Need game suggestions (old games)

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2005-01-11 01:27am

I'd download ScummVM, and then dig out all those old Lucasarts point n' click games. Also, UAE should run just fine on such a setup.

I'd also get Thief (the Gold version is best) and Thief 2. They should run, though I'm not sure about the second one.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-01-11 03:01am

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
wautd wrote: Hey say against someone who doesnt know. I've spent hours on that game
Say, did you succeed in speculating in commodity market? Never very good at that

I remember very little of that game. I do remember you could bombard with hails of missiles and bombs. And that you could build ships but couldnt control them directly in combat

Karza · Post by **Karza** » 2005-01-11 04:13am

Fantasy General. The. Best. Fantasy. Strategy. Game. Ever. Can be found at www.the-underdogs.org

Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, if you can find it somewhere.

Laser Squad Nemesis.

Warzone 2100, again, if you can find it somewhere.

Interstate '76 Gold ("Funk music! Automatic weapons!"). Might be a tad slow, but should be playable (at least it was on my p2/233, no 3d card).

Worms 2 or Armageddon, whichever you prefer.

Space Hulk 2: Vengeance of the Blood Angels, if you really want to frustrate the hell out of yourself.

Warhammer: Dark Omen. If not otherwise, then for the legendary quotes in it.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-01-11 04:33am

Warhammer: Dark Omen. If not otherwise, then for the legendary quotes in it.

I haven't played this is ages, all I remember is that it was a very respectable GW game, unlike most. I don't remember any quotes...

Karza · Post by **Karza** » 2005-01-11 05:09am

JediNeophyte wrote:I haven't played this is ages, all I remember is that it was a very respectable GW game, unlike most. I don't remember any quotes...

"These towers are blighted with a pestilence that I have come to cure! With steel and fire!!" -Commander Bernhardr at the Blighted Towers

"Dey 'ave us surrounded! Humies everywhere!" -Ork shaman at the Blighted Towers

"...and when ya swing an ax at 'em... It's like hackin' mush! An' they just keep on coming!" -Azguz Bloodfist describes what it's like to fight the undead

"Give up your flessshhh, I have you surrounded!" -A necromancer at the battle of some village whose name I don't remember

Also there's the one where the Grand Theogonist describes what it was like to read the Liber Mortis. As he opened the book, he immediately got jumped by eleven daemons, as he read further, he was cursed nine times and at some point the book actually bit him, etc.

The voice acting was what really crowned the dialogue. I think I'll start playing it again.

Mopeyennuui · Post by **Mopeyennuui** » 2005-01-11 07:07am

Alyeska wrote:I just got a 300 MHz laptop and I need some suggestions for some good games I can install on it. No 3d card, so take that into account.

Anyway I already have the likes of Half-Life, Myth/Myth 2, Starship Troopers, and X-Com. But those are limited choices and some other game suggestions would be nice.

Poplous the beginning. Get the EA laptop pack if you can. That or SC3kU

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-01-11 08:39am

Karza wrote:Interstate '76 Gold ("Funk music! Automatic weapons!"). Might be a tad slow, but should be playable (at least it was on my p2/233, no 3d card).

Yeah that was a kickass game

Some more titles:

MDK
Carmageddon
Battle isle 2220 series (used to be fun in multiplayer hotseat)
Baldur's gate

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-11 11:02am

Remember since you're using a laptop, avoid any games relying heavily on the use of keypads.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-01-11 11:04am

Unless they're turn-based, which brings me to suggesting Alpha Centauri. It's on my laptop, and many's the bored hour it's frittered away on vacation

Post by **RogueIce** » 2005-01-11 03:08pm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:- early Jane's like US Navy Fighters '97 or Fighters Anthology. Works well in Windows (even XP), and not realistic enough so you can play without a HOTAS setup (which is IMHO impossible with your laptop).

Ack! How could I have forgotten this? Whenever I fire up my ol' Win95, 233MHz, 32 MB RAM machine I almost always put this one in. Still a lot of fun (especially if you get somewhat inventive on the mission editor and make your own "campaign" of sorts).

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2005-01-11 03:27pm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: And just FYI, these following titles won't work in Windows at all but they're worth your DOSing attempt (of course not with your laptop).

- Privateer 2

Eh? I got that one to run on my WinME computer (although I didn't keep it on since I don't have a CPU Killer, and a game that ran on a 66MHz computer does not run well on an 800). I'm pretty sure it ran under Win95 also, although I'm not 100% on that.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-01-11 04:07pm

Zerg Goddess wrote:
Alyeska wrote:I just got a 300 MHz laptop and I need some suggestions for some good games I can install on it. No 3d card, so take that into account.

Anyway I already have the likes of Half-Life, Myth/Myth 2, Starship Troopers, and X-Com. But those are limited choices and some other game suggestions would be nice.
Poplous the beginning. Get the EA laptop pack if you can. That or SC3kU

err. i already mentioned populous. last page. *points*

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-12 07:56am

The Dark wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: And just FYI, these following titles won't work in Windows at all but they're worth your DOSing attempt (of course not with your laptop).

- Privateer 2
Eh? I got that one to run on my WinME computer (although I didn't keep it on since I don't have a CPU Killer, and a game that ran on a 66MHz computer does not run well on an 800). I'm pretty sure it ran under Win95 also, although I'm not 100% on that.

Probably you got the *EXTREMELY* rare Deluxe Edition, which runs on Windows 95 and up. You lucky bastard, I'm so jealous of you!

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-12 08:14am

RogueIce wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:- early Jane's like US Navy Fighters '97 or Fighters Anthology. Works well in Windows (even XP), and not realistic enough so you can play without a HOTAS setup (which is IMHO impossible with your laptop).
Ack! How could I have forgotten this? Whenever I fire up my ol' Win95, 233MHz, 32 MB RAM machine I almost always put this one in. Still a lot of fun (especially if you get somewhat inventive on the mission editor and make your own "campaign" of sorts).

Not as headachely realistic as LoMAC or IL-2 Sturmovik, but they're engaging, immersive, and *FUN*; things had been grossly forgotten by flightsims designers these days.

[RANT]
No wonder flightsim market segment has been continually decreasing until today. I still remember those days enjoying the storyline and business management of Strike Commander, team management of Team Apache, comprehensive strategic options of Total Air War, and **accurate** gameplay (yes, it wasn't precisely realistic, but very accurate) of Microprose's F-19 Stealth Fighter where you have to avoid enemy's detection instead of engaging dogfights, while destroying unecessary targets will actually decrease your score. See, none of those gaming experiences would ever be matched by today's overly realistic flight models like LoMAC or Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. That's why I'd prefer sticking with my Voodoo5 cards and Windows 98.
[/RANT]

Speaking about USNF and Fighters Anthology, could anyone reccommend a good Windows-based slowing-down utilities to make them playable on new CPUs?

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-01-12 08:26am

Syndicate Wars - great fun, blow up buildings and shoot prostitutes. Though it can be tricky to get it to run with xp.

EDITED: Cos im a spelling spaz.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-01-12 08:47am

DocHorror wrote:Syndicate Wars

Meh. It pales compared to the original imo

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-13 07:11am

wautd wrote:
DocHorror wrote:Syndicate Wars
Meh. It pales compared to the original imo

IMHO 'coz the original tends to be more strategic while the new one is purely action.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-15 10:26am

I just remember an old game would IMHO be ideal for notebook (although really old, mind you). Microprose's Red Storm Rising. It's a submarine game which is deep (pardon the pun), immersive (again, sorry about the pun), engaging, but still simple enough and easy to getting started on.

Now the reason why it would make a good laptop game is because it doesn't need a mouse (so you can still play it on the plane, for instance), doesn't need keypad (notebook directional keys work fine), quite slow-paced albeit real time (perfect for no-mouse gameplay), runs under Windows (not XP, IIRC, but it runs well using DOSBOX), "resource-friendly" (well the game was made when everyone had 286), and like any other old Microprose games, it still runs at manageable speed on newer systems (unlike Origin's classic titles, which are notoriously speed sensitive. Try playing Wing Commander I on Pentium 100 and you get the picture.).

Red Storm Rising is pretty old so you can find it on some abandonware sites like this one. You can also buy oneat eBay, but it is for Amiga so you may need an emulator for your notebook.

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