Your biggest wow moment of each gen you've lived through

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Scoobes said:

curl-6 said:

Even though I don't use my Switch portably, there have been several games on it like FAST RMX, Doom 2016, Wolfenstein II, Mario Odyssey, and Outlast II where I've stopped and thought "holy shit, we live in a world where THIS runs on a portable device."

It still blows my mind as I grew up when portable games looked like this:

And now they can look like this:

You could take a game running on the most powerful of commercial PC's at the time of Link's Awakening, something like:

or a 3D game on home console:

and the comparison is just as astounding.

True that, or to take things a step further, that the best looking handheld games look better now than the best looking console games did just five and half years ago.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 23 March 2019