History UpToEleven / Videogames

* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' demons are often tens or hundreds of years older than they look. To start, Laharl, the protagonist of [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness the first game]], [[EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity looks and acts like a kid but is roughly 1,300 years old]]. Sages in ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' take this trope UpToEleven, being ''millions'' of years old and looking like they're in their twenties at most.

* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' demons are often tens or hundreds of years older than they look. To start, Laharl, the protagonist of [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness the first game]], looks and acts like a kid but is roughly 1,300 years old. Sages in ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' take this trope UpToEleven, being ''millions'' of years old and looking like they're in their twenties at most.

* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' demons are often tens or hundreds of years older than they look. To start, Laharl, the protagonist of [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness the first game]], is roughly 1,300 years old. Sages in ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' take this trope UpToEleven, being ''millions'' of years old and looking like they're in their twenties at most.

** The UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita has graphical capabilities advanced enough to match the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 in terms of fidelity. In fact, a lot of the Vita's early library were ports from the PS3.
** This can also apply to cell phones and tablets as well. For instance, NVIDIA claimed its K1 system-on-a-chip released in 2014 could produce graphics as good as the Xbox 360 or PS3 in their heydays, [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VAy7bPCFm746Hg3hpbqjPI1msds8x_67ffStfcWWg_cZSBUaUClQs09c6pfdF0CwAg=h900 which it seems to be able to do]] (the screenshot is from ''Need for Speed: No Limits'')

* ''[[http://www.pixelships.com/smine/index.html Super Minesweeper]]'' could be considered this to ''{{Minesweeper}}''.

* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekBridgeCommander'', you can boost the power going to your ship systems up to 125%. There is no downside apart from the increased power drain. What happened to "The engines cannae take it, Captain!"?

* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', although the game has no predecessor, it is constantly breaking its own boundaries as the game progresses. Such improvements reveal the ability to change course of flight without any leverage whatsoever, running up buildings faster than TheFlash can wank, parkouring your way through Manhattan in less than 5 minutes, and the ability to expand and compress your body mass so much that you can both set off a biological bomb inside yourself, and run through practically anything that gets in the way.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deemo}}'', the hardest songs (which are, without exception, [[NintendoHard finger-blisteringly hard]]) are given a difficulty rating of 10. Then along comes "Myosotis", which unlocks after you've cleared the rest of the main game. Its difficulty rating? ''[[OhCrap 11]]''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deemo}}'', the hardest songs are given a difficulty rating of 10. Then along comes "Myosotis", which unlocks after you've cleared the rest of the main game. Its difficulty rating? ''[[OhCrap 11]]''.

** The [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS DS]] tops the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}, even though its processors are slower. This was because the processor speeds were mostly for show. The RAM is also more efficient, making it more practical than even the RAM with the Expansion Pak. Plus, it has plenty of texture memory, which can be seen in comparing the graphics of the original and DS versions of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. However, when it comes to graphics resolutions, NDS is 32-bit and N64 is 64-bit.

** Early reports from E3 claimed that the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS had graphics that surpass the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, and, though obviously no one outside of Nintendo has had a chance to look under its hood, the mere fact that it has 3D effects obtained without glasses makes it almost certain to surpass the [=GameCube=] on a technical level as well. The New 3DS is even more powerful with more memory and CPU power, for which some games take advantage of in order to look and/or play great (like ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS]]'', which takes advantage of it to not only play more smoothly, but also load faster and allow the use of Miiverse[[note]]The ability to access Miiverse during play was disabled so the game could get better performance during the gameplay[[/note]], and a port of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', made exclusively for the New 3DS, that takes advantage of the extra processing power to look good).

** When you've maxxed out a S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Stat to the maximum of 10 through either leveling or speccing your stats like that in the first place, collecting one of the seven S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Vault-Tec Bobbleheads scattered throughout the Commonwealth will bring that stat up to 11

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has currently (Cataclysm expansion) a maximum of 10 characters per realm (server). In the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion, they are, in words of one of their forum representatives, [[http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/219158-from-10-to-11/ turning it all the way up to 11.]]

** The Big Boy MIRV is the answer of what would happen if one combines MacrossMissileMassacre with a [[YouNukeEm Fat Man]]: it fires '''''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill 12]]''''' Mini-Nukes at once

** The Big Boy MIRV is the answer of what would happen if one combines MacrossMissileMcross with a [[YouNukeEm Fat Man]]: it fires '''''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill 12]]''''' Mini-Nukes at once

** The GameBoyColor has a faster processor and more memory than the [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], especially seen in ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'', which looks closer to the MSX games than the NES games.
** The GameBoyAdvance is not only more powerful than the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], it's more powerful than the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, in everything but screen resolution and color depth. The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games show this quite well.
** The [[NintendoDS DS]] tops the {{Nintendo 64}}, even though its processors are slower. This was because the processor speeds were mostly for show. The RAM is also more efficient, making it more practical than even the RAM with the Expansion Pak. Plus, it has plenty of texture memory, which can be seen in comparing the graphics of the original and DS versions of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. However, when it comes to graphics resolutions, NDS is 32-bit and N64 is 64-bit.
** The [[PlayStationPortable PSP]] has the same processor speed (especially with the CPU cap removed) and memory as the [[PlayStation2 PS2]], and it has texture compression which the [=PS2=] lacked (only a few games have truly shown this off though). Unlike the [=PS2=], it also has a proper [=GPU=] (one that can process vertices on its own, rather than needing a separate Vector Unit).
** Early reports from E3 claimed that the Nintendo3DS had graphics that surpass the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, and, though obviously no one outside of Nintendo has had a chance to look under its hood, the mere fact that it has 3D effects obtained without glasses makes it almost certain to surpass the [=GameCube=] on a technical level as well. The New 3DS is even more powerful with more memory and CPU power, for which some games take advantage of in order to look and/or play great (like ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS]]'', which takes advantage of it to not only play more smoothly, but also load faster and allow the use of Miiverse[[note]]The ability to access Miiverse during play was disabled so the game could get better performance during the gameplay[[/note]], and a port of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', made exclusively for the New 3DS, that takes advantage of the extra processing power to look good).

** It should be noted that Kerrigan was a 10 before being infested. And that she caused the scale to be rewritten because she went beyond the old scale.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' does another one, in an awesome way. They put the "power" back in PoweredArmor. How? Aside from the sweet new HUD, through-the-roof rad shielding, and immunity to FallingDamage, it now ''literally'' boosts your Strength up to ''eleven'', despite the maximum level for stats being ''ten''.
** In addition, when you've maxxed out a S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Stat to the maximum of 10 through either leveling or speccing your stats like that in the first place, collecting one of the seven S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Vault-Tec Bobbleheads scattered throughout the Commonwealth will bring that stat up to 11

** The GameBoyAdvance is not only more powerful than the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], it's more powerful than the NeoGeo, in everything but screen resolution and color depth. The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games show this quite well.

* Newer ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' games have a Groove Radar (a radar chart of a song's attributes, like jumps and offbeat notes) that rank attributes on a scale of 1 to 200, usually scaling songs with the highest attributes down when a new version comes out to avoid going over 200. The latest game has decided to throw that out the window and includes a song where one attribute is at '''[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLtvaOPUEAEuH6B.jpg 270]]'''. As for the 1-10 difficulty scale, the ''DDR Extreme'' boss songs "The Legend of MAX" and "Paranoia Survivor MAX" had flashing difficulty ratings, indicating that they were "beyond 10". Starting with ''DDR X'', the scale was revised to be from 1 to 20.

* Newer ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' games have a Groove Radar (a radar chart of a song's attributes, like jumps and offbeat notes) that rank attributes on a scale of 1 to 200, usually scaling songs with the highest attributes down when a new version comes out to avoid going over 200. The latest game has decided to throw that out the window and includes a song where one attribute is at '''[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLtvaOPUEAEuH6B.jpg 270]]'''. As for the 1-10 difficulty scale, the ''DDR Extreme'' boss songs "The Legend of MAX" and "Paranoia Survivor MAX" had flashing difficulty ratings, indicating that they were "beyond 10".

* ''VideoGame/InTheGroove'' has a standard difficulty scale from 1 to 12, but the boss songs, "Pandemonium" and "Vertex^2", go up to 13.

* Newer ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' games have a Groove Radar (a radar chart of a song's attributes, like jumps and offbeat notes) that rank attributes on a scale of 1 to 200, usually scaling songs with the highest attributes down when a new version comes out to avoid going over 200. The latest game has decided to throw that out the window and includes a song where one attribute is at '''[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLtvaOPUEAEuH6B.jpg 270]]'''.