Suggest a good game to play on my shi*** computer!

[steeple]

netstorm... great game and you can find it for free in google (legaly, that is... dont give me that look!)

 

[Kayevcee]

*runs in* System Shock 2! Also System Shock 1.

SS2 ran on my original computer- a P120 with a "classic" 3DFX card. 1.35 million triangles per second, baby! I think my mobile phone could outrun it now.

There's always emulators - no legal issues if you've got the console and games in the attic, and Super Mario 3 is so awesome they just released it again

-Nick

 

[SquirrelPants]

Dwarf Fortress

That game actually puts a ton of stress on computers, in my experience. Depending on the number of dwarfs and the size of the fortress and stuff, it could easily trump The Sims 2.


Also, X-Com: UFO Defense. [http://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/] It's a turn-based strategy game released in '93 and is one of my favorite video games ever. If you like money management, base management, and turn-based strategy, this is a great game for you to have.

 

[pedobearlongcatlazor]

Now, I am primarily a console gamer, the reason for this, however, is not because I have any particular fondness for consoles over the computer, but mostly because I simply can't afford a top of the line gaming computer. Nonetheless, I do still feel the desire to play a computer game from time to time, and that, dear friends, is why I have come to you.

What I'm working with here is a laptop that really can't handle much. I play the Sims 2 sometimes, and usually that's fine, though it can start to run a little slow when I build a really big house. So, thinking in terms of "games that would put less stress on my computer than the Sims 2" is a handy approach. All that said, because I've never really had a good gaming computer, I've never really learned a lot about all the computer games that are available.

That's where you all come in, suggest some good games that my computer could handle without hacking up a processor before dying a slow and painful death. I like a lot of variety in my gaming diet, so go ahead and suggest anything you've enjoyed. I was thinking of possibly downloading the first Fallout off of Steam, but before I went ahead and did that, I thought I'd come here and ask if anyone had any better ideas. That said, suggest away, I'm all ears.

try flash websites

 

[big_shaq12]

One word Crysis!

and on a serious note any of the old civilization games.

 

[Junkle]

World of Goo
Starcraft
Diablo 1 and 2
Star Wars: Jedi Academy (just restarted this recently, and have been having lots of fun chopping people's limbs off.)
Kotor, if you can play that.
Deus Ex
Warcraft 3
Age of Empires 2
Halo (the original one)

All good choices. Go forth and conquer. Also, I refer you to xkcd.
http://xkcd.com/606/

 

[Chancie]

American McGee's Alice

It's old, but it's still really really really good.

 

[k3v1n]

FPS: Counter-strike 1.6/Condition Zero, Halo CE, Warrock, Half-Life(and it's expansions), etc
RTS: Starcraft, Red Alert 2, Warcraft 3, etc
RPG: no idea, not to fond of them

so yeah, hope it helped

 

[zombie711]

any crapy laptop from 2005 can handle portal so I would sugest that

 

[Savagezion]

Crap alot has been mentioned...

Try to see if you can find the pack that gives you Fallout 1,2, and Fallout tactics.
-Arcanum (RPG)
-Neverwinter Nights (RPG)
-Morrowwind (RPG)
-KOTOR 1&2 (RPG)
-Planetscape Torment (RPG)
-Temple of Elemental Evil (RPG)
-Baulder's Gate 2 (RPG)

-Diablo 1&2 (Adventure)

-Tropico 1 (SIM)
-RollerCoaster 1 (3 also may run) (SIM)

-Age of Empires 2 (RTS)
-Rise of Nations (RTS)
-Starcraft (RTS)

-X-com (TBS)
-Civilization 3 (TBS)

-Plus, I hear really good things about system shock. Someone already mentioned it.

Those should all run on your computer.

 

[Delusibeta]

Generally speaking, anything gog.com sells, except perhaps King's Bounty and Driver: Parallel Lines.

 

[evc1989]

Fallout 1 and 2 work fine on systems with low graphical capabilities. My system almost crashed when I tried loading Portal, but I've spent the last few days having a ball with the first Fallout.

Half-Life. If your computer can take the Sims 2, it can handle Half-Life

 

[herpaderphurr]

TF2?

Oh God, you'd be surprised at how demanding TF2 actually is.

 

[sheic99]

Most of the stuff on here. [http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/]

 

[Nmil-ek]

Trying not to repeat what others have reccomended lets go alittle more obscure then.

Warcraft III and TFT, I blow at RTS and it's still fully playable fun story, fun units and dripping with 80s pop culture humour. Gothic II is nice although really dated, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines Impossible to find and buggy as hell if but you do manage to a freaking classic looks like it's graphics intensive but it's really not, fairly well optimised. Uhh Titans quest? It's pretty much Diablo II lite not bad but meh.

 

[Destal]

Mass Effect possibly?

 

[Booze Zombie]

Fallout 1-2 are the most undemanding games ever made, IMO.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Most of the stuff on here. [http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/]

Supporting this almost everything on that page is awsome, NOT Vampire the Masquerade Redemption however titanic piece of shit. Bloodlines classic, Redemption can go to hell.