games of the 21th century that droped your jaw (graphics)

and i don' t mean by tthat like yeah it looks good , NO, i mean by that houwaaaaaw iiii aaaa oooo my god it' s amazing, i can' t belive my console or pc run this shit.
because this list would be so long to include all games of all time, so let' s list only games released after 2000... and please indicate if it was the design or technicaly or both. for me the design can make something look very beautiful wuth well created characters (bosses) and enviromenet without using cutting edge 3d engine with super pixel shader whaterver!

so talk about your personal experience, just to be clear, doom 3 was amzing at the time but when i played quake 4 after a year, it didn' t have the same impact at all, no somebody who played quake 4 before and find it impressive and them play doom 3 will certainly not list doom... euh i guess... enough of that

Dreamcast:


shenmue (tech and design)
crazy taxy (tech)
ecco the dolphine (tech and design)
Dead or alive 2 (tech and design)
Resident evil code veronica (tech and design)
soul calibur (tech)
virtua tennis (tech)
sonic adventure 1 (tech and design)
(a game where the hero had a huuuuuge sword and his a scare on the eye if somebody can remember its name please) (tech and design)

PS2:

jax and daxter (tech and design)
ico (tech and design)
shadow of the colossus (tech and design)
devil may cry (tech and design)
devil may cry 3 (design)
Gran turismo 3 (tech and design)
God of war (tech and design)
onimusha 2 (design)
Final fantasy 10 (tech and design)
burnout 3 (tech and design)
resident evil 4 (tech and design)
Metal gear solid 2 (tech and design )
zone of the enders 2 (design)
pro evolution soccer (tech)
gran theft auto 3 (tech)
prince of persia sand of time (tech and design)
beyond good and evil (design)


game cube:

resident evil 0&1 (tech& design) (i didn' t play res4 on game cube)
star wars rogue squadron (tech& design)
starfox adventure (tech&design)
zelda the wind waker (tech and design)
mario sunshine (design)

xbox:

splinter cell 1 (tech)
splinter cell 2&3 (tech and design)
Reddick (tech and design)
dead or alive 3 (tech and design)
top spin (tech)

Pc:

half life 2 (tech and design)
doom 3 (tech)
far cry (tech and design)
max payne (tech and ddesign)
max payne 2 (design)
dreamfall (design)
Fear (tech)
call of duty 2 ( tech)
prince of persia two thrones (design)


for me , the xbox was the console that the least impressed me, specialy when you own a decent pc, i' m sure that if i didn' t play half life 2 on pc and play it first on xbox i would be damn impressed... ps2 is the console that satisfied me the most.

Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2 for the Gamecube impressed me the most thanks to the perfect mix of incredible graphics and amazing art direction. Andrew Jones rules.

1- Ecco the Dolphin for the Sega Dreamcast, nuff said.. You could easily mistaken it for one of those Sea life specials on TV :p.

2- Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly for the PS2.. (In my opinion it had the best storyline in a survivor horror game, great atmosphere and one of THE best E3 trailers ever! I liked it way more than the Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer)

3- Resident Evil 4 for the GameCube.. Great enemy A.I. -- The enemies in the game were friggin RELENTLESS.. Wherever you hid they smashed the doors open and found you. And ontop of that, they actually worked together to bring you down.

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it says graphics terry graphics... but i guess your choice is still damn right , so are that all the games which impressed you !! ginjirou only metroid ?

my point was not to make a stupid list,

1) getting to know the members better, their experiences is impiortant so if somebody tell you that game look really good, you know what he' s talking about

2) see what console had a good impression on us GAMERS !

Sorry dude, LOL, I now see why I scored low on READING tests back in junior high and high school, lol..

Ok, another game that impressed me graphically was the Bar fight scene in the original Shenmue. That part alone was absolutely STUNNING!

As far as handheld games go, Monster Hunter Portable (Freedom) for the PSP also impressed me. The lush, detailed environments, the monsters roaming around, and the animations.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Yeah the bar scene was really cool.
I only mentioned Metroid Prime because that' s what' s impressed me the most. Apart from those two titles there are tons of games that' ve impressed me whe it comes to graphics. Your list was pretty good abasoufiane.
Panzer Dragoon for the Saturn impressed me alot too.

Worse fanboy bias top list i ever seen.

Where is Panzer dragon?
Where is HALo ?was running on the best pc ghraphic card when it came out.
Where is Pgr2?

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

ASTAL was a gorgeous looking 2D platformer for the Saturn.

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Final Fantasy X had my jaw hanging for quite some time… Actually it still is.
Both Dead or Alive 2 & 3 really impressed me graphics wise, but I guess the first mentioned had greater impact on me.
Ico, Shadow of the Colussus and Panzer Dragon Orta were all beautiful on a great many levels.
Resident Evil remake for the Gamecube was grotesquely pretty to watch. Animations and textures wear great and all, but I was also impressed by the pre-rendered background, which I hadn’t been for quite some while and haven’t since.
Metal Gear Solid 2 was another mindblower and I don’t know how many times I meaninglessly vandalised the bar on the first stage tanker.
Star Fox adventures had me going “Look at that fur!” which might have sounded odd to people around me, who had no idea I what I was pointing at.

Also, Shenmue was …………………………………………………, or so I think. (I’ll leave the blank up to your imagination )

I choosed not to bring up games to consoles earlier than the Dreamcast, as there would’ve been to much for me to mention (it’s already to much! ), and I think I’m already forgetting some games.
Also, to me graphics isn’t really about how many polygons there is on the screen, rather it is about great art direction and talented….. that a how they can fool the eye, making relatively simple modelled areas look immensely beautiful. I do however really appreciate great textures, which I think neither Sony nor Microsoft has been the best of, rather Nintendo is the one that tends to amaze me.

Where is Panzer dragon?
Where is HALo ?was running on the best pc ghraphic card when it came out.
Where is Pgr2?

Personaly those games are great, but not Jaw dropping.

I hate making lists! [:' (]

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

I hate making lists!

Actually (and as I started a " List thread" you might not believe it) I do to. But once I begin I can' t stop, I get all like " And then there was that one, and that, and I cannot forget that super great one!"

Edit:
Ah, F*ck! Forgot to mention Silent Hill 3... See? I have issues.

When it comes to game direction, my personal favorite is Metal Gear Solid 2. If every camera angle in the FMV' s had been a simple upper body shot, with little or no camera movement, (like alot of budget titles now) it would have been okay, but the dynamic movement of the camera is what really brough that game to life for me.

I agree with Ginjirou, Metroid Prime had some excellent art direction, but what impressed me most about that game, is it' s ability to make you not mind backtracking through endless caverns.

List thread, yay!

Yea, Metal Gear 2 and Silent Hill 2 were two of the first games I got for PS2, along with Gran Turismo 3 A-spec. Those games were very pretty for their time.

On PS1, the Final Fantasy cgi sequences were amazing. FF7 was the first time I' d seen such great cgi, and FF8' s ending was probably my favourite.

I seem to remember thinking " Wow that looks real" when I played Mortal Kombat for the first time, hehehe. It was the pixelated photos that did it.

And on PC..hmm, Morrowind I think was the first game that stunned me, especially with the water reflections. The Unreal games were always good looking since the beginning. Of course there' s Doom3, Half-life 2 and FEAR too. And actually I really liked the look of Quake 4 on PC, the textures were a lot sharper and the whole thing ran blindingly fast.

Hitman: Blood Money on PC was the last graphically inspiring game I played. And I think there have been a few screenshots of MotoGP 06 on 360 that I' ve had to take a second glance at to check it was a screenshot!

thank you silentbomber for the answer to quez, hey quez don' t you a bit very much exagerate about the bias comment!! those were not mindblowing, halo 1 ? nooo i was disapointed , panzer dragon orta, the game look good, yeah might add it , but PGR2, waay before i played gran turismo 3, i won' t defintly be impressed by PGR2.

and yeah i definitly should not forget metroid prime 1, it DID impress me. and silent hill 3 as well, the faces were houuuhaaaaaaa !

You was dissapointed on the graphic of HALO when it came out?
You kidding me?

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

i swear!
i was expecting much more from the xbox, but after awhile (owning xbox) well it' s nice-- IT' s NICE... halo 2 was WTF in grapohics, the damn thing was for me the game that will push graphics to the limit and it didn' t !! Reddick impressed way mooore!

From the top of my head (because if I think for too long it will go on and on....)

Halo & Halo 2
PGR2 - I live in Scotland and Edinburgh really sold it for me - perfect.
Devil May Cry
Tekken Tag
Ninja Gaiden
Fight Night Round 3
King Kong (made me buy the 360)
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare
Oblivion
Zelda Windwalker

Probably says more about the games i like i.e. fighting!

21th? Or 21st? Reminds me of SNK Engrish. Neo Turf Masters tells me I " finished in 32th place" .

Games like Astal were 20th century games because they were released last century.

(a game where the hero had a huuuuuge sword and his a scare on the eye if somebody can remember its name please) (tech and design)

Sorry Abosufiane, just to answer your question, the game was Sword of the
Berserk: Guts Rage.

It' s like a violent Ocarina of time, the guys name was Gutsu and he had a man
fairy..

Ok, lets get the fairly obvious out of the way:

Shenmue: The thing that made my jaw drop was when I saw a screenshot
of Ryu holding a can of Sprite, I was like, " graphics like that aren' t possible yet!"
Then the bar scene amazed me when all the bottles flew off.. The interaction
was amazing, the fact you could call people.. Nozomi' s number is 22-5508, no need
for the dialling code...lol

The game in a game (Hang-on, Harrier, Darts) insured the game did not get boring
this game amazed on every level and I couldn' t pick my jaw up for a week..

The Weather system was cool, the snow effects were astounding, this game was
brilliant on every graphical level, and the physics and tech in it were great.

Shenmue II: Made my jaw drop for different reasons; it was in Japanese!
The QTE' s in this game were brilliant and the fight scenes were great. The QTE
down the alleyway just before the end of Disc 2 was impressive (c' mon, he back
handed a watermelon). Also the " next-gen" handcuffs.lol, i call them that because
they were a bit too shiny and free flowing, it' s like they brought in a separate
engine just for those handcuffs..

Lastly, need I say it???? The YELLOW HEAD BUILDING 12 floors
of pure unadulterated action! This brought in the FP battles, the normal battles,
the new QTE' s, the old QTE' s, the plank QTE' s, crazy woman with a Guile haircut,
huge man called falling mountain (Dou Niu) chasing you, and it also had another
thing that games don' t really have nowadays and that is humour (Ren is probably
the best " sidekick" ever). To top it off, the fight with Baihu and then straight for
Dou Niu..

Now the others:

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Next gen graphics on an X-box, he also had a
knife for CQC. The rain effects really made this game stand out to me, and my
jaw drop of course.

Otogi 1 and 2: I consider these games to be the 2 of the most beautiful games
ever played, the art direction and level design is one not seen in many other
games. The first thing that caught my eye was being able to cut through a building
and make pieces of it fly everywhere and the fact that it was possible to leave
a beautiful level in smouldering ruins left a deep satisfaction in me. AND I
have always wanted to hit an enemy into a building in real-time and watch the
building collapse, that was one thing that kept me coming back to Otogi.

I think we will have a brief interval before I continue my other titles..

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1. Never tell all you know.

ORIGINAL: Tiz

(Ren is probably
the best " sidekick" ever

Yeah! Ren kicks ass!
Guizhang in Shenmue was also cool but he lacked the humour.

i swear!
i was expecting much more from the xbox, but after awhile (owning xbox) well it' s nice-- IT' s NICE... halo 2 was WTF in grapohics, the damn thing was for me the game that will push graphics to the limit and it didn' t !! Reddick impressed way mooore!

You name a lot of ps2 games that look fine,but you cant add in HALO?
The best looking game at its time?
It used the best graphic card on the market for PC also.

As i said,worse sony fanboy bias list i ever seen.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Gui Zhang was cool in a Bruce Lee kind of way. Completely stone faced while someone verbally bitch slapped him, then he' d come out and kick their head in.
It' s the best way to do it.

Ren needs no explanation. He pwns.

This brought in the FP battles, the normal battles,
the new QTE' s, the old QTE' s, the plank QTE' s, crazy woman with a Guile haircut

Most infuriating idea EVER.

Back on to the subject; Chaos Theory gets my vote every time. Of course I agree with Shenmue, Halo, etc. but Chaos Theory really sucked me in purely because of what an awesome atmosphere it created. The small details in every single level impress me each and every time I play it.

You name a lot of ps2 games that look fine,but you cant add in HALO?

To tell the truth (and don’t hate me for it) but I wasn’t so impressed by the first Halo game graphics either. I really enjoyed the water effects as well as the wide and open areas, but I thought all the characters looked rather stiff and low in detail. Back then it was probably due to the big expectations I had for the game, but I can honestly say today that I still don’t find Halo all that impressive (especially graphics wise... and not comparing it to today). I do however think Halo 2 deserves credit for its fancy graphics!

I think Halo looked nice but I was disappointed. It didn' t look as good as some people said it did. I honestly felt it looked boring. Boring! BORING!

here quez i' m not a lunatic !! halo lacked details , the art ddesign wasn' t great except in some levels, textures were so so ....

as i said people hyped a lot halo, and when buy a new console that is supposed to be 2 times ps2 in power, i should get something like Reddick and half life 2, not Halo 1... so when i was disapointed because i thought the xbox should do much better i was damn right...

another thing that i really disliked about halo is the empty enviromenet.

there are two consoles that really droped my jaw off to the undergrouuuuund ...

Dreamcast (the huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge jump over psone and n64) and gamecube (rogue squadron and first resident evil when i just bought the console)

but why i chosed ps2, may be most of these games didn' t really really impressed me, but the quantity of those games were greater than any other console that' s why i chosed ps2 as the most impressive...

i mean if i have to compare the impression that i had when i first played titles in dreamcast (like shenmue) and gamecube... ps2 would have:

gran turismo 3
final fantasy 10
devil may cry 1

Holy crap how could I forget the original Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast?? When I first played it I was in complete AWE of the textures in that game!!!

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MGS2 didn' t blow my mind. What did though was the demo disc I played some time before the game was released. All you could play was the tanker (I guess they wanted to keep Raiden a secret). That demo was really impressive. The demo had that jaw dropping effect on me.
I thought that all PS2 games would look as good but I was wrong. Very wrong.

Sonic Adventure impressed me too but I hated the damn camera issues at first. I remember cursing 3D games and saying that 2D games would always be better than 3D. Have I change my mind now? Not really. Now give me Shenmue 2D

i really understand your point about MGS 2, it did drop my jaw in that tanker level, and that cutscene in the very beggining when snake would jump over the bridge ... but in the shell levels , it wasn' t mind blowing i remember my impression very well

but still that tanker was part of MGS2, and it did droped my jaw so i should give it credit and add it.

hat did though was the demo disc I played some time before the game was released. All you could play was the tanker (I guess they wanted to keep Raiden a secret). That demo was really impressive. The demo had that jaw dropping effect on me.

Came with Zone of the Enders, right? That was the one that had me at hello! I actually bought Zoe of the Enders (luckily it was a good game) for the MGS2 demo and I popped the demo in, before Z.O.E. I was such an irresponsible brat, when it came to money and I would slap myself, could I travel back in time!

Oh yeah, I remember when the MGS 2 demo went on sale it came with a free copy of Z.O.E.! That game rawked!

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you mean the demo wasnt on the zoe disc itself!? I remeber getting that second hand and looking all over the shop for that damn demo.

Well, the truth hurts.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Nope.. Both were separate discs. If I remember correctly I think the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo cost $40-$50 and Z.O.E. was included as a free bonus

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Oh yeah, I remember when the MGS 2 demo went on sale it came with a free copy of Z.O.E.! That game rawked!

Hehe… Good one.

Sayonra!

SEGA Arcade Games.. wothout doubt graphically dumped on everything from a huge height..

From ' dreamy' Super sprite scalling:

Outrun
Galaxy force
Afterburner
Super Hang-on
Super Manico

WOW!!

Virtua fighter 1.. Geezz
Virtua fighter 2.. OMFG!!!

up until model 3 board games..


Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2..

Halflife 2

Streets of Rage 2.. I couldnt understand how my Megadrive was pushing these these big vibrant detailed sprites and backgrounds..

Sonic 1 (totally Dreamy, fast super-smooth animation and Parrallax scrolling)

Recently: nothing aprt from VF5.. with out doubt the best looking game ive ever wittnessed.. Theres one stage that has replicated ' Water' almost to prefection , looks so realistic..

man we did only list games released after 2000, otherwise we would defintly not skip donkey kong, golden eye, tekken or daytonaaaaa (saturn)

Ninja Gaiden: Lets get 1 thing straight.... This is LEAGUES better
than Tenchu, whilst Tenchu allowed you to move more like a real ninja, NG had
the movements down to a T with superb animation. The graphics were
mindblowing and to this day, I can never get over how fast he moves. One thing
I love about the game is that if Ninjas were souped up, they would move like
Ryu. I love that it is in 60fps. Also when the game was first announced, I was
so hyped over it like a little schoolgirl, they said it was hard and I just thought
" Meh" , can' t be that hard, rest assured, the first time I played it, I got my arse
kicked! But that made me want to play it more, IMO Gaiden is hard but in a fair
way. You' ll be punished for being an idiot, and trying to come at it like any other
conventional action/adventure or hack n' slash. The reason I say this game is
hard but in a fair way is because when the enemies get harder, they learn your
attacks and find different ways to hit you. Where as with other games, the bosses
life is made longer.... That' s not hard, just long, plus, they always have a one hit
killer move a' la Dante must Die mode; THAT is infuriating.

Ninja Gaiden made my jaw drop overall, its one of the only games that has lived
up to the mountain of hype I created around it..

Are we supposed to do mini-reviews?

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Resident Evil 4

best game last generation

Im gonna shoot you in the head bitch!

Last best gen game was Shenmue 2.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Im gonna shoot you in the head bitch!

Last best gen game was Shenmue 2.

Never played Shenmue! And i only play the best games, there for it isnt one of them :P

Never played Shenmue! And i only play the best games, there for it isnt one of them :P

Nay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

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1. Never tell all you know.