games that can run on potato PC(s)

for a whole year i was looking for new games ive gone crazy! i only hot 4gb of ram and a shit graphic card what good games are there?? i beg for good games ive been game deprived for a whole damn year!!

edit: im not looking for retro games

(by retro i mean like doom-quake-y games"

1 minute ago, Patrick_Plays_Doom said:

FOR A WHOLE YEAR I WAS LOOKING FOR NEW GAMES IVE GONE CRAZY! I ONLY HOT 4GB OF RAM AND A SHIT GRAPHIC CARD WHAT GOOD GAMES ARE THERE?? I BEG FOR GOOD GAMES IVE BEEN GAME DEPRIVED FOR A WHOLE DAMN YEAR

Grungo pities Patrick, Grungo suggest buy better computer and save more sea dollars, and get side hustle

2 minutes ago, Grungo said:

Grungo pities Patrick, Grungo suggest buy better computer and save more sea dollars, and get side hustle

im country mine new pc too expensive

1 minute ago, Patrick_Plays_Doom said:

im country mine new pc too expensive

Grungo pities, but Grungo reccomend San Andreas, the og version.

1 minute ago, Grungo said:

Grungo pities, but Grungo reccomend San Andreas, the og version.

Thanky for recommendation, i will try soon :D

Just now, Patrick_Plays_Doom said:

Thanky for recommendation, i will try soon :D

But grungo still reccomend saving, one sea dollar a day could make big difference many moons later on regardless

There's a game called Barony that's a swell dungeon crawler! It's pretty fun.

You could pick up Cave Story, it's an old indie game from 2004-ish that i'm sure can run on a potato pc.

You could pick up the original free version on the Cave Story Tribute Site or get the newer Cave Story+ on Steam for a cheep price.

And, not to be a goober, but: There is the ENTIRE UNIVERSE of Abandonware sites....... with ancient DOS games on them. I finally made friends with DOSBox and it also has a cool front-end (DeFend Re-loaded).........

Doom

XCOM Enemy Unknown 

Syndicate 

Deus Ex

System Shock 

Daggerfall 

Command and Conquer 

Blood

Duke Nukem 3D

Quake

Quake 2

Thief

Thief 2

Have you tried Dusk? The minimum RAM requirement is 2GB, and the minimum graphics card is a GT9800, which is a 512MB graphics card, and those cards are going for fifteen dollars on Ebay right now. 

And it's a really, really good game. You might not be able to play the HD version without slowdown, but I'm pretty sure you could play the original version just fine.

Also: Post system specs. Saying you have a shitty graphics card doesn't really help. 

Hotline Miami

Baba is You

Heroes of might and magic 3, fun game made in 1999. It holds up well. 

el monkey island y el worms armageddon

3 hours ago, Jello said:

Have you tried Dusk? The minimum RAM requirement is 2GB, and the minimum graphics card is a GT9800, which is a 512MB graphics card, and those cards are going for fifteen dollars on Ebay right now. 

 

And it's a really, really good game. You might not be able to play the HD version without slowdown, but I'm pretty sure you could play the original version just fine.

 

Also: Post system specs. Saying you have a shitty graphics card doesn't really help. 

Seconding both of these.

Dusk got me back into PC gaming when I had a potato PC and it gave me a distorted view on what I could actually run.

But definitely post your specs, along with what type of games you like. You gotta help us help you, OP.

And while we're waiting, I have to ask...

5 hours ago, Grungo said:

Grungo pities Patrick, Grungo suggest buy better computer and save more sea dollars, and get side hustle

What does a side hustle look like for an esteemed gentleman such as yourself, Grungo? What type of opportunities were around in the Paleolithic era for budding entrepreneurs?

What kind of GPU and CPU do you have?

Might help to elaborate on what sorts of games you like. I'm sure Cats Organized Neatly would run on just about anything, but I don't know if you'd be interested in it at all.

Battlefield 2, 3, 4, bad company 2, chronicles of riddick escape from butcher bay, half life, half-life 2s, counter-strike 1.6, condition zero, source, chaser total recall, starcrafts, warcrafts, call of dutys and other shit ton of good games like doom, quake, quake 2, 3, 4, doom 3, duke nukem 3d that don't need to a busty pc.

28 minutes ago, Shepardus said:

Might help to elaborate on what sorts of games you like. I'm sure Cats Organized Neatly would run on just about anything, but I don't know if you'd be interested in it at all.

I loved that game 😺

I'd never heard this term before..

So I'll leave this link here for anyone else who might've been as clueless as me:

Potato PC

2 hours ago, Daytime Waitress said:

 

Seconding both of these.

Dusk got me back into PC gaming when I had a potato PC and it gave me a distorted view on what I could actually run.

But definitely post your specs, along with what type of games you like. You gotta help us help you, OP.

 

And while we're waiting, I have to ask...

 

 

What does a side hustle look like for an esteemed gentleman such as yourself, Grungo? What type of opportunities were around in the Paleolithic era for budding entrepreneurs?

Me work at rock plant and when work is done, me yell 'YABBA DABBA DOO!!!" and slid on dinosaur

9 hours ago, Patrick_Plays_Doom said:

for a whole year i was looking for new games ive gone crazy! i only hot 4gb of ram and a shit graphic card what good games are there?? i beg for good games ive been game deprived for a whole damn year

edit: im not looking for retro games

(by retro i mean like doom-quake-y games"

Gaming is hard when you have a bad pc. I do, and I find that getting one game that you can play for a long time is way easier than trying to play many games.

Terraria is long and replayable (and addictive), with low enough settings I'd be surprised if you still can't run it reasonably well. I sunk an ungodly amount of time into Nuclear throne grinding highscores. Online chess may suck you in but it's not for everyone obviously. Geometry dash has essentially endless content with the custom levels. A not very popular niche is the traditional roguelikes rabbit hole, again not for everyone but brogue (it's free) is a good way to get into them.

For "single experience" games that are meant to be played once or a few times without massive replayability consider speedrunning to get more out of them if you liked the game enough. A few of them: Cave story (free), hotline miami 1&2, katana zero (short but very fun to speedrun, has a built in speedrun mode), chrono trigger, deadbolt, gunpoint.

2 hours ago, prfunky said:

I'd never heard this term before..

 

So I'll leave this link here for anyone else who might've been as clueless as me:

Potato PC

 

I always assumed it was a reference to the science experiment of using a potato to illuminate a light bulb. But apparently it's referring to Oblivion, and damn I'm old.

I never knew the term "Potato PC" was something that came from Oblivion. I'm shocked that there's anyone who hasn't heard the term though. I think I've encountered it on a very regular basis for what seems like a decade.

4 minutes ago, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

I never knew the term "Potato PC" was something that came from Oblivion

If someone wants to do more research on the etymology of it than Generic Gaming Site I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but that 100% sounds like some urbandictionary-tier shit they pulled out of their arse.

1 hour ago, Daytime Waitress said:

If someone wants to do more research on the etymology of it than Generic Gaming Site I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but that 100% sounds like some urbandictionary-tier shit they pulled out of their arse.

It really does. I think most people have the same understanding of the term as @Jello: that it's referring to the fact that your PC is so weak it might as well be a potato, since everyone has at least heard about using potatoes for power.

@Patrick_Plays_Doom, what model is your graphics card? If I want to suggest some games that can run well on your graphics card, you'll need to be specific.

2 minutes ago, Panzermann11 said:

@Patrick_Plays_Doom, what model is your graphics card? If I want to suggest some games that can run well on your graphics card, you'll need to be specific.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz

RAM: 4GB

System type: 64bit

Windows: 7

3 minutes ago, Patrick_Plays_Doom said:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz

RAM: 4GB

System type: 64bit

Windows: 7

What about your graphics card? Nvidia? AMD? Anything?