Crysis for me. First and last game to have graphics that genuinely blew my mind.

>When you were godly at sniping while playing at 15 fps with a shitty mouse
>Now you just fucking suck while you have 500 fps and a 240hrz monitor with a gaymer mouse
why do I suck now

For me it was Morrowind at like 8FPS outdoors in Seyda Neen when staring at the ground.

>>700951635
You always sucked, now you're just old enough to be self-aware.

>>700951635
I find this very relatable

Pentium Celeron 333 MHz, Intel 740 8 MB VRAM, GTA 3. 15 FPS at good weather, 6 in rain. 100%'d twice.

>>700951959
The game slowed to the FPS though, so that made the ambulance missions way easy.

>>700951959
I remember having to download some kind of program for it that would turn off stuff like the newspapers flying in the wind and a bunch of other stuff to get tolerable framerates.

>>700951212
Reminds me how much my PC suffered playing C&C3 on release
>lower RAM than recommended so the game would page when loading maps
>much weaker GPU than recommended, FPS often between 8-12 once battles started happening even with most of the graphics options turned down
>closing the game caused Windows to run slowly for the next few minutes as it restored necessary things from the pagefile
I haven't gone that far and still had a playable game since then.

Did I really enjoy them?
I've been mostly sad while playing vidya for almost all of my life. It wasn't joy but escapism, even as a kid.

>>700952079
Oh yeah, some EXE editor or something. Pretty sure it's just particles that fucked the Intel GPU, not the newspapers. My friends were superjelly of me running HL and Q3. Meanwhile I was mad about GLQuake not having any textures.

>>700951212
i have a 750 ti so its still like that for me

the first time i played portal was on an athlon 64 shitbox at 640x480, i think it was 16 or 17 fps at best

>>700951212
Only game I've done this is Crysis at something like 24fps which is the best my pc at the time could manage. It actually wasn't that bad because it was a consistent 24f

>>700952475
the difference is now you know that you're playing at low fps. when you just got the computer in the early 00s as a kid you had no idea about the frame rates so even 20fps seemed playable.

>>700951212
My 9600 pro really struggled with all the 2004 shooters, Doom 3 being the worst. I still had a great time, though. Painkiller was the best optimized.

>>700952584
>It actually wasn't that bad because it was a consistent 24f
consistently low FPS is much more playable that 60-60fps with stutter and dips
you can enjoy a game at sub 30fps if you're immersed enough

>>700951635
your standards may have raised
I got 20 kills 3 deaths in a game yesterday and felt absolutely nothing

>>700954658
>you can enjoy a game at sub 30fps if you're immersed enough
not unless you're ten years old

>>700954797
>not unless you're ten years old
I played games at such framerates till my late teens and enjoyed them immensely

>>700951635
Maybe you need glasses

>>700951635
when you were a kid you could autistically practice one game 24/7. when you get older you either dont have the time or you just dont want to play the same game for 18 hours straight. as a bonus - zoombeasts and other similar mutants unironically take drugs in sweaty games.

>>700955520
I mean there's also the fact that cheating is way, WAY more prevalent in online gaming these days.

>>700955821
yes thats a factor too despite all the screeching to the contrary

I played so much Halo Custom Editon and CS1.5 on this shitty dell Inspiron 1100. All settings on low, 20fps, No mouse just the trackpad and built-in keyboard. Loved every minute of it

>>700951212
Low fps has never caused me to dislike a game.

>>700951212
I played Deus Ex on a TNT2 M64. I had to learn what overclocking was for it to even be playable.

>>700951212
>having no standards is.... le good
I spent my childhood having fun with bart vs the space mutants and now I have severe brain damage

>>700951212
Quake on a 486DX2-66, and because it only had 8MB RAM for deathmatch had to use a DOS PPP dialer.

>>700951212
Perfect Dark on the N64 with 4 player splitscreen could drop as low as 9 FPS at times.
Back then I obviously noticed the slowdowns, but I didn’t perceive them as a bad thing. If anything, when playing singleplayer, the game felt a bit "too fast" for me.
The dogshit frame rate never got in the way of me having fun with my friends. Simpler times.

>>700951635
brain is older

>>700951212
For me it was the pc release of Dark Souls 1. I did not care

>>700956768
I owned the original Unreal for several years before I had a PC that could run it at more than a literal 1FPS slideshow. I never seriously tried playing it like that, though.

>>700958107
The original PC release of Dark Souls was pure aids. Even with the mod that "supposedly" fixed the framerate, the game still ran like utter crap.

>>700951212
I did this with Crysis practically speaking, the final level was a literal slideshow even with the resolution cranked down to 800x600

Forcing my 8600GT to try to run the Crysis 1 demo in DX10 ultra to see the god rays was kino, i got probably like 2-5 fps but it was like looking into the future. I didn't know that most games would still look like fucking shit by this time, but it was nice and cool at the time.

>>700951212
Unless you exclusively play games with extremely high replay value this is poorfag cope. I never ever look back at moments like this and delude myself into thinking it was a good experience.

>>700960264
You are 15 years old.

>>700960350
I'm probably older than you. I used to game on a school-issued Macbook and a Xbox 360 around 2 decades ago. I don't glamorize it nor feel any nostalgia for it. Imagine ruining your first experience of a game by playing it on a laggy piece of shit mess.

>>700951791
Same here, although it went to 15fps after a no-CD crack.

>>700951635
Childhood is being able to autistically focus on one game with little to no interruptions

>>700955821
Cheating is so rampant now that I've sworn off nearly all multiplayer games because of it. It has genuinely never been this fucking bad.

>>700951212
i remember playing cs: source zombie escape servers at 20-30 fps when i was in middle school. kinda insane too look back on that because now i'm gaming on 42" oleds with 120hz

>>700961880
I've mostly quit multiplayer games, but that's not to say I don't miss them.
It'd be great if my old community came back, as unlikely as that is to be given how fucked steam groups are.
Am looking forward to some of my chums being game to play Battleblock Theater and Castle Crashers when the updates/dlc for those drop.

>>700961784
>>700955520
Yea that is pretty true, I used to play 2fort 24/7 servers for sometimes like 8 hours at a time. I still do play but I am busy with work and also play other fps in between tf2 so I constantly drop my aim.