I feel like Rdr2 just can't be beat. It looks absolutely incredible and it's an immersive open world game. I'm honestly blown away to this day and it looks better than a lot of games coming out in the 2020s.
@@ttghhgg1918Vehemently disagree. I love the realistic gameplay and I think Arthur Morgan is possibly my favorite fictional character ever. It's the opposite of boring to me. But I like games that take their time and I find the pace of Rdr2 really refreshing.
Hate to admit I’m This old but, I’ve been a gamer since around 1982 😬 I remember the crash of ‘85 and, watching all the copies of E.T get trashed etc. To think we’ve come this far is astounding to me. The first time I played an NES, I was 10 and my world changed. To someone reading this who is younger, you can’t really understand how special it is to be living in a time where we are this spoiled with our hobby. I don’t take games for granted anymore, I find good in most games and, fully appreciate what goes into games these days, especially graphically. Gaming has always been my hobby and always will no matter what age I am. Be thankful we even have games because, just 4 decades ago, everything was grim. 👾
Obviously growing up in the late 80s and 90s is slightly different, but I think us 90s kids have a good idea of how far games have come as well. My first games were Super Mario Bros and Karate Kid, and then the SNES came out. SNES was amazing, but the 90s had so many other amazing innovations. We were probably spoiled in the 90s, but it's hard not to admit that the games today just have so much more going on than ever before. It's pretty amazing what devs can achieve even in games that don't release in the best condition possible.
@@grichl88Honestly being born in the 2000's but in a third world country and not being too well off I can shockingly relate, my first console was a NES bootleg with Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt being my first games funnily i did not even know what Nintendo was until around 2010 due to very limited access to the internet. Even around 2007 i was still playing Halo CE as my computer was severely underpowered which was a bank computer which they had discarded. These days having a nice job etc and access to modern tech, it still makes me appreciate what i had back then, The NES and those older games i used to play will always have a special place in my heart.
Zombies started with CoD World at War. With Nazi Zombies being an Easter Egg after beating the game. From then on it was a staple of Trayarch CoD & took on a life of its own.
Uuuhm, how is it exponential? Graphics increased drastically when 3D-graphics become popular, after that it stagnated. For example, BF3 is roughly halfway in between today's games and the original Tomb Raider, while you cannot deny that graphics on average improved way faster before it came out. Another example would be comparing GTA 5's graphics to the ones of GTA 6 and 3 (each one is roughly 12 years apart).
@@ngls stagnated up until the next consoles came out, there has been a massive leap between, let's say the PS1 to PS2, then another leap forward from PS2 to PS3, then another leap from PS3 to PS4 and another leap from PS4 to ps5, I would say they stagnate when consoles are new because developers aren't fully aware of the capabilities. Look at GTA IV and GTA V for example, graphically V is superior and it was released on the same console as IV
@@ramrodbldm9876 Kid, how about you actually use your brain if you have one and actually contribute instead of insulting people behind a screen when you know yourself you wouldn't dream of insulting people to their face. Keep it real lil kid
I hate it when people are like "They didn't put in as much effort in the older games." Like, my guy, they didn't even know how to make 3D games! Or how to write API's and build engines that supported 3D graphics. A monumental amount of work went into those early games...
They also didn't have 1k or even 100 people work on their games. I'm fairly sure credit rolls didn't take hours to finish back then as is now normal with AAA games.
All that effort and my games still look like runny oatmeal. I'm not playing NVIDIA's game and paying exorbitant prices to keep up with AAA's poor optimization. Early games may have flaws, but at least they are *complete* and *run at 100% performance.*
Game graphics are getting more and more stunning. 10-20 years ago, I never imagined that games could evolve so rapidly and become as advanced as they are now. We can even step into virtual worlds to play games nowadays!
@@Saulbreadman Yeah bro starfield is a good game but gets too much hate which it totally does not deserve . I have played both indiana and starfield both are great . But in my opinion indiana > starfiled .Yeah they are both different games but i am just comapring
@@Aryan-y2o3x frfr starfield is amazing. I love Bethesda games and they cooked with starfield. Only thing I don't like is the space battles they're annoying for no reason lol
Shadow Generations, much like Sonic Generations did back in 2011. Continued to AMAZE me for how Sonic Team are able to make these older locations & bosses from Sonic Adventure in 2001, Sonic Heroes in 2003, or Sonic '06. Look the best they've had in decades! Even the cutscenes reflect this same level of quality! Space Colony ARK, Radical Highway, Kingdom Valley, Rail Canyon, are all just fantastic showcases showing the leap in quality multiple Generations later! Yes, that wording was entirely intentional! Heck, they even went back & made a good Sonic Forces level by recreating Sunset Heights! Which was only 7-years old at the time Shadow Gens launched! Truly a special game right here!
I remember playing the original Prince of Persia and being amazed at how "real" it looked. I think it was more about how good the animations were rather than the graphics. We didn't expect much in graphics back then but the characters moved so fluidly. It was a blast to play that!
I remember watching my uncle play it as a kid, and playing PoP2 myself back in the day. Tbh, I kinda wish the new one was more like those, gameplay wise.
Thats one thing nice about being older. As a 40 year old I remember my Sega Masters and Nintendo. I remember the first time I played Mario 64 and it blew our minds. The young people today have always had decent/great graphics so they don't get the excitement of the massive graphic upgrade. They'll most likely only get marginal upgrades over time.
Hp chamber of secrets has a special place in my childhood. I played the game for months at my grandparents place. I would visit there once a month. It took 20 mins to load on that pc and I played bits and pieces of it. Everytime I died - loading screen for 20mins. Also the menu music is just timeless ( I never quit the game as it takes so long to load ). Happy times.
@Man-oq9pf I did replay those after some years ( I think 2006) and yeah after prisoner of azkaban it was bad. Goblet of fire was bad too it was just 10 or 13 levels locked behind hogwarts shield collection and levels accessible through the pensieve. Order of Phoenix - I had a French version on a ps2 and there was no English lol. Didn't care to play half Blood Prince or the deathly hallows ( this was a third person wand shooter ?!)
"Games today are released broken" is a common phrase these days, and i get the sentiment. But really it's the complexity of games which causes many to be broken at release, the costs of games nowadays can equal the cost of designing/building a 60 story sky scraper in Detroit ($350mil - $600mil).
Too many developers overuse AI upscaling and frame generation to make up for badly optimized games. Why buy expensive 70$ titles if they require a high-end GPU because a team refused to improve their codebase so high details can run on weaker hardware (OverWatch had good code) or use way too many polygons in their models.
The Alan Wake series is a great comparison between the first and second. American Nightmare aside, which did its own thing, the two main-line games in the series couldn't be starker in presentation even when dealing with the same theme.
The one that really got me was the difference between the original RE4 vs the Remake RE4. The original looks good for its time but the remake is beautiful!
Being a gamer since the 1970,s this has been one of the best vids you guys have put out (to me at least), to show how we started to what we have now, Brilliant.
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@@gameranxTV thank you so much for the reply, but please take note that i did not get into Playstation until the PS3, and so have not seen all of your vids, i am enjoying an older one currently, keep up the great work :)
The graphics for the mainline series are a joke. The character models are better but everything else is lacking. Pokémon Arceus has the best visuals even though I don't like it.
Fun video, Jake! I was blown away by the graphics - and sound - on the OG PlayStation back in the mid-1990s. When I see those games now, compared to the 21st century games I’m currently playing, it’s astounding how far we’ve come. And those old graphics still have the charm of nostalgia.
I love the charm of the original games, there are certain moments in Baldurs Gate 1, 2, Icewind Dale 1, 2 and Planescape Torment, that are still cemented in my brain even today, more than 20 years after playing them, those games were so amazing. Another thing, I loved when games had proper manuals, and those certainly had. I carried those manuals with me and read them from cover to cover, learning the spells that way was really great.
I was astonished at how much fun and how great looking Mafia: Definitive Edition was. I'm so stoked for Mafia: The Old Country, I might actually play through it in Sicilian with English subtitles 😂
11:30 that’s not the original Prince of Persia, the original was more akin to 8 bit - the sword was like 6-8 white pixels and IIRC it had a one hour time limit. Even bigger differences in graphics!
It's the SNES version that was released in 1992. It's messy and has less smooth animations than the versions I grew up with on pc and Amiga that were released in 1990, the year after the original 1989 Apple ][ release.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb is one of the most coolest and fun game ever made. Definitely one of my favorites. I have such fond memories of my childhood, coming home from school to tackle the next level. Especially that cage/crocodile level....It was such a blast. Back then games were fun and cheap.
The original Baldurs Gate came out just 4 days before Christmas in 98 too. Perfect timing for the break. I don’t think I still have that box but I do have Baldurs Gate 2 and the Expansion PC boxes complete with a cloth map.
The funny part about looking back at Final Fantasy 7 is how at the time it was considered groundbreaking graphics. That was cutting edge stuff back in the day.
The graphics jump from Tekken 3 to 4 was out of this world, at least for me back in the day🤣 Also when FFVIII came out, it was a major leap forward in terms of visual fidelity from character models to CGIs I thought it was the best thing I ever saw in a video game as opposed to the chibi, polygonal masterpiece that was FFVII
The way you talk about Tekken 1, man, you need to respect your elders haha Honestly, frame rates in gaming in the 90's were all over the place and we didn't mind it as much. Also, Virtua Figther came out a couple of weeks before Tekken. Loved both of them
I saw a good video recently that argued that modern graphics is ruining? gaming. Graphics have been pretty good for the last 10 years. A lot of newer games are wasting effort to make every game UE5 Ray Traced 4K 60 fps. That developer time would be better spent making better game play. Fancy video can't hide a bloated crummy game. Having games require RT as a min spec is abandoning a lot of market share? Ray Traced graphics are nice to look at, but no gamer I know uses RT full time when raster rendering looks really good and is twice as fast.
The most fun or innovative games I know aren't even full 3D, in some cases even bottom tier pixel graphics. So if you ask me there definitely is something to this.
Ray tracing looks ugly anytime I've turned it on. Maybe it's my monitor, but the only time ray tracing actually did something it enhanced the fog/smoke effects in an indie horror.
15:47 love your stuff and watch it every day. I just wanted to point out that the music was more so jungle than techno. Jungle pretty much owned OSTs of the 90s/ early 00s for video games
I really want to play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, waiting for the PS5 release is hell, I'm a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the game looks AMAZING!
Me: **trying to watch a video meant to show quality and detail in video games** My phone: "Let's start you out at 360P and see if you can tell the difference. 😈" Also me: 😐
The biggest difference between PS1 Armored Core and newer ones, is how the game was controlled. Not only can you do things like strafe, but actually use the analog controllers! Not until PS2 did you have to stop using the shoulder buttons to turn left and right or look up and down. It became a common practice, for some people, to play the game with the control turned upside down. It was odd to play the game at first going from PS1 to PS2. Even now, they have added even more movement control to the mech.
Even though I enjoyed it, "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" was kind of bittersweet as a lifelong Indy fan. Even if it had done better in the theaters or if they decide to remake Raiders with Chris Pratt or whatever it felt like Indiana Jones was over. The Great Circle, however, surpassed all of my expectations. I'm more than okay if we never get another Indiana Jones film as long as we get more games of that quality to carry on the legacy.
Holy crap! I forgot all about the original Test Drive with that red dot and the windshield cracking up when you crash haha I played that on DOS along with Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Wolf 3d! (Wolfenstein) haha Damn I'm old....
The original halo combat evolved to halo infinite was a huge leap for graphics for me i remember playing Combat evolved on the original Xbox back when i was a kid then seeing the open world and everything of infinite was a huge improvement in my opinion
Too true, graphic obsessed normies have existed since the very start, however I feel it's going to get worse with younger generations having no frame of reference prior to 2015 (gen alpha). Old games will look unfamiliar and scary, and since older consoles aren't in print no more you'll have a hard time selling a kid how great the gaming scene once was. At the very least, they'll play old Valve/DOOM games. Hopefully the next wave of influencers will show them what we had and why gaming feels dead nowadays.
This is a really great topic, and I'm curious how many decades have you guys been playing video games and what was your first the first one I remember playing is Super Mario Bros 2
People saying "its just nostalgia" are wrong. I've recently been playing PS2/PS3 games I've never played in my younger years and I'm having a blast. Older games DO have a charm the new ones dont and its not only about nostalgia. Developers back then did care to make a proper and fun experience instead of making a quick buck with a overpriced and unfinished game
Without those older games that you're ripping on, you wouldn't have the technological improvements today. And as bad as the older games seem to look in your judgement, they had a charm and gameplay that had us hooked in the 80s, 90s and 00s - something that's missing in so many titles today which are only about graphical achievement. Any game can look and sound incredible, but if the gameplay isn't there, it's a PoS.
One game that might be interesting on this conversation is Crysis... especially since when it came out there was a meme of "Will it play Crysis" and they were joking that you'd need a NASA computer to play it at maximum settings without it crashing
FIFA games, started playing on SEGA Mega drive in 1994 until on PC a few years ago. Total War games……;-) playing the first Shogun game and now the graphics look quite different!
Lol you can do part 2 part 3 of this vid there's so many game that comes so far : rdr , resident evil, star wars, doom , gta , assassin's creed, gow , witcher, nfs , forza ..... so on and on that how far we truly come xD
Im very late to the party on the Mafia series but i started playing Mafia The Definitive Edition and im already hooked on it to where i want to play the second one and the 3rd one.
Honestly 10 isn't enough, there are alot more games that improved over the years. Fallout, Legend of Heroes Trails series, Ys series, Witcher, Digimon games, Pokemon games, Resident Evil Remakes, Silent Hill 2 Remake, Dynasty Warriors, PS1 Spiderman, PS1 Batman, Halo, House of the Dead, XCOM, Lara Croft, am sure there are more but these are the ones i could think of at the top of my head at the moment.
24:13 my guy you forgot *test drive 6* 1999 it was my 1st car racing game and my favourite because you wanted to grind for better cars and had autopilot mode was amazing some times I was sitting and I watching it drive
I feel like Rdr2 just can't be beat. It looks absolutely incredible and it's an immersive open world game. I'm honestly blown away to this day and it looks better than a lot of games coming out in the 2020s.
That’s true it remains one of the best looking game till date but when it comes to rest red dead is a boring game
@@ttghhgg1918Vehemently disagree. I love the realistic gameplay and I think Arthur Morgan is possibly my favorite fictional character ever. It's the opposite of boring to me. But I like games that take their time and I find the pace of Rdr2 really refreshing.
@@ttghhgg1918Man, could not disagree more.
Definitely not in detail.
There's not alot of game companies that would spend millions on motion capturing or years like Rockstar did.
It won’t be next year
Hate to admit I’m
This old but, I’ve been a gamer since around 1982 😬 I remember the crash of ‘85 and, watching all the copies of E.T get trashed etc. To think we’ve come this far is astounding to me. The first time I played an NES, I was 10 and my world changed. To someone reading this who is younger, you can’t really understand how special it is to be living in a time where we are this spoiled with our hobby. I don’t take games for granted anymore, I find good in most games and, fully appreciate what goes into games these days, especially graphically. Gaming has always been my hobby and always will no matter what age I am. Be thankful we even have games because, just 4 decades ago, everything was grim. 👾
Obviously growing up in the late 80s and 90s is slightly different, but I think us 90s kids have a good idea of how far games have come as well. My first games were Super Mario Bros and Karate Kid, and then the SNES came out. SNES was amazing, but the 90s had so many other amazing innovations. We were probably spoiled in the 90s, but it's hard not to admit that the games today just have so much more going on than ever before. It's pretty amazing what devs can achieve even in games that don't release in the best condition possible.
@@grichl88Honestly being born in the 2000's but in a third world country and not being too well off I can shockingly relate, my first console was a NES bootleg with Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt being my first games funnily i did not even know what Nintendo was until around 2010 due to very limited access to the internet. Even around 2007 i was still playing Halo CE as my computer was severely underpowered which was a bank computer which they had discarded. These days having a nice job etc and access to modern tech, it still makes me appreciate what i had back then, The NES and those older games i used to play will always have a special place in my heart.
Can't wait for next year when we get the updated video comparison for GTA, The Witcher, and Ninja Gaiden.
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Umm my sweet innocent child, GTA6 is not releasing this year
@@Jam-xg3qxor next year 😂
@@Jam-xg3qx Neither is Witcher
@@oblivious1494Witcher never gave a released date bub
Zombies started with CoD World at War. With Nazi Zombies being an Easter Egg after beating the game. From then on it was a staple of Trayarch CoD & took on a life of its own.
When vehicles lived in COD👏🏻
The evolution of graphical fidelity is something that I hope will be studied in the future. It truly is an amazing example of an exponential curve
Uuuhm, how is it exponential?
Graphics increased drastically when 3D-graphics become popular, after that it stagnated. For example, BF3 is roughly halfway in between today's games and the original Tomb Raider, while you cannot deny that graphics on average improved way faster before it came out.
Another example would be comparing GTA 5's graphics to the ones of GTA 6 and 3 (each one is roughly 12 years apart).
@@ngls stagnated up until the next consoles came out, there has been a massive leap between, let's say the PS1 to PS2, then another leap forward from PS2 to PS3, then another leap from PS3 to PS4 and another leap from PS4 to ps5, I would say they stagnate when consoles are new because developers aren't fully aware of the capabilities. Look at GTA IV and GTA V for example, graphically V is superior and it was released on the same console as IV
@@IVXX-1 kid quit spam commenting on everything no one cares about your take
@@ramrodbldm9876
Kid, how about you actually use your brain if you have one and actually contribute instead of insulting people behind a screen when you know yourself you wouldn't dream of insulting people to their face.
Keep it real lil kid
@@IVXX-1 There was no leap between PS4 to PS5.
You guys should do a list of the most Iconic music scores for games. Could be a single track or the entire soundtrack.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Immediately thinking of far cry 3 weed burning mission lol
I hate it when people are like "They didn't put in as much effort in the older games." Like, my guy, they didn't even know how to make 3D games! Or how to write API's and build engines that supported 3D graphics. A monumental amount of work went into those early games...
They also didn't have 1k or even 100 people work on their games. I'm fairly sure credit rolls didn't take hours to finish back then as is now normal with AAA games.
All that effort and my games still look like runny oatmeal. I'm not playing NVIDIA's game and paying exorbitant prices to keep up with AAA's poor optimization. Early games may have flaws, but at least they are *complete* and *run at 100% performance.*
Game graphics are getting more and more stunning. 10-20 years ago, I never imagined that games could evolve so rapidly and become as advanced as they are now. We can even step into virtual worlds to play games nowadays!
I loved the Great Circle. A new game that was A) fun B) well optimized and C) looked great. Shame all new games can’t be up to this standard
@@Lawrence_Talbot unpopular opinion: starfield is all 3. But everyone just hates it personally it's one of my favorite games in recent years.
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Yeah bro starfield is a good game but gets too much hate which it totally does not deserve . I have played both indiana and starfield both are great . But in my opinion indiana > starfiled .Yeah they are both different games but i am just comapring
@@Aryan-y2o3x frfr starfield is amazing. I love Bethesda games and they cooked with starfield. Only thing I don't like is the space battles they're annoying for no reason lol
@Saulbreadman
Yeah bro space battles are just ok but I get annoyed with them as well
Starfield is pretty cool, but I also loved No Man's Sky on release. Just getting lost in space and seeing what's out there was cool to me.
Shadow Generations, much like Sonic Generations did back in 2011. Continued to AMAZE me for how Sonic Team are able to make these older locations & bosses from Sonic Adventure in 2001, Sonic Heroes in 2003, or Sonic '06. Look the best they've had in decades! Even the cutscenes reflect this same level of quality!
Space Colony ARK, Radical Highway, Kingdom Valley, Rail Canyon, are all just fantastic showcases showing the leap in quality multiple Generations later! Yes, that wording was entirely intentional!
Heck, they even went back & made a good Sonic Forces level by recreating Sunset Heights! Which was only 7-years old at the time Shadow Gens launched! Truly a special game right here!
This explosion of nostalgia brought back some good memories, great video!
Really enjoyed The Great Circle! Good story, side quests, characters, graphics and plenty of variety. Solid 9/10 game.
I love these comparisons. It shows how far we've come
I remember playing the original Prince of Persia and being amazed at how "real" it looked. I think it was more about how good the animations were rather than the graphics. We didn't expect much in graphics back then but the characters moved so fluidly. It was a blast to play that!
I remember watching my uncle play it as a kid, and playing PoP2 myself back in the day. Tbh, I kinda wish the new one was more like those, gameplay wise.
Thats one thing nice about being older. As a 40 year old I remember my Sega Masters and Nintendo. I remember the first time I played Mario 64 and it blew our minds. The young people today have always had decent/great graphics so they don't get the excitement of the massive graphic upgrade. They'll most likely only get marginal upgrades over time.
Can't wait to see how games become 10% visually better but a 90% downgrade in performance
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Hp chamber of secrets has a special place in my childhood. I played the game for months at my grandparents place. I would visit there once a month. It took 20 mins to load on that pc and I played bits and pieces of it. Everytime I died - loading screen for 20mins. Also the menu music is just timeless ( I never quit the game as it takes so long to load ). Happy times.
I still find the og HP trilogy better than Legacy. Fun wise. Everything after goblet of fire just got worse and worse game wise
@Man-oq9pf I did replay those after some years ( I think 2006) and yeah after prisoner of azkaban it was bad. Goblet of fire was bad too it was just 10 or 13 levels locked behind hogwarts shield collection and levels accessible through the pensieve. Order of Phoenix - I had a French version on a ps2 and there was no English lol. Didn't care to play half Blood Prince or the deathly hallows ( this was a third person wand shooter ?!)
"Games today are released broken" is a common phrase these days, and i get the sentiment. But really it's the complexity of games which causes many to be broken at release, the costs of games nowadays can equal the cost of designing/building a 60 story sky scraper in Detroit ($350mil - $600mil).
Too many developers overuse AI upscaling and frame generation to make up for badly optimized games. Why buy expensive 70$ titles if they require a high-end GPU because a team refused to improve their codebase so high details can run on weaker hardware (OverWatch had good code) or use way too many polygons in their models.
I’m fairly certain it doesn’t that much to develop a game.
The Alan Wake series is a great comparison between the first and second. American Nightmare aside, which did its own thing, the two main-line games in the series couldn't be starker in presentation even when dealing with the same theme.
The one that really got me was the difference between the original RE4 vs the Remake RE4. The original looks good for its time but the remake is beautiful!
Being a gamer since the 1970,s this has been one of the best vids you guys have put out (to me at least), to show how we started to what we have now, Brilliant.
Thanks
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@@gameranxTV thank you so much for the reply, but please take note that i did not get into Playstation until the PS3, and so have not seen all of your vids, i am enjoying an older one currently, keep up the great work :)
The evolution of the pokemon games and the fact that you grow up with those games and see that evolution in real time gives it that wholesome feeling.
Sword & Shield and Scarlet & Violet. Do you think those games are any good?
@scrittle I'm talking about visuals. Gameplay is a different story.
Scarlet & Violet looks... Good? Are you sure we saw the same game?
@scrittle From were the franchise started to modern pokemon games then yeah.
The graphics for the mainline series are a joke. The character models are better but everything else is lacking. Pokémon Arceus has the best visuals even though I don't like it.
Fun video, Jake! I was blown away by the graphics - and sound - on the OG PlayStation back in the mid-1990s. When I see those games now, compared to the 21st century games I’m currently playing, it’s astounding how far we’ve come. And those old graphics still have the charm of nostalgia.
I love the charm of the original games, there are certain moments in Baldurs Gate 1, 2, Icewind Dale 1, 2 and Planescape Torment, that are still cemented in my brain even today, more than 20 years after playing them, those games were so amazing. Another thing, I loved when games had proper manuals, and those certainly had. I carried those manuals with me and read them from cover to cover, learning the spells that way was really great.
Quickest I've been, can't wait for Indiana Jones to come to ps5
The voice actor for Indie is Troy Baker, same dude who voiced Joel in The Last of Us series.
I love gamepass got it day one for a meer 20$
I just love the game evolution videos so much 👍.. This video is going to be great
Glad you liked it!
Alan wake 1 vs Alan Wake 2 is astounding. Same with the Mafia remake.
I was astonished at how much fun and how great looking Mafia: Definitive Edition was. I'm so stoked for Mafia: The Old Country, I might actually play through it in Sicilian with English subtitles 😂
Haha I like it. Old Country looks solid!
11:30 that’s not the original Prince of Persia, the original was more akin to 8 bit - the sword was like 6-8 white pixels and IIRC it had a one hour time limit. Even bigger differences in graphics!
yup. I was looking at it and didn't remember those hi-def pixels from the game I've played so much.
It's the SNES version that was released in 1992. It's messy and has less smooth animations than the versions I grew up with on pc and Amiga that were released in 1990, the year after the original 1989 Apple ][ release.
Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil
Doom
Grand Theft Auto
Tomb Raider (OG vs Reboot)
Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, Mortal Kombat
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb is one of the most coolest and fun game ever made. Definitely one of my favorites. I have such fond memories of my childhood, coming home from school to tackle the next level. Especially that cage/crocodile level....It was such a blast. Back then games were fun and cheap.
The original Prince of Persian frustrated me so much as a child. I died so many times, but eventually made it a decent way through.
@@MrCheeselover17 it was hard but really fun. It was such a ‘vibe’ as the kids say these days.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Spider-Man games
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I remember being ten years old in 2006, when the 360 came out my mind was blown by how good things like water and fabrics looked lol.
Mortal Kombat 1 is beautiful too! It’s like watching cinema ✨
The original Baldurs Gate came out just 4 days before Christmas in 98 too. Perfect timing for the break. I don’t think I still have that box but I do have Baldurs Gate 2 and the Expansion PC boxes complete with a cloth map.
Indiana Jones and the Enperor’s Tomb is such an underrated Gem!!!! One of my childhood favs
14:00 - One of my fav games of all time.
11:31 those animations are shockingly good for 1989. I'm genuinely blown away by that.
To be fair - Infinite Engine games (BG1/BG2/Icewind Dale etc.) aged really well. Hand repainted 2d backgrounds are still gorgeous today
Great comparisons, but it's cool to think in 20 years time we'll come back to these modern games and comment on how rough they look
The original Test Drive was a blast from the past. My Tandy 1000 is missing some parts, but I still have the game's 5.25" floppy.
Testdrive 1 had that MS Paint vibe going. Glorious.
We really have come a far way. I love nostalgia but whenever I revisit older games I’m like ehhh maybe not 😂
The funny part about looking back at Final Fantasy 7 is how at the time it was considered groundbreaking graphics. That was cutting edge stuff back in the day.
Man, Baldur's Gate 3 is just an achievement. Not one of the best crpg in recent in memory but of all time, Gamernax.
Haha! The guy missed the jump in the Original Prince of Persia clip. Brings back *so many* frustrating memories.
I think the biggest glow up had the indiana jones series
The graphics jump from Tekken 3 to 4 was out of this world, at least for me back in the day🤣
Also when FFVIII came out, it was a major leap forward in terms of visual fidelity from character models to CGIs I thought it was the best thing I ever saw in a video game as opposed to the chibi, polygonal masterpiece that was FFVII
The way you talk about Tekken 1, man, you need to respect your elders haha Honestly, frame rates in gaming in the 90's were all over the place and we didn't mind it as much. Also, Virtua Figther came out a couple of weeks before Tekken. Loved both of them
I saw a good video recently that argued that modern graphics is ruining? gaming. Graphics have been pretty good for the last 10 years. A lot of newer games are wasting effort to make every game UE5 Ray Traced 4K 60 fps. That developer time would be better spent making better game play. Fancy video can't hide a bloated crummy game. Having games require RT as a min spec is abandoning a lot of market share? Ray Traced graphics are nice to look at, but no gamer I know uses RT full time when raster rendering looks really good and is twice as fast.
The most fun or innovative games I know aren't even full 3D, in some cases even bottom tier pixel graphics. So if you ask me there definitely is something to this.
Ray tracing looks ugly anytime I've turned it on. Maybe it's my monitor, but the only time ray tracing actually did something it enhanced the fog/smoke effects in an indie horror.
I still remember John Bain raving about Space Marine (1).
15:47 love your stuff and watch it every day. I just wanted to point out that the music was more so jungle than techno. Jungle pretty much owned OSTs of the 90s/ early 00s for video games
Man I had so much fun playing the Chamber of Secrets back in the day. Flippendo!
The sound effects of the old Indiana Jones game is tight!
I really want to play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, waiting for the PS5 release is hell, I'm a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the game looks AMAZING!
Driving games, man, the original GT and Forza have come a long way.
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What games to play when you are stressed
Me like. +1
Me: **trying to watch a video meant to show quality and detail in video games**
My phone: "Let's start you out at 360P and see if you can tell the difference. 😈"
Also me: 😐
Can you guys talk about how psyberpunk 2077 literally fixed everything + far more with the dlc,
I think they have in the past
Insane improvements tbh
Devil may cry 5
God of war
God of war raganrok
Most underrated games...❤❤❤❤
The biggest difference between PS1 Armored Core and newer ones, is how the game was controlled. Not only can you do things like strafe, but actually use the analog controllers! Not until PS2 did you have to stop using the shoulder buttons to turn left and right or look up and down. It became a common practice, for some people, to play the game with the control turned upside down. It was odd to play the game at first going from PS1 to PS2. Even now, they have added even more movement control to the mech.
Even though I enjoyed it, "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" was kind of bittersweet as a lifelong Indy fan. Even if it had done better in the theaters or if they decide to remake Raiders with Chris Pratt or whatever it felt like Indiana Jones was over. The Great Circle, however, surpassed all of my expectations. I'm more than okay if we never get another Indiana Jones film as long as we get more games of that quality to carry on the legacy.
Dynasty Warriors Origins deserves a spot here.
Probably the only warriors games that actually looks, plays and feels like a next/current gen title.
Could you use use grey background for numbers, I'm getting flashbanged everytime a number shows up
I played OG Mafia as a kid on my Dad's PC in 2002😂
The Mafia Definitive Edition blew my mind😮
dead island VS dead island 2 is also a good example, the new environment is gorgeous
The most overused term for a 2D platform game: "metroidvania"
Makes my skin crawl
These videos are amazing
Yea, no one in 2005 could have guessed that 20 years later, video game graphics would approve to a certain extent.
Holy crap! I forgot all about the original Test Drive with that red dot and the windshield cracking up when you crash haha I played that on DOS along with Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Wolf 3d! (Wolfenstein) haha Damn I'm old....
Missing the Guilty Gear games in this list is criminal. (Also, Melty Blood.)
Look at those jelly beans from Harry Potter. I feel like me and Jake had a similar childhood 😂
You missed Dead Island 1 vs Dead Island 2. But still, great video!
Medievil (1998) to Medievil (2019). Crazy changes, but both are awesome and underrated!
The original test drive is somehow cute lol
There's a certain magic to older games that's completely lost today.
It's called ur childhood
Nah, thats just nostalgia let's be honest. The old games were good back in their time but they look garbage nowadays compared to the modern games.
@@issi529 good thing graphics don't matter. AAA games look amazing but 90% of them are dogshit. Older games are actually fun.
@@issi529 Older games tend to be better optimized for the hardware of their time, that's not something i can say for today.
@@kiko9007 na, I'm older than that, I was playing PS1 in my 20s
Would you do a part 2 and add resident evil, silent hill? Just those games alone have changed massively. Gta, rdr also, the list keeps on going haha
The original halo combat evolved to halo infinite was a huge leap for graphics for me i remember playing Combat evolved on the original Xbox back when i was a kid then seeing the open world and everything of infinite was a huge improvement in my opinion
a planescape game in 2025 would be crazy insane. I now want it more than ever.
I was impressed with Hitman 3’s mansion level. Compared to the original, that is also quite a leap.
Omg Spore 2 graphics really stepped up tge game.
C'mon I can hope.
Test Drive II was my jam!
Mechwarrior 5 Clans has come a long way since the Mechwarrior 2. MW2 was a showcase game in its day (showing my age here)
You’re what’s wrong with the gaming scene if the only thing you care about is graphics 😒
Bc the demands of that demographic drives up the time/costs/complexity of development.
what’s wrong with the gaming scene is people like you thinking you decide what goes
Too true, graphic obsessed normies have existed since the very start, however I feel it's going to get worse with younger generations having no frame of reference prior to 2015 (gen alpha). Old games will look unfamiliar and scary, and since older consoles aren't in print no more you'll have a hard time selling a kid how great the gaming scene once was.
At the very least, they'll play old Valve/DOOM games. Hopefully the next wave of influencers will show them what we had and why gaming feels dead nowadays.
This is a really great topic, and I'm curious how many decades have you guys been playing video games and what was your first the first one I remember playing is Super Mario Bros 2
Hi Jake 👋 what's your favourite 90's game
Hi
I would argue the weirdness in COD started with COD 5, with how you can get the alien blaster and since that's where zombies first started
People saying "its just nostalgia" are wrong. I've recently been playing PS2/PS3 games I've never played in my younger years and I'm having a blast. Older games DO have a charm the new ones dont and its not only about nostalgia. Developers back then did care to make a proper and fun experience instead of making a quick buck with a overpriced and unfinished game
Wow, I'm old. I remember playing test drive on my friends Amiga computer and thinking it was amazing graphics. hahaha
Without those older games that you're ripping on, you wouldn't have the technological improvements today. And as bad as the older games seem to look in your judgement, they had a charm and gameplay that had us hooked in the 80s, 90s and 00s - something that's missing in so many titles today which are only about graphical achievement.
Any game can look and sound incredible, but if the gameplay isn't there, it's a PoS.
One game that might be interesting on this conversation is Crysis... especially since when it came out there was a meme of "Will it play Crysis" and they were joking that you'd need a NASA computer to play it at maximum settings without it crashing
FIFA games, started playing on SEGA Mega drive in 1994 until on PC a few years ago. Total War games……;-) playing the first Shogun game and now the graphics look quite different!
5:40 Wrong, the first Harry Potter game was the Sorcere's Stone on the PS1 in 2001.
Lol you can do part 2 part 3 of this vid there's so many game that comes so far : rdr , resident evil, star wars, doom , gta , assassin's creed, gow , witcher, nfs , forza ..... so on and on that how far we truly come xD
The combat system of the first Prince of Persia is exceptionally good. You did not do it justice with the silly shown gameplay 😔
Im very late to the party on the Mafia series but i started playing Mafia The Definitive Edition and im already hooked on it to where i want to play the second one and the 3rd one.
Honestly 10 isn't enough, there are alot more games that improved over the years. Fallout, Legend of Heroes Trails series, Ys series, Witcher, Digimon games, Pokemon games, Resident Evil Remakes, Silent Hill 2 Remake, Dynasty Warriors, PS1 Spiderman, PS1 Batman, Halo, House of the Dead, XCOM, Lara Croft, am sure there are more but these are the ones i could think of at the top of my head at the moment.
24:13 my guy you forgot *test drive 6* 1999 it was my 1st car racing game and my favourite because you wanted to grind for better cars and had autopilot mode was amazing some times I was sitting and I watching it drive