>>723725540
>be me in 2003
>looking for a new MMO after falling off My First MMO (Everquest: Online Adventures for PS2, objectively trash)
>obsess over FFXI for months, perfectly crafting the void in my soul for this perfect japanese escapism
>Christmas rolls around and I get it for PC
>Know nothing about computer specs and hardware and gaming at the time was playing SC:BW on the old family computer
>Sit on this install screen for ten hours watching the update slowly tick up with the ALAYYYLEEEEUHHHHHHH music
>read the user manual multiple times while I wait, imagine how I'll make a galka or a tarutaru
>finally ready to go
>watch hype as fuck opening movie
>game crashes
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhhrUuw2N8
>try everything my feeble young brain can think of to troubleshoot ("maybe intel graphics has a setting...")
>game WILL not load no matter what I do (guess you need a graphics card and more than 128mb of DDR200 ram )
>crash
>crash
>crash
>an entire weekend wasted troubleshooting + a significantly expensive christmas gift wasted
I was so fucking sad lmao. A year later I bought picrel and finally, blissfully, could play at an astounding 25 fps at 1280x1024 resolution.