For me, the first game I was truly like “HOOOOOLY SHIT” was the very opening scene of Final Fantasy 8… the waves crashing on the beach blew my (16 yo?) mind.
Looks like a normal night out with the lads to me.
Not sure if you played on a CRT in the past, but nonetheless it’s interesting how different things looked. Here is my favorite example.
Looks like only the innermost textures have loaded.
Frankly, it does look exactly like every sword-wielding, walking skeleton I’ve seen IRL. No notes.
I thought Final Fantasy: Spirits Within looked almost photorealistic when it came out, and now it looks like Toy Story or Shrek compared to modern 3D animation.
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Oh, I remember watching that one as a kid, being annoyed that it had nothing to do with the games I knew and it having a weird plot I could barely follow.
I had to search far and wide in my area for a new graphics card just so I could have the “realistic water” for Morrowind. It was glorious seeing it in action back then.
Got eyes fixed after optometrist diagnosed the x-ray vision
This looks better than real life.
As of lately? Absolutely.
Still seems pretty solid. The background and UI could be more interesting, but the skeletons don’t need improving still.
I think this is the most uninteresting part of Morrowind, it’s a DLC that is basically “go to this island and kill a metric fuckton of skeletons”.
I think these are more representative of the game. It’s a bit dated, but insanely atmospheric and modders are still keeping it alive.
Back in the day we called them “expansion packs” instead of DLC because you went to the store and bought them on CD-ROM discs (or DVD-ROM if you had rich parents) because nobody’s Internet was fast enough to download a whole photoshopped nude of Cindy Crawford in less than 20 seconds, let alone a whole game expansion.
It all started with that shitty horse armour
I laughed when they brought it out. They warned us and we shrugged them off. Its just fun. Its not going to get out of hand.
How wrong we were.
And then they sold us Skyrim. And then they sold us Skyrim. And then they sold us Fallout. And then they sold us Skyrim. And then
There’s also horse armor dlc for skyrim lol
Tbh it is if if you have undiagnosed myopia
I remember being very impressed with Bioshock Infinite. I played it again recently, and… well, it’s not horrible, but not like I remember it, either.
