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[nkarafo]

This is the SNES version of Earthworm Jim, featuring Lens Flare in 1994:

This is not a static picture of the effect, the sun is on a different layer and the lens flare fades away slowly if something blocks it, like those rocks in the front layer.

Genesis version was the original but that didn't have this effect. The first game on Genesis that had something similar (and even more impressive) was Vectorman but that was in 1995.

I think that's the first time this effect appeared but correct me if i'm wrong.


So what about other effects like bloom, chromatic aberration, texture mapping, field of view, film grain, reflections, bump mapping, etc... What games had such effects for the first time?

 

[skit_data]

I remember the first time I experienced bloom explicitly: In HL2.

Its possible it wan’t first to have it but it was the first time I saw it mentioned in the graphic settings and with that the first time I heard of the word.

Edit: After reading some on the subject it seems Ico was one of the first games to make use of bloom. HL2 was probably one of the later adopters.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

All I can remember recently was Dirt 3 being the launch title DX11 with new effects. The one effect that got improved you mentioned on lens flare being bounced off objects or body's or water. Also later got used in Battlefield Bad Company 2.

 

[Black_Stride]

FEAR first game with volumetric god rays?

They are totally not volumetric god rays through.

I remember the first time I experienced bloom explicitly: In HL2.

Its possible it wan’t first to have it but it was the first time I saw it mentioned in the graphic settings and with that the first time I heard of the word.

I think Far Cry had bloom just under a different name and it released the same year, but before HL2.
I think it was only available in one mode or needed to be console edited in, but im pretty sure FarCry and the whole CryEngine at that time was doing alot of crazy shit.

Hell wasnt Crysis with CryEngine 2 the first game with parallax occlusion mapping?

 

[Urban]

Gran Turismo 1 or 2 ( I dont remember which one) there was this track where the sun shines through the leaves and the leaves cast a shadow on the track. Every friend who visited me for the PlayStation was blown away

 

[Holammer]

Moon Patrol (1982) was the first game to use parallax scrolling. Technically Jump Bug did a somewhat similar effect the year before, but it is super basic using sprites instead of the full fat scrolling offered by MP.

 

[Black_Stride]

Gran Turismo 1 or 2 ( I dont remember which one) there was this track where the sun shines through the leaves and the leaves cast a shadow on the track. Every friend who visited me for the PlayStation was blown away

Shadows?

 

[Urban]

Shadows?

Couldnt find it but i think it was this one



Its GT3 ill guess

 

[cormack12]

Source engine - bloom?

 

[RaduN]

Ps2 launch titles like Bouncer had tons of bloom. That was around the time the effect started to appear heavily.

 

[nkarafo]

Seems like Xevious (1982) is credited as the first game that uses Pre-rendered 3D graphics for sprites (made popular by Donkey Kong Country):

I assume it was used for those rotating disks and other sprites in the game that are rotating.

 

[nkarafo]

Couldnt find it but i think it was this one



Its GT3 ill guess

This is GT3 on the PS2.

 

[kanjobazooie]

Obviously it wasn't the first game with 3D, but Mega Man X2 (and X3) had these cool pseudo-3D shapes and effects, achieved using Capcom's own Cx4 chip.

This was my first time seeing 3D in a SNES game.

 

[RaduN]

Soft shadows ...FEAR?

 

[Vae_Victis]

I can't be 100% sure, but I think Blade of Darkness (2001) was the first game ever to have traced reflections in water. Meaning, water would not just reflect parts of the world, but even stuff that was not otherwise on screen, making it full-traced and not just screen-space reflections. I don't know how it did it exactly on a technical level, but it's quite impressive for the time.

(1:05 for an example. You can see a larger portion of the illuminated archway and a wall-mounted torch are being reflected before they enter the player's field of view)

 

[winjer]

I think Far Cry (2004) was the first game to use an HDR (FP32) rendering pipeline.
It looked better, but it was heavy on performance for GPUs at the time.

Not to be confused with current HDR (color space).

 

[The Cockatrice]

Metro Exodus Ray Traced GI.

 

[tommib]

Super Mario 64 was the first 3D game I remember with bilinear filtering applied to textures.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

My friend has a pretty cool visual effect on his TV the first week of playing dark souls. Guess throwing a controller at the TV will do that to the display. Rainbow colors .

 

[skit_data]

My friend has a pretty cool visual effect on his TV the first week of playing dark souls. Guess throwing a controller at the TV will do that to the display. Rainbow colors .

I remember a cool effect I got when playing HL on my old fat monitor back on the day.

I accidentaly touched a radiator below the window while simultaneously touching the screen of the monitor which resulted in a strong tingling sensation in my finger and the whole monitor screen started shifting in a green-purple pattern. I guess touching them both grounded a circuit inside the monitor. Luckily no one was harmed, but me and my friends started fucking around with it when playing different games.

 

[eNT1TY]

I don't know where it was first implemented but Parallax Occlusion Mapping in Stalker and Crysis was used prominently and to great effect.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Crysis was the first game to use Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

 

[winjer]

Metro Exodus Ray Traced GI.

Quake 2 RTX, did that earlier.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Quake 2 RTX, did that earlier.

ME released with ray tracing on february 2019, quake 2 only got rtx in june of the same year

 

[winjer]

ME released with ray tracing on february 2019, quake 2 only got rtx in june of the same year

Right. I was thinking about the Enhanced Edition.

 

[Ezquimacore]

cel shading

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Jet Set Radio - cel shading (I think that was the first one?)

 

[Ezquimacore]

Jet Set Radio - cel shading (I think that was the first one?)

Was wacky races (my comment above)

 

[Ezquimacore]

Jet Set Radio - cel shading (I think that was the first one?)

You know what? Wack races Was definitely the same year on the same console but now I'm not sure. Both game were months apart

 

[amigastar]

Morrowind - Water with shader effect and it had raindrops on the water when it was raining.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Off the top of my head:
I robot (1984) was supposedly the first game with filled 3D polygons.

Millennium Soldier Expendable (1999) was one of the first games using bump mapping.

Trespasser (1998) was one of the first featuring a full physics engine.

Terra Nova (1996) was a tactical shooter really ahead of it's time. To my knowledge it's the first game that used inverse kinematics for characters (legs will adjust to terrain for instance).

 

[CeeJay]

Off the top of my head:
I robot (1984) was supposedly the first game with 3D polygons.

Millennium Soldier Expendable (1999) was one of the first games using bump mapping.

Trespasser (1998) was one of the first featuring a full physics engine.

Terra Nova (1996) was a tactical shooter really ahead of it's time. To my knowledge it's the first game that used inverse kinematics for characters (legs will adjust to terrain for instance).

I think it was Tempest (1981)

edit: Battlezone was 1980

 

[nkarafo]

I think it was Tempest (1981)

edit: Battlezone was 1980

These are wireframe polygons though.

I Robot used solid colored ones.

 

[OptimistPrime]

I‘m pretty sure Jurassic Park Trespasser was the first game with bump mapping (like normal maps today).

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

These are wireframe polygons though.

I Robot used solid colored ones.

Yeah that's right. First game with filled polygons.

 

[Kikorin]

Skate and Destroy by Rockstar on PS1 used ragdoll for bails, I guess was the first game ever or one of the first. Insane they did this on PS1 (you can see from min 4:00 in this video)

 

[AJUMP23]

Fzero with Mode 7.

 

[Andodalf]

I'm Like 95% sure there was a thread for this a long time ago that had a ton of good ones.

 

[Lux R7]

Turok 2 had the first flamethrower in a game to feature polygonal fire

 

[Diddy X]

I remember Wipeout being the first 1080p60 game on console

 

[Midn1ght]

Back in the day, I remember being so impress with the Nvidia Physx implementation in Mirror's Edge and Metro 2033 on PC.

It used to kill my fps but it felt so ahead of its time back then.

Not sure they were the first to use it tho.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

cel shading

But worms 2 and Jet set radio used the cel shading before

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

But worms 2 and Jet set radio used the cel shading before

Wacky Races beat JSR by two days . And Worms 2 isn't 3D.

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

Gran Turismo 1 or 2 ( I dont remember which one) there was this track where the sun shines through the leaves and the leaves cast a shadow on the track. Every friend who visited me for the PlayStation was blown away

No by my knowing it was GT3 when remember correctly....

 

[CeeJay]

Legend Of Zelda on NES (1986) was the first game to feature game saves and continues.

Really quite surprising it took this long considering we had persistent high scores on arcade and pinball using a battery backup going way back to the 70's

 

[squarealex]

Shadow of the Colossus is amazing for his time

Motion Blur

HDR

And many effect (life DoF / Fur)

The PS2 was a beast for creating your own shaders. I can mention many thing like fog or shadow in Silent Hill 2 & 3

Excellent post by jett

We talk about games that defy hardware.

I-I just played Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire on the Turbo Duo... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OX_TxLtQA8&feature=related This game blew my mind! Holy shit, the scaling, rotation, and polygonal ships. Let's not forget the soundtrack (ok, it is a CD console). I'm totally blown away by...

www.neogaf.com

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Was Crysis the first game with per-object motion blur? I remember that shit blew me away back in the day.

 

[RoadHazard]

I remember the first time I experienced bloom explicitly: In HL2.

Its possible it wan’t first to have it but it was the first time I saw it mentioned in the graphic settings and with that the first time I heard of the word.

Edit: After reading some on the subject it seems Ico was one of the first games to make use of bloom. HL2 was probably one of the later adopters.

Not sure about this one, but I'm pretty sure that HL2 Lost Coast was the first game (well, DLC) where HDR was a big deal.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Released in 1983.

- Multi cam angles
- Runner on base view
- Players got bigger and smaller (scale)
- White and dark skinned players (is this a first?)

Intellivision World Series Baseball - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[RoadHazard]

I remember Wipeout being the first 1080p60 game on console

Hmmm, I think PS3 launched with at least one 1080p60 game. Ridge Racer?