How far have we come? (jpeg heavy -huge- post)

[Cry Havoc]

Basketball:

1986:


1995:


2000:


2005:


2010:



Football:

1987:


1993:


1999:


2005:


2010:




Racing:

1982:


1987:


1993:


(I had to put this in there )

1998:


2001:


Present day:



FPS:

1992:


1996:


1997:


1998:


2000:


2005:


2007:


Present day:




Any other genres I should do this with? Hmmmmmm......

[SourCandy]

strategy games?

big jumps for most in the 2000. I remember the 1995 basketball game. My brother was playing it the other day,showing me how when u checked some one you could knock them over to the floor. At some points he would have everyone on the floor ...uh oh fast break 5 on 1 lol

[z0sa]

I miss old school CS

[TDMVPDPOY]

strategy games?

big jumps for most in the 2000. I remember the 1995 basketball game. My brother was playing it the other day,showing me how when u checked some one you could knock them over to the floor. At some points he would have everyone on the floor ...uh oh fast break 5 on 1 lol

nbalive94,95,96,97,98,99 were actually really good games, then 2000,03,06

nba jam 2on2 lead the way for many other 2on2 or 3on3 games

smoother graphics dont mean , if the gameplay is crap....

[Cry Havoc]

strategy games?

big jumps for most in the 2000. I remember the 1995 basketball game. My brother was playing it the other day,showing me how when u checked some one you could knock them over to the floor. At some points he would have everyone on the floor ...uh oh fast break 5 on 1 lol

Yeah, 2000 is around the time the Ps1 was released, which was the first system to allow real processing power for shadows and lighting.

Big jump too in the ~2007 era, where real-time lighting and more advanced visual techniques came into the picture like depth of field, etc.

[Cry Havoc]

nbalive94,95,96,97,98,99 were actually really good games, then 2000,03,06

nba jam 2on2 lead the way for many other 2on2 or 3on3 games

smoother graphics dont mean , if the gameplay is crap....

Luckily we have both now with NBA 2k11.

[leemajors]

give me outrageous physics, strafe jumping, rocket jumping, and the like over "realistic" games like CS any day. that was the beginning of the end for me.

[NASpurs]

You put the wrong game for 1999. (for football)

NFL 2k for the Dreamcast is when it's started to get the "Oh , this looks real".

I miss the Dreamcast.

[NASpurs]

I'm selling Visual Concepts short. NBA 2K back in 1999 raised the bar for graphics.

You're also missing Virtua Racing for the racing section which is like the first (?) 3D- polygonal racer, released in 1992.

[robino2001]

You put the wrong game for 1999. (for football)

NFL 2k for the Dreamcast is when it's started to get the "Oh , this looks real".

I miss the Dreamcast.

Agreed... first realistic looking rain/snow too. Everyone played in blizzard conditions just because of how cool it was.

And for Live 95, at least find a picture with the Spurs and Rodman and his white hair

[MannyIsGod]

wrong thread

[Xevious]

Graphics have gotten so ridiculously good nowadays, they don't even impress me anymore. All these system X looks better than system Y arguments are bull to me. The Coleco Vision was my first console, and I've had just about every console along the way and countless PCs. Now I just looks for games that blow my socks off with a good storyline, or unique gameplay.

[Dex]

Rock & Roll Racing was the !

[Dex]

RPGs

1977


1982


1986


1994


1997


2006


Present Day

[TDMVPDPOY]

You're also missing Virtua Racing for the racing section which is like the first (?) 3D- polygonal racer, released in 1992.

remembered playing this or was it ridge racer, fkn had like 6 gears in the arcades

[eyeh8u]

look at 1999




and what 2013 will look like when gt5 comes out

[TDMVPDPOY]

took at 1999

need for speed 2 i think... that was the

then u had daytona usa 1 > triumps over any arcade racing car game, unless you play initial d...


the bs you see at game conventions and previews of new games, most of the time they are rendered right to get you sucked in...

[eyeh8u]

need for speed 2 i think... that was the

then u had daytona usa 1 > triumps over any arcade racing car game, unless you play initial d...


the bs you see at game conventions and previews of new games, most of the time they are rendered right to get you sucked in...

i cant believe i misspelled look, my post was just a joke about gt5 delays, notice the 2013, lol

[TDMVPDPOY]

NBALIVE 94-97 + NBA JAM, were these the only games where you can break the backboard enjoyed 94 on the sega megadrive 2 with drob or rodman breaking backboards

[Creepn]

look at 1999

and what 2013 will look like when gt5 comes out

Man that looks like an actual photograph. Very impressive.

[hater]

yup gt5, can't wait for that one

[AnthonyM]

Tecmo Super Bowl was the .

So was Wolfenstein 3D. Finding those secret doors behind the tapestries and walls was way more fun than most stuff you'll find in FPS games now

[Fernando TD21]

Crysis was released at the end of 2007 and that F.E.A.R. screenshot is older than that.

[Cry Havoc]

Crysis was released at the end of 2007 and that F.E.A.R. screenshot is older than that.

Yes, F.E.A.R. did release in 2005, my mistake.

However, Crysis is still considered to be the high bar for First Person Shooters in terms of graphical prowess, so until something supersedes it, it is best representative of what graphics are capable of today.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i use to remember going to a friends house back in 97, lol i think that time they were still usuin pentiums or slower....lol he was doing rendering...he told me his comp has been on for over a day rendering this galatica city image...im like wtf show me some porno