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This probably applies more for console gamers than PC, though if you PCers have any similar experiences to share, by all means. :3 I'm in my early 20s, which means I spent a healthy chunk of my childhood playing with the PS2, several years in fact, and back then I of course was plenty pleased with the graphics. That's the funny thing, of course, because you don't really notice poor graphics until you've seen something better, at least for me. That 'something better' ended up being my first next-gen console, the Xbox360, and suffice to say those first few months were an outright TREAT for my eyes, more than any recent games simply because the leap forward in sophistication was so much more noticeable..
So, for you console gamers who went from one generation to the next; what was the first game, the first moment you just had to stare a bit because it was all so very beautiful to look at?
I could technically say it was the very first game I played on my new 360, Mass Effect, but that isn't the case; the facial textures were awesome, of course, but the surroundings seemed a little too bland, with only a few exceptions. Maybe it was because this wasn't so big on atmosphere, and so I spent most of my time on various planets trying desperately not to die.
My first moment of 'Sweet Jebas' when it came to Next Gen graphics was Bioshock, or rather, the DEMO of Bioshock. See, that was something else that was new to me, the ability to download and play demos for console games; you can imagine the excitement, given there wasn't really that sort of option with the Playstation 2.
The demo covers the opening sequence, right up until you're just about to enter the Medical Pavilion. I was playing it with a friend- i.e. he was watching, and complaining that he wanted to play it- and right from the get-go, we were enthralled. The plane crash, the cold night, the lone lighthouse... and thus we worked our way through it, bit by bit, until we got to the very first splicer. You know, the crazy lady that disembowls the faceless Atlas-ally, and leaps up onto the ceiling to stalk you... and, just as you're thinking 'Thank God For This Tough Metal Bubble,' the traitorous door OPENS.
We were TERRIFIED. We didn't want to leave that Bathysphere, no sir, we wanted to stay there forever and die of dehydration. Not because the opening moments were, compared to most horror fare, particularly scary in and of itself. No, this was simply because it all looked so much BETTER, so much more real than what we were used to. The shadows, the textures, even the water surrounding our little sub was so much more believable than any other game we'd encountered, only enhanced by the background audio, we were half-convinced that if our character was killed, we'd die ala Matrix. I tried to make my friend take the controller, but the fiend suddenly didn't seem so eager to play anymore! >_< And so out I crept... heart pounding, eye twitching... the rest is history. xD
So there you go, folks; it was actually also my first moment of videogame heebie-jeebies. The PS2 Silent Hill games never really got to me, frightening-wise. xD
The Pitfall of Uber Graphics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMVsga_b5c
This probably applies more for console gamers than PC, though if you PCers have any similar experiences to share, by all means. :3 I'm in my early 20s, which means I spent a healthy chunk of my childhood playing with the PS2, several years in fact, and back then I of course was plenty pleased with the graphics. That's the funny thing, of course, because you don't really notice poor graphics until you've seen something better, at least for me. That 'something better' ended up being my first next-gen console, the Xbox360, and suffice to say those first few months were an outright TREAT for my eyes, more than any recent games simply because the leap forward in sophistication was so much more noticeable..
So, for you console gamers who went from one generation to the next; what was the first game, the first moment you just had to stare a bit because it was all so very beautiful to look at?
I could technically say it was the very first game I played on my new 360, Mass Effect, but that isn't the case; the facial textures were awesome, of course, but the surroundings seemed a little too bland, with only a few exceptions. Maybe it was because this wasn't so big on atmosphere, and so I spent most of my time on various planets trying desperately not to die.
My first moment of 'Sweet Jebas' when it came to Next Gen graphics was Bioshock, or rather, the DEMO of Bioshock. See, that was something else that was new to me, the ability to download and play demos for console games; you can imagine the excitement, given there wasn't really that sort of option with the Playstation 2.
The demo covers the opening sequence, right up until you're just about to enter the Medical Pavilion. I was playing it with a friend- i.e. he was watching, and complaining that he wanted to play it- and right from the get-go, we were enthralled. The plane crash, the cold night, the lone lighthouse... and thus we worked our way through it, bit by bit, until we got to the very first splicer. You know, the crazy lady that disembowls the faceless Atlas-ally, and leaps up onto the ceiling to stalk you... and, just as you're thinking 'Thank God For This Tough Metal Bubble,' the traitorous door OPENS.
We were TERRIFIED. We didn't want to leave that Bathysphere, no sir, we wanted to stay there forever and die of dehydration. Not because the opening moments were, compared to most horror fare, particularly scary in and of itself. No, this was simply because it all looked so much BETTER, so much more real than what we were used to. The shadows, the textures, even the water surrounding our little sub was so much more believable than any other game we'd encountered, only enhanced by the background audio, we were half-convinced that if our character was killed, we'd die ala Matrix. I tried to make my friend take the controller, but the fiend suddenly didn't seem so eager to play anymore! >_< And so out I crept... heart pounding, eye twitching... the rest is history. xD
So there you go, folks; it was actually also my first moment of videogame heebie-jeebies. The PS2 Silent Hill games never really got to me, frightening-wise. xD
The Pitfall of Uber Graphics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMVsga_b5c
