Evolution of Video Game Graphics 1958-2020 REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@quinceykirkland1227]

I'm 42, I've been playing games practically since they made their way into our homes.... this is a trip down memory lane.

[@IronMan-jj2fd]

UE5 is the game changer, from here on the graphics stonks sky high!

[@mumuspain2086]

Modern AAA games take teams of hundreds of people to develop. I remember like a couple months after GTA V came out my brother was telling me that he thinks video games have run their course, and are dying out. I was like "Tf are you talking about? GTA V just made BILLIONS in it's first couple days of being out!" and it's only gone upwards from there. The video game industry is worth more than the entire film industry by at least double.

[@MM-jc7uv]

Video games will never die. I can’t imagine how I’d spend most of my time without them tbh, they’ve become an essential to everyone who’s grown up with them

[@devonmarr9872]

What is crazy to me is that you have games like the ascent, one of the best looking games, made by 12 people. Game development is being more and more viable for small talented crews

[@paul1979uk2000]

Isn't video games a bigger industry than movies and growing all the time? I do know one thing, there's still a lot of growth with video games from VR, to training tools and in the longer run one's tech is good enough, I could well see the merger of games and movies in that you could either watch the store play out or take part in the story. Gaming is just going to get bigger and bigger for the foreseeable future and could very well become the biggest entertainment industry. I'm only 41 but I actually recognized all of those games shown and played most of them lol.

[@mumuspain2086]

@@paul1979uk2000 yeah it's more than twice as big

[@paul1979uk2000]

@@mumuspain2086 Yeah I thought it was, didn't think it was twice as big because I'm sure just around 5 or 10 years it just overtook the movie industry in overall size, that's pretty impressive growth.

[@penguin8711]

They showed old racing games but no new ones. The reality of New ones is incredible.

[@YAH2121]

Yeah a good one would have been to shown the graphics of the newer Forza games for example.

[@mitchblackmore5230]

Wow, being 52, that was some huge nostalgia. Fun Fact: I still play Call of Duty. Fun Story: My boss told me he was out one afternoon with his family shopping in a mall. He's a big football fan. He saw a TV in a store window that was showing a match. He walked up to the window and was watching the match for a few minutes but was confused because no games were scheduled for this time that he knew of. When his young daughters came up to him and saw what he was doing, they said, 'Dad, that's FIFA 2016. You're watching a video game.'

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

Which CoD? I played the original, online, search and destroy, harbor, rifles only for a year straight on my old PC lol

[@Soli2deYT]

that's hilarious.

[@TCHC85]

It's funny when people mention "COD kids" today without realizing that most "COD kids" are usually at least in their mid-30's by now 😂

[@RetroGamesBoy78]

@@TCHC85 COD Warzone online is shite. Unbalanced game play that they won't fix because it'll turn away those that exploit it (also known as Snipers or Snipez). lol. It has awful match making and awful servers which guarantee a poor connection for many players.

[@mitchblackmore5230]

@@Jason_Van_Stone The one that has Warzone. Not that I play that mode...I suck at Battle Royal.

[@bigdtheog572]

Think whoever made the video could've included better games for certain years to show off the graphics

[@EnergeticxCheese]

Yeah, like Microsoft flight simulator over TLOU2, Miles Morales and GoT. I mean really?

[@joshido7352]

They picked pretty good games but they picked games with almost no color/lighting variation and almost all of them shooters

[@MyNemesisIX]

ye for sure... insert Many big boys mmorpg for the designs. Not especially for (Realism) per say... but say Guild Wars 2 has some pretty epic maps

[@felautumn9534]

@@MyNemesisIX The video is about graphical improvement over time. Gw2 is an MMO from 2012 and MMOs are never at the top of the graphical game. MMOs always take less of a graphical approach compared to everything else, especially if they want the player to enjoy the game without losing all their fps when surrounded by tons of people. Gw2 graphics on it's release was far below many AAA games in 2012 for this reason.

[@BG1435q]

No TOMB rider games for 1990's - 2000's :(

[@brettpenning]

Can't believe they left out Super Mario 64 on the list. That game is a classic.

[@TreyM1609]

Same with Skyrim

[@brettpenning]

@@TreyM1609 I was actually going to say Skyrim too!! That is one of my top 5 favorite games of all time.

[@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751]

Did they even put in Zelda or Mario bros

[@WaterKingCrocodoan]

@@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 unfortunately only one Nintendo game. The donkey Kong country

[@brettpenning]

@@WaterKingCrocodoan Yep, and SM64 should have replaced that game.

[@JohnDoe-ds1gq]

How the hell did they leave out rdr2. Probably the the most impressive game in terms of graphics that has come out in the past couple years

[@kirikayumura6015]

yea that would have been a good one to include for modern games. love the gameplay too.. it's immersive

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

Thinking about starting that up again. So far the best looking console game I've played, was Demon's Souls remake. But rdr2 blew me away with HDR on a 4k, and still does. Such a beautiful game.

[@franzliszt8957]

@@Jason_Van_Stone I agree. But I think RDR2 is more impressive, considering it's an open-world game with so many details and things to do.

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

@@franzliszt8957 yeah, off the top of my head,(what I played) Uncharted 4, rdr2, The last of us 2, doom eternal, hitman 3, for last gen just looked amazing.

[@JohnDoe-ds1gq]

​@@Jason_Van_Stone not to mention the story is absolutely amazing

[@Soli2deYT]

You guys NEEEEEEEEED to watch videos about the tech behind the new Microsoft flight simulator that came out.. and how they use AI learning and Bing maps to recreate the world in real time. I've been wanting something like this with real 3d buildings n houses since the first flight sim almost 10+ years ago. The tech behind how they are able to do what they did in the game, is downright AMAZING. It'll blow ur mind.

[@PugAshen]

And to think the last 2 years more and more development has been done on the realism of these games. It's mental.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Especially with Ray tracing being more prominent. The advancement in the next 5 years is going to be mental.

[@michaelmcfarland5947]

@@Plague_Doc22 I feel like ray tracing has just opened the flood gates, i bought a VR recently I had no idea the technology had come that far.

[@Aforgamon]

6:00 I think this was the first game on this video really showing 3d polygons being rendered. The others before (and several after) were just showing either vector graphics and pixel art or strategically placed "flat" textures to give the illusion of 3d surfaces. (granted all 3d graphics are an illusion made by manipulating shapes and shades)

[@RetroGamesBoy78]

This doesn't represent the evolution of video game graphics very well. You can't have arcade games and home consoles mixed like this, it doesn't work. Also, why were the last 10 or so games 3rd or 1st person perspective games? Gran Turismo was the last racing game shown, which was 1997, and it shouldn't have been there anyway, nor should DK Country be in the 94 either.

[@kirikayumura6015]

yea.. mix of arcade, console, and PC.. and mix of styles/genres.. and some of them the clips chosen didn't do the game justice.. and some weren't appropriate.. like with FEAR.. it's appeal wasn't the graphics, it was the level design and atmosphere; hard to show that in a clip of just the player walking up two short flights of stairs..

[@Chamomileable]

Alright. Once you guys get a better setup for your editing PC, we HAVE to see a Try video with the fellas playing horror games. As for the whole "someone's whole job was to design that mountain" thing, it's actually usually MULTIPLE people. You have concept artists who provide sketches, paintings, etc to use as reference for what areas of the world look like, then your environment artists create assets like the 3D models and texture graphics for the environments while working with level planners and level designers to decide where in the game world the assets need to be placed in order to fit both the visual role they need to play in the game as well as the gameplay role (creating paths for the players, guiding the eye to important places or things, etc.)

[@teacuptofu]

It would be so fun to see them play something like Until Dawn lol. I can see them arguing over certain choices.

[@michaelmcfarland5947]

Get them a VR I'm ready for some Phasmaphobia.

[@chroniccomplainer3792]

The teams making AAA titles are massive. 50 ppl working for YEARS to put these together. God of War took forever but looks AMAZING. The newest halo is 6 or 7 years in the making

[@crescentfresh8001]

I started gaming in about 1991, and I'm glad that I got to see a lot of this evolution firsthand, it really makes me appreciate how absurdly detailed and pretty that even one-man indie games can be these days. I'm no graphics snob, all the ray tracing in the world doesn't make a bad game good, but I love seeing us get closer and closer to photorealism at a relatively insane pace.

[@Anthony-sz4ms]

Office Blokes Gaming channel? Mike seems like a gamer 😂

[@WaterKingCrocodoan]

They need to make a channel dedicated to trying new games desperately would be awesome

[@OXR1200]

In 4 weeks or so Epic Games will release the first use of Unreal Game Engine 5, for the new Season of Fortnite as the initial test bed. The lighting and textures are supposed to be in even higher. As an FYI, the Mandalorian environment and backdrops werer shot using Epic's current game engine.

[@Peatingtune]

Been gaming regularly since the late 80s and I still go back to classics from my childhood. Not only for quick sessions, but some longer PC games. Graphics are a huge part of gaming, but they knew how to do fun in the old days in a somewhat more consistent manner than they do today.

[@kaluminati731]

A few of the early games where you said it looked like they went backwards was because they were flirting with fully 3D environments vs ones where they rendered the backgrounds and objects in 2D that had some 3D elements in them (or "faked" 3D elements). Putting in something like Street Fighter, or DKC, was a poor choice for such a compilation, because the 2D games will always hold up better by the nature of what they are, so it does a poor job of showing the real evolution and innovation that was going on in the 3D space.

[@cmo5807]

Meh the time I heard him say they went backwards the game actually looked more crisp and less grainy you can tell these guys arent GAMERS.

[@paul1979uk2000]

Yeah I was thinking that, it was the transition from 2D to 3D where early 3D games in many cases looked worse then 2D games but it was clear at the time that 3D was the future.

[@blakerh]

My brother and his HS classmate started a video game company in the 90s and their most popular game is Big Buck Hunter. Not sure if it has made to the UK but it has made a fortune in the US.

[@MrVvulf]

I consider myself so lucky to have lived through the computer revolution (and had the best rock music 60s-90s). Family started with an Atari 2600. Handhelds were the silly things like the Mattel Football or Merlin (nothing before Gameboy in '89 was really worth having). The first computer game I loved was on the Apple IIc - "Castle Wolfenstein" in ~1981. Holy cow computer games have come so far since then. I'd love to get a PS5 and upgrade my home PC, but I'm in waiting mode for the next 1-2 years for the prices to come back down to MSRP. I'm too stingy to pay over.

[@WaterKingCrocodoan]

Bruh I am jealous of people like you, wished I could have lived through the entire evolution since the very beginning. Much love

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

My Dad had commodore 64, and intelevision. We grew up with NES, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafix 16, Playstation, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast....then for me personally, came Gamecube, ps2, ps3, ps4, and now ps5.

[@MrVvulf]

@@Jason_Van_Stone I stopped buying PS with the 3 because my children were off on their own. I'd get back into consoles with the 5 if the price would come back down, because I'm not paying hundreds more than MSRP. I'm not in a hurry, it just gives developers more time to put out good games for PS5.

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

@@MrVvulf yeah, I was going to say...like most new gen consoles, you're not missing out on much right now, (minus some games being upgraded to ps5 graphics), I, myself absolutely LOVE demon's souls remake. Looks like you're playing a CGI movie. But other than that, nothings really out, and you can't even customize it with themes yet. The ps5 games library is a joke.

[@MrVvulf]

@@Jason_Van_Stone Yep, I'm fine with the PC I built around 3 years ago. I usually replace them every 5 years, so hopefully GPUs will be back down to reasonable prices by then. I never buy current gen top of the line anyway because it's overpriced for the performance. My 1660 Super card is just fine for 1080p gaming.

[@missyotsuba8508]

I have fond memories of Space Harrier, game shown @4:37 I'd be in Blackpool as a child and that game was always the loudest. When no one was playing on it it showed a demo, just like most games did, but it showed the guy getting hit and the "aaawwwww" shout that he made was really loud. You'd hear it over all other machines. And Outrun and AfterBurner. I had them both for my SEGA Master System. There was a stall on our town market and every week I'd pay the man £2 of my pocket money and when I had enough I got the Outrun cartridge. I remember the first time ever seeing the OutRun arcade machine. When I was about 8 years old I was in Spain with my grandparents (not my real grand parents hard to explain so I wont bother) and In the pub next to our hotel was an Outrun machine It was a full sit in moving thing. I could barely touch the pedals but I played that machine non stop. I'd beg my folks to go to the pub so I could play on it. One night we were there some guy maybe in his 20s was hammering the game but could never get off the second level. He could speak a bit of English and I was trying to explain what he was doing wrong. He then said that if I could beat him he would buy us all 2 drinks. I easily beat him and while doing so I actually made it to the end, something I had not done before. True to his word he bought us all drinks. He then asked if I'd show him how to be a better play and in return he'd buy us all more drinks. It was a much more innocent time back then. Nowadays if a 20 year old man starts talking to an 8 year old girl then it would be highly inappropriate. Hahaha. But back then my folks were just happy that they could sit having a drink in peace without having an over excited kid oining them. haha

[@hanksilman4016]

Game Artist here: You guys were sort of on the money saying it'd be 1 person's job to create those mountains in God of War. That said, it's a team of people responsible for the landscape as a whole and it probably took them the whole length of the project (3-5 years): There were a set of 8 people or so to make just the landscape: the modelers/sculptors, surface artists ("painting" a surface's color and properties like specularity), and tech/fx artists (particles, atmosphere) assigned to a task that big. There are similar teams for characters, UI, props, level design, narrative, gameplay programming, etc. All and all I believe there were around 300 people working on God of War.

[@snowign7]

Assassin's Creed Unity at 15 mins in. Thats the game they are using to rebuild Notre Dame after the fire. That game had the most accurate blueprints. As they mapped it with lasers or something in real life, when making the game.

[@JesseCoons]

God of War 2018, the game with the mountain range, was worked on by more than 300 people over five years.

[@KilyanAustin]

all newer assassins creed games are incredibly beautiful

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

I just started Black Flag again, and for being an 8 year old game, some areas still look great!! But yeah, Valhalla looked amazing.

[@KilyanAustin]

@@Jason_Van_Stone Black flag has always been my favourite.

[@KevinKillaKam]

Surprised they didn't include The Witcher 3 if you're trying to highlight graphics evolution. Street Fightrr 2 was the first game I was truly addicted to.

[@NeutralTea]

Working at GlobalFoundries in Vermont the work has been skyrocketing the last couple years. Even through Covid we didn't shut down for 1 day/night. Unfortunately hiring like crazy we have been drastically understaffed and it's horiffic running at 1/3 or less of each area. The semiconductor shortage is crazy.

[@GroinStrain_]

Surprised call of duty or GTA V weren’t here. Both massive games that certainly changed my gaming life and GTA V is still an amazing game now, 8 years after release

[@MicksKicks-]

"Going for a piss in Weatherspoons" 😂😂😂 hahah

[@missyotsuba8508]

Talking about getting free credits we used to go to a pub called "The Swan" that had a full size snooker table in the back. to play you had to put 50p in a box and it would turn on the lights in the room. Without the lights it was pretty much pitch black. 50p got you 30minutes of playtime. But the thing was that it only took the big old time 50p coins So you would give the land lord a fiver and he'd give you a fivers worth of old 50ps. Then the £2 coin came out and what no one realised was that the fruit machine took the old 50p coins thinking it was a new £2 coin. We'd get a load of old 50p coins from the Swan and then go and use them in other various pubs in town to clean out the fruit machines. We only got rumbled because we kept getting old 50p coins and not putting them in the light box. The landlord was wondering where all his old coins were going. lol.. If we were not using them in the fruit machines around town we'd use them in a vending machine at work. I was working in a shithole factory when I was 16 trying to get cash together but in the break room was 2 vending machines one for crisps and chocolate the other was a coke machine. We used to put old 50p coins in and choose a bag of 10p crisps and we'd get the crisps and £1.90 in change.. Not a great money making scam but a scam nontheless. From then on my taste for get rich quick scams grew at an extortionate rate. To get to work I had to catch the bus and because it was halfpast 8 loads of school kids would be on it. I made a nice amount buying fags and then selling them to the kids on the bus. Back then it was like £2.50 for 20 fags. I'd buy about 5 or 6 packs and sell them all indvidually for 30p each. Buy the time I'd got to work I'd almost tripled my cash.

[@caseyrogers573]

After Burner was my jam at the local pizza shop in Dallas in the mid 90s

[@victormagana7940]

Here in California just wanted to say you guys are hilarious and great responses, keep it up guys

[@WaterKingCrocodoan]

Let’s goo this about to be incredible

[@stuckinaloop6637]

Keep your goo to yourself

[@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751]

DirectX 12 , Unreal engine , Vulcan are behind most of the really visually beautiful games . Most of today's games are stacked on previous developments and code .

[@nikolozka1]

Game History without Super Mario, Contra, Mortal Kombat, Prince Of Persia,Tanks, Tetris, Duck Hunt, Resident Evil, Grand Theft Auto... looks like I lived in the alternate universe... Edit: I even forgot about Fifa

[@peterortiz1160]

WE NEED AN OFFICE BLOKES GAMING CHANNEL

[@CapitalGearGaming]

Gaming is currently the worlds largest entertainment industry, in 2020 racking a revenue of almost $180 billion dollars and has steadily been growing since.

[@drewgamezzz8482]

And duuuuuuude, I loved playing Gran Turismo back in the day on the original PlayStation lol. This video is just jam packed with nostalgia lol.

[@navbuoy]

I laughed at the not having mastered the walk quip and the comparison to Thunderbirds...LOL. The real kicker is now the gaming engines are being used in the movie industry. Mandalorian is using the latest gaming engine for their 'Volume' set.

[@TwistedSisterHaratiofales]

I started playing Electronic Football in 1977 now I am 3D modeling Virtual Human game characters and Programing Games on Unreal as a hobby.

[@Darmesis]

Pong is my first memories. Still remember my “Cool, rich Aunt” getting an Odyssey where you’d have to put coloured, cellophane stickers on the 20-inch screen to give it “pop!” It was like living in the 22nd Century! My folks were early-adopters of PC’s in the early 80’s. Yep - had to load _Space Invaders_ FROM A CASSETTE TAPE THAT TOOK 15 MINUTES before you could send a pixel towards another pixel 🤪

[@eponine1966]

Mike and I are probably closer to age. Still remember the classics. My niece and nephews have more "advanced" games, but still kick their butts on the classics! 😂

[@leslieg.9213]

That God of War dude had an Evinrude hidden on that boat.

[@maryjoygelizon4268]

For some odd reason i now need these guys to do a video on vr horror games

[@Darmesis]

We used to ride our bikes MILES to go play _Asteroids_ or _Galaga!_ 25 cents to get your arse kicked in a few minutes was a big deal back in the day, but it was badass 🤘

[@garyevans3421]

I used to think the military would use people that grew up on video games to run drones, but now I think these people would be bored to tears! 😝

[@harrislam]

The 2000's decade was really the golden era of gaming, led by PC. The graphics development and graphics card performance development literally went side by side with each other. We saw so much improvement from 1998~2000 to 2008~2010 it's not even funny.

[@MS_Fdgod]

I mean, I'm not gonna lie they could've picked better games to showcase graphics. There's so many games that they left out that literally were the first to do something and change the entire way that we develop video games. They also just left out newer games that are so visually stunning. Like did they really pick "Microsoft Flight Simulator" for 2020?? Sure, its a huge game with a lot of buildings, but the details of those buildings could use some work. There's a lot of other games that are way more detailed.

[@Lyrabela]

I remember thinking Crash Bandicoot's graphics were awesome. Then I was supet impressed with Assasins Creed/Fable graphics, and then again with Life is Strange.

[@jpbaugh]

Unreal company actually makes most of their money by royalties from other game developers using the Unreal Engine. Unreal and Unity are two of the biggest game engines that developers use today

[@drewgamezzz8482]

@6:24 am I the only one who noticed the Sonic the Hedgehog thing hanging from the mirror lol? Which Idk it was out them tbh, tho I did have it on my SEGA Genesis when I was young. But I was born in 91 and had the SEGA since like 93 before I could really even play it lol. There were so many good games like NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog, Contra, Street Fighter 2, ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron,TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist! I feel SEGA was really the best back then and was ahead of it’s time, but I was also 4 and 5 when I was actually old enough to really play and understand it, but I even kept playing it after I had a PlayStation and PS2, etc! I loved my SEGA Genesis!

[@bikingchupei2447]

6:53 thats funny, what i used to do back in the day was use 1 cent(requires a quarter to play in the US) and put it in the tiny coin doors just below the coin insert slots and use your finger to spring it up the machine, it acted like you put a quarter in the coin insert slots.

[@caterpillakilla]

Not including Goldeneye and Super Smash Bros. on N64 is a crime

[@NikkiTaLance]

The game Crysis from 2007 they showed was super well known for literally melting PC graphics cards. Since then, any time a new processor is made, they try to run Crysis on it without using a graphics card at all. Only in the past year or two has it actually been (kinda) playable.

[@watson3047z]

I think videos like this could use more context instead of just showing games in each year. Also it might have helped if the video showed more games that changed or revolutionized graphics, like Daytona or Tempest. It does have games like Wolfenstein, Crysis, and DKC that show this

[@BaresEatBeats]

The ‘90s-2000s was a pretty big graphical leap.

[@drewgamezzz8482]

I can’t believe Mike said Quake looked like a precursor to Minecraft lol. I mean, yeah the “blocky graphics” maybe lol, but the 2 are not close to the same I wouldn’t say lol.

[@coryH420]

Let's go first video of the day !!!!

[@KayoMichiels]

"But can it run Crysis?" Is a common phrase used to determine how good a system is... because at the time of it's release it was so detailed.. not many pc's could run it, let along run it smoothly

[@animaelisa9594]

i think these days you can replace Crysis with Ark Survival Evolved, not many PCs can run it properly either

[@KayoMichiels]

@@animaelisa9594 Or even cyberpunk 2077...

[@zedanide6984]

A couple games that could've been added Minecraft: both original release and shaders/ray traced version Borderlands 2 Any Madden/NBA game Any Call of Duty game after Black Ops 1 Apex Legends Overwatch

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Actually, once the map is decided on, building the terrain is relatively easy. There are sophisticated tools to create it. The difficulty isn't visual aspects so much, it's interactivity - making it so your character can't walk through walls or rock.

[@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751]

Graphics cards are nuts expensive. Biggest consumer of graphics cards #1 pc gamers post covid emergence , huge market share #2 crypto miners #3 scalpers #4 pc manufacturers #5 server farms Combined with huge shortages caused by semiconductor production limitations , really not good . And then add in various other covid related issues and it's full on a mess.

[@plnkfloydian7814]

Man some of those earlier games were hard on the eyes

[@masamune2984]

With many of the game engines/editors we use in our industry, we often have to actually work just as hard to actively make our games look NOT as flashy, depending on the art aesthetic of the game in question. That’s where we are at this point. It’s harder to make a game look “worse” than it is “better.” 🙂

[@mudbutt42]

The video game industry makes more than movies and TV combined

[@JLewis1979]

Check out a game in Early Access called SCUM. (Open world, survival vs. AI zombies and mechs, PVP, base building, realistic metabolism, day/night cycle, weather, huge map, etc..) It's run on the latest version of the Unreal engine and is simply waiting to be converted to Unreal 5. It's only on version 0.6, so it's not near official release, but the graphics are already...well...unreal. There are times you can't tell it's a video game.

[@robwebnoid5763]

Late comment ... I've been playing video games (now basically called computer games) since the 1970's. I still have my Atari 2600/VCS & Coleco Telstar consoles from that era. Those are the last consoles I have ever used, because I had since become more of a computer gamer rather than console gamer, beginning with my Commodore 64 (which I still also have), as well as games for the PC. But it's not all fun & games. Despite the fact that these types of games are sometimes belittled & downplayed to be only childish or only for nerds/geeks, the rest of the world has since applied them for their own more serious usage. One of those are the military, who have started using these games since the days of the Atari 2600 in the early 1980's, for use as battle simulators. Things like flight simulators & world simulators have also been applied for science & engineering. And the games themselves have lent to kids wanting to & having become programmers, engineers, scientists. Not all kids of course. So there is good in it. And it's not over. One day, games will become so real, you may forget you're in one. Perhaps we're all in one right now, some kind of World Sim or Matrix, as created by some sort of a god.

[@SparkimusPrime]

I have like 200 hours on Skyrim and like 300 hours on all the Fallouts. I converted that into days one time. I don’t recommend that unless you want to be utterly depressed lol

[@HybridCult]

All these games were pioneers in terms of graphics and world interaction. It isn't a list of the most popular games, just the ones that made the biggest leaps for the time.

[@2strokesmoke783]

HybridCult The problem here is the video mixes Arcade, PC, and console gaming. It doesn't work until the late nineties when console caught up with the arcades. Daytona usa in the arcades was still graphically more impressive than Gran Turismo and that was after Daytona. Donkey Kong Country wasn't really a leap either, it was an art style more than an evolution, how was it an evolution in 94 when the year before the big evolution was Doom. Its better to watch videos of the evolution of certain genres, they work far better than this for comparisons from year to year.

[@BakingBadOBX]

this could have been so much better, cant believe they left out Red Dead 2. that game was a visual landmark success when it came out. There are so many games that made huge strides that were left out

[@6thsense464]

This is just the beginning. In the next years you will have video games that 100% look like real life, you can already play some games in 4k quality.

[@chiantiar]

big jump in graphics from 2000 to 2010, not so much from 2010 to now.

[@Craggon]

If you're interested to see where the graphics are going next, the Unreal 5 demo has been out for a while showing how they've advanced graphics and some of the systems they've implemented to make it easier for developers to make their products come to life. Not sure if you'd want to do a reaction to it, but here's one of them where they go over some of the new systems and show a character walking through some different areas. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmmlYn-Ep6ejp8U I can't wait to see the games made using Unreal 5.

[@leslieg.9213]

I conquered Unreal Tournament but couldn't win a game of Pong to save my life. Go figure.🤣

[@hifijohn]

We can laugh all we want at how primitive the video games were back in the 70's but remember video games need large amounts of memory and processor speed and back then 64K of ram was considered huge.

[@Soli2deYT]

ya now that K has been turned into a GB.

[@aymanm.8462]

i was born in 2001 and i played the shit out of street fighter. when i seen these games of like the 70 i get nostalgic for some reason. i can almost remember going to the arcade on a rainy evening in the 70s to play these games with friends. really weird lmao

[@kingjamestres]

All I have to say is that to do 2018 and not use Red Dead Redemption 2 is a travesty I know God of War is a beautiful game but not to that level.

[@TheCosmicGenius]

There's a video that I found on youtube that helps to solidify all this even further - a history of Star Trek video games. The evolution of the graphics in those is amazing.

[@tylerbuckner3750]

Just buy an M1 Mac Mini for $900…don’t wait on graphics cards. I edit video for a living in After Effects and it renders at full resolution without lag. Fun fact: The area of Paris in Assassin’s Creed Unity was a 1:1 recreation.

[@kevincola3184]

Ah, now I need to play Max Payne 1 and 2 again, lol. Love those games.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Wait - you never heard of Crysis? The joke from Crysis on is "but will it run Crysis?"

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

I own a SF2 arcade cabinet....even with all the new high tech stuff out now, my boys would rather play the older stuff

[@buffetburglar6447]

Assassin's creed oddessey I have 120 hrs in with dlc. And I'm still not even close to done. You can even take a virtual guide of historical locations around rome.

[@KungKokkos]

The gaming industry is bigger than the music and movie industry put together, so it's quite big ;)

[@EKLIPz08]

Although I haven't played many of the games shown, I do know that many of them raised the bar when they were released. For example, Crysis and Far Cry 3 were both used for graphics benchmarking up until somewhat recently. And the game Unreal was the base of the Unreal Engine, so many games are built still being made on iterations of this engine. And Unity engine was created around Half-Life and still used as well.

[@ragnarocking]

And after all these years of improvements in video game graphics, they still can't uncross their eyes 😁

[@Valdaur]

Lol they literally showed a single second of Tennis for two..

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

Mike is the coolest older dude...I’m sure he’s an awesome father, grandfather

[@michaelkey9549]

Half-Life 2 was one of my most memorable experiences as a kid. SUCH a good game.

[@reecewood155]

No Halo CE, no sports games, very few racing games. There is a lot missing fon this list.

[@jackconorria4033]

12:30 fun fact: in that gears of war clip, the guns the person's using don't work on that type of enemy

[@eSSentialplaysYT]

Grand Theft Auto 5, September 17, 2013. The game is eight years old, an incredible experience and to look what the mod community has done for this game, it's absolutely mind-blowing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnXZmZWBebKHgs0

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Still play various versions of Doom & Quake nowadays.

[@BaresEatBeats]

You know the graphics are good when you start finding the female NPCs attractive.

[@watson3047z]

Hard Drivin had polygonal graphics that made it true 3d but those kind of graphics were new and looked more plain than the 2d graphics.

[@e-reptiledysfunction2243]

12:25 I could b wrong but it appears the objective was to make that thing knock out enough pillars so that the building would collapse... just my guess otherwise I c no point n it

[@LancerX916]

A AAA game takes about 5 to 10 years to complete from prototyping to completion. Some cost hundreds of dollars to complete. Some studios employ hundreds to get these games done. So no you can't just hire a geek and have it done in 6 weeks. That's like saying just hire an actor to flop around the soccer field.

[@blakerh]

My brother started the company that made an acade game called Big Buck Hunter. They only had about ten employees when they finished the first version but it did take a few years to get it done. They had another company make the cabinets and shotguns.

[@williammitchell1837]

They really need to bring the Max Payne games back on consoles.

[@TheNeonParadox]

The nostalgia feels are real here.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

There's not really such a thing a gaming addiction. There's a person who has a dopamine addictive problem, whether that comes from gaming, gambling, or whatever. Certain people are more attracted to certain things based on the stimuli they to which respond. There's also a myth that violent games make children violent. Children who become violent (throwing controllers and such) typically are children who can't stand being denied anything - entitlement. That's a problem created by bad parenting. The report that first posited the idea the violent games made gamers more violent was actually misunderstood. In the cited reference, the gamer was NOT the violent individual, but rather the VICTIM of a NON-gamer. Ratings on games do play a valid role, especially given that photo-realistic violence and nudity occurs in some games. It's interesting that neither Tomb Raider series nor Uncharted series was mentioned. Tomb Raider isn't about Lara Crofts cleavage and Uncharted isn't about being a male version of Lara Croft. Both have merits of their own. Given the decades that Tomb Raider spans from the 1990's through modern times, one wonders why it wasn't mentioned. I'm also surprised that they showed early versions of racing games then ignored the improvements later. Ditto Gears of War. Overall it was a strange mix. While I could understand why you hadn't heard of some of these, Crysis was a surprise. If you have a PS3, you might want to wait until the prices of consoles come back down and check out MANY of the excellent titles. If you do want to upgrade but don't want to expend tons of money, check out Sony's site for refurbished equipment with warranty, a PS4 Pro should be available for $400 or less. There are VERY few PS5 games, and most developers know that most people won't get the PS5 immediately because of costs. Many new games will run on the PS4 and will be upgradable if/when you do upgrade. Right now, getting any electronics will not be cheap. Parts fabrication is mostly at a standstill. PS5 could be manufactured if they had the parts. The manufacturing plant for PlayStations is almost completely robotic. Less than a handful of people are necessary to run it. It's a marvel. However, without parts... You might want to check this out as a demo of game creation software. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3SYfKeXqbKWi9k

[@TimpossibleOne]

They missed a few graphic styles but overall very intriguing