I went to see my family for christmas vacation, and they have a really, really shitty computer. Luckily I brought my ok-ish laptop, it can't run sc2 (10 fps). atm i'm playing BW, so don't recommend it, I hit D+ on iccup but I really want something else to play. Ive been thinking about dota or wc3, but im not sure. So my question is, what games do you recommend, that don't require good specs, and don't cost too much money. (I have minecraft)

wizard944

194 Posts

December 20 2011 01:23 GMT

osu! It's really hard at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's really addicting. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=94258

ForJungSooYeon

Canada63 Posts

December 20 2011 01:24 GMT

hello kitty island adventure

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

December 20 2011 01:24 GMT

aoe 1/2
sim city
sim tower

Deleted User 183001

2939 Posts

December 20 2011 01:30 GMT

I am a huge fan of Doom 1-2, Heretic (<3 <3 <3), Duke Nukem 3D, Quake 1 and 2, Age of Empires 2, Hexen, Brood War and play their single player modes to this day.

Brutaxilos

United States2630 Posts

December 20 2011 01:30 GMT

minecraft :D

eh read it more carefully. i guess diablo 2? that game was so fun.

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

December 20 2011 01:32 GMT

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Goshawk.

United Kingdom5338 Posts

December 20 2011 01:32 GMT

Diablo 2, Warcraft 3:FT, dota, quake live, old rpgs (baldur's gate, etc), civ 4.

BobTheLob

Canada362 Posts

December 20 2011 01:33 GMT

what kind of games are you into? the original COD and MOHAA are both good FPS but for RTS AoE 1 or 2 for a TBS Civilizations or heroes of might and magic are both really good series

boon2537

United States905 Posts

December 20 2011 01:35 GMT

#10

Heroes IV, Baldur's Gate, Desktop Dungeon...there are so many games to choose from, really. What type of game do you want to play ?

VManOfMana

United States764 Posts

December 20 2011 01:35 GMT

#11

Altitude. Very addicting.

Deleted_143

Australia256 Posts

December 20 2011 01:36 GMT

#12

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palmerdabbelt

United States46 Posts

December 20 2011 01:36 GMT

#13

The Half-Life and (depending on your definition of a good computer) Half-Life 2. There are also many expansion packs for all of these, and good free mods. Right now on steam, the first Half-Life is $7.49 (including all expansions) and the pack of all valve games is $50 (it's a ton of games, so it's actually fairly cheap). Both have pretty good single player modes, and obviously the online play is great. http://store.steampowered.com/app/70.

If you laptop has a good CPU but a bad GPU (as many laptops do), you can try playing some of your old gamecube games using Dolphin http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/. It works pretty well for me (and combined with a USB xbox360 controller it feels pretty good, too). There are also emulators for older systems which tend to be lighter on CPU requirements.

If you have friends to LAN with, OpenArena http://openarena.ws/smfnews.php (a free, open-source Quake 3 Arena clone) is great. It has pretty much no system requirements and is free, which is great. IDK if anyone plays it online (I haven't ever tried, we just used to play it at LANs). There are some good mods for Quake 3 (I recommend World of Padman).

dartoo

India2889 Posts

December 20 2011 01:38 GMT

#14

How about brood war? CS, Quake live doesnt need a good pc too I'm guessing, but obviously needs a good connection. And any of the old rpgs mentioned above.

Heretic yes!! The first game I played on my cd-rom drive, it came with the creative 6x drive I bought, was so awesome!

nekoconeco

Australia359 Posts

December 20 2011 01:39 GMT

#15

Planescape Oblivion, Quake

Look on gog.com

Makaveli1

United States118 Posts

December 20 2011 01:41 GMT

#16

thanks for the quick comments. ill try dolphin out with my old gamecube shit. Ill try quake to. Can anyone give me like a rundown of wc3 or something? Or a wiki like liquipedia with a list of all the units and stuff? Is there a website like TL for wc3?
Do most people play on iccup? etc. etc.

Froadac

United States6733 Posts

December 20 2011 01:45 GMT

#17

Tremulous was good fun a couple yeasr ago, but I think the servers have sort of gone away