View Full Version : Help finding a good PC game.
Staind204
12-21-2006, 08:40 PM
Well I have been out of the PC game market for years. The last games I played are the old Sierra/Lucasarts adventure games. I am returning to college in January and would like some decent games to play on my laptop. The computer isn't spectatular, its a 1.8 GHZ AMD with 512 memory. I tend to like simulation type games like the original sims, viva pinata, animal crossing,etc. I want a pretty deep game that I can play for some time. It can't be too new or it probably wouldn't run well on my computer. Any suggestions for some cheap games?
gamefreak
12-21-2006, 08:56 PM
If you were into the LucasArts games, you should definitly pick up Grim Fandago and any of the Monkey Island series you missed. Another great adventure game that is newer is Fahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy. Might check up on the specs, but I think you could get it running. And of course, the new Sam and Max series which you can buy online and download right away (Google it if you're interested).
As far as sim goes, theres tons and tons of stuff to choose from. 'Sim' is kind of a wide genre. Have you tried Civilization 3? Its a turn-based "civilization" sim letting you run a country from the stone-age up till today. If you're looking more for a business type sim, the Roller-Coaster Tycoon games are pretty solid and fun. If you want something more focused on war and battles, the Total War (Rome Total War, Medieval Total War, etc) are really fun but you need to have a certain ammount of hard-coreness about you.
There are really tons of good PC games out there, and 98% are backwards compatable! If none of these really appeal to you, let me know what you'd be more interested in and I'll get you some titles to look into.
Happy gaming and Merry Xmas
GF
Snake2715
12-22-2006, 09:43 AM
More recent adventure games are Al Emmo as well as Runaway...
forgrim
12-22-2006, 10:02 AM
galactic civilizations is hands down my favorite space sim and took up a chunk of my life
cheapfrag
12-22-2006, 12:08 PM
I second Civilization 3 (or Civ 4 if your PC can handle it). It's a turned based strategy game - and offers loads of replayability.
galactic civilizations is hands down my favorite space sim and took up a chunk of my life
I just got Galactic Civilization 2 - it reminds me a lot of Master of Orion 2 - but seems a lot more complicated/overwhelming - I just need to spend time listening to the tutorial and reading the manual.
Slade555
12-23-2006, 04:15 AM
Err, Civilization 3?!?
Out of the series, 2 or 4 would be much better choices. As would Alpha Centauri.
SpecTrE3353
12-23-2006, 11:31 AM
Knights of the Old Republic
No, it's not a sim. It's just one of the best games I've ever played in my life is all and it probably costs like $20 now.
lordwow
12-23-2006, 11:37 AM
If you like LA/Star Wars, I would recommend picking up Jedi Knight II. I believe it can be found in the Best of Star Wars collection that just came out. I would load that onto my laptop and play when I travelled, and it was a lot of fun, and it's an older game.
Other old games that your comptuer could probably handle:
- Blizzard Games: Warcraft/Starcraft/Diablo (each of these have Battle Chests you can get all the expansions with)
- Sim City/The Sims - The Sims 2 has high reqs though.
- Guild Wars - May work on your computer, It's a no-monthly-charge Online RPG, pretty fun, and low reqs. It's pretty cheap for the original now too.
Hope those help!
Island Dog
12-23-2006, 03:03 PM
I have to add that Galatic Civiliazations II is a game that you will be playing for a long time. I definitely recommend it!
http://www.galciv2.com
Kayden
12-23-2006, 03:54 PM
StarCraft.
Diablo 2.
WarCraft.
I just stole the next 5 years of your life.
redgopher
12-23-2006, 05:40 PM
World of Warcraft. It'll run on anything, and it's deep as hell.
Don't start complaining about the subscription fee. Just drop your pizza quota by 1 and you'll be fine.
Nogib
12-23-2006, 06:05 PM
...and it's deep as hell.
Not really. WoW is a very shallow game that is intentionally made easy compared to the likes of true hardcore MMOs.
Slade555
12-23-2006, 11:20 PM
http://cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17744
trip1eX
12-24-2006, 01:06 AM
civ3. And actually I would look into getting Gametap which also has Civ3 among 770 other games. IT's got alot of 3-7 yr old pc games which should play well on your system. It has SimTower and games like that too.
They have a special now. .99 for 1 month. Try it out.
wasabi_
12-24-2006, 02:24 AM
Europa 1400: The Guild, great sim, you basically control a family in a medieval town and you run a whole bunch of different shops, can get a private army. Pretty cool and you can get it cheap.
I also would suggest any of the Total War games, it has an RTS battle system like no other, but if you dont want to do that, you can have the fights be auto-resolved and just stick to the strategic part of it (building armies, marrying off royalty, diplomacy, war, etc)
Jewelz23
12-27-2006, 08:29 PM
World of Warcraft. It'll run on anything, and it's deep as hell.
Don't start complaining about the subscription fee. Just drop your pizza quota by 1 and you'll be fine.
what if he does not like pizza...