• mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    That was Devil May Cry 5 for me. I almost exclusively play older games that can comfortably run on 2011/2012 graphic cards, but DMC5 made me realize I’m overdue for an upgrade.

    Mind you, it was not a major upgrade. 2050RTX and I’ve been running everything I want ever since because my favorite genres are thankfully typically not graphically demanding and I care more about stable framerate than look.

    I do not predict I’ll have issues running Okami 2, for example, or the new Onimusha. I do, however, predict I’ll need another upgrade for anything that comes out after these two.

  • WagnasT@piefed.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Morrowind with total overhaul mods on OpenMW. I couldn’t increase the view distance without it becoming a slide show but it looked amazing.

    • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Man, you must have really had some outdated hardware, OpenMW runs pretty damn well even with graphics mods and such in my experience.

      • WagnasT@piefed.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        it’s the view distance that bogs it down, with just the adjacent cells it plays great but I’ve seen setups where you can see red mountain from vivec and it looks awesome, and I want to be able to do that.

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The PC version stuttered on CPUs with fewer than 6 cores (PS4 and XB1 had 8, so probably ported to PC lazily), and that me to upgrade from a 6700k to at 3700x.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 months ago

    Crysis! I built my first high end desktop when it was coming out. Athlon 64x2 4400+, 4GB RAM, 2x7900GT in SLI.

    Raptor main drive, 320GB secondary drive. Cost me about 2.5kUSD. Played Crysis just about the best a computer could.

    • Soapbox@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I have a 256gb raptor from that era that is somehow still working fine. I use it as a steam library drive.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    3·
    2 months ago

    The one that made me upgrade was Alan Wake 2. Don’t regret it one bit as I’ve had lots of enjoyment out of my new PC. And AW2 itself is just gorgeous. And that’s even without playing it maxed out. I can’t even imagine how good it would look with full path tracing.

  • BeN9o@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    HL2, the fire animation would cause my PC to crash, think that’s when I bought an 8800Gts. Nowadays I play on low gfx because i much prefer higher fps to realistic graphics.

  • cloudless@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Resident Evil 4 and Hogwarts Legacy are low-res and blurry on my Xbox Series S. But I don’t mind because RE4 is more about the gameplay, and Hogwarts Legacy turned out to be a bland boring game anyway.

    The game that makes me want to upgrade is Clair Obscur Expedition 33. It runs okay on my Series S, but the beautiful art direction deserves being shown in the highest quality possible.

      • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Yup, it does wonders, thx Carmack and Co.

        But it gave me a reason to put off some money and then make a generational jump from my ancient Win7 system to something I can run it with all bells and whistles, something I still comfortably game on today with minor upgrades. If not for Doom, I don’t think I could’ve had a reason to do that with how I was comfortably indifferent to being locked in Skyrim-age games. New rig then gave me an opportunity to try new titles and series I felt in love with. I can’t overestimate this factor in my personal journey and I’m a bit sad there may not be other push as strong as this one, with such benefits.

  • Feyd@programming.dev
    3·
    2 months ago

    It was ff7 rebirth that got me to build my last pc… Realized the places it was slowing down were cpu bound so i couldn’t just turn down the graphics lol

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Morrowind.

    Then Skyrim.

    Then fallout 4.

    Each one was roughly when I wanted to update anyways.

  • gera@feddit.nuEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    I’m happy with my laptop with integrated graphics currently. One game i wanted to try but couldnt run was X4. I liked X series space sims as a kid.