25 Great Games You Can Play on Laptops and Budget PCs
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It is not, the first one has the easiest combat system in the series. You just click the mouse when the symbol appears and performing combos. There are also different styles for different types of enemies and monsters also depending on if you face them alone. The later games just revolved about dodge spam.
Mugsy
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While I was glad to see "Diablo II" on the list, the original "Diablo" (which needs some patching to work on a modern PC) is playable on newer PCs using a FREE web-based version of the game (diablo.rivsoft.net). It uses so little resources, it too qualifies as a "runs on a potato" RPG. And still one of the most addictive "all you need is a mouse" games ever made.
If you own the original CD, you can play the full game. Without the CD, you can only play the original 2-Level Demo. Fortunately, I own the original CD.
Chrome recommended as I've found the game a bit flakey on Firefox.
If you own the original CD, you can play the full game. Without the CD, you can only play the original 2-Level Demo. Fortunately, I own the original CD.
Chrome recommended as I've found the game a bit flakey on Firefox.
Yeah, we gotta thank the consoles for that. In the next two years, minimum requirements will see an uptick, and GTX 970 will no longer be the most popular recommended GPU.
isamuelson
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My PC is over 10 years old and I can still play Witcher 3 on medium graphics settings. FPS does drop in the larger cities but it's not unbearable at all. Witcher 1 is a good one, but after playing Witcher 2 and then Witcher 3, going back to it is a shock in regards to the controls and fighting system. Still, all the three Witcher games are awesome. Witcher 3 I would dare say is the GOAT of RPGs for me. I finished the main story line (after 150+ hours), as well as Hearts of Stone. I'm currently doing Blood & Wine. Love the country there. Gorgeous and bright and colorful. And it's an entire adventure separate from the main line but just about as huge almost. That's been keeping me busy during our "lock down".
Bp968
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World war z is similar and free on epic right now. Free is free right? Lol
Avro Arrow
Posts: 3,721 +4,821
I have an OLD (>8 year) craptop with an AMD A8-3850M (Llano) APU. It's essentially a Phenom II X4 with an integrated Radeon GPU (HD 6620G) and I actually managed to get Skyrim to run at 720p with medium settings and it was actually good. A little stuttering in REALLY busy areas but overall, quite enjoyable. I didn't play it for long (I played it on my main PC) but it was a cool little experiment.
If it played decently on that, it would play decently with those settings on ANY modern craptop.
If it played decently on that, it would play decently with those settings on ANY modern craptop.
Celeste.
MarkHughes
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Don't forget the Dominion series. Dominions 5 has to be one of the deepest and most interesting wargames of all time. The Steam Linux version runs perfectly well on my Onemix 8" tablet with a core m3-8100y dual core.
You might consider the original XCOM/Master of Orion/Master of Magic. They're still great games. Again, they're on steam.
You might consider the original XCOM/Master of Orion/Master of Magic. They're still great games. Again, they're on steam.
Grinnie Jax
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I can't belive no one mentioned single best game in the history of humanity - Heroes III. So the list should be the following:
1) Heroes of Might & Magic III - simply genial, the best game in the world. Can last you forever.
2) Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honour - best RPG ever created. The unbelievable feeling of adventures, challenging, but a very grateful game.
3) NOX - one of the best RPG/slashers. Funnily, this game is more interesting, has better physics than Diablo 2, which somehow became more popular.
4) Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 - great RPG games, which have excellent party assembling, great exploration, and story. Can run on a potato.
5) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - chose Morrowind over Skyrim or Oblivion, which is debatable, but I just enjoyed it more.
6) Warlords III Battlecry - simply best RTS game ever. Endless replayability, lots of races with good balance, very interesting hero developing system.
7) Need for Speed: Underground - when NFS was still great. Fun arcade racing game, challenging, great music, adequate customizations of cars. May look a bit old today.
8) Unreal Tournament - excellent shooter. Dynamic, fun, has lots of fun weapons, challenging, but reasonably so.
1) Heroes of Might & Magic III - simply genial, the best game in the world. Can last you forever.
2) Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honour - best RPG ever created. The unbelievable feeling of adventures, challenging, but a very grateful game.
3) NOX - one of the best RPG/slashers. Funnily, this game is more interesting, has better physics than Diablo 2, which somehow became more popular.
4) Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 - great RPG games, which have excellent party assembling, great exploration, and story. Can run on a potato.
5) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - chose Morrowind over Skyrim or Oblivion, which is debatable, but I just enjoyed it more.
6) Warlords III Battlecry - simply best RTS game ever. Endless replayability, lots of races with good balance, very interesting hero developing system.
7) Need for Speed: Underground - when NFS was still great. Fun arcade racing game, challenging, great music, adequate customizations of cars. May look a bit old today.
8) Unreal Tournament - excellent shooter. Dynamic, fun, has lots of fun weapons, challenging, but reasonably so.
defaultluser
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Its funny you mention Borderlands - the port was incredibly inefficient
On my HD 530 (dual-channel ram) , I have to cut the resolution down to 720p with shadows disabled to get things playable.
By comparison, a much newer game like Portal 2 is capable of running at 1080p max settings with 2xmsaa on!
I can also run on Fallout 3 (similar time period) at 1080p 2xmsaa with a mix off max textures + max view distance + mid reflections.
Hell, you can play Skyrim at 1080p medium (swap AA for AF). and crank those shadows back up to high (to match Fallout 3). I get 35 fps in the middle of . Whiterun!,
S, does everyone believe me now that the Borderlands team is full of *****s?
On my HD 530 (dual-channel ram) , I have to cut the resolution down to 720p with shadows disabled to get things playable.
By comparison, a much newer game like Portal 2 is capable of running at 1080p max settings with 2xmsaa on!
I can also run on Fallout 3 (similar time period) at 1080p 2xmsaa with a mix off max textures + max view distance + mid reflections.
Hell, you can play Skyrim at 1080p medium (swap AA for AF). and crank those shadows back up to high (to match Fallout 3). I get 35 fps in the middle of . Whiterun!,
S, does everyone believe me now that the Borderlands team is full of *****s?
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Stiqy
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Graphics can be set to low... you can literally play eve without any visuals. All the combat and navigation data you need is represented by numbers and icons in the overview and on your HUD.
however if you do have a decent graphics card it can look very beautiful while you play with the numbers.
Stiqy
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For sure... and throw in Angband, CDDA, Brogue, ADOM, TOME, and all the roguelikes.
Theinsanegamer
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Gearbox has never been able to port to PC without major bugs or serious optimization issues.
OTOH, I played borderlands 2 on a intel HD 4600 iGPU at 720p, with a mix of low and medium, and was able to maintain 30 FPS or more at all times. Laptops are difficult to predict, different models will have different peak performance, especially with turbos being governmed by temperature and power delivery. On any Xe or APU system borderlands will be playable.
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punctualturn
PC gaming, with its amazing backwards compatibility is simply insane.
I love that, but its a shame that apple users are already trained by their cult leaders at cupertino to call BC as some kind of disease.
I love that, but its a shame that apple users are already trained by their cult leaders at cupertino to call BC as some kind of disease.
Lol, triggered by something here? What does Apple have to do with a list of low-spec PC games?
What about my 8 year old mac
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