Games that felt impossible for their console

[HoloDust]

curl-6 said:

HoloDust said:

All great choices - I'd argue except for Doom 3.

Doom 3 came just few months after Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - and while everyone and their grandma was looking forward to it, it didn't, neither visually or gameplay wise, lived up to hype, with Riddick being better in both. And that one is also on OG XBOX.

I'd say game that was really bringing OG XBOX to its knees was Morrowind.

I never heard much disappointment about Doom 3 graphically, more that its gameplay diverging so much from the older games was controversial. Riddick was definitely an impressive showpiece in its own right; I believe it was one of the earliest games to utilize dynamic resolution scaling, which was how they gained the headroom to it off on Xbox.

Well, it is anecdotal, since it is my experience with it - at the time, all my mates were PC gamers as well, and new id Tech game was always something that was anticipated, both for gameplay and visuals.

But Riddick launched just a couple of months earlier, and it really took us all by surprise - so when DOOM3 popped up, it really didn't do much for any of us. By itself it was quite fine, but it didn't look as good as Riddick (in addition to being a lot duller gameplay wise, both compared to Riddick and previous DOOMs).