Games that felt impossible for their console

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Norion said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah Starfox (Starwing here in PAL) was the first game I ever played so I didn't realize at the time what a breakthrough it was, but seeing polygonal 3D on the 16-bit SNES must have felt mind-blowing at the time.

On Wii, the enormous fantastical landscapes of Xenoblade were like nothing else on the system, I couldn't believe all that was running on just 88MB of RAM.

Zangeki no Reginleiv, a Japan-only Wii game that was never officially localized, also seemed beyond the capabilities of the hardware, pulling off vast battlefields with countless enemies including kaiju-size ones that you could chop to pieces with motion plus. Such a shame it never came westward.

Based on the frame rate that certainly was beyond the capabilities of the Wii lol.

The bigger battles like this stage do chug a fair bit, but given the stuff it's pushing it's a miracle it doesn't burst in flames lol