Good games?

KoolDrew

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Jun 30, 2004
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What good games would you guys suggest for my PC? Here are the specs.

P4 1.8GHz
384MB RAM
GeForce4 MX 420

I enjoy FPS's mostly, but I don't mind RPG's and other things. Can anybody recommend soem fairly newer games that would run fine on this? even if I have to turn all the settings down it is fine by me.
 

mechBgon

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Oct 31, 1999
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Mechwarrior4 Compilation maybe? That's the original MW4 Vengeance, the Black Knight expansion pack for Vengeance, plus MW4 Mercenaries (which is a standalone game) and I think they also throw in a Mech Pack to supply you with some additional 'mechs. I think I saw it for $20 at CompUSA a while back.

Half the fun is pre-mission 'mech customizing, and the gameplay is ok mostly (although the city missions will be frustrating since your AI lancemates don't drive 'mechs very well around buildings :p).

384MB of RAM will be just about right, the biggest missions come out to about that much in RAM usage. I've played them all on a Radeon 7500 on my 1GHz Duron, so your GF4MX420 and P4 ought to get you by too.
 

magomago

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Sep 28, 2002
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Try out Alice. I just started playing that recently, and even though its an oldie, its VERY good. I think it came out winter 2000, but don't let that fool you. The graphics are VERY sharp and look very good, and with a system like taht you should be able to max out at 1024*768 (since the game's tutorial refers to Voodoo 3 videocards and "high end" machines of 128 megs of ram. Though if you do max out graphics I would think you need a lot stronger PC, b/c even I noticed lagginess and the frame rate dropping[2200+/512/g4ti4200]).

Its like a FPS in 3d view, and this is obvious enough because its based on the Quake 3 engine. But I REALLLLY like the artistic style~ makes me realize that in creativity and originality games today are often times lacking this aspect~ cool particle effects and things blowing up don't make up for creativity IMO.

But its really fun. My only grip is jumping feels too floaty and not solid enough.

But even though its a not a new game, it'll look VERY good on your system and its pretty fun and interesting to see a dark twist on alice ;)

edit:

thinking about where to get it, obviously check a place like gogamer.com I doubt B&M stores would still carry this game.