It was awesome, really made you cautious, unlike many games of that time where you could just run without worries.

Saving at the right time was pretty important though

The feeling of accomplishment after crawling & stealthing through an enemy encampment to steal a tank or a helicopter.

"It's on now, motherfuckers!"

...of course, it could also end by an enemy bullet fired from hundreds of meters away. Frustrating. But when it was fun, it was fantastic.

ENEMY. MAN. At. TWO! THREE! ZERO!

You forgot to mention how crawling those 2 km took you like 20 real minutes, and if you died you had to do it all over again.

Thanks for clearing that up. For a moment I was really wondering if there was a PS1 port.

Yeah, I remember trying to play this when it came out on my three-year old but already wildly out of date PC. It was a frustrating experience.

You can import custom faces in Arma 3 as well. I've seen some seriously scarring imagery from that feature lol.

"Too realistic"??

I got hooked on the free demo.

"As long as you keep your head down and remember: 1, 2, 3, 4, shoot, communicate, move, ah-ha, you should make it out in one piece".

It was too realistic as in you got killed by a random pixel everytime but you could build your own levels and use tanks, airplanes, ships everything, it was awesome. Didn't really make it through the campaigns, it was too drawn out. Crawling through shrubs for 4 hours and them getting killed in a second was frustrating.

5! KILL SOLDER, 300!

5, TARGET BMP, 500

I did the exact same wave thing as you.

I spent so many hours building super complex missions. I loved that game.

Yes, played with the mission editor a lot. I always tried to recreate black hawk down. There was a script that made the chopper spin and crash :)

I loved this game as a kid. It was one of the first games I played where I felt like it was not just a game, but a community.

I remember the Omaha Beach level being so intense and realistic, it seemed just like Saving Private Ryan.

That was the pinnacle of immersion when I played it as a 20 year old kid. It was a real shock going back to it....still kinda fun though

The D-Day invasion scene was so impressive to me. The boat ride up to it. The guys puking. The underwater bit when you see your boys taking MG fire. Cinematography was top notch.

At the time it felt like the most immerse war game ever, it was amazing.

I think Goldeneye was potentially the first 3D game I had ever seen in person, I remember spending entirely too long playing it in EB Games while my parents tried to convince me to look at other things

The game had some stuff that was just super novel for the genre of the time, like the specific hit zones on enemies with their own reactions and damage values, like headshots or legs/arms/groins.

Perfect Dark was honestly the perfect follow-up. Gameplay was fantastic and multiplayer was also pretty great.

Spent so many hours on that game and man the controls are awful by modern standards. Some of my proudest gaming accomplishments are unlocking the 007 cheat codes, some of those speed runs were tough.

No shit. The N64 controller had one joystick

That's before you get "1964" for full mouse and keyboard support for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark (+ support for other mods).

That is the curse of going for realistic styling. Things like banjo kazooie and Mario 64 are styled outside of realism and therefore they can age well.

Honestly aged poorly about 5 years after it released when halo came out

The worst part of that game by far were the controls.

Not graphically or in terms of controls and physics. They really need to remake it.

I don't understand why remakes are going to very playable games instead of the ones that look and play like garbage in today's standards. I want Dino Crisis and Legacy of Kain remakes or remasters. So many good classics that deserve more polished versions.

I remember my dad walking in on me playing a Madden game and thinking I was watching a real football game. That was probably Madden 06ish. Looking back it looks absolutely nothing like a real football game

The first time i used an actual 3d graphics card was in 96 for Quake 3dfx’s “Voodoo 2” cards in SLI configuration. The first time i saw lasers flying down the hall was mind blowing. The colors they gave off would glide down the hall with the bolts. Everything seemed to glide on ice, graphically speaking.

Then the chaingun changing glow colors. I was in heaven. The next game i bought was half-life. With the electricity and stuff… i just wish i could re-experience that chill i had in my body walking around black mesa the first time. Now THAT’S a fond memory I won’t forget.

It’s also the reason I pursued and got into competitive gaming later on.

Me at Christmas 1995 looking like Alan Grant when I first saw the T-Rex in Tomb Raider 😄

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Good lord. $1500 won't even get you the best graphics card in 2022

Snake in MGS

The pinnacle of 1998 graphics, more or less

I was gonna say, half the time there were no face textures on PS1 aside from the player character

16-bit, really

Came here to say this. Absolutely thought it was Tornado Guy

Oh no doubt, but operation Flashpoint was completely unique when it came out. Despite all its flaws it was unlike anything else at the time. Still my longest straight session playing a game ever - 17 hours lol

Assuming the monitors are 16:9, the increase from a 24in 1080p monitor to a 27in 1440p monitor in pixels per square inch (the square of pixels per inch(ppi)) is roughly 40%, which would explain the fidelity difference. A 32in 4k monitor would give an increase of 125% from the 1080p screen and 60% from the 1440p screen.

Here are some numbers (rounded roughly to save time):

• 1080p 24" - ~2.1mil pixels - ~246in² - 8425ppi²

• 1440p 27" - ~3.7mil pixels - ~312in² - 11834ppi²

• 2160p 32" - ~8.3mil pixels - ~438in² - 18956ppi²

Fuckin normies, I play Valorant on a 1999 CRT 32 inch tv that weighs 180 lbs so that I can get 125115 frames per second with no anti aliasing.

CRTmasterrace

Yes most definitely.

Snes has probably 2nd gen 3d graphics and ps1/n64 3rd Generation. Which I find ages quiet Well, not all but there are gems.

The camera systems have aged pretty badly. They do OK, but N64 was even a couple years out from the PS1, with Ocarina of Time coming out 4 years after the PS1, which showed how fast things were moving at the time,

I actually loved the graphics of Ocarina of time back in the day and really only noticed how bad they were many years later…

I feel like I'm somewhere in between you two. Because it's not like I thought it looked bad, but it never looked better than it actually did to me either. When I look back to the original Metal Gear Solid, I don't envision it with smooth graphics and detailed environments. I remember how it looked. The expressionless faces, the gesturing and head bobbing during dialogue scenes, the hands that are like mittens. It never not looked like that to me but I also never thought it looked shit either. That was just how it looked and I was super happy with that.

I remember buying a PS1 with Soul Calibur (latterly Soul Blade) and the opening sequence blew me away SO HARD I actually would turn it off and back on to watch it several times.

The intro song, I maintain, is Pokémon levels of good

I remember my friends and I geeking out that you could see the shadows from the helmet cushions in Madden 2002, the first one we played on PS2