Game Design between 1990-2008 Pretty good read.

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#1 Unforgiven2870
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http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/video-game-design-between-1990-2008/


Of course its not completly accurate but its a pretty good read none the less.Brings back good Nostalgic memories looking at those screenshots.
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#2 tktomo01
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OK I guess. Makes the graphics in all the games look pretty bad though.
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#3 PAL360
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I played most of that games :D

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#4 gameofthering
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Psp 2003? I thought it was 2004 (Japan) then 2005(rest od world)
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#5 Blackfriend8
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its cool how each year little by little you see the graphics get better good read
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#6 Unforgiven2870
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its cool how each year little by little you see the graphics get better good readBlackfriend8
Yea i noticed that about the time line.
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#7 kweeni
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amazing to see how games (graphically) got better by the year

great article

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#8 thegoldenpoo
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ive actually played 75% of that list :P his 2005 was a bit odd though, no ghost recon?
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The games I had the most fun playing in that list was commander keen and Return to castle wolfenstein...great games.
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Cool article, but wow they picked some stupid screenshots from games to show off the graphics. I mean, look at Half-Life 2, GTAIV, and Crysis pics in that article. It makes the games look like crap.
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Wow the ps2 had better graphics than a pc back then????

Its amazing to see. Starting from really bad graphics but then as time goes on the rate at which is developes gets faster, then the first ps2 games come out, then about a year later you can see when the devs firgured it out as the graphics update incredibly with GTA and tom clancys.

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Wow the ps2 had better graphics than a pc back then????

Its amazing to see. Starting from really bad graphics but then as time goes on the rate at which is developes gets faster, then the first ps2 games come out, then about a year later you can see when the devs firgured it out as the graphics update incredibly with GTA and tom clancys.

NinjaMunkey01
just like the ps3 2007-2008, they both had pretty dev unfreindly arcitechure.
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#13 NinjaMunkey01
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[QUOTE="thegoldenpoo"][QUOTE="NinjaMunkey01"]

Wow the ps2 had better graphics than a pc back then????

Its amazing to see. Starting from really bad graphics but then as time goes on the rate at which is developes gets faster, then the first ps2 games come out, then about a year later you can see when the devs firgured it out as the graphics update incredibly with GTA and tom clancys.

just like the ps3 2007-2008, they both had pretty dev unfreindly arcitechure.

Thats what I was thinking...
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Wow the ps2 had better graphics than a pc back then????

Its amazing to see. Starting from really bad graphics but then as time goes on the rate at which is developes gets faster, then the first ps2 games come out, then about a year later you can see when the devs firgured it out as the graphics update incredibly with GTA and tom clancys.

NinjaMunkey01
Are you serious!? No, Nooooooooooo, JUST .....noooo. You do realise that Half life 2 came out at the ps2 era and the system could not play it, heck it could not even play the original Half-Life. Nor FarCry. Not even Halo. Noooooooo, RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT NOW.
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#15 Unforgiven2870
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[QUOTE="NinjaMunkey01"]

Wow the ps2 had better graphics than a pc back then????

Its amazing to see. Starting from really bad graphics but then as time goes on the rate at which is developes gets faster, then the first ps2 games come out, then about a year later you can see when the devs firgured it out as the graphics update incredibly with GTA and tom clancys.

dreman999
Are you serious. No, Nooooooooooo, JUST .....noooo. You do reails that Half life 2 came out at the ps2 era and the system could not play it. Nor FarCry. Not even Halo. Noooooooo, RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT NOW.

:lol: don't have to be soo demanding ya know.
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[QUOTE="Unforgiven2870"][QUOTE="dreman999"][QUOTE="NinjaMunkey01"]

Wow the ps2 had better graphics than a pc back then????

Its amazing to see. Starting from really bad graphics but then as time goes on the rate at which is developes gets faster, then the first ps2 games come out, then about a year later you can see when the devs firgured it out as the graphics update incredibly with GTA and tom clancys.

Are you serious. No, Nooooooooooo, JUST .....noooo. You do reails that Half life 2 came out at the ps2 era and the system could not play it. Nor FarCry. Not even Halo. Noooooooo, RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT NOW.

:lol: don't have to be soo demanding ya know.

Hey, I'm just stating facts to the ignorant. Tell me that you didn't nearly fall out of your seat after read what Ninja Monkey dared to type.
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http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/video-game-design-between-1990-2008/


Of course its not completly accurate but its a pretty good read none the less.Brings back good Nostalgic memories looking at those screenshots.Unforgiven2870

They really dropped the ball by not showing games like Sonic/2, Goldeneye, Zelda Ocarina Of Time, Street Fighter 2, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry and Virtua Fighter. Also there wasn't anything about game design in that entire article. That's why I came here. I thought they were going to point out major advancements in game design. But besides all of that, the nostalgia really pounded me good. lol From the screenshots alone, you can see how rapidly games improved over the years. Especially in the '90s.

And this was my favorite screenshot.

Max Payne 2001
Source: mobygames.com

BEST TPS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[QUOTE="Unforgiven2870"][QUOTE="dreman999"]Are you serious. No, Nooooooooooo, JUST .....noooo. You do reails that Half life 2 came out at the ps2 era and the system could not play it. Nor FarCry. Not even Halo. Noooooooo, RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT NOW.dreman999
:lol: don't have to be soo demanding ya know.

Hey, I'm just stating facts to the ignorant. Tell me that you didn't nearly fall out of your seat after read what Ninja Monkey dared to type.

He was stating what the article said, and juding by the wow and the multiple question marks im pretty sure he was suprised to see that, so i bet you probley look like the ignorant one.
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#19 0bscurity
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[QUOTE="NinjaMunkey01"]

Wow the ps2 had better graphics than a pc back then????

Its amazing to see. Starting from really bad graphics but then as time goes on the rate at which is developes gets faster, then the first ps2 games come out, then about a year later you can see when the devs firgured it out as the graphics update incredibly with GTA and tom clancys.

dreman999
Are you serious!? No, Nooooooooooo, JUST .....noooo. You do realise that Half life 2 came out at the ps2 era and the system could not play it, heck it could not even play the original Half-Life. Nor FarCry. Not even Halo. Noooooooo, RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT NOW.

If you read the little bit of text the article had the author wrote this, probably why Ninja was questioning it rather then stating it as fact.
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#20 teh_VU
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I'll probably be the only person to notice this but they called the Nvidia Geforce 9400 king xD.
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#21 _rpg_FAN
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Some dates are off and some really IMPORTANT games are not on list.

no ULTIMA etc?

List is nice attempt but someone should put more effort and create some REALLY DECENT LIST!