What was your first videogame that made you say "Ok, I need to play this game properly: I need to upgrade my specs"?
Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren’t ideal. Your first “I need/want to upgrade my specs” basically.
It’s such a gorgeous game and I loved playing it. But the fight scenes would drop frames so badly that I couldn’t finish the game because of one boss battle that requires solid timing to win.
It’s pretty good. It feels like a kids friendly dark souls. Not nearly as hard, but some portions are pretty difficult. But it’s got a good story and beautiful graphics. Highly recommend
I bought a used hard drive at a yard sale in like 1996 or 1997, that contained Doom II and Heretic. The 386/40 that was my personal box wouldn’t tun the latter, and I wasn’t going to set it up on the family’s rapidly disintegrating Packard Bell Pentium-100.
I was still rocking my windows XP old faithful, and Infinite required the upgrade to windows 7. My motherboard didn’t support 7 though, so Old Faithful finally met its match
Duke Nukem 3D. I had a 486 SX 25 Mhz processor, but upgraded to the DX 100 Mhz processor. Can’t remember if that helped and I just needed a Pentium to run it properly, but I think it worked.
Same for me. That was the first game I explicitly remember that “pushed the limits” in terms of graphics, as it was a big jump in terms of PC requirements compared to other games that were available at the time.
Metro 2033. I used to play it on my Dad’s slightly more powerful machine until I could upgrade my machine. One of the best examples of art direction and great graphics being utilized together. Last Light looks like a PS4 game no matter what platform you play it on. Easily one of the best looking games ever.
I don’t think it was the first time, but I vividly remember Arkham Asylum, I played for several hours thinking that fights occurred in bullet time, slowing way down as more enemies appeared on screen. I later saw a gameplay trailer where the brawls were frantic and quick action. Felt pretty stupid after that.
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