Not the same as any of these, but I always felt Spyro had a beauty to it, even if it is a bright and colourful one.
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Portal 2
Half-Life 2 or Fallout NV
Skyrim
Bastion = 2gb ram
Twilight Princess
Warframe.
My potato from 15 years ago could in fact not run if (fluently; had like 15 fps).
A shame, especially with how optimized the game is.
tf2, starcraft2, terraria, cuphead
Age of empires 2
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (emulated)
The Trine series is really pretty and even the newest entry has relatively modest hardware requirements.
A Link to the Past
#TechnicallyTheTruth
Mega Man X
Yoshi's Island
Earthworm Jim
Mindustry
Duskers!
Im a very heavy command line user
ut'99 baby. full game with healthy stack of mods would be maybe a gig or two. would look and play well on most types of computational vegetation. ok, yeah UT2004 would also look nice and play in most potatoes.
i listed more but then I looked and it showed my age so I deleted them and focused on unreal ya whippersnappers.
quit your lolligagging
UT '99... hell yeah. I sunk a lot of hours into that, even before we had the internet.
EVE Online. still after all these years (23) it's still a beautiful game that I god damn am still addicted to.
I'm so sorry, brother. I escaped 7 years ago.
Metal Gear Solid : V
The Fox engine was another kind of black magic
For real, I feel like the konami drama kind of overshadowed this aspect. Yes it’s a shame metal gear died, but kojima isn’t dead and still gets to make games. But the fox engine? That’s the true tragedy.
Metal gear is dead?!? Why?
well if you beat the game they don’t win
Konami fired Kojima because MGSV was apparently way over budget and way too late. Many people say MGSV is unfinished. Afterwards Konami released some weird survival battle royale type abomination using the Fox engine called Metal Gear Survive which I think they took down a year later, and that was it.
Or did I just get metal gear’d
Warframe
Portal 2
Children of Morta
Bloodborne
The PS4 is hardly a potato, no?
And the PS4 can hardly run Bloodborne (to my standards)
I’m glad to see other Bloodborne PC enjoyers on here. I spent a weekend getting mine set up and I just beat The One Reborn. Not a perfect experience, but it’s been pretty great so far.
for the 2nd requirments, I guess it falls into any of these categories
- old games (e.g. HL2, Doom2016)
- indigames (e.g. Hades, Cuphead)
- 2D games (e.g. Disco Elysium)
Mudrunner?
That sure doesn't run (smoothly) on my potato.
Fallout New Vegas
I love New Vegas but gorgeous is not a adjective that I would use to describe it.
I don't know. In many ways I'd describe Fallout 1 and 2 as better looking than New Vegas...
Elden ring Factorio Shapez 2 Arknights endfield Noita Doom eternal Arc raiders No mans sky HADES HADES 2 Obama boss fight Manifold garden Gris Ori and tthe blind forest Ori and the will of the whisps Fucking rain world ffs Anon is a lazy cuck who only plays AAA slop
Half of those don't run on a potato, or your concept of what a potato is is pretty warped.
Factorio even has lag optimisation techniques because even a 3080 will have troubles if you don't optimise energy generation.
Factorio is usually CPU limited, it runs fine on my i9 with just integrated graphics and no discrete GPU at all.
Sure, but I wouldn't call an i9 a potato PC unless it has 10 years xD.
I should have listed my CPU, I have a 5800.
I think my point stands haha.
Yeah, I agree it's not a potato, just saying a 3080 is definitely not an issue for it
Well that was unnecessarily toxic
Rlden ring would consistently get ~20 fps on my old computer which I would say had a potato CPU and a good graphics card.
Fucking rain world is an amazing game
There is a game called Obama Boss Fight?
Yes and it is the greatest experience you will ever have