r/lowendgaming • u/krpiper • Jun 02 '12

r/lowendgaming spoke on the BEST FREEWARE AND RETAIL GAMES - SUMMER 2012

Hello everyone,

I know I am a little late with this, I am just getting over a bug, but anyway.

You guys have decided. The top 10 Freeware games and the Top 5 Retail games (there wasnt a huge demand for the retail side it seems like)

Top 10 Freeware games:

  1. Cave Story
  2. Battle for Wesnoth
  3. Spelunky
  4. Quake Live!
  5. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
  6. Dwarf Fortress
  7. I Wanna Be the Guy
  8. Armegatron Advanced
  9. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
  10. The Ur-Quan Masters

Top 5 Retail Games (All prices current as of this posting)

  1. Halo PC $20
  2. Mount and Blade: Warband $20
  3. Bastion $15
  4. Diablo 2 Retail $20
  5. Prince of Persia Sands of Time Series $8

I could not find FF7 anywhere to buy so I had to skip that one

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u/NoBullet Jun 02 '12

Bastion runs poorly on lowend PC's. What defines low end here anyways? People are suggesting intel integrated card games yet bastion would never play on those.

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u/razakdash Jun 02 '12

bastion plays fine on my hp netbook. It's got a dual core processor and integrated intel graphics.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Jun 02 '12

I have a "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family" in my HP laptop, and Bastion runs ok on lower resolutions.

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u/NoBullet Jun 03 '12

Did they update it with more settings? When I played the demo it ran horribly on a geforce 6.

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u/tortnotes Jun 03 '12

GeForce 6 what? The newest Intel graphics may or may not be superior to the low-end GeForce 6 chips.

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u/NoBullet Jun 03 '12

geforce 6100

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u/tortnotes Jun 03 '12

Ah--worse than the newest Intel graphics, then.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Jun 03 '12

I have no idea. I've only been playing it since thursday, when I got it with the humble bundle.

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u/Aquason Jun 03 '12

Well I turned of anti-aliasing. Other then that there are no other settings besides resolution.

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u/larrylemur Jun 03 '12

What do you know about this card? I can't seem to find any rating information about it online.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Jun 03 '12
Cat Value
Display adapter type Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Total available graphics memory 1759 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 64 MB
Dedicated system memory 64 MB
Shared system memory 1631 MB
Display adapter driver version 7.15.10.1591
Primary monitor resolution 1366x768
DirectX version DirectX 10

That's pretty much all I know. It performs quite well for not being a "real" gpu, but it's not spectacular.

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u/foan Jun 04 '12

I can play Halo, Halo 2, Command and conquer 3/red alert3/command and conquer 4, team fortress 2, Section 8, Warcraft III and Modern Warfare 3 with this card (average 30 fps). Awesome for a crap ol' PC.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Jun 04 '12

Holy shit, you can run MW3? I never even considering trying to run a game like that.

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u/foan Jun 04 '12

at 720p. Average of 30 fps even in spec ops/survival LAN. However graphics settings are on low. But it's awesome because of coop.

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u/larrylemur Jun 03 '12

thank you very much!

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '12

It works just fine on my Intel Mobile Family 965 whatever. My computer blows, but Bastion runs alright.

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u/krpiper Jun 02 '12

There was a post dealing with it, I'll see if I can find it and sidebar it.

and I've never played bastion on a PC only on XBLA

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '12

It runs fine on my Intel IGP.

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u/Paladin8 Jun 03 '12

Bastion is currently avaiable for as low as 8 $, including 4 more great games: www.humblebundle.com

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u/TheOnlyNeb Jun 03 '12

Warning: Dwarf Fortress, at some points, might reach a FPS that will shatter your world.

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u/RC_Matthias Jun 03 '12

Wolfenstein:ET? Dear god, don't get me addicted again :o

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The Ur-Quan Masters and Spelunky certainly belong here. Why, just recently, I spent a good ten minutes in a grumbly rage because I managed to get a jetpack and a shotgun in word 1 by using a glitch that allows me to rob shopkeepers without making all shopkeepers hostile, and I breezed through most of worlds 1 and 2, got the Udjat Eye and in world 2 I was on a rushing water level and the black market was in the water, so I went in and blasted the giant piranha with my shotgun a few times and won, only had one HP left, about to go to the black market and attempt to massacre every shopkeep there in order to get all the items (No shops spawn after the black market, so it's alright if you can beat all the shopkeepers you'll need to fight) when a single normal piranha I missed sneaks up behind me and bites me, making me loose all my expensive shit.

YASD indeed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '12

Halo...eh it's a great game and all but the multiplayer is full of primarily Spanish speakers who regularly have 300 ping or higher. It's fun if you get Custom Edition and play games on user-made maps with some friends, though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '12

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u/Nephrastar Jun 03 '12

Thank you for reminding me of Spelunky. :)

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u/krpiper Jun 03 '12

Just a reminder, all these games were taken from the poll that I conducted about a week ago!

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '12

UM TF2? PLZ

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u/twb2k8 Jun 03 '12

I can't do TF2 :(
2.1 single with integrated. It's like 15fps at lowest with some console commands to lower it further. But that's just my junk. I bet some people on here can run it

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '12

Chris's maxframe config + low poly model pack should help you out.