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Just thought I’d post a list of games I deem must have’s for people scratching their heads over what games to play on their netbook. I did my best to include some ‘sleeper hits’ that no one talks about any more and are really worth checking out.
I’ll put an asterisk in front of personal favorites..
Fallout 1, 2 & Tactics
*Divine Divinity (No one mentioned this game so far, its a gem)
Beyond Divinity (not as memorable as the first, still good though)
*Diablo 1 & 2
Baldur’s Gate 1&2
Neverwinter Nights
Icewind Dale
*Mount & Blade (New indie game, runs superb in DX7 mode – google for the demo, you won’t be dissapointed!)
*Wizardy 8 (Haven’t heard this one either)
Rome: Total War (great when modded)
*Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (4 & 5 run too but 3 was arguably the best in the series)
*Planescape: Torment (best storyline of any RPG ever made)
Arcanum
*Ultima Online
*The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
*Warhammer: Dark Omen (1 of a kind RTS based on Warhammer lore)
System Shock 2
Deus Ex
Freedom Force 1 & 2
Nox
The Temple of Elemental Evil (broken as hell, but with fan patches this becomes a great D&D game)
Gothic II
Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic 1 & 2
Master of Orion II
Jagged Alliance II
Age of Wonders II (Think Heroes of Might & Magic 3 with more depth to it)
Warcraft III DotA
Starcraft
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of WarGames I’m dying to try:
Silent Hunter III (u-boat simulator, runs fine on my ancient XP desktop)
Civ 4 (Heard people are having problems with it, if all else fails I’ll get Civ 3: Play The World and play online with that.)
Oblivion (Yes, Oblivion! With Oldblivion patch and 2gb of ram it might run above 20 FPS)
Homeworld
from NES through to Playstation 1 EmulatorsFeel free to add to my little list/comment
And be sure to check out Mount & Blade if you don’t know it already 😉
Wow nice list out of nowhere! Those are all playable right? I’m quite interested in Neverwinter Nights.
For your info:
Snes/Megadrive emulators run smooth.
ePSXe Runs mostly fine with Petes Software Graphics plugin 1.18
pSX Runs mostly fine has some issues with XA audio
Project 64 is hit and miss. Goldeneye big no-no. Mario 64 perfect.Have you tried Dosbox? Whole world of classic games there!
I’m also trying to get hold of a copy of Grim Fandango!I haven’t had major issues with resolution yet.. a bit of googling usually does the trick
BioWare RPG widescreen patch: http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/
I know for a fact there’s similar fan patches for the Fallout series
Other games require a bit more tinkering to get working, I just got Divine Divinity to run @ 1024×600 by editing Config.DIV in notepadSo while some games run just fine out of the box, others need widescreen patches or a bit of editing to run fullscreen
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just trying oldblivion , any chance its gonna run on 1 mg of ram
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Depends.oblivion is a no go , just crashes on startup , patched to the latest as well , running it through oldblivion , any ideas has anyone got this running on the nc10 ?
jasonertia:have you tried running the one before oblivion:morrowind
i think morrowwind plays better than oblivion,you should give it a go if youve not already played it,im pretty sure it will run at low or medium settings on a netbook
wow great list thanks, how do you get them (sorry a bit of a noob question) do you download from a website? Which one?
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wow great list thanks, how do you get them (sorry a bit of a noob question) do you download from a website? Which one?
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Some of them are available to buy to download from Good Old Games (my preferred choice due to lack of DRM) or Steam, others are still available in shops or secondhand.
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