yeah, I looked at the video upload date when he said Crysis was 7 years ago. Hard to believe that the distance between Crysis and this video, and the distance between this video and now, are almost the same. Crazy what graphical improvements we've made since 2015.
When I was about 7 I got into an accident with some fire. Ended up in hospital for 5 months on the childrens ward. Once I'd recovered enough to get out of bed into a wheelchair, I found the "games room". Back in the 1980's that consisted of lots of board games, some colouring books, an endless supply of "The Beano" comics and ... an original table cabinet Space Invaders. Every night, about 1am once the nurses had mostly gone home, I'd sneak silently down the corridor into the games rooms and turn on Space Invaders. The nurses kept the credit key in the top left hand drawer. I usually got about 2 hours of playing in before I was discovered. They either found my empty bed and went looking for me, or a nurse would be going off duty and rumble me on her way past the room from the glowing lights. I mastered that game. Eventually they would take my wheelchair away every night at lights out to stop me from playing. I just scooted along the corridor on my butt for a few nights. You cannot stop a gamer. Good times!
@@strakhovandrri Hahaha! I think they were concerned about me not getting enough sleep, and they were worried I might fall out the wheelchair if I was unsupervised. Or maybe they were just angry, bitter middle aged people who didn't understand how amazing Space Invaders was! XD Where there is a will, there is a way.
This video is only 6 years old, but we've now reached 8k resolutions in VR, real-time raytracing, and the long-thought paradox of having Chrome open while playing a game.
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@@fietae Most users aren't running around all over the place in order to find scattered solutions for issues that they bump into, it's important to make the user experience as simple and enjoyable as possible Are you happy with poorly optimized content just because there are workarounds?
7 years later, this stands as one of the greatest documentaries ever created about interactive media. Thank you Ahoy! Your editing, narration, structure, and scripting are second to none
@@rpgfreak9999 What does that mean? "Cancerous beyond measure"? You morons all talk in nonsense and cliches. You have lost the basic ability that man has had for hundreds of thousands of years : to communicate. You're fucked, mate. You're done.
I think the point of the "graphics vs gameplay" discussion is that good (or even amazing) graphics can't compensate for poor gameplay, but games with poor graphics can still be good (or even amazing) if the gameplay is awesome.
I have always thought exactly this. Good graphics can enhance an already good gameplay idea, but not salvage a crappy one. While fun gameplay is fun gameplay regardless of graphics.
yeah, but in general will sell worse and the price will need to be cheaper. You can get away with a bad game with good graphics for 60 bucks but you can't sell baba is you for 60 bucks, even being consider one of the best puzzles of all
@@1estel1ch.42 yeah but its still barely playable on most pcs, the only thing we have is a Quake 2 tech demo that can run on the most high end GPUs. Granted, thats still a big jump, but its still not main stream enough
Watching this many years later, the section that mentioned dirt and other effects "on the lens" really brought back memories. Hit the nail on the head when you said they were overused and would become more subtle, most screen effects now are limited to the corners of the screen like vignetting. I boot up games from 5-8 years ago now and when I get water drops, bloody streaks, and smudges of dirt right on the center of the screen that stick around for more than a few seconds, it tends to be rather annoying :p
@@fusk7799 What about that game that was released in Christmas Day 2020 that took 7 or 8 years to create? It utilized 2D graphics, pixels and sprites. Don't remember the name, but the genre is psychological horror
Although i wasnt alive when it came out, i played metal slug under a different title during computer clsses just over a decade after it came out. The scariest part was if you felt the teacher's hand on your shoulder telling you to log off.
This video is over 5 years old and it's still the best one that I've seen summarizing the history of graphics. It must've taken a while to edit and I just appreciate this video overall.
It's because he is an erudite, educated person (as are the member of his team, which I suppose him to have). This informs his entire approach to the subject matter. First, the level of research is exhaustive. Second, a keen focus clearly led the work, so that even what could have been an amorphous and bloated research stage was well-conceived and thoughtfully directed. Last, approaching the source material from an academic stance, he takes great pains to present it, both through the lens of his intellectual process, whilst at the same time, ensuring that audiences of all educational/academic backgrounds would find the final product easily accessible. Combined, this makes for a wonderfully enjoyable document
I would love to see another episode featuring newer techniques of graphic, the rise of VR taking the forefront of the gaming scene, and rendering techniques like DLSS and FSR
You are correct even though you are a console lad.. what Crysis did at the time was something that really swung the market of pc hardware, when it came out I knew almost noone that could run the game smoothly because of how much processing power it needed. And the upcoming titles (except for console ports) followed similar trend, so a lot of PC gamers started upgrading their HW to run such games, expensive times haha
I'm really looking forward to your next post, Stuart. I don't know how you do these videos with such a level of polish and cohesion while making each asset from scratch. It's breathtaking work.
Yoshi's Island's art style is my personal favorite of ALL video games. I've played at least 120 different video games, but there's just nothing as sublime and beautiful as it.
at 43, I've lived through most of these developments and pumped a lot of quarters in my day etc... But I gotta say... This is absolutely essential watching for anyone interested in having a good grip on this subject. I was stunned by the overall quality of of the info presented and the crystal clear audio/visual show how well you understand a modern audience's expectation for quality. Instant sub
+seljak140 you can't seriously expect a developer of todays massive games to optimise to that level. the best you can expect is a well optimised game engine that can fully utilise the hardware. or for a machine to automatically optimise code
It kind of gives modern games an underlying ickiness in a developers eyes. Like many of the hands that touched the code were dirty fumbling dumb hands.
Tell that to Doom. I've never played a game that ran so good while being up to par with modern graphics. 120fps on a 5 year old budget processor with a minor overclock? Yeah the FX6300 does the job while GTA4 can't even maintain 30fps. Vulkan Doom is a case study on how to properly optimize a game. OpenGL runs 40-80fps. Vulkan's minimums are higher than OpenGL's average on my system
Good video format! Progressing through the technologies and referring back to the early days of graphics throughout the video keeps the attention of those of us who are fond of those early days, much better than progressing through the video on a timeline. This may just be a consequence of the chosen organization of the essay, but I like it. It not only makes it more entertaining throughout, but also causes me to pay attention to the details I may otherwise not be drawn to. Well done!
Pong - 1972 = A bunch of really smart people got together to program how a ball is supposed to move RDR2 - 2018 = A bunch of really smart people got together to program how a pair of balls are supposed to move Conclusion = All the technology and advancements we've made but basically we're trying to do the same thing :P
"I don't know why you don't have millions of views and subscribers" Quality dont bring viewers because you must first watch something to discover it is good, and by the time you watched it by the first time the viwership already increased by +1. Ratio of like to dislike ratio is a better way to judge quality, this video has 96.84 likes to every dislike. A pretty awesome thing.
Very nice. What a blast from the past. That was a very detailed and thorough walk down memory lane. I played just about all of these games at the times when they were cutting edge. It's nice to see the progression and hear it explained in such a great way. I don't comment very often but I felt this piece deserved my respect. They say just before you die your life flashes before your eyes, as a lifelong gamer through the progression of arcades, home consoles and pc's this was like that flash for a gamer but instead of the end a whole future open to the possibilities and excitement of what will be next. Thank you for sharing!
Yes i done the exact same after watching the POLYBIUS video last night, this channel could well turn out to be one of my must watch watch favourites. Just great content so far.
It just came to me that while pixels rainend supreme in the 2D era, and modern reinterpretations of it, it was actually vector graphics which can be traced more as an influence in the evolution to modern 3D with its vector wireframe polygons. Meanwhile the pixels, when translated directly into 3D, are the less successful voxel graphics which are more seem on the indie scene today
Wow, this was a trip down memory lane, awesome! Although this video is seven years old, it's still a great video to watch. And I would love to see a follow up!
Crash Bandicoot may have had a "low" polygon count, but at the time it was released, it was incredibly impressive. Thanks to it's corridor based level design, the stages were able to accommodate lush, detailed environments compared to most other games at the time. Andy Gavin, co-founder of Naughty Dog, actually recalls watching Shigeru Miyamoto play the Crash demo at it's first hands on E3 showing, and apparently Miyamoto was smiling the entire time, and thoroughly enjoyed playing the game
@@dubiouslycrisp thanks! I particularly enjoy this bit of trivia, as Miyamoto has had a tremendous impact on my life, and knowing he had fun with Crash Bandicoot is just great
With Bandicoot, they actually hacked the PS1 to push it way beyond its tech capability; you can find a cool docu about it, told by the devs themselves, in the Ars Technica channel.
Most enjoyable video I've watched in a while. I must have played 90% of these games and some I'd forgotten. I'm now 65 and started with pong up to MS flight sim and Shadow of the Tomb raider nowadays. A trip down memory lane.
For as ephemeral as the subject of video game graphics is that also happens to feature contemporary examples of the time the video was made, Stuart Brown’s videos somehow manage to stand as timeless masterpieces
I'm looking at it, and thinking A) Wasn't Ahoy a magazine for C64 programming, and B) This guy has apparently never played Infocom games or other text-based games...
yea he should talk about Ultra HD resolutions, VR, ray tracing, nvidea hairworks, real live laser shows and holograms, DirectX 9, 11 and 12, dlss and graphics cards with artificial inteligence D;
I was like 44 min TLDW. 44 min later still watching. I played almost every game on this list growing up and Doom was the Daddy that changed my life in 1993. I spent next several years after that buying and upgrading my pc and a few extra so my and my friends could all have a lan party at my house every weekend playing doom, quake, unreal T and duke nukem... which he did not include in this but was an all time favorite of mine. I truly miss those days....
Can you imagine what would happen if you went back in time and showed the creators of pong a new game? Imagine the look on their faces seeing the crysis 3 or arma 3!
I begin realising how "old" I am as I recognize playing practically every game in this documentary all the way back to the original pong. Great memories. - and being a game developer now -very inspiring. Edit: I've probably watched this at least 3 times in the past. The edit is so TH-cams algorithm shows this at least 3 more times to the future Shane. Hey! Future Shane! I love you dude :) Fantastic documentary.
Lol shit; RT tech has been around for 17 years now.. Still haven't seen it genuinely integrated at a large scale... lots of fake RT on consoles, a few titles on PC used it, some tech demos but other than that.. not shit and I guarantee you the next series of consoles will be just as shitty-middle-range-laptop incapable of truly rendering it. sure PC graphics cards have supported it since the ATi 5xxx/Nvidia 2xx but since consoles have come to dominate the industry, little software is programmed to take advantage of it. Graphics and tech have stalled because the major players in the industry know the key and it's "*Fuck if it's trash, they'll buy it anyways*"
Quake III Arena had a fully working raytracing implementation back in the early 2000's. Nvidia just sold another batch of overpriced GPU's to another million monkeys via some "Raytracing" gimmick, despite pre-release benchmarks showing that the cards were vastly incapable of such tech in games. Monkeys still slapped dat pre-order button. $2000 Titan XP - Raytracing Edition please! XD
@@TheVanillatech I think this is more of a near "plug and play" approach, because do consider that older games had to redesign their lighting systems from scratch or come up with a (yet another proprietary) game engine that would seamlessly support RT. In real world scenarios, who would wanna do that? Even a giant game company wouldn't spend tons of R&D on something that might get unstable as technology (HW and SW) progresses. Unless you're EA. Fucking Frostbite Engine.
I like your laid back attitude towards graphical trends like Bloom and Motion Blur. Too many use it as fuel for their rage, but it's nice to step back and realize that technology will march on, and unfortunate fads are just that. Love your stuff, man.
I remember that the first mod I saw for Doom 3 was called "duct tape". It was a highly speculative take on the game's premise, which introduced the far-fetched, yet interesting, suggestion that somewhere in a sprawling research station, there was a roll of tape, and that the player character used it in order not to have to switch between weapon flashlight.
One thing that's not obvious from watching this today is just how good the 80s - mid-90s sprite graphics looked on a CRT TV or monitor. The low pixel resolution and inherent blurring that came about from the way CRTs worked really smoothed them and gave them depth that you can't see with the crisp rendering of a high-resolution LCD.
The way he introduced Mortal Kombat, once he said, " one game was....." I already knew. To me, Mortal Kombat was the middle. The end of the old and the beginning of the new.
took me 40 mins to realize this video was 6 years old
it's weird to think that 5 years ago sounds like it was so far away but when you say 2015 it doesn't sound as far
@@deez3y yea it's weird
Same
yeah, I looked at the video upload date when he said Crysis was 7 years ago. Hard to believe that the distance between Crysis and this video, and the distance between this video and now, are almost the same. Crazy what graphical improvements we've made since 2015.
And it's crazy to think just how much further graphics have come since he made this video. We'd almost be due for a part 2 soon!
When I was about 7 I got into an accident with some fire. Ended up in hospital for 5 months on the childrens ward. Once I'd recovered enough to get out of bed into a wheelchair, I found the "games room". Back in the 1980's that consisted of lots of board games, some colouring books, an endless supply of "The Beano" comics and ... an original table cabinet Space Invaders. Every night, about 1am once the nurses had mostly gone home, I'd sneak silently down the corridor into the games rooms and turn on Space Invaders. The nurses kept the credit key in the top left hand drawer. I usually got about 2 hours of playing in before I was discovered. They either found my empty bed and went looking for me, or a nurse would be going off duty and rumble me on her way past the room from the glowing lights. I mastered that game. Eventually they would take my wheelchair away every night at lights out to stop me from playing. I just scooted along the corridor on my butt for a few nights. You cannot stop a gamer. Good times!
that sounds unhealthy af lmao
I hope you don’t suffer from any consequences from that accident!
Amazing story man!
"What does the future of graphics hold?"
I come here from 2020, we have Ray Tracing.
Taking a wheelchair from a child to prevent him playing computer games, oh my god...
@@strakhovandrri Hahaha! I think they were concerned about me not getting enough sleep, and they were worried I might fall out the wheelchair if I was unsupervised. Or maybe they were just angry, bitter middle aged people who didn't understand how amazing Space Invaders was! XD
Where there is a will, there is a way.
This video is only 6 years old, but we've now reached 8k resolutions in VR, real-time raytracing, and the long-thought paradox of having Chrome open while playing a game.
"the long-thought paradox of having Chrome open while playing a game"
And they said Opera GX was a stupid idea
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I set my building on fire by playing Tf2 and googling something at the same time
@@anonymgrill6695 It is. Limiting a programs ram was always possible.
@@fietae Most users aren't running around all over the place in order to find scattered solutions for issues that they bump into, it's important to make the user experience as simple and enjoyable as possible
Are you happy with poorly optimized content just because there are workarounds?
My whole gaming life just flashed before my eyes. I cannot believe how many of these games I actually played.
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You are just old. Oh. Me, too. :-)
@Grace Jackson IDDQD IDKFA lol
I guess that means we are getting older 😆
TRUE MAN
2:30 that's rocket league but almost 50 years ago
waited for this comment
I thought same . You're right.
Thanks for the Legacy!
i said that too right when he showed it lol XD
I just wanted to write this comment, but found yours :D
This guy is like free youtube premium
th-cam.com/video/xEpPf0k9Zw0/w-d-xo.html
@@filofoniamusicaefilosofia3192 Noo
@@filofoniamusicaefilosofia3192 reported for self promoting
TH-cam Premium has nothing on this. No one is paying for "Scare Pewdiepie" 😂
not now he isnt...
7 years later, this stands as one of the greatest documentaries ever created about interactive media. Thank you Ahoy! Your editing, narration, structure, and scripting are second to none
Excellently put together and very well narrated. Congrats.
Where's tf2
45 mins is brief?
@@nyccollin I suppose a comprehensive dissertation would comprise a 12-part series. Maybe. 🤷♂
It was really good, but needs to have a continuations with VR methinks.
"They say graphics aren't important, but every game I've ever played has had them."
* Seinfeld music starts playing *
shows what a noob you are. there are several (!) genres of games that are TEXT ONLY
@@LMTR14 that's still graphics, fool
@@Cheesecannon25 What about the "Simon says" electronic games. They only use audio.
@@isawadelapradera6490 that's not a *video* game
@@Cheesecannon25 the original comment does not contain the "video" word *anywhere.*
*Opens video* "Aww, 44 minutes, probably wont watch ALL of it" *Watches all of it in one sitting*
same xD
at 11 pm
Ikr
at past midnight, but yeah. :)
well when game after game that i played waay back came up, i had to continue hahahaha
Absolute wow. Not only was this guy captivating all the way through, he is certainly poetic with his words
Compared to Gen Z? DEFINITELY! Comepared to averagely intelligent and articulate 25+ adults? Nah.
@@TheVanillatech Implying millennials aren't cancerous beyond measure.
@@rpgfreak9999 What does that mean? "Cancerous beyond measure"? You morons all talk in nonsense and cliches. You have lost the basic ability that man has had for hundreds of thousands of years : to communicate.
You're fucked, mate.
You're done.
@@TheVanillatech K.
Doesn't change that most TH-cam millennials are annoying as all hell. Look around. Lol.
@@TheVanillatech literal boomer here
I think the point of the "graphics vs gameplay" discussion is that good (or even amazing) graphics can't compensate for poor gameplay, but games with poor graphics can still be good (or even amazing) if the gameplay is awesome.
I have always thought exactly this. Good graphics can enhance an already good gameplay idea, but not salvage a crappy one. While fun gameplay is fun gameplay regardless of graphics.
yeah, but in general will sell worse and the price will need to be cheaper. You can get away with a bad game with good graphics for 60 bucks but you can't sell baba is you for 60 bucks, even being consider one of the best puzzles of all
my favorite part is when he said in what sounded like a serious voice, but can it run crysis?
Mr. Quacky taking the words out of all 80s/90s gamers mouths
U mean crisis?
@@manav466 i like your funny words magic man
@@duk6897 😂 I just asked
We know the answer though
After 5 years, we really need "part 2" of this video.
What has really changed in 5 years besides RTX? Which sucks?
Nothing changed?
@@TheJayson8899 I don't think VR was available in 2015. I can't wait for that technology to mature.
@@TheJayson8899 explain how r e a l t i m e RTX sucks. because as far as i know, rendering that much shit at once was a fever dream 2 years ago.
@@1estel1ch.42 yeah but its still barely playable on most pcs, the only thing we have is a Quake 2 tech demo that can run on the most high end GPUs. Granted, thats still a big jump, but its still not main stream enough
I always feel much smarter after watching videos like this, even though I've already forgotten everything I've just learned.
Watching this many years later, the section that mentioned dirt and other effects "on the lens" really brought back memories. Hit the nail on the head when you said they were overused and would become more subtle, most screen effects now are limited to the corners of the screen like vignetting. I boot up games from 5-8 years ago now and when I get water drops, bloody streaks, and smudges of dirt right on the center of the screen that stick around for more than a few seconds, it tends to be rather annoying :p
This isn't brief. This is the documentary I watched as a class project.
Roughly 40+ years of history in 44 minutes, I’d say that’s pretty decent
The normal version would take more than 3 hours if went into in detail
I agree. Can't relate, but I agree.
You're in the right class.
@Ethan Ansell Wasn't that on Coleco Vision?
1980: pixel sprite games because pf technical limitation
2020: because we fricking love them
Some of the greatest games of this decade are 2D, and used pixels and sprites as graphics
@@thefilipinogamertfg crosscode for example
@@fusk7799 What about that game that was released in Christmas Day 2020 that took 7 or 8 years to create? It utilized 2D graphics, pixels and sprites. Don't remember the name, but the genre is psychological horror
@@thefilipinogamertfg you mean Omori?
@@thefilipinogamertfg I'm gonna assume you meant omori. Honestly, I never played it.
you know a video is influential when it's not a meme and still gets recommended out of the blue after 6 years
Although i wasnt alive when it came out, i played metal slug under a different title during computer clsses just over a decade after it came out. The scariest part was if you felt the teacher's hand on your shoulder telling you to log off.
Especially if they give your shoulder the little "got you, fucker" squeeze
"Doom, was the daddy." Damn right
But the next king was ut99, lasting almost 2 decades
and nvidia made the technology
@@jordansfinalform uh no they didn't. idtech1, dooms engine was made by John Carmack and nvdia played no roll in its creation
Funny Almost every breakthrough in videogame was Made by DOOM in the 90'
@@jakaalatas8938 Yep doom was so good back in those days spent so many hrs on that one and using mods
This video is over 5 years old and it's still the best one that I've seen summarizing the history of graphics.
It must've taken a while to edit and I just appreciate this video overall.
@Just Some Guy without a Mustache I see you almost everywhere. And yes, the video's great in every word. His voice is smoothing too :)
@@Easedtoast everyone says the same thing. can you just not give these idiots attention pls.
Good to see you here master
@RReprah Not the reply I wanted, but ok then.
It's because he is an erudite, educated person (as are the member of his team, which I suppose him to have). This informs his entire approach to the subject matter. First, the level of research is exhaustive. Second, a keen focus clearly led the work, so that even what could have been an amorphous and bloated research stage was well-conceived and thoughtfully directed. Last, approaching the source material from an academic stance, he takes great pains to present it, both through the lens of his intellectual process, whilst at the same time, ensuring that audiences of all educational/academic backgrounds would find the final product easily accessible. Combined, this makes for a wonderfully enjoyable document
Thank you for making this documentary, it has opened my eyes more and made me appreciate the whole gaming and graphics history that has come so far.
I would love to see another episode featuring newer techniques of graphic, the rise of VR taking the forefront of the gaming scene, and rendering techniques like DLSS and FSR
34:01
“The future was Crisis.”
Correct in a good and a bad way.
What do you mean? I haven't ever played Crisis, so I don't have an opinion either way, and I don't own a PC (console baby here lol)
Jonah Walsh
Don’t worry, I’m a console lad too. The joke is that Crisis was g o o d , but the current future in general is b a d .
@Jay marlin That's already happened
We got the b i g b r a i n
You are correct even though you are a console lad.. what Crysis did at the time was something that really swung the market of pc hardware, when it came out I knew almost noone that could run the game smoothly because of how much processing power it needed. And the upcoming titles (except for console ports) followed similar trend, so a lot of PC gamers started upgrading their HW to run such games, expensive times haha
this guy is amazing, the delivery is perfect, and the script is intelligent and eloquent. This man should narrate for BBC or Discovery channel!
did not think this would get so many likes!
STRUDUUREYRU CXY.YXZ 0:01 HAHAHSHH MOBKE AMONTSUS 💀💀💩👳🏿♂️👳🏿♂️🎅🏿🎅🏿
he stands apart in a great way
Absolutely
absolutely not
I'm really looking forward to your next post, Stuart. I don't know how you do these videos with such a level of polish and cohesion while making each asset from scratch. It's breathtaking work.
Yoshi's Island's art style is my personal favorite of ALL video games. I've played at least 120 different video games, but there's just nothing as sublime and beautiful as it.
2:25 ..... was this the VERY FIRST ROCKET LEAGUE?!
THIS IS ROCKET LEAGUE!
It really is
yup
cars playing soccer isn't exactly new and has been done in real life long before any video games came out.
dude.
I just love how you say "Doom". You really get across how awesome that game is.
It sounds like he uses every vowel in the alphabet
"A E I O U, and sometimes Y".
"DAEIOU(Y)M".
deum
Forreal. He says it with such a passion.
Its just a big sad this video was released in 2015. One year away from the new doom release
Brilliant video. Excellent narration, editing and writing. A part 2 of this will definitely be awaited.
What a trip to memory lane! Thanks for the video guys! Great job!
at 43, I've lived through most of these developments and pumped a lot of quarters in my day etc... But I gotta say... This is absolutely essential watching for anyone interested in having a good grip on this subject. I was stunned by the overall quality of of the info presented and the crystal clear audio/visual show how well you understand a modern audience's expectation for quality. Instant sub
At age 15 I have only seen 1/4 the evolution of graphics and game history overall.
your 43 and watching this? nice.
I'm 46 and I've played almost all of these games
I'm 50 and..... still have a copy of wolfenstein on floppy.
I'm 47, And I Absolutely agree with you😎
Excellent documentary.
Indeed
+seljak140 you can't seriously expect a developer of todays massive games to optimise to that level. the best you can expect is a well optimised game engine that can fully utilise the hardware. or for a machine to automatically optimise code
Yeah, it is
It kind of gives modern games an underlying ickiness in a developers eyes. Like many of the hands that touched the code were dirty fumbling dumb hands.
Tell that to Doom. I've never played a game that ran so good while being up to par with modern graphics.
120fps on a 5 year old budget processor with a minor overclock? Yeah the FX6300 does the job while GTA4 can't even maintain 30fps. Vulkan Doom is a case study on how to properly optimize a game. OpenGL runs 40-80fps. Vulkan's minimums are higher than OpenGL's average on my system
Okay, i was so focused i watched this entire 43 minute video without knowing its so long
Good video format! Progressing through the technologies and referring back to the early days of graphics throughout the video keeps the attention of those of us who are fond of those early days, much better than progressing through the video on a timeline. This may just be a consequence of the chosen organization of the essay, but I like it. It not only makes it more entertaining throughout, but also causes me to pay attention to the details I may otherwise not be drawn to.
Well done!
Pong - 1972 = A bunch of really smart people got together to program how a ball is supposed to move
RDR2 - 2018 = A bunch of really smart people got together to program how a pair of balls are supposed to move
Conclusion = All the technology and advancements we've made but basically we're trying to do the same thing :P
everything is BALLS
Balls is lyfe
B A L L S
it takes balls
Wait... It's all balls?
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Always was...
your videos are masterfully edited, beautifully narrated and have amazing content. I don't know why you don't have millions of views and subscribers
Because the majority of users nowadays propably have AD/HD and require Pewdiepie kind of tempo.
Frolof congrats you now have more likes the this comment
Hussah!
Valex Nihilist because people don't like good well made content they want crappy 20 year old men screaming down their microphone
"I don't know why you don't have millions of views and subscribers"
Quality dont bring viewers because you must first watch something to discover it is good, and by the time you watched it by the first time the viwership already increased by +1.
Ratio of like to dislike ratio is a better way to judge quality, this video has 96.84 likes to every dislike. A pretty awesome thing.
After a year, I rewatched this video like it was my first time watching. The year is 2021 now. This video needs a sequel!
Me too, and I loved it all over again. Brilliant stuff!
Your narration, music, and visuals, especially with that outro, is utterly beautiful
i was like "where is RTX?" then realized the video is from 2015
What's RTX? Rooster Teeth Expo?
@@MM-vs2et more like: Rectal Teeth Xenomorph
rootin tootin xootin
you probably meant Ray Tracing :>
@@MM-vs2et ray-tracing xylophone
That was surprisingly educative and well-made. Didn't expect that from a random video and was ready for something like watchmojo.. Thank you!
And each video gets better.
Agreed.
Phil Shary I
yes just what i was thinking
Don't even compare Ahoy to watchmojo
Very nice. What a blast from the past. That was a very detailed and thorough walk down memory lane. I played just about all of these games at the times when they were cutting edge. It's nice to see the progression and hear it explained in such a great way. I don't comment very often but I felt this piece deserved my respect. They say just before you die your life flashes before your eyes, as a lifelong gamer through the progression of arcades, home consoles and pc's this was like that flash for a gamer but instead of the end a whole future open to the possibilities and excitement of what will be next. Thank you for sharing!
What an amazing and engrossing documentary, and like so many others here a wonderful trip down memory lane. Thank you.
I rarely sub after just one video, but 30 seconds in to this I realised I'd found a talented creator. :) Excellent work, thank you.
kcuf0 no problem
Jammbd Hsj lolollll
Yes i done the exact same after watching the POLYBIUS video last night, this channel could well turn out to be one of my must watch watch favourites. Just great content so far.
Very high quality content for sure.
"Previously planar plumber"
Loved that.
It just came to me that while pixels rainend supreme in the 2D era, and modern reinterpretations of it, it was actually vector graphics which can be traced more as an influence in the evolution to modern 3D with its vector wireframe polygons. Meanwhile the pixels, when translated directly into 3D, are the less successful voxel graphics which are more seem on the indie scene today
The game logic uses vectors as polygons, but ultimately has to convert them into a rastered image.
Wow, this was a trip down memory lane, awesome! Although this video is seven years old, it's still a great video to watch. And I would love to see a follow up!
I love how he says "DOOM IS THE DADDY"
When
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@@mrbadger4375 sus!!!!
40:00 "with the recent arrival of a new console generation". that's when I came to realize this video is over 4 years old
That was great, its like so many aspects of my youth got re-lived in that documentary.
Amazing documentary.
great video using it for a school project thank you my guy you have saved the day
Crash Bandicoot may have had a "low" polygon count, but at the time it was released, it was incredibly impressive. Thanks to it's corridor based level design, the stages were able to accommodate lush, detailed environments compared to most other games at the time. Andy Gavin, co-founder of Naughty Dog, actually recalls watching Shigeru Miyamoto play the Crash demo at it's first hands on E3 showing, and apparently Miyamoto was smiling the entire time, and thoroughly enjoyed playing the game
Cool anecdote. 😁
@@dubiouslycrisp thanks! I particularly enjoy this bit of trivia, as Miyamoto has had a tremendous impact on my life, and knowing he had fun with Crash Bandicoot is just great
With Bandicoot, they actually hacked the PS1 to push it way beyond its tech capability; you can find a cool docu about it, told by the devs themselves, in the Ars Technica channel.
"Doom was the daddy." - XboxAhoy
zachandbro more like grandpa
*OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH*
What is wrong with you two?
More copies of D00M in the world than Microsoft at the time right?
Respect
I have so much appreciation for your videos. Thank you so much for sharing these.
Most enjoyable video I've watched in a while. I must have played 90% of these games and some I'd forgotten. I'm now 65 and started with pong up to MS flight sim and Shadow of the Tomb raider nowadays. A trip down memory lane.
Me: Mom can I get Rocket League?
Mom: We have Rocket League at home.
Rocket League at home:
*Car Polo*
First
nyapism CAR POLO EVEN BETTER
legendary
i realized this had 999 likes so i made it 1k :D
1000th like
That was excellent! I've just watched my entire gaming life, from being a kid in the 70's and still gaming now at 52. Thank you
For as ephemeral as the subject of video game graphics is that also happens to feature contemporary examples of the time the video was made, Stuart Brown’s videos somehow manage to stand as timeless masterpieces
this is the best version of explaning games histories I got, and is focused on graphics
Anyone else watching this in 2019 and thinking: 2015 ain't seen nothin' yet!
Believe me.
I didn't know about this channel. until this week.
I'm looking at it, and thinking A) Wasn't Ahoy a magazine for C64 programming, and B) This guy has apparently never played Infocom games or other text-based games...
@@VulpisFoxfire he hasnt play alot of games. he is heavily influenced by shooter. shooter are super boring D;
yea he should talk about Ultra HD resolutions, VR, ray tracing, nvidea hairworks, real live laser shows and holograms, DirectX 9, 11 and 12, dlss and graphics cards with artificial inteligence D;
@@VulpisFoxfire HAVE YOU?
You know you're getting old when you have played nearly every game in the documentary.
It was like a trip down memory lane for me.
True that! I remember all of them.
It reminded me of several games I haven't thought of in years.
I was like 44 min TLDW. 44 min later still watching. I played almost every game on this list growing up and Doom was the Daddy that changed my life in 1993. I spent next several years after that buying and upgrading my pc and a few extra so my and my friends could all have a lan party at my house every weekend playing doom, quake, unreal T and duke nukem... which he did not include in this but was an all time favorite of mine. I truly miss those days....
I have played nearly none of these (possible none, I need to to check)
Car polo: The Rocket League of the 20th century
Absolutely fantastic video ! I really enjoy your work
Yes I wanna see a video from 5 years ago, thanks TH-cam
Hey 😳
Here we are. The future is now my friend
Do you like seeing your parents? If yes, then why? They are also old, so why do you see them?
@@vaibhavsrivastva1253 I don't think he was being sarcastic
@@Kit_Cake Neither was I [being sarcastic].
Can you imagine what would happen if you went back in time and showed the creators of pong a new game? Imagine the look on their faces seeing the crysis 3 or arma 3!
of PC
+Andloo Yunty I mean, it would probably change the entire history of video games but it would be fun!
+Andloo Yunty I've always wondered that
+Andloo Yunty You gotta show them the codes, they'll be amazed/baffled.
+HDose Scared Shitless*
Just since this video has come out, the graphics have scaled immensely
I love true informational game videos like this. Amazing work 6 years ago, man.
2:27 Damn, Rocket League's a lot older than I thought...
+meowmasterL346 Nothing is original...any more.
haha that’s what i thought too
Thank you for compiling the five part series into one video
Thanks for clarifying, thought I already saw this lol.
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I keep coming back to this video.
Documentary quality. Very well done.
0:53
- Pixel pioneers
- Shows image of vector graphics
Watching this on 09/01/2022. Great video!! Congratulations!!!
This explains a lot about the types of graphics. Thank you for the education.
At 2:23 Car Polo is pretty much the ancient version of todays Rocket League , isnt it? :)
ong
D O O M W A S T H E D A D D Y
Dub Jax
"papito jugó al Doom"
D O O M I S T H E D A D D Y
Half Life the Son.
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OH YES DADDY DOOM
Amazing documentary, so well done. Thank You ! (Time for an update, please)
I begin realising how "old" I am as I recognize playing practically every game in this documentary all the way back to the original pong.
Great memories.
- and being a game developer now -very inspiring.
Edit: I've probably watched this at least 3 times in the past.
The edit is so TH-cams algorithm shows this at least 3 more times to the future Shane.
Hey! Future Shane! I love you dude :)
Fantastic documentary.
Quality TH-cam right here.
joostoboy quality youtube??? dont you mean video?
I think he left out the “r” in TH-camr, Ahoy is an amazing info artist.
4 years later: The rise of Raytracing
Lol shit; RT tech has been around for 17 years now.. Still haven't seen it genuinely integrated at a large scale... lots of fake RT on consoles, a few titles on PC used it, some tech demos but other than that.. not shit and I guarantee you the next series of consoles will be just as shitty-middle-range-laptop incapable of truly rendering it. sure PC graphics cards have supported it since the ATi 5xxx/Nvidia 2xx but since consoles have come to dominate the industry, little software is programmed to take advantage of it.
Graphics and tech have stalled because the major players in the industry know the key and it's "*Fuck if it's trash, they'll buy it anyways*"
@@cookieshousecannabisco6963 No previous GPU was good at RT.
@@juanme555 that's weird because here's a GTX550i doing ray tracing in 2013 just fine...
th-cam.com/video/s39jRg5W6hQ/w-d-xo.html
Quake III Arena had a fully working raytracing implementation back in the early 2000's. Nvidia just sold another batch of overpriced GPU's to another million monkeys via some "Raytracing" gimmick, despite pre-release benchmarks showing that the cards were vastly incapable of such tech in games.
Monkeys still slapped dat pre-order button. $2000 Titan XP - Raytracing Edition please! XD
@@TheVanillatech I think this is more of a near "plug and play" approach, because do consider that older games had to redesign their lighting systems from scratch or come up with a (yet another proprietary) game engine that would seamlessly support RT.
In real world scenarios, who would wanna do that? Even a giant game company wouldn't spend tons of R&D on something that might get unstable as technology (HW and SW) progresses. Unless you're EA. Fucking Frostbite Engine.
just came across this its so gold as a game dev,to understand more one needs to go back to the roots.great video
Well researched and well produced video. Watched it till the end.
19:34 when your missing all the textures in any valve game.
Relatable
E R R O R
This is what it looks like when you join a random server without the content.
@@krgamer55 or when u play any valve game without the hardware requirements
@@testhekid indeed
This is one of the best documentaries I have seen about technology.
Virtually all of his content is this in depth
yes, very well made but i would have like to have heard more about the hardware side too, like the rise of nvidia etc
You need to watch more documentaries then. Not saying this isn't a good one which is but there are MUCH MUCH better ones, obviously not on youtube.
@@HeavenlyWarrior yeah, you're right. As the title says, it's "brief".
That was pretty comprehensive, good work 👍
What an amazing video! I wonder if this series might deserve another episode covering the last eight years of development or so?
I like your laid back attitude towards graphical trends like Bloom and Motion Blur. Too many use it as fuel for their rage, but it's nice to step back and realize that technology will march on, and unfortunate fads are just that. Love your stuff, man.
I started playing games on the Wii. I have learned to love bloom
I remember that the first mod I saw for Doom 3 was called "duct tape". It was a highly speculative take on the game's premise, which introduced the far-fetched, yet interesting, suggestion that somewhere in a sprawling research station, there was a roll of tape, and that the player character used it in order not to have to switch between weapon flashlight.
Man I love your videos. This one might be my favorite though!
One thing that's not obvious from watching this today is just how good the 80s - mid-90s sprite graphics looked on a CRT TV or monitor. The low pixel resolution and inherent blurring that came about from the way CRTs worked really smoothed them and gave them depth that you can't see with the crisp rendering of a high-resolution LCD.
"Clay Fighter was *moulded* in its image"
Please tell me you meant that pun.
Damn, I just realized that too.
Damn, i just noticed
If you think that could be a pun,
that's because it is.
he really "sculpted" that one
Mold
Car polo is the new rocket league
Other way around
+TheBananaSplit Games No
+player guy Rocket League was the first thing that I thought of when I saw car polo
+samwheeldon Best thing about Rocket League is that nobody can really slip and fuck everything up
KuudMUFC that's the definition of rocket league?
Simply the best channel out there !
one of my college classes on graphic modeling recommend this video as the first option when learning about the history of computer graphics
The way he introduced Mortal Kombat, once he said, " one game was....." I already knew. To me, Mortal Kombat was the middle. The end of the old and the beginning of the new.
"What does the future of graphics hold?"
I come here from 2020, we have Ray Tracing.
in 2004 there was Quake 3 that was fully ray traced
Ray Tracing? are you still using a Model T Ford then? what 2020 are you from.
vr
@@mugu2416 He's clearly from an alternate 2020, where ray tracing is cutting edge, pudding doesn't exist, and women are not allowed to vote.
@@Bhatt_Hole Lmao, yeah
Had a great time educating myself on this subject. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing! This is brilliant!