The best video game you played on pc

[Anonymous No.2329883]

I remember the first time I played. I had an old desktop pc Socket7 a k-6 amd 550 Mhz, 128 mb ram, Matrox G200 8mb. It took half an hour to load the level and low textures and still walked slow. Surely we have always had a friend who had all the best, I remember that he had a pentium 3 256mb ram, geforce 5200, I think I could play any game until 2004.

Jeeezzz...old memories.

[Anonymous No.2329890]

Jagged Alliance 2. Only finished it once, but goddamn I loved every moment.

[Anonymous No.2329912]

>>2329883
Your friend wasn't that lucky, the 5200 is a pretty shit GPU.

[Anonymous No.2329914]

King of Dragon Pass.

I never looked at Donald Duck the same way again.

[Anonymous No.2329917]

>>2329912
OP is poorfag

[Anonymous No.2329925]

>>2329912
We are talking about more than ten years ago stupid genius. also,i never saw change he pc until 2005, since then, he played every game pc without any problem.

[Anonymous No.2329932]

>>2329925
More like he played games on low settings fine. Just look it up yourself, it' a low end budget card. While it supports DX9, its too slow to actually use it.

http://techreport.com/review/5065/nvidia-geforce-fx-5200-gpu

[Anonymous No.2329948]

>>2329883
Staying within the confines of /vr/'s rules... The original Tomb Raider. Back in 1997 that thing just spirited me away completely. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before. Lara was an awesome character, the story was good, the levels were massive fun to explore in all of their grand detail. At the same time "Neverending Dream" by the German pop group X-Perience was playing in the radio. This cocktail created a high that no gameplay experience since has been able to replicate in full.

The year 1997 was utter shit to me outside of my gaming experiences, but I would gladly re-live the summer of that year, if I could repeat the experience of conquering the world of Tomb Raider with Lara for the first time ever.

[Anonymous No.2329982]

>>2329932
The whole 5000 series was a pretty bad time for nvidia. ATI really beat them in performance that generation.

[Anonymous No.2330025]

>>2329982

Good for retro gaming though, i use a 5700 on my win98 machine.

[NESfag No.2330087]

I remember playing HL1 on my 500mhz with a crap video card. IIRC HL1's lowest system requirement was a 233mhz, so I was way above, yet every single loading screen would take 5 minutes.

I shit you not. 5 whole minutes each take I'd switch level or each time I'd load a save. It happened several times that I'd get stuck on a save and die in a few seconds for X or Y reason (and at the time, HL1 didn't have autosave nor did it make several quicksaves, you were stuck on one quicksave) so it happened several times that I'd load a save for 5 mins, play a few seconds, die, reload save, etc

It was a nightmare but I ended up beating the game, it took me 3 days in a row on a vacation.

[Anonymous No.2330104]

MDK

First I played it from a demo disc at a friend's house, I was completely blown away by the game, the design and music was so fucking great.

That same day I borrowed that disc, installed at home and played the demo a shitload of times, then I told my father to get it for my birthday, he did, and that was probably the happiest day of my life.

The computer I had at the time was a K6-2 450mhz, with integrated graphics. Later I got a MX440, if I remember correctly.

MDK was my favorite game ever, untill I played New Vegas for like 400 hours, now those are my fav games of all time.

[NESfag No.2330112]

>>2330087
Although I seem to have had a thing with playing great games in terrible conditions.

Back in 1996 I had a demo of Duke Nukem 3D thanks to a demo on a PC video game magazine. I had a 486 dx4 100mhz and the best it could do was run the game at 320*200 with details set to low. Pic related, imagine this, fullscreen, it was hard to make out what some of the things were.

I had already played Doom, Wolf3D and various other clones, but needless to say I was completely blown away by DN3D and everything it offered (interaction, atmosphere, usermaps, etc) despite playing it in the worst possible conditions.

When we eventually changed computer for that 500mhz I mentionned, replaying DN3D to death in 800*600, smoothly, was the first thing I did; before even trying new games.

[Anonymous No.2330243]

GTA 1. I remember my older brother showing it to me and I was amazed of all the little details. It blew my mind that you could just step out of the car and get in any of the other car etc. That was the best game till I got Douk 3D which is still one of my all time favorite games.
Eventually I played Deus Ex which is the best game I have ever played and nothing has topped it. It's the kind of game that makes me feel warm when I think about it and I hum the soundtrack whenever I feel lonely.

[Anonymous No.2330249]

First pc game I evet played was escape from monkey island. Loved it

[Anonymous No.2330251]

>>2329883
all of them.

[Anonymous No.2330325]

I played HL2 on a machine with 512mb RAM, a Celeron and integrated graphics. World objects, barrels, creates etc, would only appears when they were about 2 feet away, the textures looked shit, the game took 5 minutes to load each map, but when it ran, it was flawless, and enjoyable as fuck.

Otherwise, HL1, masterpiece in it's own right and the hundreds of SP map packs over time.

[Anonymous No.2330342]

>>2329883

Outlaw, during that period i was watching leone's movies with my father and we had a new pc.
Good times.

[Anonymous No.2330345]

>>2329948
isn't this screen from the n-gage version?

[Anonymous No.2330442]

>>2329883
Mine was Starsiege Tribes, by a mile. That game was absolutely incredible and in many ways I think still has never really been matched. Those massive maps, massive games with like 40 people in them, those mod servers... ohh boy did I have a lot of fun back then.

[Anonymous No.2331710]

>>2330442
Tribes was the shit. I only played on TAC servers. Every time we were flying to the enemy base, Ride of the Valkyries would play in my head.

[Anonymous No.2331797]

Homeworld
Ground Control
Red Alert 1
Dark Reign
Total Annihilation
Tribes 2 (guess it's not /vr/ but close enough)
Half-Life 1

[Anonymous No.2332451]

>>2331710
I remember TAC servers! I really liked the Shifter mods so I would often go to those servers, but the core game was great too and that's where a lot of the really massive games were. That was back when I could spend days at a time playing games.

Also not that we can really talk about it here, but Tribes 2 was also the shit. I still have piles of screens from those days.

[Anonymous No.2332458]

My top 3

1. Quake with TF1
2. XCOM
3. Warcraft 2