Biggest leap forward from a system to its successor

[zeldaring]

curl-6 said:

zeldaring said:

Funny thing is I had a dreamcast but for some reason ps2 blew me away more. Certain games like mgs2 trailer and gran turismo 3 had my jaw on the floor, heck I owned a Xbox as well and resident evil 4 on ps2 impressed me more then anything on Xbox just shows how important art style is. I never saw resident evil 4 on GameCube but that must have been a sight to behold back then. Easily the best looking game of that generation imo. I think in that generation ps2 introduced new lighting  tech while dreamcast did not.

I'm not an expert but as far as I'm aware, Dreamcast did introduce new lighting tech; it was just less powerful than PS2 due to releasing over a year earlier, and didn't stick around long enough to benefit from a lot of the technical advances made during that generation.

It's difficult to explain but i would say john from DF makes the reference to bayonetta looking like dreamcast games, they are colorful and sharp kind of a extension  of the N64 But of course way more powerful but the ps2 lighting and poly advantage at the time made games look like they belonged in a different generation. there is a thread of the most looking impressive looking games ever on the onother forum and many mention MGS2, and GT3, and i loved my dreamcast lol.