Retro Realism

[Sarge]

I know it was really close to the PS3 release, but my mind was blown that the PS2 could produce the visuals in Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria.

[Segata]

MSR was mind blowing on Dreamcast.

[racketboy]

N64 days playing All Star Baseball. Always felt the stadiums and city backdrops looked really good. Well now they look like typical N64 blurry shit but I still love it.

I'd vote for World Series Baseball '95 as a precursor to that as well. I love that game to pieces back in the day

[Benex]

I think the first time I got the feeling a game was being "too real" was with Gran Turismo for the PS One. I know that nowadays it looks like garbage compared with others but I remember than my friends and I thought it was so amazing. We hadn't a memory card so we use to play non-stop for 2 days straight. Good times.

[Hazerd]

Crysis was the last game where i was like "wow these graphics are intense!"

I still dont think the PS4/Xbox One is a leap and bound ahead of the PS3/360.

[o.pwuaioc]

Tomcat Alley was the first game I played that I thought looked really realistic, and it holds up! 7th Guest was a close second (I might have played both that year).

[marurun]

Maybe instead of realism we should use the term verisimilitude. That has implications that I think better fit the OP.