Laptop Game Recommendations?

Laptop Game Recommendations?

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Doofus

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25,732 posts

172 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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I have a PS3,, so been out of touch with PC gaming for a few years.

I've bought a new laptop, with a decent spec; i7 5th gen, 16gb ram and 1tb hdd. It's only got a 4gb AMD radeon graphics card though.

I hate foopball. Not big fan of God games. Love GTA, and driving games. Hate F1.

I've sen reviews of Kerbal Space Program, which looks fun-ish, but posibly a bit too involved for me (I like games I can dip in and out of, sometimes for only half an hour at a time), and also The Escapists, which seems like a laugh.

What else can you recommend, given my machine specs? Or where can I find reviews that I can filter by hardware reqirements?

mizx

1,570 posts

184 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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Doofus said:
It's only got a 4gb AMD radeon graphics card though
Which model is it?

isee

3,713 posts

182 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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World of Tanks

It's also free to play, so you can try it first and then decide if you want to buy some perks.

JB!

5,254 posts

179 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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The New/ish Tomb Raider. Great game, good fun, get an Xbox 360 pad and USB adapter dongle, and play!

buckline

377 posts

162 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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Sorry to hijack but i don't want a fancy game for a laptop, i would like the awesome Space pinball game that used to come with Windows.

Is there anyway to get playing this again?

Doofus

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25,732 posts

172 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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mizx said:
hich model is it?
Radeon R7 M270

Doofus

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25,732 posts

172 months

Wednesday 27th May 2015
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JB! said:
The New/ish Tomb Raider. Great game, good fun, get an Xbox 360 pad and USB adapter dongle, and play!
can i do this with a PS3 pad, or would it have to be Microsoft?

JB!

5,254 posts

179 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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Doofus said:
can i do this with a PS3 pad, or would it have to be Microsoft?
not sure, google?

mizx

1,570 posts

184 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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Doofus said:
can i do this with a PS3 pad, or would it have to be Microsoft?
Yes install the MotionInJoy drivers and plug it in with the USB cable, works perfectly for me.

The new Tomb Raider and other triple A games like it (2011-14), should run fine on that card at medium settings if you drop the screen resolution down to 1280x720, GTA5 is one from this year you might get away with too. This site's quite useful to give you rough idea what it could run, link is a comparable card as that one lists more games.

You'll probably want to sign up to Steam anyway (don't always buy from there though, check around first), good stuff particularly smaller games were getting swamped with the sea of crap that was getting added lately, but it seems to have improved a bit now, it's fairly easy to find what's good in genres you like by sorting by user reviews then reading through some. The discovery queue helps a bit, I found a few things I didn't know about that way, though for me it rarely seems to list things because they are similar to games I play like it's supposed to.

Just Cause 2 is well worth getting if you never played it on console, plus there's the multiplayer mod on PC wink which is ideal for short sessions.

Edited by mizx on Thursday 28th May 14:48

GarryDK

5,670 posts

157 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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Recently did the same. Just brought Cities: Skylines. Sim City style builder, great fun and easy to dip in and out of.

JB!

5,254 posts

179 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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GarryDK said:
Recently did the same. Just brought Cities: Skylines. Sim City style builder, great fun and easy to dip in and out of.
Loving this game, but OP said he didn't like "God" games?

Doofus

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25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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To be fair, I enjoyed SimCity years ago. Until my work got stomped on by a fking dinosaur frown

FiF

43,965 posts

250 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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Op if you like driving games sign up to Steam and get Dirt Rally. One of the best rallying games tried for a long while. It's still under developmentbut you are getting in on ground floor.

I play on an i7 laptop with a decent graphics card. It's about 3 years old now but manages with good graphics settings.

Doofus

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25,732 posts

172 months

Friday 29th May 2015
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Thanks all, I'll have a lok at these suggestions.

Doofus

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172 months

Sunday 31st May 2015
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Well I went on Steam, and bought The Escapists, which is on special this weekend.

It is extremely good at recreating life in prison. That is to say, it's st and incredibly tedious.

I will, therefore, listen only to PHers about what games to get, and ignore gaming reviewers, who all appear to be dimwits.

Edited by Doofus on Sunday 31st May 15:35