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tabsina said:

stepping into Hyrule Field for the first time in Ocarina of Time


 Man, i had forgot about it, that was another great moment of my life as a gamer :D



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FF7, it single handedly sold me on what the PS1 was capable of graphics wise.



Assassin's Creed. I love the view points; the cities look absolutely amazing.



Bodhesatva said:

It's interesting to see how people are interpreting the original question differently.

A few took the question in its most obvious direction, which is "Games with photorealistic graphics." A few took it a step beyond that, and made it "Games with artistic style which impressed me, whether that be  photorealistic or otherwise," and an even smaller group took teh question as "technical feats or significant accomplishments in graphical evolution."

Half Life 2 on the Xbox, Wii Sports, and Shadow of the Colossus are clearly not cutting edge anymore and have been completely and utterly outstripped by modern games; they are, however, still important stalwarts of technological evolution, each in their own way.  


nothing against wii sports, but im pretty sure no one seeing the graphics when "wow." At least not in the way i described in my initial post.



As far as older games go...

Super Mario 64, LoZ: Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, Dark Cloud, Super Mario Sunshine, LoZ: Wind Waker, and Shadow of the Colossus.

More recent games...

Super Mario Galaxy and Uncharted

and this...

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Myst should be on everyones list.



I'll keep it old school.

NES...

Super Mario Bros 2
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Castlevania
Kid Icarus
Ninja Gaiden

SNES...

Super Mario World
ActRaiser
Super Castlevania IV
LoZ: ALttP

Although not all of these are/were technically impressive, at the very least the art direction and world/character designs all had a "wow" effect on me.



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well the first time i turned my n64 on with sm64 that should be it =))



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When battlefield 2 first came out... i was amazed.

Same as Gears of war, Black, Crysis, Assassins creed



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