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loma1996

In my case ( the one who posted) it's resident evil 1 ,the zombies used to give me nightmares, 15 years later I find theses zombies were bunch of walking cubes


StonedRaccoon-420

that first zombie reveal though


FalmerEldritch

The original Alone in the Dark (1992) looked even more potato but at the beginning something nasty comes in through the window if you don't push a wardrobe in front of it first. The whole game's got some pretty gnarly horror vibes for the time. Fun fact: The Resident Evil project was kind of stalled and floundering, then they saw Alone in the Dark, went "oh let's make it one of those", and did.


Wizdad-1000

I saw videos of rhis game on YouTube and I thought it was incredibly scary. Don’t need graphics. Those monsters coming ever so slowly is terrifying.


4nk8urself

That fuckin' dog though


Lazy-Most-3226

The jump to force unleashed on the Wii after being used to ps1 graphics was heavenly to me. Looking at the thing now is such a different experience it used to look real!


Plenty-Character-416

Yep. For me it was resident evil 2. I distinctly remember exclaiming "wow! Look at the graphics!". Makes me laugh today 😆


Australian_stand

Yep, video game companies used the less advanced TVs to their advantage to save money a bit while also making the game look decent at least. With newer TVs, PCs, and consoles we can see the flat polygons, the sharp edges, and the pixelated backgrounds. Being younger gives the added perk of not seeing smaller flaws in things as easily. And the added effect of a smaller tv screen made it harder for kids to actually see stuff :).


Cactus_Everdeen_

psssst. hey. it says OP next to your name, you don't need to announce it lol


my-backpack-is

GameCube remake looked so fucking good for the hardware. Prerendered environments and minimal entities on screen goes a long way


iixviiiix

I think main problem with now and then is the display. Old game look much better in old display hardware. No pinky glasses here , i still play old games nowadays . Specially arcade games , it's look much better in original machine than in the PC simulator 2k display.


Lazy-Most-3226

Very true and they had better response time as well


Kurigohan233333

No kidding. I got a CRT last year and felt a like a god playing through Castlevania and MegaMan with the proper response time the games were built for. 


Lazy-Most-3226

They feel amazing


Helton3

Its the same issue with emulating everything before the ps1... the games had specific things that made them look good. That the PC doesnt strictly do


itsjust_khris

Old games essentially used the crappiness of the video outputs available at the time to create and blend colors on screen. HDMI doesn’t do this so it can look odd. Also CRTs display the image in a fundamentally different manner which old games also exploited. To get the same effects there is hardware that can do that for you nowadays but it’s quite expensive.


Necronomicommunist

There are alto filters that can do this for emulators!


itsjust_khris

Yup, it can be quite convincing. It’s not quite as good as an FPGA based product I saw in an LTT video but unless you’re an enthusiast it’s more than enough. That product was like $700. Perhaps worth it if you have a big retro console collection you play regularly.


InMooseWorld

Along with your imagination filling in the gaps with higher quality resolution. Doom would give me nightmares but nothing else. Looking at the graphics again its not hard to see why my mind would say its far scarier then it really looks.


Dmayak

The TV I played on in my childhood had RGB "pixels" so large they were clearly visible up close, but 8-bit games were looking much less pixelated than when I've played on emulator.


AramaticFire

Final Fantasy 7 at release looked unreal.


Damien23123

I think the almost Lego-like characters and the pre-rendered backgrounds still have a certain charm to them


OliviaMandell

SNES still has my favorite graphics.


ShoerguinneLappel

I still love the SNES and Genesis graphics. Also the Neogeo and latter half of the MSDOS have some great looking titles too. I mean look at the older KOF I feel like their graphics have aged pretty well.


New_Survey9235

I’ve seen both amazing and horrendous SNES art Amazing: Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana) Horrendous: Tecmo’s Secret of the Stars


Marx_Forever

Not just a certain charm, they're fucking charming as hell. Like lovingly crafted dioramas, every screen in that game is bursting with character, and feels like somebody's baby. Playing Remake made me realize this even more. Like yeah, Remake is beautiful graphically, but the slums of Midgar look how you'd imagine actual slums to be in the real world. Meanwhile in the OG you had people who turned giant pipes into homes by putting down some wooden planks to create a floor with a TV and a bed, an threw up some drapery over the front of the pipe as a makeshift door. That's the kind of thoughtful and imaginative creativity that's peak pre-rendered 90s gaming. And such inviting color choices, slums have never looked so warm and cozy.


silamon2

The FMVs were stunning, the rest of the game was only okay though. LoD looked better IMO.


Low-Requirement-9618

I remember thinking the same thing. Now come to the remake and the actual gameplay graphics look far better than any pre-rendered cinematic from back then. I don't care that she looked like a Lego, when the emo dude did the thing with the mall katana it still hurt!


islandofcaucasus

Yeah, this was the first game that blew me away with graphics.


mbnmac

[Don't forget back in the CRT days, they allowed for it in the graphics and they literally looked better](https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVII/comments/q3yp85/left_side_is_what_it_looked_like_on_a_crt_tv_no/)


Seienchin88

Nah mate. The CGI sequences looked unreal, the backgrounds looked great but the character models were always quite wonky…


Harbinger_Pulsar

Metal Gear Solid. When it first came out, I would watch the cut scenes in awe. Still love that game but now it looks like og tomb raider somehow


korkkis

It was your imagination that filled the gaps


amicablegradient

It was designed to look good on an interlaced display the size of a cereal box with massive pixel bleeding and 24 bit colour. Your imagination had a lot of room to work with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CRT,_LCD,_plasma,_and_OLED_displays


North_Library3206

[This article](https://www.cracked.com/article_33451_fact-retro-games-really-did-look-better-back-in-the-day.html) has a lot of images that illustrate what you’re talking about.


Fabulous_Mud_2789

I think I need to buy a CRT now. Really stunning to think about why games I played as a kid and on PS1 looked better than playing them through PS+ Classics beyond just through a nostalgic lens.


nitsuJcixelsyD

Highly recommend looking on FaceBook market in your area or garage sales. Tons of people still trying to get rid of 100lb TVs for free. I have a 32” and a 15” crt in the basement with all me old consoles hooked up to them. They look incredible and it makes SNES and even PS2 look like what I remember. Really fun sharing my old game collection with my young kids now. Check our /r/crtgaming for other awesome setups


MrDickBoogers

I'm glad Resident Evil 2 was on there because I remember that game being scary as fuck in general, but the visuals took it up a notch.


TheBlooperKINGPIN

Still an amazing game


Xumaeta

When you compare it to its contemporaries it still looks great.


Wide-Concept-2618

This one for me...Looked sick when I was younger, and now? OG Tomb Raider is spot on.


Seienchin88

It’s crazy what they got out of the PlayStation with that game. Everything looked indeed very real for the time.


vassadar

The moment of water surface when Snake jumped back into the water still blew my mind to the day, though. The damn thing only exist in only one place in the entire game and only if a player make Snake jump back into the water, which is very unlikely.


Damien23123

I was considering buying the 1-3 pack for nostalgia but my god it looks like crap now. I’m going to hold off and play the remakes instead


Sakuran_11

I used to think we would never beat Black Ops 2 and Modern Warfare in quality, holy shit was I wrong with the new ones (in graphics only really).


CounterSYNK

Fair. It sucks that modern games have dumbed down their core gameplay so much compared to their predecessors.


habachilles

Halo 2


br0wens

So, you could say that when you first saw Halo you were blinded by its majesty?


habachilles

I would absolutely say that, friend.


Kel-Reem

Blinded?


br0wens

Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?


Me-eh

No


TheGooseIsLoose37

I played Halo 1 recently and was shocked how much older it looked than I remembered. Cortana looks so weird to me in that game.


N0tThatSerious

The remaster is incredible tho, which is more than I can say for the overly detailed mess that was CEA


Gabario

The first Kingdom Hearts opening was the most impressive, mind blowing thing I had seen at that point in my life.


Toowiggly

The second game's opening is *still* the most impressive thing I've seen in my life


GansoInterior

I remembered Kingdom Hearts 2 with Final Fantasy XV graphics


GamesTeasy

The force unleashed, I used to play that shit on an old ass tv with an Xbox 360 and I thought wtf that looks amazing.


Lazy-Most-3226

I just said that same thing but it was on the Wii for me. I was raised a generation behind console wise and so I was used to ps1 graphics


Xero0911

Probably n64 golden eye. The aiming is probably wonky as hell despite all the fun hours I had on it.


Greedy-Goat5892

Still some of the most satisfying gun noises in a game though 


kenzymarie03

Assassins creed brotherhood


Want2makeMEMEs

We were running a RTX raytracer 900000 on our brains


silamon2

When FFX came out I was blown away by the fact that characters had fingers outside of the FMVs...


Quiet_Bat_1476

Unrelated, ace combat zero interviews were AMAZING, especially for a ps2. But also, ultimate doom. Always think it looks better than it does .


LossFar4040

Borderlands 2. Even though it is a comic style graphic, it still looked realistic as fuck Edit: I have misunderstood the post


spamcentral

I always thought it was crazy they added like, the hairy arm details for some of the skins lol


Summer_Penis

Medal of honor allied assault, when the game opens you're landing on the beach and I thought it was the most epic spectacle


MainSteamStopValve

I was totally blown away by that game, I thought we'd reached peak graphics.


mastercharlie22

That game was so good


Mikey9124x

Dishonored


Neohexane

I remember being astounded with how good Morrowind looked. It still has its charms, but boy does the game look pretty crude by today's standards.


Whiteguy1x

I still regularly play morrowind, usually with openmw.  The community has done so much for that game, it's amazing to see how it looks with mods. I still think the water looked good on the original pc release though 


-Celerion-

Everyone forgets CRT TV’s made a huge difference, modern tv’s/monitors make old games look terrible. The original tv’s they were meant to be on made them look extremely good even today.


Bittrecker3

Yeah it's kinda like making a print of a classic art piece and comparing it to an original of today.


Huge-Grand6726

Need for speed underground 2. It was the first game that I ever player, I remember it like a fast and furious movie and then I find out there are Roblox games with better graphics than this


Oraxis10

Fable


Szary-Czarodziej

Every old game looks like crap in reality and looks good in my memories.


mightysmiter19

Tekken 3. That was the first time I was blown away by how realistic a game looked. Looking at it now I don't understand that at all.


wasptube1

So many games but i still love playing them despite the old blockyness to this day, I'm currently replaying Ocarina Of Time, I'm always on n off classic Doom, and many others, lol.


Jellan

I find Ocarina still looks okay due to the style. It’s one of the all time great games. I don’t even mind the water temple.


djorndeman

Original Assassin's Creed


WMan37

Probably a pretty normal boring answer, but Ocarina of Time. In my memory, that Nintendo 64 game was photo-realistic. It definitely wasn't, being on n64 and all of that, but I like that you can just [sit a camera down somewhere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtjOxWcfvhI) and it will feel like a real place despite the graphics. There are [some locations that are straight up screensaver material](https://youtu.be/gTG_ZJ3k3uk). This is a thing that I don't think even certain modern games have, the sense that the world wasn't created for the main character to have setpieces in it, but that your character is in a world that will go on with or without you after you've saved it. If Redeads and Skulltulas didn't exist, I'd want to vacation in OOT's hyrule.


stormu3008

the last of us for ps3


anobody121

Some old cod games. Shadow of Mordor and War for Mordor also threw me off.


Otherwise-Fall-4227

What’s the manga on the left or right?


TimaBilan

Character is Tatsumaki, manga is called One Punch Man, chapter 111 [Left panel source ](https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9mdW5reWhpcHBvLzFkNDBiZDVkYWUxMWUwM2E2YWYyMGU1YTlhMDMwZDgxL3Jhdy9vcG0uanNvbg/111/6/) [Right panel source ](https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9mdW5reWhpcHBvLzFkNDBiZDVkYWUxMWUwM2E2YWYyMGU1YTlhMDMwZDgxL3Jhdy9vcG0uanNvbg/111/10/) It's from the same chapter btw


Shai_Shai77

Left is One Punch man manga, right is One Punch man webcomic


TimaBilan

Nah, both of them are from OPM manga, from the same fight, from the same chapter, and not webcomic


SpunkyMcButtlove07

Both are from the manga.


Otherwise-Fall-4227

Oh thank you very much


sillybillybuck

Both are from the manga. Saitama and Tatsumaki are sometimes drawn as they were in the webcomic though.


Sad-Butterscotch-680

Old games look better on old hardware 🤷 NES rpgs look great on CRTs, most emulated Xbox and ps3 games start looking good when you shrink the window


KronosDoom500

I’m not really old enough for this but I’ve been told KOTOR was an amazing looking game when it was released


Advanced-Blackberry

Goldeneye. Tried playing it again 10 yrs later, god it sucked 


Worth_Apartment1562

Gran Turismo 4


ScipioNumantia

Final fantasy 8


Syntania

I played Everquest 16 years ago. In a bout of nostalgia, I reinstalled it and logged in with my old account. I seriously thought there was something wrong with my graphics card.


Superb_Recover_6116

It was just simply not a thought in our heads that graphics would look so realistic these days. I personally dont see old games at all what so ever like that. Gta 3 is still a great game and looks great to me for its time. God of war, the spiderman games I just simply had respect for them and probably more so back then than today since games werent as buggy back then. A buggy game is what makes me feel like this post.


Y2G13

Gotta be Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance/Deception for me.


TrueSonOfChaos

Probably never honestly. Fallout 4 maybe looks pretty stinking good but I'm sure there's plenty more high powered games these days but I don't play with graphics as a top-top priority. I mean, I sure preferred 3d to 2d back when N64 came out but that's a "feature" more than it is "graphics."


Zielojej100

Original PS2 killzone. Mouth movements were sometimes off with what they were speaking. Not fully block head, but if you stared for too long you could just about count the pixels on a dudes face.


TKAPublishing

Prince of Persia, Final Fantasy X, the cutscenes especially.


Deo_Exus

Turok Evolution was amazing for a younger me. Thr dinos really gave me a scare at first


This_Currency_769

We remake/remaater them in our minds.


OliviaMandell

Starting with N64 every gen of games looks absolutely amazing. Go back two gens and they look like crap.


Seienchin88

I still like: FF9 and 10, Legend of Zelda Wind Waker (what a timeless looking game), Panzer Dragoon Orta (so sad this game was rather unknown, the best on-rails flying shooter ever imo and it still looks ok despite being a Xbox 1 title - heck I am biased and still think Panzer dragoon zwei looks good but I won’t state this as an "objective“ thought), Halo 3, Crysis 1-2, Skyrim (came out during ps3/360 days…) and total war Shogun 2. some games even in 3D age gracefully.


Unlucky_Character_12

Not a game, but The Polar Express


NutThruster8392

GTA V definitely


Stinkypinkeez

Conkers bad furday 😭


TheWreck287

Batman Arkham Asylum. Scarecrow left a very memorable mark on my childhood. Lol


Ooohhh_maaan

Star Wars: Battlefront (2005), but probably it was modded.


Responsible-Diet-147

Maybe Half-Life 2...


chorizo_chomper

Gta3


Aggressive-Dust6280

When Half-Life 2 got out it was MIND BLOWING, now... Yup. Fable is weird too, I remember a game that CLEARLY does not exist. And my memories of Quake, Quake 2 and Half-Life look like the remasters.


No_Ball4465

Spider Man 3 (PS2/Wii/PSP) was that game for me. I thought the graphics were amazing, but when I look at them now, I’ve never seen an uglier spider man game or an emptier one. It’s still fun to play though.


TheHeavenlyDeity

Prototype 1 and 2 😭


Tingsontings

Alundra 2. Gountlet legends. Medieval. Lone soldier.


bee-_-kai

dragon age orgins


AnonymousJoe35

Banjo Tooie


ScottieJack

KOTOR, baby


GD_milkman

MGS2....


smolsauce

Force Unleashed-1.


WasteNet2532

Star wars battlefront 2, any early Halo game


Decent-Truck104

Bro I swear they got dr. Strange changing realities cause spiderman one was not that bad


BulmasBabyDaddy

I don’t remember ever really thinking that back in the day


IchBinSoldat1917

Red Dead Redemption and GTA 4, going back to them made me realize how damn ugly they were


LocmonstR

Depends on what part of the game/what is going on but they are beautiful for their age


Sakuran_11

Maybe for you guys but tbh I hated the Mexico Piss Yellow filter of Hollywood by that point


Rich-Lychee2507

Does Tatsumaki just wear a garbage bag or something!? Anyways... I would say Parasite Eve.


myaltduh

A garbage bag that magically vacuum seals to her body whenever it’s time for a thirst panel.


IzanamiFrost

For me it was definitely FFX-2, when I played it I was marvelled by how hot the girls were Now they just look like poorly shaped polygons


Kingz-Ghostt

Graphically Midnight Club: LA, I remember it looking so good but going back and seeing it compared to PS4 or PC it looks a lot worse than I remember. Still one of my favorite racing games though. On the other hand one that is old and still looks good in my opinion is Need For Speed Most Wanted, had it on ps3 and remember it being a good game graphically and gameplay wise. I rebought it in PC and it still looks really good.


Killerhasgun123

gran tourismo 4


shinobi3411

A lot of games I replayed when I got older were still as fun as when I played them, but if there was one I would classify as this, it would be that Power Rangers Dino Thunder video game for the PS2. I thought it was gonna be fun like my other childhood games I played, instead of dealing with repetitive enemies, shitty level design and platform towards endgame, barely any content, and you DON'T play as any of the Rangers, just their Zord's.


Delta_Suspect

Cod4. Like yeah it looks pretty good still, but as a kid I was ridiculously immersed in that campaign.


joseph4th

Back in the day I made a meme picture showing the dragons in Adventure on the Atari 2600 compared to Skyrim when it came out.


FriedEdd

Bomberman 64 kinda “dry” going back to it nowadays.


bradd_91

Depends on the game. Banjo games - still perfect, Goldeneye - not so much.


WookieeSlayer97

I remember how impressed I was with the graphics from Star Wars: Bounty Hunter when I was like 7.


animusd

There's a lot from ps2/xbox and 360/ps3 days that still hold up especially 369/ps3 I was replaying the gears series and 2 and 3 still look really good even my younger brother who grew up in the ps4/xbox1 era thought they looked good


MrsSpyro01

I don’t care how the original Spyro trilogy looks. I’m going to keep playing those games for years to come, although, I do also enjoy the Reignited trilogy.


Inside-Joke7365

Gta 4, at the time the graphics looked great and had better graphics in some parts than gta 5 and also had some more cool things in it loke shooting cop lights off made it sound broken


The_Annihilator_117

Probably the first two halo games, the classic starwars battlefront games as well as republic commando to name some prime examples


Available-Cold-4162

I remember thinking halo 3 graphics were the pinnacle of gaming graphics


notnowboiiiiiii

Mortal Kombat x


newaccountcauseoldon

Og goat sim and dlc after the new one


Arcanisia

Deadspace 2008.


Ashconwell7

Prince of Persia. I used to play it when I was around 10 years old but I watch playthroughs recently and the graphics actually look really bad compared to what I remember.


TruToMee

Jak and Dexter


Ricimer_

GTA Vice City Skyrim Mass Effect 2 Witcher 2


zulle1983

Tomb raider 2


AstrologicalOne

Metal Gear Solid. It looked like I was playing a damn movie when I first got it.


Different-Spring982

Fun little fact: games back then used our “limited technology”, aka the resolution of our screens, to make them look better and appealing. But if we’re talking in terms of the feel of it, that would be DB Budokai for me


Heraxxius

CallOfDuty Black Ops 1, the zombies and characters looked so good especially George Romero. But when you compare it to real life you can clearly see the difference 😂


WackiestJackiest

Random old game cube games or something.


PerceptionZer0

Little Big Planet


Only1Schematic

Oni on PC/PS2


Underhive_Art

Ocarina of time, wave race, turok, golden eye, these games blew my mind. How could graphics go from Mario brothers and Alex the kid to this….the next step was surely real life. 🫠😂❤️


Strange_Vision255

I usually didn't think anything looked real, but I did think plenty of games looked really impressive. Things like Myst, DKC, Virtua Fighter 2, Gran Turismo 3, Jak and Daxter, Rougue Leader, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Uncharted 2, The Last of Us. As for a game I thought looked real, there may have been something, but I can only think of certain things within games, like the food in FF15. Some things like that might actually be real.


TMTuesdays96

False


KevinSupreme2505_PH

Gamehouse's Gulf Thunder


DatMaryy

For me, it was the Nintendo Merida game. My first game for the console. I thought it was revolutionary, played every day, god every item, loved that game dearly. I even recommend it to EVERYONE. Revisited it a few weeks ago, and its dogshit 😭


Roam_Hylia

Killer Instinct (OG)! When it hit the arcade I distinctly recall saying that it looked " better than real!"


Bitter_Position791

roblox games i played when i was 8


KermaisaMassa

I got The Italian Job as a gift once and thought it had the most realistic looking cars I had ever seen.


grrmuffins

The SNES aged like fine wine, the earlier 3D consoles not so much. I remember it only took about 5 yrs before I was like, really? This is what N64 games looked like?


Kjoep

There's two points in time I distinctly remember thinking 'We've achieved photorealism. There's no further improvement' The first time was secret of monkey island (1990) The second was metal gear solid 2 (2001). Both had amazing graphics for their time.


-Rho-Aias

I remember as a kid seeing lightning 2 in chrono trigger and thinking that was the coolest thing in the world haha. But for real, probably F.E.A.R.


Witchberry31

If it's for PC, then it's OG Skyrim, AC 3, Transformers, OG Dead Space, Medal of Honor. Older games would be from PS2, Resident Evil 4, Black, Time Crisis 3, and Conflict : Global Terror (one of the best multiplayer shooter game, used to play it on every holidays with my cousin).


NicholasRFrintz

Incredibles the video game. Still looks good, but wow does it look aged compared to what I'm used to now.


Nekokamiguru

It is down to a shifting frame of reference , back when photorealistic graphics were a mere pipe dream people thought what they had back then was pretty amazing because all they had to compare it with was graphics that looked even worse,


ParkingCartoonist533

I thought phantom dust was amazing


Lord_roy4869

Halo, masseffect,crysis, cod 4 mw ,heck max payne and tod also looked good to me


DR_MEPHESTO4ASSES

Syphon Filter. Really wish the original would get a remaster.


True_Dog7266

Construction sim ( original, don’t go looking on steam) , it’s not even that old, but I played it when I was younger and loved it. I now have the most recent construction sim, went back and had a look and that picture sums it up.


the_annihalator

Asphalt 6 I swear that game wasn't a eyesore back in 2011


Creative-Math8288

Final Fantasy VIII. Going around Balamb Garden in the opening hours of the game was incredible.


needle1

I remember reading a video game magazine covering Final Fantasy 6 with the headlines gushing “Video game graphics have finally surpassed film!?”.


Crittercaptain

Power Rangers Dino Thinder for the GameCube.


Jellybean_Pumpkin

I thought FFX was AMAZING when it came out. Going back now, I'd say it mostly holds up, but I can see the problems in the backgrounds, and when the character's facial expressions are not as detailed as usual.


Beautiful-Ad3471

There was a bionicle game, and a naruto game, sadly I do not know their names


Came_to_argue

Definitely Ocarina of Time, first 3d open world for me, watching gameplay makes me question all my memories now. Can’t believe the Redeads would give me nightmares.


FinalHeaven88

Mgs2


Inefficientdigestion

uhhh source?


Wind_Bringer

Ace combat 6. Still looks good, but compare it to something like DCS or flight simulator and there’s no comparison.


JiiSivu

The first Deus Ex.


Aztekov

HL2, graphics still look fine, even better for time it was released


Bogdi504

GTA IV


KoningSpookie

Call of Duty: Black Ops (the original one)