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Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Right, I feel the need to tap into the forum's massive combined knowledge.
Having played the various versions of Solitaire on my laptop to death, I'm starting to hanker after a game to play on it. I'm not interested in anything shoot-'em-up, or sports related, or racing cars. I'm thinking either a flight sim (a friend has one (not MS flight sim) which he seems to be enjoying, although I think to really enjoy it, I'd have to fork out for a joystick as well), or something puzzle based. I remember a few years ago, a friend had something called Myst(?) which involved solving puzzles and so on, and I quite enjoyed it. I suppose another alternative would be something like the Sims (of which there seem to be so many) or another thing a another friend had, Black and White, in which you created a creature and go tit to do stuff, and how you treated it affected its character...
Anyone got any recommendations? And am I likely to have any problems running this sort of game on a 4 year old laptop? (I know, the spec probably matters most, but I couldn't tell you anything about it off hand). Basically, I'm more interested in cerebral challenges, rather than hand/eye coordination...
Having played the various versions of Solitaire on my laptop to death, I'm starting to hanker after a game to play on it. I'm not interested in anything shoot-'em-up, or sports related, or racing cars. I'm thinking either a flight sim (a friend has one (not MS flight sim) which he seems to be enjoying, although I think to really enjoy it, I'd have to fork out for a joystick as well), or something puzzle based. I remember a few years ago, a friend had something called Myst(?) which involved solving puzzles and so on, and I quite enjoyed it. I suppose another alternative would be something like the Sims (of which there seem to be so many) or another thing a another friend had, Black and White, in which you created a creature and go tit to do stuff, and how you treated it affected its character...
Anyone got any recommendations? And am I likely to have any problems running this sort of game on a 4 year old laptop? (I know, the spec probably matters most, but I couldn't tell you anything about it off hand). Basically, I'm more interested in cerebral challenges, rather than hand/eye coordination...