Older PC games?

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Day of the Tentacle

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This is what I was going to recommend.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

It was designed by a man who quit id software because he felt Doom was too violent, and the VERY NEXT thing he made was this piece of shit that featured a warning about its "Wanton and Gratuitous Violence" and had features like "Ludicrous Gibs" mode which would have body parts flying at the player (sometimes one person's death would result in multiple bloody heads).

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According to the book Masters of Doom, Hall was fired from id if that's who you're referring to. And I agree that RoTT wasn't very good and certainly not worth touching today.

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

This is what I was going to recommend.

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It's a favorite.

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Originally Posted by Korly

I remember it having some kind of "mushrooms" mode or something where it got all psychadelic looking. And was there an evil dog or something?

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I loved trying to play through the game in shrooms mode, that was awesome. There was a dog mode (you turned into a dog and barked at people or something) if that's what you're referring to, I don't recall enemy dogs off-hand.

In regards to the initial post, check out Scrapland. I found a copy for $5 last week and it's pretty good (although they made flight combat drawn-out and kind of annoying). A fairly recent game but those specs should handle it nicely, unlike what TobalRox listed.

Beyond Good and Evil can also be found for cheap (at the very least there's an Ubisoft compilation pack with that, Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia that shouldn't be more then $20) but that might tax your system too heavily as I remember having framerate issues on the boat with my older parts. I'd also recommend Tron 2.0 but I'm a bit of a blind fanboy when it comes to things Tron-related so it's probably not as good for other people as it is for me. Moto GP 2 should also be floating around for about $5-10 and is another good game with low requirements.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

That's not entirely true. It did introduce being forced to make weapon selections (an idea later wrongly attributed to being pioneered by Halo by a good amount of press and consumers) and had a much wider and more interesting weapon selection then any other FPS on the market. I can't think of anything else in the genre at that time that gave you the ability to shoot walls of fire, duel wield weapons, or had something along the lines of their interesting take on god mode. The burnt-to-a-skeleton animation was also an incredibly detailed death sequence back then, that was the first FPS I can remember that had more then two death animations for most of its creatures (although the exploding and burning ones were interchangable amongst the various enemies).

As an overall game it might have been shit but there was still a lot of good ideas throughout. They also did some great stuff with the levels considering the engine (surpassing on a technical level Wolf3D and Doom by a huge margin), although I do remember it being pretty confusing and poorly laid out overall.

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It was also the first game I saw that used the internal clock for something (different holidays had alternate load screens).

Team Fortress Classic. Not only is it an older pc game - its the only game you'll ever need.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

Team Fortress Classic. Not only is it an older pc game - its the only game you'll ever need.

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Do people still play that?

Doom and Stunts. That just about covers it for all your PC needs.

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Originally Posted by TobalRox

Do people still play that?

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Yes, but not nearly as much as in the past. There is a few non bot servers, with a great community of players. Re: no assholes. Its still hanging in there.

I recently fired it back up after about 2 years - and alot of the people i used to play with pop up every now and then. Alot of people i know outside of the computer recently went and gave the game another go. It still holds up so well and its so fun and funny - the game makes me laugh out loud at all the funny shit.

Ill never truely leave TFC.

Tron 2.0 is awesome but it will likely be very taxing on an older system.