gold src - best engine (lan only D:)

Red faction, carving out the walls à la minecraft style

Cryengine 2 revolution was how it rendered foliage iirc.

ultrono arena - rendering red bubbles

mine are magenta

cry engine for sure

Probably the leaked quake 3 IHV test seeing as it was the most anticipated game ever for me personally. And it didn't disappoint.

Other than that probably the Cry engine demos and the early Playstation and Saturn stuff when true arcade graphics were coming to the home. I'm liking the look of Snowdrop too which is being used in the 'The Divide' - some info here.

*division

Can never remember.

Snowdrop looks incredible. Those forest shots in the video were so good you could easily mistake it for a real shot...scary :o

Interested to see where games will go with this.

Doom
Palm Springs/FMV games (philips cdi)
Ridge Racer arcade - system 22
Sega AMD division (VF1&2, rally, daytona usa)
Early 3D on home consoles like 3DO/Saturn (moving from sprites to real 3D)
Mario 64 (clean 3D)
Quake 3 (curved surfaces/polished/solid feel)
Red faction (destruction)
Unreal 1 (castle intro showed off engine)
Unreal Engine 4
Far Cry/Crysis (Outdoor terrain)
Doom 3 (bumps/specs/shadows/scary)

Nothing has really impressed on the same level of wow me since Doom 3, maybe the Occulus can change this, but I think that might be too intensive.

Quite funny that carmack was probably the first and last person to really impress me in game graphics.

I suspect the next person that tackles destruction and fluids will get my attention, seems no one wants to go there though.

+ Quake 2 with my first 3dfx voodoo for me.
And I agree, I too miss the "wow" effect on new engines (and games in general, but that's a different story).

yes mario64, man that was amazing... and still is!

Apparently the playstation 4 VR headset is going to wipe the floor with occulus rift.

Mario64 just pulled me in like no other video game experience. Navigating Mario in 3D was one of the most satisfying learning curves ever. Amazing leap from SNES. Quantum jump.

That Unreal 1 castle fly-by really set the mark for games after. The game's score and the otherworldly neo-gothic look blew me away and completely validated the $279 I paid for my diamond 8mb voodoo card.

p.s. If I'm not mistaken Unreal's lens flares were groundbreaking(e.g., at the beginning of the game when you wake up in your cell, then crawl through the air shaft and emerge in that room to an AHHHHH lens flare moment).

doom3 was most impressive imo

Yeah, the ragdolls were mindblowing when I saw them for the first time. Now the young public will laugh at games that don't have ragdolls and the corpses look rigid. This is why we need ragdolls in QL. The corpses look stupid as fuck from the perspective of young gamers.

yes, i really miss ragdoll physic in id games. it makes a world more alive.

Its been a while and I think nothing will top seeing Quake 2 for 1st time 3D accelerated with a voodoo 3 pci :P

That said I have been toying the last two days with Unreal Engine 4. And damn I am really impressed. That PBR >

This and that. Blown-away moments are definitely part of why we game. The voodoo 3 card was the beginning of voodoo craziness and confusion with all the future iterations and memory configurations.

yeah I'll never forget... I was playing Q2 on software acceleration... and then I went to my friends house and he had a Voodoo card... my mind was blown.

http://www.pcper.com/podcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KryHS_mPk4&am...=1h012m40s

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4

Titanfall II with UE4 would be amazing !

PS One - Metal Gear Solid, Smoke and Environment Effects

For me, it's probably the source engine of the Half Life 2 tech demo, it was absolutely mind blowing for the times.
It's not only about the graphic in that case, it's about the unprecedented use (or abuse) of phisics, the way the gravity gun opened a new level of concrete interaction, the amazing AI (even if great part of it was based on scripts, after all), the versatility of the ambients ant the enemies.

That's the only title i like from SourceEngine
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines

Couldn't agree more -- the floating barrels, luminous materials, transparencies, the refractory water effects -- packed with so many cool moments and details. THAT was some crazy hype! (and delivered too).

Yes, another amazing aspect is that everything that is visible in that demo effectively took place in the real game.

And now that i think about it, this game is 10 years old. It came out just 4 years after quake 3!
Mind=blown.

haha truth in advertising for sure -- how far devs&publishers have fallen for something like the "Aliens: Colonial Marines" scandal to happen.

Freescape was probably the 3D engine that has impressed me most. The things it made possible in a machine with a Z80 processor and 32Kb of RAM are amazing. I bought the originals of all the games they made using Freescape for the ZX Spectrum and most of them for the Amiga. Driller was the first game they published and it's still my favourite. :)

Unreal Engine 4 "Infiltrator" Real-Time Demo

UnrealDevelopmentKit

I saw a gameplay with CryEngine3 :)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=l...x+settings

ETQW megatexture

BF1942
GTA3 3D gta, how is this possible?!
Max payne those faces! so real!
HL2
GTA4, i was playing in disbelief of how it was possible.

GTA 3 blew my mind, GTA 4 didn't.
I remember Driver on PSX I was so pissed that we couldn't get out of the car, the Driver 2 wasn't even good xD.

GTA 3 was like... "Wow".

And why did you react like this when you played GTA 4?

dno, i just couldnt understand how you could make the character animation like that, and cars, and weather system and everything. Story was just a sweet sweet icing on the cake, i liked it alot.

wasnt driver before gta3? but yeah, i remember not being able to get out annoyed me too.

edit: forgot goldeneye too, when shooting ppl in hands or legs, localized hit detection with reaction.

That was ripped off Virtua Cop. Shush!

didnt have arcades where i lived, first time i saw virtua cop was in hungary in 2006 or something.

Lack of hardware is no excuse for lack of knowledge.

never said it was the first game to have it though.

You cited GE as prominent game and the reason you gave being localized hit animations. Inadvertent admission of your perception that it was the first game to have it, but OK, whatever.

Yes Driver was before GTA3.

I forgot to say, Max Payne blew my mind as well, too bad the 3 doesn't give the same feelings when you play.
There is something funny and amazing, awesome, about Max Payne 1, it's when you kill enemies with molotov, dear god that was pure pleasure, when they burn they cry and it makes me wonder how the guys who made the voice were at that moment recording these sounds haha.



YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS, for memories =') haha I'm crying of laughters already... skip to 1:10

Haha also check at 2:30 =') this is gold.

yep, awesome game!!

GTA3 was a nice step up, but I didn't feel that great about GTA4 due to draw distance etc. However I was very surprised how good they made GTA5 look and the size of the map with a long draw distance... on 7 year old hardware.

while gta5 is a big leap too, gta4 was a bigger leap in graphics for its time. But yeah, having gta5 looking like it does on 512mb system ram and a 2005 GPU is amazing.

True Audio is comming now from AMD, there are some demos out and gameplays with Thief UE3

I have a NV card, so it's a NO for me :)

EXCLUSIVE: Lichdom Demo featuring AMD TrueAudio
The Importance of AMD's TrueAudio Technology in Thief
Thief True Audio Convolution Reverb

And if you have a sound card etc?

True Audio is intregated on the GPU chip beginning from HD7790 & R7 260x

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/P...audio.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Islands_%28GPU_family%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_Rx_20...eon_R7_260
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensilica
http://ip.cadence.com/ipportfolio/tensilica-ip/comms-dsp


And you will need the catalyst driver wich accesses the part of the GPU & the game has a support for it

But comparison to a real sound card, or amp etc? How does it perform if you actually really are an audio "nerd"? xD

Well, I'am NOT totally an audio nerd, i cannot run it, because of free software & nvidia card.

IF the game can support it, you have an 360dregree sound enviorenment ...

Ask QL to support it ... lol

Soundcard stays and falls with good drivers, actually i have a quite good mainboard with onboardsound, but cannot use it because of software ... i use OpenAL

For music i always prefer FLAC over mp3

There is a test suite for audio quality, you can search for it with the technic uses by AMD

RightMark Audio Analyzer

I don't care much for AMD, processor or GFX ... don't need it at least for years now :)

Unreal.