Biggest jump in Gaming?
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Soldato
PC gaming doesn't really get big jumps because there are new CPUs and graphics cards out every few months. I would say from the megadrive/SNES to the PS1. that was when gaming game out of the back street shops and into the highstreet.
Soldato
Big jump was when you could use the mouse to aim imho.
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From 2d games to 3d like virtua racer and virtua fighter was cool, but so was quake the first time I played it on a 3DFX card with hardware rendering. Glide I think it was called?
Not so much in the dos days and there was some great jumps in games then.
Soldato
I'd have to dissagree there.
when games on the PC shifted from software mode to 3D accelerator mode the jump was huge in my opinion.
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ahh Quake1 online with my 2 voodoo cards. man i miss that game. still hasnt been beaten
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Half-life gave us story, atmosphere & AI.
What do you think is the biggest jump in gaming you have seen?
For me it would be Unreal in 3dfx. Sat amazed at the intro screen for about 5 minutes just watching the flyby
Half life in terms of newness like the intro, story and AI
Same here with Unreal Tournament xD
I still can't resist watching it
50 years have passed since the starting of deathmatch. Profits from the tournaments number in the hundreds of billions.
ahhhhhhh, im going to bed. >_>
I was around when games started moving to proper 3d then to hardware acc with voodoo cards etc.....still the biggest jump personally was when I bought the first ever Geforce card (ie first hardware t&l) on the day of release and downloaded the quake III demo. Wow.
My m8's and I were just stunned, it made their pc's look like zx spectrum's over night.
My m8's and I were just stunned, it made their pc's look like zx spectrum's over night.
Yep 3DFX on PC kick started the modern 3D graphics as it allowed Quake1 + 2 & Tomb Raider1 + 2 & Unreal1 to quickly establish the PC as a dominant gaming platform and demonstrate 3D was the future (technically 2.5D but whatever!) but since then the consoles have gradually taken the lead but PC as always was there first.
Caporegime
Half Life for me.
Console games are made using PCs so PC will ALWAYS be ahead. (unless a console if made that can program games, but then its not a console...)
im going to bed
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If talking just about pc gaming then as has already been mentioned for me it was 3d graphics and in particular Quake - the immersion, style, sound and online gameplay made me think 'wow'. Then Valve refined the hell out of all the above with Half-Life and that got me completely hooked 
Caporegime
Half Life, in terms of games.
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