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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
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rain world?
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
Mario Sunshine
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StarCraft and WarCraft series.
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Celeste
Anything can look good pre-rendered
It’s Lies Of P - they left it in the image file name.
Myst of course.
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.
Dishonored.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ground Zeroes as well)
Halo 3
lots of really good pixel art: Celeste, hyper light drifter, dead cells, etc
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Braid. Assuming the graphics don't have to be realistic?
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.
Terraria
The Mad Max game from 2015 is surprisingly well-optimized.
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
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Tloz minish cap
Donkey kong country 1,2,3
Super mario world
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Painkiller, 2002(?)
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celeste
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?
Looking good is about artstyle more than realistic graphics for me so most pixelart games.
dwarf fortress
Its world generation will absolutely roast your potato.
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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.
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Dishonored
Selaco, hands down
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