Donkey Kong Country on the SNES.
Valheim if you want something newer
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Valheim is considerably demanding imo, have to play the game at 1080p to get a decent and consistent frame rate on my 5700 XT
The original Talos Principle, easily one of the most stunning games I've played
Phenomenal call, well met stranger.
Pong.
Spelunky original version
Portal 2
The Trine series is really pretty and even the newest entry has relatively modest hardware requirements.
Twilight Princess
Half-Life 2 or Fallout NV
I love NV but I would not use the word gorgeous to describe it
I personally think it still stands as a beautiful game, the art style especially has aged quite well
Bastion = 2gb ram
tf2, starcraft2, terraria, cuphead
A Link to the Past
#TechnicallyTheTruth
Mega Man X
Yoshi's Island
Earthworm Jim
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (emulated)
Warframe.
My potato from 15 years ago could in fact not run if (fluently; had like 15 fps).
A shame, especially with how optimized the game is.
EVE Online. still after all these years (23) it's still a beautiful game that I god damn am still addicted to.
I'm so sorry, brother. I escaped 7 years ago.
Metal Gear Solid : V
The Fox engine was another kind of black magic
For real, I feel like the konami drama kind of overshadowed this aspect. Yes it’s a shame metal gear died, but kojima isn’t dead and still gets to make games. But the fox engine? That’s the true tragedy.
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ut'99 baby. full game with healthy stack of mods would be maybe a gig or two. would look and play well on most types of computational vegetation. ok, yeah UT2004 would also look nice and play in most potatoes.
i listed more but then I looked and it showed my age so I deleted them and focused on unreal ya whippersnappers.
quit your lolligagging
UT '99... hell yeah. I sunk a lot of hours into that, even before we had the internet.
Not the same as any of these, but I always felt Spyro had a beauty to it, even if it is a bright and colourful one.
Warframe
Age of empires 2
Portal 2
Skyrim
Mindustry
Children of Morta
for the 2nd requirments, I guess it falls into any of these categories
- old games (e.g. HL2, Doom2016)
- indigames (e.g. Hades, Cuphead)
- 2D games (e.g. Disco Elysium)
Duskers!
Im a very heavy command line user
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