Can you recommend me some Oldschool RPGs?

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DoctorEars

#1 August 07, 2008, 10:47:25 am

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Hey guys, I'm getting a laptop in the next week or so, but it's not so good on the graphics side. It's only a work laptop for school and for writing etc, but I want to put some games on it. Can you guys recommend any oldschool rpgs or any oldschool games that'll work? The laptop has an NVIDIA 6150 or something rugged like that.

I have the Fallout series, and that Eschalon: Book 1 (pretty cool game too), and I have Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 etc. Any other games you guys can recommend? Anything that'll run on that video card?

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Verne

#2 August 07, 2008, 11:54:16 am

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Baldur's Gate 1 + 2 + Expansions, Icewind Dale 1 + 2 + Expansions and Planescape: Torment.

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Marcus

#3 August 07, 2008, 12:28:36 pm

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blech icewind dale. black isle didn't do anything correctly after fallout and bioware pretty much carried their sorry asses by developing the infinity engine and telling them to develop planescape torment because they were too busy with baldur's gate.

buy morrowind. it runs real well now and there's a few patches and mods like the morrowind fps optimizer which removes every bug in the game, speeds up processing, lowers loading times, and makes the game more enjoyable to look at and fun to play.

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DoctorEars

#4 August 07, 2008, 07:50:27 pm

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A friend of mine has Morrowind, but I was unsure if it would run on that kind of graphics card. I'm guessing it would though, considering it's a relatively old game. I'll try and get my hands on the Baldurs Gate games, I can remember playing them a few years ago and they were pretty cool.

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#5 August 07, 2008, 09:09:01 pm

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Planescape: Torment is really awesome man. You should get that!

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#6 August 08, 2008, 02:46:10 am

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Recently I've been playing Dungeon Siege 2. You could try the first one if your card can't handle the second.

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JustRob

#7 August 08, 2008, 03:02:24 am

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Chrono Cross and Xenogears but you'll have to emulate them

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Sarhan

#8 August 08, 2008, 04:56:41 am

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Not too sure about any PC RPGs, but you can always try Breath of Fire 3 and 4 if you haven't already. Emulated of course.

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DoctorEars

#9 August 08, 2008, 06:12:07 am

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Fair enough. Emulating games completely slipped my mind for some reason. Thanks for the tips.

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#10 August 08, 2008, 06:13:08 am

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Arcanum's really good, that's what I play on my newly-acquired laptop.
Anachranox and Deus Ex are great too.
I also play dawn of war, but that's not really an RPG.

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#11 August 08, 2008, 06:14:00 am

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Septerra Core is supposed to be pretty good, for a PC RPG.

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#12 August 08, 2008, 08:29:06 am

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#13 August 08, 2008, 01:04:01 pm

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Quote from: Sarhan on August 08, 2008, 04:56:41 am

Not too sure about any PC RPGs, but you can always try Breath of Fire 3 and 4 if you haven't already. Emulated of course.

Dunno about 3 but BoF 4 apparently actually got a PC port. In English even I believe. Funny how basically NO ONE heard of it. Even I am only going on what I THINK I've heard.

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#14 August 08, 2008, 01:07:13 pm

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yeah but it's infinitely easier to "obtain" the playstation version, that and i heard the pc one was kind of buggy.

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#15 August 08, 2008, 10:01:28 pm

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Quote from: Izekeal on August 08, 2008, 06:14:00 am

Septerra Core is supposed to be pretty good, for a PC RPG.

It was okay. I'd recommend it only if you don't like any of the other games already suggested.

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DoctorEars

#16 August 09, 2008, 02:43:12 pm

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Thanks for all the help guys, this is great. I'm gonna try source a couple of these games.

Also, I'm hugely surprised about the BoF IV port. I didn't even hear about that. I'll probably try to get that, or I'll just emulate the PS1 game.

Cheers.

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#17 August 21, 2008, 05:38:28 am

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Earthbound, Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest. I liked those when they were new, and still do.

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#18 August 23, 2008, 08:47:58 pm

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Check out Nox, its a great older game in the fashion of diablo 2.

And if you're getting into emulation, definitely Shining Force on genesis, Secret of Mana on SNES, or Final Fantasy Tactics on PSX.

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#19 August 23, 2008, 10:59:22 pm

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Grandia II came out on pc. It's excelent.

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#20 August 24, 2008, 07:37:15 am

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If you think your computer could handle PSX emulation, I say Vandal Hearts 1 and 2, I'm recommending it because I'm playing the first one now (on my PSP) and having a blast.

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