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This is a real image from a video game
In 2007, Id have laughed at anyone beliving that photoshop for so mamy reason.
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What about gaming in 2017 would blow someone from 2007's mind?
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In 2007, Id have laughed at anyone beliving that photoshop for so mamy reason.
PrinnyBomb
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Dota 2 existing and being an official Valve steam game
bitbydeath
Member
You know that super awesome game that just came out and is the best thing to happen to multiplayer well Warhawk has never been seen since. :-(
The Nintendo Switch reveal trailer.
A gamer in 2007 will know Oblivion as the latest Elder Scrolls game. With its plasticene character models, and running on a big, noisy, hot and unreliable console. To see Skyrim, which looks 10 times better, running on a handheld, being played on a plane?
That shit would blow minds.
A gamer in 2007 will know Oblivion as the latest Elder Scrolls game. With its plasticene character models, and running on a big, noisy, hot and unreliable console. To see Skyrim, which looks 10 times better, running on a handheld, being played on a plane?
That shit would blow minds.
SciencePilot
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I don't know about this one. Back in the day, everyone was talking about how great a Pokemon MMO would be, how it would be so incredibly popular and take over the world, etc, etc. I remember those jokes. I think if you told 2007 me about Pokemon Go I would have been like "Okay so they finally made the MMO. Except it has totally stripped down mechanics and doesn't come close to the magnificent Pokemon MMO that I imagined. How disappointing."
The GPS factor may have been surprising though, for sure.
Alpha Phoenix
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This is honestly the only answer.
AirPowerFTW
Member
VR is the hands down winner, stick a Rift, Vive or PSVR on my 2007 head and it would have exploded.
No new HL is definitely the runner up.
No new HL is definitely the runner up.
Showing someone a list of Assassin's Creed games that have been released in the meantime.
Main games
Assassin's Creed (2007)
Assassin's Creed II (2009)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010)
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011)
Assassin's Creed III (2012)
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)
Assassin's Creed: Rogue (2014)
Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014)
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015)
Spin-off games
Assassin's Creed mobile game (2007)
Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles (2008)
Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (2009)
Assassin's Creed II mobile game (2009)
Assassin's Creed II: Discovery (2009)
Assassin's Creed II: Multiplayer (2010)
Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (2010)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood mobile game (2010)
Assassin's Creed: Revelations mobile game (2011)
Assassin's Creed: Multiplayer Rearmed (2011)
Assassin's Creed: Recollection (2011)
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (2012)
Assassin's Creed III mobile game (2012)
Assassin's Creed: Pirates (2013)
Assassin's Creed: Memories (2014)
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China (2015)
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India (2016)
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (2016)
Assassin's Creed: Identity (2016)
I'd go for this. "And also a collection containing Assassins Creed 2, 2-2 and 2-3"
Then follow it with a list of Final Fantasy games that have released since Versus XIII reveal.
Yes , Dota still surviving and way way bigger than it used to be .
And people still play WOW , I mean FFS Legion is my first WOW experience .
I can't think of much that's mind-blowing about how the games themselves have progressed, aside from graphics obviously. There's VR, but I still haven't been able to try it yet.
I guess Pewdiepie. Arguably the number one most popular video creator on the internet makes let's plays and earns millions of dollars a year. LPs were just getting started in 2007.
Local multiplayer has vanished into thin air with only a few holdouts, and social gaming has moved mostly online.
The collapse of mid-budget games, rise of indies, closure of studios, firing of some of the biggest names in the industry only for them to return via crowdfunding. Crowdfunding actually producing major successes like FTL, Shovel Knight, and Skullgirls while a Keiji Inafune-led Mega Man spiritual sequel is one of the worst received games in years.
I guess Pewdiepie. Arguably the number one most popular video creator on the internet makes let's plays and earns millions of dollars a year. LPs were just getting started in 2007.
Local multiplayer has vanished into thin air with only a few holdouts, and social gaming has moved mostly online.
The collapse of mid-budget games, rise of indies, closure of studios, firing of some of the biggest names in the industry only for them to return via crowdfunding. Crowdfunding actually producing major successes like FTL, Shovel Knight, and Skullgirls while a Keiji Inafune-led Mega Man spiritual sequel is one of the worst received games in years.
Stiflers Mom
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I think I'd go with the current state of Nintendo thing.
2007 everybody was posting 'Wii/DS - it prints money' gifs.
Now, Nintendo fighting for relevance in a completely changed market.
2007 everybody was posting 'Wii/DS - it prints money' gifs.
Now, Nintendo fighting for relevance in a completely changed market.
FlutterPuffs
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That's realtime.
It, I imagine, would be somewhat mindblowing how little relevance motion control actually ended up having. Sony and Microsoft both came up with MP solutions and both quickly dropped them, and even Nintendo ended up dropping motion control from a lot of their later Wii releases.
I wouldn't write them off just yet. They found a new life in VR.
Prithee Be Careful
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Finding out that cheat codes to unlock all weapons, characters etc. are now sold as DLC. This EA classic from the heady days of 2011 still tickles me:
Unlock all champion mode boxers in the game you already paid for? That'll be £5.79 please.
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...ndle/cid=EP0006-BLES01039_00-FNCHAMPBOXCMALL0
Unlock all champion mode boxers in the game you already paid for? That'll be £5.79 please.
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...ndle/cid=EP0006-BLES01039_00-FNCHAMPBOXCMALL0
EliRosenau
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That there'd only be one mainline zelda game and that it would come out in 4 years and that it'll be dissapointing and then a 6 year drought.
it, I imagine, would be somewhat mindblowing how little relevance VR actually ended up having.
Spiritwalker
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That the game I was so hyped for (Versus XIII) would never be released. We got something else though, and it kinda sucked.
Also mobile gaming and hardware, I guess.
Also mobile gaming and hardware, I guess.
ienjoyrawfish
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"Edgy" when used sarcastically on the Internet always means "a controversial opinion which I don't like".
MisterFalcon
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Clicking a few buttons and a 10 minutes later a game that would fill a DVD-ROM is fully installed on your PC.
You should go and play some of those 2007 games again. There's a massive gulf of a difference. Sure, it's not 1990 > 2000 but it's huge.
Just play Tomb Raider on PS4 Pro in 4K mode, it's mindblowing. Display technologies have improved massively too, with OLED now affordable and becoming mature. My 2007 LCD was utter shite by comparison.
"DVDs are still a thing?!"
Since getting a steam link I would most def say that I would have been blown away in 2007 by the possibility to just stream your powerful gaming pc to your hd tv without any hassle whatsoever.
Granted, I'm using a wired connecting for both my pc and the steam link, but thus far the experience has been nothing short of stellar.
Perhaps my best gaming purchase in years. Very impressed with how far technology has come!
Granted, I'm using a wired connecting for both my pc and the steam link, but thus far the experience has been nothing short of stellar.
Perhaps my best gaming purchase in years. Very impressed with how far technology has come!
J_ToSaveTheDay
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My $1700 gaming laptop actually outpaces my old i7-3770k+970 desktop in many scenarios. Crazy. It has been nothing but a pleasure since I got this machine. And it looks nothing like a typical "gamer laptop" -- no huge, highlight vent exhausts, etc... Just a backlit keyboard with Spider-Man movie font that really sticks out. Otherwise, it fits into a low-profile, thin encasement with a low-key branding crest on the back to subtly note it's a gaming specced machine and that's about it.
Very few drawbacks in my lifestyle. If you don't carry it around a lot I totally get not thinking the premium is worth it, but it's nuts I can haul this computer straight off to work and play Battlefield 1 when things are slow... Then just stuff it in a bag, plug it into an HDMI cable at home with an external keyboard, and basically got a gaming rig that's better than my old desktop. Only drawbacks for my specific laptop I can think of is the sound quality is absolute crap and its GPU capabilities get limited on the native monitor (can't supersample, etc) but all of that unlocks when I go to my external monitor.
MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro. So good.Yeah, definitely mindblowing with this Pascal-equipped generation of laptops. If I stay at this job for the long run (which is quite possible), I'm going only laptop form factor going forward in the PC space. Pascal in desktops is arguably even more impressive, it's just being able to travel with this laptop at ease is super great for me.
DoctorEkkoUK
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People still play WoW
Dee Dah Dave
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Some dude cobbles a game together in his mums basement using Java and semi stolen code. It becomes one of the best selling games of all time, ultimately leading to Microsoft buying the IP for 2.5 billion dollars.
Milly Osworth
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People want to see others play videogames with a camera pointed at their pasty face.
Neverthelesser
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The Vita would've been pretty mind-blowing.
I remember when I first played a N64 and how amused I was at the idea of a future handheld which could match its graphics ah ah ah.
Just as that soon we could play with a handheld that outperform a PS3.
CortexVortex
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But that's my answer! Don't get it out of the way!
Seriously, playing something like Raw Data in VR, in Coop, moving around naturally in all directions and interacting with everything by just moving my hands is not something I'd have expected to be possible in that time frame 10 years ago.
So futuristic.
At least the Vive looks like something from science fiction, so that makes sense
noomi
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Seeing just how far the Battlefield series came in terms of game-play and graphics. If I saw Battlefield 1 back in 2007, I don't think I could believe it.
Also games like No Mans Sky, Elite Dangerous & Star Citizen. The sheer scope and size of these type of games would have totally blow me away. Landing and taking off from planets and being able to walk around them.
Also games like No Mans Sky, Elite Dangerous & Star Citizen. The sheer scope and size of these type of games would have totally blow me away. Landing and taking off from planets and being able to walk around them.
CouchMaster
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Call of Duty is still around and still the biggest seller, and people are still playing Modern Warfare
Remaster
AzureFlame
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VII remake is real and it's on PS4.
brotkasten
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I can't say that the games themselves have blown me away since then. All in all, it still feels very iterative to me and I'm fine with it, as my taste in genres has changed with that, being more focused on storytelling and not interested in gameplay anymore ("Doom? I already played that").
That said, if anything still blows me away, it's physics-based rendering. The lighting has been insane in some games this generation. Assassin's Creed: Unity, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Uncharted 4 and Final Fantasy XV come to mind.
That said, if anything still blows me away, it's physics-based rendering. The lighting has been insane in some games this generation. Assassin's Creed: Unity, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Uncharted 4 and Final Fantasy XV come to mind.
Theslammer
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I figured that anyway since Intelligent Qube could be sold for a lot of money in 07.
This is another one that would have blown my mind. After two Kingdom Hearts, I thought we'd get a sequel on the PS3. It was quite surprising that we didn't. Same as The Last Guardian not coming on the PS3 (though we didn't know about that in 2009). I figured Team ICO would release a game on the PS3, but it didn't happen.
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