Biggest console generation leap?

When I got my 3DO back in the days.

The first 5 minute I played the orginal Need For Speed on it I felt the biggest, jump.

Though the N64 brought so much in terms of shading etc to consoles.
 
I thought the Xbox was much more impressive than the PS2 at launch, but only because of Halo. I do agree there was a lot of wow factor in the PS2 simply because it was the successor to the awesome PS1.
 
By the time the PS2 came out, the Dreamcast had already been around for a fair while with visuals equal to, if not better than, the PS2's launch line-up.
 
mention of the 3DO made me realise the Philips CD-I was a Huuuuuuge leap over anything around too, being as i bought it in 1992, around 3-4 years before Ps1 was about...

Burn:Cycle One of the most rewarding games ever
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Palm Springs golf - which looked photorealistic back then (but played crap!)
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as was Mad Dog McRee (/goes and digs out CDI collection)
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a shame the playability was mostly pants!
 
I knew someone would mention the CDI, and I cant believe I forgot about the Amiga.... Some of my best gaming days on the A600 :D And yea, xcopy one of my most played games :)

I remember having my old CD32 aswell, but that was really part of the megadrive/SNES generation.

Now i'm thinking of all those niche consoles...
3DO
Neo-Geo
CD-I
Amiga CD 32
Atari Jaguar
Mega-CD
32-X
PC-Engine (at least in the UK)
 
I still have the 3DO, cant bring myself to get rind of it, so funny when people go on about the PS3 price, I easily paid around the £400 mark, and that was machine with one pad.

How the hell did Panasoic come to make a console anyways.

Would be interested knowing what powered it lol.

I think it was the game Starfighter was a big leap for me, true free roaming to the stratisphere to being ablt to hover inches above the ground, and everything (including the ground) was destructable....I might go home ad play these ya know lol.
 
Am I the only one who thinks that the Dreamcast was the biggest console generation leap?

The graphics that Sega's little box delivered were waaaay ahead of anything of the Playstation or N64. Not to mention it can still hold its own these days as well.
 
Tom84 said:
Am I the only one who thinks that the Dreamcast was the biggest console generation leap?

The graphics that Sega's little box delivered were waaaay ahead of anything of the Playstation or N64. Not to mention it can still hold its own these days as well.
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True, Shenmue for me is still the best looking game for its time.(I want part 3-5 :( )
 
Zefan said:
Definitely the leap from Mega Drive/Snes to PlayStation/N64/Saturn.

With that generation games went from being mainly 2D to being mainly 3D, a huge change that turned gaming from being just fun into the cinematic experiences we have today (think FF7). Not syaing that's necessarily a good thing, just that it's the biggest thing.
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smcshaw said:
The day I plugged in my 4MB Voodoo card and saw Tomb Raider for the first time was the biggest leap in my mind.
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Having played most things from Pong through Vic 20, Spectrum 48, C64 Amiga etc. I have to agree with what you're saying. I remember seeing Actua Soccer and Tomb Raider running on my new 3DFX card and being stunned. Nothing before or since has impressed me so much.
 
Teletraan-82 said:
The first thing I tested with my shiny new Maxi Gamer Voodoo 1 card was a Jedi Knight Demo IIRC, that was impressive!
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still got my maxi gamer 3DFX voodoo card and power vr. Now they were gfx cards :D and quake 1 and 2 look vgood too.
 
I think the leap to 3D was the most impressive.

The game that wowed me the most was probably the original Tomb Raider on the PSX. I remember picking up the machine and I had Wipeout and Die Hard Trilogy. I bought Tomb Raider the next day and was blown away by it

A mate of mine was so impressed that he went out and bought a console for it the next day.
 
rickmoz said:
still got my maxi gamer 3DFX voodoo card and power vr. Now they were gfx cards :D and quake 1 and 2 look vgood too.
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Don't want to move the thread away from the original topic, or console gaming even, but just had to post to say I also remember the day I got my Diamond Monster 3D 3DFX card - the demos that came with it/downloaded were amazing! (for the time of course). I can't remember the name of the racing game demo, I think it was Ultimate Racing or something like that, but playing Quake, Grand Theft Auto and Tomb Raider with this card installed was something else! :D

EDIT: Actually called Ultim@te Race Pro :cool:
 
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Although I've been playing games since I had a Dragon 32 way back in the early 80's I think that the only time I've really thought 'wow' was when I played on a friends Dreamcast and saw the graphics for the first time on soul caliber, still think they're quite pretty even now.

the leap from xbox to X360 for me was a bit 'meh', still looking forward to forza 2 though.
 
The only time I have been literally gobsmacked with graphics was the first time I saw Sonic Adventure on the dreamcast. Was such a graphical cut above everything before.
 
Nitefly said:
The only time I have been literally gobsmacked with graphics was the first time I saw Sonic Adventure on the dreamcast. Was such a graphical cut above everything before.
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Sonic Adventure > Any other sonic game after it
 
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