Which games would work on ASUS 1000HE?

Hi All,

I know that playing games in not the reason why people buy netbooks. I'll be using this netbook mainly for surfing the web, word processing, excel... but at the same time I do play some random games once in a while... So I'm wondering what type or which titles of games (Sims, WOW, other MMORPG?) would work on a 1000HE... Any thoughts???

Thanks!!!

 

anything old. HL, Doom, Sims perhaps. WoW only at a ridiculously low resolution is suspect.

 

Crysis and GTA IV

 

Far Cry 2. But ONLY with 16x AA.

But seriously, anything old. Sims should work find (GMA 950, right?), Old Rainbow Six, some old rts', Civ 3...

 

ZSNES is your best friend

 

Final Fantasy 1-6.

Chrono trigger

Love those old school games.
I replayed chrono trigger 3 times, but only cause can fast forward .

 

Have you considered streaming? another main pc does all the work and it streams the result to your netbook. you can run any game on your netbook that your main computer can handle.

here is an asus netbook running Crysis and Quake 4. As you can see specs on the netbook dont matter. Its not fake. another pc is doing all the work and the netbook is acting sort of like a wireless remote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4cUl9WFv7g&feature=related

The service is called stream my game. Oddly enough it works quite well. if you can stream youtube then you can use this service pretty good.

http://streammygame.com/smg/index.php

once your set up play any game on your netbook that your pc can handle.

 

FF1-6
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Secret of Mana 2 (Seikendensetsu 3)
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2 Yoshis Island
Super Metroid
Aerofighters
Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past
Street Fighter 2
Super Mario RPG
Mario Kart
Donkey Kong Country
Rock & Roll Racing
Earthworm Jim
Kirby
F-Zero
Megaman X, X2, X3
Contra 3
Castlevania

Stuff like that, the good thing is many of these games can easily be played with the keyboard arrows and keys on the keyboard. New games of today require many buttons & analog controls so even if the netbook could run them you could not properly play them without taking a big controller with you too.

Though I find the Wiimote a very good netbook companion as its small and wireless.

A really dorky video of me showing it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fllo6F-UP5o

 

Definitely check GTA the older ones.

GTA3, GTA Vice City, and San Andreas will all work.

 

I just found this!

Here is an excellent video of San Andreas running on 1000HE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAvVQhecH-E

 

Its required to be on a fast home network to use one of those streaming systems for gaming last I checked and I do not see how anybody has found a way around that.

Youtube videos stream by preloading into your system, you may click on a link to see a movie and not start seeing it until 5 seconds later.

Now in gaming, imputing a command, waiting lets say 1 second for it to get to your system and then another 3 for it to get back... Thats not going to work so well..... Its going to look perfect but the delay is the problem.

So here is the million dollar question, if your on a nice fast wired internet connection capable of streaming the data fast enough to not have lag (or I would assume this works on a good local wireless network), then why dont you go to the next room over and play the game on your big screen desktop instead of that little netbook?

 

There is buffering in this too, do you think anyone would stream something that complex without buffering. and inputing the command is no different then controlling a character in an online world. its not 4 or 5 seconds like people say. its synched just like 3000 players online can run around and see multiple things going on. the commands are 1 / 10th of what an online game would require. people just assume it will lag without ever even trying it. it just easier to turn down a new idea that actually try it.

im not claiming it to be perfect all the time. but if your limited why not try it

 

But when you game online your doing just what you said, sending commands to a powerfull dedicated server, and then back to you.

Very little data is sent. However to remotely play a game your sending the data AND the video.

Video is a very big thing to send, thats why those low resolution crappy youtube videos can take like I said 5 seconds to preload before they even start to play.

Home network it can be done, your average wifi at Mc Donalds or at a Hotel where this may be actually useful, I doubt it.

And I am not just shooting it down, I have tried it but not the same program. I also have read several reviews of users. I mean this is the internet you can look up information without having to experience it first hand.

 

all i can do is point out the service is out there. if people dont want to use it or are to scared it will "be laggy" or less then perfect compared to not being able to play the game at all its not my fault. /shrug

 

Sounds fair enough.

 

Quake Live would work and World of Goo, which is 5$ on steam for a little while longer. It was a weekend deal this weekend.

Video of World of Goo on EEE PC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKkEvWvNcWk

 

Warcraft III runs pretty well on on friend's 1000HA. He plays on battle.net all the time.