What gaming visuals blew you away at the time of their release?

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

Games like Wind Waker and Okami come to mind. It's like walking through a watercolor dream when you see them.

[Vyk]

The Last of Us is what immediately springs to mind. But I'm currently getting back into Xenoblade Chronicles, and every time I fire this game up after an extended intermission, I'm always surprised at how beautiful it is. And for such a low res/low poly game. And it's draw distances are insane. Like, you can see things, that you won't be able to get to for 10 to 20 hours later. And there will be towns and mountains and forests and oceans in between. It's crazy. And from what I gather, XenoChron X is shaping up to follow in those footsteps. Can't wait to play it

[Bolivar]

Final Fantasy VII and X, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Ground Zeroes, most recently Advanced Warfare.

Last generation was hectic with how it felt like a PS3 game kept raising the bar every six months. MGS4, Killzone, Uncharted 2, God of War 3, Heavy Rain, up through to The Last of Us and Beyond.

[Pheesh]

Final Fantasy X was a big one for me. It was one of the first games I played for PS2 and was definitely the best looking game up to that point, I remember being in awe of how good it looked. God of War 3 was amazing as well, but I was expecting that more I think.

More recently, some of the Skylines in Destiny left me speechless, that game looks absolutely amazing.

[Pumpkin]

Xenoblade and Xenosaga

[krissy]

okami is a good one

last of us

half life 2

[Pike]

Anything on the N64, you can laugh now but it was a big deal at the time

[I Took the Red Pill]

The jumps from PS1 to PS2/Xbox and from PS2/Xbox to PS3/360 were pretty mindblowing. Early PS2 games that look like ballsack now were incredible, though I can't think of any specific examples. For the latter jump, I remember being in a store and seeing someone play the demo of the Call of Duty 2 campaign and being absolutely floored by it.

[Mirage]

Ff8 man. And ff10. And also Battlezone in 1998

[Jinx]

FFX. I was 11 and I remember being, "OH MY GOD IT LOOKS SO REAL."

[Old Manus]

Anything on the N64, you can laugh now but it was a big deal at the time

Word up


I remember thinking the Pokemon Gold and Silver graphics looked ultra sharp. I also remember Holy troutting pretty hard at this:

[blackmage_nuke]

Any FMV in FFX with water was amazing.

[Rocket Edge]

FFVIII, FFX, Uncharted 2, FFXIV:ARR on the PS4. :}

[Ergroilnin]

Definitely FFX for me. I was like uhh what... 9 yo at the time (now 21), I still remember how we drove to faraway city just because the person was selling his PS2 really cheap at the time along with some original games, FFX included. The same day I played like an hour or so of the game and I was literally speechless of the graphics, my parents had to force me to shut down the game so I could go to school the next day. Those were the times.

[Mirage]

maybe i'm just weird but i wasn't really impressed the games by anything pre-rendered after I had gotten used to them in FF7. The CG was impressive in itself, but i never considered it to be the game's graphics.