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[Adrian-kun]

well, it just happens that i played might and magic on my ds and i didnt like it and as for civilization the game doesnt look too hot either

any other ideas?

Trust me. You haven't played Heroes of Might and Magic. Try the PC versions and then give your opinion. I suggest the 3rd one. It's a classic.

[KnightofAncient]

The 6th one has a demo on steam, try it.

[Serge]

I'm actually playing Civilization IV with the expansions, and Path of Exile... but I don't have really much time to play sadly ):

[Chaosblade]

Quite a few
Strategy:
Civilization series -as slur already pointed out,is the most known one.
Might & Magic
King's Bounty
Frozen Synapse
Greed Corp
X-Com series -reaaally old

RPG:
The Last Remnant
Breath of Death/Cthulu Saves the world
Dungeons of Dredmor

Turn/Real time mix:
The Total War games(Personally recommend SHOGUN2)
King Arthur Series
(the Real time portion on these games can be skipped)

And that's from the top of my head (or...well...actually looking at my steam list. :v).
There's a few coming down the line too,including an official X-Com remake from Firaxis (and at least one other unofficial remake) and another game from the Recettar guys called "Territoire" (being described as a mix of Civilization and FFTactics).



Not too knowledgeable on the DS lineup,but you sure you didn't play "Clash of heroes"? Because that game plays REALLY differently from the mainline games.

There are also lots of old (late 90s, early 2000s) turn based RPGs and strategy games on GOG, and those should run on pretty much anything these days.

And I either forgot about Territoire, or didn't know about it at all. Sounds familiar though, is Carpe Fulgur picking it up? Since it's not done yet I wouldn't count on a release this year outside Japan.

Also didn't put any MMOs in the OP, but I guess I could add them since they are RPGs in 2012. TERA comes out soon in English, Guild Wars 2 is this year, and WoW has that Panda expansion. And then PSO2 in Japan.

[Dusty Starr]

Huh, I asked on GameFAQs, about Portal 2 (not that I do not trust you, but I just felt like asking around), if the Intel HD Graphics 2000 would hinder the game in any way. The only replier mentioned that he was able to play on Medium with a Intel G41 Express Chipset, and that the 2000 was better than that. He did not seem to sure though; I'd like to believe that I could play the game on medium, but, well, I trust folks here a bit more than people who can not even make their message sound sure. X3

So, is my chip better, and if so, would that mean that I could possibly play Portal 2 on anything other than low? I will be doing my own research, but thank you either way. :3

[Chaosblade]

It's also going to depend on resolution. I mean, I guess it's possible, I was just estimating.

Here is a review including that, since Source games are less intensive that pretty much anything on there, you can expect Portal 2 to run better than most if not all of those games (Except maybe Starcraft 2).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/t...2100-tested/11

[TG_Judgement]

Did you play Xcom Apocalypse? That was probably one of my first PC games...

No,I got it from a steam sale aeons ago.Couldn't quite get into it...

And I either forgot about Territoire, or didn't know about it at all. Sounds familiar though, is Carpe Fulgur picking it up? Since it's not done yet I wouldn't count on a release this year outside Japan.

No confirmation yet,but SpaceDrake has shown a lot of interest in doing it,stating it's almost a lock and will probably start working on it right after it comes out in JP.Considering there's no release date in Japan,who knows when that'll be...

[Dusty Starr]

Hmm, I think that I should be fine with this graphics card. :3 I'll just update down the line; I really do not intend to play anything more intensive than a Source game this year anyways, unless I decide to get Fallout NV, but I will cross that bridge when I came to it.

So, thank you kindly Chaos. :3

[GeekyJuuu]

No,I got it from a steam sale aeons ago.Couldn't quite get into it...



No confirmation yet,but SpaceDrake has shown a lot of interest in doing it,stating it's almost a lock and will probably start working on it right after it comes out in JP.Considering there's no release date in Japan,who knows when that'll be...

Confirming this, it'll probably be their 5th or so project, since EGS will let 'em have a field day with it when it's closer to completion in Japan. No estimated release date sadly. ;-; I guess if anyone here can read moon-runes, though, they DO have a dev blog for it, lol.

[MaggieTheCat]

Just to clarify, the Might & Magic series is huge and has a lot of "spin-off" series as part of it.

The original Might & Magic series was a first-person dungeon crawling turn-based RPG, not unlike Wizardry.

The Heroes of Might & Magic (recently re-branded as Might & Magic Heroes) series is a strategy game, sort of...kind of...like Civilization.

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes was a stand-alone game for the DS (I think it also has an XBOX port) that's usually considered something like a puzzle RPG.

All three are vastly different from each other. If you played one and didn't like it, don't knock the others till you try them as well.