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Laptop Game Recommendations

King KongKing Kong Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
So I got a new laptop and while it runs great compared to my old desktop I don't expect to play the new Wolfenstein or COD 4 on it. I'm looking for some game recommendations that will run good on these specs. It can be older games, I prefer FPS's but I'm open to anything and I do like RTS's. Nothing too old ( DOOM, Wolf 3-D, Starcraft etc)

Specs:

AMD Turion X2 Dual Core RM-72
ATI 3200 HD
4gig RAM

(P.S. it'll run the new Wolfenstein however it runs like shit)

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  • milehighmilehigh Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Serious Sam. All of them. They take surprisingly little hardware to run and are good for "laptop situations" as the game never gets that involved, so it's good for little 5-20 minute time periods. Age of Empires 2 and the expansion were both awesome RTS's (3 may even run as well)

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    99% of GoG.com and anything that Steam says you can run, subject of course to your genre limitations, although I encourage you to check out stuff like Fallout or X-COM or Jagged Alliance 2.

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  • ihmmyihmmy Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    you know what I love playing on my laptop?

    Diablo 2. mmmm, diablo

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  • krapst78krapst78 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Try any of the Popcap games, especially Peggle or Plants vs. Zombies. I love FPS and RTS games as much as anyone out there, but these casual games are just as enjoyable and run well on almost all machines. Braid is also a really cool game that you can most likely run on your laptop without any problems.

    If you're really in Thailand, then I have to be a shameless shill for the game I designed and recommend that you play FIFA Online 2. It's free and will run on basically any computer with a graphics card that can handle directX 8, even on the underpowered onboard Intel graphic chips.

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Came here just to say Plants vs Zombies. Because even my already-half-dead must-make-daily-sacrifices-too desktop can run that just fine.

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  • AwkAwk Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Subspace (aka Continuum), its free, its online, and make sure to play in the Trench Wars zone because it rocks.

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  • King KongKing Kong Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Thanks for the help guys. Plants Vs Zombies may have been a horrible idea though. I played for a minutes and ended up pissing away 2 hours. All the pop cap games that good?

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Bioshock should run really well actually.

    edit: Actually Cod4 shouldn't run too badly either. You might not be able to run it on max settings or anything but it isn't too system intensive.

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