Arguably, 2016 and Eternal prove it much better than the original - people nowadays are way too spoilt to really appreciate those early 3D graphics, and IMO early 3D graphics aged much worse than pixel art.
I don't think anyone disagrees about early 3d aging poorly. But I wouldn't even call OG Doom fully 3d on account of everything besides walls and floors being sprites. Sprites are just pixels, and no vertices mean no 3d.
IME, Minecraft looks kinda bad until you install shader mods, at which point it needs pretty substantial GPU power. But IDK, maybe Bedrock Edition is more efficient, I only ever played the Java version.
Chiming in to say Sea of Stars. Absolutely gorgeous pixel graphics and music, and a true love letter to old school JRPGs. It gave me nostalgia for something I didn't even know I lost.
I play classic wow private servers. Game came out in like 2005 so it'll run on whatever. The graphics are minimal and stylized to in a way that makes it timeless. Plugging wow-hc.com
Pretty much the entire classic trilogy of vanilla bc and lk can run on a potato and have good visuals imo. I enjoy each but vanilla hc is what I'm into atm.
Warframe.
They got it running on mobile, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. I myself ran it for a few years on a shitty graphics card that could barely run minecraft with a texture pack.
Weirdly enough DMC5. Also Monster Hunter World. Those had no business on my GPU which keeps shitting itself from Darkest Dungeon 2 but they just seem to be optimized really well
Hmmm. I was pretty late to the party in 2019. Maybe it got better, or I might just be memory-holing the jank. I used to play my games on a wall projector so after a while I stop noticing a certain amount of latency too
Graphically I'd have to say either Broke the Investigator or Corn Kidz 64.
One, as someone described in a plauthrough video, looks like a Saturday morning cartoon. The other, I think nails that old 90s 3D somewhat stylized video game look pretty well, IMO.
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Mass Effect 2
mASS effect.
mass erect
They toned down the ass in the legendary edition unfortunately.
That's what mods are for
In good times, in bad times. They'll be on your side forevermore.
Portal 2
But how is it holding up?
Still awesome lol
True. I had to uninstall it when I played it 2 years ago, lest I let my life sink into making custom test chambers
Doom
Even 2016 and Eternal have pretty moderate requirements for their fidelity.
Arguably, 2016 and Eternal prove it much better than the original - people nowadays are way too spoilt to really appreciate those early 3D graphics, and IMO early 3D graphics aged much worse than pixel art.
I don't think anyone disagrees about early 3d aging poorly. But I wouldn't even call OG Doom fully 3d on account of everything besides walls and floors being sprites. Sprites are just pixels, and no vertices mean no 3d.
Also came here to say Doom. But can it (a potato) run Doom? Even if not, someone almost certainly will have tried and partially succeeded.
ps: And no other game listed in this topic can claim this
rain world?
me??
of course it's you who else would you think I'm referring to?
Obligatory Hollow Knight mention
Lies of P.
(it says so in the file name of the uploaded image)
Half life 2
Probably Gris
Great game indeed, felt like it personified my experience with dysphoria, all without talking.
Super Mario World is a game that shows artistic design outlasts everything else. That game still looks and plays amazingly.
But I think the real issue is "looks good" is very subjective.
Hollow Knight and Silksong
Minecraft
Also Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
BG1+2 is peak.
IME, Minecraft looks kinda bad until you install shader mods, at which point it needs pretty substantial GPU power. But IDK, maybe Bedrock Edition is more efficient, I only ever played the Java version.
Mario Sunshine
The water is really incredible. Makes me wish to go to the beach, makes me feel good, and makes me thirsty.
Celeste
StarCraft and WarCraft series.
Came to say Warcraft 3.
It’s Lies Of P - they left it in the image file name.
Myst of course.
Freelancer
Anything can look good pre-rendered
Halo 3
Dishonored.
A lot of older 2d games can run on a portrait potato and the artwork holds up excellently.
RC2, civ 3, Anno 1602, sim city 3000, AOE2.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ground Zeroes as well)
Braid. Assuming the graphics don't have to be realistic?
lots of really good pixel art: Celeste, hyper light drifter, dead cells, etc
Ragnarok online is what made me love pixel art.
Wish gravity wasn't a greedy shit company that deserved to burn to the ground.
But man pixel art games are just special.
Chiming in to say Sea of Stars. Absolutely gorgeous pixel graphics and music, and a true love letter to old school JRPGs. It gave me nostalgia for something I didn't even know I lost.
The Mad Max game from 2015 is surprisingly well-optimized.
Bioshock Infinite , even my AMD Athlon II could handle it back in the day
Super Nintendo-era pixel graphics games like Chrono Trigger. Pixel graphics need a lot less computational power to look good IMO.
Similar for modern pixel graphics games like Risk of Rain.
I play classic wow private servers. Game came out in like 2005 so it'll run on whatever. The graphics are minimal and stylized to in a way that makes it timeless. Plugging wow-hc.com
The character models look awful though. draenei and blood elf were massive improvements.
Pretty much the entire classic trilogy of vanilla bc and lk can run on a potato and have good visuals imo. I enjoy each but vanilla hc is what I'm into atm.
I understand the appeal, but I can't call wow good looking overall. Mechanically and design wise it's great.
There are some teams working on hd clients like these if it's rly that important to have ray tracing or whatever https://youtu.be/ZVGr0GmP-Dc
Permadeath? Noooooo
TitanFall 2.
Metal Gear Solid V.
... maybe a slightly more impressive than average potato.
Amazing what you can do with a well optimized engine, eh?
Terraria
Warframe. They got it running on mobile, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. I myself ran it for a few years on a shitty graphics card that could barely run minecraft with a texture pack.
Warframe is really impressive.
Tloz minish cap
Donkey kong country 1,2,3
Super mario world
SNES had so many fucking bangers. Playing through Kirby's Dream Course again.
KDC MENTIONED!! Best golf game ever made
Painkiller, 2002(?)
2004
Dishonored
dwarf fortress
Its world generation will absolutely roast your potato.
Mmmm, roast potato
Hah. You'll need the whole worlds potatoes to run a single frame
Looking good is about artstyle more than realistic graphics for me so most pixelart games.
celeste
Selaco, hands down
Valkyrie Chronicles
Weirdly enough DMC5. Also Monster Hunter World. Those had no business on my GPU which keeps shitting itself from Darkest Dungeon 2 but they just seem to be optimized really well
I recall mh world being an unoptimised mess
Hmmm. I was pretty late to the party in 2019. Maybe it got better, or I might just be memory-holing the jank. I used to play my games on a wall projector so after a while I stop noticing a certain amount of latency too
Super Mario
Dark souls 3
Arknights Endfield, unironically
Braid
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Amazing soundtrack too.
Tetris
yeah?
Mountebank
Limbo
Graphically I'd have to say either Broke the Investigator or Corn Kidz 64.
One, as someone described in a plauthrough video, looks like a Saturday morning cartoon. The other, I think nails that old 90s 3D somewhat stylized video game look pretty well, IMO.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Bit of an older one, but DMC4 definitely ran well on just about anything. MT framework was really good for stuff like that.
Shadow of the Beast
King's Quest 1
Also Laura Bow 1
Devil Daggers
Tic Tac Toe
On a potato
After every game, you can then take a thin slice off the top and you get a fresh surface for another game.
Or you could boil it. Maybe mash it. Or even, dare I say, stick in a stew.
Potatoes are best in the Air Fryer.
I don't understand how one is able to make a stew sticky enough, though.
Isn't it usually watery?
no I think the stick is for stirring the stew.
Cook it long enough, and the potato starch will thicken it up.
Yeah, but not enough to be sticky, right?
Or maybe I have been adding too much water?
Not Cirith Ungol.
dungeon crawl stone soup(?)
valheim
Valheim can't even run well on a steam deck.