Chinney
2010-06-14, 09:36
I’m looking for a recommendation for game to put on my laptop for the kids to play on rainy days during our vacation. I must admit that I am not much of a computer gamer myself and do not keep up with the newest and the latest in gaming, so I really have no clue what is out there right now. The kids (2 girls, now ages 16, almost 14, and a boy, 8) do like a bit of gaming though.
I am not really looking for any heavy duty action/mayhem games. Instead, what previously has been or currently is popular with them on our main computer are things like “Civilization”, “Age of Empires” and “The Sims”. I.e., role play and strategy. Is there anything particularly new and good out there in that sort of line?
Nice graphics would be a plus, but are not a necessity. The kids actually have often tended to prefer the earlier versions of some of the computer game series that I mentioned above, when the games did not fall over themselves trying to impress in the graphics department and in adding what kids actually saw as excessive complexity in the game play. In any event, my laptop, while pretty capable (Fall 2009 MBP, Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz, 4 GB of RAM) is certainly not designed as a cutting edge gaming machine and will probably not handle very well the frames-per-second demands of some very high-end graphics-intensive games.
What would be ideal would be a role-playing game that is accessible at a basic level for those who do not want to put huge amounts of effort into initially learning the game (none of the kids are hard-core gamers), but with interesting and varied story lines that allows more complex play, for those that want it, as they go along.
Any recommendations would be gratefully received.
I am not really looking for any heavy duty action/mayhem games. Instead, what previously has been or currently is popular with them on our main computer are things like “Civilization”, “Age of Empires” and “The Sims”. I.e., role play and strategy. Is there anything particularly new and good out there in that sort of line?
Nice graphics would be a plus, but are not a necessity. The kids actually have often tended to prefer the earlier versions of some of the computer game series that I mentioned above, when the games did not fall over themselves trying to impress in the graphics department and in adding what kids actually saw as excessive complexity in the game play. In any event, my laptop, while pretty capable (Fall 2009 MBP, Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz, 4 GB of RAM) is certainly not designed as a cutting edge gaming machine and will probably not handle very well the frames-per-second demands of some very high-end graphics-intensive games.
What would be ideal would be a role-playing game that is accessible at a basic level for those who do not want to put huge amounts of effort into initially learning the game (none of the kids are hard-core gamers), but with interesting and varied story lines that allows more complex play, for those that want it, as they go along.
Any recommendations would be gratefully received.