First video game you had/wanted to upgrade your computer for

[swagfag]

I think I might be showing my age here, but Lego Chess was the first game that actually required 4MB of VRAM on a video card, something that I didn't realize was different from having 4MB of RAM in the computer at the time. Let me tell you, this was a big surprise and crash course into what the heck was inside a computer, and looking back a decade and a half later, it was a great learning experience that shaped the way I look at computing.  Then again, when I stop to think that my current GTX980 has a factor of 10^3 more than this requirement from my childhood, I feel old.

 

you shouldnt feel old, you should feel fast

[Tsuki]

guildwars 1.  i used to play in on this super shitty laptop. trying tanking as a perma-sin with 10-20 fps back in the good ol' days where it was difficult. also 600/smite having to micro my heroes.   i got really good at everything, and was by far better than anybody else i knew. when i finally got a computer that could properly handle it at over 45fps.. holy crap it was hard to get used to, i sucked at everything all of a sudden(completely threw off my timing). but it felt so damn good

[totjup5]

Star Wars Battlefront 2

[Orcblood]

Blacklight Retribution and crysis demo... 

[mayu]

GTA 4, Battlfield Bad Company 2

GTA 4 was completely unplayable on my P4+5750 HD. 

BFBC 2 was playable, but I wanted to play at highest graphics

Waited almost a 8-9 months for new system

[bry.yyyy]

Watch_Dogs

[Octagoncow]

I remember being disappointed in my laptop's performance with Warcraft 3, but I didn't bother upgrading until I wanted to play Crysis.

[The Crazed Child]

Oh my god, FSX so much. It's the reason I got into computers in the first place.

[naokiJ0510]

for me, its Far Cry 3... because im only running on a Pentium G630 and a Radeon 5570 

 

its playable but i want more quality...

[ACatWithThumbs]

Battlefield 3 went form a ps3 to a GTX670  

[swagfag]

Watch_Dogs

they almost ruined the need to have performance on that game

[MEC-777]

For me it was Rollcage back in 1999. I needed more ram (32mb wasn't enough) and I also ended up buying a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 graphics card. After that, it ran like butter.

[qu3becker]

I had to buy a DVD drive to be able to install Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. Most of the games I wanted were available on CD.