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2019/06/14 11:00:27
Subject: Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
Going on a work trip to Texas over the next two months, and decided to take my old laptop with me for gaming. It's got nothing for a graphics card except an integrated intel chip, so my limit seems to be things as far up as Wolfenstein: New Order, and that chugs badly at times. But still, impressed that it can run it.
Can anyone recommend some older games I could Steam or GoG for the trip? Right now looking at BG:2 (which I have), or maybe Neverwinter Nights 2.
Thoughts, suggestions, ideas, all welcome.
Thanks!
2019/06/14 12:02:47
Subject: Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
Oh wow, Deus Ex. I completely forgot about that. What if I went even further back and did Realms of the Haunting. That is a great old school point and click shooter/rpg.
2019/06/14 13:18:40
Subject: Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
DoW I (or 2 if you like company of heros style games)
Company of heros, see above.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766717.page A Mostly Renegades and Heretics blog.
GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
2019/06/14 14:39:25
Subject: Re:Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
DoW 1, runs like cake. DoW 2, choppy, but playable unless the guard are all shooting at once...
CoH? Runs like dog crap. CoH2? Runs oddly well. NO SENSE WAS MADE THIS DAY./
CoH probably unoptimized unlike CoH2, altough I doubt in a mp battle full off arty that it should run better.
then again i don't know.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766717.page A Mostly Renegades and Heretics blog.
GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
2019/06/15 09:01:09
Subject: Re:Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2019/06/17 09:39:26
Subject: Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
How old is old. GoG has some great old games like Knights and Merchants or Heroes of Might and Magic III (the absolute best one). Might and Magic 7 the RPG on GoG is also a favorite, pretty dated but fun nevertheless. OpenRA is for C&C Tiberium Dawn, Red Alert 1 and Dune. Great games but light on the story if that is the main point.
Bit newer perhaps Red Alert 2 on GoG. Maybe the re-released Titan Quest on Steam can run on your laptop, its quite old as well.
Maybe Thea on Steam? Its relatively new but graphics wise its not that amazing, great Eastern European mythology. Sunless Sea for the writing? Shouldn't be graphics heavy.
Don't forget about Steam refunds if you want to try and see what runs!
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Paradigm wrote: FTL: Faster Than Light is a hard to beat for a cheap, endlessly fun game that'll run on pretty much anything.
If it runs this is a real gem.
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Sorry for my spelling. I'm not a native speaker and a dyslexic.
1750 pts Blood Specters
2000 pts Imperial Fists
6000 pts Disciples of Fate
3500 pts Peridia Prime
2500 pts Prophets of Fate
Lizardmen 3000 points Tlaxcoatl Temple-City
Tomb Kings 1500 points Sekhra (RIP)
2019/06/17 15:38:31
Subject: Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
I started BG2 last night, and I can't get over how much better it is than BG1. I don't really know what it is either, but it just seems, more intuitive?
For instance, the weapon swapping has a clear indicator as to which weapon might be better. Identifying items is now semi-automatic, whereas before it was a convoluted process of spell casting or paying lots of money. Party AI is more responsive and vastly more intelligent.
How people rank this game under BG1 blows my mind. BG1's story sucked, combat sucked, the character creation was abysmal, there were only 3-4 viable choices, and the party members were all hot garbage. WHO DECIDED TO GIVE THE FIGHTER 14 STRENGTH?
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2019/06/18 20:01:09
Subject: Old laptop (circa 2015) - need good old games for a trip
AngryAngel80 wrote: I don't know, when I see awesome rules, I'm like " Baby, your rules looking so fine. Maybe I gotta add you to my first strike battalion eh ? "
Ahhhhh NwN 1&2. How I have strived to forget thee.
The games where you pick a fighter class, or you go to hell. Because nothing survives melee. All powerful god-sorcerer? That fireball is useless if you never cast it, and you can't cast it when the fighter with 12 attacks per round buries his axe in your forehead.
Then again, I have more started characters in that game then any other RPG except Skyrim.
then again i don't know.
1750 pts Blood Specters
6000 pts Disciples of Fate
3500 pts Peridia Prime
2500 pts Prophets of Fate
Lizardmen 3000 points Tlaxcoatl Temple-City
Eldar- 4436 pts
