Gaming Best pc games from a few years back?

[lpoolm]

So I've just built a pc, i5 processor, 8gb ram, dedicated graphics (can't currently remember which).
It was purely an emulation pc for an arcade cab I'm building but while I am setting the PC up thought I might get and run some old games on it, things I might have missed out on.
I have a ps4/switch which I hardly use so wouldn't mind something I'm not likely to have seen on these systems.
I know it won't run gta5, the new doom but there must be some games a few years old that it can run.
Would love some first person shooters or open world games?
Just got fear 3,not tried it yet but I did love the first one so hopefully it works?
Thanks in advance for your input.

 

[Magsor]

I would start by booting up boot up PSCX2. Use your PS4 controller with a software called ds4windows.
The PS2 has the most awesome library witch run shockingly good nowadays on PC it will run on your system so easy to set up.
As far as pc games go it depends there is so many free good games I am a lot into MMO myself lots of them free to play to many choices for you!!

 

[Deleted User]

having a graphics card model would help a ton with this kind of thing lol

 

[susi91]

Would love some first person shooters

I would start with the 'farcry' and/or 'crysis' series

 

[Deleted User]

well without knowing a gpu, what i know you likely can safely run, judging by the i5
the classic gta trilogy, gta 3, vice city, san andreas
half life 1 and 2
rayman 2 and 3
dragon age origins
heroes of might and magic 3, 4, 5
fallout 3 and new vegas
elder scrolls morrowind, oblivion, and likely skyrim
flatout and flatout 2
postal 2
psychonauts
system shock 2
saints row 3 (deceptively low system requirements)
call of duty 1 up to black ops 2
left 4 dead 1/2
far cry 3 blood dragon (i can run it on a high end workstation laptop from 2008)
crysis 1 and maybe 2
turok and turok 2
serious sam the first and second encounter, 2 and 3
team fortress 2
return to castle wolfenstein
far cry, far cry 2 and far cry 3
sims 1 and 2
fear 1 and 2
portal and portal 2
red faction guerilla (not remastered)
red faction 1
battlefield bad company 2
sonic adventure 1 and 2
sonic & sega all-stars racing
mafia 2
fable
jet set radio
bioshock, bioshock 2 and bioshock infinite
borderlands and borderlands 2

i know you said you preferred FPS and open world games but i listed everything i could think of anyway

 

[Mythical]

There's not really enough info about almost any of the specs to really give you a for sure list of games without going even farther back, but I can recommend a few that you should be able to play well.
Call of Duty World at War (for the custom zombie maps, best game for it imo)
tabletop simulator (great steam game that has almost every board/card game in existance on the workshop for one single price of $20)
Pretty much every 2d metroidvania should run well so stuff like Hollow Knight, Momodora, Timespinner, etc..
Layers of Fear is a pretty good horror game
Dishonored is pretty good (you should probably be able to play this one but I can't say for 100% certainty)
The list could go on forever

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well without knowing a gpu, what i know you likely can safely run, judging by
i know you said you preferred FPS and open world games but i listed everything i could think of anyway

idk about crysis or the later bioshock titles or the borderlands ones. Poor optimizations on bl games, and Crysis well it's Crysis

 

[Deleted User]

idk about crysis or the later bioshock titles or the borderlands ones. Poor optimizations on bl games, and Crysis well it's Crysis

even a first gen i5 dates the majority of this pc pretty well, so i feel fairly confident that he likely has somewhere around a gtx 550 or something higher than that as a gpu, which should be more than enough to run all of these

 

[lpoolm]

well without knowing a gpu, what i know you likely can safely run, judging by the i5
the classic gta trilogy, gta 3, vice city, san andreas
half life 1 and 2
rayman 2 and 3
dragon age origins
heroes of might and magic 3, 4, 5
fallout 3 and new vegas
elder scrolls morrowind, oblivion, and likely skyrim
flatout and flatout 2
postal 2
psychonauts
system shock 2
saints row 3 (deceptively low system requirements)
call of duty 1 up to black ops 2
left 4 dead 1/2
far cry 3 blood dragon (i can run it on a high end workstation laptop from 2008)
crysis 1 and maybe 2
turok and turok 2
serious sam the first and second encounter, 2 and 3
team fortress 2
return to castle wolfenstein
far cry, far cry 2 and far cry 3
sims 1 and 2
fear 1 and 2
portal and portal 2
red faction guerilla (not remastered)
red faction 1
battlefield bad company 2
sonic adventure 1 and 2
sonic & sega all-stars racing
mafia 2
fable
jet set radio
bioshock, bioshock 2 and bioshock infinite
borderlands and borderlands 2

i know you said you preferred FPS and open world games but i listed everything i could think of anyway

Thanks, that's a great list, half life 1/2 I have got, really good classics.
I will go on YouTube and check some of the others out!

 

[Deleted User]

Thanks, that's a great list, half life 1/2 I have got, really good classics.
I will go on YouTube and check some of the others out!

i could give a better list once you let us know what GPU you're running