I built a $3,000 performance desktop a few years back, and the main games games I ended up playing on it were things like FTL, Shovel Knight, SNES emulators, and other games that could be run on an overclock ham sandwich.
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Really curious what a $3000 performance bulld looks like
A few years back, a really nice graphics card was like $650, so $3,000 got you a lot of performance.
Unlike these days when it looks like 3000$ will get you a GPU and a water block for that GPU, if you want to spread your budget as thick as possible.
Wasn’t the original Titan like 1000$ and considered a ludicrously expensive piece of luxury tech?
CDDA: it's basically an immersive sim with zombies and mutants in an ascii new england. Sprites optional;
Stardew valley: haha ancient fruit wine go brrr;
Morrowind: whiff. whiff. cliff racer screech. the sounds of a wood elf screaming from the heavens and splattering on the pavement;
An SNES emulator: there's like an entire library to play here;
Seconding to emulation, for open world RPG you may find a lot of them on older consoles like pre-Gen 7 consoles (PS3/X360). To OP, assuming emlation is compliant with law on your country, older games are great too if you don't mind delving pre-2010s games.
I just stumbled upon something called "Doki Doki Literature Club".
Yes or No?
Yes! Don't read anything about it. Go in blind.
Just finished it.
9/10, realistic depiction of my dating experience.
Another suggestion for a "mystery type" visual novel:
Everlasting Summer
It has some heavy Soviet vibes as well, it's so good, very atmospheric.
If you liked it and wanna try another Visual Novel, you might wanna try YOU and ME and HER.
Much less horror but similar in other ways, and one of my favorites because of the denpa vibes.
My laptop is WAY WORSE than yours and I could play Fallout: New Vegas with ease.
Edit: I didn't read the RPG part 😅
cracktorio
Almost everything I play is just 2D indie games, practically any 2D game should run just fine on that.
There are so many great 2D games I could rattle off that I almost don't know where to start. But since you mentioned RPGs, I am legally obligated to shill CrossCode at any opportunity.
I really should go back and finish it... I played CrossCode up until after the ice dungeon but never got around to going further. It's an S tier game for sure.
Thanks for the recommendation! Feel free to rattle off your top 3 2D games, too.
Aw YESS! CrossCode rooooooccckksss!! flails excitedly to emphasize this fact! \ö/!!
Double Cross is neat too :3 https://graffiti-games.itch.io/double-cross Not as <3 as CrossCode, though. Not much is :3
Should have a good time with hollow Knight
Skullgirls is the best game you can play on any machine, and it will run on that laptop. But if you're mostly interested in RPGs, check out the Pillars of Eternity games, especially the second one. Wasteland 2 will likely run on that thing just fine.
based Skullgirls enjoyer
I just started Pillars.
Great suggestion, thanks! Also bought Wasteland 2 (with the current sale, I think I bought 10 great old games for $20) and will try that next.
Awesome! That first one can be a lot of combat, but it is good combat, and Pillars 2 is, in my opinion, just a better game in every way that the first game feels lacking.
I've bought both. The first one feels a lot like what I remember from the old DnD games (Baldurs Gate 1+2, Temple of Elemental Evil, Icewind Dale) and it seems to be very well-designed.
But if it turns into a slog, I'll definitely try the second part before giving up. I already like the lore a lot.
Inscription! FTL faster than light! Dicey dungeons!
5 years is a reasonable age but you'll need to post your full specs.
Thanks, edited it into the post.
Mine is not dissimilar and it runs BG3 on low settings.
What specs do you have? A laptop with an i5 10th gen CPU would definitely not be able to run BG3. My older laptop with a GTX 1060 would barely run it over 40fps lowest settings.
It's a surface book 3. I'm out of office at the moment so the comparison is from memory alone, sorry if I was significantly off.
Further wrinkle: I run it from an external SSD.
Not an RPG but is open world: Hyper Light Drifter
I've run it on a potato laptop before, so it should run fine.
Tf2
Not really an RPG, more of a action adventure, but Far Cry 3 will probably run well enough. I played it on a much worse laptop when I was in highschool.
wouldn't it be ddr4? I think since 6th Gen Intel.
There's no way they have a 10th Gen processor with ddr3. Must be a mistake or typo somewhere.
I bet you could get BG3 running on it at low-mid settings.
Also the Witcher series should work fine.
Plainscape torment. Thanks me later.
Already played it. So I thank you now.
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Well, play Skyrim then!
1 playthrough for every re-release, just as Todd intended
Such laptops are at the low end. But, if you have a really good Internet connection, you could expand your options a lot with GeForce Now. Basically a paid service to use cloud servers to render your game; surrendering an often-unnoticeable delay in response time. They have a free tier worth trying.
I would recommend DosBox paired with Catacomb Abyss
Hades
Hades 2
Tunic
Sea of Stars
Kingdom Come Délivrance on a Lenovo Legion with 4700 graphic card. Also Horizon Zero Down