I got myself a new laptop, but can't for the life of me think of a game to play

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

So my ol' lappy486 was about to give out. The internal fan stopped, and it was overheating even with a cooling pad. And it was about a decade old, so I figured it was time to get a new one rather than try to fix the ol' girl.

So I got myself one of those new G Series dell laptops. A Dell G5 15, the high end one with the NVIDIA? GeForce? GTX 1060 and Intel? Core? i7-8750H Process.
And it just arrived and its like X100 times faster than my previous lappy that couldn't run Dawn of War 1 on full graphics. This new one can run Fallout 4 at full graphics, which to me is a pretty huge jump up. I wasn't looking for a gaming rig or the best ever, just a really solid and budget jump up.

But now that I have it...I can't think of what to do with it. My top choice was Cuphead, but I just finished Bloodborne so I'm not sure a hard boss-run game is the best choice. I'm looking at Agony but I want to wait for the ZP review first. Maybe that Battletech game I've heard is pretty good?

Thoughts? Ideas? Recommendations?

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

I didn't think 486's came in laptops.. Badum-tish. (dont worry, old folks will get it).

Haven't used a laptop myself, but wouldn't the game depend on whether you use it as a stand-in for a stationary (tower?) or on the go?
Does it feature a touchscreen?
And finally, what kind of genres or style of game do you like?

Some games I can recommend based on keyboard play only would be One Finger Death Punch, Cataclysm DDA, Nethack, Escape Velocity Nova (and its like; Transcendence, Flatspace, etc), Dwarf Fortress and Rogue Legacy.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

Well, Agony runs like hot garbage on a 980ti because of poor optimization, and that's not even mentioning the "meh"est gameplay ever.

 

[Elijin]

Forget all that nonsense and just dive into the 5-20 dollar indie game sections. I definitely didnt replace my also overheating laptop with something great to end up only playing games I could run on my phone.

 

[Potjeslatinist]

I don't know, man. What do you like? Do you like the stuff I like? Cause if so, I've got recommendations! If not, you have poor taste, sir, and I bid you adieu!

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Forget all that nonsense and just dive into the 5-20 dollar indie game sections. I definitely didnt replace my also overheating laptop with something great to end up only playing games I could run on my phone.

But why indie games? They seem like games with limited graphics and gameplay. It just seems like a waste to play I dunno, Raft or that house flipper game.

 

[Elijin]

Forget all that nonsense and just dive into the 5-20 dollar indie game sections. I definitely didnt replace my also overheating laptop with something great to end up only playing games I could run on my phone.

But why indie games? They seem like games with limited graphics and gameplay. It just seems like a waste to play I dunno, Raft or that house flipper game.

Open steam tags. Enter roguelike and roguelite. Enjoy. Be slightly sad that you thought indie games were limited in gameplay, or that graphics matter.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Forget all that nonsense and just dive into the 5-20 dollar indie game sections. I definitely didnt replace my also overheating laptop with something great to end up only playing games I could run on my phone.

But why indie games? They seem like games with limited graphics and gameplay. It just seems like a waste to play I dunno, Raft or that house flipper game.

Open steam tags. Enter roguelike and roguelite. Enjoy. Be slightly sad that you thought indie games were limited in gameplay, or that graphics matter.

Well graphics do matter. Minecraft looks terrible, and it'd totally throw me out of the experience. Not that good graphics are all that's needed, but it certainly helps and bad graphics shouldn't be given a pass just because its indie.

 

[Elijin]

Forget all that nonsense and just dive into the 5-20 dollar indie game sections. I definitely didnt replace my also overheating laptop with something great to end up only playing games I could run on my phone.

But why indie games? They seem like games with limited graphics and gameplay. It just seems like a waste to play I dunno, Raft or that house flipper game.

Open steam tags. Enter roguelike and roguelite. Enjoy. Be slightly sad that you thought indie games were limited in gameplay, or that graphics matter.

Well graphics do matter. Minecraft looks terrible, and it'd totally throw me out of the experience. Not that good graphics are all that's needed, but it certainly helps and bad graphics shouldn't be given a pass just because its indie.

No see, that's style choices. A game with bad graphics is something that tries to look like a triple A title, but looks like ass. A game done in 8 bit, 16 bit, hand drawn, cell shaded, animated....these are all styles. When you dismiss them as 'limited graphics' you just make it funnier for me the next time I read you being cynical about triple A releases.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

No see, that's style choices. A game with bad graphics is something that tries to look like a triple A title, but looks like ass. A game done in 8 bit, 16 bit, hand drawn, cell shaded, animated....these are all styles. When you dismiss them as 'limited graphics' you just make it funnier for me the next time I read you being cynical about triple A releases.

Style can be bad. Artistic choice is up to the creators, yes, but that doesn't mean it looks nice. cel-shaded to me looks terrible, its flat and wide and looks cheap. Same with 8bit and 18bit. It looks old, dated, like something from the late 80s/early 90s. Making something that looks old doesn't make it better, it just makes it look old.

Bad graphics isn't just aping AAA releases, its just being bad. And you can get that by either having bad textures and animations and glitchy physics, or you can choose to have it by using bit graphics. They may not be bad for the same reasons, but they're both bad.

 

[Elijin]

I feel like you dont understand the difference between "Thing x is bad." and "Thing x is not something I personally like."

A lot of the older styles are picked in the genre of games Im mentioning because they lend very well to precise pixel perfect chaos the action often asks from the player.

Here's a list of my favourites, play them dont play them, your life.

Botlike
Slay the Spire
Dead Cells
Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
Wizard of Legend
Enter the Gungeon
JYDGE
Sky Rogue
Rogue Stormers
Risk of Rain

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Most PC games don't push graphics much anymore, there's no modern Crysis for example. There's tons of great mid-tier/AA type games on PC, most of which are on the consoles now too. Stuff like the Divinity games are better than any AAA RPG or Shadow Tactics being the best stealth game in quite awhile. For graphical showcases, there's really just your AAA 3rd-party games running at higher resolutions and framerates of their console counterparts. Console and PC libraries are almost identical at this point outside of 1st-party exclusives for consoles and the hardcore strategy games like RTSs being exclusive to PC.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Witcher 3
Nier Automata
Just Cause 3
Skyrim SE
Darksiders 1 and 2 Remastered

Was Darksiders the Zelda/40k game?

 

[sXeth]

No see, that's style choices. A game with bad graphics is something that tries to look like a triple A title, but looks like ass. A game done in 8 bit, 16 bit, hand drawn, cell shaded, animated....these are all styles. When you dismiss them as 'limited graphics' you just make it funnier for me the next time I read you being cynical about triple A releases.

True enough. But you can be still be terrible at using whatever style. There's a lot of pixel-art games that just end up being muddy washed together messes because they don't know how to give stuff edges within that framework (or they try and have both sides, with pixels but full colour spectrums and gradients). Dead Cells suffers from a bit of it (particularly given the added visual noise some of its fire effects and stuff have) for instance.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I didn't think 486's came in laptops.. Badum-tish. (dont worry, old folks will get it).

What, am I the only one who recognized the dated Homestar Runner reference there?

OT: I'm currently far too into Rimworld at the moment. It's a blast, but I keep getting my very best craftsmen killed just as they become skilled enough to start making really good stuff!

Too bad Hippo seems to have given up his let's play of it (and also dropped off the face of the site :/)
Was fun reading about the WW conquering an alien planet.

 

[Saelune]

If I got a new computer, I would use it to play DOOM and Dark Souls 3, cause that is apparently just past the line of what my computer can handle...but that is cause I like DOOM and Dark Souls and I already bought them and they are just sitting in my Steam library.

 

[Squilookle]

Minecraft looks terrible, and it'd totally throw me out of the experience. Not that good graphics are all that's needed, but it certainly helps and bad graphics shouldn't be given a pass just because its indie.

First up, yes graphics should get a pass if it's indie. They don't have the budget or the art department for it.

Secondly, If you really think graphics are important, you'll never find happiness as a gamer, because you'll always be chasing the cutting edge that renders everything you have obsolete. Gameplay is far more important than graphics. Once you realise that you'll find far more freedom in great games from any era and every kind of budget.

 

[Potjeslatinist]

Yeah, graphics aren't super-important, but they aren't not important either. In my opinion. I don't need everything to look photo-realistic, but at least it needs to have a style. I passed on the free Xenonauts this week, because it looked bland AF. There's this Windows 3.1 greyness and flatness to everything. Maybe it's shallow (and I really don't think I'm a shallow gamer, or person for that matter), but stuff like that can put me off.