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I need a game to play...Help Me find it!
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Perhaps this should be in H/A. But I think G&T is where I'll find the best advice.
Here's the sitch. I've been away from the forums awhile, as I've been away from gaming. Drastic life upheavals deprived me of gaming outlets and now leave me with limited gaming options in the way of budget, platform, and time. But god I miss the escape vidya games provide.
Here's what I've got:
A macbook, 2ghz intel core 2 duo, 2GB of Ram, Lame-o intel graphics proc
That's it. I don't even have a TV right now.
Budget, Free to 19.99-29.99
I'm not opposed to older games that may be well played, but require rediscovery.
I like games that are intuitive, deep, and easy to get in and hard to master. My favorite game of all time is disgaea. I like strategy and RPGs the most.
I've tried dwarf fortress, I couldn't handle the ASCII, mostly because I'm a coward. However I think I'd love it if only it could be made more accessible, googled tileset instructions did not help.
I'd love to find a game like baldur's gate (NWN, BGII, etc) or a sufficient Diablo clone like divine divinity, to distract me from work.
MMORPGS are ok to advise, but I can't commit to WoW like demands, and to my chagrin EVE can't be played on macbooks.
Please help me PA Forums, you're my only hope.
Here's the sitch. I've been away from the forums awhile, as I've been away from gaming. Drastic life upheavals deprived me of gaming outlets and now leave me with limited gaming options in the way of budget, platform, and time. But god I miss the escape vidya games provide.
Here's what I've got:
A macbook, 2ghz intel core 2 duo, 2GB of Ram, Lame-o intel graphics proc
That's it. I don't even have a TV right now.
Budget, Free to 19.99-29.99
I'm not opposed to older games that may be well played, but require rediscovery.
I like games that are intuitive, deep, and easy to get in and hard to master. My favorite game of all time is disgaea. I like strategy and RPGs the most.
I've tried dwarf fortress, I couldn't handle the ASCII, mostly because I'm a coward. However I think I'd love it if only it could be made more accessible, googled tileset instructions did not help.
I'd love to find a game like baldur's gate (NWN, BGII, etc) or a sufficient Diablo clone like divine divinity, to distract me from work.
MMORPGS are ok to advise, but I can't commit to WoW like demands, and to my chagrin EVE can't be played on macbooks.
Please help me PA Forums, you're my only hope.
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Civ 4 is always a good one.
I am not biased.
Not much else for macs other than ports of roguelikes.
Anyway, World of Goo has a Mac version, and it's one of the best indie games of last year. Relatively cheap, and easy on the system requirements.
You can buy them all at http://gamersgate.com/ It's a digital distribution site, so as soon as the download's done, you need only install and play.
Sacred Plus 10$
Heroes of Might and Magic V 20$
HoMM V: Tribes of the East 15$
Company of Heroes 10$
Elven Legacy 15$
Gothic 2 - 5$
Gothic 3 15$
X3 Reunion 10$
Civilization 3 10$
Age of Booty 10$
Titan Quest 15$
Spellforce 2 15$
Anno 1503 10$
We also have a thread where people discuss glass cities and diabolical murder machines.
Well yeah, but he wasn't just asking for cheap games, he was asking for games that could run on a Mac with crappy integrated graphics. I'm not sure how well Company of Heroes scales to that.
I don't know if it's your type of game but Spore will run (on low to medium) and it's an entertaining little diversion and you should be able to snap it up cheap enough for now
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Well I'm surprised. Guess integrated graphics isn't as bad as it used to be.
On that note, Red Alert 3 ought to hopefully run better then, and it's a good RTS that keeps up the finest traditions of camp FMV.
Nice list D-Dave, I will take ample time to peruse said games once paid. HoMM, I played a bit back when I was a rich PC gamer, I never stuck with it. I kept wishing it was microprose's master's of magic. Maybe I'll like em more now.
buy warhams
I'm sure you could manage to get a cheap or free legal copy of Windows XP, there are licenses all over the place, take one off an old machine a friend has lying around or something.
Personal recommendation would be the Freepsace games, because they're still some of the best space combat games ever made. Although most people these days don't have a joystick lying around, so I'm not sure how viable that'd be for you.
Jagged Alliance 2 is an extremely awesome SRPG. Basically you take control of a squad (or squads) of mercenaries as you attempt to overthrow the dictator of an island nation. Combat's very tactical, and outside of that you're in charge of finances, hiring and firing, weapon procurement, militia training and other stuff. It's a fairly in depth game that'll last you a decent amount of time. Mercenaries also level up as their skills are used, and there's the occasional quest in order to gain favour with the locals of a particular city.
Speaking of older games, I've been thinking of picking up Beyond Good and Evil. Worth it?
Well he liked Dangerous Dave's list, which you wouldn't really be able to tackle just using OSX. So I think that fuelled the presumption that he does.
Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based strategy game. Graphics are 2D sprite-based, using a hexagonal grid setup. It's open source, thus free, and it comes in a MacOSX version.
Screenshot:
Listen to this man.
Uhh, holee shit. That looks rad. Getting.
I am not bootcamping now, but have considered it based on this thread. I put feelers out to friends for old WinXP. Man I loved jagged alliance2 I need that fix.
buy warhams
GOG are also selling the expansion pack (Unfinished Business), but to be honest I never really liked that. It's pretty much just a linear trek through some tough sectors to get to the end point. There's also the commercially released fan-mod "Wildfire", but I've heard that's not very good either.
What?!?
Spore barely works on my Macbook Pro on the lowest settings!
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Squad based real time strategy vs zombies.
This. I am not biased in anyway either
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Recommanding this.
Brains...
We want Brains...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1_0SUGlDQ
Watch that Music Video and you will buy the game
To be fair, while I do enjoy buying games on Steam more than any other distribution site, it's hardly a vast library. It pales in comparison to the amount of games available on Gamersgate or Direct2Drive...and I just bought X3 from Gamersgate for half the price of what it was on Steam, so I'd keep on eye out on those sites as well.
I mean, that said...damn I do love Steam. I wish it would catch up to the other sites in terms of content.
For something completely different, check out Estiah.com; it is a collectible card game crossed with an MMO, web-based, free to play (but with paid upgrades available to support that don't effect balance), and has a solid Penny Arcade guild at the top of the leaderboards. (We're using an off-site guild forum, which is why that thread is pretty much dead.)