I have a 1GHZ with 512MB of RAM, so please suggest games that would be appropriate for this type of computer.
I’ve heard both Fallout 2 and both Thiefs are great. But could someone fill me out on how they play, genres, and if they’ll work on my system?
I’ve also heard PlantSide is good. Same question as above.
I’m interested in action games, along with MMORPGs(although I’ve not heard of a good one yet). I’d also prefer games that aren’t really hard at all, but still fun.
Already have StarCraft, tried Diablo2 and found it not to my liking.
Fallout and Fallout 2. Usually in a bundle for $10, when you can find it. Worth a dozen times that in replay value alone. The last of the truly great RPGs.
Diablo, meh, not so much.
You don’t say, but you imply, that you didn’t like Starcraft. Try Age Of Empires II, Conquerors if you like it.
www.play.net/gs4 is a good MMORPG… bonus being that it’s all text. Minimal computer power needed.
I fear most of the truly great games are unplayable on your system… because it’s too FAST. I’m thinking about X-Com UFO Defense, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Day of the Tentacle, etc… stuff from the golden age of gaming.
Today, you pretty much want top-of-the-line to play anything on the shelves.
Fallout 2 and Thief should both work fine on your system, which is quite a bit faster than the computers they were originally designed for. Fallout is a true RPG. How you choose to interact with other characters can drastically change the outcome of the game. The game is played from a third person bird’s eye view, and combat is turn based, not real time. Which is a good thing, IMO. The game is not difficult in terms of requiring lightning reflexes or split second timing, but it does require a fair bit of thought, deduction, and tactics.
The Thief games are first person stealth games. The object is to avoid confrontation, and your character is not particularly good at combat. The stealth engine is the best of its kind: you have to stick to shadows, avoid walking on hard surfaces, move slowly, generally be a sneaky bastard. It requires a lot of patience, and is fairly difficult to play: the key layout is incredibly complicated, but allows your character to do just about anything. However, it’s also one of the most rewarding games I’ve ever played. There’s just something about breaking into a police station, planting false evidence in the office of the lieutenant investigating your crimes, and waltzing back out right under the noses of two dozens cops with no one the wiser.
You should be able to get all four of these games for less than thirty dollars.
Hi there NHIBI (there’s no way I’m typing all that out). Welcome to the boards.
The Fallout games are not graphically taxing at all. There are no 3d graphics - all characters are sprite-based and there aren’t any intensive eyecandy particle explosions. That said, they are some of the greatest games ever produced by civilization, and Fallout 2 still stands today as the bar for judging the qualities of other games. Okay, I may be reaching here, but I’m sure there are some who’ll agree with me. The two Fallout RPGs are very big and very fun if you consider yourself a fan of the genre. Fallout Tactics is pretty good, but I’d recommend at least playing the other two first so that you know if you’d like the combat. It’s a few years old, so it should run well on your system, however the savegames can get somewhat large as the game progresses.
Thief and Thief 2 are first-person sneakers. Stealth and patience are valued qualities, and you shouldn’t expect to slaughter enemies right and left. They’re also old, but I don’t know anything about your video card so I can’t say if they’ll run well on your system.
I don’t know about PlanetSide, since I don’t care to pony up to the monthly charges, but I hear it’s pretty graphics intensive.
Some quick recommendations:
System Shock 2: Sci-fi stat-driven FPS/sneaker (think Thief except that you can slaughter enemies)
Grand Theft Auto 3: Action, violent, comedy
The entire Monkey Island series
Grim Fandango
NetHack: Maze/rpg. It’s free and will steal your nights.
Fallout and Fallout 2 are the #1 and #2 best RPGs ever. I say Fallout 2 is second because although it has better game mechanics and cooler stuff to play with, the last third of the story is a lot weaker than the original. On the other hand, New Reno by itself is better than whole games. Fallout was so awesome that I suffered through playing it on a Pentium 90 MHz, which was under the fairly modest specs even when the game was new. I don’t want to say any more than that, other than you must get these games, now. You might also try to find the precursor game, Wasteland, which I hear is good but I haven’t played.
You need to tell us what video card you have first. If its out of date, you will not be able to play 3d and FPS games from the past two years or so.
Right now, I’m playing Silent Storm - a turn based tactical squad game set in WW2 (similar to Jagged Alliance 2 or the combat of Fallout, but much deeper), and its the best game I’ve played in years. Plus, they even have a campaign where you play the Axis side!
If you’re into RPG’s, Baldur’s Gate 2 is a nice epic-sized one that will definitely run on your machine. I didn’t get far into it at all, but I was impressed with what I saw and have heard lots of good stuff about it.
The only FPS in recent memory that I’ve liked is No One Lives Forever and NOLF 2. The gameplay is fairly standard, but it’s suprisingly clever and well-written.
And don’t immediately discount The Sims. When I first heard about it, I thought “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.” After I tried it, though, I was hooked and have gotten every expansion pack since. It’s not for everybody, of course, but I think a lot of people give up on it too easy and miss everything that’s going on there.
My standard caveats: I can’t get my copy of Monkey Island 3 to run on a machine running Windows XP. All the cutscenes run at super-speed, which is a drag because I really want to play it again (of course, I’m biased, but hey).
And if you try Grim Fandango on a modern machine, make sure that you have the new version or you have the patch. There’s a bug in year 3 that makes a puzzle near-unsolvable if your computer is faster than a 500MHz.
For some of you who have trouble with faster computers completely speeding through older games, you might look into a program like MoSlo.
Never, you can see your video card properties in Windows by right-clicking on an empty section of the desktop. Select “Properties” from the list and click on the tab that says “Settings.” Above the resolution selection there should be a box saying “XXX on YYY” where XXX is the monitor name and YYY is your video card.
I’m not exactly sure how to generically find the memory of the card - I have an “Advanced” button on that menu that will tell me, but I think that extra menu was added by a software update for my card and may not appear on yours.
Half-Life, and it huge number of mods, is an older but REALLY good first person shooter; it should run quite well on your machine, even if you have a bad videocard.
My system is a 1.1 Ghz with a mere 256MB of ram and I can play everything (though I have to turn down things like shadows all the time) The reason I can play? Good graphics card. You really need to post that info.
Fallout 2 is a small slice of RPG heaven nearly every situation has 3 or 4 ways to solve it depending on your character build.
If you like roleplaying Planescape Torment is always good.
Thief II was fairly fun but I never got all the way through it before I moved on.
NOLF 2 is a good selection if you want a game with stealth elements but also let you slaughter people of thats your thing.
Same with Hitman 2 though that’s by far harder then NOLF.
Expand a bit on what you like and don’t so people can give you better ideas.
Try www.scummvm.com and download the appropriate version for your OS. It works very nicely for allowing those classic games to be played like new(with perhaps a glitch or two in some).
