What did you think?? [back then (or something like that)]

I mean what did you think "that first time" you saw the new concept to video games or in other words 3-d graphics like in the early 90's and stuff. You know. Did it blow your mind or what?! Of course I was only a YOUNG kid then.

I remember seeing Tekken 1 and thinking "Graphics can never get any better than this" Boy was I wrong. I give it another decade until 3d graphics will look exactly like the real world. Then stuntmen will no longer be needed.

Whenever I play the original Tekken now, I can't help but laugh at the graphics and how I used to think they were amazing.....
I was greatly impressed when I first saw Mario 64 (man, I LOVE that game)
It'll sound odd, but I remember the first time I played Ridge Racer (I think) I noticed that if you knocked cones down and when you went past them again, they were still lying on the floor. It's simple but it's the little touches....

Well for me I think the PS3 graphics are amazing! Look at this this pic of Madden: Next Gen that'll be for it! Kinda amazing.

Yup it's quite nice looking. Real purty.

When the Genesis came out, graphics were something I looked at as having gotten better, but I never really cared too much. I think the first time I was literally blown away by graphics is when Metal Gear Solid debuted on the PSOne. Hell, it was the whole reason I got a PSOne in the first place. That was when I knew graphics were going to keep getting better and better. MGS is where I noticed it for sure, though.

Well for me I think the PS3 graphics are amazing! Look at this this pic of Madden: Next Gen that'll be for it! Kinda amazing.

Sony hasn't even developed a graphic chip yet, so that could be fake. Yea, I was amazed at Super Mario 64 graphics! Never though it could get better but...

Well what I wonder is what they are going to do after the graphics look just like real life. Then what? I mean it's not like there won't be a better prossecor and stuff too. So will there be like an end to like the video game era or something along that line then? No, I didn't know they didn't develop the graphics card yet either.

I was first blown away by the visuals in 'Virtua Cop' for the Sega Saturn. That was my first introduction 3-D polygonal graphics on a home console.

'Metal Gear Solid' was very impressive too. The lighting, shadows, small details, and the way the walls would scroll by (although looking back now, the real-time cutscenes don't look very good).

The earliest that I can recall game graphics looking super-realistic was the arcade version of 'NARC'. I believe it was the first arcade board to use a 32-bit chip. It was easily the most visually advanced game of its time.

All of those games made me think, "Wow this looks really good."

And stuff.

Id say in the snes and genisis era. I was so blown away by the 16 bit..but man when n64 and ps1 came out i was in complete jaw dropping awe. Never thought it could get better than that.

playing super mario 64 i was amazed at the graphics back then

The first time I was blown away by graphics was when I got my Genesis and first tried Jurassic Park. I thought it looked real and it was the pinnacle of graphics.

Now I realise the logarithmic nature of graphics quality. It jumped each generation by leaps and bounds, but the jump gets smaller and smaller all the time. All that changes between generations now is lighting, texturing and polygon counts. The basic concept stays the same.

Think of it his way. If you developped a PS1 or N64 version of Splinter Cell, it would still look like Splinter Cell. Sure there would be less polygons, lower res textures, and other stuff, but you would still be able to recognize it. If you made a NES version of it, it would look completely different (and also play differently).

This isn't only true because of the leap from 2D to 3D gaming. A NES game would not be recognizable if it was developped for the Atari 2600.

But, just because the graphics jumps per generation are relatively small, they are still none-the-less exciting. When I played through Half-Life 2 with maximum settings on my Athlon63 3500+, Radeon x800 Pro, 1GB OCZ Dual Channel Ram etc. computer, I was completely blown away. It was one of my favourite gaming experiences ever.

It's also nice to know that graphics aren't everything to me, even these days. When I beat Megaman 2 a few weeks ago, that was one of my favourite moments in gaming, almost 20 years after the game was originally released.

Video games will never look "just like real life". If you take the time to look at it now, they aren't even close yet. Think of the best 3D rendering you have seen in your life. Maybe it was from a huge hollywood movie. That still isn't close to real life quality if you really look at it, yet it took hours per frame to render it, using an array of processors. It will take some major leaps before a single affordable processor can render that real-time, and even then we aren't there yet.

Another reason why graphics will never reach real-life quality is that real life doesn't have a frame-rate. Computers do, and always will unless some mind boggling technology comes around that I ca

Just some thoughts. It's really fun to think about this stuff.

I also was astinished by Tekken 1 when I played it in a store.
Today... it's just ridiculous, but still fun.

My first 3D game I owned is Super Mario 64 and it blew my mind. It still does. It's the best 3D pltaformer until now.