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First time I saw the sunrise in Oblivion. Aside from the characters, that game was beautiful.
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Okami, honestly.
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Skies of Arcadia for the Dreamcast, flying around in your airship.
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Mgs1 on ps1
MGS2 on ps2
Mgs4 on ps3

I remember before MGS2 came out and it was revealed you could shoot glasses at the bar or books on the shelf. That blew me away.
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Luigi's Mansion, oddly enough.

Didn't have a lot of money in the early 2000's (We weren't poor, but we weren't doing great) so I owned and still bought new N64 games as late as 2002.

Remember playing a demo of LM at Costco and my mind being blown at the difference between Mario Party 3 and Lugi's Mansion. Literally light years apart in the span of only a few months of real world time. 9 year old me couldn't deal.
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First I remember being blown away was Shadow of the Colossus on PS2. Then a few years later, the first boss in God of War 3 dropped my jaw with the water weaving around everywhere.
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Super Mario 64
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Final Fantasy XIII oddly enough
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half life 2
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Super Mario Sunshine

Dat water
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Squall28 posted...

For me, it's FFX. For me, this is when game graphics really started looking good, and I was floored at how good things looked. I didn't have much money for games, so I was always a gen behind in games. So when FFX was out, I was playing FF7-FF9. In my mind, PS2 was this gaming powerhouse, and FFX was the pinnacle of graphics.

I also thought FMV cinematics were uncanny valley territory.

https://www.finalfantasy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mks_masterv2.1216.jpg

All of this is true, word for word for me. I remember explicitly wondering whether graphics could even get better than they were in the FMVs in FFX
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Okami

Due to the style the graphics may have not been the most impressive but I am an artist and seeing hand drawn environments like that are beautiful.
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1. FFVIII opening cinematic.
2. Okami on the PS2
3. Fallout 3 on the PS3 (menu size got me to buy an hd tv for my PS3, and the difference was jaw dropping).
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Guild Wars
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King of fighters I think. On Neo Geo arcade unit

Console prob DMC on ps2
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I remember this feeling with FFX, Doom 3, and Oblivion (sans the hideous characters).

Morrowind had really good water graphics when it came out, so that aspect of it was a bit crazy.
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SF_Okami posted...

Okami

Due to the style the graphics may have not been the most impressive but I am an artist and seeing hand drawn environments like that are beautiful.

Username checks out
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The only game I've played with good graphics from this decade was the witcher 3.

Other than that I play old shit RPGs or mmos
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Mario Kart 64(I happened to see it before I saw SM64 for the first time).
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Skyrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s3T2YGSqGM

It was my first game for the PS3
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Donkey Kong Country
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Shenmue

the worlds were so beautiful
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The Admiral posted...

Probably Myst, and then later the FMV in FF8.

This person knows what they're talking about.
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MGS4, and this was just on a CRT.
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FFX opening cinematic
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Halo on xbox

Vectorman for Sega Genesis
Myst for pc
Einhander for PSX
MGS2 for Ps2

Those stood out the most for me at the time.
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The first time I actually remember being floored by a game's graphics was the transitions from CG to in-game in Final Fantasy VIII, the most memorable being when the SeeD ships landed on the Dollet Beach. I mean, now-a-days it doesn't look that great and the seam between the two is really obvious, but as a dumb 15 year old used to stuff at the time like Lunar and Star Ocean it really wowed me.
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You'll laugh, but Super Mario Galaxy.

It's mostly because of the art direction. There were certain sights in the game that just gave me a huge smile on my face. Most notable one was that stage where you first fight that lava octopus boss. When you get up to the top of the planetoid, see the sun in the distance and the light shimmering on the hardened lava, that was such a sight.
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kuwab0 posted...

Shenmue

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The cut scenes in Final Fantasy 7 lol. Granted, I was like 8 when I first played the game.
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I don't know. I remember being really impressed with Half Life 2 at the time.
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Blakeism posted...

SuperExcitebike posted...

Donkey Kong Country

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i distinctly remember ocarina of time and then morrowind
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king kong for xbox 360

the t-rex textures and water effects on the rocks and the dinosaur had me like "wow"

this was when reflection in graphics was new, PS2 everything was pretty bland
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Super Mario World and F-Zero probably.

Before that my first games were Super Mario Bros, arcade games, Atari and SMB3. I remember the commercials for the SNES and even though I was 8-9 years old I could immediately see the jump from what I was used to. The colors, clarity of the spites and richness of it all was a wonder to see.

After that it would have to be things like Doom, Star Fox, Donkey Kong Country and ESPECIALLY Killer Instinct in the Arcade. Also Super Mario 64 that truly blew me away.
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gta ...iv i think...

I definitely remember being woved by that, but i was always pretty damn behind console wise.

Had a shared ps1 with my sister until november 2007 and got my 360 2 years later.

I think gta iv was the first.
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Luigis Mansion
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Donkey Kong 64
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FF8
FFX
Crash Bandicoot 2
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It wasn't a game, but FF: The Spirits Within. I remember at the time, everybody ranting and raving about how amazing it was, how the characters looked just like real people, you could hardly tell the difference. I saw posters, and I agreed.

Looking back, that movie looked pretty bad. I think the PS3/360 was capable of similar or better graphics for pre-rendered cutscenes. And now we're getting to the point that that movie looks like PS4/XBone gameplay. It's pretty crazy.
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Probably Mario 64.
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Ocarina of Time. After that, nothing until the first Uncharted and Crysis in 2007.
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FFVIII's FMV graphics. Seeing that intro back in '99... memories.

F Zero GX
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Dragon's Lair.
From nineteen eighty-goddamn-three:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6em4GRiRY0

@Questionmarktarius
Having never played this game, it's hard to imagine that being actual gameplay and not an animated short. Very impressive.

Morrowind. It was the first open world game I played and I was amazed at the detail in it. I saw the GOTY edition at a Wal Mart and picked it up since I was without internet at the time. I was hooked since.
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It would have been something in the arcades in the late 80s, I do remember how amazing the full sit down Star Wars arcade machine was, you were sitting down in the cockpit for space combat!