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Dvixen, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@Dvixen@lemmy.world avatar

That’s me and this robot-like C64 game. You did levels and took over robots so you could take over stronger robots.

I do remember Seven Cities of Gold, but only because the game crashed so often I saw the loading screen more than the game itself

SavinDWhales,

I played that. Paradroid, right?

Dvixen,
@Dvixen@lemmy.world avatar

It is!

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

I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft

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

Emulate GBA and PS1.

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

One of my earlier memories was playing a strange game I haven’t been able to find again. All I remember is: you control a car (I think it has flower decals on it?) and can drive through a desert/canyon area. You can also press a key which makes a rotor come out of the top of the car, allowing you to fly it like a helicopter.

I have no idea what the gameplay was beyond that, but I’d love to find it again.

gustofwind, do gaming w Is there a trick to controllers that I'm missing?
@gustofwind@lemmy.world avatar

No trick. It’s just harder on a controller and you need to practice

Hate to say it but….this is literally a skill issue lol

blackris,
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“Gamepads work significantly worse than kbm for this task, so you’re the problem. LOL.”

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.

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

I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, and most of them are low-spec friendly. Hopefully you find something interesting from it :)

lemmy.world/post/14336843

pixeltree, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
Haaveilija,

Therapist: “The terror tubbies aren’t real, they can’t hurt you.” The terror tubbies:

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

I used to have this symbian game that had a small dragon as the main character and accidentally deleted it from the phone it was on. Never found it again :(

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

Commander keen

Tonava,

You can get them as a bundle on steam!

fraksken,

😍

Edit: thank you for making me spend my money so recklessly. Thank gabe for the winter deala tho.

fraksken,

And they have carmageddon! Omg. I have been living under a rock!

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

-Free Stars on steam, used to be called Star Control 2. Old school space adventure. And it is literally free as well.

-Imperialism 2 on GOG, 4x game set in the age of exploration and industrialization.

-Civilization 4, the best of the series in my opinion, I’ve played them since the 90s.

-Beyond Good and Evil, comes to mind, don’t remember much about it, except that it’s good.

-To the Moon, indie adventure / puzzle game. Has great reviews by the developers aunt, among other things.

-Banner Saga 1-3, holy Nordic inspired epic tactical strategy, batman.

-Jagged Alliance 2, another tactical combat game, modern time, funny, realistic and really difficult.

Eh, realized that only the first one is free to play. But the other ones are old (or very old), so you can snatch them on sale on steam, GOG or Epic for less than a chocolate bar and get dozens of hours of enjoyment from them.

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

not an online game but Moonring is an amazing and underrated retro RPG that will run on anything! itch page with the Linux executable

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

I still play Dawn of war and new Vegas on a cheap 2 in 1 tablet with an intel atom

thermal_shock,

I love new Vegas, but none of the mods I found fix the 1gb memory leak error. Crashes so often, it’s unplayable for me.

GerardsGuitar, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com avatar

This post prompted me to finally go work out what game I’ve been thinking about for the past decade and I’ve determined it was called mini mogul!

slappyfuck,

Best news I’ve heard all week!

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

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?

Lembot_0006,

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results.

I am a programmer myself and have an overall understanding of what can happen unintentionally. I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

And which game was it?

“Fear the spotlight.”

anon5621,
@anon5621@lemmy.ml avatar

Other idea increase ur health using not game console but with using cheat engine ,find pointer to ur health

Lembot_0006,

The game has red-yellow-green health scale, not 0-100%. It would have taken too much effort to experiment while looking for the correct value.

anon5621,
@anon5621@lemmy.ml avatar

Value if u know how much damage to boss with exact value it can be filtered much faster ,or u can find own health and freeze it

dukemirage,

As a programmer you should know that wonky single-purpose software like a game engine may react chaotically to state changes. I wishlisted the game though.

Kelly,

I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.

A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.

You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!

en.wikipedia.org/…/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balanc…

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