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sergiodaly on 06 February 2017

spend lots of time playing this


and now i play BF1 and it's something else...

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Platina on 06 February 2017

I agree, games are looking more and more impressive



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PotentHerbs on 06 February 2017

Since the 7th gen.



DevilRising on 07 February 2017

Graphics technology has advanced, yes. And (some) games are certainly pretty and shiny.


But for my money, on a "Best Games of All Time" list, the vast majority of those would be games from the 80s and 90s, whether that be PC, Arcade, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, etc.



SvennoJ on 07 February 2017


1991


1996


2001


2005


2010


2016

When you can't increase detail any further, change the style!
Pretty much a new release every 5 years since 1991, impressive run.



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daredevil.shark on 07 February 2017

Uncharted 4 reminded me of old quotes that one day video game visuals will be like the one we see in TV.



vivster on 07 February 2017

Just waiting for Elex to save gaming and put an end to the graphics arms race.



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m0ney on 07 February 2017

I started on PC at the end of 1997 with software rendering. Then in summer of 1998 my dad bough 3dfx Voodoo 2 and my mind was blown, especially by Unreal.

But our PC got too weak for modern games soon after that. In early 2004 I bought my first PC and started catching up, graphically highlights were Max Payne 1 and especially 2.

The next jump happened in 2009 when I built a new PC with a widescreen monitor. The highlight was Batman Arkham Asylum, that was the last game that blew my mind graphically.



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curl-6 on 07 February 2017
RolStoppable said:
Not really, at least not anymore. When you use Star Fox as an example, it becomes instantly clear to me. No Star Fox game after that had a soundtrack as good.

There was a time when increased processing power led to new types of games. That started to level off in the sixth generation and the next leap was not the PS3 or 360, but the Wii with its motion controls and IR pointer. 

Agreed on both counts.



Barkley on 07 February 2017

I'm amazed that the entirety of Super Mario 64 has a smaller file size then the texture on Batman's Ass.