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What about gaming in 2017 would blow someone from 2007's mind?
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Astral Dog
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edgy
Astral Dog
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i think you are giving Gears a disservice with that screenshoot,with Gears 3 looking even better
veloxStrix
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I'm trying to parse this but I can't.
Raging Spaniard
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Back then if you told people mobile games would overtake, rule and ruin the market it would sound insane.
Especially after you tell them it was the continuation of the extremely profitable Facebook gaming market
Especially after you tell them it was the continuation of the extremely profitable Facebook gaming market
-How big let's plays and streaming have become.
-The rise of indie games.
-The size of the Mobile games market.
-No Half Life 3 yet (or ever).
-That a remake of FFVII is actually happening.
This too.
-The rise of indie games.
-The size of the Mobile games market.
-No Half Life 3 yet (or ever).
-That a remake of FFVII is actually happening.
This too.
anothertech
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FF7R, shenmu III, and TLG were all revealed at the same conference and were going to to be real.
Technically, nothing really. It's all the same sh!t; just prettier.
The last time I remember being REALLY impressed with new gen game tech was when I saw the first MGS4 trailer in 2005. There was no way that I wasn't going to play that.
Anyone who recognized all the good stuff in older From titles like the Otogi series and enchanted arms knew that they were destined for greater recognition. If anything, someone from 2007 would be relieved to play something like Dark Souls and see that games have gotten even better.
The last time I remember being REALLY impressed with new gen game tech was when I saw the first MGS4 trailer in 2005. There was no way that I wasn't going to play that.
Anyone who recognized all the good stuff in older From titles like the Otogi series and enchanted arms knew that they were destined for greater recognition. If anything, someone from 2007 would be relieved to play something like Dark Souls and see that games have gotten even better.
TheRedSnifit
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That we still haven't gotten any FPSs as good as FEAR, TF2, or Crysis.
Really, that the entire FPS genre has stagnated. Battlefield 1 and DOOM are great, but in 2007 I was expecting Crysis-like campaigns to be the norm ten years down the road. Titanfall 2 is awesome, but the praise for its movement does nothing but illustrate how low our standards for advanced movement have fallen.
Other huge things:
- They're remaking the original System Shock! System Shock 3 is a thing!
- Resident Evil 4 is still the greatest game ever.
Really, that the entire FPS genre has stagnated. Battlefield 1 and DOOM are great, but in 2007 I was expecting Crysis-like campaigns to be the norm ten years down the road. Titanfall 2 is awesome, but the praise for its movement does nothing but illustrate how low our standards for advanced movement have fallen.
Other huge things:
- They're remaking the original System Shock! System Shock 3 is a thing!
- Resident Evil 4 is still the greatest game ever.
MMORPGS are essentially a dead genre. WOW was huge and people thought it was only a matter of time before it was dethroned and the next big game in the genre was released. That's to say nothing of the fact that the MOBA model which largely replaced it had yet to be fully fleshed out/
Indie games are huge and many are sold at brick and mortar store, not only that but there is a whole genre known as "Art games",
Indie games are huge and many are sold at brick and mortar store, not only that but there is a whole genre known as "Art games",
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
FF7 remake.
CreepingFear
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144hz and g-sync tear free gaming would have blown my mind away, that's for sure. I would have laughed at you if you would have told me that Doom was one of the best games of the year in 2016.
Spyder_Monkey
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Mass Effect 3's ending.
TheRedSnifit
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We joke, but people would have said you're nuts if you told them we'd be getting System Shock 3 before Half Life 3.
Greatest Ever
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NeoGAF still doesn't know what edgy means
The_Endgamer
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The death of THQ. :'(
TheRedSnifit
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Host Samurai
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WWE games are still made by Yukes
Sho_Nuff82
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I think in a pre-RDR, pre-GTA4 world, no one would believe that MGS5 or GTA5 would run on a PS360. Hell, even after Gears and Uncharted, I doubt very many would believe that Tomb Raider reboot would. In 2007, Crackdown and Saints Row were the pinnacle of console open world graphics.
With the success of the Wii and DS at the time, no one would believe that the fledgling iPhone would eat the DS successors' lunch, or that motion controls would be DOA by mid-2012.
With Halo at the height of its popularity, no one would believe that Bungie and MS would split, that their next game would be heavily marketed by Sony, and that its explosive popularity would cause MS to lose the fps crown.
With Sony floundering in the US and Japan, few would have believed they would be outselling Nintendo and MS nearly 3:1 combined WW in 2016.
Nintendo going mobile? TLG and FF versus not releasing for another 9 years? KH3 another 11?Shenmue 3 being a real thing? FF on Xbox being a regular thing? Music games being dead?
With the success of the Wii and DS at the time, no one would believe that the fledgling iPhone would eat the DS successors' lunch, or that motion controls would be DOA by mid-2012.
With Halo at the height of its popularity, no one would believe that Bungie and MS would split, that their next game would be heavily marketed by Sony, and that its explosive popularity would cause MS to lose the fps crown.
With Sony floundering in the US and Japan, few would have believed they would be outselling Nintendo and MS nearly 3:1 combined WW in 2016.
Nintendo going mobile? TLG and FF versus not releasing for another 9 years? KH3 another 11?Shenmue 3 being a real thing? FF on Xbox being a regular thing? Music games being dead?
darkslayer101
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That was actually announced in 2007 though.
PowerThroughLov
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Crysis will be the last game that universally Wow's everyone technically.
In 2007 tech always advanced from that "one game".
Doom 3 was world's better than everything else.
Farcry was stunning and a technical benchmark for years.
Half-Life 2 blew everyone's freaking minds.
Crysis made people doubt it wasnt real.
...Then games just slowly got prettier. No "Giant Leap" really.
In 2007 tech always advanced from that "one game".
Doom 3 was world's better than everything else.
Farcry was stunning and a technical benchmark for years.
Half-Life 2 blew everyone's freaking minds.
Crysis made people doubt it wasnt real.
...Then games just slowly got prettier. No "Giant Leap" really.
Yeah.. I'm going with this one. 4K Witcher 3 would rock my socks back then, especially if this game was optimised for HDR as well.
Another game that would surprise and blow my mind is DOOM.
1. That when you get home from buying a game you have to download patches that are two to three sizes bigger than 99% of all 360 games delaying instant gratification considerablly.
2. That internet speeds/caps havent increased exponentially to make point one inconsequential.
3. The explosion of mobile.
4. The encroachment of microtransactions.
2. That internet speeds/caps havent increased exponentially to make point one inconsequential.
3. The explosion of mobile.
4. The encroachment of microtransactions.
Smartphones/mobile gaming being the revenue juggernaut that they are.
And an extension of that, Pokemon Go.
No splitscreen in Halo.
Halo sells a fraction of what Call Of Duty sells now.
Nintendo really messed up big next-gen, and are now making a console/handheld hybrid as their main platform.
Assassins Creed goes on to release 8 more full featured console games over the next 10 years.
Shenmue 3 is actually happening.
"What you know now as FFvs13 doesn't actually get made and is retooled to be FFXV and release in 2016."
It took them 10 years after the PS3 tech demo to officially announce a FF7 Remake.
And an extension of that, Pokemon Go.
No splitscreen in Halo.
Halo sells a fraction of what Call Of Duty sells now.
Nintendo really messed up big next-gen, and are now making a console/handheld hybrid as their main platform.
Assassins Creed goes on to release 8 more full featured console games over the next 10 years.
Shenmue 3 is actually happening.
"What you know now as FFvs13 doesn't actually get made and is retooled to be FFXV and release in 2016."
It took them 10 years after the PS3 tech demo to officially announce a FF7 Remake.
AmaterasuOkami076
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File sizes.
J_ToSaveTheDay
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Share button would astonish me in 2007.
It's the culmination of a lot of different things coming together to create a pretty easy-to-use and IMO pretty powerful function. It feels to me like it's years of Quick Looks, Let's Play, YouTube celebrities, and just plain old having amazing moments to talk about from games but not being able to prove they ever happened, etc...
It literally is like a decade of social tech distilled down into a dedicated button and streamlined interface.
I am not a YouTube personality and l hate putting my face and voice to things, but man have I loved just capturing and sharing a quick funny moment or awe-inspiring screenshot every once in a while.
I mean, just two days ago I was playing Bloodborne cooperative with some friends and my buddy accidentally sprang the trap in Forbidden Woods while I wasn't looking and it ended up killing me, and we were laughing our asses off for minutes before we were able to continue. I just reminded my friends that they could press the share button to capture the moment and they were like "oh yeah, that's amazing, I forgot..."
It's the culmination of a lot of different things coming together to create a pretty easy-to-use and IMO pretty powerful function. It feels to me like it's years of Quick Looks, Let's Play, YouTube celebrities, and just plain old having amazing moments to talk about from games but not being able to prove they ever happened, etc...
It literally is like a decade of social tech distilled down into a dedicated button and streamlined interface.
I am not a YouTube personality and l hate putting my face and voice to things, but man have I loved just capturing and sharing a quick funny moment or awe-inspiring screenshot every once in a while.
I mean, just two days ago I was playing Bloodborne cooperative with some friends and my buddy accidentally sprang the trap in Forbidden Woods while I wasn't looking and it ended up killing me, and we were laughing our asses off for minutes before we were able to continue. I just reminded my friends that they could press the share button to capture the moment and they were like "oh yeah, that's amazing, I forgot..."
Bjoern the Smexy
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There is this console coming out that's both a home console and a handheld in one and it's from Nintendo and it's (probably) pretty fucking awesome with a beautiful open world Zelda game to boot.
Sure would blow 2007-Bjoern's mind.
Sure would blow 2007-Bjoern's mind.
GoodCoffeeJoey
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WoW is still the completely dominant subsricption MMO.
abercrombie
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Blizzard makes a first person shooter...for PC, Xbox, and PS.
OrbitalBeard
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Not from 2017, but if I showed 2007 OrbitalBeard Uncharted 4, he'd be amazed, as he thought Uncharted 1 was a very bad game and the franchise had no real future.
Lion Heart
Banned
If you showed me the Madagascar chase in U4, I would tell you that shit aint possible in real time.
I would have been amazed even it was CG cause its so well directed and smooth.
I would have been amazed even it was CG cause its so well directed and smooth.
Jack The Nipper
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Shenmue 3 I guess.
I doubt visuals. Thinking ten years later and thus is the best they can do?
97 to 87 is the only mind bender of pants shitting.
I imagine 87 to 77 too.
I doubt visuals. Thinking ten years later and thus is the best they can do?
97 to 87 is the only mind bender of pants shitting.
I imagine 87 to 77 too.
Ghostshark
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Pokemon Go would blow my mind. the 3D models starting with X and Y would have been pretty surprising as well. I'm sure I'd be impressed with console graphics if there was an instant jump from 2007 to 2017. The gradual improvements over the years have given the illusion of games not getting more impressive, but it can be surprising how badly old 3d games have aged.
The disappointment would be mind blowing. If I knew that WoW was the still top MMO in 2017, I'd be depressed. Even more so that the genre is basically dead. Everquest to WoW was a pretty large jump in MMO game quality, but I would have expected an even larger leap by now.
The disappointment would be mind blowing. If I knew that WoW was the still top MMO in 2017, I'd be depressed. Even more so that the genre is basically dead. Everquest to WoW was a pretty large jump in MMO game quality, but I would have expected an even larger leap by now.
This.
I was actually thinking about this the other day. The fact that the IPhone 7 can knock heads with some laptops today while having more graphical horsepower than a lot of them say way more than most people are really acknowledging now i feel.
https://youtu.be/pf88Lw0PgPQ
It's insane what mobile can do now
The "share button" is pretty mindblowing, I agree. The fact that you can know how any game on the PS4 plays simply by hitting a link on the store page blows me away even now. Like I view a game and notice it has no videos and I'm like "I've got to capture video for that"
I honestly dont think anything about gaming today would blow somefrom from 2007's mind. Even VR, was something we knew the possibilities about back then even though we hadnt seen it realized yet.
For me personally, if I had ever knew that decently-sized production value 2D-plattformer would make a retail return with the likes of New Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong Country Returns, my mind would have been blown back then. Still the most awesome change in the gaming industry for me during the last ten years.
For me personally, if I had ever knew that decently-sized production value 2D-plattformer would make a retail return with the likes of New Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong Country Returns, my mind would have been blown back then. Still the most awesome change in the gaming industry for me during the last ten years.
I would actually argue that with so many retro inspired indie games that this gen is less about technical innovation than ever before.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
The current state of gaming laptops would blow a lot of people away. No more garbage mobile chips but now we are getting essentially desktop tier GPUs in sub 1inch thick laptops.
The fact that a 1200 dollar laptop is on par with an 800 dollar desktop is honestly kind of insane. In 2007 even the most expensive laptop wouldn't come very close to a even a medicore desktop and would cost you a lot more.
The fact that a 1200 dollar laptop is on par with an 800 dollar desktop is honestly kind of insane. In 2007 even the most expensive laptop wouldn't come very close to a even a medicore desktop and would cost you a lot more.
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