timppu: I recall how miffed I was that my PC, which I thought was still pretty powerful at the time, had hard time trying to run Magic Carpet and System Shock in hires (640x400/480). I think it barely ran them in hires (10-15 fps or so, just guessing), but for smooth gameplay, I really needed to run them in low resolution.
Nice thing though those games had hires modes (even if it made many PCs back then "obsolete"), as now I can play both in hires with smooth as glass gameplay, even running in DOSBox.
In ten years, I will be playing The Witcher 3 with all bells and whistles (all the fur showing, even the hair on the protagonist's armpits), and not even breaking sweat. It will be worth it.
This is pretty much what I think too. xD