It seems like we didn't have one of these lately!
In any case, most of us know the feeling: you have a crappy laptop for college, so you can't play the latest games on it. However, there are of course gems of the past that will get you gaming on the laptop like no tomorrow. This is the thread to suggest those games and talk about them!
Now, my laptop has a AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile TL-58 @ 1,90 Ghz with 2 GB RAM and no video card to speak of, so it is not even that bad in the processor department (I can play Civ 4 just fine), but severly lacking in the graphical power department, and I figure most college laptops are like that...
As said, my favorite now is Civ 4, but and old school game that will always be good is of course Baldur's Gate II...
So fire away! What do you play on your laptop?
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The most modern games I could run were Thief 2 and Dungeon Keeper.
Baulders Gate II
Starcraft
Call Of Duty 1
Half Life 1
Ground Control (Which is free now, I think)
Mech Warrior 4
Shogun: Total War
Battleifled 1942
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
Really, if you have modern NV or ATI graphics in your laptop, you can probably dumb down the Source engine enough. I play TF2 and ZPS on my laptop quite well, and it only has an ATI X1300 64MB. All I needed to do was run in DX 8.1, turn off AA/AF, and put textures to Low - and it's 40-60fps.
Edit - And buy a mouse :P
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This man speaks the truth, a mouse is pretty essential, just buy a notebook one, they're the tiny ones
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I'm not sure I've ever finished a game of that. It takes a very long time to play.
Pick a small or medium map, and play the Scenarios. They take no more than an hour, usually. Unless you want to be a cock, and make the computer think it can win. Then it can be kinda fun to leave an army of dragons on their doorstep waiting for heroes to come out and take a look...
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Medieval: Total War
Planescape: Torment (or whichever of the old rpg's of goodness you enjoy
Source games with graphics on low.
Red Alert 2
Age of Empires II
FPS
Deus Ex
Unreal Tournament
Call of Duty
Crysis (:P)
3rd Person
Max Payne
Adventure
Pretty much anything ...
Syberia I & II
Grim Fandango
Honestly, there are a lot of good games.
GoG has Fallout, so if you haven't played those yet, that'd work out for you.
Audiosurf doesn't look like it'd require too much of your system, but I'll let other people who know better be the judge of that.
Currently on mine though I have Master of Orion 2, Fallout 1&2, Diablo 2 with LOD and heroes of might and magic 3.
I can't find my copy of baldurs gate 2 though and it is impossible to download digitally. I tried goozex but no one is offering it...
I also have a bunch of Quest for Glory I want to stick on there.
EDIT: Oh yeah I totally forgot about warcarft 3 as well, for my tower defense and DotA :P
Fallout 1
Fallout 2
Planescape - Torment
Alpha Centauri
They all may be old games, but oh halp me jeebus are they fun.
Yes, buy a mouse and get Planescape. You will not regret it.
The others on that list are good too, I guess. Never played Arcanum.
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The games that I usually play are:
Civ4
Dawn of War
Baldur's Gate II
Rise of Nations
Icewind Dale II
Battlefield 1942
World of Goo
Rome: Total War
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sins of a Solar Empire
Also, i suggest you look into gametap. They have a bunch of free games that will run on your laptop (like Fallout).
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Seconding this cause I used to play the shit out of it on a Celeron with a MMX440 video card, Which is almost worse than having no video card at all.
God damnit, I'm going to end up reinstalling this and losing hours to the Omnip]o[tents server and their delicious custom vehicles again, aren't I.
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Crimsonland is pretty dated around now, but it's still pure awesome. Should also still be around 20 bucks. There's a downloadable demo that has limited features, and limited gameplay. It should be enough for you to get hooked.
Various roguelikes as well (of course, and shame on all of you for not mentioning them). IVAN (Iter Vehemens Ad Necem) is a good option, as well as Angband, and DOOM the roguelike(even includes sound and music! Hilarious with the ASCII graphics). I'm sure you've heard about Dwarf Fortress already, as it's probably the best roguelike out there.
Deathworm is a game I posted quite awhile back on here, and it was received really well. It's a small file and ridiculously simple gameplay, but awesome nonetheless. You're a giant sandworm in a desert, and you eat people. You get bigger as you eat more. The enemies get tougher as you eat more. You'd be surprised by how much time you can blow on this game.
Finally, Soldexus is an awesome Metroidvania style game. The controls are pretty solid (but I do seem to remember some type of issue with it, maybe having to let go of the movement button when attacking or jumping? might be a different game), the graphics charming in their own way, and the game is hard as nails. When I say hard, I mean difficulty on par with Ninja Gaiden. For example, the first enemies you run into take a good ten or so swipes of your sword to kill, and you can only take about three hits before you die, but that changes pretty quickly. You could always wuss out and play on easy mode, though...
Only if you wish you were more psychologically traumatized, though.
Deathworm is a good choice. A buddy of mine would play it CONSTANTLY when he came over to my house till he finally got a computer of his own.
Also, even though it's rather mouse-heavy, Warzone 2100 will run on damn near anything and is free now so look that up, it's a wonderful RTS with the ability to customize your units.
The game seems fairly long (I am level 7 after about 8 hours, I hear it goes to beyond 25 at least, it's somewhat slow to level up), but I don't think it'll have much replay value apart from some random loot / monster placing.
Admittedly I just glanced over the thread, but man does "crappy laptop" and "dwarf fortress" go together like... Uh.. my allegory imagination has run dry! Damn you, television! Damn you TO HELL!
(Aw, someone beat me to the Kenta Cho games. That's a good thing.)
Edit: Meant to put this post in another thread. Sorry for the bump.
Edit 2: THE THREAD ENDED IN OCTOBER! LET IT GO!
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