What's been your most "next gen" next gen game (not just this generation)

Tomb Raider on Playstation.

Coming from a Megadrive, the step up was awe inspiring.

Don’t think I’ve experienced such a huge difference in capability and game design in any generation since.

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Seeing Doom running on a 4Mb 486 was genuinely jaw dropping at the time. That was the moment I knew my Amiga wouldn’t cut it in the future.
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I remember getting a 386 upgraded to a 486 DX 4/100 many years ago. Playing Doom II on full screen for the first time was also pretty amazing and right up there in my list of seminal gaming moments!
 
Wipeout on the PS1 as well.

Amazing 3d graphics and they moved so fast and smooth. :D

Edit: Once you learned to stop hitting the sides all the time anyway.
 
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F1 on the Mega Drive was a huge leap forward! RDR Redemption on the series X this gen is the best I've seen although not played too many titles.
 
Infamous: Second Son on the PS4 really impressed me at the time and even now playing it again on the PS5 with a solid 60 fps it still manages to impress.
 
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Ocarina of Time for me. I remember going onto Hyrule field and thinking it was massive. And then it let you "grow up" and the world was even bigger. Playing it back now of course Hyrule Field is tiny but I can still remember the awe I felt.
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This followed by first playing BF1942 in an internet cafe. The two stand out moments for me.
 
GTA4 I think, I remember watching my mate I shared a house with at uni play it on his Xbox 360 and the attention to detail was mind-boggling. Interior lights came on when doors opened, Nico leant down under the dash to hotwire a car, the radio would make that classic interference noise just before your phone rang with a call or SMS.

Plus it looked ridiculously good and the vehicle physics and damage were amazing. Even though Saints Row had come out not long before it, GTA4 felt like a proper leap ahead.
 
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Mgs4, recently finished playing it with an emulator on my pc. Still looks pretty good, surprised they never did a remake.
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This is something that I'm really wanting to do myself. Was a proper next gen title in its day and a typically great Kojima storyline.
 
The original Gran Turismo on PS1. Back then, on a CRT TV the replays just looked so realistic compared to anything seen before in racing games. Cars looked great graphically and there were 100's to unlock. One of the first games to utilise the Dualshock controller which in itself was WOW as well. Truly groundbreaking for a console racing/sim game at the time. 60/50 fps/hz mode as well, that just blew my mind when I tried it.

Amazing.


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I was going to say that it was Unreal, which I was remembering as one of the front runners of using 3D cards.
But a quick trawl of timelines on wiki makes me doubt my memory. Am I wrong?
 
Going from an atari playing games like pong to a spectrum 48k and playing games like dizzy, manic miner was amazing at the time.
Then going from cpc464 to an amiga 500 and not having to wait 10-20 minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape to using floppy disks was amazing i remember lemmings and elite the most.
The first time i played on a console i think was on a friends nes super mario and duck hunt.
secret of mana on the snes was the first time i played co-op and we must have finished that game a 100 times also mariokart split screen.
Sonic on the megadrive was miles ahead of anything i'd played before at the time. Goldeneye on the n64 4 player split screen was groundbreaking at the time.
Gran turismo and FF7 blew my mind when i got a ps1 the same as halo did for xbox. I think the first game i played on a pc was counterstrike which was awesome once i got used to using a keyboard and mouse for the first time in a fps.

Crysis was probably the first modern game that blew me away with the graphics. Guild wars was the first mmo i played that also wowed me with just how big games could be.
Im old now and probably forgot loads of games or even what i played them on.
 
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