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Good netbook games?

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  • 21-11-2011 12:06pm
    #1
    PACKYAK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭


    So I'm in transition year, which means we're doing nothing in class. I am armed with a crappy netbook and want games for it. What do?


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    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    PACKYAK wrote: »
    What do?

    Learn something! :pac:


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    PACKYAK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭PACKYAK


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Learn something! :pac:

    Ah now seriously. It's transition year.


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    chin_grin
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    PACKYAK wrote: »
    Ah now seriously. It's transition year.

    Heheheh. All the more reason!


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    leggit
    Registered Users Posts: 936 ✭✭✭leggit


    If you're a football fan you can get championship manager 01/02 (best one of the series imo) free. Just go to http://champman0102.co.uk/forum/downloads.php and you can legally get the game for free and update it to todays teams as of this month!

    Hours of my life wasted on that game!


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    Shiminay
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    Since it's somewhat topical, I had a copy of Morrowind running on my old netbook reasonably well. That'd definitely keep you busy.


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    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Hey OP, sign up to this. Seriously.


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    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Civilization III/IV, Call of Duty 1, CS: 1.6 (CSS runs barely on a netbook), Trackmania Nations Forever, Baldurs Gate I/II, Starcraft, Age Of Empires 2, Quake III, Homeworld, Star Wars: KOTOR, The Sims 1/2, Unreal Tournament, World of Warcraft, Warcraft III, Battlefield 1942, Deus Ex, Medal Of Honor Allied Assault, GTA 1-3/Vice City/San Andreas, Neverwinter Nights, NFS U1/U2, Flatout 1/2, Black & White, Trine, World of Goo.


    And pretty much any game pre 2003. Have had a netbook myself so I can confirm all the above games run fine (WoW/San Andreas/Trackmania/Civ IV on lowest settings)

    Enjoy!


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    Monotype
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    +1 to Morrowind if you have a lot of time for single player. There's a good selection of mods too. Watch out for cheap indie games as well. Many of these will work quite well on netbooks. Maybe thief (I got it running on a Win 7 laptop recently, but it is a bit buggy on new systems).

    There's plenty of multiplayer FPS games that will work if others have netbooks and you have a network + mouse - UT99 (as Enderman recommended, loads of mods and servers still going with this) and also plenty of free ones - urban terror, alien arena, warsow.
    You could probably run older strategy games such as the C&C series - tiberian sun and red alert 2 should run well. Tiberian sun is free now.

    This assumes that you have a windows netbook, of course!


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    VenomIreland
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    Planescape:Torment

    Runs grand on a netbook and is easily one of the best RPG's ever made.


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    Potential-Monke
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    Spider Solitaire


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    o1s1n
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    VenomIreland wrote: »
    Planescape:Torment

    Runs grand on a netbook and is easily one of the best RPG's ever made.

    Tried playing it on my NC10. Worked, but the screen is just too damn small!


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    Retr0gamer
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    As mentioned check out the games on GoG.com

    You can get some amazing RPGs like Fallout 1 and 2, Planescape Torment, Baldurs Gate 1 and 2.

    Plenty of other gems there as well, Beneath a Steel Sky, Commandos, Cannon Fodder

    Also Lands of Lore 1 and 2 just went up.
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    papajimsmooth
    Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭papajimsmooth


    Plants vs zombies


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    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,383 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Torchlight too high spec?


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    Mark Hamill
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    Monotype wrote: »
    You could probably run older strategy games such as the C&C series - tiberian sun and red alert 2 should run well. Tiberian sun is free now.

    Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 1 are all free now, can get the patched versions from here.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    Those are all pretty old games, you can go a bit more modern. Company of Heroes and Dawn of War work pretty OK on my netbook, for example....

    Battlefield 2 and Half Life 2 also run pretty well. These aren't my pictures but they're an example of the general level of quality I can reach with my netbook (it's a 10" Aspire 522 w/Radeon 6250.) In 3DMark06 it scores about 1,400, which is similar enough to my old P4 3Ghz with 7600GT.

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    Monotype
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    Most netbooks have a lot worse than a radeon 6250. It's usually the Intel GMA 3150 but the early Eee PCs were lower quality again.


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