I was playing Assassin's Creed on the PS3 and I got on a roof top and looked at the city from above, I was really amazed at how good it looked and how far we've gotten with video games, but then when I went back to Shenmue I realized that I am 1000 times more amazed at how far Sega got with Shenmue over 10 years ago.
No matter how big and detailed they'll make open cities in today's games, I'll always feel that doing those things today is easy, but making a city as big and as detailed as Shenmue's cities back then is the real achievement.
It's like, you know how today every movie has a car chase scene or a big shootout with explosions? it's not impressive anymore, but think about how impressive the special effects and action scenes in Terminator 2 were!
Anyone else just can't enjoy today's games?