..when we all had terrible computers and would frequent Desura daily in hopes to find games like this:

http://www.desura.com/games/krunch

Only to feel the agony of defeat because your PC was not uber enough to recognize SSE2?

..but nowadays we have difficulty even spelling out 'Desura' in our search engines after having just been blinded by the uber-tastic eye candy that is games like Spec Ops The Line?


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..erm

...oh, wait...perhaps that's just me.

About 2 years ago my home computer was still running Windows 2000. My college-provided desktop was a little better. I don't quite remember the specs, but it struggled with 2x AA in Halflife 2 and ran into framerate issues if I tried to run Far Cry (yes, the first one) at 1280x1024 instead of 1024x768. So, not that great. I could play new-ish titles, but only with the resolution and quality settings turned down. When I switched colleges and came back to live at home, I switched to a Dell Optiplex 745 USFF, which basically could have been beaten out by a netbook. Anything post 2003 was basically out of the question. It's only within the last few months that I've had a decent computer that could actually run new games without having to turn down the quality settings and the resolution. So yes, I remember those days very well :3.

I remember when I had a computer that couldn't support the pixel shader TF2 needed to run. It was three years ago.

For me it was not being able to play spycraft because my 486 computer was only capable of running 256 colours.

i still have a computer with 64 mb graphic card, damn for some reason she cant run halo but i know she has the power to do soo, i will never give up on her

I think my family still has our old 486 DX/33 computer from 1991. I remember having to use 100 of those 3.5 inch floppies to install Windows 95 on it. Still, good times, especially when playing ZZT or OMF 2097. I remember how much my computer's 100 MB hard drive was filled with Epic Megagames and Apogee games. That workhorse lasted us five years or so.

Too bad it doesn't work anymore and only acts as a paperweight.

I'm usually a few years behind in terms of computer technology. Which doesn't bother me at all, I don't care too much about flashy graphics or the latest game technology anyway.

When this kind of games was common, we didn't even have a PC at home :). Later I spent hours at neighbours playing Golden Axe, Simcity, Dune 2, Legend of Kyrandia, Arachnophobia or Silk by Subsino (I still wonder how adults let us, little girls, play that game, lol). And later on, when we got one, I remember I had troubles to run Incoming demo and FF7 cinematics were breath-taking, unbelievable. Consoles were out of question due to costs and their single purpose, gaming.

Now I have a PC which can handle Witcher 2 at maximum details however I'm still curious about less visually gifted pieces. For example, I have my eye on The Shivah :).

I've generally made a point of avoiding brand new titles, largely because of cost.
The money I saved by not paying £30 for each game went into upgrades for my rig.
By the time they have dropped to a reasonable price point, my computer has normally caught up.

I remember my first: a 8086@4.7MHz & Hercules display.Don't remember the exact amount of RAM it had... maybe 320k?

Oh, and when I had the 386 with 4MB of RAM and I wanted to play Dreamweb, but the darn game needed just a bit over 4MB. So I had to play it from Windows 3.11 assigning it 4 full megs of extended memory, and swapping like there was no tomorrow.

Yeah, computers have stagnated pretty much since 2008. The money I spent to get a medium to low machine in 2002 was less than the money I spent on my current machine. Which runs most games on high.

your posts are usually sensible, but i don't believe that for a minute. or are you telling me you'd rather play the original Bard's Tale games instead of the 2004 remake?

Is that a serious question? :D

LOL