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Mr Ray
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I have found myself in a situation i'm sure many of you have experienced before. I've got a 24-ish hour flight coming up at the end of the week (London->Melbourne if anyone cares), which of course means sitting in an uncomfortable seat for hours on end, which of course means retro laptop gaming, woo!
I'm not necessarily asking for old games per-se, just games that will run on my lappy. For reference, my laptop has a pretty beefy processor, but not much in the way of a graphics card. It can handle pretty much any game that isn't full 3D up the arse. It will run Red Alert 2, but not C&C Generals for instance. Not at a playable framerate anyway...
Games I'm already bringing:
- Red Alert 2 + all the older C&Cs
- Baldur's Gate 2
- Icewind Dale 2
- Uplink
- Defcon
In addition, can anyone tell me how likely it is that i'll be able to charge my lappy somewhere in the airport when I make my connecting flight? I know for a fact the only plane that'll have laptop charging facilities in cattle-class is the very last one (Airbus A380, woo!), so i'll only get 2-3 hours tops before needing to recharge.
I'm not necessarily asking for old games per-se, just games that will run on my lappy. For reference, my laptop has a pretty beefy processor, but not much in the way of a graphics card. It can handle pretty much any game that isn't full 3D up the arse. It will run Red Alert 2, but not C&C Generals for instance. Not at a playable framerate anyway...
Games I'm already bringing:
- Red Alert 2 + all the older C&Cs
- Baldur's Gate 2
- Icewind Dale 2
- Uplink
- Defcon
In addition, can anyone tell me how likely it is that i'll be able to charge my lappy somewhere in the airport when I make my connecting flight? I know for a fact the only plane that'll have laptop charging facilities in cattle-class is the very last one (Airbus A380, woo!), so i'll only get 2-3 hours tops before needing to recharge.
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Or Crawl for some lighter roguelike goodness.
And you can't go wrong with any of ol' Kenta Cho's games for shmups.
Will be bringing DF with me, but jesus that game EATS PROCESSORS. NOM NOM NOM. I guess a hermit fortress or sticking to my original 7 with no immigrants or something might work.
My experience, though, has been that an airplane to anywhere, plus a DS and a handful of games, is not only pocket-sized, but also leads to, "Whoa, are we in Zimbabwe already?" :P
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Your 24 hour flight will feel like 4. Easy to use with a trackpad, won't drain your battery. Very funny, simple game that you won't feel embarrassed playing on a plane. Unless you're flying 1st class in which case you can go fuck yourself.
Arcanum
Barkley Shut up and Jam Gaiden*
Beneath a Steel Sky*
Cave Story*
Chivalry is Not Dead*
Empyreal Nocturne*
Fallout and Fallout 2
Grim Fandango
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Masq*
N*
On Steam:
Audiosurf
Jagged Alliance 2
World of Goo
Switch - SW-3699-5063-5018
Also, if you're a sports fan then Football Manager 09 will kill time like nothing else.
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No joke. All you need are those I Spy games.
I Spy mystery, treasure hunt, spooky mansion, and fantasy. I don't care how old you are.
Those games are awesome.
http://www.scholastic.com//ispy/loot/cdroms/index.asp
Or ya know... Age of empires II
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles
i.e. you don't need to bring the CD's and you don't need to do full installs.
There is actually more than one kind of laptop.
And if you don't mind non-free games there's a ton of stuff on Steam that has low system requirements that would easily run on your laptop and entertain the shit out of you.
I never asked for this!
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Have you tried some of the earlier FPS games? I played through all of Quake and both of it's mission packs at work and all we have is shitty computers with 512 megs of RAM and integrated graphics. I also played through all of Heretic and Doom and I'm working on Doom 2 and Hexen.
Alternatively: Galactic Civilizations 2.
If you ever find a copy, one of the older You Don't Know Jack games would be great with a pair of headphones. The graphics are 99% text, it's all (hilarious) audio and trivia. Time will fly when you're playing them. *buh-dum-tish*
I'd recommend Jagged Alliance 2, Fallout 1 and 2. Unreal Tournament is still really fun for botmatch, especially if you can get some mods going, although it might be difficult to play without a mouse.
Also Freespace 2 if you can ask to borrow the pilots' joystick and throttle for a while. Be sure to pipe the video feed to all in-flight TV sets so that they can "ooh" and "aah" appreciatively when you pull off a particularly righteous intercept. They won't mind about the flight corkscrewing around as much.
Sid Miers: Pirates!
Any of the Total wars (You can skip the RTS parts)
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
By the way, thanks for this. It's a whole lot of fun.
24 hour plane journey is not enough time to play Galciv2. You'd need to fly to like the Moon to get the most out of that.