HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THAT SEXY CAMOUFLAGE

Jedi Outcast's model detail was pretty sexy at the time

>Hitman
>nail gun mode with quad damage mode
>mon visage

>playing an RPG
>equip a new weapon or armour
>it actually appears on your character

The graphics of Mafia blew me away and I thought they couldn't get any better.

>>76517059

Jesus christ, dem footprints.

I remember getting the demo from Pizza Hut.. then, while playing it, yelling for my parents to come see "THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER"

Not only do I leave footprints... BUT THEY CAN SEE THEM AND TRAIL SNAKE.

>Play N64 and PS1 for years due to being a poorfag
>get a PS2
>"GRAPHICS WILL NEVER TOP THIS OH MY GOD WE'LL HAVE HOLOGRAMS BY 2010"
And here we are, brown n' bloom.

The character models in Goldeneye

JUGGLETITS LOOK AT WHAT DOING BACKFLIPS OVER BITCHES TO STAB THEM IN THE BACK LOOKS LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>Game where the camera is in the first person perspective
>Look down
>Legs

WOOOAAHH FUCK YEAH

>>76517260
omg bullet holes appear and stayyyyyy
lololol guys keep shooting me i want a red suit

>Crysis
>Drive car in first person
>Realize that speedometer is moving accurately with regards to speed
>mfw

>Playing Pokemon Ruby
>Walk through a puddle
>See reflection

>my face when playing Black

The shadows in Episode 1 Racer.
The explosions in Star Fox 64 (specifically the train crash).
All of Crash Bandicoot.
Rayman Advance.

>Metroid Prime
>Rain on the visor

>Rent Freedom Fighter from the Video Store.
>When I kill someone they go all floppy and weird.
>OMG THIS IS AMAZING.

Quake 2
> Fire Blaster down darkened hallway.
> Blaster flare emits light.

Super Mario World
> Mario looks like he's actually 3D.

Heavy Gear 2
> Darkside engine compared to the first game.

>playing Soul Caliber on the Dreamcast
>HOW DOES THIS GAME LOOK SO DAMN GOOD AND YET RUN AT FUCKING 60FPS I RECKON THERE IS WITCHERY GOING ON HERE

>>76517359
I hate everything using that template since then....but I love that game.

>Metroid Prime
>It's raining on Brinstar
>Look up

unreal ... 1

walk out side on first mission, little 3d fish in pond 0_0!!

>crysis
>punch a tree
>it breaks in half and falls to the ground
>pick it up and throw it around

Now how the fuck are full contact battles going on in a sprite based game?

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>>76517350

I thought I was the only one.

>Turn on Xbox 360 for the first time
>See logo startup
>HOOOOLEEEEESHIIIIIIIIIT

>play call of duty
>see one billion of people jumping from planes and landing near me just to support me
>finally not forever alone
did call of duty invent the idea that you are now finally getting helped by your pther fellow soldiers? because almost every game back than had the player featuring as a one man army.

>>76517427
Right there with you, bro. Blew my god damn mind.

>>76517427

>Metroid Prime

>Brinstar

You're doing it wrong.

Jedi Academy
>HOLY SHIT MY LIGHT SABRE LEAVES TRAILS ON WALLS
>spend hours writing shit everywhere

>playing Trespasser
>look down
HOLY SHIT
>see ragdoll physics
HORY SHIT

Zelda OoT, when your feet are at different elevations when you are standing on uneven ground....

>remember seeing the trailer for Half-Life 2
>'Oh they added cutscenes? Has to be look at the detail on G-mans face'
>it's actually in game graphics
>Jesus Christ we will be exploring other galaxies in years

>Shattered Horizon
>... the entire damn game, actually

>>76517472

>See reflections of clouds after the rain has cleared

>>76517499
Operation Flashpoint perfected this in my opinion. The majority of missions were quite difficult to do alone (with the exception of black op missions etc) and you're fellow soldiers actually made a noticeable difference. Most of the time I felt like I was taking orders from real officers and fighting with a real platoon it was so well done.
Far better than COD.

First time I played Unreal.

>>76517606

>>76517642
>Operation Flashpoint
Mother of fucking god. I almost forgot about Operation Flashpoint.

>Play Operation Flashpoint
>Escape from Le Moule to Morton via convoy
>Get out near a farm
>shoot out at the farm with communists
>Enter forrest after fight
>Almost reach Morton just to see that everything got fucked by communist tanks and soldiers
>The last remaining soldiers try to run over the street
>They get shot and I'm the only one surviving

Bestest game ever.

Not graphical, but the game GTA3 blew my mind. It was the first game where i felt that i can do ANYTHING

Not graphical but the destructable buildings in Red Faction Guerilla is incredible.

Also blowing up skyscrapers by shooting them with guns in Earth Defense Force is unforgetable

>>76517359
>playing black
>black jack reaction face
i c wat u did their

>Friend brings over PS2
>brings Vice City
>I've never seen ps2 graphics before
OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE BEST AND THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY BETTER!!!

>Metroid Prime

>random flash of Light

>See Samus' face reflected in the visor

Super Mario 64. Bob-omb battlefield.
Stand under the checkerboard moving platform.
MARIO GETS SQUISHED BY IT.

Ruby/sapphire
Hold B on Acro Bike: DO BUNNY HOPS.
USE THEM TO HOP UP THE ROCKS ON THE PATH UP THE VOLCANO.
Also, that BOOMP sound you hear when you walk into a wall? IT PLAYS FASTER AND SLOWER DEPENDING ON IF YOU'RE WALKING, BIKING, OR WHEELYING.

Playing The Void and I went to the grotto.

All of a sudden nothing matters any more.

>>76517774

Same here but with Morrowind.

>Crash Bandicoot 2
>First level
>It's raining

>Play a Tetris game after the 16-bit era
>Blocks have swooshing effect when you quick drop them

>>76517824
yeah i liked that in Bad Compan, too. This was pretty mind blowing

>playing splinter cell for the first time
>get to part with curtain
>curtain moves according to the way I move it

The rain in F1 2010.

Pic related, dat rain.

>Prince of Persia is rolling around in the dust dodging enemies, kicking ass, and chewing bubblegum.
>Lookin' a little dirty there, Prince. That's p. cool.
>Fall into a fountain.
>Prince gets out dripping water, and the dust is washed off his clothes.

>Mon visage.

>age of conan
>turn on godrays
>jump in water
>sun shining through clouds shining through grills of a fish net

>mfw PS1 graphics on a portable system

12 O'CLOCK, ENEMY, A-T SOLDIER, 500.

A-T SOLDIER, IS HISTORY.

duke3d
>holy shit you have a jetpack and can also look up and down to shoot enemies
blade of darknes
>hot damn DYNAMIC SHADOWS this is so awesome
soldier of fortune
>you can dismember enemies?whoaaaa
red faction
>destructible environment
Farcry
>grass moves away as you walk trough it
>DAT WATER
etc etc

I can probably go on forever.
Only recently games have stopped being innovative....

>Severance
>Shadows that are not blobs of darkness around a character

>15 year old
>Playing the Super Nintendo and Super Mario World for the first time in 1991
>Transparencies
>Smooth rotations
>That "squarry pixelated" transition
>HOLY MOTHER FUCKER THIS IS SO AWESOME!

>5 yrs old, baby's first console
>Turn it on
>HOLY SHIT THAT FUCKING STARTUP MUSIC

Made me had to go and piss in the bathroom everytime due to the anticipation.

>GTA3
everything about it.

>Playing the first Red Faction for the first time
>Burrowing through a wall

>>76517309
>playing Cybernator on SNES
>Whoa!! Bulletholes when I shoot the walls

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>>76518068
>Playing Red Faction 2
>You can't dig your way around the level anymore

>Play super mario brothers
>Screen scrolls smoothly instead of one screen loading at a time

Also, Pokemon red/blue.
>use cut in tall grass
LAWN MOWER

So sad they took it out in diamond pearl.

>>76518033
I wasn't 5year old then but..

>that tech demo

>mario 64
>movement in 3d space
HOLY SHIT

>>76518001

>Farcry
>Water is full of fish

Hooooooly fuuuuuuuck

>>76518016
Lina-san, I fap to you every night

♥

>Playing Marathon back in the day
>My face when I could look up and down

>>76518160

did you also get the cd with korn on it? I thought i was the only one who played the ps1 demo

>HL2
>manhacks illuminated by my flashlight bouncing off walls in a narrow hallway with realistic sparks flying everywhere
>bullets piercing glass, shattering it piece by piece exatcly where the bullet hits it

I don't remember which game startet it, but when rain stopped falling through solid surfaces I shed a single tear of joy.
And raindrops leaving ripples on water. I think I saw that in Morrowind the first time.
Facials animations in Half Life 2 where also a "YAY" moment for me.

>>76518124
>>76518068
Man, Red Faction 2 was such a disappointment.

Shit plays like Halo.

>>76518160

I... I still have it. Oh man, the memories.

>>76518238
I kept playing that demo disc over and over

It had Battlearena Toshinden(spelling?), Loaded and Crash Bandicot among some other demos

>Basically the entire experience of playing Zone of Enders for the first time

>>76517857
was the light inside her helmet? :I

>Go home to a friend
>My friend says hey look at this new game my dad got me.
>It's DOOM for DOS
>Boot up first level
>DAT MUSIC
>DAT GRAPHICS
>DAT MONSTER

>running up some stairs in a third person game
>character actually has an animation for this, instead of just 'sliding' up the stairs with the default running animation.

For that matter,
>attempting to roll up/down stairs in MGS2
>CRUNCH

>playing Planescape: Torment as a Mage
>DEM FUCKING SPELL GRAPHICS HOLY SHIT!

>first time playing FF7 almost 14 years ago
>There ain't no gettin' offa this 3D train we're on!

Douk 3d

We got some computer for free when I was a kid from my dad's friend which turned out to be some aging gaming pc or something. It came strapped with a bunch of games I never knew of

Duke 3d was one of them. Had a lot of fun in the world of 3d

>>76518332
What's the latest game? Rebellion or? Can't remember

People thought it was awesome that you could demolish buildings in it.. they seem to have forgotten how awesome the first game was

>>76517931
>Playing Splinter Cell Co-op
>You have to use your own partner as a ladder

>>76518081

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I LOVE THAT GAME!

(And why the bad ending is cooler that the good one?)

>Postal 2
>When you slash enemy, there are actual organs inside
FUCK YEAH

First time i left the water in Star Fox Adventures, THE FUR IS WET.

>S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
>bullets drop AND bounce around dependent on surface and angle
>my fucking face

>>76518277

>HL2
>Break a crate
>Breaks into small bits of wood
>Keep hitting the wood
>Eventually the pieces get as small as they can be
>They break into two identical pieces of wood
>Infinite wood

>>76518277

>>76518395
>samefag

Also forgot to mention
>that rocketlauncher with x-ray

>>76517359
>shoot 3,300 FPS weapon
>hits enemy 100 feet away 3/10th of a second later
Goddamn annoying bullshit, the pistol was the fastest weapon in the game!

>Q3DM0
>Spawn
>See reflection of myself
>My face

>>76518238

I still have mine :)

Pic extremely related.

>GTA LCS
>GTA3 graphics and gameplay with motorbikes... ON A FUCKING PORTABLE SYSTEM

was no one else impressed by this?

>>76518395
The newest one is Red Faction Geurrila, I haven't played it though. But it looks like instead of tunnelling it's just Demolish Everything: The Game. It apparently had a horrible PC port, worse than GTA IV.

There's a new one called Red Faction Armageddon coming out.

>>76517350
>>76517472
>>76517606
Hell yea motherfucker

>Used to playing games with death animations/enemies disappearing one way or another with not much variety
>Play Gears of war at a friends house for the first time
>not that interested until I walk over a locus corpse
>HOLY SHIT RAGDOLL AND GIB PHYSICS I AM IN HEAVEN

>>76518452
Ahh ... Sweet memories ... :')

>>76518375
Oh man I did this so many times, never gets old

>Shivering Isles
>Look at the sky

>Splinter Cell
>walk towards hallway with light shining through blinds
> pass under light and the shadows actually move across my body
>my face

>Playing DKC2
>Stickerbush Symphony

Not graphical, but that fucking soundtrack

>2002
>morrowind
>DAT NIGHT SKY
>my face

>Oblivion
>Persistent corpses
>mfw I grab a corpse, drag it and throw it off a bridge
>Somewhere 100 hours later i'm swimming and I find this corpse

>>76518643
>360 on desk /w computer monitor in that comic

>watching coat moving around
thought it looked awesome
>using flashlight in dark places
>Dynamic shadows and lights
WHOA!!

>>76518678

except you didn't because that doesn't happen

>>76518717
Who doesn't play 360 on a PC monitor?

>>76518670
Dat night sky still looks fucking amazing.

I should make a screen saver out of it

>>76518643
>never played Morrowind
>360 on computer monitor
Sure is casual fuck in here.

>Nine years old
>Metal Strom
>Flipping the level for the first time.

>Bioshock
>waters

>playing red dead redemption
>go to blackwater and see clock on building
>its arms move
>pause the game to look at the clock in my pause menu
>both clocks match up
>my fucking face

>>76518810
wat

>Uncharted 2 wet t-shirts in the water
>my face when the blood splatter on the walls in Half Life

>>76518678

>out of space in my pack
>dump half my inventory in Bravil's river
>come back to it 5 days later
>IT'S ALL STILL THERE

Oh god, I was amazed

>Dead Space
>open door
>surprise zero oxygen environment, wall is ripped open
>dead silence
>stop to look out at the planet through the gaping hole
>a leaking pipe sends a stream of liquid bubbles floating across my vision as debris tumbles gracefully in the distance

I wanted to just stand there and take it all in, but my air was running out.

>Republic commando
>Blood and gore on the visor
Holy shi-
>A leasr wipes it off
HOLY SHIT

>My first time with the Crysis Demo...
>mfw

>Buy HL2
>Graphics are fking amazing
>Meet Alex, DAT ASS
>Can't finish game because masturbate furiously any time I play

>First time playing oblivion
>Walk outside sewers
>Actually Gasp

It was my first open world game. I loved it.

My mom found it impressive on Sled Storm how I knocked over a snowman on one lap, and then when I went past it on the next lap, it was still destroyed.

I guess she thought it would reset details like that every lap?

>Be little as fuck
>Mario 3
>First Raccoon Suit

Just cause 2
>look in the background
>see a mountain thinking it's a background image and a blimp flying
>later on taking a plane and flying to the blimp for shits and giggles
>blimp actually getting closer
>realization
HOLEEEEE SHIT

>>76518766

>>76518977
DAT MUSIC

>download Zork, the text adventure game, in high school onto my Windows 98
>"There is a mailbox here"
>type "open mailbox"
>it opens.
>whoah

>Playing Silent Hill Homecoming
>No loading screens between rooms.

Only good part about that game

Playing UNREAL for the first time (when was it? 98 i guess)
Get out from the prison ship.
Look up.
See the sky for the first time.

SO BEAUTIFUL.
I spent like 10 minutes just watching reflexes, birds and moving clouds...

>>76517427
>Brinstar

That's Tallon IV you fucking mroonie.

Redurpted.

>TvC
>Morrigan not using her same old sprite.

>>76518068

What's the source of this pic, by the way?

>Max Payne
>shoot wall, bullet hole appears and a second later crushed concrete falls out
>Max's jacket moving along dynamically with movement speed

>>76518963
>Can't finish game because masturbate furiously any time I play

Happened to be but with Dead or Alive 2

>Be young and easily influenced
>Juggle meter (set to 99 years)
>skimpy outfits
>full camera control on pause

rainbow six 3: raven shield. not only ragdoll physics, but BLOOD SPATTER. pink if it sprayed from far away, red if next to a wall.

>>76517499

The Marines in Halo:Combat Evolved were around before COD. And they were pretty good on anything lower than legendary. The AI in COD was good because the important characters were invincible for the entire game.

Also various little things in Halo: Combat Evolved still impress me.

The explosions of grenades and Rockets STILL look realistic. Go ahead, boot up Halo: Combat Evolved and tell me those explosions aren't the most realistic ever.

The guns were also realistic too, when you ran out of bullets in your magazine, the chief would have to rechamber the first bullet upon reloading.

I loved the battlefield scarring that occured in the first game as well. You could come into a room, after a battle was done, and examine it, and find out exactly what went down.

Every Alien, had its own shade of blood. you could see where enemies that bled were running right before they died, every single weapon had it's own bullet decal, causing variety to occur, and you can call out what killed what with what.

Not even the Halo games after Combat Evolved got this right. Before Halo 2 came out there used to be thread on Bungie.net that was basically CSI, and everyone had to figure out how that squad of covenant died. And the winner got a prize.

Now that place is full of children, bitching about Armor lock.

>Playing Republic Commando
>Knife droid with my wrist blade
>Oil splatters on screen
>Helmet systems wipe it off
>my face

>playing BLACK the first time
>HOLY SHIT LOOK AT DEM GRAPHICS I BET WE'LL HAVE COMPLETELY REALISTIC GRAPHICS IN 2010
>mfw BLACK graphics and still no realistic graphics in 2010

>Playing MGS3
>On the Virtuous Mission, about to approach the bridge crossing over the river
>There's a small steep cliff to get to the bridge
>Dive over it
>Hear that item chime when you shoot for food, become confused
>Realize that when I dove, I fucked jumped and landed on a snake
I will never forget that. I tried on many occasions to replicate it and I could not.

>>76519034

>Play Zork for the first time a few months ago
>"open mailbox"
>"get pamphlet"
>mfw

Uncharted 2
Unlock Donut Drake
(◎_◎;)

>>76518977
>Just Cause 2
>have to drive a car several kilometres through hordes of Panau troops
>"gee this would be so much easier in a helicopter."
>get a brainwave
>steal military gunship, grapple car to underside
>fly to destination and drop it off neatly
>youcandoanything.jpg

>>76519067
some squirrel from Animaniacs. Slappy the Squirrel's nephew.

>>76519053
you got trolled

There is no loading screens in Silent Hill you fucking weaboo.

>Battlefield 2
>not only do you load mags, THEY'RE TIED TOGETHER
>YOU PULL IT OUT AND FLIP IT AROUND HOLY SHIT

>>76517299
>Halo

>>76519034
There is a door here.
>Open door.
Cannot open door.
>Unlock door.
With what?
>Key.
You have no such item.
>Inventory
You are carrying:
-A bronze key
-A bag of turnips
-Eight cents
>Open door with bronze key.
The door is locked; it cannot be opened.
>Unlck door with bronze key.
I do not recognize the command "unlck."
>Unlock door with bronze key.
Your bronze key gets stuck in the lock. There is a useless door here.
>Fuck you, game. Fuck you.

>Playing Dawn of War
>Special melee finishes
>mfw

>>76518892
This but in stalker

>Near the start of the game I have about 600 pistol rounds
>realise i don't really use the pistol all that much
>drop about 550 of them
>days later I come back before attempting the rush to pripyat
>they're all still there in a big pile

>>76519151
>i fucked jumped

still, neat.

>F.E.A.R.

>Bitches die in violent ragdolls when i kill them
>Close range shotgun liquifies enemehs in slow motion

>Alone in the Dark (1991)
Holy crap, are those POLYGONS? And not a bit of raytracing in sight? :3

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

>corruption on your suit while in Dark Aether
>Walking through the hologram plants
>The computer virus enemies that actually froze up your suit OS and made you reboot
>Quadraxis

Metroid Prime

> Space Pirate lurking theme
>no space priates
>Just got thermal visor
>switch it on
>Glowing pirates from the walls
>HOLY SHIT

>Chozo ghosts

Metroid Fusion

>walk into room
>see S-AX
>it sees you
>OH FUCK OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK RUN RUN RUN RUN FUUUUUCK

>Nightmare boss in sector 5

And that is why metroid is the SOTYAY

>Quake
>Kill first guy and he drops backpack, backpack is rotating
>Rotating
>Rotating

>>76519118
While I was impressed with Halo when it came out, I wasn't really impressed with the details you described

>Tony Hawk 3
>when you slide, the board gets worn out little by little

Shadow of the Colossus.

The colossi were cool, sure, but DEM ANIMATIONS for Wander. To me, he still feels like more of a real person than most current-gen characters - losing his balance, stumbling on terrain, being knocked about while climbing, etc. I'm not saying I want every character to turn into a klutz, but robotic animations these days piss me off because they ruin all the work that was put into DEM POLYGONS AND PHOTO REALISTIC TEXTUREZZZ.

I think Drake from Uncharted is one of the only current-gen characters who comes close to that feeling.

>>76517863
This is the single most bleak and oppressive game I have ever played. I feel drained and desperate every time I boot it up. Also

>first encounter with the brothers

Holy fuck.

>>76519067
animaniacs

Sonic Unleashed.
Adabat.
Dat waterfall.

>The AI in COD was good because the important characters were invincible for the entire game.

No, that makes them terrible, but immortal. good AI would be if they took cover and avoided getting shot, instead of just magically surviving a million deaths.

Max Payne 2:
Ragdolls

Starcraft: wow look at those cinematics

>>76519067
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>>76519280
>Halo 2
fix'd

Also smalltime
Why look down when you can see your legs while looking straight?

>sonic adventure 2
>chao garden
>mfw when you can build up speed and run on the walls, even with eggman

>>76519067
Your question makes me sad.

FFX

Holy shit the clouds move and grass sways in the wind
Glorious immersion

> You are now aware even FFXIII with its fancy graphics doesn't even do this

>>76519645

double feet kick is all-time legendary

>>76519580

I meant GOOD as in, they got work done, I am saying this in a negative context.

>Uncharted
>start running
>Drake's shirt bunches and folds as his body moves

>RDR
>get on horse
>horse's ass muscles flex as it walks

>Black and White 2
>Meh. Its pretty okay, though totally different from the first and not what its supposed to be, a god-simulator. Its just an over-simplified RTS. Oh well, its fun for a bit.
>Oh look, the Sunset!
>Dat Water...
>Dat Sunset...
>my face all the way

> sometime in 1993
> friend of mine has a proper 486 PC, I don't
> showing me DOOM
> walk around the 3D world
> YYYOOOOOO
> go outside on a balcony
> see hills
> crank up the screen size just to look at the awesome scenery
> YYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
> friend says: yo, you can also switch to high res mode
> switch to high res
> YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
> motherfucking photorealistic hills FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

For all underagefags: DOOM1, at least in the early versions had a high-res/low-res switch. lowres being 160x200 in the 3D view to improve the framerate, "highres" being just normal 320x200 VGA resolution. Yeah, 3D in full VGA resolution was looking fucking awesome back then

>>76519513
This is one of the main reasons that I can't enjoy Dead Rising 2, and a LOT of other games. More game studios need to use motion capture if they can't do decent animations.

>Go to a gamestore
>They've got Super Smash Bros. on a display N64
>Play it with my friend
>Have superfun, but never play it again

>Years later, get my gamecube
>Super Smash Bros. Melee is waiting to get popped in
>THAT OPENING CINEMATIC

>Playing halo reach
>get in scorpion
>shoot
>shells come out the back
>get out of tank and push shells around

OMFG GAME CHANGING

also

>reach again
>get in tank
>plasma launcher takes out turret
>tank can still be driven
>mfw i proceed to chase people around and actually squash a couple

>>76519656
>You now realize Eggman was one fast fat fucker ever since Sonic 2

>>76519747
oh god this

>>76519751

only true fpsers remember doom running slow

>Missile doors on the Raptor actually opening up in Ace Combat 3

>Gamecube just came out
>Melee just came out
>Stitching on mario's jeans

>Devil May Cry 4
>cutscenes
>mfw the character models make crytek 2 look like utter shit and it's running optimally on a mid-range gaming rig

>>76519061

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>The first armored core
>All the potential parts
>color pallet
>Icon creation
>Versus mode with a bro

Fucking ballin back then.

Cold Winter on PS2
>high-powered weapons blow enemies apart
>blood pools under corpses
>ragdoll physics

Counter-Strike: Source
>first time seeing a grenade go off in cs_office, shattered coffee mugs, broken electronic bits, trash knocked out of the bins
>blood decals and bullet holes, glass breaking
>phys'd guns, bombs and equipment

Gears of War
>outside the imulsion factory, notice rivulets of rainwater from the roofs bounce off my character
>kicking ragdolled corpses around
>obscenely detailed gore if you took the time to look

Assassin's Creed
>city guards actually speak the appropriate languages
>you could tell how many throwing knives you had simply by looking at the bandoleers on Altair
>freerunning

Red Dead Redemption
>critters, wolves, bears, rabbits, raccoons, possums, wild hog, deer, elk, goat, sheep, pig, cougar, wildcat, snakes, beavers, and a fuckton of birds, all uniquely and accurately animated
>headshots leave bigass exit wounds
>enemies clutch at wounds, can be disarmed, crippled then executed

Minecraft
>my first fucking cave

>Halo Reach
>Campaign
>No, anon, YOU are Noble Six!

>farcry 2
>weapons rust over time, jam more and more
>holy shit
>pick guy who starts with flamethrower as heavy weapon
>greatest fire effects i have ever seen, to this day in a game
>fire spreads across the plains like a mother fucker
>spend hours lighting fires, and then running from them
>HORY SHET

>Playing ground control
>Zooning the camera all around the landscape while enjoying the beautiful envirmonent
>Attend to my troops, zoom in. Shit looks awesome with all the details
>Get into a firefight
>Shells starts popping out as the marines open fire

>>76519067
Dude, are you not American? Because if so, that would stop a whole lot of "OMG UNDERAGEB&"

>>76520071

you havent been gaming very long :\

>>76519920
>make crytek 2 look like utter shit
>crytek 2
>something making it look like shit
>crytek 2

Nope, CryEngine 3 isn't out yet, silly, but this will only apply for its PC version, of course.
Also, it is cryengine, crytek is the developer's name.

>Dreamcast
>import Godzilla game
>smash up buildings
>holy shit the buildings have actual detail inside them

This thread makes me happy. There are still many great things in videogames. Don't always be so cynical about them /v/.

>Half Life 2 teasers leak out
>genuinely believe graphics will never get any better

>The Spirits Within is released
>holy shit this CGI is totally photorealistic
>watch it again recently
>notice how wooden the characters are and how horribly they emote compared to modern video games.

>half-life 2 episode 1 if i recall correctly
>on top of some shed looking thing
>jump down, zombies, zombies everywhere
>grav-gun
>tear zombie in half with a sawblade from grav-gun

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>max payne
>get shotgun in first level
>dive sideways and shoot at dresser
>pause the game

fucking bullets, fucking trails, fucking splinters everywhere

>Doom 3
>full-motion video on in-game monitors

>>76520071
Assassin's Creed
>city guards all instantly know you just killed somebody, even if you are seven miles from the corpse

>retarded people shoved you, and ONLY you into guards, causing you to have to run from them. This usually happens as soon as you are about to escape from a bunch of guards giving chase, or JUST after you successfully became anonymous after being chased for five straight minutes.

>freerunning allows you to neatly run up the same wall and fall down again seventeen times before grabbing the ledge on the wall you're climbing

I still loved this game, but it has some fucking issues.

>DIE HARD ARCADE
>ALL OF IT

>>76520314

it was...ravenholm..

>hl2
>combine headshot with revolver
>BOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPP

MY FUCKING FACE

>Mirror's Edge
>Max everything
>End of first level
>Papers flying around
>HOLY SHEET

>>76520204
Oh God, the first time I watched the spirits within I nearly crapped my pants

also dat ending ;_;

>>76520358
THIS

Also, Halo 2. Those graphics were awesome for their day. Kirby 64 as well.

>>76520204
I think the black guy still looks good (and the one they did for that Animatrix short). They didn't (and still don't) know how to give white people skin pores and wrinkles without making them look old, though.

>>76520353
Assassin's Creed

>lepers shove you every time you come even remotely near one
>preemptively punch one to avoid getting pushed into a guard
>ASSASSIN!
FFFUUUUUUUU

>Half-Life 2
>Aquire gravity gun

it might not sound like a big deal
but the first time i shot a pistol in resident evil and the shell casing tinked on the floor!
fucking blew me away!

>bad company 2
>MOTHERFUCKING DESTRUCTION

>>76520535


such a bonerkill when i realised the houses were scripted destruction, not bricks everywhere

>>76520505
>Super grav gun
>Picking up metrocops by the chest

>>76520400
shit dude i love Halo 2 too but I think you mean the covenant not the combine lol

>>76519061
>>76519061
>>76519061
>>76519061
>>76519061
this
oh god this

I became a man that day

>The first time you dig around in your base in Sim Ant
>Your first expedition to find your queen some precious food.

I WILL NOT FAIL YOU MY QUEEN!

>Arkham Asylum
>Get outside to the yard for the first time.
Pic related.

>First time I played Metal Gear Solid 2 demo.
>Aged 13
>HOLY SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, THAT LOOKS FUCKING REAL!
>OMG LOOK AT THOSE SHADOWS
>HE GETS WET
>YOU CAN SHOOT THE SCREEN!
>LOOK AT THAT RAIN, GOD DAMN

I was also amazed at the first MGS, but that's been covered. Also:

>Baldurs Gate, Dark Alliance
>Dem ripples
>Dose faces
>Dat lighting

>Early screenshots of Tekken Tag for PS2 surface on the internet/gaming magazines

>DAT GRASS. IT'S.... BEAUTIFUL.

>I was still 12 years old at the time

>>76520605

DEM RIPPLES

i ruined my analog sticks in the first cellar

>dead space
>big 'o monster bitch

>Gran Turismo
>graphics just can't get any better than this
>play it again
>notice the horrible jaggies everywhere

Thank god for ePSXe's aliasing and resolution options.

>>76520505
/thread

first time playing crysis when i saw that when you picked up a chicken it would look around made me smile like a retard

>world in conflict
>sheer amount of explosions and shit going on
>first game i played on a widescreen 1920x1024

BLOWN THE FUCK AWAY

>>76520602
>>Arkham Asylum
>Get outside to the yard for the first time.

>>76520663
I was also impressed by the smashing animations/gore. The way the body parts and splinters would fly around the screen was mesmerising.

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>>76520605
fuckin A!
the first time i shot the bucket of ice behind the bar on the ship!!!
it melts in real time?!?!

>trying out Silent Storm demo
>a guy in the window shoots one of my soldiers
>decide to return favor with LMG
>full auto window
>it breaks into pieces, bricks start flying out of the wall, bullets hit some explosives behind and blow up entire building corner, sending dead enemy flying on the street where he hits the bushes
>MY FUCKING FACE

>Halo: Reach
>fucken sweet melee kills

>>76520752

>hands with individual fingers

>>76520685
Try playing stunt race FX for the N64
That was AMAZING graphics for the time.
Played the crap out of it, too.

the saboteur

>on top of a building in a nazi part of town
>noir, smooth as fuck
>headshot with sniper rifle
>the blood splatter

those smooth transitions from noir to colour when you were in a nazi controlled part fucking blew my fucking shit so far away

>>76520576
>look at me guise i am trolling lolol

>>76520787

every tnt barrel i moved vases to and set them off

those physics and gibs were the first i had seen before and they made me want to cry

i still play through it with my bro every now and then, it's such a bro game

>GTA4
>mfw physics

I came with the force of a thousand suns.

>>76520787
Or the bottles realisticallt smashing?
Or the magasines falling all over the place?

Shit, that bar was a treasure trove of "next gen" depth.

>Playing Doom
>Use rocket launcher on imp
>Bloodsplosion

Also, reflection of Samus's eyes on Metroid Prime.

>Mario 64
>Jump into level
> FUCKAN RIPPLE EFFECTS?!

pretty much all of them are from Mario64 for me.

The water in Super Mario Sunshine

Nathan Drake when he got wet in Uncharted

Euphoria physics in GTA IV

Bullet wounds in character models in The Punsher

When you walk into a curtain and it drapes over your realistically (Red Dead Redemption)

Motion capture in Heavenly Sword

Destroying my first structure in Red Faction: Guerilla

Thats all I can think of...

>>76520828
>saboteur
>realise that you can plant all your remote controlled explosives and then trigger them
>see huge german supply depot with all the tanks, armored cars and soldiers
>my face

>Half-Life 2
>dat physics man
I spent 20 minutes throwing bottles at people

>SW: Force Unleashed
>Use Force Grip on stormtrooper
>He tries to shoot me while tumbling like motherfucker
>My face

physics in RTS

Neat.

>Final Fantasy VIII Demo
>Summon Leviathan
>Fuckin transparency/glow shader effects on PS, wtf?
>Dat high resolution, artistically nice texture
>SUDDENLY WATERFALL

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Battle Realms

Dem graphixx... Dem fucking attack animations... Whoa...

Lunar 1 on Sega CD

>The cut-scenes in the originals
>The first voice acting in an RPG goddamn ever
>Magic Emperor Ghaleon raping everything

Lunar 2 on Sega CD

>Your realization that Luna is a fucking corpse in Eternal Blue
>Ghaleon redeeming himself

Alternatively...
>Listening to Luna's song in the first remake
>That faggot zombie mutant white dragon constantly heals itself!
>DEM BROMIDES

My most weeaboo moments ever.

>>76519751
Yeah. "Outdoor" areas was all the rage back then.

Looking familiar, bro?

>>76520987
>use force grip
>float a stormtrooper above his friend
>they grab on to each other
>lift them up high
>they scream as their hands slip
>the other stormtrooper falls down and smashes to the ground violently, yelling "nooo"
>my face when

Everything that Bungie showed for Halo 2 at E3

it never happened

THAT BEING SAID
be 13
play Halo Ce when it comes out on the HUEGBOX
walk out of that escape pod
MY GOD THIS IS LIKE REAL LIKFE
BROTHER BROTHER BROTHER BROTHER
COME LOOK AT DIS GRAFIX

original red faction

attempting to blow holes in every wall to get through levels different ways

and blasting huge tunnels out until i run out of nades or missiles

>>76517163
>get dragon quest IX
>you get to make your character!!
>equiping different armor/weapons actually changes your appearance
>OH SHIII----

>Mario gets muddy in Mario Sunshine

>playing mafia 2
>have physx on
>last part before the final fight
>use tommy gun to shoot the fuck out of everyone
>once everyone is dead, look back
> the room i just left looks like the lobby scene from the matrix after the fight

Seriously all that happens is stuff stays on the ground but it makes a fucking huge difference.

>>76520663
>I ruined my analog sticks

The first Mario Party

>I ruined my fucking hands
>My goddamn controller is broken

The NPC animations in Thief seemed so natural at the time, compared to the stiff ones in Half-Life: the way they'd peer into the darkness looking for you, or their footwork during a swordfight...

No reaction image, only another, more recent graphical detail that I found interesting.

>>76521102

:O :O :O :O

>Motorstorm
>Dirt splashes on the screen
>Vehicles leave incredibly detailed dirt tracks behind them
>Pendulum's 'Slam' starts playing
>Motion blur, incredible sense of speed.
>Bump into other drivers, sparks fly
>Crash an opponent, blows in to bits and pieces
>Crash a motorcycle driver
>Havok physics and shit
>Pause the game constantly to see all the small details

>>76520828
>implying noir means black and white

>characters mouth moves while he talks

Pacman - 5 characters on screen at once. Each ghost has his own personailty.

>>76521232
>>76521232
>>76521232

it was more the nature of the entire game that made those sections feel incredibly noir
what with the over emphasized drama, sexual enticement, violence etc etc etc

Realistic interactions with cloth.

I remember this shit from Bloodrayne. You could tear nazi flags with your blades. It looked awesome.

>>76521305

>Watermelons
>Any game

>Windwaker
>Each NCP is unique, there are no clones

>Shooting watermelons, condiment bottles and all manner of other things in the galley of the prologue ship in MGS2.

>>76521340

that game was a joke, hello slashing people into 08734987349834 pieces and the same enemy coming atcha for a whole level

>Max Payne
>Reload guns
>Magazines actually fall to the ground

>driving on gta 4
>crash into wall

OMFG HE WENT THROUGH THE WINDSCREEN WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!

>>76521232

it was the lack of colour and change of music which led to a sub-sequential change in mood coupled with the overall dramatic storyline that made the game noir and those sections have a noir as fuck feel to them

>>76517371
metroid prime: the reflection of samus on the visor

>Characters reflection in a mirror

kane and lynch 2 dog days had this kind of effect on me

the incredible voice acting and storyline gave the game such a gritty feel

>>76521357
>>76521379

>Metroid Prime
>equip X-Ray Visor
>realize that the symbols for each weapon are the hand gestures Samus makes inside her gun
>my face

>Maruo sunshine gamecube
>Sliding on a wet surface!
>Sliding in mud #_#
>Mud appears on Mario
>CLEANING SELF IN WATER/WET SURFACE?!

Repeated for hours and still do it whenever I can, needless to say...
>I came.

>The first time you get to fly around the world map.

For me it was FF4. I'd never seen that before, it was glorious.

>Play Darkness
>Watch ingame TV
>Realise that i've been watching it for a couple of hours
>Mon fucking visage

>Play Half- life 2 for the first time
>Gravity Gun

>you have to reload your gun?

Soldier of Fortune 2, shooting an enemy through a glass window, shards of broken glass stick in his body.

>GTA IV
>Driving with Roman to his house
>Accidently hit someone
>HOLYYY SHEEET
>Spend next 9 days running people over at mach 3 speed and laughing hard whilst listening to The Journey

best vidya moment?

>Beginning of Half Life 2 (Orange Box)
>Combine forcing you to put an empty can in the bin
>Decide to do something different this time round
>Throw can at his face
>Get achievement

>mon visage

>>76517059

>Breath of Fire 2
>Save that one dude surrounded with the eyes
>He comes to my town
>Climbs into some strange machine that was apparently under the town the whole time
>THE FUCKING TOWN NOW FLIES AND CAN BE NAVIGATED

max payne 2
i found the haunted house amazing

and any chance i got to watch the tv's in the game i did, that or anything that had sound

>Realizing you actually need plumbing and water in Sim City 2000
>Flipping to grid-view
>I need Pipes, PIPES EVERYWHERE!

>>76521710

Aah, good memories... Thanks for reminding me

Not exactly graphical, but one of the things that made me literally pause the game and put the controller down was the music in Halo 2.

Graphically I'd have to go with what someone else said about shooting the condiments and shit in the tanker in MGS2.

I spent a hour trying to shoot the things on the top shelf, then I looked behind me.

>OoT
>Okay graphics, but....
>Small movie of Fire Arrows coming down from the sun
>That fucking camera direction

>Also, small movie after Ganon knocks Link's Master Sword away and screams in front of our protagonist, with lightning in the background

3D Zelda have fucking amazing camera direction, better than most other videogames and movies today.

In all seriousness, Halo. It was a huge step upwards from the PS1 graphics I was used to. Now I find the graphics vague as fuck.

>Call down artillery strike for the first time in Company of Heroes
>GIBS
>GIBS EVERYWHERE

I can't remember the game but...

>Decide to try sniping
>Aim crosshair right at head
>Fire and see cloud of dust strike below targets feet
>Realise bullets are affected by gravity
>MFW