Lmao I just finished the series. Need to watch El Camino, and Better Call Saul now

And for any unaware

SA can mean Sexual Assault

CP is sometimes used as an acronym for Child Rape Media but I don't think its very fitting, personally.

Another Acronym thats better is CSAM but honestly why are we even abbreviating it at all?

Thank you, that gave me a pause and I couldn't get past that to figure out what games those were

Don't undersell SA. I wouldn't be the person I am today without SA in my childhood.

This user right here, officer.

"Step outta the thread please sir..."

Donvict Drumpf, is that you?

Depends where you're looking and how you define "Revolution"; even in those earlier eras, they were just advancements of techniques that had previously been invented but were impractical til that point.

So I'd say VR hardware has had a revolution during the that time.
Environmental destruction (real and virtual lol)
Real time ray tracing

It's hard to really discuss without knowing the kinds of things you found revolutionising in those eras.

These years are revolutionary in the boom of indie game development in my opinion

I'd say the last big "revolutionizing" thing in gaming was the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. All of the current handhelds owe their success to the Switch.

It takes a little over 10 years to recognize that a game (or anything really) was revolutionary. You have to wait until all of the chaff has been forgotten, leaving only the revolutionary games behind.

Here are some of my top picks for what folks will look back on when they right the 2025-2035 had no good games version of your post.

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Vampire survivors. Hades. Elden Ring. Disco Elysium.

And one which will probably be a cult classic/sleeper hit: Return of the Obra Dinn.

Just for a start.

One could argue that ray tracing is the current item, but unfortunately no one has been able to truly maximize the quality or performance…

Cp2077 with the godlike ray tracing does look really good, but requires a ridiculous setup to see it.

I would also suggest frame gen or scaling as another new improvement. Being able to basically realtime render a lower resolution and scale it (non-ML based) is an incredible engineering feat.

Frame gen does have a (small) place as well. There are legitimate reasons to use it to improve performance. With dedicated hardware it becomes an easy way to improve FPS (some) on lower end hardware.

2015-present may not have had such tectonic shifts, but in a lot of ways, we can now do more with less and fine tune an experience we enjoy.

dont forget the advent of horse armor

Going from Mario Bros. to Unreal within a childhood was a bigger jump!

Go back another 20 years and you'll find Manic Miner & Horace goes skiing...wait that's a little early... Donkey Kong Jr & Chopper Command were released in 1982. 80s to 90s probably had the biggest step up, no doubt due to the introduction of consoles.