Great Games that run well on a Cheap Laptop. Great Games that run well on a Cheap Laptop. So you have always been told laptops arent made for gaming. I am going to prove that wrong. My laptop has a single core AMD processor and an ATI 4. HD integrated graphics chip for graphics with 1. MB of dedicated ram, shared up tp 1 gigabyte. This is considered to be a weak graphics chip. I do consider this rig a Gaming Laptop and Ill tell you why. It may not play all the newest games out there for 2. Screen-Shot-2017-07-01-at-2.14.04-PM-980x755.png' alt='Infocom Text Adventures' title='Infocom Text Adventures' />Hundreds of Great games it will play. The Xbox is considered a Gaming Console, but It wont play all the higher end games the Xbox 3. Likewise, I can in good conscience think of my rig as a Gaming Laptop. Most people buy better laptops than this one, and I say if I can have hours of gaming fun with my rigs specs, You can too Here is a list of my favorite games that all have good to great graphics that I can run on my cheap 3. Bought new this yearAll were tested on Windows 7 6. Home Premium with 4 gigabytes of DDR2 ram. All of these games should play well under Windows XP and Vista 3. Infocom Text Adventures' title='Infocom Text Adventures' />Zork is a textbased video game, a genre also known as interactive fiction, whose defining feature is the absence of typical video game graphics. Great Games that run well on a Cheap LaptopSo you have always been told laptops arent made for gaming. I am going to prove that wrong. My laptop has a single core. On many of these games I have added Enhancement Mods to make the games look feel and play better than the originals. If you Google search you can find these. If you dont own the game, sorry I cant help you. You will just have to find a place to purchase the game on your own. With a few exceptions1. These are simply the oldest and best classics that really were the founders of modern gaming. These should run on any laptop that can run XP. Non Graphical Text Adventure Games I mention these because they are classic and will run on anything and are tons of fun and very challenging. ZORK 1, 2 and 3 1. Heck I love and play all of the Infocom text adventure games and they can all be found free on net due to defunct company. More info http en. Infocom Text Adventures' title='Infocom Text Adventures' />Zork Get Them HERE http www. Infocom Even has a Mac versionYou can download tons of free text adventure games, called Interactive Fiction Games from many places on the web, but I suggest you look at the Infocom Wikipedia page and The Interactive Fiction Archive. Infocom even has some great graphical adventures if you can find themClassic Shooters All High Settings for these gamesQuake 1 Enhanced 1. Heretic 1 1. 99. Enhanced new textures and models. Hexen 2 1. 99. 7Redneck Rampage Collection 1. Includes Redneck Rampage, Redneck Rampage Rides Again Arkansas and Redneck Rampage Suckin Grits on Route 6. Available at GOG. US Dollars. http www. System Shock 2 1. Enhanced New textures and models. Half Life 1. 99. FlightSpace Sim Free. Space 1 The Great War 1. Freespace 2 1. 99. Non Classic Flight Sim Hard. War The Future is Greedy 1. Mods and patches. More Info http en. Hardwar2. 8videogame2. This game can be legally downloaded from Captain Zedos Hardwar site because the company is defunct and no one owns the rights to the game who is still in business. The dev team members even wrote and released patches for the game long after the company went under. Almost no one has heard of this game but it has a very strong cult following. Good graphics and plays well on anything. Get it HERE http zedo. Intro Video http www. Mg. 34gunx. LR4. Gameplay 1 http www. Gameplay 2 http www. Now the graphics start to get a little better. All High Settings for these gamesShooters Kiss Psycho Circus The Nightmare Child 2. Awesome KISS as in the Rock Band adventure FPS with great KISS musicA real Cult Classic. Heavy Metal F. A. K. K. 2 2. 00. 0 Another great game from the Metal genre. This time a 3rd person shooter. Thief The Dark Project 1. Thief The Metal Age 2. Star Trek Deep Space 9 The Fallen 2. Deus Ex 2. 00. 1 Enhanced with EBN Series and New Vision Mods Other new model packs. Return to Castle Wolfe. Star Trek Elite Force 1 2. Star Trek Elite Force 2 2. Aliens VS Predator 2 Primal Hunt 2. Nightfire 2. 00. No One Lives Forever The Operative GOTY 2. No One Lives Forever 2 A Spy in H. A. R. M. S Way 2. Solider of Fortune 2 Double Helix 2. Star Wars Jedi Outcast 2. Star Wars Jedi Academy 2. Devastation 2. 00. Max Payne 2. 00. Max Payne 2 2. Red Faction 2. 00. Red Faction 2 2. Iron Storm 2. Postal 2 Share The Pain Mods and expansions 2. Tron 2. 0 2. 00. Epic Game Chaser 2. Halo Combat Evovled 2. RPGs Arx Fatalis 2. Morrowind GOTY 2. Enhanced New texture and models. FlightSpace Sim Tachyon The Fringe 2. Awesome humor from Bruce Campbell. Star Wars X Wing Alliance 2. Sports Virtual Pool 3. Present For most of these the graphics really take off. These I play on medium settings some with a combo of lowmedium settings You just have to find your balance. I have very few games I need only low settings for Code of Honor 3 its worse than Crysis. Shooters Deus Ex Invisible War 2. Medium Settings. Halo 2 2. Medium Settings. Half Life 2 Episodes 1, 2 and 3 2. This engine really runs well on my card. I use medium to high settings. For all the eye candy it gives it doesnt seem to be that demanding on hardware. Half Life 1 Source Enhanced 1. Its Half Life 1 on Half Life 2s Source engine with enhanced texture and model mods I can use all high settings on this one. Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2. Uses Source engine medium to high settings. Thief Deadly Shadows 2. Medium Settings. The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay 2. Medium Settings. Far Cry 2. Medium Settings. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas 2. Medium Settings. Doom 3 2. Medium settings. Project Snowblind 2. Medium Settings. Pariah 2. Medium Settings. Prey 2. Uses an enhanced Doom 3 engine Medium Settings. Fallout 3 Medium settings. Crysis 2. 00. 7 People find it hard to believe that I can play Crysis on medium settings with smooth play. It has low system requirements for Direct X 9. Intel Pentium 4 2. GHZ for XP 3. 0. GHZ for Vista 1 GB RAM for XP 2 GB RAM for Vista. Direct. X 9. 0c Compatible Graphics card with 2. MB VRAM If I do turn down some settings to Low they are Shadows, Water, and Volumetric Effects Quality. You can hardly tell the difference and you have saved yourself loads of extra processing power. All other settings on medium. But I only have to do this if my PC has been running for a while. The game still looks Great for playing on a laptop. S. T. A. L. K. E. R Shadow of Chernobyl 2. Medium settings. Alpha Prime 2. Medium settings. Turok 2. Descargar Ultimate X-Men Requiem Espanol more. Medium settings. Portal 2. Non Steam version Medium to highg settings. Code of Honor 3 2. Low settingsDark Salvation 2. Uses the id. Tech 3 engine, so all High settings. Hunting Unlimited 2. Actually I can run all the Hunting Unlimited games on high settings because they all use a very old engine. There are 7 games in the series but I only own 5 of them. RPGs Gothic 3 2. Enhanced with community patches, new textures and models. Medium settings. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic 2. Uses the Source Engine, but has textures with a little more detail. I can play on medium settings in this epic game. Oblivion 2. 00. Medium settings. Two Worlds 2. Patched with community patches for bug fixes. Medium Settings. Google Earth Not a game but worth mentioning that it runs great. I will add more games as I test them. I live in New Orleans. If we have a hurricane this summer and I have to evacuate, I will be Good to Go There are tons more games that will play well on a cheap laptop, but these are just the ones I own that I have tested. Adventure game Wikipedia. An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle solving. The genres focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games text and graphic are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi player design difficult. Colossal Cave Adventure is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1. Zork, Kings Quest, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Myst. Initial adventure games developed in the 1. As personal computers became more powerful with the ability to show graphics, the graphic adventure game format became popular, initially by augmenting players text commands with graphics, but soon moving towards point and click interfaces. Further computer advancements led to adventure games with more immersive graphics using real time or pre rendered three dimensional scenes or full motion video taken from the first or third person perspective. For markets in the Western hemisphere, the genres popularity peaked during the late 1. Since then, a resurgence in the genre has occurred spurred on by success of independent video game development, particularly from crowdfunding efforts, the wide availability of digital distribution enabling episodic approaches, and the proliferation of new gaming platforms including portable consoles and mobile devices The Walking Dead is considered to be a key title that rejuvenated the genre. Within the Asian markets, adventure games continue to be popular in the form of visual novels, which make up nearly 7. PC games released in Japan. The Asian markets have also found markets for adventure games for portable and mobile gaming devices. DefinitioneditThe term Adventure game originated from the 1. N64 Wad Games For Wii. Colossal Cave Adventure, often referred to simply as Adventure,56 which pioneered a style of gameplay that was widely imitated and became a genre in its own right. The video game genre is therefore defined by its gameplay, unlike the literary genre, which is defined by the subject it addresses, the activity of adventure. Essential elements of the genre include storytelling, exploration, and puzzle solving. Adventure games have been described as puzzles embedded in a narrative framework,7 where games involve narrative content that a player unlocks piece by piece over time. While the puzzles that players encounter through the story can be arbitrary, those that do not pull the player out of the narrative are considered examples of good design. Relationship to other genreseditCombat and action challenges are limited or absent in adventure games,1. In the book Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design, the authors state that this reduced emphasis on combat doesnt mean that there is no conflict in adventure games. Some adventure games will include a minigame from another video game genre, which are not always appreciated by adventure game purists. Hybrid action adventure games blend action and adventure games throughout the game experience, incorporating more physical challenges than pure adventure games and at a faster pace. This definition is hard to apply, however, with some debate among designers about which games are action games and which involve enough non physical challenges to be considered action adventures. Adventure games are also distinct from role playing video games that involve action, team building, and points management. Adventure games lack the numeric rules or relationships seen in role playing games, and seldom have an internal economy. These games lack any skill system, combat, or an opponent to be defeated through strategy and tactics. However, some hybrid games exist here, where role playing games with strong narrative and puzzle elements are considered RPG adventures. Finally, adventure games are classified separately from puzzle video games. Although an adventure game may involve puzzle solving, they typically involve a player controlled avatar in an interactive story. Game designeditPuzzle solvingeditAdventure games contain a variety of puzzles, decoding messages, finding and using items, opening locked doors, or finding and exploring new locations. Solving a puzzle will unlock access to new areas in the game world, and reveal more of the game story. Logic puzzles, where mechanical devices are designed with abstract interfaces to test a players deductive reasoning skills, are common. Some puzzles are criticized for the obscurity of their solutions, for example, the combination of a clothes line, clamp, and deflated rubber duck used to gather a key stuck between the subway tracks in The Longest Journey, which exists outside of the games narrative and serves only as an obstacle to the player. Others have been criticized for requiring players to blindly guess, either by clicking on the right pixel, or by guessing the right verb in games that use a text interface. Games that require players to navigate mazes have also become less popular, although the earliest text adventure games usually required players to draw a map if they wanted to navigate the abstract space. Gathering and using itemseditMany adventure games make use of an inventory management screen as a distinct gameplay mode. Players are only able to pick up some objects in the game, so the player usually knows that only objects that can be picked up are important. Because it can be difficult for a player to know if they missed an important item, they will often scour every scene for items. For games that utilize a point and click device, players will sometimes engage in a systematic search known as a pixel hunt. Games try to avoid this by highlighting the item, or by snapping the players cursor to the item. Many puzzles in these games involve gathering and using items from their inventory. Players must apply lateral thinking techniques where they apply real world extrinsic knowledge about objects in unexpected ways. For example, by putting a deflated inner tube on a cactus to create a slingshot, which requires a player to realize that an inner tube is stretchy. They may need to carry items in their inventory for a long duration before they prove useful,2. There is seldom any time pressure for these puzzles, focusing more on the players ability to reason than on quick thinking. Story, setting, and themeseditAdventure games are single player experiences that are largely story driven. More than any other genre, adventure games depend upon their story and setting to create a compelling single player experience. They are typically set in an immersive environment, often a fantasy world,69 and try to vary the setting from chapter to chapter to add novelty and interest to the experience. Comedy is a common theme, and games often script comedic responses when players attempt actions or combinations that are ridiculous or impossible. Since adventure games are driven by storytelling, character development usually follows literary conventions of personal and emotional growth, rather than new powers or abilities that affect gameplay. The player often embarks upon a quest,1. These types of mysterious stories allow designers to get around what Ernest W.