• Great games that run on not so great hardware
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[QUOTE=Jocke;36979753]Runescape :v:[/QUOTE] No wifi, and even if i did have wifi, i wouldn't want to touch that monstrosity
if you like oldschool shooters, Painkiller
[QUOTE=Joazzz;36979957]if you like oldschool shooters, Painkiller[/QUOTE] Had never heard of it before, looks good, thanks.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;36979957]if you like oldschool shooters, Painkiller[/QUOTE] Definitely this. Also Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
Mount & Blade: Warband...?
Mafia I
The first few Half Life games would work (Opposing Force,Blue Shift and normal Half Life).
Considerably every Valve game
Rome Total War 2
All the command and conquers before tiberium wars. Especially generals.
Was not expecting this much responses! Thanks to all of you!
[url=http://wz2100.net/]Warzone 2100[/url] You can also check out [url=http://www.gog.com/]GOG.com[/url] if you want, there's plenty of older games that should run just fine on bad hardware.
Pretty much every roguelike in existence, including Dwarf Fortress and the best zombie roguelike (and game in general) in my opinion Cataclysm.
If you want a point and click you should try [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky]Beneath a steel sky[/url] available now for FREE at gog.com. And has anyone said Doom 1 and 2? If not play Doom 1 and 2.
The Elder Scrolls I: Arena The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Possibly, not too sure about Oblivion)
Half Life 1 and all the great mods for it Afraid of Monsters Cry of Fear They Hunger Paranoia
VVVVVV Pacman.
I'm managing to run Saints Row: The Third w/ an Intel Pentium D 3.0GHz, 1.5GB DDR2, and an ATi Radeon HD 4870. Only thing good in that bunch is the 4870. Its bottlenecked so hard, only running at about 15-20% usage. [editline]28th July 2012[/editline] Oh yeah and about 15-20 fps
Counter strike (with offline bots)
GTA: San Andreas Postal 2
The Hitman games. You could also try Dark Messiah Might and Magic
Unreal Tournament - shitfucktons of mods and mutators to edit the gameplay with when you get bored of vanilla UT.
Civilization II or IV
Red Alert 1 Red Alert 2 Tiberian Sun Half Life Battlefield 1942 Battlefield 2 Warcraft 3 (+ mods, Frozen Throne, you name it) I spend a big part of my teen years playing Age of Empires 2. The most fun I ever had was trying to do as much damage to other players as possible whitout having any gold (it was usually taken away really quickly), so trying to do guerilla warfare with pikemen and skirmishers and still surviving a 2+ hour game, was a great challenge. Heroes of might and Magic are also great low requirement games.
Command and Conquer (Anything Pre Tiberium Wars)/(Command and Conquer The First Decade has all of them pre Tiberium Wars for $20 at almost any Walmart) Doom 1/2/Final Doom (Source Ports/DOSbox required) Quake 1/2/3 (Winquake.exe for Quake 1, R1Q2 for Quake 2, not sure about Quake 3.) Half Life 1/BS/Op4 (Steam Versions recommended for ease of purchase) Simcity 1/2000/3000/4(maybe) Duke Nukem 3D (Sourceport/DOSbox required) Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (Has compatibility issues) The Sims 1/2 (Maybe) Fallout 1/2 (Patches Required, GOG Versions recommended) Alpha Centauri (Possible compatibility issues) Civilization 1/2/3/4 (Possible compatibility issues on older ones) Starsiege (Patches Required) Delta Force Series (Possible comparability issues) Unreal 1/2/Tournament/2k3/2k4 (Patches Required for Unreal 1) Myst Series (Patches required for some) That's a pretty big expensive list right there.
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Somethign that will give you a lot of play time would be Killing Floor. You can also go with Diablo 2 not too sure about 3 though
Darwinia and Multiwinia. As crap the games look, the gameplay really makes up for it.
System Shock 2 if it hasn't already been mentioned.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein has run great on every single machine i have built. Those specs should have no problem either.
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