Games Whose Requirements Surprised You

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  1. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    Just curious about games that had system requirements that made you go like... "Wait, really?"

    For me, it would be Fall Guys. I bought it to play with some friends, but the game was stupidly laggy, and it honestly baffled me how that cute fluffy game could run so horribly... Then I checked the system requirements and found out it needed a whooping 8GB of RAM (I have 4GB in my 7 years old laptop) to run properly... I honestly couldn't believe it. How bad can your optimization be to require 8GB of RAM for that kind of game? Seriously...

    So... Just curious about everyone else, what were your experiences with games that had absurd spec requirements to the point you couldn't quite believe what you were seeing~?

    *waits for comments from people with high-end PCs that never even look at system requirements for the games they wanna play*
     
  2. Evil_Ginger

    Evil_Ginger 『Lawful Neutral』『Cheese Master』『安德鲁』

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    Hamski Well-Known Member

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    I don't know the first thing about specs or requirements, but I do know I was always confused that Minecraft turned my computer into a potato.
     
  4. Anra7777

    Anra7777 All powerful magic grammar hamster queen pirate.

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    I had this reaction many times after getting a Mac and realizing that I couldn’t play most games anymore. :blobReach: I still chose not having my computer crash and need to be repaired every other month over playing games, but it still hurts when I see a game that looks amazing (or nostalgic, like “Chip’s Challenge,”) and then discover I can’t play it all. I tried for a couple of years to do the whole, partition-your-computer-and-put-Windows-on-the-partition thing, but it ran like c—, and I got sick of it.
     
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  5. Osamaru

    Osamaru 『Shem's Best Pal ✧ Lexi's Ani ✧ Hamster's Keeper』

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    XD After FINALLY Upgrading my 10 year old comp, I can finally brag about being in this group, hahahahha!
    https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/39302374
     
  6. Havisu

    Havisu Night Lurker

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    World of Tank...

    Looking at the graphic, you wouldn't believe that it ran perfectly fine on my old pc with Intel Core 2 Duo + Ati Radeon HD4500..

    I played that game on that pc since I was 13 til I was 18.. then I got my own laptop
     
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  7. lunarshadow

    lunarshadow Well-Known Member

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    Guh... I don't think I've had 4 GB of RAM in a machine since x64 came out.
    That being said I'll just leave this image here from a few years ago:
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  8. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    Ooooooh, it surprised you in the exact opposite way it surprised me~

    Still nice nonetheless~
    8GB is still way too expensive over here. Cheapest 8GB laptop I could find costed 3x what I earn in a month... It's too much.

    In any case, this reminds me of the system requirements of 20XX~
     
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    Something that amazed and baffled me was that Deep rock galactic is only 2GB. The entire game not the RAM needed.
     
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    I'm going to need a source for that there set of requirements bud. They aren't up to spec.
     
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  11. Fluffinya

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    league ig, my vga gave out recently and i was played it expecting it to work at least decently without a vga but i got like 10 fps with the lowest settings. never really looked at the requirements for league but once i get my vga and i have to reinstall my games, i should definitely check what requirements it needs.
     
  12. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    RPGM MV stuff, games that run on MV kinda laggy compared to other RPGM type, not all MV laggy tho~

    VN on RPGM, yeah there are Visual Novel style on RPGM games... this cat found it by accident... you know da usual stuff just pick choice then story flow~
    oh what is RPGM?
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG_Maker

    PlayStation 2 simulator, now this was long time ago kinda when da simulator still not final or something~ basically this cat laptop graphic card incompatible with da program so yeah fail~ after those twist and turn searching PS 2 bios and asked here and there.... fail... lul
    maybe oneday this cat will install PS 2 simulator again cuz this cat still have bunch of PS 2 games dvd ya know~
     
  13. lunarshadow

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    https://store.steampowered.com/app/250420/8BitMMO/
    I figured that would have been fixed when steam cracked down on developers giving crappy system requirements... but apparently it's still there.
     
  14. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    PCSX2 works fine on most computers I believe, though poorly optimized games still run poorly...

    I remember having to play Digimon World 4 at 30 FPS because my laptop couldn't handle it... That was annoying... But other PS2 games ran very smoothly.

    I think it depends more on the game itself than on the emulator.
    I think they allow people to put joke requirements when their game can run on a toaster~
     
  15. Ddraig

    Ddraig Frostfire Dragon|Retired lurker|FFF|Loved by RNG

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    wdym? Pcxs2 runs pretty fine, it runs pretty well on integrated graphics too. But again if you are trying for something like downsampling from 16x res or something then yeah, might need graphics card.
     
  16. lavendidi

    lavendidi First of Her Name, Lover of Cliches

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    Not to the point where I was baffled by the rules of the game since I like watching short run-throughs of various plays but I was equally surprised and in love, plus even more so frustrated when I downloaded Genshin Impact both on my phone and laptop only to find out it is both incompatible with the game. Believe me when I say it got to the point where I was even jealous with other kids younger than me playing it in their devices, and even moreso when I was the only one who couldn't get on the game within my circle of close friends.
     
  17. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    nah like this cat said it was long time ago during initiation, this cat pull many so called easy games where it been tested hmm around 2006 to 2008? iirc pcsx2 still update list games that can't run, run with problem and few trick to play, how to switch jp, EU then NA bios blablabla~ last times this cat try it on 2010 given been decade most problem should be solved....
    this cat feel old~
     
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  18. A5G_Reaper

    A5G_Reaper [DCLXVI, sohyee, and iampsyx's cute imouto]

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    Games with similar requirement could still have different performance for some eldritch reason. Like, I could barely run Dishonored 2 but the DLC (which is basically an exact same game with same requirement but different campaign, idk why it's separate) is completely unplayable.

    Still, the old potato is doing okay all things considered. Saving money to upgrade so I can run some of the better stuff from the past 5~ years >.>
     
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  19. asriu

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    nay on early time just enter da window screen with no temper here and there may fail~ with current pc build or laptop it should be fine~ this cat try it on early phase where you still need find which bios can play which game
     
  20. Nightow1

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    ......
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    *remembers when games came on 4x 1.44 MB diskettes*
    You know, just 10 years ago, games never used the word GIGAbyte? lol.
     
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