest of the game wasn't.
Playing Super Mario 64 in late June or early July of 1996 at an import shop that got a Japanese Nintendo 64 was incredible. 12 or recently turned (depending if it was before or after July 7th) 13 year old me was absolutely blown away.
I knew before I played it that I really wanted an N64 that following September, but that moment some three months earlier truly pushed me over.
I knew before I played it that I really wanted an N64 that following September, but that moment some three months earlier truly pushed me over.
GG Aleste 3
Sure you are playing the game in a collection but the actual game itself was written for Game Gear. M2 even brought the game running on a GG to demo events.
Sure you are playing the game in a collection but the actual game itself was written for Game Gear. M2 even brought the game running on a GG to demo events.
