I know how you feel bro. That was my reality too. My first PC was a 486 that i used until 2004. Than, my second PC was a PII in 2007, and so on. I never had a top computer, and all my desktops since the PII were frankenstein-ish, re-using parts of other dead pcs that my friends were about to throw away (and for that reason i had 8 different computers since my PII from 2007 to now, because they lived 1 or two years long at max). My last desktop is still alive though, a 3,2Ghz Dual Core with 2GB RAM and a Geforce 8400 GS (which fried to death last year) that i used to play some light stuff and Doom modding, but thanks to my girlfriend i'm now using her old laptop that she gave me as a gift. It's not that good, but it's the closer to an up to date computer that i ever had.Caligari_87 wrote: My early teen years (1997-2006) were weird for gaming. I had some really old frankenstein PCs at home (like 486's and a PII), and my parents never had enough money to keep us up-to-date on consoles. We never had money for games either, so I mostly played a demos from those "500 shareware games!" CDs from the mid-90s, and ancient hand-me-down DOS games on 5.25 floppies. This continued until I was an independent adult in about 2009, and by then games had progressed so far, i pretty much forsook everything from the late 90s to the early 00s, and I've still missed a ton because I really can't afford games anyway. For a self-described "gamer", my practical experience is actually pretty shallow.
Anyway... tangent...
However, thanks to that experience i became quite good at picking my games, because they had to work properly on my poor systems or i wouldn't play anything. So here's what i think it would work for ya, phantombeta:
Medal of Honor: Allied (and Pacific) Assault
Half Life 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
Painkiller series
Call of Duty 1
Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight (and Jedi Academy)
Also, since we're both from the same country, i would recommend you to save some little amount of money (something around 100 bucks) and buy a cheap video card if you can't afford a new computer for now. I was able to play even some "modern" games like Fallout 3/New Vegas and Resident Evil: Revelations with my last desktop (and even more up to date games using the same system + a GT240 GPU, that didn't survived for more than six months on my hands), at playable frame rates assuming that i used low graphic configurations.
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