RoadHazard
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Probably because a single "premium" car model from GT5+ is more complex and detailed than the entirety of GT3. Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration, but you get the point.
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Old games with "photorealistic" graphics
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Probably because a single "premium" car model from GT5+ is more complex and detailed than the entirety of GT3. Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration, but you get the point.
I agree with you that SH3 face animation has been surpassed this gen and in some cases last gen. However, I'm still in love with them, with how good and realistic the animation look (especially given it's a PS2 game), with lots of nuances, small in-perfections and little details that give those characters life.
Captain.Arabia
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PS2 GT3 definitely blew me away, especially the night stage with water on the road, and you could hear the tyres grinding on the water-filled road. It also had the smoothest 60 fps replay I have ever seen at that time. When GT4 came out, it had some frame rate/tearing issues on the replays that took away from the awesome feel, and most modern racing sims now always have 30 fps replay. GT3 was ahead of its time, and showcased the ps2's power back in the day.
Did you even read what they were talking about?
fatherKratos
Neo Member
During its days, used to feel like this with almost every other PS2 game.
supernormal
Member
It probably is, but the whole thing falls apart when you got those same GT3 cars running beside them and the shadows look like staircases.
Prototype Viktor
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Street Fighter : The Movie (Arcade game):
I remember I saw this in an arcade in Greece and I couldn't believe how real it look like.
Toonstruck:
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Real like actor (Christopher Loyd) in a Cartoon world ala Roger Rabbit.
Harvester:
A lot of point and click adventures blended in real life actors in the mid 90's. This is easily one of the fucked up games ever made.
Riven:
Looks good even today. Imagine how it was back in 1997
The Last Express:
It was a cartoon game, but they filmed and made everything with real actors then drew it in making all the characters look very real and lifelike. One of my favorite games of all time.
Phantasmagoria:
Again blending real actors who's performing in front of a bluescreen. This was the first FMV game I played, and it blew my mind back in the days.
Tex Murphy:
Tex Murphy went a slightly different way where they created complete 3D environments for you to explore in first person view and blended it in with FMV cutscenes.
The Black Dahlia:
One of the last FMV games to be made during the golden age of point and click adventures. This was probably one of the highest budged FMV game and came with like 8 CD's. (...and yes that is Dennis Hopper sitting in that chair in case you were wondering)
I remember I saw this in an arcade in Greece and I couldn't believe how real it look like.
Toonstruck:
Real like actor (Christopher Loyd) in a Cartoon world ala Roger Rabbit.
Harvester:
A lot of point and click adventures blended in real life actors in the mid 90's. This is easily one of the fucked up games ever made.
Riven:
Looks good even today. Imagine how it was back in 1997
The Last Express:
It was a cartoon game, but they filmed and made everything with real actors then drew it in making all the characters look very real and lifelike. One of my favorite games of all time.
Phantasmagoria:
Again blending real actors who's performing in front of a bluescreen. This was the first FMV game I played, and it blew my mind back in the days.
Tex Murphy:
Tex Murphy went a slightly different way where they created complete 3D environments for you to explore in first person view and blended it in with FMV cutscenes.
The Black Dahlia:
One of the last FMV games to be made during the golden age of point and click adventures. This was probably one of the highest budged FMV game and came with like 8 CD's. (...and yes that is Dennis Hopper sitting in that chair in case you were wondering)
I feel like it's only recently that this level of quality has been matched by realtime graphics . Not counting resolution and texture quality of course because those are shit in Riven when you look closely.Riven:
Looks good even today. Imagine how it was back in 1997
When I played the original Unreal it looked almost photorealistic to me. I don't know why because I also played Riven the year before and that looks a million times better to me now.
Augemitbutter
Member
Soul Calibur on Dreamcast. i remember when i showed this to my cousin he totally freaked out "this is like real life". it really looked crazy.
tbh, i rarely had that feeling. maybe when i saw scud race in the arcade for the first time, or shenmue later on dc. i don't know.
tbh, i rarely had that feeling. maybe when i saw scud race in the arcade for the first time, or shenmue later on dc. i don't know.
PdotMichael
Banned
Commanche and the power of a Voxel engine.
I remember seeing this in arcades for the first time and I could not believe how good it looked. I remember just staring at it thinking it was just the best looking game I had ever seen.Soul Calibur on Dreamcast. i remember when i showed this to my cousin he totally freaked out "this is like real life". it really looked crazy.
tbh, i rarely had that feeling. maybe when i saw scud race in the arcade for the first time, or shenmue later on dc. i don't know.
I feel like it's only recently that this level of quality has been matched by realtime graphics . Not counting resolution and texture quality of course because those are shit in Riven when you look closely.
When I played the original Unreal it looked almost photorealistic to me. I don't know why because I also played Riven the year before and that looks a million times better to me now.
Unreal on 3dfx Voodoo 1 videocard blew me and my dad away.
What..? even at the time it looked cartoony.I remember thinking this was amazing back in the day
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I never understood how his parachute thingy worked
To actually contribute something useful to the thread. Max Payne 1 blew me away when it first came out. One of the first games I can recall that actually used photographs for the textures.
Yeah, good shout. To be fair, everything about it was amazing.
JensenBeeswax
Member
Hyrule Scare in OoT blew my mind back in the day, especially the cobblestone textures in the backstreets. I thought they looked like real life.
Steve McQueen
Member
I'm more blown away by art than by gfx,but I remember EA Fight Night and that made a huge impression back then.
Zambayoshi
Member
Samantha Fox Strip Poker was the first time I thought that the graphics looked super realistic. That was 1986 on my C64...
Itt: people in their late 20s and early 30s
Edit: and some john McCain wannabes
Samantha Fox Strip Poker was the first time I thought that the graphics looked super realistic. That was 1986 on my C64...
Edit: and some john McCain wannabes
Seriously not enough Crysis love in this thread.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124537
When I saw this game for the first time, I'd never seen anything like it. Hell, with mods, it still holds up ridiculously well.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124537
When I saw this game for the first time, I'd never seen anything like it. Hell, with mods, it still holds up ridiculously well.
Soul Calibur on Dreamcast. i remember when i showed this to my cousin he totally freaked out "this is like real life". it really looked crazy.
tbh, i rarely had that feeling. maybe when i saw scud race in the arcade for the first time, or shenmue later on dc. i don't know.
I think Virtua Fighter 3 on Model 3 had a much bigger wow factor for that genre, it doesn't look as good as Soul Calibur but it was released in 1996 a full 2 years before it.
VF3 in 96 was like someone came from the future to show how realistic games will end up looking like.
sixteen-bit
Member
Aged well....?
PS5 graphics
Thats cause those are actual photos..hehFlight sims were always the titles that pushed this the most for me. The first time I thought a game was photorealistic was when I saw Flight Unlimited in 1995
Megawarrior
Member
Not only Yakuza 0 but every ps3/ps4 Yakuza between 4 and 0. The way they animate eyes are so lifelike.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Soul Calibur in arcades doesn't even look like that. It looks like this:
It had ridiculous animation though.
Lux R7
Member
yeah also this. REmake was something else.
reactionman
Neo Member
Virtua Tennis was the first game I remember being able to fool someone into thinking they were watching a TV broadcast.
eso76
Member
Going from racing games in the previous gens, playing PGR3 blew my mind and that was the last time I was so impressed about a games graphics.
Tbh I don't think I've ever seen any racer quite like it when looking at parts of the scenery. I would just be in photo mode for hours and look at the buildings in Tokyo and NY and at times it looked 100% real, probably mostly thanks to textures being actual photographs, but still.
Wouldn't consider it old though.
Gt1 replays would be my pick.