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Nutteman, do games w PortMaster: Talking Ports, Handhelds, and Community with the Developers (my article!)
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On a foldable, this is rough to work with lol:

PortraitLandscape

PerfectDark,
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Same with my laptop!

My laptop is 3:2 and it looks exactly the same as yours there. Not super readable is it :(

rumschlumpel, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Try incremental games like Cookie Clicker.

PapstJL4U, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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I would take a look at Warframe.

www.protondb.com/app/230410?device=steamDeck

I like the gameplay and it ran on every hardware.

isgleas, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Those specs seems decent at first glance, but my bet is that the bottleneck will be the storage, if you are using a hard drive still. If you use an ssd, or change to one, then your performance may be greatly improved

I think you could run Steam on that build, I used to play Supertux cart, and have not played 0AD in ages

windowsphoneguy,
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What? Intel HD is easily the weakest part. HDD will only cause longer loading times.

Rooty,

Highly recommend SSDs for everyday use and HDDs for backup, an old laptop I had turned from a barely usable machine to a pretty decent one just by swapping out a HDD for an SSD.

dhork, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Nethack

Harvey656,
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I’d be worried if it didn’t run nethack!

frankenswine,

the game to rule them all

Snowpix, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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For me it was a game that used to be on Adult Swim’s website, it was a top-down open world pizza delivery game in the style of the first two Grand Theft Auto games. You had to deliver pizzas to some funny characters without crashing and damaging them or running over too many pedestrians and getting caught by the police. With the exception of mimes and guys in hot dog costumes which gave you bonus points, of course. You’d get fired if you got caught by the police too many times or wreck too many pizzas.

Ended up finally finding it last year, it’s called Pizza City. It’s no longer on Adult Swim, but has thankfully been preserved on other sites like Kongregate and archive.org. Still holds up to this day as a fun game!

SaintNyx, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

It was zool and commander keen for me. Hard to describe and find the answer on Google for odd candy mountain game and game with trees with weird ass eyes. Anyways, found it eventually lol

muusemuuse, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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I remember years ago I went looking for a game I used to play as a child where you start at a manhole cover and open it to reveal a beanstalk.

The game was called “the manhole”

I learned a lot about the internet that day.

okmko,

🤣

LolcatXTREME, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

That’s super based of them actually. A game for everyone is a game for no one as they say. Difficulty options if it makes sense and the game is designed around it, sure. But if a game is designed to be played a certain way and you bypass it you’re ignoring a purposely designed experience the developers made for you, and I think it’s fine to force people on to a level playing field.

flamiera, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

I know there's very few, be it rare, games where developers seemingly hate those who play it.

But you're not understanding that maybe that there are some games that aren't for you. It sometimes is a sucky feeling, when games seemingly look like you'd have a blast playing them, until you try them and feel the opposite. I wouldn't really say any of the struggles I've had in games I played in this example, that I felt like the developers were intentionally punishing me. More like my expectations, standards and idea of fun collides with what that game already established in its own values.

Like I hate games where anything kills you in one hit, that is bullshit, give me a health bar or multiple chances of being hit. I prefer more games that have at least healthbars.

Lembot_0006,

I am not talking about the game design. I am talking about situations when developers purposefully check if the player cheats or makes something strange and then developers intentionally make things worse.

flamiera,

Yes you are talking about game design.

You just said developers check if the player cheats or makes something "strange" then react to it. By game design, they don't want you cheating in their game.

So you either deal with it or don't.

Lembot_0006,

Facepalm

flamiera,

Yeah I know, I did the same thing when you first replied to me too.

locahosr443, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

It turned out that star wars supremacy which I had long since lost the disc for was digitally released as rebellion.

Arseholes

AngryCommieKender,

It was only called Supremacy in the UK. I played Rebellion back in the late 90s

caseyweederman,
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On this side of the pond it’s called Star Wars Overlord

Gremour, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
AMillionMonkeys, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game
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What could I do? Uninstall.

If you aren’t having fun with it, sure. I was expecting the comments to be people arguing with how you have fun (using the dev console), but fortunately that’s not the case.

Cracks_InTheWalls, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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For more engagement: a Doom reskin where you shot balloons at some (to child me) scary af toys that came alive and were ornery. Windows 3.1/DOS era, was part of a shareware collection.

Observer,

Bad Toys?

Cracks_InTheWalls,
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Edit: You know what I don’t think this was what I’m thinking about BUT I did play this and may be mixing the memory with another shooter in the same collection.

okmko,

Chex Quest? I remember the cereal had a Doom reskin and it scared me too much. I feel like if they had just changed the worldspace default color from black to white it would’ve been less scary.

ViraPyon, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Waku Waku 7, very silly fighter

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