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[Parsely]

Probably just because of my shit graphics card (which technically isn't as it's Intel Integrated Graphics), but I'd like to have more games where visuals aren't emphasized.

There are probably a few like that, but apparently my toaster is lacking in a long list of other areas as well.

Here are some low graphical fidelity games I'd recommend: Breath of Death VII/Cthulhu Saves the World, Creeper World 3, Duskers, EDF 4.1, One Way Heroics, Original War, Wyrmsun (F2P), X-COM: UFO Defense, TIS-100, Shenzen I/O, Commandos 2, Stronghold HD.

[itisnotlogical]

How low are we talking?

My favorite ultra-low-graphics games include Fallout 1 and 2, Diablo 1, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Planescape: Torment, FTL: Faster than Light, Long Live the Queen, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (and expansions), Cave Story and WH40k: Dawn of War. Your mileage may vary but I've also found Hearthstone totally acceptable on toasters, if you turn things down several notches.

I tried to avoid any super-obvious ones like Doom and Quake and such.

[AzyWng]

How low are we talking?

My favorite ultra-low-graphics games include Fallout 1 and 2, Diablo 1, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Planescape: Torment, FTL: Faster than Light, Long Live the Queen, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (and expansions), Cave Story and WH40k: Dawn of War. Your mileage may vary but I've also found Hearthstone totally acceptable on toasters, if you turn things down several notches.

I tried to avoid any super-obvious ones like Doom and Quake and such.

Incidentially, I've actually been able to play TF2 (and play well, at that) on my laptop just fine. So yeah. But I will keep your recommendations in mind.

Incidentially, how do you holster and unholster weapons in Fallout 1 and 2?

[Lightningfalcon]

How low are we talking?

My favorite ultra-low-graphics games include Fallout 1 and 2, Diablo 1, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Planescape: Torment, FTL: Faster than Light, Long Live the Queen, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (and expansions), Cave Story and WH40k: Dawn of War. Your mileage may vary but I've also found Hearthstone totally acceptable on toasters, if you turn things down several notches.

I tried to avoid any super-obvious ones like Doom and Quake and such.

Incidentially, I've actually been able to play TF2 (and play well, at that) on my laptop just fine. So yeah. But I will keep your recommendations in mind.

Incidentially, how do you holster and unholster weapons in Fallout 1 and 2?

I think you just have to unequip them from your inventory. Alternatively you can carry just a single weapon and press the red button to switch to it when you need to holster it.

[Jiharo]

I thought of something recently, and made me wonder..
Does there exist a Japanese game, that isn't anime/manga inspired at all? By that I mean visually.
It's not that I don't like the anime style, I am just wondering if such a thing exists.

Elminage: Gothic is kind of like this. Relatively, at least. But judging by posted screenshots half the players mod the PC portraits to be anime characters anyway.

On topic, I'd like for a game with recruitable random characters, like X-COM or LCS or Wizardry-like RPG, to have hidden character traits that only trigger or become apparent only when certain conditions are met. Like a character is arachnophobic but you'll only know about that in battle with giant spiders. Or maybe he neglected to mention at the job interview that he is closet racist and hates half-orcs and half-elves. Or he has a secret talent for magic despite being a fighter. Or he is here to secretly embezzle your funds and will make a run if confronted on it.

To take the idea too far you could have a game where there are no character statistics shown. Just what you can see and what other characters tell you. So when recruiting character you might ask him how strong he is and he might reply "I can easily beat a single troll," and you'd have to wonder and guess from the other questions if this is the truth or if he is overestimates himself but believes this to be a truth or if he is just lying in order to get a job. And then you could have hypohondriac characters report every scratch as a life-threatening wound and, on the contrary, characters prone to self-sacrifice insist that they are all right when they are actually on the brink of dying and other fun tropey stuff like this.

TL/DR I want a fantasy HR specialist sim.

[Egan_BW]

It doesn't really keep information from you, but Darkest Dungeon might scratch some of those itches.

[Sergius]

Not a game, but a gaming appliance. A VR appliance, to be exact.

You know how all those Occultus Riff and steam-powered VR and virtualboys are really cool in theory, but you can't just translate for example a First Person Shooter because you can't just run around all over (without one of those expensive floor track thingies that suspend you in the air or something... there was this one where you basically used some sort of rollerskate on a really slippery surface).

So how about... they make a VR unicycle? Like, literally just add an equippable unicycle to Fallout 4 or whatever, and you sit on it and go all over the wasteland on an unicycle. Sounds like it would be really easy to make as a physical control... you pedal forward, backward. Then turn, somehow... well, haven't figured that part out yet. The best part: all the games that support it, they make your avatar use an actual unicycle for moving around. In multiplayer especially, everyone can see your sweet ride! Check out my wheel, brah!

[PTTG??]

If you fall off the cycle in game, do you fall off irl?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Yes there still is a huge barrier of movement in VR. Honestly... It's pretty fucking lame that almost all the games have to have some bullshit gimmicky mechanics for moving the player--if they move at all. Either make it controller based (and memorize that shit) or someone develop a 3d play space.

[Chiefwaffles]

Yes there still is a huge barrier of movement in VR. Honestly... It's pretty fucking lame that almost all the games have to have some bullshit gimmicky mechanics for moving the player--if they move at all. Either make it controller based (and memorize that shit) or someone develop a 3d play space.

The problem with controller based is that it tends to make most people very nauseous. And as for 3d play space, do you mean like the Vive? Or a ton of dedicated physical for VR?

[Egan_BW]

Yes, using the controls to move you in space within VR while standing in one place in real life will make your brain very unhappy. Perhaps somewhat oddly, just letting the player teleport around is much better, despite it's physical improbability.

[EnigmaticHat]

Maybe they could make something like an arcade, where you can pay to use one of those circular treadmill things.

[PTTG??]

With enough space, you can use room-scale VR to simulate an infinite area. It's a very large room -- something like 40m diameter. When you walk straight "forward" the game subtly rotates you so that in fact you're walking in a 30m radius circle, which is too subtle for most people to notice.

Any time you turn to start walking in a new direction, the game corrects you the same way.

Any error between visual and gyroscopic perception is too small to notice, and so it actually feels like you're walking around an endless space.

[itisnotlogical]

I think I read a Star Trek novel where that's exactly how the Holodeck works.

[PTTG??]

The inevitable full-history paradox game.

Starts in -10,000 BCE. I feel that the tech tree would be very important to refine.

The best part is that it's impossibly ambitious for most companies, but heck this thing could cost $500 by the time you have all the DLC and it's normal for paradox.