Star Wars Battlefront from DICE AB. What has Dice became is beyond me.
What video games visually ahead of its time
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Regardless of the visuals, that game was savaged by critics for being a threadbare money-sucker. So there, that's what became of DICE.
Wasn't it Battlefront 2 that got raked over the coals for the insanely aggressive microtransactions?
Why not both!
But you're right. BF1 was savaged for only having like 5 maps, then BF2 was a money sucker that required over a hundred hours of play just to unlock free Darth Vader.
Alright, here's a few.
Super Mario Bros. 3- An SNES game in all but bit count.
Riven (the sequel to Myst)- Despite being all CGI it just looked so real. Of course, being a series of images or video files helped immensely.
Freespace/Freespace 2- games definitely don't play like FS anymore, but boy do the space ones look like it.
Half-Life- it set the bar for shooter style for nearly a decade.
Rogue Squadron- I remember its GCN sequels being more visually impressive but with 20 years hindsight it looked most of the way to a lot of PS2 era space shooters, not that we were spoiled for choice or anything. At least compared to other 32/64 bit games, anyway.
Need for Speed (the original): Did a whole lot of trickery to seemlessly integrate the top and bottom of the screen, the ultimate in non-3D racing gameplay, it really did look comparable to actual 3D track layouts.
Knights into Dreams: Things quiiiickly fall apart when you are stuck in the ground but flying around as Knights looks so dreamy and you lose track of his blockiness, really looks PS2/Dreamcast era to me.
GTA V (ugh, and I guess TLOU 1 too): Its hard to imagine that these shared at console with visual diapers like Oblivion. Throw in Destiny 1 as well, that was crossgen too, right?
Luigi's Mansion: This GCN launch title looked better than almost anything in the 360's first year. Its really hard to imagine them making this coming straight off of the N64 but they did.
Super Mario Bros. 3- An SNES game in all but bit count.
Riven (the sequel to Myst)- Despite being all CGI it just looked so real. Of course, being a series of images or video files helped immensely.
Freespace/Freespace 2- games definitely don't play like FS anymore, but boy do the space ones look like it.
Half-Life- it set the bar for shooter style for nearly a decade.
Rogue Squadron- I remember its GCN sequels being more visually impressive but with 20 years hindsight it looked most of the way to a lot of PS2 era space shooters, not that we were spoiled for choice or anything. At least compared to other 32/64 bit games, anyway.
Need for Speed (the original): Did a whole lot of trickery to seemlessly integrate the top and bottom of the screen, the ultimate in non-3D racing gameplay, it really did look comparable to actual 3D track layouts.
Knights into Dreams: Things quiiiickly fall apart when you are stuck in the ground but flying around as Knights looks so dreamy and you lose track of his blockiness, really looks PS2/Dreamcast era to me.
GTA V (ugh, and I guess TLOU 1 too): Its hard to imagine that these shared at console with visual diapers like Oblivion. Throw in Destiny 1 as well, that was crossgen too, right?
Luigi's Mansion: This GCN launch title looked better than almost anything in the 360's first year. Its really hard to imagine them making this coming straight off of the N64 but they did.
Final Fantasy XIII
Say what you want about this game, but aesthetically it was way ahead of its time. Its absolutely gorgeous and it still looks better than most games even today
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Final Fantasy XIII
Say what you want about this game, but aesthetically it was way ahead of its time. Its absolutely gorgeous and it still looks better than most games even today
Final Fantasy XIII
Say what you want about this game, but aesthetically it was way ahead of its time. Its absolutely gorgeous and it still looks better than most games even today
I always thought MGS2 was so advanced at the time.... it does have a kinda plastic aesthetic to faces and stuff, when you look back now but I was amazed what they were able to do in MGS2 & 3 on a PS2.
Some of the Gran Turismo games were definitely pushing forward.
The first Splinter Cell on PC.
RDR2, Demons Souls Remake, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon FW.
Crysis
Some of the Gran Turismo games were definitely pushing forward.
The first Splinter Cell on PC.
RDR2, Demons Souls Remake, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon FW.
Crysis
Not a Star Wars fan, but I'm inclined to agree with you that Battlefront looked amazing. I got my first PS4 in December of 2015, and I picked up the Battlefront bundle because that was the best deal at the time. I didn't have money to get any other games when I got the PS4, so Battlefront was all I had for a while. When I first booted it up, I remember thinking something along the lines of "Wow, this is the next gen of gaming after PS3? This is incredible." I was very impressed with that game and it set an unrealistic expectation for me when I got my next PS4 game, Fallout 4
that game is hideous by comparison.
It looked like a good looking NES game from this era or even like SMB 2, but nothing like a SNES (or even early 16-bit games on TG-16\Genesis). Anyway, by that time the NES could not do anything ahead of its time.
What we had in the arcade by 1985, it was already much more advanced than SMB 3 or any NES game ever made, nothing anyone had at home could reproduce what was done by some arcade machines back in the 1980s graphics wise.
Defender of the crown Amiga
Ultima Underworld on PC (early 3D first person game with texture mapped environments, slanted grounds and ceiling, physics and all)
Daytona USA (fast 3d accelerated graphics with filtered textures @ 60fps!)
Super Mario 64 (there was nothing like it at the time)
Crysis (yup)
Those console games came out after crysis... not sure they should be included, but they were pretty impressive back in the days.
Gears of war (360)
God of war 3 (ps3)
Killzone: Shadow fall - Seriously those who keep coming back with that Rome game, it looks good, but not like this good.
