Ah, the days when I thought nothing could look more realistic than Golden Eye. 😂

Dead Island 1's environments do indeed still look fantastic 12 years later.

I remember being blown away by Final Fantasy X.

You guys been on a rolll lately with ideas. We love the longer vids too!

Pretty amazing to see remasters that get it right. You can tell how great a game is when you barely have to update the graphics from like 20 years ago.

Next video could be a comparison of graphics at launch vs at the end of the generation for a handful of consoles AND/OR Best graphics on each console/generation bc I’d love to see what was considered the pinnacle of the PS2/GameCube era or the PS1/N64 era. I didn’t care about graphics at that time so I don’t necessarily remember

You should have put Mafia 1 and the Remake in this list .

Oh man my buddy and I would spend hours in Lego star wars just running around the sandboxy character select hub and just causing a battle royal among the whole cast of characters. So fun. Hours of enjoyment without even having to start the game basically lol

Thinking about what falcon looks like keeps me up at night

It's crazy to see how far videogames have come.

Kinda surprised you didn’t do ff7 vs ff7 remake. They are in entirely different worlds as far as graphics goes and the og ff7 was great for its time, especially the cut scenes

i really wish they'd do a remake of the pod racing game for Star Wars. it was pretty fun

I remember watching my older brother play ocarina of time on the N64 and thinking it couldn't possibly get any better!

I have loved every Ratchet & Clank game from the beginning, and for me one of the things that has improved with every game, to near perfection with Rift Apart is….Clank. He started out just grey, and now he is his beautiful shiny chrome self! 👍😄👍 Can’t wait for the next game.

I played so much Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy that Kyle Katarn will always be one of my favorite Star Wars characters.

Of all the old games that tried to simulate reality. Grand Turismo has aged incredibly well.

I remember clearly me and a friend talking about the cut-scenes in FF7 and he said to me in a few years we will be playing games with graphics as good as these cut-scenes. And he wasn't wrong. Games infact now look way better.

"1997 may as well be ancient history" damn, now I feel old, thanks falcon 🙂😂

Im almost in same situation as this video title, Back then 1999 till now I'm been playing on crappy Graphic cards and all the games look lame, (GT 1030) I've saved for like 3 years and will be buy a budget Gaming 1080p (High - Ultra) Gaming PC. (RTX 2060) NOW all my older games will look awesome, and cant wait to see what 2015 and up games will look like. Super exited, only 1 month to go, Wheee 😀 Also thanks for video Ranx, loved it. ✌

Gameranx I truly love these longer videos and I appreciate the work you all put into them. Thank you! Great work, legends!

Speaking of video game graphics,unrecorded is probably the best graphics ive seen,cant wait for release

I like how King's Field looks like a modern day, stylized indie game 😂

I loved the first King's Field when it came out. It was a very cool game for it's time.

Would love to see more videos like this, but comparing other aspects like gameplay, controls, story etc

Resident evil 4 developers did an amazing job not just remastering game with graphics but they changed places improved gameplay and most important thing knife is now useful by stabbing them back i am happy that they didn't did cheap work like rockstar games

Have yet to get RE4R but from what I've seen it looks amazing. Capcoms engine is holding up really well

I still have a soft spot in my heart for the OG graphics for FFVII

I think the greatest example of then and now graphical improvements is when you look at stuff like elite series, x-wing, tie fighter to squadrons, fall out, far cry and the sniper series. Massive graphical jumps between them. oh and elder scrolls

Gotta love gameranx! ❤

Love it when we can slow down and just think about the visual experience of games

Wow a Coleco Vision reference! Burger Time! But seriously FromSoftware should collaborate with Bluepoint with all new Souls games. And hopefully they are now. Great list as always!

Literally right now I was thinking what if GR made one of their graphics videos! Thanks guys! As soon as it popped on my notifications I couldn’t click it fast enough.

Final Fantasy would’ve been a good subject as well.

Jedi Knight 2 was AMAZING, a classic everyone should try

Great video, very entertaining thanks!

Can we shout out how well GT1 held up though. It doesnt look good now but it looks hella clean compared woth what I would expect.

I dig how, unlike other video game review channels, you guys put actual gameplay beyond what's needed. The long pieces of footage you've included after fully reviewing these has led me to buy _so many_ games!

The graphic difference of Half-Life and Black Mesa is almost unreal, and the fact that Black Mesa was made by fans is amazing

PC version is alot more stable now for Jedi Survivor! I finished it last night with no more freezes or crashes after a few the first day after the second patch. I can explore without any issue now

I love the realistic graphics now but if a game isn't fun and engaging then all the looks in the world isn't going to help.

I remember being happy when PC games went from monochrome to 4 color CGA. Imagine how I feel today with the current graphics and the continuing development of Unreal Engine 5

I remember seeing vice city for the first time, after months of hearing you could swim and all that, it was so beautiful. I dont think anything will ever match seeing that back then

Damn you guys are dropping some really good content! Thanks again

Gran Turismo A-Spec still loos as gorgeous now as it did back when it came out on PS2. Aged like a fine wine.

They days when I thought Mario 64 was mind blowing! I’ll never forget walking into a game store and seeing it on display the first time. It was like another Dimension of gaming.

*_CORRECTION:_* Unreal Engine is developed by Epic, not EA. You might have been thinking of Unity, which also wasn't developed by EA but is now owned by them.

I played the original grand turismo on PlayStation, this video was quite a trip. Also had an OG PS controller without the sticks so that was a crazy throwback

So, I’m 36 and my first adventures in gaming was the Atari 2600… Now a days with my PS5 and Xbox Series X… I can hardly imagine what games will be like in another 20 years…

Oh and the original metroid prime was known for having a ton of polys on screen. They were able to do it with the placements of the doors. Digital foundry should in a debug mode how the stage behind the door was loaded in as you got closer. Check it out

This reminds me so much how good the Gamecube was. The amount of games from that console that are still graphically sound is actually insane

Another quality gaming video from gameranx!

Love the content! Still waiting on the Socom video 👋🏻😬

Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy should be remastered

Make no mistake, in 10 years we'll be looking back at today's examples of top-end games, and we will be saying.....damn that still looks good....graphics evolution has come to a screeching halt (in comparison to past progress). Maybe in 20 years it will really kick off though.

Loving these early morning uploads

dude your making me think about before and after photos of me then (90's) and now .... ok so im off for a cry and a coffee lol

Ill never forget getting Gran Turismo back then and getting an analogue controller with it, i remember HATING analogue controls and thinking it was a silly gimmick, oh how wrong i was 😂

I would love a jak and daxter: precursor legacy remake. I'm replaying it for the 3rd or 4th time now, and while it was way more fun when I didnt know what smooth controls felt like, It still is one of my favorites. The characters all feel unique, the side quests feel rewarding and fun, and all the environments and enemies all feel fresh after you clear a level/stage/area. It was the first game that could be called open world that I had, and seeing that with new graphics and better controls would be incredible. Unfortunately, I doubt it'll get the ratchet and clank, spyro, or crash treatment.

Great list! I kept thinking about early Hitman games and how rough some of the early ones were.

the music in metroid prime is also sooo goood at setting the mood and tone of the area you are in and are just fun to listen to.

Jedi Outcast got released in 2002, Academy was in 2003.

Wish we could be doing one of these videos with Fallout New Vegas. That game deserves a remake with new and improved graphics and animations. Especially more than a lot of the remakes that have come out.

Damn, Falcon! You did it yet again! Another epic video!

Also, Kestis is the Katarn we could never have outside Legends. Because Kyle Katarn is so awesome, he would break the canon SW universe. His beard is home to a species of Force-sensitive lice with an advanced civilization. He could wield three lightsabers in one hand, like children would put sticks between their fingers pretending to be Wolverine. Except he doesn't pretend. And with his other hand, he can perform a simultaneous Force pull and push attack, the survivors of which have described as "euphoric."

You're going to have to do this comparison again next year or 2025 when Unreal Engine 5.2 + is the standard engine everyone will either be using or ramping up to in quality. I'm floored by what can be done with less drag on your machine. Being a graphic designer who's just now jumping back into design after 15 years. UE5 is what hooked me into doing so.

The Jedi Knight games, Academy especially - still the best light saber combat.

Man, graphics might have improved, but the Jedi Knight series did lightsaber combat so, so much better. Moved like a lightsaber instead of a lead pipe

King's Field and Armored Core were my first two FromSoftware games on PSX and they have always been my absolute favorites

Great video Gameranx! Keep em coming!

Hope to see a future video where the visual effects aren't that far from their predecessor. Like of course Elden Ring is going to look vastly different from a game made in the mid-90s.

Just a quick suggestion for an entry if you do a second one of these videos in the future, Spider-Man 2 and Insomniac's 2 Spider-Man games.

Good to hear ya again, Falcon!!

The video game market is rapidly evolving and changing. Kind of like your voice Falcon.

Fallen order and Surviver may have way better graphics, but Jedi outcast 2 is probably THE best lightsaber focused game ever. I wish I had a gaming pc just so I could play it again. It didn't transfer well to console. But the lightsaber fights weren't awkward. You could really switch up your style on the go, pull off amazing moves to out class opponents. Truly an amazing game.

"Polly-Phoney" made me nearly spit out my coffee, lol. Not sure if that was intentional, but nice roast.

I just realized that soon you'll be able to have Armored Core 6 vs. an earlier Armored Core on this kind of list.

90s-00s gaming had such a vast range of creativity. I love the amount of risk they took on odd concepts in This Y2K era- the Dreamcast/PS2/360. It should show us that (GRAPHICS Are Not) the most important thing.. If you can create satisfying movement, with good art style that allowed the player to differentiate"what's important & what's not" really adds to the game's playability. Then add gameplay mechanics, physics effects, responsive parts of a environment, a environment that makes you want to explore it, engage it, etc. That stuff is so much more important. Not just "who can make the largest game world, with the most polygons, reflection's,etc." I think Art style, design, vibe, aesthetic is much more important. You don't need top notch graphics to greatly appreciate and enjoy playing that game. That's why we are seeing such a resurgence of players who have gone back to playing older games because they realize the aspects of gaming that they care about and are unhappy with in most modern games. So hopefully gaming will enter a new era. That mixes in aspects of the older era's. With our modern capabilities that will hopefully help make it easier to create a satisfying game. As well as a vast range of game's Instead of everything trying to be Triple AAA or free to play online battle Royale games.. a lot of us miss the options for local multiplayer, split screen, lan parties, or offline modes against bots or other diverse offline CPU game modes.

The title needs some work

I remember playing NBA and FIFA games on the PS2 and thinking this is as good as it gets. Fast forward to now and the games look like a television broadcast even more so!

Awesome video. I can always count on you guys to give me my nostalgia fix.

Awesome video Mr Falcon. There's obviously some great games these days, but one thing that these amazing graphics can't compare to is, games back in the day up to a certain point in the the mid to late 2000s took more risks! There was wild and varied games. It couldn't be more safe and soulless in the majority of games now. Sure, there's a few indy games here and there, the very odd mid budget original, but yeah for the most part it's not great.

Resident Evil 4 is a masterpiece

Mass Effect 1 Original and Legendary Edition, don't forget that

I really love these comparisons please do more Falcon

9. Survivor vs. Outcast: True, the graphics are night and day. However, you could dismember enemies in Outcast, the code was for decapitation and bisections. Lastly, the combat in Outcast wasn't mindless flailing, any saber-wielding opponent or special ranged enemy was a significant threat which forced the player to plan ahead. Though not too different than how you'd fight in any Souls-like game, these every enemy fought just as dynamically as the player, there wasn't a pattern to their attacks that you had to memorize. As much as I love Fallen Order/Survivor, combat goes to Outcast/Academy, but only slightly. I feel that Suvivor is still muted, afraid, and/or too rushed to really give us that dynamic and free combat.

Another thing about Jedi Knight lightsabers is that the trails on the wall, you can write stuff with it just passing it on the wall and use your mouse. In Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor you only get wall marks when you attack the wall. Also you hurt enemies in Jedi Knight just by letting them touch the lightsaber without pressing attack. And it's kinda disappointing Cal never get to do the jumping overhead attack from Jedi Knight because that would be the best thing to use against shield troopers. Another thing that bugs me in Jedi Survivor is how sometimes when Cal cuts horizontally the enemy is cut vertically and vice versa. Most likely that the dismemberment is tied to animation but it played the wrong animation?

Fun reminder that old games were played on fuzzy tv’s. They looked better on them too because that’s what they were designed for. 💯

Also remember that before the Dual Shock, there was the Dual Analog. It is a dual analog gamepad without the force feedback (in case the names didn't make that patently obvious.) It was only out for around a year or so before Sony replaced it with the Dual Shock. (I remember mine, because after dropping, or perhaps football spiking a Dual Shock and breaking the motor brackets, I went back to a Dual Analog because the clicking of the motors as they tried to move annoyed the crap out of me. Until I used liquid steel or something like that to reattach the motors so they functioned properly again)

Graphics have aged better than I have 😂

There's something to be said for the difference in dev budgets between then and now. I wish we had those devs now doing what they were doing then with today's tech and budget

For most of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s we can truly say video games have come a long way

00:32 “1997 may as well be ancient history now right?” Me, born in 1996: 🥹🥹🥲🥲

Kids today will never understand how some of these games looked realistic to us back in the day. Edit- meant to say "these" and not "this"

It's hard to believe that someday RDR2 will look like crap!

I just remember being mesmerized by the shine on the body of cars in NFS 2

Let me just say thank you for starting the video with a Red Dead Revolver clip!! This game is just great and very underrated

Regarding the OG, its just Playstation, the PS1 is actually the later released mini version, as seen on the consoles themselves.. the OG says just "Playstation" where as the mini actually says "PS 0ne".. smh lol

"Awkward flailing" in JK2?! You obviously never played the games the right way. JK series had perhaps the best and still is the best lightsaber combat in any Star Wars videogame. Controller and button pressing parrying takes little skill. Fight on a swing-and-hit-what-you-hit mouse keyboard then you got yourself a good combat system.

Ratchet and Clank is the perfect example of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I'm still enjoy these games 20 years later.

Oddly enough there's still work to be done with graphics today. Games still to this day don't simulate fabrics very well. If there's any animation added for fabrics it just loops the exact same shapes and movements over & over.