I'm buying a gift for my nephew and I want to get him something good, but he doesn't have a good computer. Any good games that can run on just about any computer?
Heroes of Might and Magic III, although I doubt that will be on store shelves. It's on Good Old Games for $10 though, so if you want to give your nephew a digital gift you could do that.
However, Disciples II, Galactic Civilizations II, and Sid Meier's Civilization III can all be found in your local Big Box Retailer's budget section, and those are all excellent games.
Serious Sam is a fun shooter without out any pretense of what it is.
There is a $10 pack of that includes Age of Empires & Age of Empires 2 plus two expansion that should run on any system from that age. I picked my copy up at Wal-Mart but they are available elsewhere, too.
Also Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a Civilization title that's not Civ due to a fallout with the publishers at the time. It's a very deep game.
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was a favorite of mine on the original Xbox, but there is a PC version out too that was released back in 2002.
Deus Ex and to a lesser extent Deus Ex: Invisible War are two good FPS shooters with a tad more depth than the average "blow stuff up" game.
There is a Fallout Collection at Amazon for $15.00 USD which includes Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics
" Anything on DOSBox should run on a crappy computer.
No, there's a lot of stuff that will choke in DOSBOX if you have a computer several years old. Blood, for example. "
From the looks of it, a six year old computer could handle that. My computer's a piece of crap, but it can run games like this with no problems whatsoever.
From the looks of it, a six year old computer could handle that. My computer's a piece of crap, but it can run games like this with no problems whatsoever. "
My last computer was 5 years old couldn't even run Doom 1 properly in DOSBOX (obviously other ways to play the game).
But some of the old ones have value or are fun still.
I'd be happy to receive an old movie, why not game? Same shit whatev.
I like the Max Payne games, 1 and 2 must be cheap, and they're old enough to run on whatever, plus a new one's coming out soon, so it's good to catch up.
Half life 2 will maybe, run, but AOE3 is pretty tough on a computer, having had a 7 year old computer until 4 months ago, i know how hard it is to run.
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