I’m thinking of getting some older games, like:
Planescape Torment
Fallout 1 & 2
There might be more, but I don’t remember. But anyway, would they work on a 3-4 year old PC with Windows XP?
Oh, and any other reccomendations would be cool. They don’t have to be RPG’s.
How old is old? You can probably run most newer games without any problems and some with compatibility mode set. I can only think of one or two games I have that won’t run under XP at all that were originally released with Win98 in mind.
If you go really old, get DosBox. Mahaloth is right that the old LucasArts adventure games run, but for me they run without sound (unless the game was designed for the PC speaker like Zak McCracken.) DosBox fixes that.
Seriously? I musta dodged a bullet, then. Had no problems running it on my desktop, which was then about a 1GHz Athlon running 98SE and is now a … 2600+? 2800+? Something like that, it’s been awhile since the upgrade; in any case, it’s now running Win2K.
Of course, only now do I find that LucasArts came out with a patch that “Slows down a certain puzzle during the game which goes too fast for completion on processors higher than 400mhz.” Maybe I could have finished it after all.
Thanks, everybody.
I’ll get Fallout 2 and Planescape sometime. Anyone else tried the first Fallout?
If P:T doesn’t work on the computer, maybe my brother will let me play it on his laptop or something.
Not only do the old Lucasarts adventure games work, but the sound works too!
I think it’s legal, because you can’t run the games without the data files.
Planescape and Fallout 2 run fine on my AMD Athlon 64 4000+ XP system. The original Fallout has an issue with newer large hard drives that you can get around by doing the smaller install option. (Haven’t been able to find a patch for it.) Fallout 2 had the same issue that was fixed with a patch.
I’ll cast my vote also for Torment and Fallout 2 working without problems on my reasonably new machine running under XP. Torment actually has surprisingly steep hardware requirements, I’ve found - the computer I first played it on was a Pentium III 550, and it became unplayable/unstable in parts due to framerate hits.
I never got the first Fallout game to work on any system, old or new, so I guess that can be attributed to my own incompetence.
Fallout 2 runs about nine hundred times too fast on the world map for me. Luckily there’s a fan-made patch for that available on http://nma-fallout.com.
Groovy.
Okay, I might as well ask this: How well have they aged? Will the low res graphics cause headaches, and gameplaywise do they hold up compared to the more recent ones? Baldur’s Gate 2 was nice that it had 800x600 resolution, and was fun.
Also, what is Planescape like? All of the screenshots I’ve seen seem to show it in dungeon-like places, and I hope it’s not a big dungeon crawl game. I like my RPGs to have more than combat- I didn’t like Dungeon Siege.
I’ve run Planescape: Torment on my 3-year-old computer just fine. It’s not a big dungeon crawl - there is a ton of character interaction, and finding out your amnesiac character’s past is your primary mission.