Graphics & Gameplay That Changed Gaming For You

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I thought OCUK could do a little experiment. the idea is simple, you post two lists one with
Games that had Great Graphics for its time
&
A list of Games that had great gameplay

The reason for this is to see what games appear in both lists from multiple people.

Graphics List
1. Outrun - Atari
2. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Megadrive
3. Paperboy - MegaDrive
4 Road Rash - PS1?
5. GTA - PS1/PS2
6. CSS - PC
7. HL2 - PC
8 DOD:S PC
9 TF2 - PC
10. Bad Company 2 - PC

My list for now ill extended it later

Gameplay List:
1. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2. Road Rash
3. GTA
4 HL2

I will extend this list later on

Maybe we could award Games that appear in both lists multiple times?

now post yours?:D
 
The movie scenes in FF9 made me go Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow! :D

Gameplay though definitely GTA 3 and all the ones after up to 4. They were amazing.
 
I thought GTA on PS1 was pretty bad graphics wise and way below the standard that the PS1 had itself created.
 
strange list for graphics, not many considered good even in their day (and 4 source games :eek: ID Tech 4 kills source for graphics)
 
For me

Graphics:-
Quake, like most people the first game i ever saw 3d accelerated
Incoming, crap game but it looked amazing even on rank chipsets (like the rage pro)
Far Cry, Came from nowhere and looked lush
Project IGI, Huge enivroment for a FPS at the time
Flight Sim 5, flight sim 4 was good but flight sim 5 looks out of this world.
LBA, SVGA 3d graphics on a 486 with a 1mb graphics card :D
Quake 3, hard to believe it is over 10 yrs old.
Doom 3, wow; amazing lighting effects

Gameplay:
GTA1, nothing like it at the time
Quake, the first real multiplayer FPS
ISS Pro, Never played SNES ISS but the PS1 version was soooo much better than fifa
Mario 64, First 3d platformer
Goldeneye, not much can match the experiance
Doom, nothing revolutionary but just the prefect old school FPS
Postal 2, a crap game but i spent far too many hours playing it
Resi Evil 2, Great story, really immersive just a little short.
Driver, loved this at the time. Shame the sequals sucked.
 
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Might have to come back to the graphics one, but there's only 2 games, or rather series of games that changed gaming for me.

1. Grand Theft Auto
2. Battlefield (Not so much the Bad Company series)

Nothing else that have ever played comes close.
 
Graphics :

Elite (BBC Version)
Doom (1)
Hardware accelerated Tomb Raider 1 (my first hw accelerated game)
Battlefield 2
Crysis (bear in mind my first time playing it was on a PC that could pretty much max it)

Gameplay :
Dungeon Master
Planetside
Star Wars Galaxies (pre-encrappening :p)
Tribes 2
Tabula Rasa
 
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Might have to come back to the graphics one, but there's only 2 games, or rather series of games that changed gaming for me.

1. Grand Theft Auto
2. Battlefield (Not so much the Bad Company series)

Nothing else that have ever played comes close.
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the devs that made battlefield had a game out before, not quite so polished but the the same type of the thing. So to me that was the revolutionary game not Battlefield.
 
Gameplay:
Mario 64
Goldeneye
Zelda Ocarina of Time
Counter-Strike
Call of Duty
Half Life
Half Life 2

Graphics:
Descent
Half Life 2
FarCry
Crysis
 
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I think mine are all gameplay. I've played on Arcade Machines since the likes of Space Invaders and Tron.

The first one I distinctly remember shovelling 10p's into was Ghosts n Goblins, everything about it was awesome including the firing at the grave and being turned into a duck.

Dungeon Master was revolutionary - I was sucked into the World and had to complete it - superb game even now. Learning new spells and just experimenting hasn't been matched to this day IMHO.

Kick Off 2 was a great game. Two players were crazy and I once took out a mates keeper after he had used his subs - scoring from anywhere was ace! Then SWoS came and I was dubious. But the management side was brilliant. Still not been a better player-manager game to this day.

Platformers. Mainly I mean Turrican 2 / Shadow of the Beast / Superfrog / Zool / etc. the games had inovation, they tried to be different. Now everything is a FPS and all about how great it looks with little substance. Throw in a few aliens and everyones happy. Back in the 8-bit days games were cheap, available free on magazines and generally had to stand out - if only it was like that today.

I could go on and on about shoot-em-ups (Nemesis / Salamander / X-Out / Z-Out / etc) or other types of games I have had great fun on. The thing is though I wish they'd do stuff differently. Batman AA was a great game because it was something we rarely see on a PC and I think the PC needs to go down this road.



M.
 
Gameplay:

Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart (Snes)
Doom
Unreal Tournament (99)
International Superstar Soccer

Graphics:

FIFA (1st one)
Half Life 2
FarCry
 
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