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[Recommend On] Low End PC Games
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My normal gaming PC broke down earlier this month which means I'm stuck on an old Dell machine that was lying around my apartment. I've been getting by playing City of Heroes and TF2 but I find myself needing a few new games to play. If someone could recommend some older (this thing cant really handle any game made past 2005) or lower end PC games I could play that would be great.
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Should run fine and it's a sweet game. Very under appreciated.
Personally I'd recommend Jagged Alliance 2 if you were ever into squad level strategy games, like X-Com. There's also the Unreal series, UT2004 ought to run pretty well now as well. They've also got Fallout 1 and 2, which you might be interested in. Broken Sword series, Oddworld series, basically look around and see what catches your fancy.
I'd also suggest picking up World of Goo if you haven't already, it was pretty much THE indie game of last year. Well, maybe there was Braid as well I suppose, but that's a preference thing. You can get it off of Steam, or direct from the author's website (which is something I usually recommend to people since it means that the devs get all the money), which is also a DRM free copy.
http://2dboy.com/games.php
System Shock 2
Diablo 2
Morrowind (or Daggerfall, depending on how bad off you are)
Unreal Tournament
American McGee's Alice
Any Thief games
X-COM
Deus Ex (now you have to install it!)
The entire Lucasarts Adventure Game Library
That should keep you busy for a month.
Those two?
If the OP's current system can run TF2, it doesn't sound that low-end (and additionally, would make me want to recommend games like Oblivion). Then again, maybe I'm biased, since I'm working off a 1.5ghz PC that's quite literally held together with blu-tack.
Well, TF2 scales down extremely well.
And pretty much all the good stuff has been recommended. I just have to add The Ur-Quan Masters.
Dwarf Fortress
Knights of the Old Republic 1/2
2nd post, JA2 get mentioned.
I think I may love you.
But if you want some RTS action, you have only one choice: Total Annihilation.
I recall it being badass. I think it may be too low end though..heh
its ooooooold
Awesome game, I wish my guy didn't walk around like he had a 5 foot pole stuck all the way up his ass, though.
Everybody knows you're just supposed to run into a room, roll, and then unleash hell.
Good pick tho, I forgot about this game. So much fun.
TF2 can get 20/30+fps with only a gig of RAM, man, Oblivion still has so many glitches. Also, it sucks.(Objective fact)
STARCRAFT!
And I agree with KoToR (Knights of the Old Republic, number one is much better than the sequel).
aka Grillaface
those would be my old time sinks.
I can run Oblivion at a much higher framerate than Team Fortress 2. (objective fact)
Instructions!
Note that I do have two gigs of RAM, but I'm also using reduced poly and scaled down textures because of my integrated graphics card, so 1 gig shouldn't be a problem as long as he's not running Vista or anything.
Edit: also, the Streamline mod helps a TON with memory management.
Also, Tie Fighter
Best. SW game. Ever
Any game that requires fans to work for six months to bugfix is not a good game, if twenty+ programmers cannot get memory allocation to work properly they should not get paid, and no product should be released if it voids sectors of your harddrive.
Do you have any citations on voiding sectors of a hard drive? I don't think that's ever happened to people.
Me. And I format/scan everyday. Fucker was a 250gb too.
It's happened to others, and at one point in time Oblivion General was filled with some threads where people claimed to have replicated it: Talking to beggars, the roaming Khajit merchant, and being caught by multiple guards.
TA?
WHERE ARE MY DISKS
Damn son. That sucks. Luckily that has never happened to me.
Although if you reformat every single fucking day then you're my hero. I'd commit suicide after installing Windows on the second day.
Every three.
I'm not that crazy.
You're still fucking crazy. Besides, doesn't Microsoft have something to say to you when you use your key EVERY THREE DAYS?
EDIT: Altho' I'd also reccomend MechCommander.
http://beta.humugus.com/index.php/auth/register/inv/1966