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Makaveli1
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States118 Posts
December 20 2011 01:21 GMT
#1
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)

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wizard944
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
194 Posts
December 20 2011 01:23 GMT
#2
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
Kassar DeTemplari
ForJungSooYeon
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Canada63 Posts
December 20 2011 01:24 GMT
#3
hello kitty island adventure
OTL
Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
December 20 2011 01:24 GMT
#4
aoe 1/2
sim city
sim tower
Deleted User 183001
Profile Joined May 2011
2939 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-20 01:30:59
December 20 2011 01:30 GMT
#5
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
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2633 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-20 01:32:37
December 20 2011 01:30 GMT
#6
minecraft :D

eh read it more carefully. i guess diablo 2? that game was so fun.
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fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
December 20 2011 01:32 GMT
#7
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
December 20 2011 01:32 GMT
#8
Diablo 2, Warcraft 3:FT, dota, quake live, old rpgs (baldur's gate, etc), civ 4.
BobTheLob
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada362 Posts
December 20 2011 01:33 GMT
#9
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
BobTheLob Lurker extraordinaire
boon2537
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
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
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States764 Posts
December 20 2011 01:35 GMT
#11
Altitude. Very addicting.
Woo Jung Ho, FIGHTING! | "With the death of BW comes the death of an idea. And that idea, held by many BW fans, was that a computer game could actually outlive the Next New Game cycle. And to some extent it did." -Falling
Deleted_143
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia256 Posts
December 20 2011 01:36 GMT
#12
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palmerdabbelt
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
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
Profile Joined May 2010
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
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia359 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-20 01:39:22
December 20 2011 01:39 GMT
#15
Planescape Oblivion, Quake

Look on gog.com
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Makaveli1
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
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
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
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
Urth
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States1256 Posts
December 20 2011 01:50 GMT
#18
torchlight is really good, and has very very low requirements
BY.HERO FIGHTING!!!!
howerpower
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States619 Posts
December 20 2011 01:53 GMT
#19
cave story is awesome
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
December 20 2011 01:56 GMT
#20
Battle for Wesnoth is a really nice TBS tactical game. It should run on anything.

http://www.wesnoth.org/
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
Synwave
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2803 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-20 01:58:57
December 20 2011 01:58 GMT
#21
Might I suggest Dungeons of Dredmore, its a roguelike with a lot of humor and fun. Runs on basically a computer with gameboy color computer power.

Last I checked it costs like 5 bucks on steam.
♞Nerdrage is the cause of global warming♞
Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
December 20 2011 02:03 GMT
#22
Thief, the good one, I can't remember whether that was the second or third one in the series.
Enki
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2548 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-20 02:13:23
December 20 2011 02:03 GMT
#23
Deus Ex, Psychonauts, Penumbra.
"Practice, practice, practice. And when you're not practicing you should be practicing. It's the only way to get better. The only way." I run the Smix Fanclub!
Porcelina
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3249 Posts
December 20 2011 02:04 GMT
#24
If you have not played them,

Baldur's Gate: Complete
Baldur's Gate II: Complete
Planescape: Torment

They are all 50% off on www.gog.com at the moment. They are from around 2000, will run on just about anything and are simply stunning games if you have any interest in RPGs at all.

Each game is up for 4.99. Just silly not to buy them for that price.
Synwave
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2803 Posts
December 20 2011 02:08 GMT
#25
On December 20 2011 11:04 Porcelina wrote:
If you have not played them,

Baldur's Gate: Complete
Baldur's Gate II: Complete
Planescape: Torment

They are all 50% off on www.gog.com at the moment. They are from around 2000, will run on just about anything and are simply stunning games if you have any interest in RPGs at all.

Each game is up for 4.99. Just silly not to buy them for that price.


Hey thanks for this, I haven't played torment in years and loved it. I want to replay..a 3rd time after losing my discs
♞Nerdrage is the cause of global warming♞
Kerotan
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
England2111 Posts
December 20 2011 02:17 GMT
#26
Terraria is great fun, I spent far too many hours on it.
Nerdette // External revolution - Internal revolution // Fabulous // I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity // I don't know what to ask for // What has it got for me? // Kerribear
kirdie
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany221 Posts
December 20 2011 02:22 GMT
#27
super meat boy (included in the new humble bundle 4)
space chem
day of the tentacle
sh4w
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States713 Posts
December 20 2011 02:24 GMT
#28
When I don't feel like playing BW, I like to play SNES games on an emu.
Also back when I had a crap computer I played alot of CS1.6 and Final Fantasy 8.
I want to go back to being weird. I like being weird. Weird is all I've got. That and my sweet style.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 20 2011 02:32 GMT
#29
If you want an RTS, Red Alert: The Aftermath was great.
Bswhunter
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia954 Posts
December 20 2011 02:32 GMT
#30
On December 20 2011 10:56 Fontong wrote:
Battle for Wesnoth is a really nice TBS tactical game. It should run on anything.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Was going to post about it, but then I saw this post.
I can vouch for that. Its very addicting. Dont know about the mutliplayer community thou.
Stop browsing and do whatever it is you're supposed to do. TL will still be here when you get back
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
December 20 2011 02:43 GMT
#31
On December 20 2011 10:41 Makaveli1 wrote:
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.

I asked a lot of these same questions once upon a time and I learned a bunch of things. Try sorting through here. I never compiled anything into the OP but a lot of people were super helpful and gave a lot of good information/resources etc.
Makaveli1
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States118 Posts
December 20 2011 02:44 GMT
#32
thx bibbit that was exactly what i was looking for
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
December 20 2011 02:48 GMT
#33
Heroes of Might and Magic 3,
Broken Sword 1 and 2
The Nomad Soul
Rayman 1
ॐ
Telcontar
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom16710 Posts
December 20 2011 02:53 GMT
#34
SNES roms. Chrono Trigger, FF4/6.....etc.
Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta.
Fishgle
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States2174 Posts
December 20 2011 03:07 GMT
#35
o god. i'm in the same boat OP. I might end up doing an 8 hour drive just to get my computer.
aka ChillyGonzalo / GnozL
Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-20 05:11:31
December 20 2011 03:19 GMT
#36
How shitty is shitty? Fable: The Lost Chapters is crazy fun. And if it's your thing, American McGee's Alice is a pretty cool trip.

Edit: also, sometimes I like to replay Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask on Project64.
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13081 Posts
December 20 2011 03:41 GMT
#37
Just replayed Planescape Torment . Such a good game.
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
sielu
Profile Joined July 2010
20 Posts
December 20 2011 03:54 GMT
#38
On December 20 2011 10:53 howerpower wrote:
cave story is awesome

Seconding this.

Also Terraria, sandbox minecraft-ish game in 2d (in case you didn't know about it)

Steam also has a ton of indie games with low reqs, ones I personally strongly recommend are Jamestown (a horizontal bullethell game if you're into those), Fractals, or any of the BIT.TRIP games.
recover the pieces lost ㅈㅈ
Zanno
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1484 Posts
December 20 2011 04:10 GMT
#39
any emulator pre-n64 will run on almost any computer that's still working
aaaaa
~_~
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada239 Posts
December 20 2011 04:20 GMT
#40
super meat boy
vvvvvv
cs
crate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2474 Posts
December 20 2011 04:27 GMT
#41
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Or whatever other roguelikes you like. I've been playing a lot of DoomRL recently too.
We did. You did. Yes we can. No. || http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/crate.html || twitch.tv/crate3333
Keyboard Warrior
Profile Joined December 2011
United States1178 Posts
December 20 2011 04:55 GMT
#42
age of empires
red alert
Not your regular Keyboard Warrior ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
kNightLite
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States408 Posts
December 20 2011 05:01 GMT
#43
Download a PSX emulator. There's tons of good Playstation 1 games you can play on crappy PCs. Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy Tactics, Suikoden, Star Ocean, etc.
cilinder007
Profile Joined August 2010
Slovenia7251 Posts
December 20 2011 18:30 GMT
#44
dude just try dota, adicting as hell :D
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
December 20 2011 18:50 GMT
#45
Quake Live, Emulator games (Super Mario 64 may I suggest? lol), Any WC3 or earlier game, and that opens up the possibility to lots of great UMS games.
Follow me: www.twitter.com/zlasher
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
December 20 2011 20:19 GMT
#46
On December 20 2011 10:56 Fontong wrote:
Battle for Wesnoth is a really nice TBS tactical game. It should run on anything.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Yes. And this for LOTS of games. All for free. You see what they need to run on and then play them. All. For free. HF :D
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
thOr6136
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Slovenia1775 Posts
December 20 2011 21:04 GMT
#47
go for old rpgs, they are super awesome: baldur's gate series, planescape: torment, neverwinter nights, icewind dale series, maybe some diablo series, hmmm, morrowind, ghotic.
Brett
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Australia3822 Posts
December 20 2011 21:51 GMT
#48
A lot of the command and conquer games are free to d/l and play these days... If their comp is 'really, really shitty' then those games would be perfect.
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