After making the horrible mistake of choosing Frozen Synapse to try and get my girlfriend into gaming a bit, I realized I have to take slightly smaller steps and maybe get her to play something less complex. Then I realized that I don't own any coop games that work on her shitty laptop and cost less than 60 bucks, so I'm asking you lot. Is there a low spec coop game that isn't overly complex or at least easy to get into that's worth getting? I thought about turn-based strategy already, but I've never played anything turn-based apart from Frozen Synapse and Toribash.
Terraria.
[QUOTE=Numidium;34378826]After making the horrible mistake of choosing Frozen Synapse to try and get my girlfriend into gaming a bit, I realized I have to take slightly smaller steps and maybe get her to play something less complex. Then I realized that I don't own any coop games that work on her shitty laptop and cost less than 60 bucks, so I'm asking you lot. Is there a low spec coop game that isn't overly complex or at least easy to get into that's worth getting? I thought about turn-based strategy already, but I've never played anything turn-based apart from Frozen Synapse and Toribash.[/QUOTE]
LMFAO
Frozen Synapse was hard to learn even for me.
Girls seem to like L4D1/L4D2
minecraft/terraria are good bets too
but "the sims 3"
probably best game you can buy.
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;34379962]LMFAO
Frozen Synapse was hard to learn even for me.
[b]Girls seem to like L4D1/L4D2[/b]
minecraft/terraria are good bets too
but "the sims 3"
probably best game you can buy.[/QUOTE]
This. I'm not sure why but it's true. Plus L4D1/2 is cheap. Depending on how old her laptop is, it should run fine. Anything that's the equivalent of a Radeon HD 5450 or above will be fine.
I'm kind of looking for the same thing. Hopefully small games like terraria.
I can't really suggest much other than CS 1.6 and Warcraft 3
I actually bought Magicka for her and then found out that it doesn't work on most laptop graphic cards :v:
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And she liked L4D when she watched me play it but I highly doubt it'll run on her laptop, I think it might even be a netbook, it's got 64mb of vram. Crazily lowspec.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;34380022]This. I'm not sure why but it's true. Plus L4D1/2 is cheap. Depending on how old her laptop is, it should run fine. Anything that's the equivalent of a Radeon HD 5450 or above will be fine.[/QUOTE]
because they have female protagonists DUHHHH (no offense)
again, it's good to base it off what her tastes in books/movies are (tell us? :stalkerface:)
like yesterday I was tanking in Red Orchestra with a girl I know.
It always depends on the person.
If it's about her taste in books you'd have the standard array of fantasy stuff, and I'm already massively hyped for Torchlight 2 in that regard. I also have the shitty but fun Eragon game, but that's only got splitscreen coop and we're not exactly close to each other so that's not a real option either.
There's gotta be some old RPGs with MP though, right?
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;34379962]
Girls seem to like L4D1/L4D2
[/QUOTE]
Chicks dig L4D.
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;34379962]LMFAO
Frozen Synapse was hard to learn even for me.
Girls seem to like L4D1/L4D2
minecraft/terraria are good bets too
but "the sims 3"
probably best game you can buy.[/QUOTE]
Since when is sims co-op?
Killing Floor uses a modified Unreal 2 engine, so I can't imagine it to be incredibly taxing. Especially not at lower detail levels.
[b]cooking mama[/b]
hell yeah
If she likes fantasy maybe diablo 2?
Half-Life: Decay
Official mod by Gearbox for Half-Life, who made Blue Shift and Op4. Only released for consoles, since been ported to PC (google it).
2-player co-op during Black Mesa.
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Might not be co-op but its cheap and provides endless good times
Sven: Co-op?
Anyone?
[QUOTE=AlexGT;34382566][b]cooking mama[/b]
hell yeah[/QUOTE]
why should they play a game about making a virtual sandwich when they can be making you a real one
whats the point
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;34380710]Since when is sims co-op?[/QUOTE]
frozen synapse isn't really either, plus the sims 3 was a joke anyways.
[QUOTE=CheeseMan;34387898]hahahahahahahahahahahahaha[/QUOTE]
not only will she be pissed that you get ALL the girls in game, she'll have a hard-as-fuck time playing it herself
(especially if she only uses the female playermodels lmfao)
I have ArmA 2, I'm not gonna attempt it. Also seeing how it's about as lowspec as it is simple and accessible.
serious sam 1 and 2
Turn based strategy game Heroes of might and magic 3
might want to try Civ IV/V and AoEIII, strategy games can be popular with the chicks.
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[QUOTE=Numidium;34388500]I have ArmA 2, I'm not gonna attempt it. Also seeing how it's about as lowspec as it is simple and accessible.[/QUOTE]
exactly why it's so ironic.
Sven fucking Coop
The Specialists, well there isn't many servers, though we could all start one.
Operation Flashpoint.
You problem might be that the co-op games that are low-spec are older and mostly quite complex or just really challenging.
Modern co-op games have more simplified user interfaces due to the presence of consoles, but the performance cost is out of that laptops reach.
Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory.
A 2005 game which could maybe run on that laptop with low settings.
guys guys, you have to consider the context here
a first time gamer won't be as interested in hardcore military stealth shit.
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