Plenty of games have made me say it, but I can’t think of a single one that got me to actually do it.
I do know that Half-Life 1 was the first time I ever looked at the requirements and was floored that my computer didn’t even meet the minimum. It was the first game I tried when my family got a new computer like 2 years after it came out.
Half-Life 2. I remember being completely blown away by early source engine, even on low graphics to keep the frame rate above the 20s. I watched the weird little graphics benchmark animation probably a hundred times to dial in the settings. If you told me that in the future I'd be capping the framerate on highest settings to keep it from hitting the default limit of 300 I'da called you a liar.
Yeah, I saw that e3 demo with the pachinko barrels, water physics, and wood breaking, and I just knew had I to play it with no compromises. Spent my life savings at the age of 14 to build my first computer. Paid a friend’s older brother to teach me how. 😅
I have no idea how Source went from being so taxing to so insubstantial in the course of a few years. By the time I really got into gaming around 2010, Source games were the ones we’d throw on our shit box laptops and play together in class.
They literally stopped supporting the hardware I originally started playing on when it was still new. The game went from sluggish, to playable, to perfect, and then onto completely unplayable just with the updates to the game, since it wouldn’t even start after that particular update.
First game was Dark Forces. Family PC didn’t have enough RAM so my dad and I ventured into the world of hardware tinkering.
Most current game is most likely going to be Starfield. I built my current PC in 2020 with those first pandemic checks. My specs are all at the recommended, except for my GPU, which is the minimum. So if the game is good at launch I’m going to probably look to upgrade my GPU.
Blade and Sorcery, because my PC with a Ryzen 3 1200 and GTX 970 at the time could hardly run this and a lot of other VR games. And also Cyberpunk 2077, to a smaller degree.
I’ve been playing PC games since 1986. Started off with Kings Quest, and Heroes Quest. I can honestly say that no game has caused me to upgrade my PC until last year when I bought Cyberpunk 2077 because it was on sale. At the time I was running a 1080Ti, which is still a capable card, but I’m a whore for fancy graphics and visuals, and when I saw what CDPR was doing with Raytracing in that game I needed to have that. Pulled the trigger on a 4090 in January and haven’t regretted it for one minute. My 1080Ti lasted me 5 years, I’m anticipating my 4090 will do the same.
Not sure if this really counts, but I was given a copy of ‘The Movies’ when I was younger. Turns out it needed a DVD player to read it, but at the time I only had a CD player, so had to go out and buy an external DVD player to use it. Besides a few very lightweight PC games, I played on console most of the time and never got a true understanding of ‘specs’ until later in life.
Quake 4. I remember running it on a very cheap GPU and following tweakguides to get it running properly. The game that actually got me to pull the trigger on new hardware was Battlefield 2142.
Skyrim. I had that running in integrated graphics on an old gateway I got. Once I started Playing pc games I new I had to have the best. 15 years later my younger self would be jealous of the rig I have today.
I had to run a boot disk because we couldn't run Windows 3.1 and Doom 2 at the same time. Good times.
My brother had a friend who knew how to upgrade computers, but we never got permission to do so. And then some years later my brother's friend was taken by the state because his parents believed some of that early Sovereign Citizen bullshit and stopped paying taxes. I think there were also some drug charges. It was just personal amounts of pot, but it was the early 90s, so they were fucked.
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