GPX | 1,371 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Let’s go back to the mid-to-late 90s when the PS1, Saturn and N64 were giving us first glimpses of 3D gaming. Everything was so new and exciting but mixed with genuine disappointments, as although 3D gameplay was being more incorporated, the camera angles and visuals were perhaps being compromised. Looking back now I think I wasn’t really all that fussed about 3D gaming, as I still stuck to the 2D platformers, 2D shooters and 2D to 2.5D fighting games. First Person Shooters were never really my genre of choice so the 3D games never fully appealed to me early on in the mid-90s. To cut to the chase, it wasn’t until Mario 64 that I found genuine satisfaction with a 3D game. There were minor camera issues, but by and large the game was genuine bliss! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,970 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 2 hours ago, GPX said: To cut to the chase, it wasn’t until Mario 64 that I found genuine satisfaction with a 3D game. Same, but I'd say Doom beats it to the punch. I just didn't understand the game well enough at the time I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 4,000 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Doom for me if we can count it (some say it is 2.5D). That game blew my mind when a friend showed it to me. The next was definitely Mario 64. I remember they had a demo unit at a Target near me before it was released and I’d ride my bike there just to play the first level over and over. Still the best Mario game to this day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackVega | 583 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 I need to repost this 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,715 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Wolfenstein 3-D 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,371 Posted March 19, 2023 Author Share Posted March 19, 2023 1 hour ago, BlackVega said: I need to repost this Well when you’re seeing those pixels as opposed to these: Your brain gets tricked into thinking the graphics were close to photo-realistic! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,114 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Could be Ocarina of Time but my brain could also be bias because of my love for the series. I just remember being forever changed walking onto Hyrule field for the first time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,715 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 5 minutes ago, a3quit4s said: Could be Ocarina of Time but my brain could also be bias because of my love for the series. I just remember being forever changed walking onto Hyrule field for the first time I'm pretty sure that's the first 3D game I saw on a console. A guy in my freshman dorm at college had it. He was in the Deku Tree and showed me how to get through the spider web 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,934 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 This is a tough one for me but I think it might have been Race Drivin’ in the arcade. Man, those polys might have been huge, and I think the FPS might have been around 15 but having an immersive cock-pit that you sat in and even having a looping track blew me away. For an at-home experience, it was probably followed up by Wolfenstein 3-D. It’s a good game and my Dad had the demo and my brother and I played that a lot. And an honorable mention would possibly be Myst. I know, I know, it’s really a point-and-click adventure puzzle, but it was a 3D designed world and it felt super-immersive at the time and I still love it too this day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirVillain | 490 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Super Mario 64 FTW! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,114 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 (edited) I’d probably be on team Mario 64 if that was the first like open world type game I had played. I didn’t play ocarina of time until later because it was released later in the cycle but I remember playing games like goldeneye (at my friends) and hexen (this was the first game I owned with duke nukem, everything else was sold out so dad bought these). I remember the games were fun hands down but not graphically impressive. And still linear games. The first time I really felt blown away was OoT. I didn’t get to play Mario 64 until later after OoT edit: actually Hexen was ass, duke nukem was fun as hell though Edited March 19, 2023 by a3quit4s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,970 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, GPX said: Your brain gets tricked into thinking the graphics were close to photo-realistic! I can't imagine anyone ever thinking PS1 era 3D graphics looked photorealistic Edited March 19, 2023 by Sumez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,114 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, Sumez said: I can't imagine anyone ever thinking PS1 era 3D graphics looked photorealistic The graphics were so bad but the audio on PlayStation was incredible. N64 should have hands down been on discs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,737 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Mario 64 was amazing, Ocarina was fantastic, but my mind was really blow away with the smoothness of the Mario Galaxy games. I remember trying one out for laughs, and getting sucked in until I completed the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackVega | 583 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 To answer the topic: I can't remember which one was first but one of my first experiences was Crash Bandicoot on PS1 and Bomberman 64 on N64. Both were very fun and very smooth in 3D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,708 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 I remember playing a lot of pc games in 3D around Mario 64. Don’t really remember whether they were before or after Mario but Mario 64 was really when we embraced 3D gaming. Some games that stick out in my memory is Rocket Jockey, Doom, Hexen, Jedi Knight, Terminal Velocity, Tribes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 438 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Pretty sure it was Star Fox for me. I had a lot of fun with that one. The first 3D game I remember being really, really impressed with though was Red Alarm for Virtual Boy. The 3D effect was great and having your vision blocked outside the game really helped with the immersion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,715 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Red said: Star Fox Ooh, yeah, I definitely played that before OoT. Does F-Zero count as 3-D? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhead123 | 687 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 If we're considering Doom a "3D" game (which I personally do, even though its tech wasn't quite what would later become the standard 3D rendering method), then yeah...that game blew my balls off. I still play it regularly to this day. I'm not sure which game I technically played first but Star Fox was also right around that same time and I found that game both impressive and quite fun. It's still one of my favorite SNES games, even with the choppy framerate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhead123 | 687 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Link said: Does F-Zero count as 3-D? I love F-Zero and the SNES' Mode 7 tech was such an impressive thing to me at the time (and I still have a lot of nostalgia for it). That said, I guess since the line needs to be drawn somewhere, I have to draw it there. The effect is cool but I think it skirts the edge of being something one could consider "3D". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,026 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMan52 | 2,452 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 (edited) The first enjoyable 3D game I played was... ...But the first GREAT 3D game I played was... Edited March 19, 2023 by MegaMan52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhead123 | 687 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 (edited) On 3/19/2023 at 12:18 PM, mbd39 said: I didn't get to play much of it (we didn't have a home computer) but I do have distant memories of: Edited March 20, 2023 by Webhead123 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,715 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 25 minutes ago, mbd39 said: That's the first 3D game you played? or just an early one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,715 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Webhead123 said: Sorry. Haven't figured out how to directly imbed YT videos here. Just put the link then a space and it does it automagically, with an offer to display as link instead. Edited March 19, 2023 by Link then not "tgen" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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