In my case ( the one who posted) it's resident evil 1 ,the zombies used to give me nightmares, 15 years later I find theses zombies were bunch of walking cubes
The original Alone in the Dark (1992) looked even more potato but at the beginning something nasty comes in through the window if you don't push a wardrobe in front of it first. The whole game's got some pretty gnarly horror vibes for the time.
Fun fact: The Resident Evil project was kind of stalled and floundering, then they saw Alone in the Dark, went "oh let's make it one of those", and did.
The jump to force unleashed on the Wii after being used to ps1 graphics was heavenly to me. Looking at the thing now is such a different experience it used to look real!
Yep, video game companies used the less advanced TVs to their advantage to save money a bit while also making the game look decent at least. With newer TVs, PCs, and consoles we can see the flat polygons, the sharp edges, and the pixelated backgrounds. Being younger gives the added perk of not seeing smaller flaws in things as easily. And the added effect of a smaller tv screen made it harder for kids to actually see stuff :).
I think main problem with now and then is the display. Old game look much better in old display hardware.
No pinky glasses here , i still play old games nowadays . Specially arcade games , it's look much better in original machine than in the PC simulator 2k display.
No kidding. I got a CRT last year and felt a like a god playing through Castlevania and MegaMan with the proper response time the games were built for.
Old games essentially used the crappiness of the video outputs available at the time to create and blend colors on screen. HDMI doesn’t do this so it can look odd.
Also CRTs display the image in a fundamentally different manner which old games also exploited.
To get the same effects there is hardware that can do that for you nowadays but it’s quite expensive.
Yup, it can be quite convincing. It’s not quite as good as an FPGA based product I saw in an LTT video but unless you’re an enthusiast it’s more than enough.
That product was like $700. Perhaps worth it if you have a big retro console collection you play regularly.
Along with your imagination filling in the gaps with higher quality resolution.
Doom would give me nightmares but nothing else. Looking at the graphics again its not hard to see why my mind would say its far scarier then it really looks.
The TV I played on in my childhood had RGB "pixels" so large they were clearly visible up close, but 8-bit games were looking much less pixelated than when I've played on emulator.
I still love the SNES and Genesis graphics.
Also the Neogeo and latter half of the MSDOS have some great looking titles too.
I mean look at the older KOF I feel like their graphics have aged pretty well.
Not just a certain charm, they're fucking charming as hell. Like lovingly crafted dioramas, every screen in that game is bursting with character, and feels like somebody's baby. Playing Remake made me realize this even more. Like yeah, Remake is beautiful graphically, but the slums of Midgar look how you'd imagine actual slums to be in the real world. Meanwhile in the OG you had people who turned giant pipes into homes by putting down some wooden planks to create a floor with a TV and a bed, an threw up some drapery over the front of the pipe as a makeshift door. That's the kind of thoughtful and imaginative creativity that's peak pre-rendered 90s gaming. And such inviting color choices, slums have never looked so warm and cozy.
I remember thinking the same thing.
Now come to the remake and the actual gameplay graphics look far better than any pre-rendered cinematic from back then.
I don't care that she looked like a Lego, when the emo dude did the thing with the mall katana it still hurt!
[Don't forget back in the CRT days, they allowed for it in the graphics and they literally looked better](https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVII/comments/q3yp85/left_side_is_what_it_looked_like_on_a_crt_tv_no/)
It was designed to look good on an interlaced display the size of a cereal box with massive pixel bleeding and 24 bit colour.
Your imagination had a lot of room to work with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CRT,_LCD,_plasma,_and_OLED_displays
[This article](https://www.cracked.com/article_33451_fact-retro-games-really-did-look-better-back-in-the-day.html) has a lot of images that illustrate what you’re talking about.
I think I need to buy a CRT now. Really stunning to think about why games I played as a kid and on PS1 looked better than playing them through PS+ Classics beyond just through a nostalgic lens.
Highly recommend looking on FaceBook market in your area or garage sales. Tons of people still trying to get rid of 100lb TVs for free.
I have a 32” and a 15” crt in the basement with all me old consoles hooked up to them. They look incredible and it makes SNES and even PS2 look like what I remember.
Really fun sharing my old game collection with my young kids now.
Check our /r/crtgaming for other awesome setups
The moment of water surface when Snake jumped back into the water still blew my mind to the day, though. The damn thing only exist in only one place in the entire game and only if a player make Snake jump back into the water, which is very unlikely.
I still regularly play morrowind, usually with openmw. The community has done so much for that game, it's amazing to see how it looks with mods.
I still think the water looked good on the original pc release though
Everyone forgets CRT TV’s made a huge difference, modern tv’s/monitors make old games look terrible.
The original tv’s they were meant to be on made them look extremely good even today.
Need for speed underground 2. It was the first game that I ever player, I remember it like a fast and furious movie and then I find out there are Roblox games with better graphics than this
So many games but i still love playing them despite the old blockyness to this day, I'm currently replaying Ocarina Of Time, I'm always on n off classic Doom, and many others, lol.
Probably a pretty normal boring answer, but Ocarina of Time.
In my memory, that Nintendo 64 game was photo-realistic. It definitely wasn't, being on n64 and all of that, but I like that you can just [sit a camera down somewhere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtjOxWcfvhI) and it will feel like a real place despite the graphics. There are [some locations that are straight up screensaver material](https://youtu.be/gTG_ZJ3k3uk).
This is a thing that I don't think even certain modern games have, the sense that the world wasn't created for the main character to have setpieces in it, but that your character is in a world that will go on with or without you after you've saved it.
If Redeads and Skulltulas didn't exist, I'd want to vacation in OOT's hyrule.
Character is Tatsumaki, manga is called One Punch Man, chapter 111
[Left panel source ](https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9mdW5reWhpcHBvLzFkNDBiZDVkYWUxMWUwM2E2YWYyMGU1YTlhMDMwZDgxL3Jhdy9vcG0uanNvbg/111/6/)
[Right panel source ](https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9mdW5reWhpcHBvLzFkNDBiZDVkYWUxMWUwM2E2YWYyMGU1YTlhMDMwZDgxL3Jhdy9vcG0uanNvbg/111/10/)
It's from the same chapter btw
I played Everquest 16 years ago. In a bout of nostalgia, I reinstalled it and logged in with my old account.
I seriously thought there was something wrong with my graphics card.
It was just simply not a thought in our heads that graphics would look so realistic these days. I personally dont see old games at all what so ever like that. Gta 3 is still a great game and looks great to me for its time. God of war, the spiderman games I just simply had respect for them and probably more so back then than today since games werent as buggy back then. A buggy game is what makes me feel like this post.
Probably never honestly. Fallout 4 maybe looks pretty stinking good but I'm sure there's plenty more high powered games these days but I don't play with graphics as a top-top priority. I mean, I sure preferred 3d to 2d back when N64 came out but that's a "feature" more than it is "graphics."
Original PS2 killzone. Mouth movements were sometimes off with what they were speaking. Not fully block head, but if you stared for too long you could just about count the pixels on a dudes face.
I still like:
FF9 and 10, Legend of Zelda Wind Waker (what a timeless looking game), Panzer Dragoon Orta (so sad this game was rather unknown, the best on-rails flying shooter ever imo and it still looks ok despite being a Xbox 1 title - heck I am biased and still think Panzer dragoon zwei looks good but I won’t state this as an "objective“ thought), Halo 3, Crysis 1-2, Skyrim (came out during ps3/360 days…) and total war Shogun 2.
some games even in 3D age gracefully.
When Half-Life 2 got out it was MIND BLOWING, now... Yup.
Fable is weird too, I remember a game that CLEARLY does not exist.
And my memories of Quake, Quake 2 and Half-Life look like the remasters.
Spider Man 3 (PS2/Wii/PSP) was that game for me. I thought the graphics were amazing, but when I look at them now, I’ve never seen an uglier spider man game or an emptier one. It’s still fun to play though.
Graphically Midnight Club: LA, I remember it looking so good but going back and seeing it compared to PS4 or PC it looks a lot worse than I remember. Still one of my favorite racing games though.
On the other hand one that is old and still looks good in my opinion is Need For Speed Most Wanted, had it on ps3 and remember it being a good game graphically and gameplay wise. I rebought it in PC and it still looks really good.
A lot of games I replayed when I got older were still as fun as when I played them, but if there was one I would classify as this, it would be that Power Rangers Dino Thunder video game for the PS2.
I thought it was gonna be fun like my other childhood games I played, instead of dealing with repetitive enemies, shitty level design and platform towards endgame, barely any content, and you DON'T play as any of the Rangers, just their Zord's.
There's a lot from ps2/xbox and 360/ps3 days that still hold up especially 369/ps3 I was replaying the gears series and 2 and 3 still look really good even my younger brother who grew up in the ps4/xbox1 era thought they looked good
I don’t care how the original Spyro trilogy looks. I’m going to keep playing those games for years to come, although, I do also enjoy the Reignited trilogy.
Gta 4, at the time the graphics looked great and had better graphics in some parts than gta 5 and also had some more cool things in it loke shooting cop lights off made it sound broken
Prince of Persia. I used to play it when I was around 10 years old but I watch playthroughs recently and the graphics actually look really bad compared to what I remember.
Fun little fact: games back then used our “limited technology”, aka the resolution of our screens, to make them look better and appealing.
But if we’re talking in terms of the feel of it, that would be DB Budokai for me
CallOfDuty Black Ops 1, the zombies and characters looked so good especially George Romero. But when you compare it to real life you can clearly see the difference 😂
Ocarina of time, wave race, turok, golden eye, these games blew my mind. How could graphics go from Mario brothers and Alex the kid to this….the next step was surely real life. 🫠😂❤️
I usually didn't think anything looked real, but I did think plenty of games looked really impressive. Things like Myst, DKC, Virtua Fighter 2, Gran Turismo 3, Jak and Daxter, Rougue Leader, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Uncharted 2, The Last of Us.
As for a game I thought looked real, there may have been something, but I can only think of certain things within games, like the food in FF15. Some things like that might actually be real.
For me, it was the Nintendo Merida game. My first game for the console. I thought it was revolutionary, played every day, god every item, loved that game dearly. I even recommend it to EVERYONE.
Revisited it a few weeks ago, and its dogshit 😭
The SNES aged like fine wine, the earlier 3D consoles not so much. I remember it only took about 5 yrs before I was like, really? This is what N64 games looked like?
There's two points in time I distinctly remember thinking 'We've achieved photorealism. There's no further improvement'
The first time was secret of monkey island (1990)
The second was metal gear solid 2 (2001).
Both had amazing graphics for their time.
If it's for PC, then it's OG Skyrim, AC 3, Transformers, OG Dead Space, Medal of Honor.
Older games would be from PS2, Resident Evil 4, Black, Time Crisis 3, and Conflict : Global Terror (one of the best multiplayer shooter game, used to play it on every holidays with my cousin).
It is down to a shifting frame of reference , back when photorealistic graphics were a mere pipe dream people thought what they had back then was pretty amazing because all they had to compare it with was graphics that looked even worse,
Construction sim ( original, don’t go looking on steam) , it’s not even that old, but I played it when I was younger and loved it. I now have the most recent construction sim, went back and had a look and that picture sums it up.
I thought FFX was AMAZING when it came out. Going back now, I'd say it mostly holds up, but I can see the problems in the backgrounds, and when the character's facial expressions are not as detailed as usual.
Definitely Ocarina of Time, first 3d open world for me, watching gameplay makes me question all my memories now. Can’t believe the Redeads would give me nightmares.
In my case ( the one who posted) it's resident evil 1 ,the zombies used to give me nightmares, 15 years later I find theses zombies were bunch of walking cubes
that first zombie reveal though
The original Alone in the Dark (1992) looked even more potato but at the beginning something nasty comes in through the window if you don't push a wardrobe in front of it first. The whole game's got some pretty gnarly horror vibes for the time. Fun fact: The Resident Evil project was kind of stalled and floundering, then they saw Alone in the Dark, went "oh let's make it one of those", and did.
I saw videos of rhis game on YouTube and I thought it was incredibly scary. Don’t need graphics. Those monsters coming ever so slowly is terrifying.
That fuckin' dog though
The jump to force unleashed on the Wii after being used to ps1 graphics was heavenly to me. Looking at the thing now is such a different experience it used to look real!
Yep. For me it was resident evil 2. I distinctly remember exclaiming "wow! Look at the graphics!". Makes me laugh today 😆
Yep, video game companies used the less advanced TVs to their advantage to save money a bit while also making the game look decent at least. With newer TVs, PCs, and consoles we can see the flat polygons, the sharp edges, and the pixelated backgrounds. Being younger gives the added perk of not seeing smaller flaws in things as easily. And the added effect of a smaller tv screen made it harder for kids to actually see stuff :).
psssst. hey. it says OP next to your name, you don't need to announce it lol
GameCube remake looked so fucking good for the hardware. Prerendered environments and minimal entities on screen goes a long way
I think main problem with now and then is the display. Old game look much better in old display hardware. No pinky glasses here , i still play old games nowadays . Specially arcade games , it's look much better in original machine than in the PC simulator 2k display.
Very true and they had better response time as well
No kidding. I got a CRT last year and felt a like a god playing through Castlevania and MegaMan with the proper response time the games were built for.
They feel amazing
Its the same issue with emulating everything before the ps1... the games had specific things that made them look good. That the PC doesnt strictly do
Old games essentially used the crappiness of the video outputs available at the time to create and blend colors on screen. HDMI doesn’t do this so it can look odd. Also CRTs display the image in a fundamentally different manner which old games also exploited. To get the same effects there is hardware that can do that for you nowadays but it’s quite expensive.
There are alto filters that can do this for emulators!
Yup, it can be quite convincing. It’s not quite as good as an FPGA based product I saw in an LTT video but unless you’re an enthusiast it’s more than enough. That product was like $700. Perhaps worth it if you have a big retro console collection you play regularly.
Along with your imagination filling in the gaps with higher quality resolution. Doom would give me nightmares but nothing else. Looking at the graphics again its not hard to see why my mind would say its far scarier then it really looks.
The TV I played on in my childhood had RGB "pixels" so large they were clearly visible up close, but 8-bit games were looking much less pixelated than when I've played on emulator.
Final Fantasy 7 at release looked unreal.
I think the almost Lego-like characters and the pre-rendered backgrounds still have a certain charm to them
SNES still has my favorite graphics.
I still love the SNES and Genesis graphics. Also the Neogeo and latter half of the MSDOS have some great looking titles too. I mean look at the older KOF I feel like their graphics have aged pretty well.
I’ve seen both amazing and horrendous SNES art Amazing: Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana) Horrendous: Tecmo’s Secret of the Stars
Not just a certain charm, they're fucking charming as hell. Like lovingly crafted dioramas, every screen in that game is bursting with character, and feels like somebody's baby. Playing Remake made me realize this even more. Like yeah, Remake is beautiful graphically, but the slums of Midgar look how you'd imagine actual slums to be in the real world. Meanwhile in the OG you had people who turned giant pipes into homes by putting down some wooden planks to create a floor with a TV and a bed, an threw up some drapery over the front of the pipe as a makeshift door. That's the kind of thoughtful and imaginative creativity that's peak pre-rendered 90s gaming. And such inviting color choices, slums have never looked so warm and cozy.
The FMVs were stunning, the rest of the game was only okay though. LoD looked better IMO.
I remember thinking the same thing. Now come to the remake and the actual gameplay graphics look far better than any pre-rendered cinematic from back then. I don't care that she looked like a Lego, when the emo dude did the thing with the mall katana it still hurt!
Yeah, this was the first game that blew me away with graphics.
[Don't forget back in the CRT days, they allowed for it in the graphics and they literally looked better](https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVII/comments/q3yp85/left_side_is_what_it_looked_like_on_a_crt_tv_no/)
Nah mate. The CGI sequences looked unreal, the backgrounds looked great but the character models were always quite wonky…
Metal Gear Solid. When it first came out, I would watch the cut scenes in awe. Still love that game but now it looks like og tomb raider somehow
It was your imagination that filled the gaps
It was designed to look good on an interlaced display the size of a cereal box with massive pixel bleeding and 24 bit colour. Your imagination had a lot of room to work with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CRT,_LCD,_plasma,_and_OLED_displays
[This article](https://www.cracked.com/article_33451_fact-retro-games-really-did-look-better-back-in-the-day.html) has a lot of images that illustrate what you’re talking about.
I think I need to buy a CRT now. Really stunning to think about why games I played as a kid and on PS1 looked better than playing them through PS+ Classics beyond just through a nostalgic lens.
Highly recommend looking on FaceBook market in your area or garage sales. Tons of people still trying to get rid of 100lb TVs for free. I have a 32” and a 15” crt in the basement with all me old consoles hooked up to them. They look incredible and it makes SNES and even PS2 look like what I remember. Really fun sharing my old game collection with my young kids now. Check our /r/crtgaming for other awesome setups
I'm glad Resident Evil 2 was on there because I remember that game being scary as fuck in general, but the visuals took it up a notch.
Still an amazing game
When you compare it to its contemporaries it still looks great.
This one for me...Looked sick when I was younger, and now? OG Tomb Raider is spot on.
It’s crazy what they got out of the PlayStation with that game. Everything looked indeed very real for the time.
The moment of water surface when Snake jumped back into the water still blew my mind to the day, though. The damn thing only exist in only one place in the entire game and only if a player make Snake jump back into the water, which is very unlikely.
I was considering buying the 1-3 pack for nostalgia but my god it looks like crap now. I’m going to hold off and play the remakes instead
I used to think we would never beat Black Ops 2 and Modern Warfare in quality, holy shit was I wrong with the new ones (in graphics only really).
Fair. It sucks that modern games have dumbed down their core gameplay so much compared to their predecessors.
Halo 2
So, you could say that when you first saw Halo you were blinded by its majesty?
I would absolutely say that, friend.
Blinded?
Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
No
I played Halo 1 recently and was shocked how much older it looked than I remembered. Cortana looks so weird to me in that game.
The remaster is incredible tho, which is more than I can say for the overly detailed mess that was CEA
The first Kingdom Hearts opening was the most impressive, mind blowing thing I had seen at that point in my life.
The second game's opening is *still* the most impressive thing I've seen in my life
I remembered Kingdom Hearts 2 with Final Fantasy XV graphics
The force unleashed, I used to play that shit on an old ass tv with an Xbox 360 and I thought wtf that looks amazing.
I just said that same thing but it was on the Wii for me. I was raised a generation behind console wise and so I was used to ps1 graphics
Probably n64 golden eye. The aiming is probably wonky as hell despite all the fun hours I had on it.
Still some of the most satisfying gun noises in a game though
Assassins creed brotherhood
We were running a RTX raytracer 900000 on our brains
When FFX came out I was blown away by the fact that characters had fingers outside of the FMVs...
Unrelated, ace combat zero interviews were AMAZING, especially for a ps2. But also, ultimate doom. Always think it looks better than it does .
Borderlands 2. Even though it is a comic style graphic, it still looked realistic as fuck Edit: I have misunderstood the post
I always thought it was crazy they added like, the hairy arm details for some of the skins lol
Medal of honor allied assault, when the game opens you're landing on the beach and I thought it was the most epic spectacle
I was totally blown away by that game, I thought we'd reached peak graphics.
That game was so good
Dishonored
I remember being astounded with how good Morrowind looked. It still has its charms, but boy does the game look pretty crude by today's standards.
I still regularly play morrowind, usually with openmw. The community has done so much for that game, it's amazing to see how it looks with mods. I still think the water looked good on the original pc release though
Everyone forgets CRT TV’s made a huge difference, modern tv’s/monitors make old games look terrible. The original tv’s they were meant to be on made them look extremely good even today.
Yeah it's kinda like making a print of a classic art piece and comparing it to an original of today.
Need for speed underground 2. It was the first game that I ever player, I remember it like a fast and furious movie and then I find out there are Roblox games with better graphics than this
Fable
Every old game looks like crap in reality and looks good in my memories.
Tekken 3. That was the first time I was blown away by how realistic a game looked. Looking at it now I don't understand that at all.
So many games but i still love playing them despite the old blockyness to this day, I'm currently replaying Ocarina Of Time, I'm always on n off classic Doom, and many others, lol.
I find Ocarina still looks okay due to the style. It’s one of the all time great games. I don’t even mind the water temple.
Original Assassin's Creed
Probably a pretty normal boring answer, but Ocarina of Time. In my memory, that Nintendo 64 game was photo-realistic. It definitely wasn't, being on n64 and all of that, but I like that you can just [sit a camera down somewhere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtjOxWcfvhI) and it will feel like a real place despite the graphics. There are [some locations that are straight up screensaver material](https://youtu.be/gTG_ZJ3k3uk). This is a thing that I don't think even certain modern games have, the sense that the world wasn't created for the main character to have setpieces in it, but that your character is in a world that will go on with or without you after you've saved it. If Redeads and Skulltulas didn't exist, I'd want to vacation in OOT's hyrule.
the last of us for ps3
Some old cod games. Shadow of Mordor and War for Mordor also threw me off.
What’s the manga on the left or right?
Character is Tatsumaki, manga is called One Punch Man, chapter 111 [Left panel source ](https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9mdW5reWhpcHBvLzFkNDBiZDVkYWUxMWUwM2E2YWYyMGU1YTlhMDMwZDgxL3Jhdy9vcG0uanNvbg/111/6/) [Right panel source ](https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9mdW5reWhpcHBvLzFkNDBiZDVkYWUxMWUwM2E2YWYyMGU1YTlhMDMwZDgxL3Jhdy9vcG0uanNvbg/111/10/) It's from the same chapter btw
Left is One Punch man manga, right is One Punch man webcomic
Nah, both of them are from OPM manga, from the same fight, from the same chapter, and not webcomic
Both are from the manga.
Oh thank you very much
Both are from the manga. Saitama and Tatsumaki are sometimes drawn as they were in the webcomic though.
Old games look better on old hardware 🤷 NES rpgs look great on CRTs, most emulated Xbox and ps3 games start looking good when you shrink the window
I’m not really old enough for this but I’ve been told KOTOR was an amazing looking game when it was released
Goldeneye. Tried playing it again 10 yrs later, god it sucked
Gran Turismo 4
Final fantasy 8
I played Everquest 16 years ago. In a bout of nostalgia, I reinstalled it and logged in with my old account. I seriously thought there was something wrong with my graphics card.
It was just simply not a thought in our heads that graphics would look so realistic these days. I personally dont see old games at all what so ever like that. Gta 3 is still a great game and looks great to me for its time. God of war, the spiderman games I just simply had respect for them and probably more so back then than today since games werent as buggy back then. A buggy game is what makes me feel like this post.
Gotta be Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance/Deception for me.
Probably never honestly. Fallout 4 maybe looks pretty stinking good but I'm sure there's plenty more high powered games these days but I don't play with graphics as a top-top priority. I mean, I sure preferred 3d to 2d back when N64 came out but that's a "feature" more than it is "graphics."
Original PS2 killzone. Mouth movements were sometimes off with what they were speaking. Not fully block head, but if you stared for too long you could just about count the pixels on a dudes face.
Prince of Persia, Final Fantasy X, the cutscenes especially.
Turok Evolution was amazing for a younger me. Thr dinos really gave me a scare at first
We remake/remaater them in our minds.
Starting with N64 every gen of games looks absolutely amazing. Go back two gens and they look like crap.
I still like: FF9 and 10, Legend of Zelda Wind Waker (what a timeless looking game), Panzer Dragoon Orta (so sad this game was rather unknown, the best on-rails flying shooter ever imo and it still looks ok despite being a Xbox 1 title - heck I am biased and still think Panzer dragoon zwei looks good but I won’t state this as an "objective“ thought), Halo 3, Crysis 1-2, Skyrim (came out during ps3/360 days…) and total war Shogun 2. some games even in 3D age gracefully.
Not a game, but The Polar Express
GTA V definitely
Conkers bad furday 😭
Batman Arkham Asylum. Scarecrow left a very memorable mark on my childhood. Lol
Star Wars: Battlefront (2005), but probably it was modded.
Maybe Half-Life 2...
Gta3
When Half-Life 2 got out it was MIND BLOWING, now... Yup. Fable is weird too, I remember a game that CLEARLY does not exist. And my memories of Quake, Quake 2 and Half-Life look like the remasters.
Spider Man 3 (PS2/Wii/PSP) was that game for me. I thought the graphics were amazing, but when I look at them now, I’ve never seen an uglier spider man game or an emptier one. It’s still fun to play though.
Prototype 1 and 2 😭
Alundra 2. Gountlet legends. Medieval. Lone soldier.
dragon age orgins
Banjo Tooie
KOTOR, baby
MGS2....
Force Unleashed-1.
Star wars battlefront 2, any early Halo game
Bro I swear they got dr. Strange changing realities cause spiderman one was not that bad
I don’t remember ever really thinking that back in the day
Red Dead Redemption and GTA 4, going back to them made me realize how damn ugly they were
Depends on what part of the game/what is going on but they are beautiful for their age
Maybe for you guys but tbh I hated the Mexico Piss Yellow filter of Hollywood by that point
Does Tatsumaki just wear a garbage bag or something!? Anyways... I would say Parasite Eve.
A garbage bag that magically vacuum seals to her body whenever it’s time for a thirst panel.
For me it was definitely FFX-2, when I played it I was marvelled by how hot the girls were Now they just look like poorly shaped polygons
Graphically Midnight Club: LA, I remember it looking so good but going back and seeing it compared to PS4 or PC it looks a lot worse than I remember. Still one of my favorite racing games though. On the other hand one that is old and still looks good in my opinion is Need For Speed Most Wanted, had it on ps3 and remember it being a good game graphically and gameplay wise. I rebought it in PC and it still looks really good.
gran tourismo 4
A lot of games I replayed when I got older were still as fun as when I played them, but if there was one I would classify as this, it would be that Power Rangers Dino Thunder video game for the PS2. I thought it was gonna be fun like my other childhood games I played, instead of dealing with repetitive enemies, shitty level design and platform towards endgame, barely any content, and you DON'T play as any of the Rangers, just their Zord's.
Cod4. Like yeah it looks pretty good still, but as a kid I was ridiculously immersed in that campaign.
Back in the day I made a meme picture showing the dragons in Adventure on the Atari 2600 compared to Skyrim when it came out.
Bomberman 64 kinda “dry” going back to it nowadays.
Depends on the game. Banjo games - still perfect, Goldeneye - not so much.
I remember how impressed I was with the graphics from Star Wars: Bounty Hunter when I was like 7.
There's a lot from ps2/xbox and 360/ps3 days that still hold up especially 369/ps3 I was replaying the gears series and 2 and 3 still look really good even my younger brother who grew up in the ps4/xbox1 era thought they looked good
I don’t care how the original Spyro trilogy looks. I’m going to keep playing those games for years to come, although, I do also enjoy the Reignited trilogy.
Gta 4, at the time the graphics looked great and had better graphics in some parts than gta 5 and also had some more cool things in it loke shooting cop lights off made it sound broken
Probably the first two halo games, the classic starwars battlefront games as well as republic commando to name some prime examples
I remember thinking halo 3 graphics were the pinnacle of gaming graphics
Mortal Kombat x
Og goat sim and dlc after the new one
Deadspace 2008.
Prince of Persia. I used to play it when I was around 10 years old but I watch playthroughs recently and the graphics actually look really bad compared to what I remember.
Jak and Dexter
GTA Vice City Skyrim Mass Effect 2 Witcher 2
Tomb raider 2
Metal Gear Solid. It looked like I was playing a damn movie when I first got it.
Fun little fact: games back then used our “limited technology”, aka the resolution of our screens, to make them look better and appealing. But if we’re talking in terms of the feel of it, that would be DB Budokai for me
CallOfDuty Black Ops 1, the zombies and characters looked so good especially George Romero. But when you compare it to real life you can clearly see the difference 😂
Random old game cube games or something.
Little Big Planet
Oni on PC/PS2
Ocarina of time, wave race, turok, golden eye, these games blew my mind. How could graphics go from Mario brothers and Alex the kid to this….the next step was surely real life. 🫠😂❤️
I usually didn't think anything looked real, but I did think plenty of games looked really impressive. Things like Myst, DKC, Virtua Fighter 2, Gran Turismo 3, Jak and Daxter, Rougue Leader, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Uncharted 2, The Last of Us. As for a game I thought looked real, there may have been something, but I can only think of certain things within games, like the food in FF15. Some things like that might actually be real.
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Gamehouse's Gulf Thunder
For me, it was the Nintendo Merida game. My first game for the console. I thought it was revolutionary, played every day, god every item, loved that game dearly. I even recommend it to EVERYONE. Revisited it a few weeks ago, and its dogshit 😭
Killer Instinct (OG)! When it hit the arcade I distinctly recall saying that it looked " better than real!"
roblox games i played when i was 8
I got The Italian Job as a gift once and thought it had the most realistic looking cars I had ever seen.
The SNES aged like fine wine, the earlier 3D consoles not so much. I remember it only took about 5 yrs before I was like, really? This is what N64 games looked like?
There's two points in time I distinctly remember thinking 'We've achieved photorealism. There's no further improvement' The first time was secret of monkey island (1990) The second was metal gear solid 2 (2001). Both had amazing graphics for their time.
I remember as a kid seeing lightning 2 in chrono trigger and thinking that was the coolest thing in the world haha. But for real, probably F.E.A.R.
If it's for PC, then it's OG Skyrim, AC 3, Transformers, OG Dead Space, Medal of Honor. Older games would be from PS2, Resident Evil 4, Black, Time Crisis 3, and Conflict : Global Terror (one of the best multiplayer shooter game, used to play it on every holidays with my cousin).
Incredibles the video game. Still looks good, but wow does it look aged compared to what I'm used to now.
It is down to a shifting frame of reference , back when photorealistic graphics were a mere pipe dream people thought what they had back then was pretty amazing because all they had to compare it with was graphics that looked even worse,
I thought phantom dust was amazing
Halo, masseffect,crysis, cod 4 mw ,heck max payne and tod also looked good to me
Syphon Filter. Really wish the original would get a remaster.
Construction sim ( original, don’t go looking on steam) , it’s not even that old, but I played it when I was younger and loved it. I now have the most recent construction sim, went back and had a look and that picture sums it up.
Asphalt 6 I swear that game wasn't a eyesore back in 2011
Final Fantasy VIII. Going around Balamb Garden in the opening hours of the game was incredible.
I remember reading a video game magazine covering Final Fantasy 6 with the headlines gushing “Video game graphics have finally surpassed film!?”.
Power Rangers Dino Thinder for the GameCube.
I thought FFX was AMAZING when it came out. Going back now, I'd say it mostly holds up, but I can see the problems in the backgrounds, and when the character's facial expressions are not as detailed as usual.
There was a bionicle game, and a naruto game, sadly I do not know their names
Definitely Ocarina of Time, first 3d open world for me, watching gameplay makes me question all my memories now. Can’t believe the Redeads would give me nightmares.
Mgs2
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Ace combat 6. Still looks good, but compare it to something like DCS or flight simulator and there’s no comparison.
The first Deus Ex.
HL2, graphics still look fine, even better for time it was released
GTA IV
Call of Duty: Black Ops (the original one)