older game suggestions

quarryman

Picked up an Asus EEE. With a 7" screen and modest specs (900mhz celeron, 512mb ram) its not goiing to play much of the new games. Great excuse to try out some of those I've missed over the years.

Any suggestions?

Note; I'm able to play half life 2 and even oblivion on very low settings on this so I'm looking at games like Quake 3/Half Life 1 or that generation.
Also, games that don't need a mouse and won't be annoying using the trackpad would be better.

armour87

Battlefield 1942 and the DC mod

AlmightyCushion

The first unreal tournament and call of duty 1 are pretty good and should run on that but since it's a fps you would be best to get a mouse.

Tusky

I'm playing through Grim Fandango and its excellent.

magick

Clive Barkers Undying, you will sh*t your pantaloons /thread

Sqaull20

Thief, The Longest Journey ( one of my all time favourites )

the_syco

Return to Castle Wolfenstein should also work on the machine. Enemy Territory will also run, and even has a pretty good online following, for a 6 year old game.

Star Lord

Monkey Island, 1,2,3 and MAYBE 4, Grim Fandango, the original Quake, and dare I say it... some of the popcap games?

Kiith

Deus Ex and System Shock 2 are a must. They are older (especially SS2) but definatly worth it. I'd also recommend Homeworld 1, the Baldurs Gate series, Freedom Fighters, and theres loads more that i cant think of off the top of my head.

p.s. buy a cheap mouse. Dont try and use the tracker or ball...its a pain in the hole.

Stephen

^^ peggle ftw

quarryman

ah yes, point and clicks are perfect. I have Grim Fandango but never got that far into it. I'lll pick up The Longest Journey too. I almost finished Deus Ex and SS2 so might put them on at a later stage.

Baldurs Gate series I'm playing through on my Dell 1500 in 1680x1050 res so gonna stick with that.

Don't want to go as far back as Monkey Island.

Clive Barker's Undying; almost finished that.

Thief 2, almost completed that one too. Seems there are a lot of games I "almost" finish

RTCW; I actually finished that

Enemy territory; I won't be playing playing any multiplayer with it, I'll keep that to my main system.

So far I'm going with:

Grim Fandango
The Longest Journey
Deus Ex
System Shock

Regarding that mouse, I'd like to keep to games that don't soley rely on it as its an ultra portable laptop where I won't always have access to a flat surface to use it. But I'm putting on Deus Ex and SS2 anyway, for when I do

mayordenis

max payne 1
max payne 2
kingpin

that is all.

Sabre0001

Sam & Max Hit The Road
Older Need For Speed games (if driving is what you are into) - I would personally avoid the Underground series though...

quarryman

mayordenis wrote: »

max payne 1
max payne 2

that is all.

completed the max paynes, very mouse dependent also.

ambro25

quarryman wrote: »

Regarding that mouse, I'd like to keep to games that don't soley rely on it as its an ultra portable laptop where I won't always have access to a flat surface to use it.

Been there done that many a time, and I'm actually looking to 'downgrade' to an EEE myself (after a D620 currently, and many 'more ultraportables' before that, of younger and older vintage: C400, D600, Fujitsui tablets, WinCE lappies, Tosh Libretto, IBM 240X, Portege 7020, etc.).

Forget FPSs, get hold of a small USB joypad (they now make foldable ones that are even smaller than a fag packet). If FPS there must be, given the specs, UT:GOTY still rules about 10 years on

I really don't think BF1942 would run that well at all on an EEE. In fact, as for gaming on the EEE, I'd stay away from anything 3D-intensive, as if I'm not mistaken, the 3D perf. is about that of an ATI M8 (as found on Dell C600s, PIII 700 to 1.2Ghz), right?

If you're looking for quick-fix/short-sessions gaming on the EEE, you should have a perusal of the umpteen, most excellent, tiny-footprint freeware on caiman.us

Another tip for 'vintage gaming' on 3D-poor lappies is to head over to gamershell or filefront or 3Dgamers (etc.) and (in this day and age of ultrafast Interweb) download demos of older games, to try and see how they run on the platform first.

quarryman

ambro25 wrote: »

Forget FPSs, get hold of a small USB joypad (they now make foldable ones that are even smaller than a fag packet).

Are these compatible with most PC games?

ambro25 wrote: »

I really don't think BF1942 would run that well at all on an EEE. In fact, as for gaming on the EEE, I'd stay away from anything 3D-intensive, as if I'm not mistaken, the 3D perf. is about that of an ATI M8 (as found on Dell C600s, PIII 700 to 1.2Ghz), right?

yeah 1942 ain't gonna happen

ambro25 wrote: »

If you're looking for quick-fix/short-sessions gaming on the EEE, you should have a perusal of the umpteen, most excellent, tiny-footprint freeware on caiman.us


Another tip for 'vintage gaming' on 3D-poor lappies is to head over to gamershell or filefront or 3Dgamers (etc.) and (in this day and age of ultrafast Interweb) download demos of older games, to try and see how they run on the platform first.

i'll check it out.

ambro25

quarryman wrote: »

Are these compatible with most PC games?

Depends on the game, the pad, or both. Some games (most PC games, tbh) are joypad-enabled.

Personally, I have a small USB joypad with a built-in "mouse emulator" (the PC / game thinks the input comes from the mouse / touchpad). Handy for FPSs without joypad-specific features/config.

Note that I still don't like playing FPS with it though, but that's just a personal preference. If I had to play a FPS with a pad, I'd always prefer using an xbox pad.

Maybe that's another solution for you: USB adapter and xbox joypad (or another console joypad and suitable USB adapter) - but that would again be moving away from ultraportability.

Personally still, I like action-type games that are playable in short or long installments and I tend to go for games that are easy to control using the keyboard, so racing / flying / strategy ones. Given the EEE specs, I'd expect Colin McRae 1 or 2, IL-2 Sturmovik and Crimson Skies to run pretty well.

quarryman wrote: »

i'll check it out.

Please do

I very much favour the "try the demo first" approach, as I am always surprised at what runs/what doesn't run given a lappie specs: I was surprised to learn from you that HL2 runs at all on the EEE, and you yourself might be surprised to learn that Battlefield 2 runs perfectly well (in crappy-res of course ) on a DELL D600 (PM 1.6, 512 RAM, ATI M9 32MB :eek:)

armour87

Kiith wrote: »

Deus Ex and System Shock 2 are a must. They are older (especially SS2) but definatly worth it. I'd also recommend Homeworld 1, the Baldurs Gate series, Freedom Fighters, and theres loads more that i cant think of off the top of my head.

p.s. buy a cheap mouse. Dont try and use the tracker or ball...its a pain in the hole.

Wheres the best place to pick up a copy of SS & SS2?

Im a huge BioShock fan but I've never even played SS!

Would run on an Intel Celeron 1.4Ghz with 512 RAM, right?

quarryman

comfortably. ebay is your best bet.

ambro25

Here goes, reference 'gaming on the EEE' thread:

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=945

EDIT - and even better, a reference 'gaming on the EEE' Wiki page:

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/list:games



EDIT 02 - missed your subsequent post before my first edit, don't I look fresh now :oops:

GTA III runs :eek: Right, that's it... I'm buying a touschscreen one off eBay this week

quarryman

Yep, saw that.

Here's a pretty good list:

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/list:games