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.

sploosh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d

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.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 7 pts · 220d

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

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 220d (3 replies)

rain world?

screenshot

rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 200d (1 reply)

me??

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 181d

of course it's you who else would you think I'm referring to?

Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 220d

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Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 220d

Obligatory Hollow Knight mention

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 25 pts · 220d

Lies of P.

(it says so in the file name of the uploaded image)

SystemL@literature.cafe · 21 pts · 219d

Half life 2

BunScientist@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 220d (1 reply)

Probably Gris

birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 220d

Great game indeed, felt like it personified my experience with dysphoria, all without talking.

jacksilver@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 220d

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.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 18 pts · 220d (1 reply)

Minecraft

Also Baldur's Gate 1 and 2

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 220d

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.

Atlas_@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 219d

Hollow Knight and Silksong

kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 220d (1 reply)

Mario Sunshine

Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 218d

The water is really incredible. Makes me wish to go to the beach, makes me feel good, and makes me thirsty.

TwilightKiddy@programming.dev · 13 pts · 220d (1 reply)

StarCraft and WarCraft series.

Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 218d

Came to say Warcraft 3.

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 219d

Celeste

lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 220d

Anything can look good pre-rendered

greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 220d

Freelancer

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 220d

It’s Lies Of P - they left it in the image file name.

moncharleskey@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 220d

Myst of course.

Nexyte@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 219d

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ground Zeroes as well)

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 11 pts · 220d

Halo 3

SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 220d

Dishonored.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 219d

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.

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 220d

Braid. Assuming the graphics don't have to be realistic?

webpack@ani.social · 9 pts · 220d (2 replies)

lots of really good pixel art: Celeste, hyper light drifter, dead cells, etc

Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 219d

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.

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d

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.

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 220d

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.

bestelbus22@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 218d

Bioshock Infinite , even my AMD Athlon II could handle it back in the day

Davel23@fedia.io · 8 pts · 220d

The Mad Max game from 2015 is surprisingly well-optimized.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 220d

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?

Honytawk@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 219d

Terraria

Alenalda@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 220d (5 replies)

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

ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 220d (3 replies)

The character models look awful though. draenei and blood elf were massive improvements.

Alenalda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d (2 replies)

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.

ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 219d (1 reply)

I understand the appeal, but I can't call wow good looking overall. Mechanically and design wise it's great.

Alenalda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d

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

figjam@midwest.social · 1 pts · 220d

Permadeath? Noooooo

JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 219d (2 replies)

Tloz minish cap
Donkey kong country 1,2,3
Super mario world

GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 217d (1 reply)

SNES had so many fucking bangers. Playing through Kirby's Dream Course again.

kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 216d

KDC MENTIONED!! Best golf game ever made

Dark_Lords_Servant@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 218d (1 reply)

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.

Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 218d

Warframe is really impressive.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 220d (1 reply)

Painkiller, 2002(?)

Ashiette@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d

2004

CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 218d

Dishonored

atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 219d

celeste

Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 220d

Selaco, hands down

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 219d

Looking good is about artstyle more than realistic graphics for me so most pixelart games.

elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 219d (3 replies)

dwarf fortress

deathmetal27@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 218d (1 reply)

Its world generation will absolutely roast your potato.

sniggleboots@europe.pub · 2 pts · 218d

Mmmm, roast potato

tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 216d

Hah. You'll need the whole worlds potatoes to run a single frame

Atlas_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d

Braid

boletus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 220d

Dark souls 3

lohky@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Amazing soundtrack too.

WillyD@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 220d

Valkyrie Chronicles

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 219d

Super Mario

rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 220d

Arknights Endfield, unironically

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 220d (3 replies)

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

boletus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 220d (2 replies)

I recall mh world being an unoptimised mess

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 220d (1 reply)

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

Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 219d

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InfinitiZEr0@programming.dev · 3 pts · 218d

Limbo

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 219d

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.

Baggie@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 220d

Bit of an older one, but DMC4 definitely ran well on just about anything. MT framework was really good for stuff like that.

Twig@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 218d

Shadow of the Beast

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d (1 reply)

Tetris

tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 216d

yeah?

Morphite88@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 220d

Mountebank

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d

Hello Kitty Island Adventure