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asgardius, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
@asgardius@social.asgardius.company avatar

@Grumpy404 I know 3 games that can run smooth on that hardware

  1. Taisei Project
  2. The Red Robot Radio
  3. Midori in the Magic School
    These games are open source and linux native
I_Clean_Here, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

You mean Sim Ants my dude

okmko,

I was going to say, I don’t remember a Microsoft Ants but I sure as hell remember SimAnts.

I never figured out if bringing a piece of food next to an egg made it hatch faster but omg as I’m typing this right now I realize that makes absolutely no sense. Why the hell would an egg hatch faster if it has no mouth. Wtf was I thinking as a kid, loool.

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

Not smooth but Guild Wars 2 can run on those specs, obviously on very low settings.
Path of Exile should work also. These specs af not that bad. Most 10+ year old games should run easily. I would just check steam for older F2P games, there are a lot more. I think swtor and eso should run also. Those had F2P tiers.

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

It’s… an old game. Maybe it ran on DOS, but it sure was Windows 95 era.

It was a game for kids where you had to spell words. It took place in Africa I believe, because I remember vividly that there were hippos. You had to solve puzzles before spelling words.

I might be misremembering the following : you played as a boy with a loincloth. When you succeeded in solving a puzzle he rowed upstream on a raft. I think I remember a man with a mask, might have been the kid himself.

That’s about everything I remember about this. If someone knows anything…

Nutteman, do games w PortMaster: Talking Ports, Handhelds, and Community with the Developers (my article!)
@Nutteman@lemmy.world avatar

On a foldable, this is rough to work with lol:

PortraitLandscape

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?
@PapstJL4U@lemmy.world avatar

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,
@windowsphoneguy@feddit.org avatar

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

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

Nethack

Snowpix, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

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
@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

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